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What really bothers me about the way some people talk about Succession is the way they never allow for any grey area or complex characters.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65089606
Pairing: tomgreg | beta!Greg & omega!Tom
Summary:
“Oh, Greg. This is…” Tom whispered, finally turning back to him with tender eyes, “It’s perfect.”
Greg couldn't stop the grin on his face. “Yeah?”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/60382096/chapters/154117930
New tomgreg chapter for my Post-S4 tomgreglets (fics under 1k!)
Summary of chapter:
“Back off, harpies, this one’s mine,” a slurry voice said behind them.
Looking up, Greg was relieved to find it was Tom at last.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61951039
SUMMARY: Tom gave a pleasing hum, “Now there’s my boss,” brushing Greg’s suit with his hands meticulously.
Greg’s breath hitched at the possessive and proud divulgence.
PAIRING: tomgreg
SUMMARY:
basically if Greg was the underdog au
“Kiss you? I mean…” Greg started with a sluggish shrug and fiddling with the glove in his hand, “I would, but we’re in public, man.”
PAIRING: tomgreg
SUMMARY: short tomgreg ideas Post-S4 scenarios
Chapter -
“Did you just spank me?” Tom challenged in a low voice.
PAIRING: tomgreg
SUMMARY:
(night before The Munsters ep, where Greg was way too chummy around Tom)
“I could what? What are you about to say, Gregory? Go on.”
Greg inhaled through his nose, a look of nerves and boldness that Tom rarely sees. “I think if you got fucked hard, you’d calm down a bit.”
PAIRING: lesbians!tomshiv
SUMMARY:
remembered in S4 when Tom mentioned flying to France to Shiv, something about a silk shirt and "do you like this? do you like this?" and then I wrote that moment in France except they're lesbians? yeah!
PAIRING: tomgreg
SUMMARY:
A re-telling of "Do you want to make a deal with the devil?" where it's a supernatural AU, the Roy family are all vampires and Tom is a familiar wanting more security that he'll also be turned.
PAIRING: more about Shiv and Tom, pre-impending-divorce with a tomgreg lean
SUMMARY:
“I've been thinking, I think I'd like to sleep with …” he paused, “Greg.”
He prepared for scepticism, a fundamental objection riddled with snarkiness, but what he got instead was Shiv bringing her iPad back up into her lap to her virtual planner and asking, expectantly, “when?”
Inspired by THIS conversation here between Jesse Armstrong and Lucy Prebble.
PAIRING: tomgreg (of course)
SUMMARY:
“That boss you wanted to fuck? Did you finally do it?”
Terror clocked into his heart, hoping his body might combust in his very seat so that he wouldn’t have to be there at that very moment. Of course. Of course, he mentioned wanting to sleep with his boss with his friends. Never, not once, worrying that one day his friend could bring it up sporadically with Tom sitting right next to him.
PAIRING: tomgreg
SUMMARY: To her credit, Tommie wasn’t a normal woman. She was not only a bitch, she could also be childish, complicated, inordinately layered, infuriating, a tease, hot and gave Gwen a mommy kink she didn’t prepare for.
SEQUEL. Please read the first part of you haven't yet 🩷
PAIRING: tomgreg
SUMMARY:
Greg took a step back, away from more prodding, but his hands were ready to hold Tom back. “But they didn’t look, like, grossed out! If anything they seemed kind of impressed with me.”
“Because they think you’re fucking your boss!” Tom roar filled every crevice of the room.
Pairing: tomgreg
Summary:
“... then I guess you were rubbing one out while we were talking?”
The silence followed by a guilty, but quiet, “umm” sound was not what he was expecting, but hoped for, and Tom was elated.
Ready to sink his teeth into it.
“You’re a dirty fucking piggy, Greg.”
PAIRING: pre-tomgreg
SUMMARY:
Greg glanced at his phone expectantly, waiting for the screen to translate, only it seemed to come up blank. He quickly fumbled a reply, “Yeah?” as he subtly reached down to close the app and open it again. “Yeah, we’re pretty close, man.”
Oskar had a sudden enthusiastic interest in him, “really? You surprise me, Gregory!”
PAIRING: tomgreg
SUMMARY:
"The symptoms that I've noticed from you, leaves me to believe that maybe you're not, like, being fed? Not in a physical sense- well actually, physically, yes, but not in the sense of the um," Greg stuttered, now feeling a bit flustered on the direct topic, unsure if he could steer it in a less offensive way. "The- the substance that you're meant to be taking?"
"Just say come, Greg, Jesus."
I was just minding my business until I thought, what if succession Greg was a gaming streamer who brings his bf Tom on with him occasionally because his subs kept begging for it, and Tom is just clueless reading the comments and streaming lingo
I need to finish writing a tomgreg fic but instead I've thought about writing another. wip is the devil's work
Tomgreg has made me so Ill, I created a spotify playlist of songs that make me think about them 🥹 y'all, it's an I l l n e s s no ship has ever made me be THISSS sick
PAIRING: tomgreg SUMMARY:
She looked between Sophie and Dan, whispered, “so who is that?”
Dan looked clueless and Mickey answered back just as softer, “no idea.”
“To be honest,” Sophie muttered, “I don’t know for sure, since I just started at Waystar, but I think that’s Tom Wambsgans? So, like, his boss?”
“His boss?” Jules was even more confused now, “why would he come here? Did Greg mention he was coming?”
PAIRING: tomgreg (transfem!greg) SUMMARY:
“This is cousin Greg, remember?”
“Er,” she cleared her throat, introducing herself properly. “It’s actually, um, cousin Gwen, now?” She thinks she nailed it.
