#dubpulse

[mochiwrites]

20 BDubs and whatever ship you choose?

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Being teamed with Impulse for this game is unexpected, but certainly not unwelcomed. Of all the people Bdubs could have been soulmates with, he's confident on his chances of survival with Impulse. The man is a genius redstoner (though his redstone is nowhere nearly as perfect as Bdubs'), and he's great at survival. Bdubs has no worries about the two of them!

(there's unease sitting beneath his skin, buzzing at him)

Besides, they hit it off incredibly well after determining their soulmate status! They're in love, for crying out loud. And it is a very happy marriage, thank you very much Etho!

Bdubs doesn't have a single problem with hanging back while Impulse goes off to gather some supplies for them. In fact, he busies himself with humming and throwing together a floor plan for their little home.

(he ignores how familiar it feels)

He chops down trees for spruce and gets a little farm started so they don't starve. Impulse doesn't hurt him once, and Bdubs is in pretty high spirits when his lovely husband gets back. They've got a wall of spruce and steadily growing farm, and a little dug out space within the mountain.

(he doesn't give himself time to think)

"Honey, I'm home!" Impulse's cheerful voice rings out, making Bdubs grin.

"Welcome home dear!" He replies, sounding equally as cheerful as he heads out to meet the other. Impulse smiles at him, and Bdubs is nearly blown away by how lovely his smile is.

"I've got a gift for you!" His soulmate declares, and Bdubs thinks he may just have to marry this man again when they return to Hermitcraft.

"OOOOOO! What is it? What is it?" Bdubs questions, immediately crowding his space, eyes shining.

Impulse chuckles at his reaction, and he brings him inside. He turns toward their furnaces, "Hold on, let me just put it together real quick. Close your eyes!"

"Oh I see, you're trying to drag it on!" Bdubs teases, though he does close his eyes as told. With his sight taken away from him, a sudden fear takes hold of him. Impulse could kill him right here if he wanted to. Or Impulse could have formed a pact with someone while he was away, this could all be a trick.

Bdubs swallows thickly, but tries to ignore his racing thoughts and growing anxiety. He reminds himself that his and Impulse's lives are tied together, that Impulse wouldn't do that to him. That Impulse isn't like him in that regard.

And when Impulse gives him the all clear to open his eyes, there's a part of Bdubs that wishes there was a sword waiting for him.

Instead, there is a clock sitting in Impulse's hands, outstretched to him.

"A clock!" Bdubs exclaims, trying to ignore the way he wants to run away or take the clock and smash it to pieces. Whichever urge he gives in to first. He stares at the golden thing, and it stares back; as if mocking him. Memories flash in his mind, and he can only run from the pain for so long.

Perhaps the final nail in the coffin is when he looks up at Impulse's face. He's still smiling, but his eyes act as windows to his old wounds. It's like a knife to the chest, and Bdubs feels frozen. He isn't sure what kills him more, the fact that the first thing Impulse had done was make a clock for him, or that he worried Bdubs would make the same decision twice.

His breathing hitches, "I-I can't." He says weakly, looking at Impulse. Grief encapsulates him, and his hands tremble.

Impulse's expression turns pleading as his smile fades into a ghost, "Please. For me." He begs, voice bordering on something low and sorrowful. He holds the clock out to Bdubs, and Bdubs' gaze flickers down to his hands.

He inhales through his nose, and takes a step forward. "...Okay. For you." He sets his hands over the clock, and he takes gentle hold of Impulse's fingers. "For you."

[cattimeswithjellie]

Double Life Desert Duo is just Scar wearing a Jelly-shaped backpack leash with the other end tied to a tree while Grian tries to negotiate with Impulse for an alliance. Nearby, Bdubs is attempting to blow his goat horn, but Impulse has shoved an entire sock in it.

