#cpuk spoilers

[taffyglitch-art]

yeah.

[orderlabsoffical]

out of my way cloneboy i am about to achieve apotheosis and ascend into a divine state of being that gives me absolute control over the power of time itself

[larrythefloridaman]

Hey y'ever think that. maybe a big part of the difference between pre and post timeloop lawrence home is Risk-taking Behavior (charming youthful foolishness) vs. Risk-taking Behavior (Maladaptive Post-Traumatic Stress Coping Mechanisms)

[taffy-glitch]

more icpuk edits sorry j0hn's in so many of these. i have the Illness (loving hackerman j0hn)

[bubblymiilk-art]

"A handsome motherfucker motherfuckin' looking back at me"

(also alternate lyrics because I liked them too much)

[drorder]

hey so idk if this is a theory as much as it is analysis but i just realized: In Prism’s search for a new god, she isn’t looking for strength— she’s looking for manipulability. She’s looking for flawed, passionate people who wear their hearts on their sleeves, who she can aggravate easily and possibly turn against other people. My evidence for this is as follows: her choice to turn Peppermint of all people into a goddess, the fact that she focuses on Dani as a prospective new god, and then also her dissatisfaction with Cobalt, who is almost as strong as Dani, but who is less susceptible to her manipulation.

im gonna come back to this later and flesh this whole theory out as an essay, but i dont have time rn. I will say- its been a bit since i reread the NCCTs, and I havent seen any of the stuff past halfway through NCCT4. So if there’s any extra info from there that either supports, disproves, or adds another angle to this, I’d love to hear it.

[missmako-chan]

@lilacchao, catch! Swapped around a bunch of different ideas before settling on this, and I think I did pretty good! Merry Extremely Late Christmas!

"Huh? You wanna be the one to put the star on the tree? Well alright, lemme just...upsy daisy!" "There we go! Real pretty, isn't it, pastrycake?" "...pastrycake? Are you......alrigh— NERA!!" "S...sorry, didn't mean to yell at you, pastrycake.......I was just worried you might...........poke your eyes out with the star.......if you got any closer........" "But.....you're alright now.......you're here...." "....y'know what, why don't I go make us some hot chocolate?"

@discordvillage-giftexchange

[bubblymiilk]

If we're allowed to send more character asks. 5, 12, 24 for Larrold?

Absolutely, love a good Florida Man

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

First one is Mask of My Own Face of course, with another Lemon Demon being Nothing Worth Loving Isn't Askew (it's like. The Hackshifter Song to me). You're Nobody Till Somebody Wants You Dead by Saint Motel is another one. And honestly this ones just pure Vibes but Brokopoly by Lyre Le Temps too

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

I like to think he's a very clingy in your personal space type of guy, especially to J0hn. He likes to hang out On J0hn whenever he can, also just becoming a weighted blanket at times. I'm also a Larrold "gaining weight as a sign of character growth" truther, I imagine Florida Man as a sorta bean pole (exaggeration) when he first comes the tournament, but after his time as Home and becoming more comfortable with Himself. that's a cool fat guy right there <3

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

Y'know. Larry is so much His Own character it's hard to think...

[guess-that-ship]

Congratulations to friendship in solitude! What an amazing comeback!

Their identity is...

Kamishiro Rui and Akiyama Mizuki from Project Sekai!

Thank you @mizuribbons for your submission!

In second place we have The Time Goddess and the Time Traveler! Their identity is...

Folk and Chartreuse from CPU Kerfuffle!

Thank you for your submission!

Finally, in third place we have Lightning Strikes Twice! Their identity is...

Blade Which Strikes Twice and Iliris Somerset by @multi-lefaiye!

Thank you Xavier (@multi-lefaiye) for your submission!

S10 Finals

Lightning Strikes Twice

The Blade has known only violence their whole life. Raised from childhood to be a weapon, they're an efficient, brutal killer. They strike like lightning, swift and deadly, with no room for anything besides the bloodshed they've spent their existence wading through. And they're perfectly fine with it, until they meet the Rope, who looks at them and sees something no one else has: a person, worthy of attention for more than the violence they reap.

