#strawberta fizzbomb

[starleska]

my art summary for 2022!! 🎉🎉🎉 honestly really happy with all the art i've made (and all the silly fixations that went along with each piece 🥰💖). can't wait to keep making more in 2023! thanks for the beautiful template, @taxkha 💖

[starleska]

The sweeter than honey, King Candy for the ask game?

what a wonderful ask to receive, thank you so much anon 🥺💖 he really is sweeter than honey!! answers for this ask game about King Candy are under the cut 🔥

how i feel about this character: all of you who have been around for a while know that i am in love with King Candy 🥺💖 everything about him is so delightful!! his demeanour, his intelligence, and of course that violent sadistic streak that is so masterfully revealed throughout the course of Wreck It Ralph. he's equal parts smug and demented, a real narcissist who will stop at nothing to feed his own ego...it's just fascinating watching a character so absorbed by himself and his own power. no wonder he's Tumblr Sexyman 😳

honestly WiR is a great movie that i feel is made excellent by the layers which went into making King Candy such a badass villain. his goofiness underpinned by this latent sinister attitude becomes scarier the longer you watch, and it makes the payoff for his big reveal just perfect. let alone the fact that all three of his designs slap!!! those who worked on the movie mentioned that they designed King Candy to be kind of like a mob boss, and Alan Tudyk captured that perfectly in his Mad Hatter/Sopranos-esque voice take. i love his lisp, his manic giggles, his bouncy way of moving and especially his smile...aaaah i'm getting flustered just thinking about him 🥰🥰🥰

all the people i ship romantically with this character: this is a situation where i am a hardcore selfshipper, much like many King Candy fans 😉 power to those of you who do have canon ships with him, i think that's fabulous!! i'm just a little too invested in being romanced (or negged) by King Candy myself to give him up 😉

being a huge dork, a little while ago i developed a Sugar Rush OC for this very silly selfship concept...i've always loved the idea of a character who is a video game modder, someone who is deeply invested in old gaming lore and spends a lot of time hunting cartridges and arcade cabinets. my idea was to have a character in the human world who played on the Sugar Rush game with King Candy in it regularly, only to notice after he gets deleted. they post about King Candy online and are met only with bafflement and people who think they're lying about their experience.

eventually, they end up building their own emulator arcade cabinet, duplicating the data from the original Sugar Rush game and modding themselves into the game as a Sugar Rush Racer: this OC here, Strawberta Fizzbomb. there, they end up fixing the remnants of King Candy's data and speaking to him for the first time...you can imagine how delighted King Candy would be at the prospect of sharing himself through the Internet. even better, having a human from the real world who is at his beck and call, clearly infatuated with him and willing to do whatever he wants with the hacking talents to match? well, it would be a very beneficial situation for him 🥰 i know it's very silly but i'd love to write this out properly...i have some sketches of her and King Candy that i really need to ink;;;

my non-romantic OTP for this character: you know, the villainous characters i love often come with some kind of tragic backstory, some background trauma that led them to become the way they are...Dave the Octopus and Balthazar Bratt come to mind. with that sort of backstory, it makes it a lot easier to think of possible rehabilitation and friendships building even with those they hurt, as they seem to desperately need the affection. but this isn't the case with King Candy!! i personally don't want to see him becoming buddy-buddy with Ralph, Vanellope, the Sugar Rush Racers or any of the other video game characters that aren't villainous, as i love him as a dreadful person. it would certainly be interesting to see some kind of redemption arc for him, but when i'm looking at fan content, the stuff i like the most is when he's being his usual terrible self :3c

my unpopular opinion about this character: my definitive unpopular opinion about King Candy is that i find him far more attractive in his King Candy form than his Turbo form!! absolutely no shade to those who love Turbo and his design, i think you're all very powerful and valid 🥰💖 i'm just a big fan of fruity, queercoded, brightly-dressed characters...a kind of flamboyance is always an eye-catcher. maybe it's because Turbo's design reminds me a bit too much of the Crazy Frog 🤣

one thing i wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: oh goodness, so so much!!! i think that the first Wreck It Ralph is perfect as it is, and wouldn't change a thing. however, my real gripes come with Wreck It Ralph 2, which i've talked about before. although most of my issues came from Knowsmore's potential as a villain and the gap that was left without attempting to fill King Candy's shoes, i would've killed for King Candy to have come back in another form. i think the worldbuilding of Wreck It Ralph is so fun that we fans can have a great time playing in its sandbox, whether that's wanting King Candy to have a total redemption arc and end up best pals with all the original WiR characters...or seeing him come back in a different, much-harder-to-kill form. i'm still holding out my hopes for King Candy to return in the third Wreck It Ralph, but if not...i'm very happy with what we have and how wonderful the fandom is ☺

this was really fun!! thanks so much for suggesting him anon - i am literally always down to gush about King Candy, he is such a delight 🥺💖 everyone, feel free to send in asks about him (or other characters for the ask game)!

