#and quackity has no idea WHAT crawled up sam's ass and died . but fuck that noise he's not putting up with this bullshit

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In JMAH, when j!Quackity goes Butcher Army mode on j!Sam, how does the rest of the server's reactions differ from canon (i guess previous?) Butcher Army, if at all? (For example, IIRC it never grew any bigger than a 4-person militia in canon, and c!Tubbo was initially extremely reluctant to participate or endorse it.) Do you think that reluctance changes when it's j!Sam who's being targeted? Does anyone other than j!Techno agree to help break into the prison? Does j!Quackity bother trying to recruit anyone else?

SO!

Quackity's whole deal with j!Sam starts after he goes to propose the Las Nevadas deal shortly after the staged finale--just as he does in canon--and is very promptly and aggressively shut down by Sam, who is not having a repeat of canon, thank you very much. It's important to note that this happens on the 23rd, just a few scant days after the finale on the 20th, and therefore VERY little time has passed since j!Sam basically got time traveled into his old body on the 21st with Tommy about to visit Dream for the first time. Here's a post that goes into some of this.

To put it simply, Sam hasn't quite parsed through the difference in timelines yet in his head and acts in a lot of ways that read really, really strangely to Quackity. Combine that with Tommy getting all but thrown out of the prison in his first visit, the prison being completely shut down to visitors on that first day, and Sam all but disappearing immediately after Dream is imprisoned? Like--it looks fishy. And there's only two people on the server that have any idea of what's actually going on.

At first, Tommy and Quackity's attempts to get more info are...well, admittedly, not very well-thought out. Tommy has a grudge he's nursing and Quackity is curious--and wary. Being the Warden of Pandora's Vault means power, and Quackity is no stranger to power in the wrong hands. Tommy is genuinely angling for a break-in, while Quackity is more aiming for intel of any kind. What is going on in there, and why is Sam so determined to keep it all quiet?

Time passes. Sam's reputation gets worse--any poking in and around the prison is swiftly dealt with, often with threats of violence and cold anger. Sam's old friends haven't seen him outside the prison in weeks. Ponk doesn't manage to get the keycards, but ends up having a catastrophic (and very public) breakup with Sam anyway--there's a lot of yelling. It ends in violence and Sam stomping away, holing himself in the prison for even longer. Tommy and Quackity keep up the attempts at breaking in, and well--Sam gets sloppy. With Ghostbur in tow, they somehow manage to get themselves to the main cell, as is outlined here.

Afterwards, naturally, Quackity is gunning for revenge. Sure, Sam sure as hell doesn't seem to be working with Dream, but that doesn't fucking matter now. It's personal. With the Egg as ,, less of a threat, in some ways (Sam Boxed the thing as soon as he got back to this timeline--it was hardly a permanent solution, but Good Enough For Him Okay ?) and Sam being, well, less popular of a figure across the server because of [gestures] all of That, he ends up a sort of anti-Sam club. It never balloons to a huge thing, honestly--technically, Quackity has the support of his country behind him (Las Nevadas progresses slower than canon, considering the lack of help on the builds, but he ends up recruiting Foolish earlier and things end up happening more or less. The slower developments mean that things with his fiancés don't end up QUITE as disastrously, but the distance does end up creating tension as time passes.) The core group in the coalition, though, is just Quackity, Tommy, Technoblade (reluctantly recruited with plans of betrayal brewing), and Wilbur--who mostly invited himself and only comes to steal Quackity's cookies.

Quackity definitely thinks about recruiting more people...but honestly, his plan in terms of you know, getting revenge on the three biggest assholes on the server and making them pay at his own hand, well. That's not really made for a group project. That doesn't mean that he doesn't make it clear that Las Nevadas will fight if need be against any possible threats, and Sam deeeefinitely makes it onto the list of enemies if/when the slime clones happen. The server generally knows that Quackity isn't a fan of Sam--Tommy isn't the greatest at keeping things silent, and the whole "prison break-in only they got stopped by Sam who threw them out and also killed Quackity" thing definitely circulates around the server for some time. They're not exactly jumping the gun to take any collective action against Sam themselves...but well. He's definitely starting to run low on allies.

#time traveler sam AU #just me and him AU #my asks !! #quackity and sam's whole Thing in jmah is definitely one of my favorite parts of it #sam will not work with quackity and also kinda misses working with quackity #and quackity has no idea WHAT crawled up sam's ass and died . but fuck that noise he's not putting up with this bullshit #(also like. this is a stupid detail and it's like only important to Me Specifically.) #(but for jmah--c!sam and c!quackity in canon definitely had like. a fling in the prison arc. LMAOO)