#seamqueen

[tvlandofficiall]

the real relevance of seam to ch3&4 is that in ch4 we will learn that seam and queen have resumed a long-gone yuri love affair while we were out on our latest excursion.

[calagua]

This one deserves to be here

[jeffreyjerfay]

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[tvlandofficiall]

seam ships ranking tierlist?

this is a little less of a tierlist and more of an unsorted assortment of the pairs i'm invested in, but;

SEAVIL

gamewise; i admit i will forever be most partial to the shopboss pairs because – in my humble opinion – they really have it ALL. seam watching jevil descend into madness and – rather than being horrified by it – being were so intrigued that even now what jevil had said in those moments of madness lingers deep within them. seam wishing they hadn't locked him up for that madness at all because he gave them more of a "purpose" than anything their fate or their status as "object" could offer them. the ambiguity as to whether they were even friends at all, or if it was solely their positions in the court and the thrill of the "numbers game" that kept them coming back to one another.

headcanonwise; the phrase "mutually unrequited love" made absolutely zero sense to me until i thought too hard about these two. they're both one another's "one that got away" – they both think they should've professed their love before jevil had to be locked up and think of one another almost like fleeting mirages (only worsened by having both seen the state of their being in the light world.)

SEAMSWATCH

what can i say? these two have absurd chemistry every time i do a writing "sketch" where they're the subjects. they're admittedly the relationship that's the most my own invention out of any of these, but i think there's a lot of really fascinating stuff you could do with them. they're both in the same position of having a shadow crystal holder that was close with them – seam is really the only person swatch can talk to about spamton now that they're in castle town. and too; what does seam know about the lightner that created neo through their hands? why are they so mysterious? just what was the crystal in neo? there's an interesting detective & them fatale (get it?) dynamic to be found there and their personalities are both so charged for it that i just can't get enough of them.

SEAMQUEEN

i'm honestly surprised these two didn't take off more after ch2 given mysterious past relationships seem to be the name of the game for deltarune fans. aside from said mysterious shared past though these two are classic character foils – queen believes wholeheartedly in her own mistaken assumptions about the machinations of this world and seam is by contrast so aware of said machinations and said world that they've given up on it near-entirely. just that alone provides a lot of fascinating ways the two can bounce off of one another; especially in snowgrave where the violence of queen's entire world being pulled out from under her becomes apparent to her. seam meanwhile knows that sort of thing is inevitable – one way or another queen's world would be destroyed and one way or another her people would be discarded. in fact, it's happened to them already! why worry? why not come stay with them a while? (and even in a normal route, consider they seem to know about other game files – would they know of a snowgrave file then? could they look with nothing but their own detatched fascination at an old friend who they far surpass in knowledge now? she seems to have been gone from the kingdom some time before jevil was locked away – or i think so, at least – and so she's no idea of just how much her old friend has changed.)

and on queen's end; i think she and the pandora palace crew are quite close, but i don't doubt she misses the old court crew, especially while she's first finding her footing as the sole ruler of cyber world. there's no way seam wasn't sneaking around with queen back when they were younger; they're the sort i think queen would have a blast just drinking and going back and forth with. she's the kind of person who prioritizes a good time (doesn't everyone?) and so seam – who's always had a layabout streak – is happy to take her side when trying to get the kings to throw grand balls or when she just wants to ditch 'em entirely. all in all very underexplored very classic yuri that deserves to have more than three posts in the tag in my humble (read: extremely biased) opinion.

SEAMKING

this is the one i would not say i "ship" but that i will say i think happened in the time between jevil being locked away and the knight arriving / all the kings being locked away / the remaining court members being fired. spades king spent many a night privately telling seam about his ire towards the kingdom's state of abandonment. seam was seam about it. they probably laughed mysteriously at him about it. he probably hated it. he probably liked it a little more than he'd like to like it. you know how it is.

[calagua]

Seam and queen fix their friendship through Seam taking care of Lancer when Queen's busy, and everytime she arrives to pick him up they talk a little bit more until it gets to the point where she stays... And the days go by... And she stays longer... And she listens to everything Seam has to say after so long, and they're so happy to see her and suddenly Queen finds herself entering the seap to find tea and cookies (baked alongside Lancer) waiting for her ... Like a second home... Perhaps the only one she has left

[calagua]

Trying to socialize with you 🕴

Deltarune for the ask game?

Oh hii!!! And hmmm I don't really ship much from deltarune but seamqueen is SO GOOD... Wether it be romantic or platonic (i personally prefer platonic) i really like their possible dynamic of girl blogger and sad magician. Like they're so different in so many ways but I feel like they would enjoy being around each other anwyays... Queen being the representation of modernity and technology while Seam is magic and tradition ^^

OH and I found out about quoriel (queen x Toriel if I'm remembering correctly) recently and YEAH marriage is real

[tvlandofficiall]

[tvlandofficiall]

queen makes a mixtape of bad bitcrushed raps for seam. this is my agenda. she actually does the rapping too because it's a mixtape she's making for someone else and not one she asked swatch to make for her. they still do the bitcrushing though.

