I was thinking about how in the kraken au Tubbo is protected by Ranboo and mostly Tommy so I was thinking what if they had a system to let the mers know if a ship was good or bad.
I was thinking they made this system after a trading vessel incident. The crew was just concerned why a teen was out at sea alone and just wanted to make sure he was alright or if he was lost, but all Tommy saw from below the water was a really big ship suddenly changing direction towards Tubbo and assumed the worst. After a scuffle and a nearly capsized ship the trio was left to apologize to an extremely shaken up crew.
It was this that caused Tubbo to create the good guy bad guy warning system. With the help of Ranboo they made plant based color bombs. Each color lets them know what’s happening. For instance green means, all good I’m not going to get killed. Orange means something is sus but let’s wait and see how this goes. Red means oh shit they want to kill me
More colors and meanings could be added as well.
PS they absolutely throw them at each other and it is a mess every time
Bonus points if any of them are rinsing off the red when the SBI or Puffy’s crew visits
Ooooooo YES
This is definitely something they do to make sure Tommy and Ranboo don't attack random ships (they're both mers, remember)
Tommy and Ranboo actually pick bioluminescent plants from the underwater farm Tommy has to let Tubbo use them for the dyes so it's easier to see in darker water!
And yeah- they would probably forget to tell the adults still living around the village about it so when they come back and Tommy and Tubbo are washing off red (Bec Tommy has a human form) everyone freaks out thinking something bad happened
If one remembers correctly it is Monarch Monday which means its Ronan appreciation day which means Roman gets spoiled with love so Roan take my fucking love you handsome devil-
Also first fic yaaayyy, I’m doing this based on memory so i’m sorry if i got some things wrong- (inervoushelp)
Warnings: Injury (Nobody dies), Captivity, swearing i think? (If i forgot anything please let me know-)
For @baka-monarch
Words: 1K ish
Tommy had recently finished tending to his farm, and it seems Tubbo has been quite busy as of late been busy with chores to do around the village, so he was just left to be swimming in the wide ocean.
He wasn’t alone though, he had his friend Ranboo by his side, who was constantly trying to keep up with him, he honestly found it quite hilarious since Ranboo is so small compared to him and he can see Ranboo swimming around his tentacles, trying to gain speed to keep up with him. Tommy isn’t that much of an ass though, he does keep Ranboo the occasional boost if needed.
He sighed and decided to take a break, well for Ranboo anyways, a couple of easy swims isn’t quite so easy for a tiny Mer like Ranboo. He chuckled “You alright there, Big man?”. He sat there as Ranboo swam up to his face, which took a good minute. “I-I’m fine! You sure swim fast though...”. He said in between pants for his breath.
Before Tommy could even begin communication with his friend, Ranboo’s attention seemed to be elsewhere, as he went to ask, he was interrupted by Ranboo asking, “Tommy, have you destroyed any ships recently?”.
Tommy raised an eyebrow in confusion, he hadn’t taken down any ships in a while since no pirates have dared come near the town for a while, the only ships he’s seen is Puffy's and the other villagers. Oh no.
Tommy went into alert towards the boat to investigate, he hoped it wasn’t one of the villagers, had they been attacked by Mers? Had he not kept an eye on them?!
His heart pounded out of his chest as he surfaced the water, taking a close look at the damage.
He exhaled in relief as it wasn’t one of his own, but something did catch his interest, it appeared to be a net of some sort, containing something. In fact, it was one of the only remnants left of the ship. Heck even the cause of what happened to this boat was unclear.
Ranboo soon surfaced beside him, looking at Tommy in concern, “You alright?”, “Fine, don’t worry. It’s nobody we know”. Tommy reached a hand out to Ranboo in comfort, but before Ranboo could even begin to comfort Tommy, they both heard a strange sound. It came from the net.
Tommy wrapped a hand around Ranboo and brought him towards his chest as he glared at the net in alarm. But his glare changed from one of anger to concern as the nets sound became a lot clearer. It was a baby Mers chirps. Tommy looked down at Ranboo and he seemed just as concerned.
Tommy used his other hand to poke at the net, in response, there was a chirp of alert. It seemed whatever was in this net was a baby mer. “Ranboo, could you open the net for me please?”.
Ranboo immediately went into action and swam quickly towards it, trying to get whatever baby in this net out. What was a baby Mer doing in a net-like this?
The most likely conclusion was that a ship had captured a baby Mer and whatever happened to the ship got it destroyed, leaving this Mer to suffer in this net. Leaving to now Tommy’s and Ranboo’s responsibility to save the poor Mer.
After a while of fiddling with the net Ranboo finally got it loose and held onto the baby Mer. The baby Mer seemed weak with injuries covering their head and arms, they were a light pink colour with a semblance of green too. Their grip barely had any strength to it. It broke Ranboo’s heart to see them like this, Tommy’s too.
Tommy held out his hand to Ranboo, to which he swam into. Ranboo was then held into a somewhat tight grip, enough to keep him safe when travelling at fast paces. And the second Tommy was sure they were safe, he swam as fast as possible back to the village.
