History Fanfic / TommyInnitsUnbeatableMethodOfAvoidingSuddenDeath

!! [=TommyInnit's=] Unbeatable Method of Avoiding Sudden Death contains examples of:
* BaitAndSwitch: The fic opens with a scene of a young Tommy in a burning city, being saved by an angel, before it cuts to sixteen year-old Tommy doing vigilante stuff. This leads the reader to believe that Tommy was saved by Philza as a child, and that the actual story starts after a time skip of a few years. [[spoiler:In reality, Tommy wasn't saved at all, and the entire world is his own dying fantasy, wherein he's older, has a bunch of cool gadgets, and does superhero stuff like in the cartoons he idolized. The angel he saw wasn't Phil, but his mother (aka ''Clementine''), there to take him to the afterlife.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:As Tommy's denial gets harder and harder to keep up, the world starts unraveling around him, until the reveal that none of it was real. He says a tearful goodbye to dream!Wilbur before we, the audience, learn what actually happened. Tommy was never a sixteen year-old vigilante, he was a twelve year-old boy who just watched his home burn down and his brothers die in front of him due to a war invading his city, and who died of smoke inhalation before he could get to his father's workplace. In the end, Tommy leaves his dream world behind, and goes with his mother to the afterlife.]]
* DyingDream: [[spoiler:The entire story is made up by a twelve year-old, superhero-obsessed Tommy, who dies of smoke inhalation and creates the world to cope with his impending death.]]
* EasilyForgiven: From car theft, to shooting random civilians with a dart gun, to straight up ''arson'', Tommy gets away with pretty much everything he does with little more than a stern talking-to. Tubbo and Ranboo also seem to face absolutely no consequences for just taking in a random toddler off the street, and Michael's parents or guardians never seem to be looking for him. [[spoiler:This turns out to be justified, as the entire story is a superhero-obsessed 12 year-old boy's dying fantasy, so Tommy wouldn't think to add realistic consequences for his or his friends' actions.]]

** As the story progresses it shifts focus pretty rapidly. The first chapters focus on the vigilante-and-hero dynamic between Tommy and the rest of SBI, then after that it focuses much more on the family dynamic, then the plot starts to derail to the point where it stops making sense at all. After that [[spoiler:the fantasy world starts to fall apart, and Tommy is forced to finally let go. This was a deliberate choice, and according to WordOfGod, represents the five stages of grief.]]
--->''"[[spoiler:throughout tumoasd tommy actually experiences the five stages of grief. he’s mostly in denial up until chap 7 (when clementine first tries to reach him). at this stage, the story is a lot more coherent and it follows him actually being a vigilante. when his denial is broken, tommy panics and his focus changes to become more family based as he starts to realise that he doesn’t have much time left hence why it starts to focus more around sbi. chap 15 is when he reaches the anger stage, the plot starts to derail even more until it doesn’t really make sense. chap 22 is bargaining and chap 24 represents the depression stage where tommy starts to realise there is nothing he can do. chap 26 is him reaching acceptance. a somewhat key point is that tommy keeps reverting back to denial which is why he frequently states that "grief has five stages and they don’t always happen in order.]]"''

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29230860/chapters/71774421 TommyInnit's Unbeatable Method of Avoiding Sudden Death]] is a ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'' AlternateUniverse CrackFic, centering around Tommy's adventures as the bravest, coolest vigilante who ever lived.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Imagine you're Phil. You leave your three teenaged kids alone for one night to pull an all-nighter at work, thinking the worst that could happen is that they make a mess of the house. In the middle of the night, war breaks out, and your office goes up in flames as armed soldiers flood the streets and the city burns around you. If you survived that, you eventually return home to find that your house has been completely destroyed, and your kids are nowhere to be found. If you manage to find their bodies, you'll learn that your eldest fell to his death trying to escape the fire, your middle child got shot in the chest trying to protect his little brother, and your youngest tried going to your workplace to look for you, but died of smoke inhalation before he could find you.]]

* WingedHumanoid: Philza has a pair of wings.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Imagine you're Phil. You leave your three teenaged kids alone for one night to pull an all-nighter at work, thinking the worst that could happen is that they make a mess of the house. In the middle of the night, war breaks out, and your office goes up in flames as armed soldiers flood the streets and the city burns around you. If you survived that, you eventually return home to find that your house has been burnt to ashes, and your kids are all dead; one by falling to his death during their escape from the flaming apartment, one by a gunshot wound through the chest, and one by inhaling too much smoke and collapsing while trying to find you.]]