Vigilante Tommy? Amazing. But lemme tell you something y’all are sleeping on:

Tommy’s a hero in training. Or perhaps he’s a brand new hero. Either way, he has two goals. One, to protect and help as many people as he can, and two, to be the one to discover, catch, and turn in the city’s top vigilantes: Crow, Siren and The Blade. (The names could be better, I know)

Okay. Maybe the second goal is more important to him, but shhhh, no one but Tubbo needs to know that. There’s nothing wrong with wanting a little glory, right?

So, cue the shenanigans that ensue. Aka a wild game of cat and mouse where Tommy goes irl manhunt, minus the murder of the three vigilantes, of course. Well, what happens if by the time he does catch them, he doesn’t have the heart to turn them in?

There are so many things that could happen based on this. Like, with Ranboo alone. For example, he could already be part of Tommy and Tubbo’s team, join them eventually to help them with hero work or maybe… Now hear me out. Ranboo’s close with Techno and Philza, right? So what if they send Ranboo to keep an eye on Tommy. To cover their tracks and to distract the teens if they get too close to finding out who the vigilantes really are. This could happen before or after the trio of vigilantes grow attached to Tommy. And depending on their opinion of him, Ranboo’s goal could be completely different. If the three are worried about him but hesitant to expose their true identities, maybe they simply send Ranboo to make sure Tommy stays safe. After all, it’s hard enough for them to do so without the boy practically lunging for them.

Or, perhaps Tommy is a simple civilian who dreams of being a hero. And one day, he stumbles upon the three vigilantes unmasked. It’d be a one way ticket to being called a hero, so, he snaps a picture. Oh, goddammit, he forgot to turn the flash off. With quick thinking he’s able to save and send the photo to Tubbo before the vigilantes destroy the phone. And now? The vigilantes are stuck doing everything they can to get this loud mouthed annoying teen to shut up and not spill the beans. Tommy never thought he’d grow to care for the vigilantes he now had under his thumb, and the vigilantes sure as hell never thought they’d get attached to him but, well, things don’t always go as planned. Sure, having people doing anything you ask them to is nice, but it quickly begins to rub Tommy the wrong way. And he’s stuck with an internal war because goddammit he doesn’t trust vigilantes, but, these guys…they aren’t so bad.

It doesn’t take long for other vigilantes, villains, and the heroes themselves to notice that the “big three” have been sticking around a specific kid quite often. And when it becomes blatantly obvious, Tommy learns the truth about heroes and how corrupted the hero system is. It isn’t always the hero’s fault. Some are just following orders. But some? They choose to act this way. And now he has no choice but to trust the three vigilantes to come and help him.

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