Cucurucho Is SUCH A Character Like

cucurucho is SUCH a character like

its got a gun. it loves blowing bubbles. it loves being silly. it loves psychological warfare. it’s an underpaid middle manager. it’s the most powerful entity on the island. it knows more than you. it doesn’t know shit. it wants you to be happy. it has a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes people happy. its even nonbinary

Aster best fucking guy in the Multiverse

FTFO chapter 30 by Im_Sorry_Buddy

Isn’t this familiar?

cucuruchos painting of him and jaiden 🫶✨

The Island in the q!Cellbit view:

The most terrible thing about it all is that he loves the island. He never had anyone. q!Cellbit confirmed that his name came from the cell phone he had in prison, so until he was eighteen he had no name, probably being an orphan. In the war, he briefly had someone who cared for him and vice versa. Before, he says it was worse than life in the arena and later, we meet f!Cell, a suspicious and angry person. So imagine, after years of therapy and escaping from the world's most secure prison, he's trapped again on an island full of strange people and a bizarre organization that intimidates, kidnaps and tortures him. And yet, he loves this island. This is the happiest and most peaceful moment of his life. q!Cellbit has found a place with people he loves, where he feels free to feel, laugh and cry, he has a family and a person he loves and cares about. And yet, he wants to get out of there. Not for himself. Do you understand this? He wants to end the Federation, he wants everyone to be able to leave...Even if it means he's going to be alone again. There's nothing off the island for him, no place or family. But he learned to love and care for everyone there, so he would never allow them to feel like him. Trapped by fate and people he considers "cowards". Headcanon:

Imagine if...On the off chance that the contract he signed with the Federation is permanent. Everyone can leave, but... He's there. He signed the end himself and when everyone is running away he feels weak. He can't scream for help and there's no time. He is teleported away, while everyone flees. And he gets stuck on the island, empty... And everyone's memory of the island also disappears. It seems like it's just been a long vacation...And the name of q!Cellbit fades from their minds. And years later? Life went on. q!Roier has some friends he hangs out with sometimes, he doesn't remember exactly how he met them and that's it. Is he happy? He thinks? But q!Roier still twirls the ring on his finger. He doesn't know where it came from or why it has the puzzle symbol, he just... He can't get it out. He feels enormous sadness whenever he tries. Something is just wrong and yet...He just don't know what it is.

Meanwhile, q!Cellbit doesn't build anything. He even tries to investigate something and go against the Federation, but they doesn't seem to care about him either. He becomes just a little island mouse. They build a base far away and leave him there. Isolated, around empty bases without their owners. And he only has the pictures, his ring and his own memories. But there's no way out. He knows it. In the end, the island became something he also hates, because those who made him love it... are gone.

I had parents who were very strict about internet usage

I never got allowed to read web comics or play mobile games so I could only get to text-heavy websites

Which led me to spending time reading Korean equivalent of Wikipedia

One day in 2016 on tis website I read an article about a trending, award-winning video game called "Undertale". I was 14.

Something about this game appealed to me immediately. I bought it on Steam. That was the first time I ever purchased a video game.

Needed a language patch because I wasn't fluent in English back then. Became a member of a video game community just to have the language patch. That was my first time I ever got into an online community.

Finished the game without searching anything up. Finished every route. I loved the game. I started to look for more secrets and info from the community mentioned above.

People posted fan arts and fan fics there. I read them. I loved them. That was my first ever exposure to a fandom.

I watched the fandom grow. AUs started to develop. I liked them. Got interested in reading the original contents for the AUs, which were mostly in English.

And that just HAPPENED to be around the time I came to America and my English started to improve

I could read so many comics. I looked at so many different Tumblr blogs. Then I learned AO3 was a thing. That was a huge different world full of fan fictions.

I found that Error was my favorite. If it involved Error, I gave it a try. Mostly oneshots tho, because English still wasn't my first language and I was the world's slowest reader.

Then one day I came across a 25 chapter, 140k-word-long fic. The prologue already was half an hour of reading for me.

And I somehow decided to keep reading it. Knowing fully well it would take me at least a month with my normal reading speed. I just felt like I would like this fic.

And that was The Council of the Inevitable. I read all of it in 3 days, from start to finish, doing nothing else during those days.

That story was breathtaking. Literally. I never felt so absorbed into anything ever before. I ranted about it in my personal notes. I ranted about how much I loved the author wrote the characters just so perfectly and how brilliant the plot was. I also started writing my own little analysis and theories amd predictions.

I re read the fic. And I re re read it. I wrote more notes. I did that for 3 years, from 2020 to 2023. I wrote over 200 notes about it.

And I decided that it was physically unberable to keep that level of excietment and passion just to myself. I wrote an ask to the author's Tumblr blog I had found, including a fanart and a message about how much I loved her fic.

And she replied. She followed me back. I posted a couple more fan arts I had made and she liked them too.

And she had a Discord server. I looked at it and thought, maybe in there are people who love this story just as much as I do. I downloaded Discord created an account. I joined the server.

And I was right. And I never knew how much fun it was to have people who love the same thing as I do. Someone to share my excitement with.

So I'm really not exaggerating when I say everything regarding TCOTI was a miracle.

If any of the things listed above didn't happen I wouldn't have been here right now. What are the odds, really?

So if THIS happened, who's to say something as good as this wouldn't happen again?

TL;DR: My parents were strict. This led me to shipping copies of the same skeleton falling in love with each other.