#tommys prison arc

[art--harridan]

[Image one: The first page of a digital comic about TommyInnit. It begins with a panel of Wilbur’s hand placing a card on the table, and then one of Tommy with his head in his arms, drenched in blood. He asks "what're you up to now?", to which Wilbur replies "seven of hearts. it's a card game... obviously." After this, Tommy says "hilarious. how do you play?". This is followed by an image of Wilbur sitting at the table, blood leaking from his smiling mouth. He's holding a card in one hand, and resting his chin on the other. He casts a shadow on the table, which has "it's like a game of life:" written in it, followed by three hearts. Below the shadow, he explains "you start with 500 points and 7 cards and whatever cards you have at the end... well, you lose accordingly."

Image two: The second page of a digital comic about TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in limbo. Tommy lifts his head up and squints his eyes, asking "accordingly?? you sure you won't just make it up big dubs?". Underneath, there's a panel of Wilbur, grinning while he shrugs nonchalantly. He says "I'm a man of morals Tommy! And there's a precedent for these things:". Smoke billows behind this panel. Below this, Wilbur continues with "the 7 and ace of hearts subtract 150,", which is accompanied by two card-shaped panels depicting Dream and Tommy. They're both devoid of emotion. Next, Wilbur says "jacks take 50,", followed by the Cat disc and the Your Tubbo compass. Then, he says "8s and 2s deduct 25,", followed by a bloody diamond sword and a lit TNT stick. He continues "aces get 15,", which is next to a L'manberg flag, Tommy's red tie, and the tent from Logsteadshire. Finally, he says "the kings, queens and 10s take 10, and the leftovers are 5; nothing really (unless you're on death's door)." Above this, there's Mexican Dream's mask, Jack's melted glasses, and some of Ghostbur's blue.

Image three: The third page of a digital comic about TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in limbo. Tommy says "Great - now I know how to lose. How exactly do I win?". The first line is above a panel showing a bloody prison wall, while the second is above a panel of Tommy carrying a L'manberg flag past some pine trees. Drawn on top of this is Tommy, annoyed. Wilbur tells him "you get rid of your hand before anyone else." Near this is a panel of Wilbur dirty hand holding a lit TNT stick, an explosion behind the panel. Next, Tommy questions "how exactly?", his face falling flat while Wilbur explains. He says "there's a card in the middle, and you take turns adding one.". There's a single card next to this. Finally, he adds "you can only put down the same suit or number as the previous number".

Image four: The fourth page of a digital comic about TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in limbo. "Jacks change the suit." it begins, followed by "They can be the crux of your play, and ruin another's.". There's 4 card-shaped panels in the middle, positioned in a diagonal line. They each show Tommy in different stages of his life. The first shows him in Business Bay, his suit, tie, and sunglasses on. He's got a big grin and his arms stretched wide. Next, he's wearing his L'manberg uniform, with a slightly smaller smile. After is him in Pogtopia, smile turning to a grimace. Finally, there's him while living with Techno, mouth fully closed and barely a smile. He looks nervous. The panels are framed by two arrows. One is descending, a L'manberg coloured arrow that looks worse for wear. It has a green ribbon tied around it. The other one shares a colour palette with Dream, and has a bloody tip.

Image six: The sixth page of a digital comic about TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in limbo. The first sentence is "twos force the person after to pick up 2". Then, there's Wilbur’s hands with four cards between them, seemingly in the midst of dropping them to his bottom palm. The first card has an explosion flying out of it, background the colour of fire. Next, there's a card which has an obsidian/blackstone wall, a bloody diamond sword laying on top of it. The third card shows a bloody arrow floating in water, while the fourth is simply a rectangle of fire. Then, there's a panel of Tommy weeping hard at the bottom, with the sentence "you can stack them until some unlucky bastard picks up 8 cards" accompanying it.

Image eight: The eighth page of a digital comic about TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in limbo. "but why is it called seven of hearts?" Tommy asks, arms crossed. Wilbur puts a finger near his chin and replies "It's simple really... if someone plays the seven of hearts, the round stops.". Furthere down, there's a panel showing Tommy reaching towards Wilbur back. The next panel is similar, but it only shows a diamond sword in the place of Wilbur, and Tommy's hand is pulling back. These are accompanied by the sentences "there's no negotiation, no getting out of that one. it just stops.". Finally, there's two panels showing the pair's reactions. Tommy looks withdrawn while Wil is smiling, shrugging nonchalantly. "that's bullshit." Tommy says, while Wilbur retorts "that's how you win...". This is followed by a lit TNT stick, and Wilbur continuing "(or not).".

