CyberSpade

CyberSpade
GENERAL
Deltarune
Character	King
Character	Queen
Canonical?	Fanon
Status of Relationship	Former Allies
IN FANDOM
Type (?)	Het

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CyberSpade is the het ship between King and Queen from the Deltarune fandom.

Canon

Through cryptic references, Jevil referring directly to her when defeated violently, it is confirmed that Queen lived in the Card Kingdom at some point prior to the events of the game.

Queen only appears in person after a new Dark World is created inside the computer room in the local library in Chapter 2. She serves as the most prominent antagonist of the chapter, being the dreaded ruler of her own kingdom located in the Dark World, just like King was for the first chapter. After her defeat and sealing of the Dark World's fountain, Queen's physical body was relocated to the school's storage closet, where King and what remains of his kingdom reside after their Dark World was sealed.

Should the player have recruited enough of Queen's subjects by defeating them non-violently, Queen will be in a happy, chatty mood during her stay in the storage closet. When approaching King locked in the dungeon for his crimes in the past chapter, he will warn them of a new adversary, only for Susie to bluntly tell him that they already met and befriended Queen.

Queen herself will appear to confirm this, and compliment the hamster wheel set up in King's cage. King initially assumes that she's just saying that to humiliate him, but Queen tells him that she's actually being serious. However, Queen will notice the water bottle in the back and laugh at it, with King taking offense to her insulting the "Royal Water Bottle" as he takes a sip from it. Queen will tell him that she has a better one at her mansion, with King dismissing her as materialistic "as always". Queen denies this, telling him that she's merely giving herself "the treatment she deserves", while recalling that he slept curled up on a dirty throne every day, so he isn't one to accuse her.

After trying to shut her up by yelling, King will ask her why she actually came to him while calling her "Queenie Beanie". She calls him "Kingy Wingy" in return when telling him that he doesn't have to worry about Lancer any longer. She tells him that she will look after him from now on, calling herself his mother. King mocks her for it by telling her that that was never formally decided, but Queen shuts him down by telling him that she herself decided it right now. King admits defeat and tells her that she can do what she wants with Lancer, even giving her advice to bounce him like a ball when he's sad. Queen had heard enough and ends the conversation right there, with King complying with her.

Rouxls Kaard will then interrupt their chit-chat by telling King that he's sorry about Queen having a "new man". Both King and Queen will be completely dumbfounded by that claim, asking him who he is talking about. After Rouxls awkwardly excuses himself, Queen will ask King who the hell that was, with King referring to him as Lancer's "Lesser" father while visibly uncomfortable. Queen will laugh at that, because she can't even imagine someone lesser than King, but King yells at her again to leave, which she happily does. However, before fully leaving, Queen asks him if he wanted anything from the store, King will reply with "cashews" after a short pause, with Queen noting it down and finally leaving him be.

Fanon

During Chapter 1, fans noted that the card deck the antagonists are made out of are notably missing a Queen of Spades, despite having a rules card acknowledged, with Jevil's comment only drawing further attention to it. So fans noted that the majority of the Darkners in the first chapter were designed by a guest artist known as "kanotynes" on tumblr and looked into their designs for clues of what a Queen of Spades would look like. Though kanotynes did make a Queen design, many artists weren't aware of that and used original designs resembling a slimmer King in a dress, often having a spaded tail as opposed to a tongue.

When Chapter 2 dropped, many were quite surprised that the canonical Queen did not actually originate from the Card Kingdom and didn't look much like King and Lancer, barring color scheme. However, most fans embraced the design and the implied backstory with King anyway, finding their banter to be genuinely enjoyable and actually making the previously irredeemable King somewhat pitiful. Though questions about their exact relationship still remain, many fans treat it as a given that Queen is King's ex-wife and Lancer's (biological) mother, often with their dialogue being interpreted as Queen gaining custody of Lancer as opposed to adopting him.

Many fans don't actually ship King with Queen as much as they depict them in a past relationship that was doomed to fail.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

King/Queen tag on AO3

TUMBLR

CyberSpade tag on Tumblr

Trivia

• The ship name is both a pun on the word "cyberspace" and a reference to Queen being ruler of the Cyber World and King being based on a King of Spades card. It was coined by a tumblr user known as "the-floof-king".

Gallery

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