[mochiwrites]

can we get just, a cute fluff drabble for ethubspulse?

ofc! ty for the drabble req <3

Impulse likes to think that the three of them have settled into some kind of routine. Sure, they’ve agreed to take things slow as they try to work out themselves and how they all fit together. But it’s been a month or two and he thinks it’s safe to say they’ve made a routine.

Since Impulse has the biggest home, date nights are hosted at his house whenever the three decide to stay in. Which… happens quite frequently.

It almost feels like he’s a teenager again, ordering pizza and watching movies on his pull out couch. He even snags some candies from iDimpy, making sure to keep a healthy stock of butterscotch for Bdubs and mints for Etho.

But these nights are the ones that Impulse holds close, the nights where the three of them curl up together, limbs entangled and messy. It’s hard to tell who starts and who ends. These nights are the ones where the three of them can stay in pajamas and give each other lazy little kisses while some crappy horror movie plays in the background.

Though perhaps Impulse’s favorite part of the night isn’t even the night itself.

It’s the morning.

Naturally, he’s an early riser. It comes with the territory of running two shops seven days a week. And out of the three of them, Impulse is the very first to wake. And when he wakes up, it’s to Bdubs’s fluffy brown hair in his mouth and Etho’s arms around his shoulders.

It never fails to create that warm fluttery feeling in his chest. And he smiles, all lovesick and dopey, so wide until his cheeks hurt.

“Someone’s got that lovesick look on his face again.” Etho’s groggy voice murmurs by his ear, and Impulse playfully huffs.

“I think I’ve earned the right to be a little lovesick.” He replies, tone lighthearted and fond.

“I never said you didn’t.” Etho comments, a lazy smile forming on his face. “I just can’t resist an opportunity to tease you.” He chuckles softly, moving to press a kiss to Impulse’s forehead. “Good morning honey bear.”

Impulse laughs (it’s more of a snort really) at the name. “I thought we put the cheesy names behind us.”

“Oh absolutely not. I will never let go of them, only because it makes Bdubs pretend angry.” Etho answers swiftly, sounding far too pleased.

“Well Bdubs is going to be for real angry if you two blabber mouths don’t stop talking so loud!”

Etho and Impulse look down to see Bdubs staring at them with one eye open, an obvious pout on his face.

“Whoops, sorry Bdubs.” Impulse apologizes with a soft chuckle. Bdubs merely grumbles in response, burying his head even further into Impulse’s shoulder.

“You’re forgiven. Only ‘cuz your morning voice is so handsome Impy.” Bdubs mutters. “But Etho you’re on thin ice!” He declares, making Etho snort. Silence rings for a moment before, “…you will be forgiven in exchange for a kiss.”

“If my snookums requests of me,” Etho says dramatically, leaning over Impulse to press a kiss to Bdubs’ cheek. He earns a pleased hum in return and assumes he’s forgiven.

Readjusting his hold on Bdubs, Impulse finds himself moving to get comfortable against Etho once more before drifting back to sleep.

Yeah, mornings are his favorite.

[mochiwrites]

so. with the completion of “off with his head”, I think it’s time to share some lore. as much as I wanted to include more backstory on etho and bdubs, it couldn’t work into the main series. and it’ll be a while before I can jump into their story.

to solve this issue, I come to tumblr to expand and give some backstory.

if you’d like some background on bdubs, etho, and impulse, have some lore <3

for this, we won’t be starting in our current timeline. we’ll be starting about nine years before. and we won’t be focusing on etho and bdubs. we’ll be focusing on etho and impulse.

etho is 28, impulse is 30. see, etho starts out as a member of xisuma’s police force. and it’s important to note what etho’s view of the world is like at this point. because he looks at morality as very black and white. either there’s good people, or there’s bad people. there is no in between. but we’ll return to that later.

impulse is a witness to a petty crime, etho meets him. they get along pretty well and go out for a few drinks together. they become friends and hmmm there’s some sparks flying. except… they lose contact after a night of drunken fooling around. it’s your typical “I’ll call you later” except the “later” part never comes.

