#nukeduo

[paragal]

Day 9: The answer is yes

[oerei]

nuclear decisions

[clownehonk]

//Ask me again, do I sound over it?// //And if I did, would that clear you conscience?// (Image ID to be added I promise I’ll get around to it)

[keyslox]

nukeduo AU… Jack as a robot made by Tubbo to be an almost indestructible assistant with sentience from help by Sam, Fundy, and Phil. Helps Tubbo with nukes and tests and stuff while Tubbo shows him more about the world and it’s very nice. Jack gets along with Tommy, makes fast friends with Niki and Wilbur and the others. Tubbo showing Jack to Schlatt and Schlatt being proud because he sure as hell could’ve never made a sentient robot. Sam & Tubbo getting help from Ponk about internal wire designs because he thinks making Jack look more human both inside and out is cool. Puffy helping Jack with understanding emotions and feelings because even if he was programmed to do so it’s still strange to him. Ranboo and Jack bonding over simply wanting to help Tubbo out and caring for him. He gets to babysit Michael. Jack at one point having to self sacrifice himself because while almost indestructible, he can’t really survive a nuke. He reminds Tubbo that they can build him back up again! That he’s too stubborn to ever really die and that it’ll be okay. He does it, and it takes a while to build him back up but when they do he’s very glad to be back because he did actually have a limbo. He talks to Phil about it and they get to talk about Lady Death and Jack learns about what it means to die and be dead.

[jackmanifold-daily]

you smiled when the nuke skyrocketed through the air

you let out a breath, your shoulders fell to your sides

and i realized then i hadn’t noticed

how tense you’d been holding them up to that point

[argcicle]

“It’s on lockdown,” although he stared at Jack, Tubbo stated it to no one in particular, “nobody’s gonna be able to get us even if they wanted to.”

“I’m sorry.”

It was a whisper, the rest of his volume blocked in his throat. He didn’t even feel sure he wanted to say it, the pure solidity of the statement filling him with dread.

“For what? You tried to help us.”

Jack sat down, hand playing at the leather sides of his chest-plate. He knew what would happen, but the pain still pierced his heart at Tubbo’s uncertain look.

“For what, Jack? Did you-What did you do?”

[my-lunaberg]

I want you to develop nuclear weapons with me (affectionate)

[piningpebbles]

I've been seeing some fics rewriting the finale where Jack's motivations are more leaning towards wanting to be the hero or being remembered for the nukes, do you think this is accurate? Because I thought his motivations would be going back to how it was before (minus Tommy if they're not gonna add in the nukeduo arguement).

i think i know at least one of the fics you're talking about- i check the c!jack tags every other day- if i don't consume c!jack content i will simply explode.

as for the idea itself that jack wanted to be seen as a hero, it's something i completely disagree with. him wanting to be remembered for the nukes is a bit closer to his actual character but still misses a huge aspect of why he interfered with the nuke at all.

tommy.

he didn't try to kill tommy for the "good of the server" or to be a hero. he did it because he was hurt by tommy and wanted to (quote) "mak[e] him understand the pain he put [jack] through [and] the lack of remorse he showed [jack]" and he wanted to protect tubbo from tommy because he sees a lot of himself in tubbo.

also i know it's easy to point to him saying that "the server will be more peaceful with tommy not around" and say that proves he thinks he's a hero, but he's just projecting in an effort to be listened to, which he's done a lot in the past.

jack's motivation is not power, he doesn't want to be seen as a hero. jack's largest motivation here is closure. he wants to get closure and be able to move on and be happy again.

beforehand, i would argue that his biggest motivation was to be acknowledged/recognized, as all of his actions kept becoming more and more extreme in an attempt to get people to notice and care about him in any way (which is why the idea of being remembered for the nukes is closer to his actual mindset but still not wholly true). but in the finale, that's paired with his ultimate goal of closure.

jack's been doing all of these things to try and get closure. if he tommy dies he can be happy, if he isolates and people come to visit him he'll know he's cared about and be happy, if he drinks he won't have to think about no one coming to visit and be happy, etc. and it all just culminates in the finale where he realizes how much of his pain stems from a lack of recognition of his trauma-- tommy never apologized, let alone acknowledged what he'd put jack through.

his mindset switching from the the c!rocketduo era of "tommy needs to die" to the current "i need to kill tommy" is incredibly important because the focus shifts on getting tommy to recognize the level of hurt he'd caused, which would bring jack closure.

[minamotoz]

PIZZA BOYS

[thatweirdguyinthebushes]

C!Jack and C!tubbo&c!jack (can’t remember their duo name)

For the ask game

too tired to put links this is a song ask game

c!jack Could Have Been Me by The Struts. the acceptance of being a villain while simultaneously not wanting to live in the sad and empty way you have been just fits. especially "I'll live now cause the bad die last." just a very very c!jack line. also for a more obscure pick: goat's milk by ezra bell is his feelings towards ctommy. please dont ask why just listen.

some people call them c!nukeduo but all of them are wrong because it's c!fissionduo. this one was actually pretty hard. canon fissionduo isnt something ive explored too much, specifically in terms of music, but if we're talking c!jacks pov i gotta go with problems by mother mother. him comparing himself to tubbo and feeling horrible for tricking him. still wanting the best for his friend at the end of the day. man.

[clingyduoapologist]

This is the energy I want for c!Nukeduo

can c!dream break out so we can get c!dream and c!wilbur lore

[paragal]

nukeduo are creatures to me

[argcicle]

Kiss Goodnight by idkhow is so c!jack manifold coded holy hell

[argcicle]

some of my favorite c!jack manifold thoughts (mainly tvdisc)

[image text: girl help jack manifold is monologuing about his boyfriend who doesn’t acknowledge his existence. end image text]

[image text: also tommy’s head would explode. he doesn’t wanna get bested so he has to kiss jack, but if he’s gonna kiss someone he has to go all out. pov you’re jack manifold and tommy just fucking dipped you into a full kiss. end image text]

[image id: a discord message reading, “little tangent this is tommy and tubbo to jack. give it up for most toxic polycule on the toxic polycule server. below is an image of a tweet that says, “hey my girlfriend saw you from across the bar and we hate your vibe. she’s gonna beat the shit out of you.” end image id]

[image text: exactly but especially like they still hate each other but Tommy has like a more gentle kind of hate. It’s like “I despise you and our history but you’ve still been here through everything”]

[image text: divorced isn’t strong enough of a word. quackza are divorced, nukeduo is some circle of resentment hell underneath. end image text]

[piningpebbles]

thinking about how c!jack desperately wanted anyone to care, anyone to notice he was gone, anyone to come by the hotel or the desert to come find him and how no one did. but c!tubbo,, the person who jack always wanted to stay friends with and never wanted any hurt to come his way,, was the one of the only people to actually notice how long it’d been since he’d seen jack. 

[minamotoz]

two presidents (they r friends)