#not tubbo tho

[cat-mentality]

Pol remembers everything.

He doesn't speak about it of course, not when he realizes how unfriendly those new Islanders are about the Federation, but he knows very well who he is and what happened before.

The ice was.... Uncomfortable, not exactly his desired outcome for any of them, but given the circumstances Pol admits it could have been worse, it's just generally better to not think about those things at all, the ice happened but it's over now.

The more they forget about what happened the better.

None of the others seem to remember anything, a pity really since Pol would be interested in talking about some things with young Nikki or with Bagi, Bagi in particular used to lead some very interesting missions on her days, but both of them don't seem to recall him or their previous job.

Well, a shame really. But he supposes that the Federation must have their reason for wiping their memories. Far from him to try to insert himself into things that are none of his business.

Pol is retired. As much as one can be while still living on the Island at least, and he is happy with how things are going now, with being left to do his own things while occasionally being called to touch up on some previous jobs or to create something new, the excitement of being needed never fading away.

Pol remembers everything even if he is not going to disclose that information to anyone.

Tubbo doesn't remember anything.

He can't.

They wouldn't allow it.

It's too dangerous, too volatile, too unpredictable.

It's been many years, decades, so much that most of the workers, even the high ranking ones, do not know about what happened. The ones who did, well they are mostly long gone, destroyed alongside all of the written reports.

The Federation went to great lengths to erase Tubbo from memory.

They couldn't allow him to be remembered by anyone, let alone himself. Many had argued that he should have been killed, others that he should have been buried somewhere else, somewhere no one would ever be able to find him again, but those had lost- He was too valuable, the ones with the final say had determined, his skills unmatched, they couldn't risk losing him and not finding someone to take his place.

Replacing him isn't the same as replacing the workers. 

So Tubbo was allowed to live.

Frozen, his memories wiped, all traces of his existence erased from records, most of those who knew him, knew of him, erased alongside it, some few, too valuable for the same fate, embraced the offer to be made to forget instead.

(Pol looks at Tubbo and frowns.

He knows this kid.

There is something disturbingly familiar about him, about his smiles, about his loud voice, about his joy and his laughter.

Something even more familiar about his rage. About the craziness shining in bright eyes, in the smile that shows too many teeth, in the easiness he can craft machines of mass destruction, in how willing he is to put them to use.

Pol asks Cucurucho about it, once. 

The bear does not answer him directly but Pol is not stupid. He can understand the "stop asking" left implicitly in the message.)

Tubbo doesn't remember anything.

But Cucurucho does.

He looks at the boy and a part of him, the part that is capable of feeling, burns with anger.

He remembers what that boyish charm hides.

He remembers the devil hidden in his smile.

He remembers how hard it was to put a stop to him the first time.

And he hates that he was brought back with the others, that the higher ups cannot seem to want to give up on someone they know they cannot predict or control.

It has to be different this time.

He needs to feel fear, he needs to be afraid of the Federation and it's power, he needs to be beaten down so hard that he could never consider getting up again.

The Federation needs his skills, not his spirit.

How unfortunate then, that this time Tubbo is walking a path where the Federation is his enemy. When he was their employee, when he was one of the higher ranking members despite his young age, he was a weapon, a loose cannon that they could barely keep in check, too dangerous to let loose, too valuable to kill, too unstable to be properly efficient, but he was still bound to them.

It's worse now.

Cucurucho looks at the bright eyes and defiant smile and plots. He keeps his gun closer than usual, and satisfaction bleeds on his smile when the light on those mismatched eyes dims just a bit, when hesitation is made known even if for a second, when he freezes, when he flinches upon seeing him.

Good.

The boy is as defiant as always but there are cracks on him now and not having his memories means he lost the ability to fall back on his arrogance, on the acknowledgement that he was too valuable. He is vulnerable now, just a reckless young man who can be broken. Who will be.

Cucurucho looks at a worker with a bleeding heart and questionable actions and pretends he doesn't see anything. Better the mechanic sees them as equals, as things to care about, than as disposable pieces of a machine, as enemies.

Better he has something to lose.

Cucurucho looks at a lost child and his smile gets wider, showing teeth. He feels satisfied with a job well done, with how things have fallen into place at least.

Tubbo will fall in line. He will behave, like he has never done before, because if he doesn't.... Well a little collateral damage can be easily justified, no one will really miss a broken worker or a spare egg.

[qsmpbutwithsignlanguage]

LMFAO, Slimecicle was giving a speech about how genuinely great he thinks the QSMP has been, and how much it has done for him, and while he's saying, "And it has profoundly changed my life in terms of the people I've been able to meet and the experiences I've been able to have," Tubbo is screaming, "We're a cult! We're a cult!" At the top of his lungs while watching the stream. I'm obsessed with this server, I need to study everyone in it like a bug.

