#madcom jebus real

[buglenitri]

jebediah is a fucking gnome he is a gnome he looks like a gnome give him a hat and some leather clothing he is a fucking gnome look at him he is so gnomish he is a gnome he is a gnome he's a gnome look at him he's so gnome like gnome he's a gnome christoff is a gnome so gnome krinkels get the damn gnome he's so gnome look at him he's a gnome

[devicecontact]

What if it was called bedtime combat and they wore jammies

[trashcansienna]

THE GANGS ALL HERE!!

[marsh-mellow-madness]

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

[originalmadcom]

Phobos: GO ON, CHRISTOFF. DON'T YOU SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS?

[saltymongoose]

oohhh do you think that, since nexus has multiplayer in the general game, there can be a 2nd player using the same copy reader has, like imagine if sanford and deimos both suddenly feel warmth at the same time,,, or or when the main player gets sucked in the 2nd player does too but later in the story,,, theres just so much potential and creative prompts from your au and i love it so much! the self aware tropes may have been done before but the way you interpreted and wrote it is just, amazing! keep up the good work and hope you have a nice day!

Ahh thank you so much! This was very sweet of you, I'm so happy you like the au, Anon! ❤ 😊 As for your idea, I have gotten an ask for some multiplayer content before, which is sitting comfortably within my drafts lol. I have so many ideas to go through there with how the boys would deal with a Player who isn't you. We even touched on this briefly in the second set of Jeb hcs, where he felt your friend controlling you instead of him.

You've got me thinking about it again, so to expand a bit more on that, the difference between your warmth and that of any other player's is extremely noticeable to them. It's a lot fainter in comparison, and their presence doesn't provide that same energizing feeling that yours does, nor is it able to take away a lot of pain. The strings are also more transparent and generally wispier if that makes sense, making them a lot more difficult to see and/or notice. While they still can control the characters as well as yours can, it isn't comparable to the experience of having you as a Player.

My reasoning for this is that the Employers kind of tailored the connection between the game and the Player to you specifically. The only reason that the boys and every other vessel are aware of the other players controlling them is that their connection with you made them self-aware. Otherwise the experience would be perfectly normal, like with the other copies of M:PN. They wouldn't question why they did certain things or move a certain way, they'd just do it. Hence why Jebus thought he was just imagining things when your friend controlled him in one of the flashback sequences. He knew it wasn't you so, in his mind, there couldn't have been anyone acting as a Player; the very notion of it didn't make sense to him.

(Shoving a cut here because my response got super long 😅)

Although, if your friend does happen to get sucked into the game along with you, then a lot of different things could happen. For one, they could be used by the Employers as a bargaining chip to get you back in their clutches. They aren't above blackmail if it means you're back where you belong with them. Or we could go the more angsty route and have them be accused of impersonating "The Player", leading to a lot of undue persecution and stuff from the characters considering how high they regard you. This would be especially bad if your friend didn't know anything about madcom and was just being attacked by random people for really no logical reason. It's not like they asked to be dragged here. The Employers might even see fit to try and get rid of them for good, since they could attempt to return you both to your world. They could leave for all they cared, but taking you was unacceptable. Your friend's only real hope is to try and reconnect with you before something worse happens to them, because you'd definitely protect them.

Either way, I feel bad for the other player, cause they are not going to have a fun time if they get pulled to Nevada with you. This could also lead to more conflicts with you, since you'd obviously be pissed off about how they characters are treating your friend. Like wtf, it's not even that big of a deal?? So what if they have some of your abilities, it makes no difference to anything?? It just becomes this:

[sad-boy-hank]

im working on smth so have this- madcom characters as things ive said out loud.

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Crackpot: I need noise-cancelling headcannons.

Sheriff: I'VE BEEN HIT IN THE FACE WITH A HORSE HOOF, GET ON MY LEVEL!

Jorge: Parry this, you peasant bitch.

Dave: It's the emotion that can only be unlocked when you finish reading a book at midnight.

Hofnarr: What in the Hoover Dam. . .

2BDamned: You people are goddamn lucky I have executive dysfunction.

Bert: If I have to go to school tomorrow, I think I will commit very real crimes.

Deimos: Well, then, I guess I'll go back to obsessively sharpening my pencils. Is this what you wanted.

Tricky: I DO NOT CONTROL THE REMEMBER!

Auditor: My trans is so gender that you can feel it through your screen.

Hank: Once my mental gets healthy, it's over for you bitches.

Torture: Sorry if I seem a bit homicidal. I have chronic pain.