A couple of hours later.
“So let me get this straight, you both found this baby Mer stuck in a net out in the sea?” Tubbo concluded after being told of their recent adventure.
Tommy sat with Tubbo in his human form on the rock and beside them a pond of water, big enough to hold a couple of Mers, and with them in the water was Ranboo, the baby Mer beside him also, laying in his arms, covered in bandages from his injuries. He was fast asleep after their tough day.
“Yeah, and the thing is, we don’t know what to do with the lil’ guy since well, I doubt Wilbur’s up to taking care of another kid since Fundy’s already a handful, doubt Karl would want a kid and I have no idea who else would care for him.”. Tommy explained.
Tubbo didn’t respond initially, he just stared down at the small baby Mer for a moment, the mer was just to put it simply adorable and had gained a spot in Tubbo’s heart, the same could be said for Ranboo and Tommy.
“Mine.”. Tubbo said in a low tone. “What?” Both Tommy and Ranboo looked at Tubbo in confusion. “Mine”. Tubbo stood up from his spot in the rocks and climbed down to a point where he could interact with the baby Mer, he gently put his hand on the Mers's face.
“Tubbo, you’re acting like a clingy Tommy right now”. Ranboo snorted at his platonic husband’s behaviour, Tubbo looked up at him in annoyance. “HEY BITCH! I HEARD THAT Y’KNOW!”. Tommy stomped his foot and stood his ground.
“SHHH!”. They quickly snapped, not wanting the baby to be awoken. Ranboo sighed, “Tubbo, we can’t necessarily take care of a kid, we’re just kids ourselves”. “Don’t care, he’s ours now. I’m naming him Michael”.
And from that point on, Tubbo and Ranboo became parents, and Tommy became an uncle. It luckily didn’t take too long for Michael to recover, only with a couple of scars but he proved to be a very happy and friendly Mer. He loves spending time with his family. And not so long ago Tubbo gave him a little chicken plush he named Benson.
thinkin bout benchtrio + Michael family in krakeninnit au,,,,
Tommy watching lil guppy Michael speed around his tentacles like an obstacle course, Michael trying human foods for the first time and falling in love with golden carrots, tubbo teaching him swear words behind ranboo's back, ranboo absolutely crying his eyes out when Michael calls him "papa" for the first time, the 4 of them having a picnic on the shore, tubbo, ranboo, and michael cuddling on Tommy's hand or chest while he watches over them,,, soft happy family times
yeeeeeeeeee
I still haven't figured out what happens to get Ranboo and Tubbo close enough to get platonically married- but this I love!!!!!!!!!
Even when Tommy is in his human form he's like 12ft tall (I think?) So Michael absolutely loves to get picked up by Tommy and given piggy back rides- and when Tommy is in his mer form he usually just rests his hand down for Michael to play with (it takes Tommy a long time, and alot of convincing from Tubbo and Ranboo, for Tommy to trust himself to let Michael play around with his tenticles or climb up high on him or for him to pick Micheal up in mer form)
Kraken Au or how ever you spelled it but with Micheal
Tubbo: What is that
Ranboo: my son
Tubbo: no, our son.
Tommy:.. HEY-
XD
Yep- Tommy and Tubbo are like, inseparable best friends to the end in this au so like- if Ranboo and Tubbo get a son then Tommy is definitely gonna freak the fuck out-
Maybe he'll even sulk at full size in the bottom of his cave for awhile-
Kraken innit au foolish shows up because he hears rumors of a place where bigger mers can coexist with each other ( I think he would be 200ft and be a Megalodon mer he doesn’t eat mers because he swore off killing mers after nearly killing a certain ship captain when he was hunting) and foolish wants a safe place to raise his kids he meets Phil when he was looking for mers for Tommy he leads foolish to Tommy not seeing Junior and Finley foolish and Tommy wrestle for awhile until foolish finally gets pinned down then Junior swims out and says to leave his papa alone and that they just wanted to find the safe place and that his dad doesn’t even eat mers because he accidentally hurt a captain named poofy, Tommy backs off realizing this guy has kids and might know puffy foolish is terrified that this kraken is going to kill his son
Thoughts?
YEEEESSSS- except Tommy is like 1000 ft dude (I think he's that big by now-) so there wouldn't even be any wrestling if Foolish is 200ft (I checked- he's like the size of a Ken doll-) so Tommy would just grab him in a tight fist so they can put him in their mouth- before Junior spins in front of his face and tells Tommy to stop- and of course he would, he's not gonna kill a kid or their dad, plus he wants to know more about what happened to Puffy awhile back...
Tommy is sunbathing and the village thinks he beached himself.
He wakes up to find all of the village people trying to push him back into the water and he's just like, "guys, I was trying to take a nap here."
XD
What makes this even funnier is that if he really did beach himself he could've just gone into human form and walked away- but no- the village is worried that they're kracken son is stuck and passed out and want to help- and when Tommy wakes up it takes everything in him not to laugh at the rediculous situation
