TommyInnit

"You ruined my past, Dream, but you will not ruin my future."

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In-game name: TommyInnit
Preferred name: Tommy
"Don't give up on people. Because that's how you lose."

Wilbur's former right-hand man and a Hot-Blooded youth who is just as important to L'Manburg's founding as its first leader. Tommy was the only one to remain (outwardly) loyal to Wilbur after Jschlatt ousted them from power, with his and Wilbur's quest to reclaim L'Manburg forming the crux of the L'Manburg Civil War. However, Wilbur's loss of sanity slowly drove a wedge between the two, and whatever friendship they'd managed to retain was shattered when Wilbur detonated L'Manburg after their victory over Schlatt.

After the war he was named Vice President by Tubbo, but was later exiled from New L'Manburg for vandalizing King George's house, and founded Logstedshire with Ghostbur. During his exile, Tommy was physically, emotionally and psychologically abused by Dream, who slowly conditioned him to believe he was Tommy's only friend. As a result, Tommy became actively suicidal, and developed all the symptoms of PTSD. After about two weeks, Logstedshire was blown sky-high by Dream after Tommy was caught hiding valuable items under the floor of Ghostbur's house, and Tommy was subsequently banned from having any visitors aside from Dream. This hit Tommy so hard that he attempted suicide, but ultimately did not go through with it as he realized Dream was never really his friend.

Tommy, realizing he could no longer stand living under Dream's thumb, fled the remains of Logstedshire and made a new base underneath Techno's basement. He joined Techno in his quest for revenge upon L'Manburg, but after getting into a fight with Tubbo, Tommy came to the realization that he was becoming exactly like the people he never wanted to be, and formally rejoined L'Manburg.

After the Doomsday War and the obliteration of L'Manburg, Tommy became factionless. Tubbo invited him to come live in Snowchester, and while Tommy turned down the invitation in favor of keeping his house in the main Dream SMP, he still has full citizenship.

When Dream gave Tommy an ultimatum to come fight him one last time for the discs, Tommy and Tubbo traveled out to Dream's meeting place, where they battled. They lost, but with the help of the rest of the server, managed to get Tommy's discs back and return safely, while Dream was put in prison.

Tommy started his newest project, the Big Innit Hotel, with the help of Sam Nook, in an attempt to make the server a better place by providing people with a place to go should they become homeless again.

On what would be Tommy's last visit to Dream in prison, TNT was suddenly set off, trapping Tommy in Dream's cell for up to a week. When after that week, Sam returned to tell Tommy he'd have to stay there longer, tensions boiled over between Tommy and Dream. They got into a heated argument, and after Tommy claimed not to believe Dream's necromancy book was real, Dream decided to prove a point by beating Tommy to death, taking his final life. He revived Tommy using the necromancy book a few days later.

Tommy was heavily shaken by his experience in the afterlife, as well as Dream's promise to bring Wilbur back to life, something Tommy wants to prevent at all costs. He has put his work on the Big Innit Hotel on hold to keep an eye on the prison, in order to ensure Dream won't escape, and planned on killing Dream at the first opportunity.

After his plot to kill Dream failed so hard Wilbur was revived in the process, Tommy had shifted his goal to keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn't repeat the same mistakes, and to try and rekindle their old friendship. He worked for Wilbur, but planned to try and change his mind as soon as he'd rose high enough in the ranks. However, when Dream broke out of prison, Tommy was left to deal with the fallout to prevent himself from going through Exile 2.0.

Tommy is deceased in the current iteration of the Dream SMP world. He lost his first life in the Final Control Room, his second when he was killed in a duel with Dream, and his third when Dream beat him to death in his prison cell. He was then brought Back from the Dead by Dream with a single life. He lost that life once again to Dream in the prison while stalling for time, only to be re-revived after a brief Limbo visit. He subsequently died for good in the detonation of Project New Dawn.

