#wilma innit

[faerynova]

uhhhh im never gonna write the dadinnit fic but heres bits from an unfinished comic i drew about wilma because shes cute

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a bunch of headshots cause thats all my doodles rn!! scrapped art basically!!

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time to put my money where my mouth is. this is wilma innit and shes tommys adopted daughter that he picks up after running away from exile

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noodling around with older wilma picking up an instrument

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if you want to, would you tell us abt the Tommy idea? i'm very curious what you'd do with him :0

WELL. i dont think any of my followers know this because i never post content for it, but kidfic is my bread and butter

recently i discovered the dadinnit tag, and ive been going through fics where he ends up adopting a random kid. (theres a whole subtag just for "tommyinnit has a child named clementine").

but im not satisfied with them because a big reason i like kidfic is to pick apart why my faves would be *bad parents*. not to say tommy would be a bad parent inherently. but hes got hella trauma and ptsd and he would have a lot of struggles with raising a kid, especially as a single dad. he would go through a lot of interesting growth and changes.

basic idea that ive been fixating on is that instead of going to techno's place after the exile arc, he fucks off a bajillion chunks away to the middle of nowhere so dream will never find him and whoops, accidental baby acquisition. he now has a daughter and he names her clementine.

and also clem is a hell child which definitely humbles tommy a bit. heres one of my doodles.

[faerynova]

I read some of your stuff about the clementine au you came up with and I keep going back and forth on it but it's actually a really sweet concept and I like how you think into the different ways that would affect Tommy's healing process, plus I love that clem would be an absolute hell rat, good for her. (Plus-plus just any funny scenes of parents having no idea what they're doing and being about as chaotic as their child is my cup of tea, it's great) But as someone who has PTSD themself as well as watched their mother deal with it as they grew up, it definitely changes a lot of how the healing process goes. For some ppl it puts it on hold cause they got a wild child to take care of and others it gives motivation to keep working on it. It's interesting to explore the different outcomes. Regardless, you have given me something to overthink for the next week so :'D

TLDR: I have family issues and fiction is my lifeline, and you can keep this ask for whenever you wanna info-dump about it cause I like hearing all your ideas <3

yeah! yeah it really DOES change things. ptsd, grief, and disabilities are things i all focus on heavily in my writing and it really feels like im doing something right when people feel seen/drawn to it, it always makes me happy. (also im just happy in general that you like the idea aaa)

(also! her name is wilma now! originally it was clem because thats kind of the generic name most people use when they make a fankid for tommy. but after a bit of talking about her with a friend i decided to just go full on unique with her)

time for a little infodumping then <3

wilma is a difficult child regardless of who her parent(s) would be, which also adds to the fun. shes gives tommy a run for his money, and definitely forces him to confront a lot of his own issues because it would go south for both of them very fast if tommy tried to push aside his emotions and healing. her autism means she has a lot of emotional issues-- and while we see tommy continues to grow more emotionally mature over the series, hes not stable when hes fresh out of exile so hes gotta get his shit together for her sake.

tommy encourages (on purpose and accidentally) her, as you say hell rat nature. her first word is “fuck”. if she eats mud, eh, its probably good for her or something. when she does talk she matches his volume. she does not understand personal boundaries. she bites people (this one he encouraged on purpose for self defense). among many other things.

but for all that they can be alike, they do clash pretty hard on certain things. the primary one is that, like most autistics, wilma thrives when she has a routine because change is Scary and Bad. and tommy is in contrast a very impulsive person. having a kid in general forces you to settle down a bit but hes gotta take a hard left to figure out how to be... a bit more boring. just a little bit. no springing things without warning. theres more i could get into but this is getting long for an ask and my brain is mush

much appreciated tho for the ask about wilma, this encouraged me to finish up some art of her and ive queued it to post tomorrow :D