Dream finding out Tommy is Trans and suddenly being very very interested in him all of a sudden. Tommy getting awkward and uncomfortable as Dream ends up standing much closer than normal. Dream rough housing more, ending up brushing into Tommy's chest a lot.
Dream groping Tommy from behind, telling Tommy how lucky he must feel to have such naturally small tits. It really helps him pass. Dream would assure him how he sees him as a real boy, but always ignoring his protests about touching him in places that make him dysphoric
Dream enjoying Tommy's boyish look and sweet cunt, especially touching his tits
dedicated to the anons reminding me i had another doodle of cdream getting tickled not in my files but squandered away in my discord dms. enjoy the prison awesamdream
tommy having wet dreams of dream worshipping his dick, forcing his hips still and teasing him for hours, kissing and licking and praising tommy the whole time
wait you know what actually. back on my "dream getting kidnapped and healing post prison" bullshit, tommy and tubbo cumming on his food but dream is so unused to normal food after this long that he eats it happily without ever wondering if there is something wrong with the flavor and tommy and tubbo are normal about it
Fem! Dream fucking down into Tommy with a strap. Her breasts pressed against his back, hands pulling his hand and shoving his face into the mattress, muffling his whines and pleas
She wraps her arms around his neck, rubbing her cheek against his and grinding her hips in the way that she knew made him gasp, all while grinning gleefully at his reactions.
Tommy is Elsa, Tubbo is Anna, Ranboo is Kristoff, Michael is Olaf, Wilbur is the Grandfather who built L'Manberg - Arendelle. Dream is the old dead Chief of The Northuldra people - the Dreamland people.
Tommy finds out that Wilbur killed Dream and as he freezes solid, manages to send that vision to Tubbo.
Tubbo sees the vision. He watches Michael die. He realizes that Tommy is dead and that L'Manberg was built on lies.
Tubbo makes a choice to let L'Manberg stay, as a monument to the memory of his deceased brother.
Tubbo is the King now. He has to think about his people.
Peace is not restored.
Tommy does not unfreeze.
Tommy isn't entirely conscious, but not out cold either. He can feel his own soul, can feel the cold. And he can very vaguely feel that there's a warmth moving somewhere near him.
With the sound of the hooves against the ice, something steps out of the shadows.
There are 4 Spirits, one for each element - Earth, Wind, Fire, Air. There's Tommy, the bridge between the Spirits and Humans.
And then there's the 5th Spirit. Born out of pain and vengeance of the land betrayed. The Spirit of What Isn't. The Spirit of Nothingness, the Void that surrounds them. The soul that stayed behind, surrounded by the memories of the past and visions of current.
Dream traces the statue's cheek. It's not like the rest of the Snowy Memories. It's hard and cold. There's breath trapped inside of it. And a heart.
Something about its features makes him feel uneasy but he chooses to ignore it.
Dream sits by the statue. Circles it. Studies the design on the frozen figure. It's not much of a talker, but it feels a bit less lonely with it here.
(Dream's been surrounded only by the memories of the past for so long. This is a nice refreshment from having to witness his own death over and over all the time)
Dream isn't trapped, but he's choosing to stay at the Ahtohallan. Someone has to look over the place. And he kinda likes it here. It's quiet, peaceful, calm. The real Forest is dried up and dying. But in here, the memories of it in its Prime are preserved forever.
And now he's not even all that alone anymore. Now he's got a friend c:
Very quiet, peaceful friend
A few moments or maybe years pass, - we don't know for sure - and a few faint blue lines descend down and grab at Tommy's limbs. The freezing eases just a tiny bit. Tommy still can't move or think clearly. But he can think just clearly enough to realize he's trapped and not alone.
The blue lines move his body like strings move a marionette. Dream dances with him. He places one hand on the boy's waist, the other holds his outstretched hand.
This is nice, Dream thinks. This statue is small and fragile, but he knows how to be gentle. He could get used to it. There's no need to unfreeze it - why bother? He's so nice and quiet and peaceful this way. He can't backstab Dream.
(Not sure why Dream's worried about that last one. Just a strange thought.)
Slowly, very slowly, over time, the freezing eases. At some point Tommy can move just a bit, but he still depends on Dream to move him.
At some point Dream actually lets Tommy talk. Finds out who Tommy is. Who's descendant he is.
In exchange Dream tells Tommy that Tubbo chose not to save him. Tommy doesn't believe it at first, but then Dream shows him the Snow Memory of it all.
Tommy sits down in shock. Tubbo chose to let the L'Manberg stay after finding out that their ancestors unfairly colonized the land it stands on. He doesn't even know what to say.
