I thought of this at 2 am it was my peak
in the smp, we’re currently going through what I’ve been calling the theseus arc- the hero is exiled after defeating the nations biggest threat, he’s thought to have died by his closest friend, when in actuality he’s been hiding in a new terrain only to be killed by the ruler who took him in. we all know where the story is going, we all know that dream is trying to push this myth onto tommy.
“it’s not your time to die yet.”
dream knows that soon, technoblade would kill tommy. dream would be rid of his biggest threat. tubbo would be gone as well, if the story continued as the myth is.
dream is expecting it. we, the audience, are expecting it. I mean, technoblade is the main writer in this arc, ofc he’d follow the myth through and through, since he’s the one who brought it up in the first place.
however, i don’t think that’ll happen. while yes, this is the theseus arc, I’d like to believe it’s following another theme- history repeats itself.
tommy is exiled by the president, someone he once trusted. he’s teaming up with techno. he thought dream was an ally, but he was just a pawn. wilbur.
tubbo exiled tommy. he keeps saying everything is for the sake of his nation, despite most citizens unhappy. he’s hosting a festival. schlatt.
it was set up in the beginning.
“if I can’t be the next schlatt, you can’t be the next wilbur.”
with the theseus arc, it’s literal greek myth history repeating itself. again, we’re all expecting it. but techno is smart, he knows what we assume and what we think is gonna happen. which is why, I feel like he’s going to refuse finishing this arc.
technoblade, while consistently saying he doesn’t care for tommy or is only in it for the destruction of the government, it’s extremely clear that he shows immense care for tommy. hiding him from dream, getting defensive when dream is looking, distracts him when he’s trying to get the truth out- when tommy was in panic from his ptsd of logstedshire, techno subtly attempted to distract him from the memories. he looked for tommy and grounded his feelings. techno, while his morals are far from tommy’s own, is genuinely trying to help save tommy.
when dream comes back, demanding that the arc is followed through, I believe techno is going to refute him. he’s going to deny history. history repeats itself only if you allow it to, and techno is done letting everything circle back in one endless loop of bad decisions. techno is going to protect tommy. and that will be the end of the arc, a denial of how history believed it to be.
tubbo, still in belief that tommy is dead, will still be in danger of the myth. of jumping to be with tommy once again. this could go one of two ways- he succeeds, being the one to allow history to repeat itself, and the curse of the presidency mixed in will end his last life. or, as suspected above, the theme will be denied. tommy will get there, just in time, he’ll save tubbo against all the odds.
with technoblade the main writer for this plot, I genuinely do believe this narrative twist will happen- or at least a version of it, not the exact scenario above lmao.
