(Posting some silly cover art)
After (over)analyzing the Cuphead storyline with 3 different approaches last month, Iâll now move on to the Jiaqiverse Cuphead fancanon\fanfic:
A space-time odyssey, falsidical paradoxes, magic vs. science; all these raising thoughts to scenarios similar to Neo knocking over the flower vase after the Oracle pointed it out and further. Gee, talk about a way too serious approach with fanfic!
I have made some posts in the form of Devilâs diary transcript already on the-textbased-jiaqiverse, and a lot more is planned to come in a non-chronological, kinda messy fashion, I feel like I want to highlight some parts I really enjoyed imagining/writing.
Like the Devil x KD dynamic:
Did you know Devil was âbanishedâ, âcasted downâ to this universe, landing on a part its residents would call âInkwellâ after he got into major trouble with the Court? (It was to the extend that the Court would like him to be annihilated, to be expanded on someday in the future)
Did you know at KD and Devilâs first meeting, in a blink of the eye, time âskippedâ about 6 hours from Devilâs perspective? And in that blink of the eye, Devil felt his life was going to be in danger, and that event would be somehow linked to KD (a stranger heâd just met at this point), but couldnât specifically pinpoint how? Needless to say he freaked out
Did you know shortly after being acquainted with KD, Devil learnt a song written specifically to mock KD? A literal diss track he finds catchy and shared/sang straight to KDâs face, meanwhile gradually realizing âthe six-faced freakâ was probably supposed to be KD (the âphotosynthesisâ song)!
KD did remind Devil of what heâs done wrong in the past and Devil wanted to leave Inkwell and fix things. At that point Devil was tricked into gathering money for someone promising to build/commission something to get him home, he unknowingly hurt KD in that process which he greatly regretted
There were 2 to 3 years KD spent as a pretty influential regent of Sugarland (alternative reality/AU) for Princess Erony Taffy (a relative of Baroness von Bon Bonâs). Devil joked that if KD was an actual king, addressing him formally would get interesting (King King Dice, something like that)
Devilâs trident is a gadget made by KD for him to in a way regain his magic, and within their time in this AU Devil learned to shapeshift on command, KD paired the trident with his mind and shapeshifting abilities so from then on it shapeshifted alone with Devil and can turn into any weapon Devil wanted
After Erony literally backstabbed KD, Devil started weeping holding KD, weeping like heâd never wept before, believing he had lost him
Did you know after that KD and Devil journeyed to yet another AU and became celebrities? Here they became professional musicians by accident (just like how this idea hit me by accident, becoming singers was not their main goal being there)
Did you know they started a romantic relationship before they went viral, but this remained secret at that moment as them being gay was met with quite some resistance here? (in this AU the strongest resistance theyâd meet) Their relationship lasted despite this tho
Did you know after a thankfully peaceful retirement from their musical career they ended up chasing a major lead to another new, very magical AU? Where they had to destroy a foreign gem in Cala Mariaâs possession and where they bumped into Dr. Kahl, who promptly fled upon seeing them?
People of this AU were generally pretty open-minded and they were free to just openly flirt and more
After going after Dr. Kahl and his alliance of scientists from âinfinite Inkwellââshort for a gathering of scientists from a seemingly âinfiniteâ amount of Inkwell AUsâDevil almost died trying to protect KD (thatâs why Devil foresaw the danger to his life was linked to KD at their first meeting)
Did you know Devil told KD âthereâs a beautiful sparkle in your eyesâ(yeah Devil is THAT cheesy sometimes) when he was dying and KD was desperately keeping him alive?
Dr. Kahl was time traveling all this time, lastly landing back at the AU where Devil and KD were celebs, where the KD from that moment of time confronted him and ended his idea of âripping a hole through space-time to explore the unknownâ, which would ultimately just destroy the entirety of this Inkwell âmultiverseâ along with everyone there if carried out!
KD nurtured Devil back to health
John and James, advanced AIâs constructed by KD reacted to witnessing an affectionate kiss shared between KD and Devil by saying âwell, this is no surprise, we saw that coming long agoâ
Devil initially wanted to leave this universe badly, but as he hung out with KD, he gradually put down his troubles and started to want to stay here with KD, until it was revealed that KD is not from this universe either and staying here would not be the best option, he knew he needed to leave with KD, eventually
Did you know after all this jazz they went back to the reality they started with and lived in a cave for a while, plotting to leave this universe (yeah that cave was the location of the later Inkwell Hell)?
I mentioned somewhere in an ask-and-answer that Devil was KDâs first right (you know what I meant)? Although the prospect was extremely inviting, Devil initially couldnât bring himself to just do the do with KD (this and a lot else had to do with Devilâs background), then immediately asked KD to marry him when they finally did get to it.
Hereâs a pretty wild fancanon: After careful planning, KD and Devil essentially faked their defeat (câmon remember the âwho would winâ meme?) and left Inkwell with the cupbros as heroes to the Inkwell residents. They went on to a specific time and place of a Section (a âstandardâ type of cluster of multiverses) KD prepared for them
Did I mention that some girlsâe.g. Erony, AU Sally Stageplay and of course, creepy Piroulettaâhad major crushes on KD?
Besides all that thereâs so much more than the story of Devil and KD here: John and James, Cuphead and Mugmanâs journey and more and more (this fanfic is called âThe Inkwell Paradoxâ not âthe snake-eyes paradoxâ so...)
I hope youâd like my fancanon\fanfic, just fun and games after all