#but Luzu and Quackity are a mirror

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Who is Luzu?

Luzu was just announced as a QSMP member, and since he's a very important character in Karmaland and a VERY important person to Quackity's character, here's a quick rundown of Luzu and his lore for folks who aren't familiar with him:

Luzu is played by LuzuVlogs, a Spanish Twitch streamer who's good friends with Quackity!

IRL, they're such good friends that Luzu once accidentally called his real life son "Quackity"

Luzu is bilingual and can speak English and Spanish.

Luzu's character used to be a very kind, friendly, and loving man who helped everyone

HOWEVER, during Karmaland 4 (the season before Quackity joined) when he campaigned to be mayor of Karmaland, he was betrayed and mocked by his friends and the person he loved (who then ran off with someone else)

Luzu before the elections vs. after the elections

These two animatics sum up his K4 lore pretty well if you want an even shorter TLDR: Lemon Boy, Karma (an animatic approved by Luzu himself)

As a result, Luzu is a very vengeful, distrustful, and all around tragic character

Luzu canonically has an evil side, and he made a deal with "dark gods" in the past to take revenge on the people who've wronged him.

Despite all his past heartbreak and lingering anger, he immediately took a liking to Quackity when they first met.

Luzu and Quackity's Karmaland characters are parallels to each other

Luzu and Quackity were canonically in love with each other, but they were too emotionally constipated to confess their feelings despite their many, many, many romantic and borderline sexual shenanigans.

Luzu warned Quackity not to trust anyone in Karmaland except for him. But despite Luzu's deep mistrust of other people, he trusted Quackity immediately.

Luzu is a very possessive man, and very protective of Quackity.

He calls Quackity "Quacks" (both in and out of character)

He and Rubius have a long-standing rivalry, and they normally don't get along very well.

Luzu and Quackity had 4 (adopted) kids together.

When campaigning for mayor of Karmaland, Quackity asked everyone what they wanted most, and Luzu's response was, "I want you to be happy, Quackity."

HOWEVER, the day of the election, Luzu joined as an opposing candidate at the last second and stole the election from Quackity, fearing that the position in office might leave Quackity with the same trauma he had in a previous life (a life which he can only half-remember).

Luzu says everything he did, he did to protect Quackity.

TLDR: Luzu trauma-projected onto Quackity, who then started a revolution that nearly destroyed Karmaland in retaliation.

For a good TLDR of the revolution arc, “I Can’t Decide” is a good one to watch.

Even though he was furious with Luzu, Quackity told Rubius not to kill him. He’s referred to Luzu as “My 100%”, and “the best person I knew in Karmaland”, and even expressed his gratitude that Luzu was always so kind to him to Luzu himself, despite the war and despite knowing one of them would probably have to kill the other to end it.

Luzu said the song that best fits his character during the revolution arc is Bloody Mary by Lady Gaga.

Edit: This isn’t about the character, but I just saw what Luzu said in response to people asking him if he knew about the invitation:

Luzu: A mi Quackity me invitó desde hace bastante, me dijo si quería participar, así que llevo tiempo calladito, calladito, para no spoilear nada, aunque yo soy invitado no sé nada jaja, lo lleva todo Quackity, así que veremos con qué nos sorprende nuestro querido Quacks.

Translation: My Quackity invited me a long time ago, he asked me if I wanted to participate, so I've been quiet for a while, so as not to spoil anything, although I'm invited I don't know anything haha, Quackity takes everything, so we'll see what our beloved Quacks surprises us with.

Other info posts:

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[duckduckquackity]

Like Quackity wanted, she went to bed. Further from Luzu this time. Yellow feathers laid hidden in the covers alongside them.

She was hesitant to sleep, but did it truly matter? Of course not. Not anymore. If she slept Baribal could be there, if she didn’t Baribal could be there. Sleep was more appealing than fear right now.

And it was at first. Like all great things it felt nice to finally let herself go, have her mind go quiet for the night. Finally just laying down and not having to think.

Or at least that’s the goal, as a quiet calm fills her mind.

———

Eyes frantically shoot open. It’s blindingly bright, despite how long it’s been it still hurts to adjust to. A voice makes please into the room for parents who don’t even exist.

There’s no response, as expected. Not from the people being called out to anyway.

Desperate pleas turn into a single cry and a small figure back into the corner of the room. The floor is cold. The white room was as unwelcoming as the first day waking up here.

What wasn’t noticed was another figure off on the other end of the room. Someone else as small as the first figure. Like a flipped mirror.

Besides the crying footsteps fill the room.

[ @patopatoelquackity ]

[bistaxx]

reading the luzu post, yeah cwilb and kluzu are smilar in superficial ways but not in a character mirror way nor how they relate to k/c!quackity. i feel like people go off about it more becayse theyre both tall ""emo"" guys with red color coding and fucked up relationships but both have their own narrative ways of interacting with quackitys characters(which is why i love them sm<3)

So very true, they very much are only superficially similar. Tnt are much more like yin and yang whereas Beanie/lckity are more sun and moon if that makes sense. Tnt are lifelong rivals with sentimental feelings and a complicated past but whose lives went down very different paths and took them to different places- lckity are strangers turned close friends who had romantic feelings for each other that, for their own separate reasons, never got around to confessing and tragically turned enemies and ultimately back into strangers.

And while Luzu and Wilbur's stories have some pretty similar starting beats ( elections, betrayal, spiraling-) they are two different characters and serve different roles in their stories- Luzu's role in k5 is very much different then Wilbur's post revival.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I know a lot of people have been talking about "Evil Cucurucho," especially after seeing the message Forever got before being kicked off of the server today, but I think that's we're looking at this the wrong way.

First, we need to remember that the QSMP has a running theme of parallels and mirrors (ex: Quackity / ElQuackity, Luzu / Arin, the wall dividing the original Spanish / English-speaking participants, etc.) and I think this is just another physical representation of that theme.

Second: the "Evil Cucurucho" name isn't necessarily fitting. Although the known danger (our Cucurucho) may seem less-threatening than the unknown danger (this black Cucurucho), that's simply because we don't know anything about this new Cucurucho.

We also don't know if these Cucuruchos are representatives of two opposing forces, or if it's something else entirely. I think it's safe to assume they don't represent good vs. evil — rather, it might be a matter of chaos vs. order. And what's one thing we know about our Cucurucho?

...Or so they say.

Based on what we know right now, there's definitely something larger going on behind the scenes, and we aren't even sure who the main players are yet. In essence, there's a game of chess being played, and it's a game where we haven't even begun to see the full board yet.