#also I am having so many thoughts about skeppy & jack :] :] obsessed obsessed obsessed

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🔻~ eggpire!jack manifold hcs ~🔻

required listening: holler house by spence hood /j

jack is actually not as susceptible as he should be, because of the spite that’s keeping him alive. his constant suspicion of betrayal is enough to keep the egg out of his head, and he’d only been transfixed by it before because he was more focused on getting primes

instead of attacking tommy after the nuke testing, jack went to the egg and decided to try and poison him with the vines. skeppy had led bad to the egg the next morning, where jack was still passed out drunk

under the influence of the egg, the snow makes jack feel like he’s burning. he only gets rid of that feeling when he’s touching the egg, even though that leaves real burns all along his arms

he doesn’t notice most of the changes to himself. jack sees that the blue stripes of his hoodie are now red, but it takes him weeks for tubbo to mention his eyes (the red one is now white and the blue one is now red). by the time vines begin to grow around his head, he’s fully encouraging it

niki has tried to stop the egg’s effects on jack by destroying the vines on his head, but they’re connected to him. it doesn’t really hurt for them to be removed or cut, but the egg sends pain signals into his mind

the egg constantly tells him that Tommy told other members of the eggpire horrible things about him, which makes him a lot more aggressive. jack is also very cheerfully cruel to tubbo whenever he rebuffs invitations to see the egg

the eggpire recognizes that jack was never really held in high regards by most of the server, so jack tends to be the one who intimidates people. it actually works well because jack acts so unusual to how people expect him to be

before, jack was mainly kept alive by his spite and need for revenge, which slowly becomes fainter and fainter in his mind as he envelopes himself in all matters of the egg. as a result, the egg and his devotion is what keeps him alive, but his body is considered dead. after jack begins regularly coughing up blood, tubbo decides to start helping niki

the manifork manages to stay blue, but is one of the first things to get affected by the vines. the points of it are cracked and chipping, and in a few spots the only thing keeping it together are the blood vines wrapped around it

the big jack manifold hotel turns white overnight after vines cover the wooden columns; it also becomes the main meeting place of the eggpire, although jack abandons it soon after he’s infected