#benchtrio headcanons

[souppiemousse]

He's sleeping 🧡🧡🧡

[angelsandarsenic]

I would just like to say that Benchtrio has a LOT of untapped villain potential

We always always see them as the protagonists, so that typically makes them the hero. We know they're definitely a bit morally grey and very chaotic, but they always end up as the heroes when frankly, I think it's more likely that they'd actually become villains.

Ranboo-- Obviously the whole "no sides, only people" thing easily makes him very likely to turn "bad". There's so much more greyness with him than anyone else, especially in the SMP everything is way more complicated than just picking sides. Even if he knew he was more of the villain than a hero, I don't think he'd acknowledge it, he’s just protecting what he cares about.

However, I think he's the least likely to become a villain on his own. He's a good guy at heart, SMP and everywhere else, he's just willing to ignore it for the sake of the people he cares about. If he was gonna be a villain there would have to be some else as the reason he's doing it, whether they're involved as well or forcing his hand somehow.

Once he does it though, he will put his all into it. Whatever side, whatever reason, he follows through all the way and doesn't take any shortcuts. He's surprisingly ruthless and creative that's what makes him a good villain.

Tubbo-- Tubbo is perhaps less likely to turn villain than Ranboo, but he absolutely would given the right motivation. He's overall more mature than the other two and has more awareness of moral "right" and "wrong", which is why he doesn’t do whatever he wants on a whim, just what he can probably get away with. He’s a villain in a hero’s mind or a hero with villainous tendencies. Vigilantism I think is the best/most natural path for him OR he break out of societal expectations of goodness completely and gives no shits. When he turns villain, he knows exactly what he's doing to people.

The maturity and moral compass is what makes him the well established mom friend (because the rest will just wreak havoc on the world and themselves otherwise. Someone has to be the responsible one) and that's what would be used to push him over the edge. Similar to Ranboo, Tubbo would need someone else to either be in danger somehow or also doing the villain thing to make him switch sides. Once he does though, he finds that he likes it a lot more than he ever liked being good. And he's great at it. He has plans and contingencies and even nukes to fall back on if he must, but he knows he doesn't have to reveal his whole hand yet.

I also think that brain damage from explosions/experimenting could be a good turning point for him. Either pretty much right away, or slowly, (possibly trying to fix his body/mind) doing worse things until he realizes he's turned into the bad guy and doesn't want to stop. (Can you tell I love prosthetic/scarred/explosion damage Tubbo?)

Tommy-- Tommy is BY FAR the most likely to turn into a villain and it's frankly astounding he's always the hero, but like I said, Protagonist things. He would be a fun character to use for one of those stories where throughout the book we slowly realize the protag is actually also the villain. Anyway, it's ironically what makes him an entertaining protagonist that makes him the best and entertaining villain. He's bold and sunshiney and extremely chaotic no matter what he's doing, but most of all, he's ambitious. I don't watch a lot of Tommy streams and I admittedly wasn't as engaged with his lore (Im a Techno main) but when he wants something, he'll do anything to get it (primary example being the disc war and all related).

Tommy doesn't think before he acts. Even when he does, he doesn't think and in most cases doesn't care about how it will affect other people. When he wants it badly enough, that even applies to his friends, as we see sometimes in the SMP. He won't acknowledge that he's the villain, especially if his friends are doing it too, but he's the most likely to royally fuck things up for everyone else. TUMOASD Tommy is the best example of this--he runs around, shooting people and very easily crossing the line between good and bad whenever he feels like. He's incredibly likable, yes, but it doesn't matter to him whether he's a "good guy" or a "bad guy" and he'll always think he's in the right. Furthermore, Tommy isn't as mature as the other two and is willing to go to much more extreme lengths over more trivial things. I think it should also be noted that Tommy is spontaneous (tho we know that), gets incredibly jealous, almost to the point of possessiveness and more physical than other characters/people—as someone mentioned, he uses /hug when others do not and stuff like that, but that physical nature could go either way. Oh also Tommy does so much evil laughing and he sounds like a deranged fucking jackal, so when he’s standing over you with bloody fists or a baseball bat (I specifically think he would prefer blunt objects or small knives) he’s absolutely terrifying.

They would all be very different types of villains and when put together, very dangerous. The best part is that I think they would still work well together because they cover all the bases—planning and strategy and follow through, ruthlessness and actually getting your hands dirty and the willingness to hurt people.

What will almost inevitably happen, is that Tommy goes villain, and that's the trigger for the other two to follow. Or, it would be fun to see them meet and team up after already becoming villains. However, any way that it’s done, I just think we need more villain benchtrio.

[souppiemousse]

Thinking about how c!benchtrio would carry each other, you know like in an affection way, it's how they show their affection Ranboo: Tubbo:

-Sitting on the shoulders since tubbo likes being tall -holding tubbo under his armpits while suspended in the air helps calm him down, an off button basically

-Picking tubbo up and carrying him around under ranboo's armpit when he's trying to blow things out like a tired dad with his kid

-Piggy back rides!! Or just tubbo clinging onto him like a koala

Tommy:

-Bridal style when he's trying to take tommy back to his bed cause he sleeps on random places a lot

-Piggy back ride!!

-Holding him by the scruff like a misbehaving cat -over the shoulder like a sack of potatoes when he's being stubborn over something

Tubbo:

Ranboo:

-Bridal style, might look a little silly since ranboo is very long, but it's cute

-Dragging ranboo by his legs over tubbo's shoulders, it's a funny image

-The child carry? you know the carry every mom does

Tommy:

-The child carry like with ranboo

-Over the shoulder like a sack of potatoes

-The under armpit carry when he's being stubborn, like how ranboo does it but less gentle

Tommy:

Tubbo:

-Can he even carry tubbo?

-Piggy back rides (sometimes, but not often)

-Sitting over tommy's shoulders and charging ranboo at full speed-bridal carry keyword : attempted

Ranboo:

-Legs over the shoulder like tubbo, literally someone save ranboo

-Hugging him from behind and lifting him up and smashing his head on the ground- bridal carry!! but not as long as tubbo could do it

-One arm over shoulder and dragging (technically that's not really a carry) when ranboo's on his cat arc when he's sleeping around everywhere (especially in tommy's carrot patch) (edited)