Okay remember when I talked about that au randomly? The King Candy one? Art is pretty hard so lemme just write this out real quick.
So basically there's this assumption that King Candy wouldn't respawn because he's actually Turbo and you don't respawn outside your game blah blah blah. But because I'm a random person on the internet I can say whatever I want, and I'm saying that it's a bit more complicated than that. See, Turbo may not originally be from Sugar Rush, but he's been messing around with the code of the game for a good while. And before I continue I should mention that I'm complying with the theory/concept that King Candy was an actual character in the game that was unused and left unfinished, but left in the game (like the unfinished bonus level). I didn't come up with that idea, but I don't remember who did. If I find them I'll edit this post. ANYWAY, the point is that in meddling with all of this, Turbo has essentially fused himself with native code, meaning that if he died he actually would respawn.
The actual problem comes with the Cybug part. 100% not native code, obviously. Which presents an issue for the game. It wants to respawn King Candy, but there's all this weird code it doesn't really know what to do with. So in the end it does respawn him. But wrong.
His code is still intact, but it's now fused with all this malignant junk the game doesn't know how to handle. Which means that he ends up being a glitch for entirely different reasons to Vanellope. Like Vanellope, though, his glitching tends to worsen with heightened stress.
Most of the time he still looks like King Candy, occasionally shifting into Turbo in more benign glitches. However, if things get particularly strained he starts glitching into his candybug form, first just in portions and then into full bug mode when things come to a head. Which would be pretty epic (who doesn't want claws and wings), if full bug mode didn't also come with full bug instincts. When in bug formeâ„¢ he easily loses himself and becomes an uncontrollably destructive force of nature until incapacitated. Or until things calm down enough for him to wrestle back control of his own body. Even when he doesn't look buggy, that side of him still rears it's head at random and inopportune times. He's developed a strong distaste for all those fun flashy signs he used to love.
He's happy to be alive and all, but everything kind of sucks. He has no power, no allies, no home. I don't have much in the way of story for this au figured out, but his main goal is to get into the code room and fix everything. For now, though, he's probably hiding out in the forest trying to figure out how in the world he could pull that off.
I legit kinda wanna write a fanfic about this ._. I feel like that should be concerning...
Are there still King Candy fans out there? Or is it just me? 😶
