hi hello :D i just remembered that your ask box existed, and i’ve had some little curiosities on my mind for a while, so i figured i’d stop by and ask them here :] 

so the topic that’s been on my mind recently has been the sky gods and their games.

obviously it's been established that the gods’ games are inspired from wilbur’s challenge videos, like the lava rising challenge, him being forced to perpetually drown that one time, the moles, etc, etc. but is mcc also one of their games? like. was that game with parkour and archery that charlie noticed a reference to mcc or was it just a random archery game? bc it’d make a lot of sense if mcc Was a Game there, considering scott is one of the sky gods and all, but i just wanted to make sure ^_^

follow-up to if mcc is in their Games, what is it like? like how are teams assigned? is there an equivalent of a live audience at all (other than the sky gods)? is there a hall of fame, and if so what’s it like? do they still win in teams, and if so how does that work, like, do the winning teams just get split up after and sent to other Games afterwards or something? and was soot a part of those games too, or was he only in the challenge video ones in this universe?

more of a general question about the Games, but how many people are kidnapped a year(?) to become playthings in it? and what's the kidnapping process like? do they just Wake Up there kinda like how the ccs do when they're sent here by the gods (which would open some very interesting implications)? and does everyone get kidnapped at once, or gradually over time?

which Game, in your opinion, do you think would be the worst one to have to play?

also pertaining to the Games, how accurate to the real thing was las nevadas' version of the lava rising game, like, appearance-wise? and how Was it a thing, like, did quackity use illusion runes to make the fake lava, and if so, are they any different from the ones you’d put on a person, or was it something else that did that illusion? and i know people wouldn't actually Die if they lost, but would there be any other consequences they'd have to face for losing? like enál choosing to torment them more or something?

ok, that's all the questions i have written down, but i'll let you know if i come up with any others !! and thank you, as always, for writing!!! ^_^

Hey! ^^ Sorry for having taken so long to answer, I forgot the incomplete answer in my drafts and couldn't find the ask again because of that. ^^" Now to answer your questions: 1. MCC is one of the Sky Gods' games, and since Scott is one of the fairer between the Sky Gods, his Games have more structure and he usually does give the rewards he promised without tricks, or at least not as many as the rest of the Sky Gods. 2. The Game version of the MCC is pretty similar to how it is in our world, just way less fun for the participants, since failing means death or being trapped in the Sky Gods' Games longer. As for the Teams they are chosen according to what the Gods think would be the most entertaining combination of people. (That's why they always paired Wilbur and Schlatt in the same Games cause they were entertained by their interaction) Or based on how much they think the 'team members' will egg each other on in losing themselves to the Madness of the Games. Agathus participated to that version of the MCC too, as the Sky Gods' favourite plaything. 3. As for how many people the Sky Gods kidnap, it depends. If they have enough playthings that have not bored them yet, they may take only a few hundreds, the numbers though rise, when they are at their most bored. The people taken by the Gods kind of just wake up in their realm, like the CCs do in both AToL and tHAW. They get taken gradually, but in groups. 4. Oh, that's a good question. Personally, I would find the Mole Game to be the most horrible, but that is because I have a fear of being buried alive and also claustrophobia. So that game specifically is terrifying for me. But in general I would say either the Sunpocalypse or the ever raising lava ones since there is no real escape to either of them. (And in the Shattered!Verse you can't escape to the Nether, since it's entrance is impossible from the Sky Gods' realm). 5. The recreations of the Games' in Las Nevadas are pretty close to the real thing, without the death and torment from the Gods' of course. Quackity did use illusion runes to create the illusion of the raising lava(and feather falling for when people fell from the platforms to not get hurt), they are different from the ones you would use on a person because of the way they are written, as they are less layered, and also they need only one infusion of magic instead of a constant one that you would need for the one on a person. Luckily because the games of the Eternal Day festival are just a simulation and a 'celebration' for the Gods, there isn't really a punishment for losing. As they lean more in the Game aspect of the Sky Gods than the Madness one.

Thank you for your ask, and sorry again for taking so long to answer ^^ Hope the answer satisfies you, and feel free to ask more if you have more questions!! ^D^

permanent emotional damage

TntDuo Fic Recs: Part 2

(Part 1 here)

put your gameface on (E, 56K) College AU with them competing for a club presidency Again, an absolute must. The way the pining in written is absolutely amazing and the dumbassery is leads to is hilarious. Love this one to death.

Hi Thirsty, I’m Dad (40K in progress) Teacher/Parent modern day AU with Quackity and Wilbur being the worst teacher and dad respectively. But they figure it out, maybe. Recommending this one is not a surprise to anyone but gosh I love it so much. Really puts their characters in perspective when it’s presented in a more realistic world. And it’s VERY funny.

Wilbur needs a bath (or a lot) (12K in progress) Basically Wilbur is fucking filthy and that’s really not helping him get into Las Nevadas, so he asks Quackity for help. This one’s not perfect but I really like how their relationship progresses. Careful, interesting and wonderfully themed.