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#1 Dime: Tommy's two music discs, Cat and Mellohi. He later gives both up to Dream to secure L'Manburg's independence, though he eventually gets one back. Dream exploits them as a leverage point.
Adopt the Food: While building his holiday home away from L'Manburg, Tommy adopts three cows, Henry, Harold, and Harvey, because he got too attached to them before he could kill them for food. It's especially prominent in the latter two, as Tommy immediately refuses to kill them after they stare at him in the eyes.
Alone with the Psycho:
- Tommy has been trapped alone with Dream twice now.
  - The first is in Exile, where Dream makes a point of visiting Tommy every day, and while he did have other visitors, they didn't stay for long or come back as often. Dream used this time to slowly manipulate Tommy into thinking nobody cared about him, and that Dream was his only friend.
  - The second time is during Tommy's would-be last visit to the prison. As Tommy is about to leave, TNT is set off outside the prison, meaning Tommy has to stay in Dream's cell for up to seven days, until the issue is resolved.
- When Tommy died and went to the Afterlife, he is trapped there with Wilbur. While Wilbur seemed to have calmed down at first, apparently, being stuck there has done his mental state no favors, because when Tommy is brought back to life, he begs Dream not to bring Wilbur back.
Amusingly Awful Aim: According to Eryn's Origins Episode, Tommy had this as a child, pre-DSMP, so much that he was barely able to shoot at the target even when he was right in front of it.
And I Must Scream: Tommy's description of his time in the afterlife is absolutely horrific.
Tommy: I felt like I was– like I was shredded to dust. [...] It felt like I was put through a shredder, but there was no blood, there was no flesh, it was just essence. Like a powder, and I was put through it, and then I came out, and I was in a... a long– a long– a hall, a– a– t-tunnel of black and void and– not even black, just colorless!
Dream: I tried to give you– I tried to give you time, I wanted to– I wanted to ask you questions–
Tommy: (gasping, sobbing) YOU GAVE ME SO MUCH TIME! I was in there– You left me– How long– Where's Tubbo?! How– I was in there for MONTHS!
Angst? What Angst?: Invoked. Tommy appears to have quickly bounced back to his usual bright self after running away, but there are clear hints he's not doing as well as he acts. He avoids talking about his time in exile with Dream or outright changes the conversation topic when it comes up, and the few times he has talked about it reveal that he doesn't know how to handle the trauma it's caused him. His personality has also changed; he's a lot more apprehensive, and starts frantically apologizing whenever he feels someone he looks up to might be upset with him. One of the few people to see through Tommy's front is Ranboo, who doesn't take Tommy lashing out at him at face value:
Ranboo: (responding to a donation) It's fine, it's fine. I understand. He is... scared. Tommy is very scared. Even though it doesn't seem like he is, he is. He definitely is.
Animal Lover: Tommy has a soft spot for animals, especially cows. He adopts three cows after feeling too bad about killing them for food, starts cooing over a slime in Pogtopia and yells at Quackity for trying to kill it, and is more upset about Dream killing Mushroom Henry (his mooshroom gifted to him by Antfrost) than he is about the destruction of Logstedshire. The only animals Tommy openly hates are cats, who he repeatedly insults and kills for seemingly no reason.
Animal Motifs: Raccoons. After fleeing Logstedshire, he digs a hole in Technoblade's basement and starts hoarding and stealing from there, causing Techno and even Tommy himself to compare him to a raccoon. At the same time, raccoons are often seen as tricksters and scavangers, a fitting motif for a boy with a tendency to troll and steal from his servermates.
Technoblade: You don't even have your own house, you're living in my floorboards like a raccoon!
Tommy: There's nothing wrong with being a raccoon, dickhead. (laughs)
Technoblade: Raccoon boy!
Arch-Enemy: Tommy wants Dream dead for the constant torment he puts him through and the danger he poses to the server as a whole, but Dream himself doesn't think of Tommy as an enemy, per se, but instead sees him as a toy or a pet of sorts and enjoys tormenting him and breaking his spirit to satisfy his controlling tendencies.
Assassin Outclassin': Played with, in a weird way. On the day after the Manburg Festival, Tommy sneaks into Manburg to try to assassinate Schlatt, as revenge for him ordering Tubbo's execution. He ends up witnessing Schlatt and Quackity's argument over the destruction of the White House. In the end, he does kind of succeed in completing his objective that day, not because he does anything outside of considering shooting Schlatt, but rather, because Quackity beats him to the punch.
Tommy: Oh, I thought I was gonna be the killer!
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Many of Tommy's projects don't get finished purely because he's very easily distracted. He often tries to talk about multiple topics at the same time, and loses his train of thought very quickly. He lampshades this.
Tommy: Anyway, so I was watching Mumbo Jumbo... (laugh) Sometimes I just remember things from a while– DUDE, MY ATTENTION SPAN IS SO BAD! AH, God! Okay, focus, brain, focus. So. (gets distracted by a spider) OH MY GOD– okay. So I was watching Mumbo Jumbo and I was like... Do you think... Is he really British? 'Cause he sounds like– (gets distracted by the same spider as it walks up to him; softly) Oh, hello!
The Baby of the Bunch: Downplayed. Tommy was the youngest member of the server until Eryn (who's a few months younger than him) joined, and is prone to acting immature or childish at times, but the rest of the group generally treats him like a peer (though Wilbur often insulted him by calling him a child). Captain Puffy and Awesamdude are the exceptions, as Puffy is hellbent on keeping those who want to harm Tommy at bay because he's too young for the amount of suffering he's already gone through, and Sam makes it very clear that he refuses to let Tommy's mental state deteriorate further than it already has, creating Sam Nook not just to keep Tommy happy and occupied while his hotel was being built, but to keep him safe as well.
Back from the Dead: Dream brings him back to life using the necromancy book, two days after he initially loses his final life.
Berserk Button: Harming his pet cow Henry.
- When Quackity forms a sadistic game revolved around Tommy choosing whether Henry lives or dies, Tommy is so pissed off by the end of it that he spends the rest of his stream hunting down Quackity to murder him. He also kills Tubbo, who had helped Quackity several times over.
- When Henry is accidentally killed by Sapnap, Tommy flips out and immediately begins seeking revenge, eventually going in an all out rage when Sapnap eats Henry's remains.
Bludgeoned to Death: The cause of his third canon death, specifically with a potato.
Boomerang Bigot: Played for Laughs. Tommy has stated over and over about how he can't stand men, going as far to claim that all men are his enemies, despite being a man himself.
Broken Pedestal:
- Zig-zagged regarding his thoughts on Wilbur. While Tommy acknowledges that Wilbur caused irreparable damage to L'Manburg and its citizens, he seems to be splitting his view of Wilbur into two views — the Wilbur who blew up L'Manburg, and the "real" Wilbur who served as leader of L'Manburg and helped his people. Even to the very end, Tommy still believed that Wilbur could be brought back from the brink and he even told Tubbo not to let the "real" Wilbur down. After Wilbur's revival, the situation slides closer to Rebuilt Pedestal, as while Tommy is more willing to criticize Wilbur's actions and behavior, he still sees Wilbur as a brother and cares for him deeply.
- This trope also applies to Tommy's view of Sam. The two were good friends whose bond strengthens after the Disc Saga, with Sam acting as a sort of father figure to Tommy, but that all came crashing down after Tommy being locked in and later killed in Pandora's Vault. Following Tommy's resurrection and release, he wants nothing to do with Sam, angry at the Warden for not doing more to help save Tommy when he was locked away with Dream. This worsens after Tommy attempted to break into the prison to kill Dream, as Ghostbur is killed due to Sam's inaction, and as a result, Tommy's view of Sam crumbles even further.
Cannot Talk to Women: Downplayed. Tommy often jokes about how he doesn't know how to handle being around women, and he does get noticeably more awkward when he's talking to a woman. He's only a teenager (as of Seasons 1-3), though, so that's to be expected.
Cassandra Truth: On the day of his exile, Tommy told Tubbo that if L'Manburg caved to Dream, Dream would destroy the place anyway, then make a mega-government to rule over everyone else, and if that happened, they would be absolutely screwed. Tubbo didn't heed this warning and exiled Tommy anyway. Tommy ended up being completely right, as Dream only played nice with Tubbo for as long as it took him to get Tommy's disc, then destroyed L'Manburg completely on Doomsday, and while he didn't make a literal government to rule over everyone, he did try to steal everyone's valuables to control the entire server, and would've murdered Tubbo and locked Tommy up in Pandora's Vault forever if the other server members hadn't caught wind of this and intervened.
Character Development:
- At the start of the SMP War, Tommy is willing to start petty conflicts with Dream to protect his music discs and even starts the war alongside Wilbur when he learns he cannot sell drugs in Dream SMP territory. He goes from this to a more learned young man (albeit still Hot-Blooded) who is even willing to sacrifice his music discs to end a conflict.
