silly little thaw and atol character comparisons post bc this has been on my mind for Quite some time now
atol!soot and thaw!quackity
sky gods' favorites
speak two languages (common & ancient + common & the language of the archipelagos)
have chronic pain from an injury (back + eye) and there's the possibility that their younger selves will suffer a little less than they did when they get it (massaging newly formed scar tissue + more potions instead of vinegar)
tortured people that are or have to do with dream
have a country that they love a lot, and use the thought of to distract from their other thoughts
father (even if quackity is in denial)
brother(figure) to tommy.
distrust anything relating to the gods, and doesn't follow them
are the first ones to beat the sky gods (in their fucked up games + in a gambling match against them)
Trust Issues(TM)
wear masks in front of people, hiding all of their vulnerabilities
thoughts about making their younger-selves match (soot to a higher extent)
minds have been fucked with by the sky gods (darkness from their Games + madness from the broken vow to them)
despise the ram and fantasize about getting revenge on him (also, wants to hang his head over the white house + mounts his horns and others' horns in his office)
and probably more that i'm forgetting
--------younger-selves section--------
atol!wil and thaw!q
MCs both slowly losing their sense of identity from before the events of their stories
Dissociation(TM) after realizing just How Much harm their storytelling inadvertently caused (not only for his older-self, but just in general, since so many people died in a war that was supposed to be fictional and only a few people + for his older-self after q realized the implications of all his remarks)
their first kills are mobs that were very high in magic (a Fresh fresh zombie + phantom), and they were both to protect other people (tommy + tntduo). and they had literally no idea what they were doing (accidentally ripped open the thing + made it choke on a poker chip without meaning to)
fit in almost seamlessly with the world, especially in comparison to the other people sent there
their older-selves being weirdly comfortable with them on their first day (soot thinking that wilbur not shrugging off his constant physical affection meant that he was ok with the closeness + quackity making those "suggestive" quips at q)
flirted with quackity or soot, though not really meaning it.
both "from" very dark times in their older-selves' lives. coincidentally, both either from a war, or else right before one (if you count like. 3 years before as Right before but)
older-selves threatened to kill them and made them answer questions when they first arrived (simone + ace of spades). (also the injuries the older-selves caused both nod to trauma that they have and that their younger-selves will experience eventually: wilbur's back scrape against the wall nodding as well as foreshadowing to the acid tears that scarred his back + q's bruised wrists nodding to what happened in manberg and foreshadowing to the burgundy cosmos and serenity park...)
their older-selves are very used to violence, and expect them to be the same way
^ they have to get used to violence quicker than anyone else sent here as a result of that, just so they won't get immediately found out.
got very violent against dream and regretted it after they realized just what they had done, and who they had become
progressively become more and more like their older-selves over the course of their stories
+more that technically haven't happened in thaw yet, but i can practically smell them off in the horizon...
atol!phil and thaw!charlie
have to come to terms with no longer having human features (wings and talons + Literally Everything.)
must figure out how to work their non-human features without being too suspicious to people (phil knocking things and people over with his wings + charlie needing to figure out how to keep himself solid and not drip slime everywhere)
their horror over seeing their non-human traits being mistaken as something else by others ("philza must have made him ashamed of his talons" + "he's sad my skeleton gift to him is melting :(")
are absolutely horrified by the violence and disregard for life being displayed in this world. and how desensitized everyone is to it.
very worried for the people in this world, Especially the MCs.
have been taken away from their partners when they were sent to the shattered!verse
still have some hope of returning home
the first character they meet is someone who caused loads of trauma to the MC's older-selves. they get very bad vibes from them, even though they aren't sure why exactly at first
atol!dream and thaw!wilbur (youngerbur)
been in the shattered!verse just as long, if not longer than the MC.
becomes very much like their older-selves
MC immediately distrusts them and hurts them (watches him get tortured and punches his face + bruises wrists)
their older-selves aren't trusted by the MCs' older-selves, so that tends to translate to the MCs also not trusting them
they meet the MC for the first time once the MC is acting almost indistinguishably from their older-self
terrified of, and feels betrayed by, the MC
has the memories of their older-selves (currently unsure if this is due to godly interference or not, but if it is, that's another similarity.)
actively go to where the MC is (pogtopia + las nevadas), which just causes suspicion, since they aren't supposed to be able to find the place/get in. and are considered enemies of the place (maybe not #1 enemies, as that would be the ram for both, but they're still pretty close on that list)
i'm using "younger/older-self" for everyone, since youngerbur's identity has not yet been officially confirmed as of writing this, so it might not be accurate to say cc for him. plus, so many ccs have changed that they're hardly the ccs at all anymore yk
MC is referring to the person that the first chapter is about and whom the story mostly centers around.
thank you for reading ^_^