Image nine: The ninth page of a digital comic about TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in limbo. There's a split panel of them, Tommy bored and resting his chin on his fist, while Wil looks giddy, leaning to the side. Tommy questions "lovely - any more stupid rules I need to know?", with Wilbur responding "yeah, but they'll make more sense during play. I'll teach you them as we go.". Underneath this, he continues "c'mon then - let's play:". There's panel of Wilbur and Tommy both sitting at a long table in a dark void, cards set out. You can't see either of their faces. Further down, Wilbur turns over a card while saying "first you turn over the card in the middle". The final panel shows that this card is the seven of hearts.

Image ten: The final page of a digital comic about TommyInnit and Wilbur Soot in limbo. There's a closeup of Wilbur’s mouth while he dejectedly tells Tommy "oh. game over.". Below this, there's a panel of a panicking Tommy who's just abruptly stood up from his seat, shoulders bunched up and expression shocked. "no, no, that doesn't make sense." he says. "that isn't fair! this isn't fair!" he continues, near two panels showing his death. One depicts Dream's bloody fist, while the other his bloody corpse. Next to this, he further continues "I didn't even get to play!". Finally, there's a long panel at the bottom. Tommy stands alone in the darkness of limbo, bright with blood and face expressionless. He repeats "I didnt even get to play...", and the comic ends.]

seven of hearts

#☆ #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #dream smp #tommyinnit fanart #wilbur soot fanart #dream smp fanart #digital art #tommys prison arc #exile arc #blood #gore #abuse #death #suicide #corpse #a sequel of sorts to my b brag comic :3 #ive always wanted to do more limbo card games comic since i did that one but i never got around to it lol #seven of hearts is my fave card game tho!!! love it sm <3 (b brag is a close second...) #b4 anyone asks this game is similar to crazy jacks which is the game that inspired uno #anyway if this flops im gonna rb it sm so be prepared for that :') #block my rb tag if u dont wanna see the same comic a billion times a week lol 👍 #oh yeah some clarity for the sake of my brain #this isnt glorifying wilburs suicide attempt as a 'way to win' since the whole explanation is done thru wils lens #ergo it reflects his feelings on it but not mine 👍 #also the vibe for this and the b brag comic were basically like #wilbur is estatic to see his bro and honestly just another person so he tries to teach him card games for fun #and also partakes in brotherely ribbing because they always used to do that #meanwhile tommy literally just died and his brains are falling out of his skull (tho this is somewhere a month or two later) #btw if anyone wants clarification on the rules (also to know what the ones he doesnt mention are) feel free to ask! inbox or messages :)

[pepemoon]

“So what was it like?”

“Void. It was... dark. It was all dark.”

#pepeart #dsmp fanart #tommyinnit fanart #oh yeah its #c!tommy #dream smp fanart #prison arc dream smp #dsmp #i saw this post ab tommys limbo but i cant find the op

[bleue-flora]

Wait... Dream was born on August 12, 1999 and Dream was arrested in the Disc Finale on January 20, 2021 soo... wait, wait, wait, that means he was only 21 when he was imprisoned for life in a small lava covered box!... Did I do that math right? 21?! Man was barely able to drink legally in the United States and they gave him a life sentence in a boiling cell with nothing but lava, raw potatoes, a clock, and some books?!... oh my god...

#sorry.... I just... give me a minute to process... I mean I knew we were close in age but I guess I never really thought about it #sometimes I forget it happened all the way back in 2021 and just... wow. #and Tommy would have been 16 so getting his driver's license in most states... The age gap is like that of my siblings and huh... #my brother can be a real prick... its a weird thought to imagine him getting through in prison just for messing with us... damn... #dreblr #c!dream #this is fine #don't mind me researching for my lastest maddening project..... i can't stop thinking about Dream being Sam's project....... #I'd blame my job but... let's be honest the prison arc lives rent free in my brain lol XD #dsmp #dsmp dream #dream smp #dreamwastaken #no one does it like c!dream #prison arc #pandora's vault #dishing up lore #kinda? I guess... #lore thoughts #ouch... I'm older than c!dream was in prison now... poor baby... :'(