[fizzlo-and-the-cubes]

q!missa please save us the children are fresh out of safe parental figures

[hangmanxo]

WHAT IS THIS THUMBNAIL? DO I WANNA WATCH THIS???

[noxious-fennec]

Snapshots of simpler times..

[mangofanarts]

Sunny and their crown friends (aka, their bodyguard, chauffeur and Accountant)

EDIT: @this-is-a-name-dont-worry Thank you for letting me know about their pronouns!! I wasn't aware :>!! Unfortunately I can't edit my tags to change some of it to they because I'm on mobile tho I'll use they/them for sunny more in the future!!

[flowerquib]

"you have so much to do,"

"And I have nothing ahead of me."

Sketch

Alsooo

I made a speedpaint of it if you'd like to see me paint this :>

The song I used it great trust

[nekolikedacat]

he was, in fact, alive

[terezicaptor]

the eepers. sleeppilled napmaxxers if you will

[galaghiel]

more vampire au ft. tubbo

[gooptroupe]

stares deeply into the abyss. cbeeduo In love feeling joy hugging happy seeing sunshine having a good life 1080p 4k

c!beeduo in 1080p 4k, just for you anon

closeup under cut

[phatcatphergus]

The bunny guy coming to fobo to see if it’s  suitable for kids is so funny bc imagine you go to do an inspection and find multiple overcrowded breeding pits, a crack slicer, random shit everywhere, and a shady ass family dynamic where one guy kills horses he thinks are useless and the other guy beat your ass in a chess game and says you owe him child support.

It’s so redneck coded

[frootlooptime]

ctub and ctommy r so redneck hillbilly southerners to me <3

[chayannesegg]

I think Tallulah is lying to herself when she says she's scared of the new eggs. Not completely, I don't doubt they make her nervous, but I'd bet Sunny and Tubbo are the root of her fear and she doesn't want to admit it.

I'd bet Tallulah doesn't like that she doesn't like Sunny. She wants to like everyone, but she doesn't like Sunny. So it must be because the eggs are new, right? All the new eggs are scary. Because they came from that horrible island. Because we don't know what they want from us. She couldn't possibly dislike Sunny just because she's loud and brave and loved by someone who used to put her first.

We know Tallulah was overwhelmed the first time she met Sunny. Sunny came up and tried to say hello first thing and Tallulah got barely anytime between that introduction and discovering Sunny is Tubbo's kid.

She was overwhelmed that whole time through meeting Em and Sunny, but one of the only times we see her relax is when she's teasing Tubbo about relationships. Because she loves Tubbo; he always works to make her feel seen. Then he leaves immediately off with his daughter.

Then yesterday, we heard Tallulah's concerns re: the new eggs. She also expresses concern over Niki and Tubbo's reaction over her hesistance. Especially Tubbo. She brings up Tubbo the most. While she really loves Niki, they haven't spent that much time together. When Phil left, Niki was supposed to watch Tallulah but instead Tubbo cared for Chay and her by himself. That last week before they left, Tubbo spent the whole time making sure they stayed alive. He comforted her on that last day. He shooed the others away and brought them to uppies and sang Jort Storm!

And then on that island, he stayed by her the whole time in that awful room. Waving and dancing and keeping her attention even when things were confusing and her papi wasn't there and they were in danger.

But now he has a daughter. A daughter he's going to put first, the way he put her first. A daughter she saw with her own eyes who seems louder and cooler and braver than she's ever felt. Where does that leave her? Another person gone from her life? Left behind for something better?

Why would she want to know the egg that's taking someone else from her. An egg her papa says steals and takes and wants. An egg who stole and took and wanted Tubbo. An egg we don't know the background of.

Today I think showed proof of Tallulah's underlying insecurities with regards to Sunny and Tubbo. She was totally fine to ignore Pepito when he woke up. He didn't interact with her, but she stayed in the area. It could just be that he didn't interact with her so it was okay, but that's the point. Pepito isn't trying to take anything from her.

Sunny though? We saw Tallulah get upset and leave at the mere mention of Sunny when she asked about Tubbo's crown. Tubbo who's showing his daughter's ownership love of him at all times. She turned around and left immediately after he said that.

We haven't seen much interaction with Tallulah and the new eggs, for obvious reasons. That said, I bet when we do it'll become clearer that her concern is centred around one egg in particular! And it'll be GREAT angst because Tallulah doesn't want to dislike someone, but she does. What happens when she can't hide behind fear of the other eggs? Or her grounding? What does she do then?

[dirt-and-scrivles]

Mmm maybe

Coyote Tubbo idea from @moonjellysoup’s post

[noxious-fennec]

A redraw of an old thing because exam season is the only time i get creative energy ig