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Tommy: On the Dream Team SMP, war went down. For anyone that isn’t aware, we started L’Manberg, alright? A new city in the Dream SMP for Dream is a fool. He contradicts his own rules, he says no stealing and then he goes and steals from me. He says no griefing, then he ruins the entire-! Look at that! That is Dream! That is Dream!

Tommy: So, here’s what we’re doing today. We’re sick of it, you see, chat? We were sick, so we moved to a new home. L’Manberg, alright? L’Manberg, oh, how it was superior and Dream didn’t like that. The power left his grasp.

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I think one of the most interesting things about Tommy is how aware he is of things. Like, he's got Dream's number here, even without having the context from Dream's own stream. He knows how to read a situation, he just tends to pretend that he doesn't.

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Tommy: What are your thoughts on Tubbo?

Wilbur: Who?

Tommy: Yeah.

Wilbur: Is that the one who’s just nice to everyone?

Tommy: Oh, the clingy one.

Wilbur: I think he’s clay to be molded, Tommyinnit.

Tommy: ...you want to mold Tubbo?

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Tommy: Walk with me, walk with me. Here’s the thing, Tubbo, people are morons. People are morons and so incredibly easy to just-

Tubbo: Yeah.

Tommy: They’re clay, alright? They’re clay and you can choose how you mold them. Now, they’ve burnt down your house, you’re angry. Here’s the thing, Tubbo! We can kill them but that’s not our first approach. Our first approach, is not to fight them, it’s to let them fight-

Tubbo: It’s to outsmart them!

Tommy: It’s to outsmart them, Tubbo.

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Always a fan of parallels on this blog!

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Tommy: How much do I care about this?

Tubbo: We care about this a lot.

Tommy: We care about L’Manberg more than the discs.

Tubbo: We do?

Tommy: So, we can say to Dream, ‘Dream, if you don’t attack tomorrow, I’ll give you one of the discs’. Dream-

Tubbo: Which one? He likes the purple one best. Mellohi.

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Tommy: Alright. Dream, tomorrow, if you do not attack, I will give you Mellohi. That’s right. The disc.

Tubbo: Wait, the legit one, or the copy?

Tommy: The legit.

Tubbo: Oh my god.

Tommy: Provided you step down from the war and you don’t attack us. Tommyinnit.

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You know, probably because I didn't want a ton of Tommy's content until more recently, I never realized quite how hard he tried to stick to the 'words not weapons' rules. How hard him and really all those of L'Manberg tried to end the war without having to fight. I also always thought the disc exchange after losing the duel was a spur of the moment thing, but clearly it was something that Tommy had already considered as an option.

Interesting how Dream was given the chance to acquire one of the discs and all he had to do was give up some land for it and he still choose the war instead.

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Tommy: We’re gonna head to Dream’s base and we’re gonna give him an ultimatum. ‘Cause, here’s the thing, do you want to know Wilbur said to me-

Tubbo: What?

Tommy: What Wilbur said, Wilbur said you’ve got to put everything on the line.

Tubbo: Everything on the line.

Tommy: And if there is any form of leverage we can have over Dream, we need to use it, alright?

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Man, these are things that Tommy's character really internalized, both during this war, putting everything on the line includes sacrificing his discs for what seems to be the 'greater good' at the time, and past that as well. I think we're seeing this theme again in the plot to come, Tommy throwing everything he has, risking everything, his second chance at life, his chance at peace, just to try and rid the server of Dream.

It's one of those character traits that seems like a good one, but when pushed to excess becomes a flaw as well. I think it's pretty cool to see!

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Dream: If you do not put up white flags-

Tommy: Wait, go from the beginning, Dream.

Dream: -tomorrow.

Tommy: Go from the beginning, Dream. Dream, Dream. Go from the beginning, Dream.

Dream: Okay, Tommy-

Tommy: [mutes] Uh, thank you, for the £3, Yikesxp [unmutes] Sorry, wait, go from the beginning, Dream, I got a donation.

Dream: I’m out.

Tommy: I got-

Dream: I’m leaving. I’m leaving.

Tommy: Sorry, sorry, sorry, fine, fine, fine, continue.

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Not really to do with the story except to say, Tommy and Techno are just really on the same wavelength when it comes to messing with Dream while he's trying to be intense huh? I don't have the quotes from when Techno was doing this but it was the first thing to come to my mind when I saw this and I'm still sorta cracking up over it lol

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Tommy: Did they take things from your house, Tubbo? Dream and co.?

Tubbo: I don’t think so, no.

Tommy: Really? Well, I see the blocks have been taken. By the fire.

Tubbo: Oh my god. They took it with fire.

Tommy: Exactly! The two rules Dream set for me was ‘no stealing and no griefing’. Now, if you take a look at this, they have griefed your household.

Tubbo: My god.

Tommy: And they have stolen the blocks! So, surely, if he is changing the rules in your household, then we are allowed to change the rules too. ‘Cause we’re on Dream’s server and if Dream’s changed his own rules-

Tubbo: Wait, no, but L’Manberg’s a different server.

Tommy: Exactly, Tubbo, but where is this? Where is your house, Tubbo? What server is this on?

Tubbo: This is on the Dream SMP server.

Tommy: Exactly. Exactly. And if the two rules of the Dream SMP are ‘no stealing and no griefing’, the only two options I could assume-

Tubbo: Is that they’ve been changed.

Tommy: -is that, one, they would've been changed.

Tubbo: So, we can steal and grief.

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Tommy: I need wood, Tubbo. I need you to get me logs.

Tubbo: What’s this house made out of?

Tommy: You really? You want to do it?

Tubbo: You said it yourself, the rules have changed, clearly.

Tommy: And you’re okay-? Really?

Tubbo: I mean, it’s up to you. You have the decision making power and capacity.

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I know it looks like the first quote cuts off weirdly but I promise you he doesn't actually make a second point.

The rules have changed, boys! If Dream believes that all is fair in war, then that goes both ways, at least, according to Tommy.

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Dream: Tommy, the embassy has fallen and next is L’Manchildberg. You have until tomorrow.

Tommy: You fucked up.

Dream: I will see you tomorrow, Tommy.

Tommy: You-

Dream: I will see you tomorrow around the same time and, if you have not surrendered to us, L’Manberg will fall. Understand?

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You know, this ultimatum here really gives perspective on why the L'Manbergians also had no choice but to fight at the end. Like, we know that they were defending themselves at a certain point, war had been declared on them and the Dream Team's onslaught was pretty brutal all things considered.

But there's also this. This was before canon lives, so death didn't mean anything in the story yet, not really, and so what Dream is saying here is 'Don't surrender and we'll continue to destroy you and your country as we have been' or 'Surrender and we'll peacefully destroy your country, ignoring the fact that we've already destroyed the homes you would have to go back to'. A little bit of bias here, but also watching this episode has not made me very forgiving of the Dream Team during the revolution haha