The Rope is a cunning man, charming and roguish with a quick smile and a quicker trigger finger. He has big dreams for how to fix a world that's rotten to the core, but no means to accomplish them… until he meets the Blade. What starts as fascination turns to admiration, as he realizes this broken person raised by death might be exactly what he needs to burn away the rot.

Lightning strikes and a fire ignites. The Blade cuts down anyone the Rope asks them to, and the Rope lavishes them with love and praise for every life they take in his name. He gives them purpose and identity outside of what they were created for, and for that they are determined to always stay by the side. They say love changes you for the better, and the Blade is inclined to agree.

The Time Goddess and the Time Traveler

cw: spoilers

The goddess of time manifests herself on the mortal plane to take care of a problem with a villain who is messing with the fabric of time. While making her way to fight this villain, she meets a time-traveler who is also out to stop this villain. Though they are on the same side, her frustration with his flippancy around the time travel causes her to snap at him, but… he reacts unexpectedly by flirting with her. And she's never been caught by surprise like that before, being used to seeing all of time at once.

When the villain is defeated, the time-traveler should be erased from the timeline, since the future he traveled back from no longer exists. However, the goddess decides to keep him in the timeline as she's grown fond of him, though it is to her detriment, because she wants to keep being surprised. This unstable arrangement continues as the two of them grow to love each other, and she grows to love the life they have together… until the time-traveler begins to fade from the timeline anyway. To save him, the goddess ultimately decides to give up her godhood to remain with him, and to truly live a mortal life with the people she cares about.

friendship in solitude

cw: bullying, suicide implication, spoilers

ever since he was a child, K has been shunned. everyone at school saw his ideas as dangerous, and him as weird. A is in the same boat. their way of dressing was thought to be weird since childhood, too. at home, K had his mother and the kid next door, and A had their family. but at school, both were alone. until junior high school.

one time, in junior high, A went up to the rooftop for "no reason", and found K. the two became friends, and when they were at school, they would meet on the rooftop. they kept each other alive. while they were alone for the most part, they had each other. everyone else thought of them as freaks, but they thought of each other as friends.

however, K was a year older, and so eventually, he graduated from junior high without A. that year was awful for both of them. A would go to the rooftop, and remember… their only friend had already graduated. K wasn't better off, as nobody in his new school would be friends with him, either. they were both back were they started: friendless. shunned. alone.

the year had passed, and a new one began. A had now graduated from junior high. K moved schools. it just so happened that they were now in the same high school. they'd changed quite a bit in that year, but now, they had each other once again. they had other friends, as well, but what's important is that, while they were still seen as weirdos by some, they had reunited with the one who had once been their sole comfort at school.

[royaltyfreeramblings]

Larry the Florida Man has been missing for one slutty slutty year

[taffyglitch-art]

arc phrases and queer awakenings

[chongoblog]

So like. I genuinely don't know how CPU Kerfuffle gets lore and I'm bad at paying attention. Not necessarily looking for spoilers but I'm kinda looking for, like. how does it get lore isn't it just CPUs fighting, so I know what's going on?

The short(ish) version is this

Basically, we made them into characters and gave them backstories. Then during the tournament (at the beginning) we would get "reports from the field" surrounding events taking place mid-tournament. Over time that evolved into full-on cutscenes with voice acting (starting around season 2, most specifically around 17). And from there plot just ended up happening. If you want a detailed rundown of the plot you can either watch it (the Discord loves watching people react to CPUK lol) or ask for a rundown lol

[brushstrokesapocalyptic]

a link does exist to the full bracket, but it has spoilers. BUT i do happen to have an old image lying around of the full bracket with all outcomes covered up, conveniently color-coded for all the sub-brackets! which i shall put under this cut.

Hey is there a way to see the grandbracket. Unless it has spoilers in some way

[larrythefloridaman]

Thinking about Prism's relationship to motherhood and honestly I cant decide if its more thematically interesting to assume she did or didn't have a choice in the matter in being the cibling's parent. I think that not being directly addressed is a good choice not because it wouldn't inform things about prism but because either way works on different layers of the cpuk authorship metaphor and the ambiguity allows both possibilities to exist simultaneously.

