#thinking about rivals duo

[justcallme-ange]

It’s the same field.

Uncropped Mask Version-

#angst as promised! <3 #don’t worry about Dream #he’s fine #could also fit in Doomsday trio ages #don’t think about Techno comparing Dream’s weight from last time #rivalsblr #rivals duo #c!dream #dreamwastaken #technoblade #rivalsduo #ctechno #cdream #dsmp #doomsdaytrio #doomsday trio #angst #blood #my art #i may have gotten carried away #with all the rendering oops

[simplepotatofarmer]

you have a dsmp season 2 au?!?!

i do!

the general principle is that c!techno remembers everything thanks to the voices and is aware of what happened to c!dream. but dream doesn't remember beyond the fact that sometimes, he gets chills at the sight of shears or obsidian, that he doesn't always sleep well. he has so many scars and doesn't remember how he got them.

techno befriends him. he wants to tell dream the truth, about everything that happened, about them, but dream seems so happy. he's got what he wants, doesn't he? everything is peaceful. dream smiles so easily now.

but techno isn't the only one who remembers everything. sometimes c!sam looks at dream in a way that techno just doesn't like.

#loyal answers things #season two au #rivals duo #i talked about it more on my other blog i think!

[zethsnex]

:)☕️

<<Prev / Next>>

#c!dreamnoblade #c!dream #c!techno #c!philza #dnb #technodream #dreamnoblade #rivals duo #zsnart #yes c!phil is part of this #I’m tenpted of making y’all choose what will be happening #i’ll think about it #:) #angst my beloved #post prision arc

[etchy-a-sketchy]

Couldn’t figure out a background but have a continuation of my last drawing of these two XD

#dsmp #rabbit run #rabbit run au #god I love this fic so much y’all don’t understand #etchy’s sketchys #my art #technoblade #dreamwastaken #rivals duo #lol my one weakness #backgrounds #also perspective but shhhhh #I just keep thinking about that one clip of techno kicking- maybe sneeg? but the little man just goes FLYING #I’m thinking same thing happens here

[void-chara]

My gift for the @technoblade-gift-exchange !! i was assigned to @simplepotatofarmer who asked for dsmp rivals duo. i hope you like it Loyal!

rambling about headcanons, designs, and my process and stuff under the readmore, because i wanna talk about it but dont want the post to be super long !!

i had originally planned to not have a background and then at the last second i decided to speedrun drawing one in a few hours so um. quality difference but its fine. also unrelated but im pretty sure everything about how i draw animals and anthros makes it very obvious i used to be in the warrior cats fandom lol. anyway onto the designs!!

the gold on techno is scars from the totem at the execution, which i think is a pretty common thing for techno designs. he isnt supposed to be a piglin, but rather similar species of anthropomorphic pig. also his mane and tail fluff are naturally brown but he dyes them pink ^_^ so cool !! um. i maaayyy have forgotten the crown until i was way too far into the piece to add it. haha. oops. pretend its missing because. uuh. hes in a casual outfit. "but he still has the cape" yeah its comfy. "but dream has a mask thats not casual" dream is dream he does Not relax fully ever. see entirely intentional i would never make a mistake.

dream is an original shapeshifter species i came up with because i couldnt decide what i wanted him to be. i havent decided on a name for the species yet but i plan to make almost every solid-color or nearly solid color mcyt into this species. theyre mostly involuntary/unconscious shapeshifters. so like they change slowly over weeks or months to adapt to their surroundings, with little conscious control. basically i wanted him to be like five different things so i shoved them together lol, rabbit ears but in a pattern that looks like an axolotl, a cool tail, TOE BEANS tho you cant see them. this was actually the first time ive ever had a dream design im happy with so thats really nice.

i um. i made full use of my time lol, i spent a bit over a week on the lineart, another week on the coloring, and maybe a week and a half on rendering. unless i suddenly became shit at math(which is possible) that adds up to roughly the amount of time i had to work on it. im really proud of myself actually since i usually take a while to do art, and i wasnt sure i would be able to make something id be happy with in this amount of time. but i did! woah!! this was my first time participating in a fandom gift exchange and it was so fun, and also helped motivate me to draw more instead of getting distracted like i usually do (classic adhd moment) lol. anyway super cool!!

