Secret Princes Wilbur and Tommy AU
the sleepy bois are the ruling family of the antarctic empire, which is one of the largest and strongest kingdoms in the world
it goes king phil, crown prince technoblade, and princes wilbur and tommy
the royal family has a tradition where, in order to connect with their people and learn other cultures, each member of the royal family will leave to travel the world at age 15 with one or two trusted people. when tommy turns 15 he leaves with wilbur
the point of this journey is that no one knows theyre the princes, so they just dont tell anybody and like walk or ride horseback everywhere.
they send a letter home at least once a week to let their family know theyre safe and where they are.
they pick up tubbo somewhere along the way and he & tommy become best friends and he travels with them
they dont tell him anything for a while but once theyre sure they can trust him they do
he figured it out a long ass time ago tho lmao
so they travel as a trio for a while
shortly after tommy turns 16 they come upon the lands of the dream smp
they send a letter back to phil saying theyre gonna stop there for a while and then continue on later
and then the letters just stopped
phil & tech get like. SUPER WORRIED bc theyve lost all contact with their family
so they decide to go there themselves and send a messenger ahead of them asking for an urgent diplomatic meeting.
(meanwhile wilbur decided Hey Drugs Are Nice Actually and started a revolution bc he wanted to sell them and just,,,,, forgot,,,,,, about sending letters back home)
by the time phil & techcno got worried enough to go find them the whole election had gone down so theyre exiled and in pogtopia when they get there
the people who show up to the meeting are dream, eret (since theyre technically King), and schlatt and his cabinet (george quackity and tubbo)
phil calls the meeting to order and tells them that his eldest and youngest sons had gone on their Journey and that the last theyd been heard from was in this area, so “If anyone has heard anything about my sons, Princes Wilbur and Tommy, please, we haven’t heard from them in months.”
tubbo just spends this whole meeting holding back laughter bc this is honestly so funny to him
dreams like “oh fuck i SHOT the prince of the antarctic empire”
schlatt is trying to think of ways to turn this in his favor
tubbo pipes up “hi mr king philza i know where they are! i’m tubbo!”
and phil lights up like “oh tubbo! my sons have told me so much about you!”
(quack george & eret are just sitting in shocked silence the whole time)
so the meeting comes to an end and tubbo offers to go get the two missing princes while everyone else waits in manburg
so word got out that the king and crown prince of the antarctic empire were paying the smp a visit and so theyve attracted a bit of a crowd
(its basically everyone who wasnt in the meeting)
everyone who was there is still kinda in shock so no one says anything
phil & techno (but mostly phil bc “oh no social situations”) talk to the people of manburg while waiting on tubbo and phil gets into a conversation with niki about whats been going down around here. he learns about all the war & election stuff from her.
meanwhile she is INCREDIBLY curious about why theyre here and no ones said anything yet but she doesnt want to ask bc yknow. royal family & all
and then techno is rugby tackled by a flying tommy. like “teeeeEEEEEECHNOOOOOOO” B A M
everyone around them is like. horrified. bc techno being techno has a reputation for his battle prowess and bloodthirstiness so theyre like “oh god is he going to be murdered”
but no. phil just busts a gut laughing at the boys on the ground while techno complains in his typical deadpan tone
tommy starts rambling at techno and about a minute later here comes wilbur & tubbo.
they see the sheer confusion happening and tubbos like “did you not tell them??” phil: “and miss out on this? no way”
(phil can have a little chaos. as a treat)
after phil stops laughing he pries tommy off of techno and pulls both his missing boys into a hug like “oh god i was so worried you didnt write for months i didnt know if you were even alive” and they both feel so guilty and apologise and they just hug for a minute
(tommy grabs techno & drags him in too)
and when phil’s done reassuring himself that his boys are ok he does a COMPLETE 180. he grabs them both by the ear like “now whats this i hear about you starting wars in foreign countries??? i taught you better than to start shit with potential allies!!”
everyone around them is so fuckin confused. niki’s just like “uh,,,, tubbo? do you know whats going on?”
he just casually says “oh i forgot you guys didnt know! yeah tommy and wilbur are princes of the antarctic empire”
wilbur & tommy get scolded for a solid 20 minutes while the entire population of manburg goes through the realization that these idiots are royalty. fundy & niki get over it the quickest & fundy decides to be a lil shit
(so in this au fundy isnt really wilburs son but instead he’s accidentally called wilbur dad MULTIPLE TIMES so its become a running joke between the members of the former l’manburg that fundy is his son)
so after the Scolding he walks up to wilbur like “hey DAD why dont you introduce me to my grandpa?”
wilburs like “FUNDY NO- ugh dad this is our friend fundy. he keeps calling me dad by mistake so now we call him my son as a joke”
“..... i cant believe im already a grandfather” (tommy laughs so hard he falls over again)
techno and phil can’t stay for too long after they make sure everything is okay so they stay for like a week to get to know will & tommy’s friends (and techno does a bit of Threatening @ dream & schlatt so they stop with the serious fighting shit)
they also do some ~~~~politics talk~~~~ to smooth everything over bc like. they DID start a revolution in a foreign country
tommy gets his discs back as part of it but phil immediately takes them away for the rest of the time he’s there
will & tommy decide they want to stay at least a little while longer bc they have friends there and dont want to leave quite yet. phil lets them but they have to promise not to start any more wars and schlatt decides to be smart for once and revokes the banishment so its mostly,,, well not peaceful bc this IS the dream smp but theres not any more big wars at least
and at some point everyone goes to visit the antarctic empire and see where tommy & wilbur grew up and realize how COLD it is there
