Heavy is the head
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Pragmatic beyond any reasoning by orphan_account
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Minecraft (Video Game)
15 Nov 2020
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He needs to be able to see the button. Needs to be able to get to it. To press it. To end this whole farce.
Maybe Quackity is lying to Tommy. Maybe the whole argument-breakup-resignation with Schlatt was an act to get at Tommy and Wilbur’s secrets. Maybe he’s about to turn around and tell Schlatt exactly what he found and there goes Wilbur’s one chance at fixing this whole mess-
But not yet.
Not yet, because Wilbur’s still here and so is the button. He just needs to get to it.
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OR: An adaptation of the confrontation in The Button Room following the festival, told from Wilbur's point of view.
Series
- Part 1 of Heavy is the head
- Part 1 of Boomerang MCYT Works
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L’Manberg would never have gotten as far as it did if they weren’t stubborn as all hell. They’ve never been good at knowing when to give in. That’s why he loved this place, once upon a time. That’s why he has to destroy it.
Because they’ll never give it up willingly, but goddamnit, he can at least force them to build something new. Something that hasn’t been tainted by Schlatt’s fingerprints or Wilbur’s own frantic scrawl across the pages.
So who can he trust to do that?
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OR: The king of kings names his successor.Series
- Part 2 of Heavy is the head
- Part 7 of Boomerang MCYT Works
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He can’t just leave the body here. There’s no peace to be found in a place like this, and he’s not sure he wants to see it in the morning light. So as always, the responsibility falls to Tubbo.
He takes a deep breath. Wilbur was a citizen of L’Manberg, right? It’s the president’s responsibility to look after his people. Or it should be, at least.
Even if they were violent and angry and blew up their own nations. It’s still Tubbo’s job to take care of them.
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Or: President Tubbo oversees the cleanup of his nation, and considers the man that came before him.Series
- Part 3 of Heavy is the head
- Part 1 of Boomerang MCYT Works
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When Tubbo was younger, he never understood why anyone would struggle with the trolley problem. They'd talk about it like there was no correct answer, when there so clearly was. Save one life, or save five. Even when he heard about the interpretation where that one life was a friend or family, his answer never changed. It was always just numbers, in the end. One life for five. Limit the collateral damage as much as possible.
But now that it's come down to this- Tommy for L'Manberg, his friend for a nation- he finally understands.
He wants to be Tommy’s friend here. He wants it so badly that it’s a physical pain in his chest. But he can’t be. Not right now. Not when he has an entire country to look after.
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OR: It is President Tubbo's job to do what's best for his country, no matter how much it hurts.Series
- Part 4 of Heavy is the head
- Part 2 of Boomerang MCYT Works
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At this point, it's only a matter of time before Phil goes off to join Technoblade wherever he’s retired to.
Because that’s the thing, Tubbo thinks as the Butcher Army stands around a table. Phil has always favored Techno. Brutally honest, painfully consistent Technoblade. He says he hates the government, so of course he destroyed a nation. You can’t blame the rain for being wet. It’s just nature. Technoblade never betrayed L’Manberg, Phil believes, because he wasn’t there. Sure, he saw the explosions and the withers, but he wasn’t there for the cold nights in Pogtopia and fireworks in his lungs and for Tubbo physically forcing himself to look away from Techno’s hands- to stop waiting for them to tighten around the trigger of a rocket launcher he was not holding.
Tubbo doesn’t think he hates Technoblade. Phil is right- it was always going to end the way it did. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t scared. He understands Technoblade, and what it means to be loyal to an ideal; that is exactly why Tubbo is so afraid of him.
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OR: Tubbo on fear, family, and public executions.Series
- Part 5 of Heavy is the head
- Part 3 of Boomerang MCYT Works
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Snowchester is going to be safe. L’Manberg was supposed to be safe, but he drove it into the ground because he couldn’t stand up for himself. He bent to Dream and wasn’t strong enough to kill Technoblade.
He won’t make that mistake again. This time, he is going to protect himself. He is going to protect Tommy, and Jack, and Michael when he comes home, and Quackity if he’ll let him. He’ll protect Ranboo, too, even if he keeps writing in his book. Even if he won’t tell Tubbo where he lives.
He just needs the strength to do it. He is going to build something here; he swore as much when he found this place. He is going to build something good, and he is going to build something with teeth.
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OR: Tubbo, on strategy, strength, and checkmate, in the wake of L'Manberg's fall.Series
- Part 6 of Heavy is the head
- Part 6 of Boomerang MCYT Works
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Tubbo has work to do, he realizes. Work he can do as soon as Ranboo stops hovering and asking in tones too soft for Tubbo if he’s alright. He talks to Tubbo like he’s made of glass, like he’s about to shatter. And Tubbo supposes that would be alright for other people grieving dead best friends- gods know Niki probably needed someone like that after Wilbur died, but Tubbo isn’t Niki.
No, Tubbo’s made of sterling stuff. He doesn’t break like that. He doesn’t know how to; no one ever taught him how you’re meant to have a breakdown. So he just… doesn’t. Tubbo just isn’t meant for that kind of thing, and he’s better off for it. Because it means that when everyone else is busy grieving, he can keep busy and work on what matters: bringing whoever dragged Tommy kicking and screaming into this mess to justice.
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OR: Tubbo on paranoia, usefulness, and grief.Series
- Part 7 of Heavy is the head
- Part 13 of Boomerang MCYT Works