“I Think You Need To Go, Quackity.” Tubbo Crossed His Arms, Fundy Hugging Himself Behind Him, Looking

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Necromancer AU.

Schlatt, Puffy, Dream, and Tubbo are a family descended from a long line of necromancers, and other magic users associated with death.

Schlatt and Dream got the direct Necromancer magic abilities. Raising the dead, and reviving them, and other abilties along those lines.

Puffy and Tubbo’s magic, on the other hand, revolves more around ghosts, and the like. Puffy specifically can contact and call upon those who died via the ocean.

Tubbo’s are much more varied, with him being able to do things as big as sharing his power with them to give them physical form temporarily, or as small as simply always being able to hear them.

He has a few ghosts who specifically like to stick by him. They often take the form of bees, mingling with the ones he cares for, and telling him what they learn of.

Quackity isn’t a necromancer himself, but he married into the family via Schlatt, and some magical marriage ceremony. When Schlatt died, he still stayed part of the family, and got custody over Tubbo.

You can only really marry into the family. So when Sapnap and Karl decided to get together with him, they had to ask Tubbo’s permission. Sapnap got it, Karl was a bit confused, but he’s learning. 

When Puffy found Foolish, he was injured, and had to take on a smaller form in order to heal. She mistook him for a necromancer’s child, with how his magic felt, and took him under her wing, protecting and helping him. 

The misunderstanding was cleared up soon after, but by then, Foolish was very much part of the family, and nobody had any intention of making him leave anytime soon.

There’s magical bonds between the family members. Tubbo’s bonds with both Schlatt and Dream shattered during the festival and the final control room respectively. 

Not a lot of people actually know they’re necromancers. It’s not that they’re hiding it, to be honest, it’s just that most people aren’t really magically inclined enough to know the difference, and it’s never really come up.

Surprisingly, out of all the SBI, it’s Techno who’s aware of Tubbo’s status first. Long story short, the voices are spirits that have attached themselves to his bloodline, and Techno’s spiritually sensitive enough to understand them, but not see them. They were bothering him one day, and apparently, Tubbo too, since the boy asked him if he could make them quiet down.

Tubbo knows a lot of weird things and skills from ghosts. Sometimes they offer to teach him about what they did in their lifetimes, and he’s never been one to refuse knowledge.

Magic-users can share magic between them. It’s common practice between family and spouses. Quackity isn’t an active magic user himself, but he has a pretty impressive magic store, and knows a fair bit, after marrying into the family.

He used to share magic with Schlatt a lot, when the man insisted. It’s supposed to be a give and take thing, but Schlatt was more of a taker, so Quackity never fully understood the practice, and doesn’t really get why Tubbo is so careful with how much magic he takes when they do it.

The revival book is full of dark magic. It’s what corrupted Dream and Schlatt, bringing their worst traits to the surface with a hunger for power. 

they really became this pic in that scene

Another interesting fan idea, aka another fix-it fic I would read if it existed

you know what could have been a better season 4 plot?

ben spiked everyone's drink and the powers came back but everyone's were mixed.

ben got five's power and in the subway found jen, and in an attempt to stop the cleanse because he thinks he bought it he hops on trains with jen trying to stop things. the five and lila romance element goes to them and makes more sense.

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ARCANES ENDING BELOW:

Now, this is off topic for my blog but I'd like to shed light on something.

Arcanes ending. Namely the end of Jinx's character arc is what I believe to be one of the finest pieces of writing in the modern world with no exception. When Jinx is born at the end of 103 we see what happens to someone who heals wrong, we see the kind of monster they become when they aren't nurtured and given a proper environment to heal in. Powder becomes a monster known as Jinx who goes on to commit multiple acts of terrorism against Piltover. The way she feeds into this idea of being a monster as a way of lashing out at the pain she's felt from being "abandoned" by Vi is so incredibly realistic and relatable that it begs the question what has happened in the writers lives that allow them to understand such a transformation so thoroughly.

Then, at the end of season 1 we see Powder/Jinx finally embrace her new self with no more qualms about her identity, truly and finally one. Without any need to hold back anymore, she does something truly unforgivable and without redemption in the form of 9/11ing Piltover. Even in this moment though, she screams and cries in pain at how her old life is well and truly gone. The emotional turmoil of what she's done and what she's doing is too much to handle. To violently tear a new life out from the broken and beaten body of your old one is something no soul should have to do, but she does, and she makes it relatable.

Once we see her again in season 2, she has become much more lucid and comfortable in her own body as Jinx, the hallucinations have subsided for the most part and her inner turmoil is appropriately dealt with. Additionally she has a goal in mind now, she's chosen who she is and she knows what she wants to do: Kill Vi. The new life she has built for herself is purposeful, deliberate, no more a mish mash of two clashing ideals.

She wants to solidify her role as a monster once and for all, which ends in an epic battle between her and her sister, and at the very end of the fight right before she's taken out for good? A single soul sees the value in her life and risks everything to protect her. A child. Everyone, even Jinx is shocked by this because how could anyone ever love an ugly, broken thing like her? Let alone risk their life for her? The shock this instills in everyone buys Jinx enough time to escape with the kid, Isha. Imagine performing such horrible, inconceivable actions with no remorse and being full of such hatred, and then one person decides you're worth it. Just one person decides you are worthy of love and that they do love you and want you around. Can you imagine how that would shatter your world view? Being full of such self hatred and hatred for the world around you only to be shown warmth even in those times? This is exactly what happens to Jinx.