- When telling Foolish about the history of the server and about what happened with Wilbur and L'Manburg, he talks about how the six months between then and the war between Manberg and Pogtopia have changed his philosophy from a Black-and-White Morality ideology with him thinking that It's All About Me, to seeing that the server's changed to being more complicated than definitive heroes and villains, and that he himself could be a hero or a villain, depending on one's perspective, with him also giving Foolish some advice that everyone has good in them, and that you should never give up on those you care about.
Child Soldiers: Tommy has participated in the L'Manburg War for Independence, the Manburg-Pogtopia War, Doomsday, and several other wars, all at age 16.
Childhood Friends: With Eryn; as shown during Eryn's February 12th, 2022 stream, they grew up in nearby towns together, and spent a lot of time hanging out, teaching each other how to shoot bows or swim, and overall just having fun.
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He is forced to play this role to Ninja during his visit to the SMP.
Tommy: (in a whisper to Tubbo) help me ninja is being a fucking weirdo
Cold-Blooded Torture: He inflicts this on Connor and Fundy in short order once he allies with Technoblade. While Connor's is Played for Laughs and is mostly humiliating, it still involves repeatedly drowning him, and is later stated to have left him with trauma, even if he does forgive him. Fundy's torture leaves him screaming and crying in a corner and eventually drowning in the river cutting through New L'Manberg.
Color Motif: Red. Tommy's standard outfit is a red and white T-shirt, and most of his other clothes incorporate red elements. Tommy is intensely passionate and emotional, but also deeply concerned with the people who are close to him and can have self-sacrificing tendencies, all of which are qualities associated with red. This is also used to compare and contrast him with Tubbo and Dream, both of whom are sometimes associated with green.
Crazy Jealous Guy: A platonic example. After leaving the prison, Tommy reacts poorly to Tubbo's friendship with Ranboo, fearing his best friend had replaced him. Tommy often snaps at Ranboo out of insecurity. This is later subverted, as Tommy slowly warms up to Ranboo after Tubbo tells him Ranboo makes him happy, and it's implied Tommy's working on his jealousy issues in therapy.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Tommy's third death^notebefore he came Back from the Dead was a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Dream with a potato, while stuck in a location which is the embodiment of his traumas and fears... and then there's the mining fatigue, which dragged the death out even longer.
Death by Irony: Tommy died from getting beaten to death moments after challenging the idea that a book that can resurrect the dead exists, by the person who claims to wield it. To add insult to injury, he died at the hands of Dream... in the one place that he was supposed to be incapable of hurting anyone.
Death by Despair: Tommy seems to be convinced this is happening to him during his exile. The combination of his worsening mental health, the blue fading from his eyes, and the fact that things didn't seem to be improving for him leads him to believe he is going to die soon, and he starts to make preparations for when that were to happen.
Tommy: I don't think I've got very long left... (sigh) I'm not getting better. I'm not. And I know you don't really wanna hear that. But I think it's always important... I think it's always important to be honest.
Death Is Cheap: Tommy lost his final life to Dream, but was then brought back using the necromancy book, with no apparent ill effects aside from the mental trauma of seeing the afterlife.
Declining Promotion: After Dream surrendered Manburg to Wilbur, Wilbur attempted to promote Tommy to presidency of L'Manburg, but Tommy refused, instead choosing to pass the position back to Wilbur, who in turn passed it off to Tubbo.
Despair Event Horizon: After Tubbo exiled him, Tommy is completely crushed. He spends his first day in exile mostly screaming about wanting to go back, and desperately tries to get anyone to tell him why Tubbo betrayed him. Thanks to this and Dream's manipulation, Tommy's mental health begins spiraling to the point where he stops taking care of his appearance, refuses to eat despite his hunger getting dangerously low, and considers suicide at multiple points, leading to an aborted suicide attempt after Logstedshire is destroyed.
Determinator:
- Tommy is well known for being incredibly stubborn and bull-headed, which often lands him in trouble when he refuses to back down. This stubbornness seems to have a hidden benefit, though — if Tommy finds something worth his focus and investment, he'll fight tooth and nail to keep it.
- A very understated example is when Tommy decided to pay off Punz in order to maximize his chances of beating Dream — Tommy, one of the poorest people on the server, canonically spent days mining valuable resources with zero intention of keeping any for himself, and did not let himself get distracted by anything until he believed he had collected enough to pay off Punz. The fact that Tommy was able to do this so effectively showcases just how determined he was to making sure things went the right way.
The Dog Bites Back: After months of being forced to suffer Dream's abuse, having everything he cares about taken away, and finally being trapped in a room, forced to say his final goodbyes to his best friend before Dream kills him for no reason other than Dream doesn't think he's fun or useful, Tommy finally gains the upper hand by paying Punz to betray Dream and rally half the server against him. Tommy then proceeds to tell Dream in no uncertain terms that he's never going to end up under his thumb again, and takes two of his canon lives. When Dream, in a panic, yells out that he can bring people back from the dead, Tommy, after some hesitation, takes Sam's suggestion to put Dream in prison instead.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: During his exile, Tommy rejects almost every single form of outside help, hating the idea of being pitied and given charity only because he is the least equipped person on the server. However, he is willing to accept some items as long as he contributes to their acquisition or feels he's not being pitied.
Driven to Suicide: Tommy had already been showing some symptoms of PTSD after the events of Season 1, but the Trauma Conga Line that is his Exile yanks him away from the small support system that he had, causing the aforementioned problems to further exacerbate tenfold.
- During his second day in Exile, Tommy activates a ruined nether portal, and manages to find the community hub portal that leads to the rest of the Dream SMP... and he couldn't even go through it — Dream is there with him, fully intending to kill him for good if he steps through. Later on, Sapnap and Ghostbur pass through the portal, excitedly talking about the Christmas tree set up nearby on the other side, right in earshot of Tommy. His response is to step away from the portal and walk to the edge of the bridge he was standing on... and stare at the lava for a long, long, time...
  Dream: (punching Tommy away from the edge) It's not your time to die yet, Tommy.
  Tommy: ...It's never my time to die.
- After Dream destroys Logstedshire and bars Tommy from going into the Nether or having any visitors, Tommy builds a tower hundreds of blocks into the sky, with the clear intention of jumping to his death. He ultimately does not go through with it, but came very close.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: In contrast to the deaths of Schlatt and Wilbur, which were the logical dramatic conclusions to their respective character arcs, Tommy's final death came completely out of the blue. Not only was Tommy's arc far from over, Dream had previously placed a lot of emphasis on the fact that he didn't want Tommy to die^note, so for him to suddenly snap and beat Tommy to death with his bare fists was completely unexpected, and such an Anti-Climax that the chat's initial reaction was to assume that it was a blooper. Fortunately, Dream only killed Tommy to prove his necromancy book exists, and brings him back a few days later.
Duel to the Death: Has an archery-based one with Dream at the climax of the L'Manburg Independence arc. He misses his shots and is swiftly killed. Although the results aren't as fatal as most other duels, Tommy was down to a single canon life for the next multitude of months.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: The longer his exile goes on, the duller Tommy's eyes get. He points this out himself, after they go from bright blue to almost grey. He also gains deep, noticeable bags under his eyes due to lack of sleep.
Enemy Mine: After regaining his drive, he opts to team up with Technoblade in order to sneak back into L'Manburg to retrieve Techno's weaponry in exchange for him assisting Tommy in the retrieval of his discs, even if it requires some "minor terrorism" to do so.
The Exile: Tommy has been in this situation three times.
- The first time happened around the time he joined the server, where he was sent to a remote tundra nicknamed the "Banishment Area" for breaking the SMP rules, though they were arbitrarily enforced even back then. The brief exile was revoked not long afterward, when Tommy agreed to follow the server rules. In spite of this, Tommy remained rebellious and continued to break the rules, but no one else really cared by that point since everyone was breaking the rules anyway.
- The second time was by Schlatt after he took control of L'Manburg, alongside Wilbur. The fallout led to the founding of Pogtopia and many, many conflicts, which heavily influenced the atmosphere of the server from then on until now.
- The third and most infamous time was by Tubbo, who had to comply with Dream's demands after Tommy accidentally set fire to George's house, with Ghostbur joining him until Dream banished him away. This occurrence was even foreshadowed by Technoblade in his speech about Theseus during the Manburg-Pogtopia War.
Face–Heel Turn:
- While it is debatable as to who is in the wrong in the conflict between the anarchists and L'Manburg, Technoblade has convinced him to fully commit to destroying L'Manburg, as Tommy now only cares about the discs. He is also now fully willing to torture Fundy and knowingly helps Technoblade spawn a wither in L'Manburg just to get Techno's weapons back, openly referring to the process as "minor terrorism".
- Later subverted when Tommy shows up to the destroyed Community House, where he undergoes a Heel Realization about what he's done to get his discs back and defects from Technoblade, instead choosing to side with Tubbo and L'Manburg.
Foil:
- To Wilbur. They were both leader-figures of L'Manburg, who were then exiled and led to believe that everyone had abandoned them. In their rage, they each started on a path that would lead them to a Face–Heel Turn, and worked with Technoblade to plot the destruction of L'Manburg. When Wilbur realized he was becoming the bad guy, he chose to embrace that fact, fully going off the rails and committing himself to his goal of destroying his life's work. When Tommy realized he was becoming the bad guy, he was absolutely horrified with the person he was about to become, and immediately left Techno's side, rallied everyone together to defend L'Manburg, and started planning to make amends and turn his life back around. After Wilbur's revival, the two are similarly contrasted by their opinions on morality — both started out with Black-and-White Morality during the early days of L'Manburg, but while Wilbur descended into Black-and-White Insanity during his mental spiral in Pogtopia and never looked back, Tommy has since experienced Character Development and currently views the server with Grey-and-Gray Morality.
- To Tubbo. Tommy is a very emotional person, and tends to throw logic and reason out the window in favor of protecting the things or people he holds dear. In contrast, Tubbo is a very logical person, and always tries to think his decisions through very carefully. Best exemplified by their would-be final conversation during the Final Disc War, where Tommy is desperately trying to find a way out and insisting that Dream is not going to kill Tubbo, while Tubbo calmly points out that Dream has cut off every possible escape route, and tries to comfort Tommy as he accepts his impending death. This also ties into their respective Fatal Flaws; Tommy's Hot-Blooded nature makes him very quick to anger, which causes or exacerbates a lot of conflict between himself and his server-mates, while Tubbo's colder, more calculating nature leads him to make decisions that, while seemingly better in the long term, sever emotional ties between himself and his friends, inadvertently leading him to alienate his loved ones.
- Also to Dream. Tommy is an energetic Large Ham who holds personal attachment to a lot of things and ideas, while Dream is a Cold Ham who shuns attachments because he sees it as weakness. Tommy is someone who is consistently dealt a bad hand but tries to make friends in spite of it, while Dream is on top of the world and shuns friendships in favor of manipulating others. Tommy is brutally honest, while Dream is a Consummate Liar. Tommy's friendships eventually come to benefit him, while Dream's lack of friendships results in his downfall. And lastly, both Dream and Tommy are responsible for each other losing all the lives they have lost so far (Dream having killed Tommy three times and Tommy having killed Dream twice), and each of them lost their first two lives one after another (Tommy lost his second life within a few days after losing his first, while Dream loses his first two mere seconds apart from each other).
- To Techno. Where Tommy seems to be compensating for a lack of confidence with bluster, Techno is secure in his status as the best PVPer on the server. Where Tommy wants to redeem Wilbur, Techno seeks to drive him further into madness. When L'Manburg is retaken, Tommy takes the side of the country when Techno razes it to the ground. Most of the internal conflict in Pogtopia came from Technoblade and Tommy antagonizing each other, with Tommy believing in hope for a better future while Techno is jaded and only sees the potential for tyranny.
- To Quackity as well. While both of them are determined to achieve their goals, share a hatred towards Dream, and have broadly good intentions for the server, Quackity is power-hungry in that he wants the knowledge of resurrection for himself, while Tommy believes having the knowledge to resurrect others gives people too much power and thus wants to have the knowledge destroyed. It also helps that both of them were frequently placed in powerless positions on the server, but developed contrasting opinions on power because of their history. This is then implied to go hand in hand with Tommy's foil with Wilbur, as Quackity is going down Wilbur's path of well-intentioned extremism as he did during the Pogtopia era, while Tommy is sticking to his own path.
Freudian Excuse: Downplayed. It's heavily implied that Tommy grew up as an abandoned Street Urchin prior to joining the SMP, which caused his abrasive and blunt personality in the present.
Full-Name Basis: When he's not nicknaming people, he calls them by their Minecraft account's full name, or their real-life full name.
- George is called "GeorgeNotFound".
- Jack is called Jack Manifold, despite both of them interacting with each other before Jack changed his account name from Thunder1408 to JackManifoldTV.
Functional Addict: Sometime during the course of Season 4, Tommy has taken to substance abuse in the form of invisibility potions, most likely as a coping mechanism. Outside of being put through a series-long Trauma Conga Line and all the mental health issues that come with it, he's still doing relatively well for himself and trying to put himself back on a path to healing by attempting to end the root of the trauma.
Good Is Not Nice: Tommy is a very honest and blunt person to put it simply, though he does become more friendly once he warms up to people.
He Who Fights Monsters: Wilbur's line about becoming the bad guys unnerved Tommy deeply, and he fears falling victim to this trope just like Wilbur did. He nearly does after escaping from Logstedshire, becoming bitter and vengeful towards L'Manburg as a whole, not helped by Techno actively egging him on. However, after screaming that the discs mattered more than him right in Tubbo's face, Tommy realizes just what kind of person he was becoming, and leaves Techno's side to rejoin L'Manburg and try to rekindle his friendship with Tubbo.
The Heart: Tommy is this to L'Manburg. Alongside Wilbur, he continually preaches for unity, and while he enjoys messing with his friends, he always backs them up if they get into serious trouble. After he's exiled from New L'Manburg, many others started leaving the country as well, and by the time Doomsday rolls around, many people either didn't care about maintaining the country anymore, or actively participated in its destruction. This is further supported by a flashback sequence in Wilbur's finale stream, where Wilbur stated that he saw L'Manberg as "an extension" of Tommy and that Tommy embodied its core values.
Heel Realization: When Tommy shouts out that the discs meant more to him than Tubbo ever did, he immediately regrets it, coming to the realization that by valuing the discs over their friendship and teaming with Technoblade to get them back, he's become exactly like the very people he hated and didn't want to become. Ashamed, he tells Tubbo to hand over the discs to Dream.
Tommy: If this is what I've become, then I don't want to be me anymore.
He's Back!: After Dream destroys Logstedshire as punishment for disobeying him during Exile, Tommy comes to the realization that Dream was never his friend, only pretending to be to keep him under his thumb. Tommy responds by triumphantly gathering the last of his belongings, leaving Logstedshire, making a base under Techno's house, gathering materials to fix his clothes, and plotting to get his discs back. While he still has major trust issues, he's definitely got his drive back, and acts much more like he used to before his exile.
Tommy: This is our turnaround. No more of this shit. We don't... I'm done not fighting. I tried it, and I was not very good at it. (Beat) There's only one thing we need now, not a revolution, not a– I'm still very angry at everyone in L'Manberg, no one came to visit me. I'm still very angry at Dream, I hate him. I'm still VERY angry at dickhead [Technoblade] up there... [...] But boys, do you know what we've got now? We've got me back.
The Hero Dies: The main protagonist for at least the first two seasons of the SMP before being killed off in the third season by Dream during the lockdown in Pandora's Vault. It doesn't last, however.
Hidden Depths:
- As loud and rude to others as he is, Tommy has a soft spot for animals. He especially likes cows and has a habit of naming them, most notably Henry, and has expressed the desire to get a moth and name it Clementine (even though moths aren't a mob in Minecraft).
- Despite having some genuinely valuable items in his stash when Dream found it, the first things he tried to save from the latter's TNT were pictures of Tubbo.
Hot-Blooded: The loudest and most passionate of the Pogtopia Trio, Tommy puts a lot of passion and determination into the rebellion during the L'Manburg arc and the L'Manburg Civil War arc. Since winning "Independance" for L'Manburg however, he has slightly cooled off... with the key word being 'slightly'.
Hypocrite: During the Doomsday War, he confronts Technoblade and calls him selfish and a traitor. Tommy himself prioritized the discs over his friends and betrayed Technoblade for L'Manburg the day before the war in a Heel Realization. Though Techno quickly calls Tommy out on his hypocrisy, it should be noted that hypocrisy is, ironically, something that Techno himself is regularly seen engaging in.
Hypocritical Heartwarming: Tommy will more often than not pounce on an opportunity to make fun of Ranboo, but for the entire time Wilbur was speaking to Ranboo, Tommy was protective of him and coming to his defense.

