#c!loansharkduo

[ladyddanger]

When c!Tnt duo fight over text c!Quackity takes screen shots and sends them to Foolish like: CAN YOU BELIEVE HE SAID THIS TO ME??? And c!Foolish is all like: honestly he’s wayyy to old and ugly for you dump him 😒. And Wilbur sends screen recordings of the same fight to Foolish like: is it just me or is he totally out of line??? And Foolish is like: omg no that was wayyy 2 far. You’re too good for this!!

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

I'm so goddamn inconsolable over how... asymmetrical c!loanshark /r is.

There's something so poetic about a man obsessed with building a legacy, falling for a god who could outlive him by centuries.

[orpheus-lament]

Take this while I work on something else

[justal0zeralt]

while looking up duo names I found out that the duo name for dream and Wilbur is "MutuallyAssuredDestructionDuo" like who the actual fuck came up with that???

[rebelpeas]

ROUND ONE: Karl Jacobs & Quackity VS Foolish & Quackity

[heartkade]

I’ve seen some talk about c!loansharkduo and c!desertduo and I didn’t even realize how some things about them happen to be similar till now. Angsty small bird hybrid with their battle scarred himbo business partner, both living in the desert, trying to monopolize the economy… like storywise with the characters nothing else is similar whatsoever, but that general baseline is and I think that’s kinda neat.

[ladyddanger]

Can I interest y’all in an au where c!Tnt duo get drunk and end up married?

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

i NEED yr insight on cee loanshark PLEASE 🙏

Okay LISTEN UP Y'ALL

I'll set the scene. The date is sometime after LN5 first airs. I was in the middle of rewatching Foolish's six-hour building stream in which Quackity recounts his entire life story, when suddenly my third eye burst the fuck open.

And I guess there's no better time than now to drop my c!loanshark meta.

/dsmp /rp

I've always liked these characters, and I've picked up on a lot of really cool connections between them. c!Quackity is a former idealistic young politician turned jaded capitalist, building a legacy and clawing his way up with bloody fingers. c!Foolish is a physical god who once used violence to get his way but came to regret that way of life and now copes through creating beauty. Quackity explicitly manipulates Foolish into joining him by appealing to his newfound fear of mortality, a fear which Q shares. They're both trying to move away from past versions of themselves, but what they each see as "the problem" is very different.

What compels me about this dynamic is that Foolish simply existing as himself is a refutation of Quackity's worldview; building things up rather than tearing them down worked for him. That's how he got immortality! That's why he has so many friends! And while Quackity is trying to push Foolish back into the life he used to live because he desires and envies that strength, Foolish does not want to lose himself to that side of himself; when he does join Las Nevadas, he claims he's simply trying to find a "healthy balance."

But because of the kind of person Foolish is trying to be, combined with the perspective from centuries of existence, he's in a perfect position to reach Q. Quackity has a history of getting easily attached, both to powerful people and to people who show him compassion unprompted. Foolish is both of these.

And we see this! We see Quackity in that very same stream opening up and telling Foolish everything about himself, despite admitting that it makes no sense for Foolish to stay and listen. We see him trusting Foolish to run the country after Slime died. We see him enlisting Foolish's help to make canonical babies clone an army of slimes.

And... controversial take incoming, but this dynamic is easier than Quackcicle for me to read as potentially romantic. I think that generally, and especially post-Schlatt, Quackity prefers to be intimate with someone he sees as... an equal, at least in some sense. And as much as he cares about Slime, he does not view him as an equal; him simultaneously infantilizing and idealizing the guy is one of the big problems Slime rips into him for ("you found me, something malleable"). Meanwhile, he's still Foolish's boss, officially, but he also knows that Foolish is experienced, capable of extreme violence, and definitely capable of killing him if he wanted to. He's kind, he's nice, but he's not pure. There's a certain... safety in having someone like that on your side. Doesn't hurt your ego, either.

So for Quackity it's "you are one of the few people who can truly understand why I am the way I am" and "you could destroy me if you so chose, and you wouldn't be wrong for doing so" and perhaps later on, "knowing you better now, I want to do right by you; don't I wish someone had done that for me?" with a healthy dose of "you know, the fact that this guy could snap me in half and I'm only still alive out of mercy (or am I the one in control here? Nice.) is… kinda hot."

And for Foolish, it's "I still hate you for what you couldn't or wouldn't do" and "I feel sorrow for the parts of you I see myself in" and perhaps later on, "I came here for my own benefit but maybe you and this place deserve a second chance; didn't I want a second chance my own?" with a little dash of "… okay, I'll admit it, this mortal is kind of cute, and I could always kick him and bail later if I really wanted to."

The rub we find with a romantic relationship between these two, though, is getting it to go the other way. Despite having been very civil to Q, Foolish has no reason to trust Q. This guy let him die, came into his home, insulted him to his face, and probably doesn't pay him nearly what his work is worth. Foolish still has some self-respect left. He seriously considered betraying Q to Dream, for goodness' sake, and it's hard to blame the guy.

But after Quackity's second death, Foolish is... basically all that Q has to confide in. And again, maybe he's in the perfect position to understand and discern whether or not Q's change is genuine. Given his own history, he knows that people can change.

