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im thinking about c!rainduo tbh but i cant c!rainduo post bc the fandom has a problem of immediately reducing her to a side character when wilbur is in the picture

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im thinking about c!rainduo tbh but i cant c!rainduo post bc the fandom has a problem of immediately reducing her to a side character when wilbur is in the picture

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just saw ur c!rainduo post n that’s so true :/ tired of Niki being reduced whenever Wilbur is mentioned

I would LOVEE to hear ur rainduo thoughts tho ^_^

you get it nonnie. crying sobbing etc.. they have such a interesting dynamic and i wish it could be explored properly w/o people treating one of them WEIRD !!!!!!!!!! they are not just side characters to the others development or a single personality trait. my blorbos deserve better. ANYWAY thank u for giving me a excuse to autism ramble abt them im doing that now :3

rlly ive just been thinking about how people usually look/talk about c!rainduo from how one has effected the other after everything went down but not really about what the friendship they had was really like. what made their friendship (or lack thereof) after wilbur died/revived so impactful (to me at least) was the fact that they both were so close with each other before!!! the reason i care so much about how things turned out and niki spiraling and wilbur apologizing etc etc was Because of how close they used to be and somehow i like never see anyone talk about that or make content of that era.

like.. wilbur, who's still healing from the betrayal of someone he thought he could trust inviting niki, whos just a few years older then tommy and still figuring who she wants to be out but so eager to help and fight for this new group of people, onto the server and them jumping into fighting together and FOR each other and teaching the other new skills like baking or how to fight... all of the times they would help and defend each other (like niki protesting when wilbur and tommy are exiled from manburg, or wilbur offering to replace the things she has stolen because of 'taxes').. all the silly moments and gifts they shared.. that makes me so insane. early l'manburg and manberg rainduo makes me insane. they were both so strong and determined to make a better future for all of their friends in their own ways... i wish there was more content of them being friends before any of the copious amounts of trauma and heartbreak because the streams from that era are sooo good and i hold them to my heart i loved seeing them bond and develop that friendship

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Question for you bc I’ve seen mixed things on it

Thoughts on the c!Rainduo reunion/apology

yeah i mean, mixed reactions were just bound to happen at that point, i think.

for me, it was cool. it was good. i think we all knew lore was getting more and more sparse at that point, and i had kind of quietly written off c!wilbur and c!niki speaking to each other (canonically at least lmao) ever again. the fact that it actually happened was a pleasant surprise!

sure, i would have loved to see more delving into their relationship and how they'd changed as people since they'd last spoken (since november 16, like, come on now). something something nuke plot, something something hitting on 16, etc. but it just wasn't gonna happen, so i was happy with what we got. and what we got was really sweet. the fact that wilbur baked that cake is so sweet to me. even if it was so bad you guys it was so so bad.

and the friend stuff kind of came out of nowhere but look i appreciate the comedy of "hello one of my dearest oldest friends i couldn't bear to face for such a long time i'm so sorry i hurt you i'm sorry we changed here's a gesture of peace and friendship Okay god is here now stay with me what if: we kill this guy"

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Question for you bc I’ve seen mixed things on it

Thoughts on the c!Rainduo reunion/apology

yeah i mean, mixed reactions were just bound to happen at that point, i think.

for me, it was cool. it was good. i think we all knew lore was getting more and more sparse at that point, and i had kind of quietly written off c!wilbur and c!niki speaking to each other (canonically at least lmao) ever again. the fact that it actually happened was a pleasant surprise!

sure, i would have loved to see more delving into their relationship and how they'd changed as people since they'd last spoken (since november 16, like, come on now). something something nuke plot, something something hitting on 16, etc. but it just wasn't gonna happen, so i was happy with what we got. and what we got was really sweet. the fact that wilbur baked that cake is so sweet to me. even if it was so bad you guys it was so so bad.

and the friend stuff kind of came out of nowhere but look i appreciate the comedy of "hello one of my dearest oldest friends i couldn't bear to face for such a long time i'm so sorry i hurt you i'm sorry we changed here's a gesture of peace and friendship Okay god is here now stay with me what if: we kill this guy"

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I never see anyone talk abt the song even though I adore it—but For Memories is so C!Rainduo

ooooh god anon.

this hits different post-utah for the record 🤧

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I never see anyone talk abt the song even though I adore it—but For Memories is so C!Rainduo

ooooh god anon.

this hits different post-utah for the record 🤧

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my biggest personality flaw is that i still think about making a c!rainduo animatic to the first chunk of be nice to me

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my biggest personality flaw is that i still think about making a c!rainduo animatic to the first chunk of be nice to me

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my biggest personality flaw is that i still think about making a c!rainduo animatic to the first chunk of be nice to me

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Uh can I have a c!Puffy?