(I Am Terrified) Our Bodies Could Fall Apart At Any Second (3K) Nikki’s birthday party angst, I’m a little biased towards flashback fics but oh gosh this one is really good

i know better than to call you mine (4,5K) An evening spent together drinking and getting the comfort they crave

and the broken pieces almost fit together (7K). From Pogtopia to Las Nevadas Wilbur is not in a good place. To make him better or to make him worse almost seems the same at this point

Wishbone (3k) Wilbur almost dies again so maybe that gaping hole in his chest does need to be treated

Six Truly Horrid Conversations That No One Wants To Be Having (11k) didn’t know I needed this fic until I read it. The sheer awkwardness of outside pov pogtopia. My dream.

may I have this dance? (5k) they dance, they fight and it’s absolutely glorious (also beeduo)

nights by the pond (2,5K) of pogtopia angst

Pining Never Lasts Forever (10k) the sweetest fic ever. I love Tommy and Ranboo and how hopeless Wilbur is.

Chrysophilist (3k) piglin!Wilbur my meow meow

Honey Whiskey (13k) A dance of intimacy and failure. Also, Charlie’s there!

E-rated corner:

i can't take the way you give it to me <- legit interesting character interaction but it’s not very um… sexy

they both die at the end <- this one is more than just smut

A Room for Two, Please

the consequence of your desperation

Cross My Heart And Hope To Die

take a slice

So c!Slimecicle and c!Quackity's relationship is specifically engineered to kill me, specifically.

How DARE they give Quackity a morality pet. This is unacceptable and it will unarguably break my heart into little itty bitty pieces.

It's almost comical how hamfisted their dynamic is to lend a softer, sweeter facet to Q when all of his other relationships are darkening so severely, but it works.

cc!Charlie is playing the childish newcomer SO WELL and c!Quackity doesn't feel out of character when he's so proud and excited to show him capitalism and gambling, and how genuinely scared he seems when Charlie was on the ledge.

Seriously, he was offering to lessen Charlie's debts and PAY HIM not to endanger himself.

His promise to protect Charlie? Reads wholly sincere. And Charlie responding that he would protect Q too, like everything else he says, is also devastatingly honest.

"I take care of the people who take care of me."

Yeah. Yeah.

But on the other hand, this is also kind of horrible.

It's unclear how much of an "adult" c!Charlie is - it's implied that he's hundreds of years old(?) and the form he's taken isn't childish. But his understanding of human beings, and humanity in general, is so limited and not fully formed yet.

While I don't want to infantalize him, I think it's also worth keeping in mind that his agency in this situation is... tenuous. He has his own logic and understanding of the world, but it's not one shared by others.

Further more, Quackity directly refers to him as "not old enough" and Connor seems to view him as younger when he humors him - not in an insulting way, but in the way you might if a child was helping their parent at work and trying to be independent.

All of this means that the power imbalance present in their dynamic is dangerous, for both of them.

Quackity is spiraling hard right now, and it bodes very badly for him that the person he vocally describes as his "best friend" is a slimeguy he met a week ago at most, who is, among other things, deeply impressionable.

Now, we've only had two proper lore interactions, so I ask this next theory be taken with a grain of salt...

But in thinking on it, the relationship between c!Quackity and c!Slimecicle could be leading into a parallel to c!Tommy and c!Dream in exile.

Now, I know that seems waaaaaaay off, I really do. And Quackity hasn't done anything to hurt Charlie, and nothing that he has done to him reads to me like abuse. I am not saying that I think anything in the situations are morally or even physically equivalent, because they aren't.

The worst Quackity does is put Charlie into debt, which we'll get to-- But it doesn't have the same tone as any of exile - it's not treated in the text as "bad" in the same way.

But when I say "parallel" I mean that it echoes certain qualities. Quackity is already having an arc that parallels Dream's in some ways - cutting out/losing attachments, doing darker and darker things for reasons that are esoteric to the viewers, and manipulating multiple people who are in dark places.

And in that vein, one thing that Dream was always adamant about was that he and Tommy were friends. He went so far as to say that Tommy was his only attachment.

In watching Quackity and Slimecicle have this funny, sweet friendship, it's easy to forget that Charlie isn't just his best friend, he's his only friend. Quackity has lost or privatized all of his meaningful connections to other people.

And that's hardly fair to Charlie, who is brand new to humanity and doesn't have the tools to recognize the drastic power imbalance between them, or the support network necessary to help him if he loses Quackity. Quackity is also the only thing that Charlie has.

And Quackity happily putting Charlie into debt so that he can make him work for him, I'm sure was originally a purely practical idea to net him a useful pawn, now reads as more desperate; the actions of a man who was painfully reminded of what friendship feels like and wants to keep this one little connection he's made.

If Charlie is in debt, he has to work for Quackity, which means he has to stay. He can't leave him, like everyone else. (Nevermind the fact that Charlie would have definitely said "yes" to helping Quackity without any debts or payment involved.)

Through this lens (and again, we only have two interactions, so grain of salt--) it does mirror Dream viewing Tommy as his "friend" to the point that he wanted them to become "immortal" together.

While Quackity has sunk pretty low, I don't think he'd ever sink that low, and even if this parallel IS the direction they're going, I don't think they'll take it there entirely - I feel like it would be more likely that Charlie might be the thing that pulls Quackity back from the edge, if he does indeed hurt him and realizes it soon enough.

All of that is just my personal impressions as to where the story might be going. It could be completely different from what I'm expecting, I really don't know.

And none of this is to say that the relationship developing isn't genuine - I think it really, really is, and that's what is so heartbreaking about this; Quackity is still on his villain arc, he's still spiraling, but now we have this stark reminder of the caring person he used to be-- and still is, deep down.

This is going to hurt so fucking bad. I'm hype.