Loyal if u decided to read all this for some reason then again i really hope u like it!! u are so cool and i really love ur rivals duo opinions and creations so i hope u like this! i know theres been shit happening lately, i hope ur doing ok!!

#technoblade #dreamwastaken #rivals duo #dream smp #dreblr #technogiftexchange #<- thats the tag right? #also wow i think i said too many words. i dont think anyone else rambled that much about their gift. um. in my defense the only thing more #powerful than my written language learning disorder is my adhd and autism. so. yeah. lots of words. #aaaaaa i feel like how i wrote everything is so awkward. i am just a creature imitating others i have no idea how to interact with people.. #hmmm. posting now before anxiety gets the better of me! #edit: wait fuck i forgot my art tag. how do i ALWAYS forget my art tag. #chara makes things

[lazy30]

I can’t decided— help—

#Tödliche Weltliebe AU is my hanahaki disease au :D #when c!dream love his server but his server doesn’t love him back so he vomiting yellow flower and blood :D #dsmp Star Wars au is a story about sapnap as a jedi who want to seek revenge for his death dad :) #but this is story for another characters too because I will add all of dsmp members! #like about dream past george ambition tommy trying to find his brothers and more :D #rivals duo au creature of the night is about the last werewolf and vampire #dream as a werewolf and techno as a vampire they was the last of they kind #I think I upload about this story in my old twitter but yeah— #werewolf and vampire is wiped by humans so dream and techno hate them #but one day dream start to have interest about human about they culture etch #and techno doesn’t like it :) #I have many sketch about all of this and idk what to dooo— #I have feelings that I need to finish something but idk what— #so please help me decided thank you!

[bleue-flora]

‘Techno pinches the bridge of his nose. “Come on, Dream. Stop it!… That’s not cool, bro. Why you gotta take out all your frustration on my fancy teacups? I know you’re just mad that you don’t have a house, but bro we can go build you one. We can—we can even make it out of something better than dirt, alright?”’

Ta da! I made some art for the collaborative work, Crow’s Nest, we essentially wrote in a month, which is by far, my most diverse in content and longest fic. Thought it needed some like cool title art, since it’s basically the length of a book lol. (See below for symbolism and stuff)

- it’s kind of a combination of some main elements and themes from the fic: Steve (clearly the main character lol XD), tea, the broken teacups, Techno’s house… the stained floor

- the green tea cup represents Dream and well his broken state after prison, while the pink tinted glue represents Techno helping Dream heal and putting him back together.

- and obviously, a crow for the title and poem the chapters are named after.

- and despite my efforts, Tumblr has kinda ruined my quality, so here’s a zoomed in picture of the tea tag I made, which has the title of the fic and our names on it. :)

#Let’s go I’m learning things. :) #is that blood stains on the wood?… hmmm I have no idea what you’re talking about ;) #I’m sure it’s fine….. #dang tumblr ruining my art quality :’( …. oh well #blue does art apparently #I’m pretty proud of this so I hope y’all enjoy #actually finished this before the one for B is for Betrayal but was trying to fix the blurring issue… but anyways #crows nest #c!rivals duo #dreblr #c!dream #dsmp fanfic #dsmp fanart #rivalsblr #dream fanfic #dream smp #dsmp #yea but given I did this in about a month compared to Dream which took all summer and betrayal which I did in a couple of days #and the crown I did in a few months I think… so I’m getting better? maybe or we’ll I’m learning a lot about digital tools :) #c!dream and c!techno #oh also umm ask us stuff about crows nest there are lots of easter eggs and secrets and things :) <3 <3 <3 #c!rivals #rivals duo #c!techno #steve the polar bear #c!technoblade

[sculkshrieking]

season 7 scarian has had me in a chokehold for the past few weeks

#hermitshipping #scarian #desert duo #my art #praying for more rivals stuff in s9 #i have so much to do but all i'm thinking about is drawing mayor scar #my beloved