I – Z

I Have Many Names: Played for Laughs. When forced to write an essay on what he did that day as part of his probation, Tommy decided to sign it with all of his aliases. His signature takes up about three pages.
I Have This Friend: He attempts to do a variation of this as "Trousers" while visiting Las Nevadas once, to talk about his issues in third person and using various epithets, e.g. referring to himself as "the protagonist". Quackity sees through it, but plays along and tries to help him anyway.
I Just Want to Be Normal:
- Despite what a lot of the other characters seem to think, Tommy does not want to be a hero. Considering the last two people who called him a hero either wanted him dead or wanted his loved ones dead, it's understandable that Tommy is repulsed to the idea of being a hero since it puts him and everyone he cares about in danger, when all he wants is to be safe and free from conflict that's plagued him since his first day on the server.
- After being revived, people react to him showing up on the server again — quite understandably — with complete shock, and repeatedly ask him for answers. Tommy hates this, saying that he just wanted to be treated as normal, and that he felt like nobody actually cared about him, just the fact that he came back from the dead.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: After Wilbur starts spiralling in Pogtopia, one of Tommy's goals is to either bring Wilbur around or stop him if he can't be reasoned with. After the festival Wilbur planned to blow up L'Manburg during goes horribly wrong, Tommy succeeds in this fight and convinces Wilbur to abandon the plot. This ultimately fails in the long run as Wilbur successfully detonates L'Manburg into craters during the Manburg-Pogtopia War.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A platonic version. After finding out that Ranboo married Tubbo, Tommy is initially somewhat hostile towards Ranboo due to a fear of being replaced, but he becomes much more civil and amicable about it after learning that Ranboo makes Tubbo happy.
Iconic Item: Naturally, Tommy is most often associated with his discs.
The Immune: Tommy is one of the few people who are immune to the Crimson. He also seems to be immune to radiation, as he walked around in the nuclear crater after Snowchester's nuke test unprotected with no ill effects.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: Tommy generally speaks very highly of himself, often half-jokingly insisting that he's cooler than everyone else, and the best at everything. However, reading between the lines, it's easy to see that he's internalized the accusation that he's just an annoying troublemaker, and has quite low self-esteem as a result, blaming himself for events that weren't even his fault, like Doomsday. This was most obvious during the Exile arc where, in his correspondence with Ranboo, Tommy would often word-vomit his thoughts onto the page.
Tommy: i thin kand i type like god but im not fgod im just a big im just a pussy^note
In-Series Nickname: Technoblade occasionally calls Tommy "Theseus", starting at the end of the Exile Arc. It's a nickname referencing his speech during the Manburg-Pogtopia War comparing Tommy to Theseus, the hero who slayed the Minotaur but was later exiled by the very people he saved. The nickname is also ironic in that the mythical Theseus was a douchebag with a tendency to kidnap women (among other aspects), while Tommy is more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who chugs Respect Women Juice like there's no tomorrow.
The Insomniac: After the Manburg-Pogtopia War, Tommy started to have trouble sleeping, confiding in Ranboo that he kept having nightmares of Wilbur's mental health spiral. This only got worse after his exile, as evidenced by the massive bags under his eyes, to the point where he claimed to have stopped sleeping altogether.
It's All My Fault: Whenever Tommy gets accused of doing something bad, he almost instinctively takes the blame for it, even when it wasn't his fault at all. Notable examples are his flip-flopping back and forth about whether or not he blew up the Community House even though Dream was the one to blow it up in order to frame him, and admitting to killing Drista's dog, even though he had a clip showing it was Foolish who killed it while Tommy practically begged him not to.
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: He employs this on Fundy when interrogating him for the Nether Star that Technoblade wanted, as well as for info about upcoming L'Manburg events. He's so unnecessarily hostile that Technoblade has to step in and tell Tommy he was going too far. However, when Fundy starts to cry, Tommy steps back and tries to reassure Fundy he wouldn't hurt his family, and tries to get Fundy to stop drowning when Vikkstar sends him falling into water by breaking the floor beneath him.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: On the surface, Tommy is loud, rude and selfish, swears like a sailor and makes a hobby of riling people up, especially during Season 1. However, Tommy is also fiercely loyal, willing to sacrifice his most prized possessions, his safety, and even his life for those he cares about, and has zero qualms about standing up to those stronger than him to protect the ones he loves.
Keet: Initially played straight but later subverted. Early in the SMP, Tommy was a very loud, energetic, and enthusiastic bratty teen, however, his personality became more cynical and somber over time, following the decline of his mental health.
Kick the Dog: While in prison, one of Tommy's cats, Pussboi, gets teleported into the cell with him by accident. Dream takes a liking to the cat, and tries to protect it from Tommy. Tommy, who hates cats and was trying to piss Dream off as much as possible at that point, hits it repeatedly, tries to bait it into the lava, and eventually kills it.
Killed Off for Real: When Tommy makes it clear that he was never going to let himself be intimidated or manipulated by Dream ever again, to the point of denying that the revival book was real, Dream snaps and beats him to death, taking his final life. This is subverted when Dream brings him Back from the Dead a few days later.
The Lancer: During the L'Manburgian Revolution, Tommy was a Hot-Blooded, headstrong youth and, even though they butted heads at times, Wilbur's right-hand man.
Leeroy Jenkins: Tommy is very prone to leaping before he looks, causing many instances where he does something in the moment that he either instantly regrets or grows to regret.
Literal-Minded: During the founding of L'Manburg, Wilbur told his men to fight with their words, not with weapons. Tommy decided that this meant he should just shout random words at anyone coming to antagonize them.
Tommy: TOWER! FENCE! SYLLABLE!
Lovable Rogue: Tommy tends to commit petty crime on a regular basis, usually theft/robbery, trolling and occasionally minor griefing, but is arguably one of the more morally upstanding characters on the server, especially when the situation gets dire.
Major Injury Underreaction: Played for Drama. During Exile, Dream would beat Tommy with bare fists or an axe if he refused to follow orders, or even if he wasn't quick enough in following them. At first, Tommy would scream in pain whenever he was hit, but over time, he became so apathetic that he stopped reacting to Dream's beatings at all.
The McCoy: The Hot-Blooded Id of the Freudian "Bench Trio", in contrast to Tubbo's logical Superego and Ranboo's mediator Ego.
"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: Tommy claims his full name is "Tommy Careful Danger Kraken Innit": "Careful" and "Danger" so he can claim that either is his middle name, depending on the situation; "Kraken" because it sounds cool.
Minor Living Alone: In Eryn's February 12, 2022 lore stream, "The Origins of Eryn", a younger, pre-DSMP Tommy was introduced to be living in a taiga village in the middle of nowhere in particular, without any note on where his parents were (if he had any).
Motor Mouth: Tommy speaks very quickly, which, combined with his tendency to just say everything that comes to mind, means he can spend ages just talking. He also cuts himself off mid-sentence a lot, leading to quotes that sound like he's trying to have three conversations at once.
Tommy: Anyway– God, these walls, you need to get them sorted out, hey, that's why– no, that's not why I'm here, I need to start being more honest. I'm thinking out loud a lot these days, Technoblade!
Techno: I've noticed.
Mysterious Watcher: Tommy witnesses the Las Nevadas finale while spying on Dream. His presence is not remarked on by anybody, as he's under the effects of an invisibility potion whilst there.
Never Found the Body: A variation of this occurred during Exile after Tommy's escape. When Dream goes back to Logstedshire, he takes notice of the fact that if Tommy had truly died, he'd have left behind items, and promptly begins hunting Tommy down. When Dream shows up at Techno's door, Tommy's location is all but confirmed, thanks to him leaving obvious clues around the house.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- The meeting with Dream was going well and Tubbo was able to appease Dream by putting Tommy on an extended probation instead of exiling him. Tommy started gloating and insulting Dream to his face, claiming that Dream had nothing on him anymore since he didn't have any of Tommy's discs and Tommy had the skin of his dead horse Spirit. Tommy used this as leverage against Dream to force him into breaking down the walls he built around New L'Manberg and for a moment it looked like it was working... until Dream started rebuilding the walls even higher than before. It turned out Dream did not care about his dead horse and went back to demanding that Tommy be exiled — which he eventually was.
- Tommy tries to kill Dream to get rid of the knowledge of the revive-book. However, because he isn't allowed in the prison, he has Ghostbur visit Dream while Tommy sneaks in after Sam, invisible. It goes well, until Tommy gets too eager and pulls out the Axe of Peace too soon, causing Sam to spot him. In the chaos that followed, Dream manages to take Ghostbur hostage, and when Sam refuses to free him, Dream kills Ghostbur by reviving Wilbur, the very thing that Tommy didn't want to happen, and what also opens a whole other can of worms for the server to deal with, considering how much of a Wild Card Wilbur is when he's brought Back from the Dead.
The Nicknamer: Tommy either calls people by nicknames, or by Full-Name Basis.
- "Big Man" is one he uses for multiple people, including himself.
- Quackity is "Big Q", which is the only nickname Tommy has given that actually stuck.
- Wilbur is "Wil" or "Big Dubs".
- Tubbo is "Small T" or "Tubzo".
- Technoblade is "The Blade".
- Dream is "Big D".
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The cause of his third canon death, courtesy of Dream using a raw potato during the lockdown of Pandora's Vault.