Picture this: Quackity now has hundreds of humanoid slimes to care for, right? Maybe he wants to do better by them than he did for Charlie, and is realizing just how badly he might have fucked up by raising them the way he did. Maybe he tries to encourage them to do things independently, too, and it isn't quite working. Maybe some of them gain enough agency to be angry and choose to leave Las Nevadas, and maybe part of Q's growing process is letting them go.

But maybe Foolish stays to help those who remain; after all, wasn't he their creator, too? Doesn't he have some responsibility? And while he's teaching them new skills like building, or helping them hone their individual styles, he's also there for Q to lean on, ask questions, confess things he hasn't told anyone else. Maybe Foolish tells Q a few stories from his own past, and Q isn't horrified to hear the gory details. Maybe they go from coworkers to tentative friends, and perhaps something a little more... flirtatious. Yeah, that's the word. Nothing too serious, just fun. Like when Quackity comes to Foolish in the middle of the night, shaky from a dream he's not remorseful enough to call a nightmare yet, and asks if he can sit with him. Or when Foolish asks for feedback on a blueprint that's giving him trouble, and Quackity spends half an hour praising and hyping him up (it's little... weird, but appreciated). Maybe one day, Quackity finally gives Foolish a true, heartfelt apology.

Foolish isn't going to hold Q's hand through his self-improvement journey; Q has to face his guilt and do the hard parts alone. But maybe at the end of it, Foolish will still be there, in this cold country that's starting to feel just a bit more like a family, and maybe that says everything it needs to.

On a completely different end of the spectrum, cAN YOU IMAGINE THE ANGST IF FOOLISH HAD ACTUALLY BETRAYED Q IN LN5. AFTER Q HAD FINALLY STARTED TO TRUST AGAIN HE GETS SMACKED WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS OWN ACTIONS. WE WERE FUCKING ROBBED OF THIS SCENE. ROBBED, I TELL YOU-

Sooo... yeah. Their dynamic doesn't need to be romantic, per se, but it's a ship I find very interesting and appealing. Hence the essay.

P.S. - tiny prettyboy twink + muscular literal god, do what you will with that

[rebelpeas]

ROUND TWO: Foolish & Quackity VS Tubbo & Quackity

[ladyddanger]

Good night!

[ladyddanger]

For anyone who’s upset right now please have some shity memes that will hopefully make you laugh

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C!Foolish trying to be a wingman for Quackity: he eats people sometimes. C!Wilbur without missing a beat: that’s so hot.

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HELLO AND WELCOME TO IF c!QUACKITY HAD TWITTER

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Thinking about this.

[ladyddanger]

headcanon that once c!Quackity ate one of Sam’s “iron pills” and it didn’t realize it was an edible until he was already high as fuck.

he wondered outside, somehow found Foolish and sat watching him build and making little oooopp noises every time Foolish lifted something . When Foolish asked him if he was ok Quackity just stared at him for a minute completely expressionless before asking

“Is a shark a type of fish?”

[ladyddanger]

PLAN HIMBO

Or Quackity is just as obsessed as Wilbur he’s just angrier about it. The (mini) fic

Quackity rushed into his office wings puffed up in annoyance, twice their normal size.

He shot Foolish a guilty smile when he saw the god was still waiting. Sliding into his chair he took the building plans from him.

“Sorry I’m late.”

Foolish smiled. “No problem I wasn’t waiting long.” He had been waiting for over half an hour actually but Quackity was clearly stressed and besides he was trying to get closer to him for plan backstab (he was trying to think of a better name)

Quackity while friendly was difficult to get close to however not for lack of effort from Foolish.

Quackity’s loud sigh jolted Foolish out of his thoughts.

Foolish said nothing because he knew exactly where this was going, he had been warned by an exasperated Sam and a traumatized Fundy.

Qauckity sighed louder side eyeing foolish this time so he knew the sigh was for him.

Foolish hid a sigh of his own. “What’s wrong Quackity?”

Quackity didn’t waste a second. “Wilbur” he spat in the same way somone might say satan or child murdering puppy kicker.

Foolish raised an eyebrow and apparently that was the only encouragement Quackity needed.

“I hate him. He’s so fucking insufferable. Today you know what he did? I went to talk to him about that terrible music he was blaring from his van and he picked a fight!”

Quackity without warning mimicked a terrible British accent.

“You know what they say about short men big Q?

Thankfully Quackity droped the accent the next moment to continue his rant.

“If Tommy hadn’t been there I would have killed him. Just kicked him and pinned him down and warped my hands around his thick neck and…”

Foolish did his best to tune him out. He really did. It was hard when Quackity was very graphically talking about getting on top of Wilbur and strangling him.

Foolish needed to put a stop to this. Even at the cost of his pride.

Time for plan himbo.

“Shouldn’t you just ask him to mate you already?”

Quackity froze.

“..i’m sorry?”

Foolish waved his hand. “Mate you know like uh i think you mortals call it boyfriends?”

Foolish blinked innocently as Quackity fell into a horrified quiet. “This is some kind of complicated human mating ritual right?”

Quackity made a choking noise. Foolish had never really seen anyone turn that red before. It wasn’t a flattering shade on him.

“No!” Quackity almost screamed.

He took a breath lowering his voice.

“No no no! We’re not. No! You know what? Lets let’s move on ok. We won’t talk about this again ok? Lets see, ok building plans.”

Foolish bent over the building plans and hid a smile.