Eburnean Tommy Au

XIV - Mumza

"Why are you crying?" Tom asks.

"I really shouldn't tell you, I'm lucky XD let me talk to you at all considering how embarrassed he is"

"What is he embarrassed about?"

"You know what, how about I tell you the first thing, and you stop asking questions about him"

"Why can't you just tell me all of it?"

"Tommy, I wasn't going to tell you anything, so take it or leave it"

"Fine." he concedes

"The reason I was crying is your soul. I made yours so special and he ruined it. I suppose that makes it kind of my faul-"

"NO! IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT!" Tommy slaps her "It isn't true, mum! It doesn't even make sense, so don't say that or I'm telling Phil!"

"That won't exactly work on me, Tom"

"Y-yes it will, because he'll regret marrying a stupid person and divorce you!"

"I suppose he would." she plays along, "I'd still like to explain to you what I mean though, about making your soul special"

"Just don't say it was your fault, you never tore me to pieces, that psychopath did"

"Okay, so normal souls look like this," she conjures an image of a ball of light, "glowing orbs about the size of a fist. But they all look so similar that it gets boring"

She sighs and beams for a minute, "But when I saw Phil's it was different, like a soft lantern, not just a regular ghost. I was so inspired that we had you and your brothers, and I resolved to tamper a bit"

"DID YOU EXPLODE MY SOUL OR SOMETHING?" Tommy asks

"No, no, of course not... I exploded one of Techno's souls"

"WHAT?!?"

"I was a bit too daring with Technoblade, I tried to put two souls into him. It actually worked for a while, but he was really unstable. At some point, one of the souls just burst into thousands of sparks like a firework"

She shudders,

"He had already been very worrying, but he really started acting freakishly after that. Phil took him to me and begged for help. I managed to calm down all the sparks, but I could never get rid of them"

"Oh, the sparks are the voices aren't they?"

"I guess they are, yeah"

"What about Wilbur? That's gotta be interesting."

"I was much more cautious with him, Techno had scared me. I wanted to see if I could make a soul hotter or colder, they're usually lukewarm. So I took some to the nether and dipped them in lava, and do you know what happened?"

"No mum, because I'm not death herself on fucking drugs"

She laughs, "Well they melted-"

"L" Tommy responds and chuckles. Mumza can't stop laughing,

"Haha, Tom, you can't keep making me laugh, Phil is going to lose his mind if you don't wake up soon so let me explain"

"But doesn't time work differently when you're asleep?"

"Yes, but it can only be so much faster, so we're still wasting some real time"

"Okay, so how long have I been sleeping?"

"Just a few minutes, but you're only unconscious because you hit your head, and knowing Phil, he's already worried sick about you"

"Okay, okay, so tell me about Wilbur's soul and my soul and then I will wake up"

"I've been trying to. So I made Wilbur out of the melted essence, but I only did the amount of a normal soul. It's why he's a bit unstable but he can still be calm. By the time I was expecting you, I had realized that with melting, I found a way to break souls without popping them, so I made your soul bigger and brighter than most, it's what I tried to do with Techno. And your soul is still especially bright, but it's been worn down to a flicker compared to what it used to be."

"Thank you Mumza I can wake up now- WAIT!"

She sighs, but she can't manage to be upset with him, "What is it?"

"Does Techno know about his soul?"

"Yes, he knows about yours and Wilbur's too"

"That's not fair! Why did nobody ever tell me?"

"Techno needed to know about his, it ruined his early childhood, and made the rest of it pretty bad too. And being the eldest he just overheard things about yours and Wilbur's"

"Does Wilbur know?"

"No, and it's time for you to wake up now, I love you so much, and Phil and I would do anything for you to be happy" She hugs him and gives him a kiss on the forehead, and has him wake up.