Not Used to Freedom: After Exile, Tommy struggles to take matters into his own hands, to the point where Techno remarks that he has "no free will whatsoever". While Tommy improves a lot after Dream gets locked up, he sometimes states that it was a lot easier when he had someone else to make decisions for him (which was his initial motivation for trying to get close to Wilbur again). He even tells Eryn that he missed Exile sometimes, likely for this reason.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Even in times of stress, Tommy's prone to cracking jokes. When Wilbur underwent his Pogtopian mental health spiral, however, Tommy was dead serious and extremely concerned.
- Tommy is mostly known for being very loud and confident. However, when Tubbo exiled him, Tommy was stunned into horrified silence.
- His exile and Dream's physical and psychological abuse had started to take a massive toll on Tommy's mental health, as shown in how his behavior changed:
  - Exile chipped away at Tommy's willpower to fight against Dream. At first, Tommy would fight back until Dream threatened him with violence, but several days later, he became more compliant to Dream's demands, like removing his armor so Dream can blow it up, or fearing Dream catching him in Technoblade's home. The fact that less than a week prior, Tommy couldn't even stop himself from insulting Dream to his face for his own good only made this change in behavior all the more distressing.
  - Tommy had always been a Determinator, becoming extremely attached to anything and anyone and fighting tooth and nail to keep them. That's why it was so shocking that after Jack Manifold kidnapped HOTTER girl (Tommy's "girlfriend" that he made out of wood and a pumpkin) and gave a villainous monologue about how Tommy never should have wronged him, Tommy just quietly said he didn't care and left without even the slightest attempt at fighting back.
- Tommy's time with Wilbur in the Afterlife seemed to only have soured his opinion of him even more, and he fears what Wilbur would do if he was brought back to life. When Dream reveals to Tommy that he plans to bring back Wilbur, Tommy begs him not to do it, saying that he'd stay and be friends with Dream so long as he did not bring back Wilbur. Let that sink in — Tommy would rather spend the rest of his days with the man who literally killed him if it meant preventing Wilbur's revival.
- Tommy hates being treated like a child, and insists at every turn that he's actually a huge man. However, after Dream's escape from Pandora's Vault, he suddenly starts acting much younger than he actually was. He refers to himself as a "kid" multiple times, he compares Dream to a schoolyard bully, and after escaping to Phil's house, he hides behind Phil like a scared child behind their parent, and winds up asking Phil to walk him home.
Past Experience Nightmare: He once told Ranboo that he had nightmares of Wilbur's speech suggesting they be "the bad guys" in Pogtopia.
Tommy: I know that there's that one line that rings through my head as I sleep... of Wilbur saying, "Tommy! Let's be the bad guys!" –and I don't– I don't want to be the bad guys...
Post-Stress Overeating: While during Exile, he was often Too Unhappy to Be Hungry, after escaping Exile, Tommy veered wildly in the other direction. During his stay with Techno, Tommy often kept a full stack of golden apples on him, and would start cramming them into his mouth as soon as he noticed even the slightest hint of a possible threat. This even extended to him eating a golden apple while Dream was in the room looking for him, leading to Techno scolding him for his inability to stay silent.
Properly Paranoid: He admits to Ranboo that the reason why Tommy didn't pass the presidency to Tubbo was because he was scared that it would hurt their friendship. Sadly, he seems to be right about that when Dream's ultimatum pits them against each other.
Puppy-Dog Eyes: After getting blown up by TNT and losing all of his items, he attempts to use these on Ranboo to get a water bucket. It works.
Real Men Wear Pink: He's a Hot-Blooded young man with a chaotic streak a mile wide, who was often considered one of the token straights of the cast^note... and is also an Animal Lover who can canonically sew, enjoys nature and flowers, and greatly cares for his friends.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Tommy gives a scathing one to Dream after being trapped in prison with him.
Tommy: I know why I'm in here. This is... This isn't worse than Exile. (laughs) This isn't worse than the exile... Because the thing is, in Exile, I thought you had all the power. I thought you were fucking dangling me like a little fuckin' puppet, man, and even though in here it's small, and I'm fucking — what was that sound?! — and I'm claustrophobic, and I hate this... Here's the thing, here's the thing, Dream, here's the thing I KNOW. (Beat, deep breath) [...] The revive-book, Dream... It's not real, is it? It's not fuckin' real. 'Cause all you do– All you do that I– SHUT THE FUCK UP — What I remember from Exile, is that all you do is lie to me. And then you UNVEIL this BIG THING in this FINALE, that all the fuckin'– when we go down into your pit, here's what you tell me, you tell me, "Oh, oh, I was actually fuckin'... It was me that reorganized your beach party, it was me that blew up the Community House!" You are a clinical manipulator, a– a psychopath if you will. [...] You're a liar, and really, through your Netherite armour and skin, I look at you, and you know what I see? I see a sad little man, who's insecure about the fact that this server has gotten so far ahead of him, and his only little glimpse of power in this world is gone. I see an insecure, sad little man. Alright? So fuck off.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Tommy is the loud, confident, extroverted Red to Tubbo and Ranboo's quiet, more introverted Blue.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated:
- At the end of the Exile arc, when Tubbo comes to Logstedshire to visit him, he spots the pillar Tommy made to jump to his death from, not knowing that Tommy didn't go through with his suicide attempt, and immediately assumes the worst with the result being that everyone except Dream believes Tommy to be dead.
- It happens again in early Season 3 in a much more twisted way. After being trapped in Pandora's Vault with Dream, the word spread that he was dead, only for him to return to the SMP proper a week later. The twist is that Tommy was killed by Dream but got resurrected, and no one knew that he came Back from the Dead until he returned from the prison.
Resurrection Sickness: After being revived, Tommy didn't appear to have suffered any ill effects physically, but mentally, he was a complete wreck. He suffered the worst panic attack we've seen from him yet, bordering on complete hysteria, and his initial reaction to waking up was to scramble to get away from Dream in such a blind panic that he almost ran into the lava. He also appeared to suffer from Sensory Overload after being stuck in a dark, soundless void for what felt like months, screaming in agony when Dream so much as pinched him, completely amazed at the fact that he felt hungry, and startling hard every time the Elder Guardian made a noise, saying that the sounds were more "pure" (this was also reflected on a meta-level, as Tommy turned up his game volume to max after being revived).
Safety in Indifference: He showed shades of this mindset after his resurrection. Tommy disagreed with Ranboo's suggestion to get a new pet after Henry's death for this reason. He told Ranboo that he thought there was no point in getting a new pet because it's just going to die eventually anyway, likely by Dream's hand. He eventually breaks out of this mindset and adopts a spider as a pet, naming him Shroud after a Twitch streamer of the same name.
The Scapegoat: If something goes wrong on the Dream SMP, chances are you're gonna find someone blaming Tommy for it, even when he's completely uninvolved in it and minding his own business. It's gotten to the point that Tommy has internalized it and now views himself as a problem, to the point that he sees himself as responsible for L'Manburg's destruction when it was Dream, Technoblade and Philza who destroyed it.
Secret Squatter: After fleeing from Exile, Tommy briefly lives as this in Techno's basement "like a raccoon" before being found out by Techno and subsequently teaming up with him.
Self-Harm: Tommy had many, MANY moments where he purposefully hurt himself in Exile. He usually employed more indirect methods, like starving himself or letting mobs attack him, but occasionally he'd do it more directly, like shooting himself with arrows, setting himself on fire, or staying underwater until he'd start to drown. This also carried over in his facecam performance, as whenever he'd mess something up, he'd start hitting himself in the face.
Self-Sacrifice Scheme: The first iteration of Tommy's plan to break into prison and kill Dream was for him to go inside alone, while his friends stayed on the outside and fired TNT cannons. This likely stemmed from a combination of his own self-hatred and general impression that no one cared when he was dead, and his experience during the Disc War Finale, where Tubbo was moments away from accepting his own death so that Tommy could retrieve his discs. The second iteration involved Ghostbur visiting the prison and Tommy sneaking inside with him while invisible, which went... poorly.
Sent Into Hiding: Due to being mistaken for dead, Techno was forced to keep Tommy hidden to avoid anyone knowing that he was still alive.
Seriously Scruffy: When he lived alone in Logstedshire, his hair and clothes became very unkempt.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Tommy's experience from the betrayal in the Final Control Room left him heavily traumatized. His time spent in exile (both in Pogtopia and Logstedshire) and his death and revival in Pandora's Vault did him no favours either.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: It's rare to find a Tommy quote where he doesn't drop an F-bomb. Around BadBoyHalo, Tommy makes an effort to swear as much as possible.
Smoking Is Not Cool: Tommy doesn't approve of Wilbur's bad habit of smoking during his spiral in Pogtopia.
tommyaltinnit: (replying to a piece of fanart depicting Wilbur smoking) Can't believe Canon Wilbur Smokes. As a big Anti-Drug Guy, this is really just fucked up to me. Canon Tommy would never smoke, or even second hand smoke. I hold my breath whenever canon Wilbur chooses to smoke.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: The trauma Tommy's gone through has made his more abrasive and hostile traits more prominent, often lashing out or panicking over seemingly minor or innocent things.
Stepford Smiler: His bright personality had returned quickly after moving in with Technoblade, but a closer look makes it quite obvious that it was a front, and that Tommy was actively repressing his trauma instead of dealing with it in a healthy way.