“No shit? That’s awesome,” Kendall patted her arm, looking up at her warmly.
PAIRING: tomgreg SUMMARY:
Greg finally stuck up for himself after all the constant prodding, poking and putting him down. He fucking landed one on him; his cheek still burned from the slap, and as much as he’d deny it, the hot skin was like he was wearing a badge of honour.
He swelled with pride at being able to not only witness it but feel it first-hand. And it felt really fucking good.
PAIRING: fem! tomgreg
SUMMARY:
... before she made her crafty way over, Greta held her back by the elbow and, in her skittish way, offered a tit for tat. An exchange that being the ‘punching bag’ would be more worthwhile on her end. Honestly, Tam couldn’t be prouder...
Greta was pretty vague in what she was asking of Tam, and so she decided to play into that. “Oh, the forboden ‘do whatever you want to me?’ Going to beat me up, Gret? Rob me?”
“Not forboden! It’s not!-” Gret gave her a flustered look, “I mean, it’s not something terrible, but like, rather in a sexual manner?”
PAIRING: a/b/o! tomgreg
SUMMARY:
“I just want you to smell me? And let me know what you honestly think.”
Greg could only look down at him with a furrow in his brow, “new cologne or?”
Tom snorted a quick, “No, you idiot,” before he gave him a big smile, trying his best to de-escalate the realness of the request that followed, “I want you to scent me.”
More Matthew Macfadyen related deadpool quips I wish they'd added to the movie:
- (when paradox reveals himself to be an asshole) angrily commenting on how 'mid' Succession was
- congratulating him on his recent emmy award win
- asking him what happened to waystar / if he got fired
- asking him if Shiv knows where he is / where Greg is
Over the seasons, tom has definitely proved himself to not just be the love struck country mouse trying to make it in the big city and to find his place in this family. His flown under everyone's, especially Logan's radar for most of the series except when the siblings feels they can use him to their advantage. i feel like he is going to take advantage of the fact that all the kids have fallen out of Logan's favor for the running of waystar or at least for one of the top jobs and take him and his loyal servant/ friend/ confidante Greg with him. Tom has proved himself loyal when he offered himself as sacrifice for Logan and the company, something that all three kids have failed to do throughout the seasons. (Kendall many times, shiv considering a (fake) job offer from Raya, Roman when he told Tabitha to make contact with Naomi about the Peirce deal and possibly tanking it. it might not have been a betrayal but it was in Logan's eyes. I also think that Roman messing with Gerri was a betrayal to Logan). Tom has also proved that he values the company and the shareholders over his personal relationships by him giving up Shiv and the boys in the last season. Whereas Shiv couldn't do the same with Tom at the end of season 2. Tom has played the game very well. His smart, educated and experienced (Shiv is smart doesn't have a lot of cooperate experience, especially runny a multi-billion dollar conglomerate), his loyal and devoted and 'kinda family'. Logan is vulnerable (him and Marcia aren't as solid as before, his kids are out, the company is going through a very public merger and the world is speculating about his age and health) Logan is in desperate need of some more allies in his corner and Mr wambgans is smart enough to see that.
Shiv failed to reward Tom's loyalty and devotion throughout the shows either with her expressing her love and deeper feelings, requesting an open marriage the night of their wedding, keeping him in the dark about her own moves in the company and the moves of others, not showing her concern for him going to prison and telling him that 'she doesn't love him'. Unfortunately in the world of Succession it's defiantly not straight forward as now Logan will reward him in the way he wants. I for sure think Logan will fuck both him and Greg in the next season, i also think either tom or greg will try and fuck over the other. Logan doesn't reward loyalty unless the reward also benefits him as well. I see this with Frank, Kendall's godfather, who has been loyal to Logan for many years and rewards that when they need him for something but the moment his useless Frank is told to 'Fuck off'.
Tom is in a great position at the end of season three, even though his head of Cruises, his position in the family and kinda at 'the seat with the big boys' as put in season, is largely because of his proximity to Shiv. I do wonder that even though tom betrayed Shiv for Logan, i wonder even still Logan might to be 100% about rewarding the man who hurt his only daughter. Logan is not perfect and maybe seeing their marriage possibly sour in the next season, might also sour his tolerance for Tom and his presence. i feel like Logan's got a few more shit cakes for tom to eat, especially with the merger with gojo coming up.
The thing is, they're all reflections of Logan. Kendall, Shiv, Roman, they all are different refracted images of him, in ways that can make them cruel and in ways that can make them entitled and angry and childish, and yes, in ways that can make them a candidate for CEO.
But the problem is, they're broken mirrors. Logan made sure of that. They're shards of glass scattered on the ground, with Logan towering above them. This makes them sad, confused people incapable of maintaining relationships, and also, makes them disqualified for ceo.
Then there's Tom. Sure "the guy has issues" but really? He's fine. And the issues he has? Logan has no real emotional power over him.
So while the kids were crafted into these distorted, fucked up versions of Logan and then stuck in a blender for 30 to 40 years, Tom was able to walk in, unaffected, and take on aspects of Logan of his own accord.
It's interesting, because Logan hated him until season 3, but then he was able to offer himself up as a sacrifice and appear more clear headed than Logan's emotional, needy children. And while his parents are at least well off, he's more of a "self-made man" than the kids could ever really be, which reflects Logan's fight to the top.
He's a smaller mirror, he may not hold the depths of Logans twisted nature (not yet anyway) but he's a clear, unbroken mirror. In raising his kids for the crown, Logan disqualified each of them, but the new, more distant son could be everything he wanted in a successor.