#nopac

A few days ago, Pac made a tier list with all the ships in the series he has participated in. I decided to make a summary for those who followed him on QSMP and are curious about his new relationships. I believe it's hard to top Hideduo, but the lore of Arkanis is so well built that you get fully immersed in the way Pac handles his character’s bisexuality and the polyamorous representation he’s been developing in the series. The characters from Arkanis and QSMP are not the same person, although he does have some memories of Fit.

Before we start, i encourage everyone to follow him on Arkanis, or just follow Arkanis in general if you miss QSMP and its creators. The series is great, the lore is incredible, all the creators are genuinely caring and inclusive people and it has great cutscenes. We have characters that are canonically non-binary, disabled and LGBTQ+, plus i think it deals with heavy topics (like depression) in a very mature way (just look at Bagi's story).

Bagi and Pac both have a playlist for their Arkanis vods on youtube so you can check it out.

For those who don’t know, we recently discovered that Ak!Pac has some connection to Aphrodite. Arkanis has many references to Greek gods, which explains why so many characters in the series are in love with him. Because of this connection, he is doomed to be killed by someone who has feelings for him, and if that person’s feelings are reciprocated, he will be killed by their hands. When that happens and he dies, his sacrifice will bring the apocalypse (I’ll explain this in more detail in the lore section of one of the characters below). So let's start!

1. Guaxitw (Ak!Pac xAk!Guaxi)

Ah yes, one of my favorite ships (sorry, Hideduo). I’ll try to summarize their story, because it’s genuinely tragic and beautifully developed in the series.

Guaxi and Pac have a lot in common. They both tend to flirt playfully with everyone on the server, but when they’re alone, there’s a special connection between them. Because of their mutual care and concern, both of them have made sacrifices for each other.

Guaxi joined the Passa Tudo gang—a group created by an NPC entity—to protect Pac (who was the first member of the gang) and gather more information about the gang’s mysterious leader. The gang was secret, and none of its four members were allowed to reveal they were part of it. However, due to a series of mistakes made by the members, the gang’s leader decided to punish them severely—and Guaxi was one of those who faced the consequences.

Guaxi has a connection with an entity known as FEAR (MEDO). This entity is complex and dangerous—it offers players on the server a bargain, granting them whatever they desire in exchange. But its deals always come with a price, often painful and cruel.

Guaxi was destined to become this entity one day, and the leader of the Passa Tudo gang essentially helped speed up that process. As punishment for accidentally revealing the existence of the gang to other players on the server, the leader of the gang made a bargain with FEAR. Guaxi and FEAR would become one entity—and in the process, Guaxi would lose the ability to feel anything at all.

Essentially, FEAR would consume Guaxinim’s soul, and from that moment on, Guaxi would never be able to love Pac or anyone ever again. Before that event could happen, Guaxinim hugged Pac one last time and told him to take care of his daughter, Gris. (Gris is a ghost NPC, just like the eggs in QSMP, but they cannot die.) This is an terrible and depressing situation because they had planned a date together that never happened, and they had already told each other (again, alone, with no one around) that they loved one another.

Guaxinim returned as FEAR, an empty shell of his former self. He felt nothing and pretended to still have feelings for the others on the server so they wouldn't ask what had happend to him. The saddest part was that he was rude to Pac—something that had never happened before.

The FEAR entity also possessed Guaxi’s body—so essentially, there were two separate bodies: one belonging to the entity, and the other to Guaxinim, and in the end, they would become one. The entity, in Guaxi’s body, began to feel the feelings Guaxi had for Pac, making him praise him and stay close to him for a brief moment.

Well, Guaxi and FEAR are no longer together in the same body (although I think the prophecy might still come true) because Guaxinim died along with the other members of the gang and the entity separated from his body (but again, all of this happend thanks to the fact that he loves Pac, and it was because of this love that he joined the gang in the first place, leaving him doomed to his fate and sacrifice).

However, Pac still has feelings for Guaxi. He realized it too late, but he still wrote a letter to him during the Festa Junina event, declaring his love and saying that nobody else knows the feelings they have for each other because it’s only when they’re alone together that they express them. They kissed multiple times and there are many individual moments I could include here, but I kept this summary focused on the most recent events because otherwise the explanation would get too long—and I need to explain the other ships.

2. Meiatw (Ak!Pac x Ak!Meiaum)

This ship is actually very similar to Smoothduo (Pac x Felps). In season 1, they were quite good friends but unfortunately Meiaum logged very little into the server so they didn't have alot of interactions. Still, the similarities between the two make them get along very well and every time they talk they seem to lose brain cells together.

Meiaum started to log more frequently in Arkanis s2. Well, Pac had to die in that season so that Leonardo (he's the leader of the Passa Tudo gang, think of him as an immortal, god-like NPC) could carry out his plan. After Pac was killed, his leader, Leo, split him and his friends into two bodies, each one to serve his purposes, and one to live their normal lives. The two bodies are completely separate: they don't share memories and can't be awake at the same time.