Street Urchin: He's heavily implied to have been one before coming to the SMP. He prefers living in a dirt hut over an actual house, and likes building materials that are both easy to get and easy to replace (cobblestone and oak wood being his favorites). When he needs items, he usually resorts to stealing or begging from others, and what items he does manage to get, he clings to, hiding them away in secret chests he buries under the floor. When asked about his parents, Tommy answered that he raised himself, and at one point even claimed to have been created in a lab (though whether this is true remains to be seen). Lastly, Wilbur is implied to have taken Tommy in, as Wilbur acted like a Big Brother Mentor before his mental health started to decline, and Ghostbur even claims that Wilbur named Tommy.
Supporting Protagonist: Zig-zagged throughout Season 1.
- Tommy served as Wilbur's sidekick and lackey during the SMP War, with Wilbur himself serving as the leader of L'Manburg. Yet, there seemed to be a consensus that he was the main character of the war, with Tommy undergoing the most Character Development and him being in the forefront at the end of the war — notably, it's him who participates in the war-ending duel with Dream and not Wilbur; he's also the one who ends the war with his sacrifice of the music discs.
- He becomes the central protagonist after Wilbur's Sanity Slippage. With Wilbur in no condition to lead Pogtopia, it's up to Tommy to both save L'Manburg and bring his fallen friend back from the brink of a devastating Face–Heel Turn.
Talking Down the Suicidal: Tommy does this twice, though with some twists regarding both times.
- In Season 1, he manages to talk Wilbur out of blowing up Manburg in the middle of the Pogtopia Arc. What qualifies it for this trope is that Wilbur intended to blow himself up with Manburg by going down with the country he built (but was taken over by Schlatt). However, it is possible that Tommy didn't know that Wilbur planned to die during their confrontation.
- In Season 2, he manages to do this with himself during the end of the Exile Arc, as he realizes that Dream was trying to keep him from fighting back against him. This eventually ends with Tommy jumping down to safety into a pool of water and escaping Logstedshire.
Talking to Plants: During the early days of L'Manburg, Tommy used to sing "Hallelujah" to the plants to help them grow. This inspired Wilbur to write L'Manburg's national anthem to the song's tune in honour of his loyal compatriot and younger brother-figure.
Theory Tunnelvision: The reason Tommy is so dead-set on getting his discs back is because he believes that once they're back in his hands, every conflict on the server would be resolved, as they were the reason the Disc War started which had a massive impact on the server and its conflicts as a whole. However, his short-sighted focus on his discs leads him to make decisions or actions detrimental to everyone else around him, driving away the people he cares about and making him look extremely selfish for prioritizing objects over other people.
Third Wheel: Tommy comments that he felt like one during his first visit to Las Nevadas with Wilbur, who was having Belligerent Sexual Tension with Quackity for half the stream.
This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: A major Verbal Tic for him. If Tommy doesn't like you, you'll be called a bitch every other sentence.
Those Two Guys: With Tubbo, to the point they have been referred to as brothers.
Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: During his time in Logstedshire, there were several instances where Tommy actively refused to eat despite his hunger meter becoming dangerously low, likely demonstrating that this is the case. It doesn't help that in spite of his now-canonized chat telling him to eat from time to time, he claimed that he didn't have an appetite even with his in-game hunger bar half gone.
Tragic Keepsake: After Ranboo's death, Ghostboo gives Tommy the Rapple, an enchanted golden apple that took Ranboo ages to find when he was alive, as protection against Dream. Tommy then replies that he'll keep the Rapple close to his heart... then Philza burns the Rapple to try to "teach" Tommy not to get attached to 'material items'.
Trauma Button:
- While Tommy tries to keep his feelings and burdens under wraps, it's clear that his past still affects him greatly. Locations that remind him of past traumatic events, like Logstedshire (where he gets incredibly anxious) and the Final Control Room (which caused him to have a full-on panic attack, hyperventilating and scrambling for an exit), and things that remind him of his time in exile cause him to become incredibly panicked.
  Tommy: There are still some little things from my exile that really, really get me, y'know?
  Tubbo: Plains biomes, especially.
  Tommy: No, I'm kind of okay– it was the... Let me think, let me think. The hole-stuff really gets me, the um... Seeing [Dream] being nice to us, seeing him all cocky and laughing at us, that... (shaky exhale) I still do get traumatized, Tubbo...
- After dying and being revived, Tommy has flashbacks and flies into a screaming panic whenever he takes damage of any kind, no matter how minor, and any reminders of what happened trigger new panic attacks, to the point where he starts begging people to stop asking him to talk about it.
Trauma Conga Line: From being betrayed over and over, to watching his country be blown up no less than three times. Watching Wilbur, who he idolized, slowly fall into insanity, blow up their country, and then get killed by his father. Getting murdered by the person that kept him under tyranny, twice, and then get manipulated and driven into a suicidal state by the same guy. Watching his best friend be publicly executed by his ally, and almost watching him sacrifice himself. Being exiled and getting so lonely and depressed that he stopped caring about himself altogether, stopped eating and sleeping properly. Just when it seems things were starting to look up for him, Tommy was then locked in a jail cell with his abuser for an entire week, surrounded by things that remind him of his time in exile, killed again after being brutally beaten by Dream costing him his last life, spent two days in the afterlife with Wilbur except for Tommy it felt like two months had passed, and then suddenly revived by Dream, not only having to deal with Sensory Overload but more torment from his abuser. All of this when he was 16, if we're going by content creator ages for reference.
Troll: Tommy's favorite pastime is annoying his server-mates, though as of Seasons 3-4, he has relatively toned down on this in favour of more constructive and peaceful activities.
Tyrannicide: He takes two of Dream's canon lives during the Disc War Finale, who helped nuke L'Manburg into a hole to bedrock and was just found to be planning to control the entire server through their 'attachments'.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Downplayed. Especially back in Season 1, Tommy can sometimes be a bit insensitive, which can unintentionally lead to conflicts, e.g. the fallout between Wilbur and Fundy, as well as Quackity's 'exclusion' from L'Manburg.
Vague Age: Tommy's current age is unknown. During one livestream, Wilbur stated that he envisioned Tommy and Tubbo as being in their 20s while he was writing the first L'Manberg arc, but Tommy (likely jokingly) claimed he was "canonically 9 years old" right after that. However, during the Exile arc, Dream stated that Tommy was to remain in exile until he turned 18, implying that he was still a minor at that point. The fandom usually puts Tommy as the same age as his content creator counterpart, that being 16 when he joined the server (and older as the series progresses).
Verbal Tic: When rambling, Tommy will end most of his sentences with "Alright?"
Vitriolic Best Buds:
- Despite genuinely being distraught over Tubbo exiling him, Tommy still treasures the "Your Tubbo" compass that Ghostbur gifted him, and when Dream finds the stash that Tommy hid, Tommy frantically rushes to the chest to save some of the valuables from the TNT. What does he save? Pictures of Tubbo.
- After building a recreation of the prison and the Final Control Room with Tubbo and Ranboo, Tommy genuinely thanks Ranboo for his help and gives him a hug, and later privately admits to Tubbo that he really does like Ranboo and it's just usually overshadowed by his jealousy of Tubbo and Ranboo's relationship.
Weapon-Based Characterization: When Tommy tries to look intimidating, he'll take out two sticks or bones and dual-wield them, despite the fact that they don't do any more damage than a bare fist. Whenever he's truly in trouble, he uses the Axe of Peace, despite the fact that he feels guilty about using it.
"Well Done, Son" Guy:
- Not nearly as severe as, say, Fundy, but Tommy seems to desire Philza's respect and pride, even though Tommy has stated he essentially raised himself and the fact that Phil is not canonically Tommy's father. He even tries to make a contract with Sam saying that the building of the hotel will be attributed to his name, just so he can ask if Phil was proud of him.
- Wilbur seems to be trying to invoke this trope on him. He tells Tommy that they were family until Tommy turned out to not have "the balls to follow along with [him]", and when he joins the game and sees Tommy not mining stone like he'd asked him to do (despite the fact that Tommy had been mining stone and was just taking a break to clear out some junk from his home), he tells Tommy he was disappointed and leaves.
Wise Beyond Their Years: Downplayed in that he's in his late teenage years and surprisingly more philosophical about life than most would expect, as Foolish points out. However, this is also justified in that he lives in a Crapsack World and has been through such an arduous Trauma Conga Line that he was essentially forced to grow up fast.
Yank the Dog's Chain: With help from Ranboo, Tommy is able to rescue the revived version of his pet cow, Henry, from Dream's bunker, but Tommy struggles to maneuver his pet across the mountainous range outside leading to Henry, once again, falling to his death and Tommy grieving for his pet all over again.
You Can't Go Home Again:
- As if being banned from L'Manburg wasn't bad enough, Dream took it upon himself to ban Tommy from every single place that has been lived at in the SMP, which included all of the houses Tommy had built.
- The last day of Tommy's exile from L'Manburg ended up being the day of the Green Festival when he turned against Techno after a Heel Realization, which eventually culminated into L'Manburg being nuked to bedrock a day later. This means that despite everything, Tommy never truly had the chance to go home after he was forced out of L'Manburg — the country he helped found and fought and died for — because of Dream's demands.