[dr3amofagame]

dr3's attempted serious of c!dream duo rankings based on lore importance (note: probably wrong, definitely argue)

c!Dream and c!Tommy: This is kinda undeniable. Like, in terms of their story, in terms of the Dream SMP, they are absolutely the heart and soul of the server. The c!Dream and c!Tommy show was such a thing that it has been like intentionally referenced and parodied within the story itself a million times. The story literally hinged on the idea of their opposing each other, c!Tommy-as-hero and c!Dream-as-villain, to the point where their whole you know finale and the closure for both characters involved realizing that they actually wanted the same thing and intentionally stepping out of the roles given them. Nothing really compares, sorry c!Discduo for the poll (but the heart wants what it wants XD)

c!Dream and c!Wilbur: I cannot believe they ended up ranking so low like I'm actually appalled. SLASH JAY but like . guys. Guys Please. c!Dream and c!Tommy's whole schtick forms the beating heart of this server because the story c!Wilbur wrote about them was its backbone. Like it's incredibly difficult to actually overstate how much c!Wilbur actually influences how c!Dream ends up--the paranoid spiral he ends up on is a direct influence of the increasing isolation he lived up until November 16th--this is why c!Quackity is so confident when he states c!Dream has no one left during dethronement and this is why c!Wilbur knows that c!Dream has no one in inconsolable differences. c!Dream doesn't exist in a vacuum and the whole, L'manburg narrative tyrant-villain-monster idea that originates from Wilbur ends up culminating in the identity that c!Dream ends up assuming to accomplish what he wants like hoooly shit he quotes "unfinished symphony" in Doomsday and he expects c!Wilbur to save him from the prison to the point of calling on him as his savior before basically Anyone and he lists c!Wilbur's name with c!Sam and c!Quackity post-prison like. Shit's fucked. Anyway.

c!Dream and c!Sam: Look I warned you guys I was going to be a little selfish. A Tad. Though, you know, it's kinda hard to compare in terms of like, you know, the fact that they literally spent a fuckin year together with almost no one else--sure there were visitors, sure Quackity happened, but like so much about them is very much isolated to. Them. (Also the ccs very clearly got a little carried away w/ these two and this reflects onto their like, Everything XD). With c!Sam and c!Dream it's less about well, straightforward comparisons and more about the Multitudes--c!Sam as the Plan, and c!Sam as part of the time and part of the server that c!Dream idealizes, and c!Sam as the cage for the monster the punishment for the evil the one that holds the villain away. And obviously while c!Dream doesn't um redefine his whole identity to base it on c!Sam the way that c!Sam does with c!Dream, the power of the trauma bond established over a year of Nothing Else does makes c!Dream noticeably more comfortable, almost, with c!Sam compared to like quite literally everyone else post-prison. Which is. Y'know.

c!Dteam (emphasis on c!Dnf): Admittedly, I'm not the biggest c!dnfer around by a long shot, so I don't really have as much to say here--but you know, considering c!Dteam very literally symbolize what c!Dream desires like. They're an extremely important part of who he is, what he wants, and why he does what he does. There's a reason why dethronement (and the cutting ties with c!Sapnap and c!George) is such a defining moment in terms of showing when he's fully burned bridges with the rest of the server, when he totally stands alone, etc. Obviously c!George is the originator of the "big happy family" line and well his mutual interests line up with c!Dream's quite a bit more than c!Sapnap's do, but as far as c!Dream is concerned both relationships are very much important to him and symbolic of happier times (and he's quite convinced that well. Both of them kinda want him dead, for reasonable reasons. So.)

c!Techno and c!Dream: This is where numbers get finicky, admittedly. As much as I love c!Rivals, and I love them a lot, I struggle a bit to put them on a definitive ranking. Because...well, on one hand, c!Techno is absolutely very high on c!Dream's priority list like as a character. I have said before and I'll say again that some of the most like outstanding displays of loyalty on the server come from c!Dream coming in c!Techno's defense at GREAT risk of personal harm--this guy literally stares down and denies both of his fucking torturers for c!Techno, like holy shit. c!Dream really fucking likes the guy like. So damn much. At the same time though, we're talking more...narrative importance versus importance to the character from a character's perspective--which is part of why c!Dteam is as high as they are, imo--while they're extremely important in terms of c!Dream's motivations and how he defines the whole "happy family" ideal around the idea of them living peacefully as a family, as far as actually looking at character interactions...especially post-dethronement they mostly just. Exist as figures that c!Dream yearns for but is also really fucking scared of. There's not as much consistent character interaction and frankly when we're talking about a character that's actively suppressing what he actually wants, they're not exactly high on his mental priority list either. All this being said, c!Techno definitely gets points by being one of the main vehicles by which we see c!Dream's like, humanity--being one of the few characters not to treat him as just a monster to be defeated and having similar ideals and therefore being an obvious comparison to make. Which is obviously important when we're talking about c!Dream, who was keeping himself rather in the dark.

