#brenderemas

[antigonehappy]

brenda is the sun (warm and light), teresa is the moon (distant and illuminating), and thomas is the stars (scattered and guiding). you need all three to make a perfect sky. this has been rarepair thoughts with ash thank you all very much.

[its-tea-time-darling]

secret santa fic compilations

lists of fics created for different ships for the maze runner secret santa 2022 💚

soniet

brenderesa

thominho

minally

thomesa

one of a kind (thominewt, thominally, brenderemas, thomally, gen)

newtmas

[its-tea-time-darling]

teresa/brenda/thomas for the ship ask!!

hi! ask game for:

Send me a ship and I'll give you my (brutally) honest opinion on it

so, truth be told, i admit i've been putting off answering this for.. A While. the main reason being that i have a Difficult capital D relationship with book!brenda. severely dislike her, got a major problem with her behavior, think she's a very poorly written character, especially combined with teresa's storyline. i could go into more detail but i won't, unless someone explicitly wants to hear about it.

that being said, in bookverse i think a brenderemas angle and viewpoint on the whole story and the dynamic between the characters could only improve the whole mess. especially considering brenda was basically the og thomesa shipper in fever code - namely:

(rest put under a read more break bc it got Long lmaoo)

brenda brings up thomas doesn't seem to have been very nice to teresa lately. that teresa obviously cares about him, and basically she probes for whether there aren't any feelings between them. when thomas says "She means the world to me, and nothing will ever change that. but it's kinda hard to be romantic when you have a dying world outside your home and your friends are stuck inside an experiment.", this part follows:

Brenda seemed disappointed. "Yeah, but come on. People love, Thomas. Best of times, worst of times. People love. You should make sure she knows how you feel. That's all I'm saying."

(that's page 303 of fever code in my copy)

so if we take that to assume she thinks there's some sort of romantic feelings between thomas and teresa, and she wants for them to be happy, then the events of the main trilogy could be explained as follows: brenda liked thomas during the fever code era already when she first got to know him. catch being: she also started to like teresa during that the time.

so she's kind of put in a position where she gets to interact with thomas more once the scorch trials start--but her whole jealousy angle is not just a jealousy for the closeness she knows thomas and teresa shared, but also goes in both direction: she's not only jealous thomas likes teresa, she's also jealous that teresa likes thomas. (.. and not her)

insert a whole lot of internalized homophobia (thanks to trashner and his non-depiction of anything canonically queer we don't know how the sentiments regarding queerness are in the universe of course, but lets just go with a similar vibe to ours in this case), not understanding her feelings for teresa, the suppressed feelings turning to animosity and maybe that would shape up to a better image than what canon reading presents at first? that's really the best i can do for bookverse hah.

all of this being said, as you know your fic space for the traveling stars (linked so interested followers can access it easily, rated T) did somewhat change my perception of brenda, and gave me a point of empathy for why she could be the way she is, especially in the books.

then in the movies i think the whole thing is much easier. brenda's a (in my opinion) much more coherent and palpable character, with a genuine dynamic of care and closeness with thomas. the way for the 3 of them there would probably be that they'd blossom into an polyamorous relationship in safe haven. actually that could be a fun scenario to explore!

with thomas having a lot of confusing and conflicting feelings regarding the both of them, until there's some sort of realization that he can love two people at the same time. i'd think him and teresa would be a thing first, after the kiss and the forgiveness and all. but it'd probably be hard with how all the others think about her, so she might not have too much contact with the others. and thomas and brenda could grow closer on their own.

i always find the 2 outer points of the "V" in an ot3 connecting one of the most thrilling parts of it - makes me think of lots of possibilities where teresa and brenda could grow closer in safe haven. specifically brenda would have to need to wrap her head around a whole lot before she could come to understand and like teresa ("same dick who betrayed us?" anyone lol).

that was a nice thought experiment, yay!

finally, AUs are an entirely different thing: there i love the 3 of them together! i think their characters can have wonderful dynamics (though there, too, i i find the trenda part of the triad the most difficult to get into. thomesa and brenderesa just come much more naturally to me (which is probably also why it was easiest to write your tmrss the way i did, with us only getting to see trenda once it was already established and working).

which, speaking of! i of course can't answer this ask without linking said tmrss gift for you from last year (i was so glad you liked it!) for the curious follower: snow on the beach (9.3k, rated T) <3

now im curious for your thoughts!

[its-tea-time-darling]

Tell me how did you come out with this ship ?

what do you mean by "come out"? when i started liking it? and are we still talking about brenderemas?

[its-tea-time-darling]

And you ? Tell me about them !

i've been saving that ask for after the reveals, because let me tell you what i think about brenda, teresa and thomas together..........

in fact, let me tell you about it in over 9000 words:

Snow On The Beach

summary:

Brenda makes a new friend. Teresa falls in love. Thomas appears, and it makes everything so much more complicated...

rating: T

chapters: 4/4

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[its-tea-time-darling]

snow on the beach (brenderemas, modern day au, T, 9k)

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🖤one of a kind secret santa fics🖤

summary post of fics that are one of a kind in the @mazerunnersecretsanta 2022 collection!

Kill Switch (Thominewt)

by @jo-the-unknowable for @nachoupala

What if The Maze Runner was set in the Star Wars universe, not long after the Clone Wars, and what if the Gladers were clones in the Imperial army?

T / 25k

Quality Time (Thominally)

by @riyusama for @iasconsumesmedia

Minho had been missing out on quality time with his boyfriends Thomas and Gally. Much of their times has been preoccupied with work and council duties, each one of them having heavy responsibilities that eat up much of their time. When a chance to finally get together again for a banquet is happening at the vampire coven, Gally and Thomas are hope that their lycan boyfriend Minho gets to attend.

E / 3k

A Better Ending to Our Love Story (Thomally)

by @iasconsumesmedia for @manako-no-yami

Monster Hunter Gally drives into a small mountain town expecting to hunt a vampire. He runs into his ex-boyfriend Thomas and Thomas' new guy, and they combine their efforts to rid the town of the blood sucking fiends. But things aren't exactly as they seem, old feelings haven't died, and Thomas sleeps all day and looks very pale compared to how Gally remembers him...

M / 16k

Snow On The Beach (Brenderemas)

by @its-tea-time-darling for @cherrypigeon

Girl meets Girl, Girl meets Boy, everyone progressively more confused until the author slowly tortures them into polyamory.

Written for the Maze Runner Secret Santa 2022.

T / 9.5k 

snapshots (gen fic)

by @dahliia04 for @pathsofoak

Chuck made it out of the Maze, but not with the other boys. Reunited in Paradise, they learn that WICKED hasn’t set their futures in stone.

G / 4k

[its-tea-time-darling]

BRENDEREMAS MODERN!AU OR CANON!AU PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU AT THIS POINT

make a wish ✨