[llitchilitchi]

tonight has been such a great show of how the fans see c!Dream. the language surrounding him is dehumanizing, in the story, he is the book, he is kept in a vault, he is a monster - c!Q and c!Sam are seconds from calling him it, and the fandom reflects so many of these views. he is not a person with feelings, he is a monster, a predator stalking its prey, an obssessed beast. not human, never human with his very own motivations and goals and dreams who plans for something more. he never wans things for a reason that could not be seen as selfish desire, he is evil personified.

but the moment the language around him, by others in the story, the people who hold power over him reflect the lack of humanity that he should be granted, suddenly it is impossible to strip him of this human side. no, he cannot be in a vault, vault is for objects (like the revive book that everyone sees him as).

he is granted only as much humanity as people think he deserves to be punished further

#litchi.txt #dreblr #am i making sense i am still kinda insane about all this #prison arc save me #it makes the metaphor so much more fucked too #c!Tommy. Theseus. the man who slew the Minotaur #c!Sam. Daedalus. the man who built the labyrinth that the Minotaur was trapped in #does that make c!Dream the Minotaur? #he's a man eating beast that devours any who come close but what is the Minotaur if not a child taken from its mother after the father #broke a promise to a god? #a divine punishment on the world for a sin left wandering halls of cold stone while the people cower in fear and the architect rots away

[rat-rosemary]

Do you guys remember that one fic where the dsmp watched like, Tommy's exile? Can you imagine how much worse it would be if it was them watching Dream's time in prison?

Like, there was no down time in prison. There was no friends showing up to make jokes with.

Can you imagine sitting those bitches down and making them watch the hours and hours of the prison arc?

#the dog barks #dreblr #absolutely anytime I even sit down and try to face the prision arc it gets worse (/pos) #like sure exile was bad but nothing close to the prison #I feel like there are not enough tws for the prison arc #and then it drives me insane when you think about the other characters part in it #like sure Sam and Quackity #but tommy had a watch tower #where was he when Quackity would come in daily and come out covered in blood? #ughhhh #its crazy #(/pos) #cdream #ctommy #csam #cquackity

[hiraethminds]

#C!tommy #art #dsmp #tommyinnit fanart #c!tommy hurt #tw blood #blood tw #prison arc #I like indulging myself and drawing prison arc fanart for the 1000th time #I love horror and dread and putting my fav characters through hell #Idk #Love drawing on bright bf #Backgrounds #dream smp fanart #dsmp fanart

[rozugold]

Forgot about this

#dream smp #Tommy prison arc #silly doodles #was digging through prison arc stuff and found this in the drafts skdjdjd #can’t remember if I posted this before

[madmaddyenby]

the thought of it can be too much but you cant stop thinking about it?

#eyestrain #bright colors #eye strain #dream smp #art #tommyinnit #dsmp #fanart #dream smp fanart #tommyinnit fanart #c!tommy #abuse tw #exile arc cw #tommy prison arc #ctommy hurt #c!dream #c!discduo #dream fanart #blood cw #drew this thing ‼️‼️

[the-final-sif]

Why do you sympathise with Dream/ gen

I hope this doesn’t come across as rude, I’m just a little confused.

I mean he literally killed people to prove a point, basically tortured a kid and destroyed a lot of stuff. (As well as other things)

He is one of my favourite characters on the dsmp so I can guess why you like him, but specifically sympathising with him? I genuinely would like to know why!! If that’s ok!!

I'm honestly confused by this ask, but I'll address a few points just to ramble out my thoughts.

As a human being, I find it hard to see someone getting starved, tortured, abused, isolated, and put through some of the worst things a human being can endure, without feeling sympathy / compassion for them. As a hurt/comfort writer, I enjoy seeing these things in fiction, but I still see them as fundamentally wrong.

He did not "torture a kid", he was abusive/toxic towards c!Tommy who was 16-17 and ended up killing him after being locked in intensive isolation + starvation conditions with him for an extended period, and brought him back to life as proof he could.

Of people perma killed (maybe?) by c!Dream, it's really just Vik & Laser and frankly I think that's fair because they're fortnite players and it was very funny.