Meiaum was one of the characters most affected by Pac’s death—he had a secret crush on him that he had never shared. When Pac came back to life, Meiaum gave him a letter and finally confessed his feelings, with the help of a friend—another content creator and big fan of the ship.

Pac cares deeply for Meiaum, so he was torn after learning about the confession once he came back to life. He didn’t want to hurt either Meiaum or Nogal who had a crush of him during that time. At the same time, Meiaum feels insecure about his love and even gets a little jealous of Pac’s other relationships. He and Nogal became friends thanks to their shared crush on Pac. They made a pact to work together to keep the other love rivals away, and they promised each other they wouldn't be upset at who Pac would end up choosing.

Pac and Meiaum planned a date together and even wore matching outfits for the occasion. They’re neighbors, and Meiaum once received a rose from Pac, which he still keeps outside his house. Meiaum is a DJ, and during a party in Arkanis, he dedicated a love song to Pac. But before he could finish the song, he was taken away by Leonardo.

He woke up in a hospital, with Leonardo standing over him, telling him he was cursed to do nothing but love Pac. Every time Meiaum even thinks about defying Leo, he ends up falling even harder for Pac. And he’s doomed to forget everything that happens each day once he sleeps, waking up only with the memory of being taken from the party and having feelings for Pac. Leo did this because for the Omni (The group that Pac’s other body is part of—they’re basically the Horsemen of the Apocalypse) to return they need a love sacrifice, so if Pac falls in love with anyone and they kill him, it'll be the last sacrifice needed for the Omni to be awaken.

Meiaum has forgotten what happened to him at the hospital. Now, he suffers from memory loss—but his feelings for Pac remain. He’s already said that he truly loves him, and right now he seems to be the main candidate to kill Pac.

3. Nogaltw (Ak!Nogal x Ak!Pac)

This ship is interesting because it’s Pac’s first canonical ship where both are bisexual, and she is the first girl we know he has dated. To sum up, I believe this ship started as a joke, because Nogal, just like Pac and Guaxinim, really likes flirting with other players. Ak!Guh told her that Pac liked bald people, so she shaved her head so Pac could notice her. He was charmed by her and started following her. She thought it was pretty funny at first, but soon she began flirting more with Pac (their relationship is quite funny because Pac gets really shy and speechless when they’re together).

Well, after Pac died, Nogal realized she was in love with him too. She made a room in her house dedicated to him, and after discovering Meiaum was also in love with him, she didn’t get mad, and the two started supporting each other (in fact, their ship represents the colors of the bisexual flag 💗💜💙).

When Pac came back to life, they went on a date together (which was a disaster), but Pac ended up running away from kissing her at the end of the date because he didn’t want to hurt his other suitors. That date made them discover alot of things about each other - like the fact that Nogal is an scientist just like him and that Pac has no parents. He was very open about his past in the date which was sweet because she was very careful and open with him.

In the end, she got a kiss from him at the Festa Junina, and they danced together with Meiaum (who also got a kiss that day thanks to the kissing booth, and he ended up kissing Nogal too).

Nogal is very caring, but she still doubts whether she should keep liking Pac because of all his suitors and also because she knows about Pac’s prophecy. Due to a misunderstanding, she thought she might be in danger and might die in his place. She is also worried for Meiaum right now.

4. Panick (Ak!Pac x Ak!Nicklink)

This is one of my favorites because it's a crackship that genuinely makes a bit of sense. For those who are curious, Nicklink is a content creator who was a Tazercraft fan when he was younger (it's the opposite of Pac with Fit) which makes their ship funnier than it already is. Well, in Arkanis he was in a relationship with someone and because of a misunderstanding he thought Pac was flirting with his girlfriend. They ended up fighting for a while, but soon made up. Nicklink thinks Pac is weak and that he is hiding his true potential. Nicklink still thinks that part of him is really charming, tho (In his own words, Pac is "cowardly cute"). In a way, this ship has some similarities with celltw, in the sense that they were friends, became enemies and then returned to being friends again. Nicklink is also quite strong, as he is one of the people who most enjoys grinding on the server.

After their tension died down and Nicklink stopped being in a relationship, they became closer. Pac often flirts with Nick, and they went together through the tunnel of love at the Festa Junina event (which was pretty funny because Pac just forced him to go so they could talk alone and they found meiaum and nick's girlfriend inside talking about their love situation).

As I said, it's a crackship that would easily come from some dark romance fanfic and I think it could never become real (well, it's canon that Pac has a crush on Nick and Nick reciprocates his flirtations, and the creator himself really likes the ship) but I don't think it will be as in-depth in the narrative as Pac's other suitors and Nick's actual relationship.

Those were basically all the main ships. Pac did flirt with other characters, like Ak!Gabepeixe, Ak!Matt, Ak!Luis, and so on, but I think these are the ones most deeply tied to his lore, so I decided to focus on them.