#c!Tommy reacting empathetic and supportive instead of spiteful and self-satisfactory

[darkacademiaarchibist]

I couldn't add more tags I hope this will suffice (I could write more)

can I ask for the Tommy, Dream and Quackity try home-made therapy wip?

You sure can! So where do I begin ..?

Basically Tommy decides to visit Dream again, to get closure (because that went so well the last time). He finds our favorite teletubby in truly pitiful state (happens when you're tortured for months) and decides that he can't let this injustice continue! After calling Sam every vulgar name in the vocabulary, he takes Dream and in a moment of great brilliance decides to fix him!

It's truly genius! Two birds with one stone! Two flies with one blow! Two hares-! You got the idea. He will reform Dream and help him be a better person, which will not only help the server as whole but also ease Tommy's own anxiety! (Not to mention that Dream himself is currently pretty traumatized, could use some therapy and who is a better candidate than Tommy? He's an expert at therapy! Best therapist ever! Puffy is not helping him, he is helping her!)

And it's going perfectly (despite Dream's consistent insistence that he does not need therapy) for maybe ten minutes. Tommy will very quickly realize that he has no idea what to do with Dream. Despite everything he has no experience with this kind of trauma and he's actually not so comfortable around Dream to be alone with him. But it's fine! He got it under control! The solution is simple! (No Dream, you're not fine and you can't go)

He needs help! (Not because he's not good enough therapist! It's just that talking to someone with at least distantly similar experience might help Dream!). Tommy's second brilliant idea of the day brings them to Las'nevadas, much to Dream's dismay (too bad for him that he needs Tommy's support to walk, running is not an option and all his attempts to convince Tommy to change his mind were in vain)

Quackity is as happy as you'd expected when those two show up but before he can complain Tommy starts a 2 hours long ramble about how terrible Sam is for doing this and how he's disgusted. Well, Q can't really spill out the whole torture thing now, can he? So he has to play the part and be nice. The moment Tommy is out of sight he makes very clear that the last moths are nothing compared to what he'll do to him if Dream spills.

Dream for his part is too weak to try and escape and unable to tell Tommy about Quackity as he knows what the duck would do to him. He needs to recover first and that means playing along.

The main story is mostly Quackity coming up with elaborate schemes to indirectly convince Tommy that Dream is evil while Dream comes up with similar schemes to either unlive or at least expose Quackity. All while Tommy is sweetly obvious to it all, spilling random psychological terms that he heard Puffy say and thinks are cool (he also has no idea what they mean).

I don't have snippet for this one but if you'd like one feel free to send another ask or dm me and I'll write something ;)