I'm literally not even going to engage with the idea that "destroyed a lot of stuff" is even remotely important. Talk to me when people stop burning down c!Ponk's poor lemon trees.

Again I would like to point to a nearly year long experience in which we saw c!Dream being ACTUALLY tortured daily, undergoing starvation, extreme isolation, being abused by c!Sam and c!Quackity, having no privacy or agency, etc. If you are unable to see how people would feel sympathy / compassion for someone in that situation, then I cannot help you.

Did c!Dream do some not great stuff? Oh yeah. He's a 20-22 year old whose got some fucked up world views, who didn't handle very stressful situations well, and who got fucked over in a lot of circumstances. He made very harmful choices. Lots of people on the SMP have done fucked up stuff, and literally none of them deserve to be locked up, abused and tortured for any length of time. No human being deserves that.

Besides that, I think the fact that c!Dream designed the prison for himself, speaks volumes about his character and worldview. He genuinely thought that he'd be okay in the circumstances he set up (even though he didn't even get that much). Knowing that he designed the prison for himself, retroactively sheds new light on stuff like Exile.

Like, even the default conditions of the prison as Dream intended them (small room surrounded by lava, isolation conditions with visits controlled by the Warden, minimal potato only diet, no exercise/bed, no comforts beyond books and visits to the courtyard) were objectively significantly worse then the conditions of Tommy's exile (not arguing that Exile wasn't bad, only that the conditions of the prison were worse). And Dream wholeheartedly believed that enduring those conditions was something he'd be fine with, and worth progress towards his goal. No wonder he had no moral issues with what he did during exile, look at what he considered acceptable to do to himself!

It speaks of an incredibly fucked up worldview, of just how much he believes the plan is worth. How much Dream is personally willing to sacrifice and drive himself to, in pursuit of something that is probably impossible. He's fundamentally an extremely tragic and human character, and I hope he gets worse. I hope his treatment reinforces his spiral and we see him lash out and hold tighter to his impossible, self-destructive ideals.

#c!dream #c!tommy #exile arc #prison arc #dreblr #dsmp #dream smp #sif speaks #sif answers #my headcanons #anonymous

[hopalongfairywren]

If I ever had to explain to someone why I love the dsmp so much i'd probably show them this, my all time favorite dsmp animatic https://youtu.be/cTWLuhxCa9E it's not perfect it's from late march 2021 but I love it still. Something about it just makes me cry every time I watch it because. It feels just like how I think or wish the dsmp was. The way every character on the "it was not your fault but mine, and it was your heart on the line, i really f***ed it up this time, didnt i my dear?" seemed to be blaming themselves and grieving over c!Tommy's death, the way the egg vine grew out but died next to the dandelion, the way every character looks, c!Tommy waking up in the void with c!Wilbur- even the song choice. It doesn't have a happy ending but it feels hopeful. And it covered my favorite period of the dsmp, the hotel arc when everything was sort of like that, hopeful. Idk i'm rambling, little lion man is such a dsmp song

#dream smp #dsmp #dsmp lore #egg arc #hotel arc #prison arc #c!tommy #c!sam #c!puffy #c!tubbo #c!ranboo #c!bad #c!ant #c!dream #c!wilbur #i just needed to share it i cant really verbalize. how that animatic makes me feel #i feel like it applies meta too tbh

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital comic about TommyInnit. It begins "everything aches so enormously when I lay down, allow my bones to rest,". This is followed by two panels depicting Tommy. The first shows him laying on the shore of exile, waves creeping up his body. He has a hand on his chest, a blank expression, and shadows over his eyes. The other panel shows him during his death, back against the wall and hands held above his head in a protective position. He's bleeding profusely. Below these panels, there's Tommy's open palm, blood sticking to his fingers. The last line is "and altogether I feel a sort of loneliness in my soul.". At the bottom of the page, there's a silhouette of Tommy with a burning heart. Smoke billows from the fire, surrounding three islands. The first is in exile, partially scorched, path bloodied, and surrounded by water. Next, there's a chunk of obsidian and blackstone with a chain affixed to the top. Lava flows from it. Finally, there's a desolate piece of land, beige in colour. Footsteps start on it, and then lead directly into the pool of blood at it's end.]

a comic from a couple of months ago that I never posted, with words courtesy of @cyberstatik (on instagram) :)