Other

Henry

Tommy's beloved pet cow, who is accidentally killed by Sapnap.

Adopt the Food: Tommy got attached to Henry before he could kill him for food, and quickly named and adopted the cow.
Back for the Dead: After being mysteriously brought Back from the Dead, most likely using the revive book, Henry died from fall damage in the same stream Tommy and Ranboo returned to Dream's Vault to retrieve him.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Sapnap pulls Henry over the edge of Skeppy's lawn, crushing him to death.
Informed Deformity: Tommy describes Henry as outright ugly at one point, but naturally, he looks just like any other cow.

Juorse

Tommy's horse, who is kidnapped and later intentionally killed by Sapnap after a failed deal between Tommy and Sapnap.

In a Single Bound: Juorse was one of the most athletic horses on the server, with the ability to jump four blocks high.

Clarencio

A trader llama that Tommy found during his and Techno's stealth missions to New L'Manburg. He is later killed by Technoblade's dog Max.

Cherry Tapping: Somehow Clarencio manages to kill Ranboo just by continuously spitting on him.
Llama Loogie: As with all llamas in Minecraft, though notable in Clarencio's case in that he never stops spitting at people. This ultimately gets him killed when he hits Techno's puppy, prompting Max (the father) to retaliate.
Memetic Badass: In-Universe. Tommy and Techno joke that Clarencio is secretly a genius criminal.
Technoblade: Tommy, you're not invisible at all.
Tommy: Well, neither is Clarencio!
Technoblade: Clarencio isn't BANNED! Or maybe he is. I don't know his past.
Tommy: He seems like a bit of a... well, I'm gonna be honest with you, he just showed up at the nether portal.
Technoblade: Maybe he's using us to sneak in!
Tommy: He seems like a pretty sneaky fellow!

Shroud

A spider that Tommy adopted while fixing up his house after Puffy pranked it.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider: When they first met, Shroud directly approached Tommy, who immediately gained a soft spot for him.
Giant Spider: Considering the size of Minecraft spiders, this is a given. In real life, he'd be about the size of a large dog.
Named After Somebody Famous: Tommy named him after a Twitch streamer of the same name, who he was (and still is) a huge fan of.

Chat

"The poor child.."

Tommy's stream chat takes the form of a Nokia 3310 mobile phone located in his pants pocket. The phone buzzes every time he gets a sub.

Audience Participation: As with other canon chats, they are the canonical version of the audience.
Black Comedy: Several members of the chat infamously yelled at Tommy to "DO A FLIP" when he planned on ending his last canon life by jumping off a tower at the end of the Exile Arc.
LOL, 69: In Tommy's late April 2021 livestream of attempting to confront his traumatic triggers, he calls out his chat for spamming "69" while he was on his way to Logstedshire to face it.
Made of Indestructium: Implied, as they take the form of a "Nokia brick" phone, which are infamous for being pretty much this.
Mass "Oh, Crap!": Whenever anything lore-intensive yet unexpected happens, the chat's collective reaction is often one of these:
- When Tommy starts piling up a tower to the clouds following Logstedshire's destruction.
- When Dream shows up at Logstedshire after his escape, anticipating Tommy's return to the area (albeit to retrieve his buried armour and weapons).
Studio Audience: They are treated this way, though they aren't physically present and usually communicate through text instead of through audio.

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