When we see her next, some time has passed, and she's even begun to drop the name Jinx. Her new friend, Isha, and her have begun a new life together and they look out for each other. The way Jinx describes her new life is "like I'm looking through glasses, except I can't tell if everything's blurry or clear." And what's clear to us as the audience is that Jinx is FINALLY healing. She is finally beginning to find some peace after all she has been through, and all it took was ONE soul, one singular person to love her even after all she had done. We go on to see her reunite with her sister, and somewhat with her father. We get to watch her slowly rebuild the life that was stolen from her and reconnect with those she lost, and those she hurt. This represents hope and change, rebirth and love, that maybe your sins aren't who you are. That you can change and love and be so wonderfully you with those who love you!

Isha dies. Isha, Jinx's anchor to the world, dies protecting her. Yet again Jinx loses everything. Her father is taken from her yet again in the process and the exact trauma that shaped her into Jinx is entirely recreated. Except, this time? There's no insanity. There's no hallucinations and mania. There's no rage or hate or flames or explosions or chaos or screaming. It's just sad. Nothing but sorrow fills Jinx up as she loses her one and only friend. She intends to kill herself at this point. She looks back at her life and sees how everyone she gets close to dies, gets hurt, or she in some way is preventing from being happy. That she alone is the perpetuator of a cycle of violence that has plagued her families lives for years and years. So she decides to give them closure. She tells Vi she can stop feeling bad for being happy and move on, she tells Cait she didn't know her Mom was in the explosion, and she leaves. Nothing more, just leaves. Doesn't tell anyone what she's going to do, she just does it. The intense guilt she feels is palpable in every breath she takes, it's clear she just wants to quietly leave this world without hurting anyone, just this once. Then the time finally comes, to end her life and finally be free of it all. Only to be stopped. One more remnant of her old life comes back and convinces her to stick around a little longer. Somehow, she agrees, but we all know that this is only temporary. The guilt someone feels after doing something so terrible, so unforgivable, can't be cleansed by a single conversation. She hates herself and just wants to stop hurting people, but she still has a small spark, something in her that has hope she can do good. So she delays her death to try one more time to be kind.

Next we see her, she's got a new look and is fighting alongside Vi, instead of against. She acknowledges their connection and at a pivotal moment, takes the fall. She saves her sisters life and "sacrifices" herself in the process. At the very last moment, she understands that there's another way out of her pain and hurting everyone around her instead of dying. She fakes her own death to everyone and escapes the country quietly. She tells no one and quietly escapes, with everyone having the closure of her death.

No more chasing her, no more thinking of what she might be plotting, no more hoping the old her will return. It's just over.

Her final action in Arcane is one of kindness, and healing to those she hurt. It is not redemption, but it is understanding. She accepts she is a bad person and may very well still hate herself, however she at the very least opens herself up to a new life far from those she hurt. And I think that's beautiful.

Anyway this is just my personal interpretation of the ending, I'm open to new ideas and down to discuss though! Btw I didn't proof read this so if it seems messed up anywhere that's why.

This is how the golden age of piracy ended.

plotholes in season 4 i really don't understand now i've digested the season please feel free to explain or add your own:

- sparrow academy and especially sloane just being forgotten, luther just seeming to magically get over his wife disappearing and not fighting in any way shape or form to find her or get back to a timeline with her in it - especially as they show discovery of the phoenix academy you think five would mention that a timeline with sloane must exist out there - ben being teased on the subway train at the end of season 3 but just??? never showing up??? was that an alternative timeline? - allison doing everything last season motivated by the idea of being able to get to claire and ray only for ray to apparently leave her with zero elaboration as to why or what happened - making fatphobic jokes towards diego but actually he takes his shirt off and is still ripped as fuck? - upon regaining their powers luther getting his ape body back which??? literally had nothing to do with his marigold related powers it was because of an accident on a previous timeline? - lila getting laser beam eye powers seemingly from nowhere, but it's not as if this was ever addressed because she could still mimic powers (see: her using five's time travel ability) - very limited use of powers, there were a few cool moments in episode 2 but ultimately it felt like there was no need to even get them back as they rarely showcased them (with the exception of five's getting them stuck) - klaus throwing his marigold onto a passing man but this never getting any exploration - never explaining why jennifer was in a giant squid - never explaining why jennifer got locked up in a safe - ben apparently never discussing with klaus how he died??? - ben and jennifer not realising that the entire motel had blown up around them including murdering flocks of birds and staff when they checked out? - entire five/lila plotline but also five figuring out how to leave and not saying anything when he has always been the first to want to get back and protect his family - lila apparently hating bracelets despite the fact that diego making lila a bracelet and it keeping them linked was such a big plotpoint it was used as a teaser in previous seasons (and the bead bracelet just disappearing) - lila being so intent on saving her family and the kids by sending them to the subway and on an alternative timeline but only one 'true' timeline can survive anyway which would erase the subway - the kids existing when the parents that created them don't - the entire show being for nothing in that the umbrellas do not even exist anymore

Yeah, so, is this a safe space for me to say what the fuck? Not a single conversation - not even a single interaction - between Jinx & Sevika acknowledging what happened with Isha? As if the three of them hadn’t become a little family unit of their own. Certainly a choice.