c!Dream and c!Punz: Another real struggle to rank--I'd understand putting them up higher, but what really holds me back is well. c!Dream and c!Punz is the same as c!Dream and the Plan. And don't get me wrong, the Plan is extremely important to c!Dream as a character and like defines a lot of his actions especially post-revive book onwards, but what complicates this is like...well c!Punz as a character in terms of c!Dream? Like, he's just. He's just the Plan. That is his purpose, that's who he is supposed to be, and of course the Plan is important and of course c!Punz's like motivations here end up playing a big part in the tangled mess of what c!Dream ends up doing when we're talking what he starts ranting about in the third finale stream, but like. Well it's really not about c!Punz, innit, it's about what they're working together towards. c!Punz is secondary to the plan in a way that you really can't say the same for when you're talking about, say, c!Wilbur + the L'manburg narrative, or c!Sam and the prison. I can see an argument for them being higher just because like, if we're talking major c!Dream arcs, it's reasonable to have c!Dream and c!Tommy as being like a presence as the "main characters" in Wilbur's story starting the revolutionary war and ending at the genuine finale with c!Dream's main character development being split between the previously-named season finales--c!Wilbur being the main influence leading up to November 16th as c!Dream takes on the villain mantle, The Plan (and therefore c!Punz) driving him until Staged Finale, and the c!Sam and the Prison being the main force until the prison break...but well. There's just not enough of c!Punz and c!Dream actually acting together as a duo in terms of give and take in this dynamic to really make me put them higher--what's really important about c!Punz and c!Dream is just. The Plan and the Plan alone. Anyway, I'm decently flexible about this, but eeeeeeeh.

#c!dreamisms #look the punz thing is complicated because on one hand i think that the ranking should be higher because. The Plan is so important #but on the other hand it feels like it should be less for that exact same reason #like c!punz is just kinda there to Be The Plan. which is important to c!dream sure but like. #like it just feels so much less like it's abt a character duo and more about well dream and the plan and punz is the walking plot device #that symbolizes that #ultimately tho some of my c!dteam thoughts kinda skew in that direction as well...where it's less abt the characters and more abt what #they mean. but well even then the conflict that arises between c!dteam means that it's pretty different #from c!punz just being there to symbolize driving c!dream forward #idk 🤷 #honestly techno is pretty easily argued lower as well like as much as i love c!rivals (and i love c!rivals a lot) #narrative importance re. c!dream specifically is a lot more finicky #anyway honestly i have strong feelings on the first two and everything else is harder . c!awesamdream is number three In My Heart

[metrixnos]

some doodle ideas i got that i rlly like

#dsmp #technoblade #wilbur soot #tommyinnit #dreamwastaken #crimeboys #bedrock bros #rivals duo #sketchbook doodles :D #the rivals duo one is the nicest techno will be when talking directly to dream lol #also the 3/4 sbi one #i fucking love that one #thinking about it so hard rn

[kuroshirosb]

piper is such an inherently fun character to think about for me.

especially during bw and his villain arc. ESPECIALLY when he's at he's peak villainy.

like YEAH he gets manipulated by team plasma into making him think people are out to ruin him and is believing in a false ideal... but he's still kind of a villain. moreso than n and hilda. like at least those two don't pretend to be people's friend nor does he try to harm them and ruin an entire wealth of childhood memories for said false ideal. he goes out of his way to throw hilbert to the wolves.

he is a victim... but just because he's a victim doesn't mean what he's done is ok.

like he is VERY self motivated in the end. he's hurting hilbert and bianca for the sake of HIS future, HIS feeling of fulfillment, HIS feeling of being alive. and like going as deep in this path as team plasma has lead him on it makes him feel so alive unlike he's ever felt before that he has. an evil villain laugh about it. when his true nature is revealed and he has his villain monologue (before the monologue about how much he hates hilbert)

He's BURNING alive compared to his ever desolate feeling of cold, empty, dead-ness.

and the fact that hilbert still loves him after everything he's done infuriates him!!! like it fills him with so much turmoil and rage it makes him see red and they INSTANTLY start a pokemon battle. i think his face would be one of those shots where the camera is just ultra focused on an anime characters eyes.

and he may try to write his wrongs but AGAIN. the damage he causes has been done. and at some point, he was willing to get even worse had it not been for the cruel wake up call given by Bianca, and of course, what happened to Hilbert.

he's just a fun guy to think of. especially when i think of what he'd be like as a villain and his true alliances gets revealed to bianca and hilbert.

