idc if no one asked for this, im doing this anyways
(TW for references to suicide and murder)
okay, so starting off, we wanted a villain tommy arc, but now we have a sad tommy arc.. i mean, he was even considering taking his last canon death by jumping into lava. the entire time he has been exiled all he’s been thinking about is tubbo and his friends and wanting to be back home in l’manberg. after tubbo exiling him he realized that no one actually wanted him around. he’s even trying to be more independent and is refusing people’s help just because he feels like all of his friends dont want him around. even when ranboo and fundy came to visit him he made them leave early because he “didnt want to waste their time.”
obviously tommys glad that ghostbur is with him in logsted, but the fact that ghostbur keeps going back to l’manberg and wants tommy to come back with him, upsets tommy even more. also, even though tubbo promised to help tommy find the discs, in the end tubbo said that the discs dont matter and that tommy is too obssessed with them.
i think that techno said it really well. (i dont know where the actual quote is, so im going to paraphrase.) “imagine giving your life to a country just to be exiled, haha look at this loser.” this is a great quote to represent what’s happening to tommy, because not only is tommy a loser, he also gave his all to a country that he was kicked out of. he fought for it, he was with it since the very beginning, and even when he was exiled the other times, he fought to get his country back and he worked so fucking hard just to be betrayed by his friend.
i personally think that tommy was mostly, (key word mostly), in the right. dream makes his own rules, he does what he wants, says he’s on the side of chaos but when someone calls him out for it he immediately flips sides and says that he’s doing everything for peace in the smp. so when tommy fought back and burned georges house, dream shouldn’t have gone that crazy. but then, at the first sight of a small threat, tubbo kicked tommy out. but, literally right before, dream had dethroned george, giving the throne to eret. obviously, since there was no reason to do that, george was mad and joined the side of, then, mexican l’manberg. so, what is dream even fighting for? chaos, as he said himself.
and with the tubbo is turning into schlatt theory, i would have to agree and disagree. obviously he thinks he doing the right thing, but in reality he is acting just like schlatt. schlatt would lie and exile someone who was his “friend” and not even tell any of his associates. schlatt would encourage the hit list and killing dream, even after dream held up his part of the deal. schlatt would pretend to be on dream’s good side just to go behind his back and plot to kill him.
but, to condradict tubbo turning into schlatt, i think that tubbo just wants to be seen as his own person. hes always been the sidekick, yunno, “tommy’s friend.” he just wanted to be important, in other words, to have power all by himself. tubbo just wanted to be a good president, a good ruler, but instead he ended up losing his best friend. now he kind of has nothing.
Now, I would like to compare tubbo to wilbur, because i miss wilbur, normal wilbur, that is. when wilbur was confronted with death, he stood up for himself. when wilbur’s entire nation was rigged with tnt by dream he still stayed strong to eventually get l’manberg, and freedom in the process.
dream says, “give in or die.”
now, tubbo faced with this situation would give in, as shown by how he exiled tommy just because dream threatened him.
but, wilbur responded with, “independence, or death. if we get no revolution, then we want nothing. we would rather die, than give into you and join your smp.”
wlibur got blown up and lost one of his canon lives.
tommys lost everything. he lost wilbur, techno, lmanberg, the discs, his friends. to him, he has nothing left. he really feels that he has nothing to live for.
i guess in the end wilbur was right. “tubbo? he’s lying to you man! he would drop you in a second!”