so etho goes off, putting his attention to his job and impulse to other things.

enter bdubs three years later. bdubs is 29, impulse is 34.

and scar is running for mayor. bdubs and impulse meet by chance, right around the time impulse is attempting to start up iPawn. and bdubs comes in, helping him set it all up. and in turn, impulse helps bdubs out with different ways to market scar’s campaign.

it’s a great partnership! impulse’s shop is taking off, scar is getting more support. and oh wow impulse is pretty sweet guy, uh oh bdubs is feeling something for him, and now they’re kind of going out!

except… scar makes a mention that they’re in need of funds for the campaign. and bdubs… he gets a bad idea.

surely impulse won’t mind if he takes some money to fund scar’s campaign. he’ll pay him back and everything!

impulse finds out. and he’s not happy. bdubs’ actions damage their relationship. and once scar finds out, he offers to pay it all back. though, someone beats him to it. see, scar isn’t the only one running for mayor.

so is scott.

and scott’s family pays impulse the money back… as long as impulse will vote scott instead of scar.

and that only serves to fracture bdubs and impulse’s relationship even more.

it’s around this time coincidently, that etho pops back up. during those past three years, etho rises through the ranks, becomes a detective. and he’s successful. but that all comes crashing down with a single case.

the case etho works is a messy one, a serial killer. it’s chaotic, all over the place. etho and his team are being led in one direction only to be spun in a different one. it’s a wild goose chase, full of dead ends and loose threads.

there’s only a few witnesses, even fewer suspects. and one of those witnesses is etho’s best friend. they grew up together, and etho has always thought of this friend as a good person. when his coworkers bring up this friend as a suspect, he denies them.

and nothing gets him to believe them until he catches his friend in the act. it’s enough to shake his entire world view and it’s messy.

etho quits the force, and who’s doorstep does he show up on? impulse’s. and impulse, who’s just been betrayed by one of the most important people to him, offers his home. etho crashes with impulse for a while, turns to alcohol to cope with everything that’s happened. his entire world view has been flipped upside down.

and he does that for a while. until impulse says enough is enough and drags etho to a newly formed dogwarts. he had heard from ren that he needed members and etho needs a job.

so impulse introduces etho to ren, and etho finds himself working with dogwarts. and it’s while working with dogwarts that etho starts to find a taste for chaos. he starts to lean into this idea of “who cares if I’m good or bad, as long as I’m thriving on the chaos.”

and scott (who is obviously not mayor) catches wind of etho working with dogwarts and wants information. etho says “why not” and spills some info, it’s his first real act of chaos, of playing to more than one side.

he meets cleo by chance, right before scar’s election. so early days of crastle. and hey, cleo seems pretty fun, let’s hang with her for a bit. so now he’s split. bdubs joins them Officially during scar’s campaign, and yk. the closet meeting and at first etho really does see bdubs as a way of getting info on scar for ren.

except he falls for bdubs and suddenly betraying him isn’t so easy anymore.

AND THEN ETHO IS EXPOSED. and bdubs knows, and scar is throwing etho out and who can he turn to?

impulse.

etho bunks with impulse again after everything (he moved in with bdubs and can’t go back), and the entire situation has bdubs thinking of impulse and he works himself up to see him. etho is out (meeting with scott) and when impulse opens the door, bdubs throws himself at impulse and collapses in his arms, apologizing like crazy.

they haven’t really spoken since the night impulse confronted him. and now he’s going to see him to apologize.

and impulse is confused because all etho told him was that his position was compromised, he needed a place to stay. but bdubs tells impulse everything and ignoring how badly it hurts that the two people impulse wanted most chose each other, he makes up with bdubs and comforts him.

etho comes back when bdubs is still there, and it turns awkward. very quickly. but impulse makes them sit down, and the two of them hash everything out.

and then the three of them agree to sit down and start over. get to know each other for real, no secrets, no alternative motives. just them. and they give the three of them a shot.