[starleska]

sweet anon…!! hehe thanks :3!!! ^^ i had an alright day thank uuuuu had work n everything but nothing too bad,, i hope you had a nice day yourself!! my gf typically hears me out abt my ramblings BUT she does not know a lot about king candy so i will not subject her to all of it HAHAHA

i got this idea because i remembered umm,, i watched the movie very recently so it's very fresh in my mind LOL in hero 's duty there's an actual 'player' character who's like a walking screen that you can see the actual arcade player through, right? in general it seems like the characters are able to see people through their game's glass but in sugar rush you have to focus on the track LMAO so maybe there's a little screen close to the steering wheel or smth…s aying all this because i like to think that the game characters have favourite people, and you're king candy's favourite :')! he recognises you instantly whenever you stop by!!

hmm and i imagine like being controlled by the player might be a bit uncomfortable because the characters' movements would be fully controlled and different/jerky/might not align with what they actually think is the best action- BUT king candy never minds when you use him as a 'vessel' you always guide him perfectly across the course <33 just,, i know he loves attention from players in general, that's the reason he went turbo, but just You being a bit Special yknow,, and how he'd get jealous if you played another game LMAO

i dunno im not sure im making the most sense rn but either way thank you for hearing me out HAHA

haha, i thought it was fitting!! i'm sure King Candy would love to call you his sweetie 😉💖 aww that's really cute;;; i'm sure your gf is happy to listen, but i get being embarrassed to share with your partner - my own is very supportive, but i always get really flustered talking about my loves with them 😖

OOH oh my goodness i really like this idea!!! you're so right, King Candy adores the attention…perhaps he notices that you never select any other character, only him? and perhaps he greatly admires how skilled you are at the game. sometimes, he's so tempted to say something, to reach out to you and let you know of his sentience…but he holds himself back. deep down, he's afraid he'll scare you away…or worse, that you'll perceive the game as broken, and Sugar Rush will go the same way as TurboTime 👀

ACTUALLY this is quite embarrassing but a while ago i made a Sugar Rush racer OC based on a very similar concept to the one you described!! she's an avatar created by a hacker/gamer/Sugar Rush fanatic who mods themselves into the game after becoming intrigued by this rogue 'King Candy' character, as they've never seen him anywhere else…it's sometime after the original arcade gets shut down, and the game is emulated online, with a small but tight-knit fanbase. i'm very tempted to make art of the actual character, perhaps to write a little too, because your concept is so inspiring 😉

no omg you're making perfect sense!! please don't feel any need to hold back, you're welcome to talk about it as much as you like - i'm fascinated 🥰

[starleska]

meet my Wreck-It Ralph Sugar Rush racer OC, Strawberta Fizzbomb!! 🍓💣 she's a self-insert modded into the game by a Sugar Rush fanatic after the arcade closes and the game is emulated online. still working on the lore, but i had a blast with her design 🥰💖

[starleska]

STRAWBERTA FIZZBOMB IS SO COOL?? the name is so fun to say and i love the strawberry hoodie omg ×(×&×&+(

and the bg too?? you went all out :OO

aww oh my gosh thank you so much kind anon, you've made my night!! 😭😭💖💖 it means lots that you like my silly OC hahaha!! i was staring at the other Sugar Rush names and designs for a while to come up with a unique avatar that would still slot well into the universe!! and the background was really fun to do, if difficult - all that sugar!! 😖😖 i've been thinking about this King Candy x OC concept ever since seeing the second Wreck-It Ralph movie. can you imagine if there was a gamer out there who noticed that King Candy was unique to that one Sugar Rush arcade cabinet - and so they become obsessed with trying to track down his code, and where it originated? i love the idea of this person coming across his code still buried in that specific version of Sugar Rush, and discovering that he is aware of his role as a game character. perhaps King Candy tries interacting with this person, and so they mod themselves into the game to converse with him properly - possibly even using VR tech to become fully immersed in the game 👀 i don't know, there's lots of ideas floating around - maybe one day i'll write it as a real fanfic!!