[tvlandofficiall]

so this got wildly out of hand.

seamqueen is pretty good actually (or, how i learned to stop worrying and multiship the cat) (or, the seam yuri at least one post has been asking for) (or, everything i touch turns to character study.)

for starters, we know that queen knew seam (and the rest of card kingdom) in the past. as pictured above, seam mentions that they’re surprised to see her “again” at the end of chapter 2, and jevil and spades king both talk about her with some level of familiarity.

i generally agree with the premise that her object form – the laptop – was being used in the abandoned classroom before it got abandoned. all of the used classrooms we see have computers of some kind in them.

on the “light world” level of reality, the lightners took her laptop and continued to use it in the librarby after abandoning the classroom. on the “dark world” level of reality, the lightners abandoned the card kingdom citizens and took queen to the cyber world, continuing to use her.

this is a huge part of queen’s characterization to me, as well. she is quite heavily used and prized by the lightners – a fancy laptop that can do it all. in queen’s mind, the lightners need her, and that means they’ll never leave her behind. it’s hardly a glimmer in her eye to think that she couldn’t make them happy forever – that they’d actually abandon her like they did the card kingdom citizens. being queen, she attributes this to being very, very powerful and having the lightners under her control instead. they need her to be happy, right? but we, the audience, know she doesn’t have the whole story. (and like spades before her, she acts under the will of a very powerful lightner in her supposed quest – the knight. that’s a part of how she and spades can oppose our heroes at all – though their fates as video game bosses in a broader, more meta sense still guarantee their losses.) she doesn’t know the true extent of her powerlessness like spamton and jevil do – and she doesn’t know that, like everyone else, there’ll be a day when she’s not useful anymore. being happy in her role isn’t really much of a choice when that role, in and of itself, isn’t something she can choose.

on seam’s end, they’ve grown tired of the whole thing. they know there’s nothing for them in the light or the dark – sure, a lightner could come patch them up, but they’d have no choice in the matter and they’d still fall out of use at the end besides. the cycle of violence (the carousel of violence, if you will) – the cycle of use and disuse, of being owned and abandoned, is something they’ve grown quite aware of and quite nihilistic about. they’ve reached the point where instead of being angry, like spades, or desperate, like spamton, they’re just totally like

they also seem to know at least a little about alternate save files, judging by their dialogue regarding the shadow crystals. but again, they’ve got a totally nihilistic attitude towards that, too. they’re pretty content to taunt the party about the end of the world and the horrific futility of their lives in it with a smile on their face.

there are hints towards just how far their precognition goes; they know things about how spamton found his crystal in the neo body, that it’s powered by mettaton’s Lightner Hope™, they know that the world will end (and it did, bye-bye fountain), they talk about the events of chapter 3 in usual cryptic fashion. queen, meanwhile, knows very little of the Big Truth of the world – she knows she’s Computer (darkner type) just like the cards are Cards (darkner type) but not Literally A Computer On A Higher Layer Of Reality, she has no inkling of the knight’s true motivations, she hasn’t thought too hard about just how powerless being a darkner really makes her. and she certainly doesn’t have precognitive abilities. i do think she knows a little about neo just because i like to think she and swatch are close, but the extent of it (and what swatchton were getting up to about it) is also a mystery to her. she’s got other stuff on her mind!

and so you get this really interesting set of characters that you could put together in a lot of interesting ways. the card kingdom was abandoned long before spades came into power (as the knight was responsible for putting him in such a position, not the act of abandonment itself, and i think there were tensions running high while all four kings were ruling,) so queen could’ve left as early as before anything had fallen apart at all (which is what i think happened, given). what was queen and seam’s old friendship like? were they close? how close? i love a good pair of old friends. you could establish them reconnecting after the events of chapter 2. in the snowgrave route, does queen look to them alongside swatch for comfort? only them? how does their nihilism come into play there? and what of the normal route?

i really like the idea that seam knows of snowgrave even in a normal route. the idea of their disaffectedness and their penchant for “games” contributing to a sort of cheerful numbness to the whole thing is really interesting. and with queen in the picture, they know all of these things will happen to her and her people – but they don’t see a point in telling, either. why would it matter? this’ll all end the same either way. the difference won’t matter for her. just don’t worry about it.

[tvlandofficiall]

what she doesn't know can't hurt her (and there's no point in telling)

[tvlandofficiall]

also. if i have to make seamqueen take off with my bare hands i will. they're very silly and i love them and i think it's incredibly funny (and incredibly her) to imagine queen being like BTW (By The Way) I Am Dating Your Wizard Now LMAO directly to spades' face

[tvlandofficiall]

why so yurious?

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