"I'm willing to see this as fair."
Tommy looks up at Dream, as the Spirit keeps talking.
"Your people killed my land, and colonized what was left of it. Your grandfather killed me. Letting L'Manberg fall wouldn't begin to cover the debt you owe us. But I'm willing to take you as a payment."
Tommy doesn't get to argue before he is turned frozen again. The only difference is he can think clearly now. Can feel the cold bite him clearly now.
And can tell clearly that Dream is his only source of warmth in this cold frozen prison he's trapped in forever.
It's so very, very cold in the void. Cold bothers Tommy now.
Noise bothers Dream.
Tommy cries and is loud a lot at first. It's frustrating. Dream keeps him frozen more often when he's like that.
He isn't mad at Tommy, just bothered. Tommy's meant to be his perfect little toy, and he's failing. But Dream isn't mad. He loves his new companion, he's okay waiting as long as it takes for Tommy to learn to be quiet.
When he's quiet, Dream will unfreeze him and let him move about and hold his hand. Dream's hand is warm.
Dream is warm.
Dream is very warm.
Tommy needs warmth.
Tommy doesn't remember why. But warmth is nice. He needs more of it.
He'll be quiet. He'll be a good boy. He just needs some warmth. Please. It's cold and he can't remember why but he hates it.
Dream cares about him. He'll oblige, of course. He's kept many memories safe this long. He'll keep this little one safe too, forever.
c!Dream has a god complex this, c!Dream has a god complex that– c!Dream doesn’t have a god complex, c!Punz has a worship kink and he made it c!Dream’s problem. Get it right.
now i'm thinking about doll!dream but I also kinda have no thoughts... kinda thinking about a reverse au, dream getting a doll of tommy and kidnapping him to test his reactions when he realizes what it does....
tommy helplessly watching dream play with the doll from the other side of a glass cell and slowly relaxing and melting down into the bed dream prepared for him... barely able to even make a fuss, heavy eyes while he feels that warm pressure surround him watching dream hug his doll.... waking up the next day in his own bed the next day wondering if that really happen or if he's so touch starved that he dreamed of it
"(it involves pogtopia, the absolutely worst period of tommy's life, an unhealthy ammount of blood and the most awkward but also best bath he has ever had)"
PLEASE tell me more
it's like, nothing crazy, but tommy genuinely felt so goddam horrible in the moment
tommy's period had started and he hadn't realized it until there was a enormous ammount of blood dripping down his legs and staining all his clothes and the little alcove he was in, and he had no pads because they stay in his room so he would have to run across pogpotia to get them when he's a mess and it would get blood everywhere and- and then dream is standing at the entrance
tommy was like. so close to sobbing. he felt horrible and dirty and exposed and no one was supposed to know and dream is just fucking standing there-
tommy can barely remember the conversation they had after dream covered the entrance and blurted out that he was also trans. he kinda started crying in the middle of it, and really it was a whole mess with dream's rambling and the near full darkness of the room and the blood, but dream digs a tunnel trought the wall to tommy's bathroom (that he insisted he needed just for himself to Wilbur but never explained why), filling it up behind him as they go, and tommy feels a thousand times better when he can clean himself.
it's very awkward to bathe while dream is just there and watching, but it feels so goddam good to talk to someone who understands. being able to complain about periods and how much they suck and about how bad his tits ache after a long day and how it just feels odd to exist its soooooo good. but also he is fully naked and dream is half naked (out of comradery) so...
save me hybrid tommy curling up by a sick feverish post-prison dream. save,me tommy warping his tail around dream's leg and keeping his hand on dream's pulse while they sleep. save me tommy holding dream like he'll vanish and the world will crumble if his heart stops
save me tommy and tubbo finding dream so sick that he can barely recognize there's other people in the room. save me that moment of hesitation where there's a sword in your hand and your worst enemy on his knees throwing up in the toilet and you could easily cut his head off but all you can think about is unfair executions in tiny little boxes. save me tubbo holding dream's hair back while tommy awkwardly rubs his back, the two of them still in armor. save me the two of them staring at dream, now safely tucked away in snowchester, trying to find all the answers in the universe inside a man at death's door. save me barren land and cut trees that cannot be brought back but you can always plant something new. you can always try again
genuine question: why do you ship Tommy and Dream..?
Oooh that's a good question actually. Now that I've met a lot more Bowspam shippers, I'm realizing not all of us are out here for the same reasons, haha. Despite loving the same guys, I've seen a looot of different takes that I don't necessarily agree with (not in a bad way! it's just not my go-to or not what I extrapolate from canon).
