#sunshipduoverse

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thinking about how au!guqqie’s biggest fear was succumbing to the nature of her maker, of being what hera wanted her to become - cruel. a monster. a mirror image to the very core. but au!guqqie didn’t. she did not fulfill the prophecy hera threatened her with, even when her head became full of memories of countless tragic lifetimes led by variants of herself and her girlfriend, countless lives of pain and death and tragedy. even when she became jaded, when she knew at last what she was… au!guqqie did not hurt people. not on purpose. and, despite what hera wanted her to believe, this made her her own person. she was always real, clone or not. and, ironically, hera gave her the tools to ensure that she would be.

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what i think different sunshipduo variants would do if they were in a slasher:

HERA: would be the killer. (no one is shocked. but if it was a movie, you Would be. she’s a fantastic liar). her motive would be that she’s bored - or, at least, that’s what she’d claim. (like the ‘recollection’ stream w au!guqqie).

ARG!AIMSEY: would be an unexpected betrayal. either faun would be secretly working with the killer (like the Saw films), would Be the killer, or would let someone else die/sacrifice them at the last minute unexpectedly.

AU!AIMSEY: would say “i’ll be right back” and “what are you gonna do, stab me?” but Also reference various horror movies and act as a horror movie buff. he’d also try and protect au!guqqie at all costs.

AU!GUQQIE: would be hera’s main target. she might have a bit of a sam carpenter moment, fearing herself, or just be the main victim trying to unravel the mystery of What The Fuck Is Going On. she wouldn’t tell people about what’s been happening (the killer’s threats) until she no longer could afford not to bc she wouldn’t want to drag them into it. she’d also try her hardest to protect au!aimsey.

O!AIMSEY: would probably be the first one killed. i love him but he would most definitely die. he’d try and livestream or livetweet it, and the killer would know exactly where he was.

CON!GUQQIE: would be an ex-final girl or someone who has experience with situations similar to this. she’d begrudgingly be brought into it and try her hardest to help. she’d probably witness o!aimsey’s death and have a super sad tragic moment.

C!AIMSEY: would be a final girl and suffer from intense survival’s guilt. bloom would try and protect everyone and try to solve the case and find the killer and Almost put themself in dangerous situations, but c!guqqie would hold her back. she would end up witnessing c!guqqie’s tragic death and wish she’d listened to xem.

C!GUQQIE: would almost be a final girl, but end up dying. moon would suffer mentally from obsessing over who the killer may be and go off the rails a bit. they’d have a theory that no one else believed until it was too late, and c!aimsey would forever wish she’d believed xim.

A!SUNSHIPDUO: would have the dynamic tara and amber (scream) Could Have had if they’d gone with the idea of them being girlfriends - a!guqqie as a killer but one who believed she was doing it out of love for a!aimsey, who didn’t suspect her until the truth was revealed.

P!SUNSHIPDUO: would die together in some tragic/romantic way, in classic slasher fashion.

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ive 100% asked this before but how do u think arg!usnship got together or starting getting closer atleast 🙂‍↕️

ooooo this is really interesting and So Much More Complicated (😭😭) given the newer context guqqie provided that it’s its Own universe, not strictly “c!sunshipduo if they stayed together” as we previously thought.

with this in mind, it’s hard to really theorize about. but i’ll try because of course i will.

i’d guess that it would go similarly to c!sunshipduo, in most ways. friends to lovers, with similar enough motivations - town’s knight/protector/adventurer/wanderer, alien wanting to go home - but with variations (bit of a copout, i know. but stay with me). i’d guess that it’s A Lot like c!sunshipduo but also au!sunshipduo (see: hera’s obsession with that Particular universe).

it’s hard to headcanon/theorize bc so much of the info is unknown (pun unintended) 😭😭 but maybe it’s just like. they’re in this new place together. arg!aimsey is suspicious, at first, but very quickly lets red (alien) flags slide because faun is enamored. arg!guq isn’t quite as jaded yet, but that darkness is lurking - perhaps she had a worse time at home, carries more trauma with her. but she’s still as ‘naïve’ as au & c!guqqie, and she befriends arg!aimsey and falls just as hard and forgets about whatever previous goals or motives she may have had because she is loved and maybe this can be home. maybe nothing else ever mattered. she’s disillusioned by her home planet and her family and their belief and teachings - they were wrong, and they also abandoned her. and arg!aimsey didn’t. arg!aimsey isn’t as bad as they said humans would be. (and arg!guqqie isn’t as bad as arg!aims was told aliens would be. but she isn’t an alien. definitely not. right?)

so they become friends, and they realize it’s More than that, and they are both so happy to be loved and so desperate to forge some other sense of home and belonging that they ignore all of the red flags and they get together and they try to be happy and, as happy couples do, they get married. because they are each other’s home. right?

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You asked us on Twitter but I don’t believe you ever told us What do YOU think Hera thinks about au!sunshipduo being happy

okok so. we don’t know where hera and au!guq end up - their arc together, how their relationship ends - Yet bc guqqie is still working on their finale, so this is going to be my hypothetical headcanon.

i think that hera would be furious. furious and jealous and full of grief, a grief that presents itself as anger. but i think that she would also find it funny, in a bitter, self-deprecating sort of way. of course her experiment didn’t work. of course there is an outlier, one universe where things worked out and of course it isn’t hers, but a clone of herself.

i think she would also still hold on to a bit of righteous denial, assuming that she is unable to see their complete future - she’d laugh, bitter and hollow and condescending, and send them a wedding gift. wish them good luck. and she would sit back and wait for things to go wrong.

if she was able to witness everything working out, she would be wrecked. maybe she’d have a midlife immortal crisis and start tormenting other random people to try and feel better, make some more clones and run some more experiments, but her heart wouldn’t be in it anymore. she’d be angry, and jealous, and bitter, and depressed. she might try and see au!sunshipduo as an outlier in her experiment, a variable she hadn’t considered. she might try to brush it off and be scientific about it before continuing to observe and torment other universes. but she wouldn’t be able to completely remove herself from it and remain scientifically objective. nephele and icarus would always leave a bad taste in her mouth. evidence of failure. evidence that says she could have been happy, in another life.

but i’m not sure! maybe we’ll find out :)

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just wrote a poem and was told by niki @starrydrms that it was “the most arg aimsey thing [they’d] ever read”. i will never escape the Curse nor will i escape the Allegations .

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i was listening to my c!guqqie playlist and i forgot that i paused it and put on another playlist so when “fuck tha police” by n.w.a. came on i was like “?? wait is sola cool like that?” and i tried to remember if i’d put it on my c!guqqie playlist. and then i realized.

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wonder if i’d get more jobs if i added “sunshipduoverse scholar” to my résumé

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just imagined arg!sunshipduo going to couple’s therapy and almost started ijboling at 1am. oh man. that’s really funny to think of. it would probably be like joe and love from you if they bothered hiding all the murder and torture stuff