Ely

In jackpot crash course, Cupid confirms that there will be six games. It has been theorized that the paintings in the lobby (depicting methods of execution) are references to these games. So at the risk of sounding dumb, I have to ask:

Did the preliminaries not count???

Chapter 1 spoilers ahead

". . . FUCKING—"

"OKAY, OKAY! FINE, FINE!! I LIKE SOMEONE. I like a guy, who's another boxer!! My... My training partner!! My best friend!!! Who I adored so much to point I got betrayed by him at the end!!"

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Moar jcc doodles...

Also a redraw of one of sandbag's bartending minigame sprites cuz he's my cutieful son

The first thing you need to do is decide on the character's title !! The JCC characters have a tendency to revolve their personalities, designs and crimes around their title, so it's pretty important !!!!

With the titles, half of the ones in the game use alliteration and half of them don't. I noticed that the ones without alliteration tend to reflect their personality more than those with alliteration. For example, Tongue-Tied Enigma fits Maneki more than Deadly Dreamboat fits Bones, Paranoid Cosmetologist fits Vega more than Brutal Bull fits Eddie, etc

Next is to decide their crime. This can come from both personality and their titles. Cobyn, the Creative Gardener, hid bodies in his garden, which influenced his title. Arguably, Benny's also influenced his title as the Risky Runaway, since he was caught speeding. Then there's characters like Rook, whose crime has nothing to do with her title

Next is to decide on their personality. Again, this can come from the title. Elise acts eccentric and a bit crazy, which fits his title as the Nonsensical Jokester. I've mentioned Vega's title, and it fits her because she's constantly assuming the worst of people and believing that everyone is out to get them. For example with my OC Nat, the Detached Dancer, I decided to make her show very little emotion, to fit the "detached" part of her title

Next up is their name. You can kinda just do whatever here. Most of them fit the overall vibe, like Maneki and Bones, but yeah. Just go crazy here

Finally is something honestly very minor. Every JCC character has an animal associated with them, which can reflect their personalities or designs. Mine for Nat is a snake, which is reflected with the tails of her bow !!

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". . . It's complicated."

I’ve ranted about this before in one of my fics, but Black Jack was totally rigged right? I think most people have come to that conclusion, but I’ve seen some say it was against Vick, so I’m going to say why I think it was actually against Eddie.

So, if you don’t know, there’s an option to pair up with Cobyn before Rook and Cecilia go up. As we know, when Maneki hits next round, HES the one that goes up. I know that isn’t much for evidence, since it’s optional, but look at the next round when BENNY gets chosen by hit despite there only being a 17% chance. 17%. I know twice isn’t a pattern, but it’s still suspicious.

And, again if you don’t know, there’s a death where Vick forces Eddie to go up with him and the dealer gets 20, making them lose. This is more crazy when you remember that in non-deaths with Benny, Bones, and Poppy, the dealer went bust in a way that would make them fine with 13. I think if this signified rigging against Vick then Eddie would have been the one called up when they hit and they would have gone bust, since as much as I love Poppy, I don’t think she’s canonically interesting enough for the show runners to keep when she’s with a person they’re rigging against.

Now why would they be doing this? Because Eddie’s boring! He didn’t give them anything during the interview, he doesn’t willingly play into his role, and his interactions among the cast are lacking. From a show perspective, the worst thing a character can be is boring. Even Benny, who was booed off stage, will inspire people to hate watch for his death! Sure, Eddie did have outbursts that could be used, but that wasn’t enough! (This probably wasn’t helped by the fact that he was visibly close with Benny, who was booed off stage)

In the death with Vick, they weren’t going to hit, which meant six characters more interesting than him would be left behind, and their round wasn’t engaging enough to make up for that. There was no shock factor like with Rook and Cecilia, it didn’t have the same drama that Maneki, Cobyn, and Elise had, it would have been a total waste if they let them go!

Eddie headcanons and a redesign 🥹 I wanted to have mostly queer headcanons for pride month but then I added a few random ones

1) what would Dominic do at a theme park?

2) if somebody challenged him to a fight outside of the ring, how would he react?

3) you set Dominic loose in a plushie store. what’s he looking at / buying first? (aside from shark plushies)

1. He'd mostly go every fun rides as possible as he can. He'd probably like rollercoaster very much. He need more fun in his life!!

2. He wouldn't dare to somebody who challenged him to a fight. If I'm being completely honest, he doesn't want to fight anyone. He'll only fight back if someone is threatening him, etc.