After this, I have to ask you about Wilbur and Quackity's relationship throughout the time. I'm curious how you see them in different time periods.
oh god. This is hard. But it isn’t. Not really. Kinda.
Okay well I have more inbetween eras compared to just the main four (that being L’manberg, Pogtopia, Butcher Q and Las navadas)
So we’ll start pre L’manberg.
•This is where they’ve only just met, there’s no political agenda in the air and really they are friends for once. Both are in early 20s, Quackity had only just come from juive with Bads help (no clue how I haven’t figured out an authentic way for Quackity to go straight from juive to dsmp yet) so Quackity is just 20, Wilbur is 22 with a child to nag him and rushing dreams for this place. There’s no debates to screw with their interpretation so they go on walks, they grab coffee every once in a while. Purely new friends that have that, “I won’t talk to you for weeks but when I see you it’ll be the same.” Sometimes Quackity comes over and babysits, mostly he just gossips with Wilbur in the kitchen while Philza does all the work. They just click! Heavy chemistry but I don’t think I need to explain friendship to you.
•Crazy two years in which Wilbur gets so wrapped up in his nation that he becomes a tiny bit egotistical… but it’s fine! It’s human and Quackity takes the decline of his part in this as a game. So now it’s tilted a bit, no pure hatred but there is a small sourness to the friendship that only ends up being borderline flirting. In turn this is where feelings start to develop for both, except Quackity seems utterly devoted to Schlatt, an experienced politician the two roped into this for legitimacy so the romance is assumed unrequited love. Little does Wilbur know he’s only using schlatt to win and all the furiously consistent run ins are in fact planned. At this point it’s a borderline homoerotic friendship but also when they two start questioning their slight dislike for the other.
•This is mainly Wilbur’s thinking of Q which of course derails into distrust and pure seething hatred. Quackity thinks of Wilbur as a washed up obstacle, a sore loser even if Quackity himself isnt having the best of times. (Avoiding self blame whoa! Who would’ve guessed) AND THEN THEY MEET AGAIN. And let me tell you these fuckers want to kill eachother quite literally. No I am not fucking with they emotionally bonded over sex, no! No! Because these two stubborn characters wouldn’t give in so easily, especially since Quackity had just left a relationship where his body was the focus. And Wilbur isn’t fucking sane enough to be anything but belittling. He uses Quackity as blame, puts it all on him and has the obsessive idea that Quackity must be a spy for manberg because he never truly killed schlatt. They fight, a fucking lot and it’s every time one of them nearly bleeds out or falls, or ends up choked passing out. There is nothing else like sympathy or sexual tension going on because it is pure disgust. For the broken friendship, for how similar the two were growing. Are there some gay bits? Yes, sometimes when Wilbur is having a emotional break down he mixes the hate for love, the sadness for yearn and maybe kisses Quackity but the other is always quick to shut him off, remind him that he doesn’t need to do that for Quackity to listen. This is also why it’s so fucked. Because the only one who Wilbur feels he can comfortably speak to is Quackity. Maybe it’s the small wish Quackity would use it against him who knows. But it’s a on and off relationship with peace. Sometimes hesitantly civil, sometimes crawling with grimace. It’s the most vunrable era, at least for Wilbur.
•Everything is chill except Quackity is kinda grieving, just a bit but hey he’s the vice president of a cool country! Yes! Oh but there’s ghostbur. So that’s fun. Quackity is like derealisation as a person during this, ghostbur is weirdly a perfect replica of Wilbur just… relaxed. He’s not whiny like others claimed and he doesn’t cry, he smiles, he teases and laughs. He’s awfully like a distant memory doused with sugar. Why is ghostbur different for Q? Well I like to think that ghostbur is a stripped version of Wilbur, his inner soul. So he needs to be around Tommy to keep him safe that doesn’t mean he’ll be sympathetic. He needs to be figure of his fathers love, so he nags him, he needs to be calm even just for a moment. Quackity is his source, and ghostbur will do things and not know why he’s giggling so much, why he feels warm when he should be cold but it’s safe here. It’s nice here. (A.K.A - Wilbur always had some form of love for Quackity even in the end, so this is it dumbed down to a silly recreation)
•RESENTMENT YET AGAIN. YES! Quackity fully tries to disconnect from Ghostbur from his past to focus on vengeance. But they stare, watch but never exchange words. If it is, it is riddled with distaste that Ghostbur rightfully returns, words awfully similar. Familiar in the dark. Quackity is also with Karl and sapnap at this time so he’s trying to put effort into the new rather than old, cue digging up Wilbur’s grave, eating schlatt heart, delusional illness that doesn’t help him not one bit.
•my god. I will freak because this is hard. The main thing I can say is that my interpretation follows cannon to a T except I think the two would also be mutual with help. Like it’d take a while but silly endeavours would ensue because the two are so wrapped up in knowing what the fuck the other is up to that yes, sometimes they both break into another’s home and steal shit. Yes, sometimes both do work together to win a stupid competition and get pissed when they don’t. They are freakishly domesticated in the way the understanding is instinctual at this point and the idea of friendship is turns on its head for- I need to be around this guy 24/7 so I know he doesn’t fuck shit up. They are cruel and they are competitive but because of Pogtopia there is a tiny line they do not cross. AND NO WIKBUR DOES NOT HAVE FEELINGS FOR Q DRUING THIS BECAUSE OF LIMBO. Being away for 13 years without human interaction would mean = what is this feeling? What the fuck is it called again? And whatever attraction Wilbur does have, he excuses it for anger in some regard. This is like the most homoertoic they get but also they get silly. And murderous, and incredibly turnt on by eachother. Basically think of all the eras shoved into one and that’s las navadas. It’s hard to explain but my interpretation of this era is so long I’m gonna save it for a rainy day.
If you made it this far well done. You get nothing but my evil insight😡