#quixus

Gilded: “Quixus! Quixus let me in!”

Quixus: *Turns volume up as mii chattering becomes more aggressive*

Gilded: “I swear to who ever fucking runs this godamn shit- Quixus we have a problem and it needs your attention!”

Quixus: *Looks up and just points down at the Nintendo, shaking their head before looking back at the Nintendo*

Because they were never supposed to be able to do that. They were always meant to be something stuck in between a kid and a god— existing for thousands of years but only living for a few. Their hair would’ve been brown, white, brown and then dead. They were never meant to last, to grow and change and become a whole ass person. And that’s not even counting all the resets (of repeating the cycle over and over and over again, of living but not being able to get older) and how long they spent with Sherbert glitched into them (bc having half your body be an immortal fae probably doesn’t help the whole “aging normally” thing).

Like- yes, we know Jett is basically Blake but different- but that wasn't intended by Sherbert, Jett was supposed to be a Sherbversion, of some sort at least.

Granted, shoving a Sherbversion into an already created world was an experiment, but something still had to have happened- whether it was Pandora as we know(? as in we don't know if it was her technically) she said as Jett entered "Show them what you're capable of, my gift." or something along those lines. Or maybe it was the world code- maybe even the border itself? Jett did literally come from the border, but what is the reason for that?

My point is- there is still a missing piece in how Jett really came to be, because as far as people like Jay know, Blake just turned around and came back.

But from what we know, Quixus shoved a sherbversion into WW- and they weren't supposed to be of a being that was already there- they were supposed to be their own person.

So my biggest question is wtf happened that made Jett not a sherbversion even tho he came from Quixus and should theoretically be a sherbversion? What interfered?

All alone in the long night/ Staring up at the moon/ I've been looking a long time/ What's your name? Am I ever gonna find you?

Obviously, Midas as Quixis in the Worldport. They’ve been trapped there for so long already, waiting for Icarus to come switch with them and it just… never happens. Also the “what’s your name/am I ever going to find you” through the lens of Icarus not even knowing their own name, and getting glimpses of the other worlds, so how is Midas supposed to know who and where they are? Delicious.

Am I reading the wrong rhymes?/ Are you too far to hear?/ I've been talking a long time/ Hope my message will find an ear

Midas, again, desperately trying to give Icarus signs through the Wack but being completely unable to bc of the resets. They’re “reading the wrong rhymes” bc everything they say or do comes across as glitched to Icarus. “Hope my message will find an ear” screams Chat/the Things to me, too. Sherb said in the tell all that Chat glitching in is the inciting incident, what allows Icarus and the rest to start timbering the resets, ie the wack. Chat helped decode Quixis’ letters— we were the ear they needed. 

Is there anybody out there?

Midas, again, utterly and completely alone. They don’t even have the chicken

Glimpsed a ghost in the darkness/ Stared me straight in the eye/ It was only my own face/ Faintly mirrored in memory and moonlight— 

This one in particular is SOOOO coded. “It was only my own face/faintly mirrored in memory and moonlight” IS Midas’ character, especially as Quixus, to me. They watched versions of themselves for millennia, to the point where they didn’t even know who they were anymore. They have basically nothing left from their own world, nor that it’s really theirs since it’s been so long. Their own past is faintly mirrored now. But also, they watched versions of themself. Legit their face, but not quite right. Faintly mirrored, if you will.

Heard a voice in the vastness/ Whisper words in my ear/ It was only my own noise/ Dimly echoed across the years

Again, same bit as above: the identity crisis of it all. Hearing other versions of you live their lives while you’re stuck, trapped with only your own noise? For years? Get that dude in some therapy STAT. Also, Chat— voices in the vastness, whispering words in an ear?

Is there anybody out there?/ Am I ever gonna find my way to you?/ Is there anybody out there?/ Is there anybody out there?/ We haven't met, but I wrote this song for you/ Is there anybody out there?

This. Desperately, endlessly reaching out time and time again. Hoping that something will be different this time, that Icarus will be there, that anyone would be there. Midas hasn’t meet any of them but they know Icarus, they know all of them. Also, consider briefly how the bleeding eye kept trying to autocorrect back to Icarus, also searching for them— desperately searching for anyone to fill the Quixis role.

What's the worth of a lone soul?/ Don't they count 'em by two?/ If I only get one roll/ How the hell am I ever gonna find you?

This is also tasty, bc the og concept of the sherbs is two people smushed into one body. “What’s the worth of a lone soul/don’t they count them by two” is absolutely crazy in context of the sherbverse bc yeah… they’ve always been two, especially Icarus. Hell I still instinctively write Ic with a bleeding purple eye bc it’s part of who they were, who they all were, for so long. And we can even see that in Asri, who while we’ve never seen him with the bloody eye, she wears mismatched converse. Bc across the sherbverse, they’re all united by the two. Now the second half is also extremely coded, and a fun play on words. “If I only get one roll(role)” is so good bc yeah Midas only had to screw up ONCE to nearly destroy the multiverse. Like yes I love them that’s my guy, but they waited once and everything went wrong— they rolled the dice one time and it didn’t work. It also can be heard as “role” however, a reference to Quixis. Midas only had the role of Quixis and had no idea what to do after that. And ofc, “how the hell am I ever going to find you” is self-explanatory.

Maybe someone will find me/ I'll be waiting right here/ I'll be broadcasting all night/ Hope my signal is loud and clear

Cries. Imagine Midas just waiting in the Worldport as it decays around them, hoping Icarus will figure it out before it’s too late, realizing there is literally nothing they can do anymore except wait. All Midas can do is wait, and hope, and keep sending messages out. Hoping that one of them maybe, just maybe, will be the right one, that Icarus and Chat will be able to decode it. 

I'm alone in this place/ As I stare out into space/ And I feel something strange/ Like my world has changed

Cries pt 2. This is the moment when Icarus realizes all of it. Maybe not quite in the Worldport during the finale, but close to it. Realizing who Quixis is, that they need help, that something is deeply wrong. Midas in the Worldport, decaying, realizing that it wasn’t hopeless after all, they can fix it. Still alone, especially once they aren’t Quixis anymore, but still alive too.

Is there anybody out there?/ Is there anybody out there?/ Is there anybody out there?/ We haven't met, but I wrote this song for you/ Is there anybody out there?

Midas waiting for Icarus in the Worldport, hoping and praying that this will work this will fix everything. Icarus, hoping that they can fix everything too.

I'm alone in this place/ As I stare out into space/ And I feel something strange/ Like my world has changed

Midas passing Quixis onto Ic and most importantly— they don’t die. They get to live, they don’t crumble and fade into nothingness. But they’re still alone.

I'm alone in this place/ As I stare out into space/ And I feel something strange/ Like my world has changed

Struggling to make their own world until, not wanting to be alone without their world and family and Chat and brother until— Rael, creation of Queue. 

Is there anybody out there?

I can see where you’re coming from, and I don’t think you’re wrong necessarily, but personally I think depends on how you view the Wack. Because it could be seen as a distortion of the world, but… maybe it’s doing something else. 👀