'maybe i talk about doomsday-eve hookup au next' PLEASE talk about it.
(content warning for discussion of potential sexual assault - no rape occurs, but it is theorized about/some characters believe it happened)
so i called it doomsday-eve hookup au, but it actually happens right before the green festival, during the time that tommy is staying with techno, and the two of them are making active preparations for what will eventually become doomsday - techno's spreading his propaganda posters, breeding his dog army, and tommy is tagging along like yeah this is fine.
dream's discovered that techno is sheltering tommy, and while he's not happy about this, he decides that it might be more beneficial to "play nice" with tommy during this period of time, especially since tommy is high on his l'manberg haterisms, and he thinks maybe there's something he can salvage from that. following that, i think i put it best when i was talking about it on discord:
(this was brainstormed in the bowspam discord i run, by the way - which there is a link to in my pinned, just as a reminder and a shameless plug)
So Anyways Dream Is Pregnant. (he gets to be trans in this au.) this was actually kind of the jumping point of the au in the first place, because we were discussing the logistics of a bowspam pregnancy and how it would even happen and what would come of it.
dream doesn't know. tommy doesn't either. (the mistake of thinking that T is a good enough contraceptive...) and the rest of dsmp canon keeps going as-is, until about a couple weeks into getting tortured by quackity, dream's pregnancy symptoms are starting to become obvious not just to himself but to both quackity and sam. he's sick all the time beyond what potions can heal, his baby bump is showing, and it doesn't take much more than quackity's suspicion for him to call sam in for some sort of examination. it's confirmed in a matter of minutes.
quackity aggressively questions dream as to whose it is and how and why, and of course dream refuses to say anything. sam is concerned in the opposite direction, over the health of the pregnancy and hey that's like, going to be a baby? and it turns into a scarduo argument because of course it does
obviously it's not sam or quackity's baby. it's tommy's! but neither of them know this, and they don't know how far along dream is, and he's not the healthiest, so it's not really like they can tell, and the only people who have been in contact with dream for long enough to potentially knock him up - in their eyes - are sam and quackity themselves.
so, sam thinks it's quackity's baby and starts being really meticulous about taking care of everything and taking care of dream, because... well, it's quackity's baby and he wouldn't want to mistreat quackity's baby. meanwhile, quackity thinks it's sam's, and he just kind of like… gradually stops torturing dream because he's like well okay that's sam's baby in there, I cant fucking kill sam's baby.
so now they're just. taking care of pregnant dream in prison. dream kind of wishes they would just go back to the torture.
when techno visits and gets imprisoned and thus finds out, techno is also confused as to whose it is! when he's 100% sure that scarduo aren't listening, techno very seriously asks dream if sam and/or quackity assaulted him in any way, and he gets a very flat chuckle and a "no. but don't tell them that." which techno is Even More confused by but abides by anyways because like hell is he passing up an opportunity to stick it to sam & quackity.
the baby is born after techno leaves, but prior to jailbreak. as for her name:
so the baby just kind of looks like dream, and neither sam nor quackity have any idea who the other parent could be based on who the baby looks like
obviously, because sam and quackity are terrible people are Concerned For What May Happen To Baby Pearl, dream's not really allowed to keep her, except when she's brought in for breastfeeding, so we get more of scarduo having Acquired A Baby and the type of shit that happens there.
we also get:
immediately, "so we're gonna get ranboo's kid and your kid when we go to give sam some shit. deal?" and thus Revengers is two birds with one stone. Baby Pearl Reacquired, after some couple of weeks of planning.
as an aside, after some communication, finally, scarduo realize that the baby is Not, in fact, either of theirs, and so:
quackity and sam don't reappear after pearl is taken back. once she is taken back, she stays with techno + crew in the arctic, because dream is kind of MIA after techno told him to scram post-prison but before baby reacquisition.
And Tommy Still Doesn't Fucking Know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've toyed around with a few more ideas for where this au might go from here, but this is all i've got for now! i'd love to explore it more and tbh i might still do so... there's some ideas for how i think tommy might find out, and some headcanons for how Pearl is raised that are floating around in my head, but this is where it is for now.
Also: This is Pearl! :)
technoblade picked her shirt :)