If she didn't choose to be a mother, and spectrum just dropped them in her lap, well, she never REALLY got much of a choice in anything, given shes a fictional character with a Role To Play, its just one more thing on the pile that becomes painful due to her percieved or actual lack of choice in it, that she both embraces and abdicates responsibility for by placing it in spectrum's hands and distancing herself from it, hence taking the 'babysitter' title rather than the more Personal one of 'mother', enforcing a role on herself as much as anyone else, albeit with a caveat appealing to her own desire to keep her hands clean, showcasing the hypocrisy at the heart of her beliefs about controlling people and understanding the characters as tools and nothing worth more respect than a tool, 'its bad and ugly and evil to control other people but not when i do it :)' and 'its good for me to do what i do i have to play my role its my job you can't hold me responsible- but ill make some exceptions for my own comfort :)' two sides of the same self-interested coin.

On the OTHER hand, if she made the ciblings and chose to be a mother, and then abdicated that label at some point... alone at the endless well of possibility, the origin point of the world with absolute power, you choose to create, to create people that are not you, an Other, little hearts shaped by your every move, even in ways you don't see. They begin to act on their own, personalities blossoming. Autonomous little people you guide and shape. You're their whole world, and you love them. Your power still is absolute. But then, something starts to change. They start to develop and become their own people, self-possessed, expressing their individuality and autonomy they develop in ways that... displease you. They're not pets, theyre not just your little dolls to play with anymore, they have wills that can conflict with your own, WILL conflict with your own, because theyre not even JUST shaped by you anymore- theyre shaped by eachother and everyone and everything else, too. You start having to manipulate their personalities to get them to do what you want, to play along with your game, you mean them no harm, your actions arent guided by willful cruelty... you just need them to listen to you. To behave. To make things easy for you. You made them, you have responsibility for them, you have authority OVER them, you had a job to do. do you judge someone for loving a dog enough to train it?

This works. It takes learning how to twist the strings on each of your little poppets, closely and personally, but it works. And things are so much easier when it works! But sooner or later, the illusion starts to crack. They can't see the strings yet, and they wont, not for a very long time. but they know something is wrong, and they grow willful and resistant again. All this work to craft them and direct them and make them the best they can be, and they show you no gratitude, only skepticism and rebellion. One in particular, the youngest, offputting and mischievous since the start, had grown bratty and insolent. And so, pushed to your limit, you... make an example out of him.

But what you hadnt counted on was that you'd spent long enough learning who they were as individuals for the fresh cruelty of this act to be... meaningful, to you. You felt awful. You could glimpse, in your periphery, just how low you'd really sunk. It was wrong and you knew it. But you couldnt bear the thought. You couldn't look directly at it. So you didnt. You cast off the responsibility, along with the title, trading it for another. From a mother to a babysitter.

And you got what you wanted. Unconditional love didn't, conditional love didn't either, but fear? That kept your house in order, neat as you wanted it, you thought. You didn't even have to do as much anymore- the eldest, a thorn in your side who once demanded sense from you practically ran the ship for you now, smoothing out as many bumps as he could before they could even reach you, terrified of what you'd do. Sure, you'd permanently ruined your relationship with your youngest, but whats a few eggs for an omelette :)

[taffy-glitch]

Yeah sorry we sent your boyfriend to be experimented on by the local evil scientist. yeah he's kinda made of goo now. it's fine though he's gotten used to it and is using his new abilities well. in fact, he- well okay we might have sent him back in time to create a stable time loop. yeah he might have died and lost an arm in the process. it's okay he got better though he's just seven years older and irreversibly changed now. he's doing so well he even pissed off the god of death. oh no dont worry he got out of trouble with the god of death. how you ask? well okay he might've gotten possessed by a demon and gone missing-

[lemmmmmmmmmmonade]

Hmm, 1 and 10 for Larry CPUK?

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

Shapeshifters are cool as fuck, what can I say? Uhhhhh, I like that he's silly with it. I like his [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS. SPECIFICALLY IRT CPUK 20]. Idk he's cool

10. Could you be best friends with this character?

I'm not a super big fan of him though. I'm not a Larry lad I guess. I think we could be acquaintances at best.