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Cold Victory is the non-binary ship between Ice Cube and Winner from the Battle for Dream Island fandom.
Canon[]
The Power of Two[]
Finding Ice Cube, Clock recalls his truce with her and asks if she would like to team up with him and Winner. Ice Cube agrees and Winner is happy to meet her. Later for the challenge, Winner launches Clock, Bottle, and Ice Cube up to the hotel's roof. Clock uses Yellow Face as a platform for Ice Cube to land on so she doesn't shatter, shortly before Winner climbs up the hotel themself.
In the next challenge, Winner notices they haven't seen Ice Cube in a while and goes to the recovery center to check if she died. However, as they recover her, she falls in Rocky's vomit acid he left in front of the machine. Winner tries recovering her again and realizes that they need to neutralize Rocky's acid or Ice Cube won't be able to be recovered. After thinking of a way to do so, Winner repeatedly recovers Ice Cube until the acid is solidified. Afterwards, Winner walks back with Ice Cube and Rocky to the team until realizing they need to go recover Bottle as well.
At the start of the amusement park challenge, Winner and Ice Cube sit together as the rest of the team strategizes. Clock approaches the two and tells them of his idea of building a performance stage for the park, which Winner and Ice Cube are on-board with.
To get into the canal, Winner digs underneath and leads the way for Clock, Ice Cube, Rocky, and Bottle. After this method repeatedly fails on them, Winner throws their shovel out of frustration and accidentally knocks Ice Cube into the canal with it. As Ice Cube shrinks underwater, Winner apologizes and tries to pull her out of the water until realizing that she ended up making the canal colder. As a result, Clock gets the idea to freeze the canal to trap the underwater teams. Ice Cube is repeatedly recovered so Winner can throw her into the canal to freeze it. This ends up working as Ice Cube eventually falls flat on the frozen surface.
For the cooking challenge, Ice Cube is mixing the ingredients in the cereal mix bowl and Winner hands her oats to use as her teammates do the same.
During the zombie apocalypse, Ice Cube, Bottle, Winner, and Yellow Face take shelter inside Cloudy's collection. However, after Black Hole takes the collection to protect tree, Yellow Face calls for someone to head off with their last steak and steer away the zombies with it. They decide to lay it on top of Ice Cube as Winner slides her away from the team, making Ice Cube vow revenge for it. This ends up failing as Ice Cube hits a bush in the process and is taken by the zombies. A zombified Ice Cube joins the zombies and makes their way over to Winner, Bottle, and Yellow Face. Bottle laments losing Ice Cube and Winner becomes irritated with Yellow Face when he cares more about wishing to have sold more from his factory instead.
In the nightmare challenge, Bottle, Yellow Face, and Ice Cube are teleported inside Winner's dream. Ice Cube is surprised to learn that Winner's nightmare would be about Loser and figures Clock would have enjoyed it. After finding Winner in a Loser museum in the dream, Bottle calls for them and Ice Cube asks if they are okay. Winner wondered where the rest of them were as they come to figure that their nightmare is about their old memories with Loser. Ice Cube and the rest of the team listen to Winner explain their backstory of how they and Loser used to be a duo. After the challenge when Winner resettles their differences with Clock in the dream, Ice Cube shares to Clock that she's glad he was able to do so with them.
Fanon[]
Cold Victory is fairly rare overall in the fandom. The pairing rose throughout their time as teammates in TPOT, with shippers enjoying their moments of frequently being close together on screen in certain scenes. The ship grew in particular mainly within non-binary ship enthusiasts of the shipping community, imagining their dynamic to be silly similar to their team dynamic while also being caring. It is also commonly included in the poly ship including their teammate Bottle known as Cold Champagne because of their similar dynamics in their respective ships (Icebottle and Winnerbottle). Other than these ships, pairings such as Winnerclock and Icebook often overshadow the pairing in terms of the season.
On AO3, as of November 8, 2024, there are 3 works under their romantic tag and 1 under the platonic tag. It is the third most written ship for Winner and the fourth most for Ice Cube on the site.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Ice Cube/Winner (Battle For Dream Island) tag on AO3
- Ice Cube & Winner (Battle For Dream Island) tag on AO3
- FAN ART
- Ice Cube and Winner search results on DeviantArt
- Ice Cube x Winner posts on Reddit
- Cold Victory posts on Twitter
- Icewinner posts on Twitter
- Ice Cube x Winner posts on Twitter