Skinner M.D.: Don't trust the others. Despite appearances, I am a doctor. Have a seat.

Jebus: I think I ripped something in my shoulder, but I used up all my sick days so I guess I'll just suffer.

Gestalt: *baby gibberish* kill kill *more baby gibberish* maim

Sanford: I want to sink slowly into the ground like that scene in Jumanji

Scrapeface: *sobbing* PLEAAAASE MY FRIENDS ARE IN THERRRRE

Phobos: I'M SLEEPING OUTSIDE I JUST CAN'T FUCKING DEAL WITH THIS I AM GOING TO SLEEP OUTSIDE

ROMPs: Who's on front- what the sh- WHO'S ON FRONT?

Church: This is the queerest thing- besides me, of course.

[tomster1274]

I do actually wanna talk abt my swap au's story tho bc I didn't ever post it to my madcom sideblog lol. Under the cut.

This AU basically swaps ppl and their roles, not personalities. Whose swapped with who is; Jebus and Auditor are swapped, Hank and Sanford are swapped, 2BDamned and Deimos are swapped, Sheriff and Tricky/Hofnarr are swapped...

The basic story stays the same, at least after the beginning, Jeb gets the halo, Sanford+Hank go fight in hell w/ Sheriff, etc etv etc.

Though, the prologue/set up here is v much different;

We start things off w/ project Nexus being developed, Hofnarr and Christoff being apart of this development, both married bc I say so but anyways, Christoff gets assigned the halo project and works VERY hard on it. He tries the halo on himself and gets overtaken by madness, and afterwards slowly goes insane and starts to miss random days at work and etc.

One day, they were testing out something with clones, and Jeb came to work acting weird, and ruined the test on purpose, somehow opening himself a portal to "Purgatory" and going in on purpose.

Hofnarr quits Nexus afterwards and Sheriff mysteriously disappears around that time too, letting his position be open. Hofnarr takes the position, and is the new sheriff ofc, getting a new badge, outfit, and everything.

Sanford ofc starts the "park incident" through the same means as Hank did (boombox was not turned down and he was punched) but after killing like 10 ppl there was no "Jesus" to stop him, he more just stopped killing once happy. This became known as "The Tree Incident" and thst spot became famous, and it's also where the unlikely pair 2BDamned and Hank met and befriended each other.

At some point, Sanford personally pisses off Hofnarr by taking his badge snd Hofnarr makes him an official rival to him. So, then starts Sanford's whole "trying to kill Sheriff" arc.

During this time, Hofnarr hires a body guard, Auditor (an ex-Nexus worker as well).

So, Sanford tries to kill Hofnarr but fails because Audi shoots him before he can kill him, and later he's respawned by Deimos, a hacker whose interested in him and his mission. During this though, Jeb somehow finds his way back to the "real world", looking nothing like a grunt anymore, rather now looking like an employer, and finds his way to Hofnarr, riling him up and asking where him where the halo project is.

But, soon Sanford bursts in and tries again to kill Hofnarr, failing once more, this time being killed by Jeb with his trusty binary sword he got from his adventures in Purgatory, and afterwards, Jeb taunts Hofnarr abt how he'll take over AASM (Hofnarr created it) and etc.

Auditor caught Jeb once taunting Hofnarr and shot him, not hurting Jeb, rather just himself as black goop from Jeb's "shot wound" fell onto him, staining him for life with it.

Next time Sanford bursts in to kill Hofnarr, he succeeds, shooting him in the head with a shotgun, dying in the process to Auditor, and Jeb sees the scene, mourning over Hofnarr's death before taking over as head of AASM. Auditor quits at that point.

2BDamned and Deimos are then hired to go respawn Sanford whenever he dies. Sanford's next mission after respawning from Auditor killing him is to find Auditor and kill him back, breaking into the same building, and now finding a room for a party with some kind of undead DJ named "Sheriff". But before he can question that, Jeb bursts in and blows Sanford to bits, mostly for fun, maybe as revenge for killing his husband.

Sanford comes back again, now w/ a fucked up jaw+etc, and swears to somehow kill Jeb, w/ help from 2BDamned and Deimos.

The rest of the series happens, mostly with just slightly altered details, like Jeb gains the halo from Auditor who tried to use it and didn't go insane like Jeb, and etc.

A thing to note tho is this au is based on the series rather than the game, meaning Phobos isn't canon to this au, just like Skittles isn't. However, if they were canon, they would swap.

I don't wanna go really so deep into this lore, esp if mixing in non-canon lore loke Skittles', and I seem to have lost my art refs on these guys, so that's abt it lol.