#tommyinnit #dream smp #tommyinnit fanart #dream smp fanart #digital art #blood #gore #death #abuse #exile arc #tommys prison arc #glad i finally got around to posting this cos im quite happy with it :) #its v fun working with someone elses writing lol #☆

[lmanberg]

Honestly I don’t regret being a fan of the dsmp during acts 1 and 2 but it should’ve ended after Schlatt died

#as soon as dr🤢 started getting involved the lore sucked #i was into the prison arc for a bit but that was only rlly bc of techno #i also liked the techno and tommy arc when tommy hid at his home #again that was mostly for techno and also the trauma angst #but i could’ve lived without it honestly #idk wuz just thinking #dsmp

[bleue-flora]

Do you know why you feel responsible for the shears facts? Because you ARE responsible for the shears facts /lh

Yea... again, my deepest apologies... Shall I share some dsmp finale brain rot to distract them? or... ask you about which Minecraft items you think c!Quackity used?... ya know to bring the conversation away from shears of course. ;]

#mmmm do we want to talk about Q torturing or Tommy torturing Dream... decisions. #i swear... I am working on a project and I need to take prison inventory lol XD #for science.... lol #dreblr #dsmp #hello there #dsmp analysis #lore thoughts #dsmp lore #dream smp #prison arc #<3 <3 ;D honestly though seeing your unhinged asks has made me laugh quite a bit XD

[pepemoon]

Lying monsters are a real nuisance: They are much more cunning than others. They pose as humans even though they have no understanding of the human heart; they eat even though they've never experienced hunger; they study even though they have no interest in academics; they seek friendship even though they do not know how to love.

— L Lawliet

Oh happy early christms everyone 🎄

#dsmp fanart #tommy fanart #prison arc dream smp #dream smp fanart #oh yeah its #c!tommy #c!dream #c!quackity #c!sam #c!discduo #c!qauckity having his sweet time punching the shit out of that man #ironic isnt it that c!dream is literally just a random guy with too much power and issue #pepeart

[dr3amofagame]

to be clear i think that the seasons “discourse” is stupid like call the “seasons” of s1 whatever u want and call s2 whatever you want just don’t force other people to agree with you and DEFINITELY don’t act like the ccs don’t have a right over their own stories and have to rename things according to your preferences

however

yes i do have to say i have a huge soft spot for the previously defined seasons (as according to the finales of november 16th, the disc finale, and the prison break) because it’s specifically structured around c!dream’s story, which is why I feel that referring to arcs in themselves is also incomplete. 

(for future reference, i’ll probably be ripping off a suggestion from twitter and referring to them as seasons 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D ^_^)

#listen i know people are super fucking annoying about seasons #however u have to understand that the old seasons on the dsmp are like. very specifically c!dream oriented #it's not about lmanburg - 1A encompasses both lmanburg and manberg #and 1B ends at the /disc finale/ not at doomsday #it's not about c!tommy who really didn't define the events around the end of s3 at all #and really didn't have any noticeable change in objective during nov 16th...versus c!dream #who starts gunning for The Plan right at that time (after obtaining the revive book) #referring to the old seasons as arcs really doesn't work specifically for c!dream #sure it might work for the prison arc #but it doesn't really define the shift that happened between 1a and 1b #nor does the splitting of 1b into exile arc -> bedrockbros arc -> whatever really show the coherence behind c!dream's actions during 1b #which was again a 'season' that was defined specifically by c!dream's actions and Plan #and was always meant to culminate in the finale -> starting from his trying to get the discs at the start of 1b #1b isn't JUST nlm specifically because doomsday is again another stepping stone in his plan #and 1c being about c!dream in the prison is just self explanatory #anyway with all this said if 1d doesn't end with c!dream pulling off the 'world changing event' i'll eat my own shoe #disk horse

[elmhat]

// dsmp rp

"Who do you miss the most?"

That line is so much more tragic when you factor in staged finale. Dream would have been feeling victorious, having only recently been imprisoned and not yet feeling the full effects of Pandora, his plan having gone off without a hitch. Then Tommy comes and shows Dream his real loss. Everything he abandoned, in pursuit of this pointless, fake loss which turned out to be so much realer than he ever imagined.

#c!dream #c!tommy #dreblr #pandora's vault #prison arc #dsmp analysis #lore thoughts