#and this is how i excuse putting wolf in sheep's clothing in his playlist #Deceit so natural. But a wolf in sheep's clothing is more than a warning. #<- him #the entire chorus too. btw. #tell me how you're sleeping easy how you're only thinking of yourself. #Show me how you justify telling all your lies like second nature #karma's gonna come collect your debt. #<- yeah. him. #he's like a weird fusion of an ace attorney prosecutor and yugioh villain to me #if hilbert and cheren are phoenix and edgeworth [and also tgaa2 spoilers] coded #i need to figure out. which ygo protag rival duo they also fit best. #he's so fun to think about. boys when they're kind of evil. #(pushes him into a locker) #btw wolf in sheeps clothing is ALSO in the kris kawamoto playlist. cuz its the quintessential super evil backstabbing song. #cheren :handshakes: kris. backstabbing villains (they still would loathe each other though) #pokemashe #cheren piper

[rutadales]

thinking about the 3 months cdream and techno spent together. thinking about how they only had each other. thinking about how techno was dreams last hope. thinking about the moments they would have been forced to share, how much dream simply couldn't hide. thinking about how being with techno was the closest to comfort he'd had in months. thinking about how it was the first time he always had someone he could talk to, the first in there that isolation was never something that could be used against him. thinking about the challenges that would come with it. thinking about how dream never wanted techno in there. thinking about how dream cares about techno, both in the stance of self preservation and genuine concern for his friend. thinking about how techno was worried about dream and wanted to check up on him. thinking about how techno is one of the only people who use dreams torture as an example of sam's absolute cruelty and abuse of power. thinking about how they only had each. they only had each other

#c!dream #c!techno #dsmp #dream smp #rivals duo #I'm also thinking about the line 'he saved my life Phil #root talks

[simplepotatofarmer]

black dog!techno being deeply fond of the way black dog!dream would react to being teased, that being one of his favorite things about dream, just how easy it was to get him worked up because techno loves teasing his friends.

and the fact that laelaps rarely, if ever, reacts to techno teasing him being one of the main reasons techno never considers that they may be the same person.

#LIKE. #and thinking about how laelaps is absolutely holding back on purpose because when he thought about what might give him away #that was one of the first things he thought of #loyal talks about stuff and things #black dog au #rivalsblr #dreblr #rivals duo

[piscespixiewastaken]

My rivals!duo post for the Sixteenth Day Event is now over 100 notes. I am just…. Wow. That one was a lot more popular than the Sapnap and Quackity fic. I’ll have to post them to AO3, maybe make a series of one-shots. And obviously, write more rivals!duo.

Also huge thank you to my non-mcyt moots and followers who put up with my mcyt posting binges. You guys are the real ones.

#rivals duo #dsmp #i just think they're neat #<me about my favorite mcyt creators #and a bunch of other stuff

[atthebell-moved]

i understand the urge to use quackbur instead of tntduo bc people in this fandom love distinguishing platonic names from ship names but 1. thats not a thing in other fandoms 2. quackbur sounds more like you're shipping the ccs than the characters so i hate it for that reason 3. its just lame and tntduo was already the prevailing ship name who cares

#bell.txt #like no matter how much ive seen it it makes me think its cc shipping and i hate it #also for a duo that is /r in canon and pretty much always has involved flirting and romantic tension i dont understand it #you cant distinguish the romantic from the platonic #which is also why i think most /p /r shit is lame and stupid anyway #people can be friends (or insane political and business rivals) with romantic/sexual tension. that is very much a thing #trying to strictly differentiate feels gross and regressive #i dont know why im even talking about this its 4:30am on my birthday what does any of this matter

[prisonpodcast]

I have three days to decide whether or not to buy the rivals duo merch 😟

#pros: rivals duo #cons: expensive plus I don’t really like wearing green or white #maybe I’ll get the coin? but the shipping is gonna cost so much #I’ve already spend over 300$ on Techno merch ALONE too so idk #maybe I’ll think about it #.___.