I drew her red banquet outfit just for you

(vote rainduo or crimeboys to get a doodle!)

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c!rainduo SWEEEP

Speaking of c!rainduo.. could we get a doodle of them

they're so epic everyone go vote rainduo

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c!rainduo SWEEEP

Speaking of c!rainduo.. could we get a doodle of them

they're so epic everyone go vote rainduo

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c!rainduo SWEEEP

Speaking of c!rainduo.. could we get a doodle of them

they're so epic everyone go vote rainduo

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could you give us some misc c!niki or c!rainduo headcanons.. missing them hours

so true anon. here are a couple miscellaneous headcanons (from the silly to the sad)

c!niki headcanons:

this is kind of a worldbuilding headcanon but i hc that some players are born to parents while others are spawned out of nowhere? niki spawned in as a kid in perfect smp and along with the other parentless kids grew up in a kind of village-raising-the-children situation. that sense of community never left her no matter where she went

she's never been very good at self-soothing behaviours, even as a kid. baking is kind of the closest thing she has and even that requires a level of focus and precision that after manberg she doesn't always have

i think she and fundy tried to give each other home piercings (nose piercing for niki, earlobe piercing for fundy) with somewhat varied results. if not for manberg they also would have discovered the stick and poke

big on gardening

she's a very poor medic - she tried to take the lead on curing tubbo's firework wounds in pogtopia but doesn't have a great sense for medicine. she had to take a lot of advice from techno which at the time she found very frustrating, as she took a while to warm up to him

her favourite baked goods are strawberry related

she also has a nigh-supernatural sense for guessing what people's favourite baked goods are on vibes alone

i think she's typically a decent advice giver but she really struggles to comprehend poor mental health in another person and in herself - she takes it far more personally than she should :( if she was a better smarter friend she would be able to solve all mental illnesses ever. makes her feel useless when her friends are suffering, and then when her own mental health deteriorates she has zero tools to detect, understand or do anything about it

part of the poor blood circulation brigade (not only are her hands freezing in winter, they are so hot in summer !! )

c!rainduo headcanons:

they would 100% do subtle dorky shit like have matching socks i think. niki has definitely knitted them at least one pair. they own l'manberg flag socks

neither of them are particularly athletic compared to their peers but they're absolute fiends in like. skipping rope competitions

they play guitar and sing together!! wilbur is a pretty prolific songwriter and she was one of the few people he'd sit down with and they'd sit there and pluck out the notes while he reworked the lyrics

in the oooold (read: pre-l'manberg) days, wilbur used to play music and sing while niki baked. he stopped doing this in l'manberg because he got too busy with the presidency, and she was never quite able to talk him into spending an afternoon on it again

they spoke very rarely in pogtopia. wilbur tended to avoid niki because he struggled to comfortably reconcile showing off how far he'd fallen with how much he'd always held niki up on a pedestal and wanted to show off his best qualities to impress her. so he just kind of avoided her. niki was increasingly hurt by this (and his abandonment of her in the first place) so she didn't really seek him out - and she figured they would be able to sort things out after the war ended and they won l'manberg back, anyway.

wilbur used to insist on showering niki with gifts on her birthday! niki is the kind of homemade-gift-bursting-with-love gift giver

wilbur picked up smoking as a stress management habit during his presidency, but niki didn't know about it until pogtopia - she once saw him put a butt out on his wrist and she ripped him a new one in front of tommy and techno and it made the cavern unbearably awkward for like three days

niki and that damn coat. okay so wilbur gave her That Damn Coat in pogtopia before the war and they were this 👌 close to being so damn obnoxious about having matching fits if they weren't going through the horrors of tragedy at the time. niki kept it in new l'manberg - she wore it pretty frequently, but it freaked a lot of people out (the memories were too fresh...), so eventually she did in fact stop wearing it in public. after doomsday, she picked up wearing it again (under the excuse that it gets cold down in the underground city, which would be super convincing if it wasn't thin and weedy. and it's not like there's anyone around to judge her anymore, is there? it's like the world's most fucked up comfort object except it provides zero comfort whatsoever

when she joins the syndicate phil and techno give her a lovely matching cloak with the rest of them, because it gets so cold up in the arctic. niki gets the postcard from wilbur after their reunion saying that he's gone off to utah and he's not coming back and she eventually (finally) burns the coat.

these got sad. umm pre-l'manberg they co-invented a cocktail so cursed that after one night of partying it was subsequently banned from all events ever. legend says you can go up to a gas station attendant in utah and say the phrase "soul sand skittle-savoy affair" and he will immediately gag

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oaky ive gotta write a fic