So, here's what I like about the dynamic! This is nearly word-for-word copy/pasted from my general exchange letter (when I sign up for gift exchanges and request that my gifter write/draw Bowspam for me, this is what I say to show what kinds of things I like about them) and it is as follows:
Enemies to lovers. Enemies and lovers. They’re obsessed with each other - kind of pathetically, vulnerably so - and nobody likes it. Not even themselves.
A very very key piece of the Bowspam dynamic, to me, is that they egg each other on. Tommy doesn’t lie there and take it; he’s angry, he’s loud, he’s provocative in the most general sense - in fact, he’s often the person starting shit rather than the other way around. He gets himself into trouble constantly and reaps incredibly disproportionate consequences. Tommy causes problems for himself and sticks his nose in unsafe places and gets himself in all these situations - and really it's not his fault the universe decided to give him natural 1's on all his checks, but he is, in fact, the one that tried to make the roll in the first place. With Bowspam, I love a Tommy that is constantly flipping back and forth like a metronome, questioning whether or not the situations he’s gotten himself into are his fault, whether or not he wants to be here, whether or not he deserves it.
On Dream’s end, I love a focus that drives home how utterly, deeply human he is. He’s just a guy, and that’s probably the most terrifying part of all, knowing he’s just a person with his own wants and desires that chooses to take the power he has and twist it in his favor - even and especially if he has intentions that he thinks are good or correct. I love explorations of Dream’s server unity motive, especially exploring how he loses sight of it in doubling down on his flawed methods, and how Tommy tends to be on the hook for it, both purposefully and not. I think explorations of why Dream does what he does that circle back to extremely human desires are the most fun.
Additionally, not to say that I don’t love Bowspam where Tommy and Dream are both awful and toxic for each other forever (because I definitely do,) but I am also open to more sympathetic/healing takes, where things are still bad, but like - less bad. They’re trying. If you want to go for that, I’m also all for it!
And usually I kind of stop here, but to elaborate a little bit more, I enjoy their relationship because of how messy it is - not in spite of it. I love Dream's control issues, I love exploring his fears and his desires, I love his infatuation and fascination with Tommy as the sole object of his complete control (so Dream views him as,) I love how Dream needs him in various emotional senses, and I love exploring what directions that might take.
I love Tommy as a victim of this kind of abuse - to be put down, hurt, treated cruelly, seemingly without reason. I also love him as someone who keeps returning to that abuse, because there are parts of it that are nice, parts of it that he feels like he needs in return, because Dream isn't a monster (Dream was his friend, at one point - maybe not in the way he insisted he was during Exile, but before, when they were dicking around and laughing and making jokes and working together and having fun.) Because maybe if he tries harder or does something differently it'll turn out better this time, right? (Not unless a miracle happens.)
But, speaking of miracles, I am pretty loud about the fact that I'm a nukes-ending enjoyer, and find it one of the more interesting parts of lategame canon that we were left with. While definitely not a perfect piece of lore (could anything else have been more horrendously paced? honestly,) I think it says a lot about Tommy's character - the ways in which he eventually compartmentalized Dream into this horribly unique evil that was plaguing him all the time, and the ways in which that meant he could never reconcile with the prospect of letting go.
There's a post by @/simplepotatofarmer that resonated with the way I viewed c!Dream early on in the fandom's lifespan - I remember seeing this in 2021 before Jailbreak had happened, when people were really in the weeds of c!Dream discourse, especially because of the torture happening in Pandora's Vault and how the dynamic had basically turned on Dream (and I could go on for ages about how I LOVE Sam, Quackity, and Dream as a trio, too, but this post is not about them). And I think it's also worth a read in consideration with how I enjoy Dream and Tommy in a potential future where they might be trying to heal old wounds.
I think that covers almost everything. And yes, I ship them in the normal dumb way too, because I like it when they stand next to each other and I cover my face with my hands and kick my feet when the tension between them starts brewing. I think that's a pretty normal way to ship them too. I gain joy from seeing them in Situations, and if they happen to also kiss (or do other intimately charged things) I become a giddy wreck over it. That's all.
(And to address the potential bad faith just once: No, I don't view canon-compliant Bowspam as a healthy relationship. Just because I also sometimes write or draw them in situations where things are fluffy or healthy doesn't mean I'm trivializing abuse - same if I make them toxic and unhealthy forever. No, I don't think real-life abuse is good, and no, I don't think enjoying these things in fiction makes me evil or wrong. Simple as that.)
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