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Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 294-295 / Leithsin on YouTube / Ammit, Wikipedia / Google, Oxford Languages / Dream Team Wiki
Quackity being unable to let go of the idea of marriage. Ever since he was young, he dreamed a about the princes and knights he would always read about. About finding his own one day.
Eret being the first and most literal. Literal royalty that wanted him by their side. But eventually, Eret's engagement ring to him found its way onto a chain that he kept around his neck.
And then there was Schlatt who was as charming and charismatic as any prince he had ever read about. Someone who was meant to rule. Someone who was gone as quickly as he was there, becoming nothing more than another ring on Quackity's chain.
But then came Karl and Sapnap. The bravest, fiercest people he knew when it came to love. The people who picked him up and rescued him like he was every damsel from his stories. They gradually faded away and this time, it took the longest for him.
Matching rings stayed on his trembling fingers even long after he felt rejected from Kinoko, locked out of the Kingdom that was supposed to be their home.
But over time, his hands would steady and his heart would curl in on itself, creating a protective shell around it. And as Quackity added two more rings to the chain around his neck, heavy as a hangman's knot making it hard to breathe, he swore the only rings that would ever again grace his fingers would be his own.
i kinda feel that c!quackity could be attracted to the idea of doing something like that to c!dream while in prison for the power. Like he cames from a abusive relationship when sexualization was used as objectification and harassment with a power imbalance so i see the posibility of him being feeling attracted to a situation when he has all the control and can do whatever he wants to another person and this person could not do anything about it. A situation where he would not be hurt and he's the one with power. But i think he'd be refraining from this bc Even if he's torturing a guy every day he wants to justified it that it is for the book so doing something out of this fantasy it'd not be for the book so he'd Lost his excuse. And also i do think he kinda feels a little bit guilty for torturing cdream deep deep inside of him, mostly bc of how the others would react, so i don't think he would feel happy doing that in the aftermath. Idk if this makes sense
First, a sidebar.
I don't necessarily view c!Schlackity as having an intrinsic power imbalance. A power imbalance is not a prerequisite for a toxic or even an abusive relationship. There was struggle, give-and-take, and mutuality in c!Schlackity: this isn't to say the abuse didn't exist, it clearly did; this is to say that after c!Schlatt hit c!Q with a pickaxe c!Q straight up killed him. I do think c!Quackity struggled to feel respected/not objectified. I think it's clear he felt and feels a frustrating lack of control. I think he felt that c!Schlatt didn't take him seriously, and that he wasn't being given his due as a partner; I think he felt disillusioned and disrespected.
I do view c!Quackity as perceiving most of his problems, his problems with c!Schlatt included, his problems with the fiances included, his problems with Mexican L'manberg included, etc, to boil down to something akin to a power imbalance when the truth is more complicated. I'll save some of this for another post, but a lot of the point of c!Quackity is that he's not really correct in his diagnosis that if he'd had more power, and that if he gets more power, he can fix the things he doesn't like about his life.
I don't think c!Quackity is reacting out of a sense of victimhood so much as he's acting out of a sense of unfairness.
Sidebar over with: yes, I think it's really clear that c!Quackity likes how powerful he feels when he hurts c!Dream, and yes, I think this would remain the obvious motivation for a sexual element to any torture.
I disagree pretty sharply with you that he'd feel he lost his excuse though. Quackity is fine admitting to Dream that he's torturing him because he likes it. That's quite a significant element to his arc in the prison: that he is willing to admit sadism qua sadism, and that he feels empowered by this.
If Quackity feels guilt, insofar as he doesn't want the broader truth of what he's done admitted to the whole server, then I agree with you that it has more to do with the idea of the propriety of his actions and his awareness that he's blown past a bunch of norms than whether or not he enjoyed them or thinks Dream deserved them.
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schlackitys better! tntduo is better! please consider, i have two hands