minecraft is such a malleable game that it is primarily communicated through inferences which allows stories to form in the channels it creates. you leave empty space guided by action and you receive a network of information flowing to the next indicated direction. where else is it done quite like this. where do i find more of it
HAI i was wondering if you might want to yap a little about hannahs lifesteal character. im so curious and intrigued by her. i want to know more but i don't have a lot of time to watch a lot of vods (#employed) so i thought id see if you have a a character analysis ramble rattling around OR specific vod recs maybe to start with to understand her...
i would love nothing more in this entire world....
okay first and foremost. vod recs:
here is my warden arc revenants (hannah+bacon) pov reclist, it has most of the individual vods id rec from s6 except mapicc may 17th but that vod isnt on the ls archive so heres my clip compilation.
here is my ultimate list of her every appearance in s7 including annotations telling you what vods are most important to watch to fully understand her s7 character
character rambles under the cut, warning that they're not the most organized lol
the thing about hannahs ls character is that shes kind of defined by abandonment in a way? her first s6 team, the mice, fell apart, partly bc her closest teammates were inactive. her second ls team, the cali girls, ALSO fell apart because, get this, wemmbu went inactive and kaboodle left ls. but at least she kept baconwaffles! and they allied with the empire (or with minmape anyway)..... until bacon betrayed her. and she tried to join the lifesteal republic but they didn't actually want her and laughed at her attempts to feel included. and then when ls republic became the big team going against bacon during his warden arc, they excluded her knowingly-- i dont have the clip, so you dont have to believe me, but i swear to god zam said ON STREAM "i feel bad griefing hannahs content" (by not inviting her to go warden hunting) AND THEN CONTINUED TO NOT INVITE HER.
her team finally reforms and the season ends like two weeks later, but not before sb737 scams them out of iirc like 13? hearts? 4 from hannah, 4 from mapicc, and 5 from minute? only to kill himself immediately after. and it turns out the mace they gave him 13 hearts for was duped. it was one of 80 and it was completely worthless. btw hannahs only video for s6 was "getting 20 hearts" and giving 4 of her hearts to sb 2 days before the finale made that completely impossible for her. she managed to get there only by completely giving up on her morals* and spawn camping low-heart naked chungus players, and wasnt even able to make a video because thats lame as fuck
*key note: throughout season six, hannah is a very moral character. she feels terrible when her team is going against zam bc, altho zam had been terrible to her and had THIRTY HEARTS CRUCIALLY ZAM HAD THIRTY HEARTS AND WAS RICH AS FUCK, chungpire was targeting her like crazy and hannah felt awful. she also resisted exploiting until the very end when spoke killed her with a macehack. This Is A Surprise Tool That Will Help Us Later. she had also refused to pick fights she felt were uneven, even if they were deserved or would benefit her (she wouldnt jump chungi, and, noteably, even after woogie was genuinely evil and misogynistic (#evil sorry its true tho) in her in-game whispers and mapicc and minute went to jump him, she didnt actually jump in bc she felt bad. she didnt even jump in the first time mapicc jumped woogie that stream (the incident he was being evil in her whispers about) (this vod is in my warden reclist) bc. she felt bad!
so going into season seven, heres the hannah character we have: she's been abandoned over and over by literally everyone but mapicc and minute, she admires zam and wants to be like her, and she refuses to kill naked chungi. and shes PARANOID AF!!
and then on s7 day one shes constantly dropping hints about something big on the horizon and by the end of the stream she's exploited prot four and given jojo and Entire Speech about how on lifesteal you have to exploit or get exploited on. direct quote. let me see if i can find the clip hang on i have the vod OKAY HERE IT IS < this shit. is fucking crazy. oh my god.
so, in the start of s7 hannah steals the end. its her first big lifesteal project and its HUGE. its gamechanging. everyone hated her for it and didnt do anything with it and it fizzled out because bing won all the events and pitched hissy fits when they didnt (SORRY IM EVIL) (its true tho) but like. the fact alone that hannah, in the first week of her second season, managed to STEAL THE END. and let it be clear: it was hannahs idea, hannahs plan, hannahs leadership. it was all of DI's accomplishment but it was hannah's plan. anyway. thats fucking crazy. and like. ill write a proper post about this One Day (or, more likely, a fic) but DI was a direct response to bacon's warden arc.
let me elaborate: bacons warden arc was a lot of things (and there are any number of bacon blogs who could speak on that more eloquently than i could) but one of the crucial things he spoke about at the time was that it was important that it was a project. it was a big project that gave people a common enemy. one he betrayed hannah for.
so what does she do at the start of s7 when, crucially, no one wanted to team with her because they didnt think she brought anything to the table? (real thing someone said to her btw but not in those words idr the exact quote anymore) A BIG PROJECT THAT GIVES PEOPLE A COMMON ENEMY.
anyway. and then she and bacon were crazy fucking weird about eacb other and even tho no one took di seriously it was still awesome because he may be the fumbling fumbler and addicted to betraying hannah but baconwaffles lore goes fucking crazy wdym he asked her who shes teamed with she said "jojo.... and maybe woogie" and then he sold her a compromised base and his friendship for like a heart. in one 30 minute stream. hello. hello can anyone hear me thats fucking crazy. anyway what was i talking about again?
oh yeah hannahxxrose makes me sick in the head. i havent rlly talked abt hanmape much even tho theyre like tied w revenants for my favorite hannah duo um. but thats bc theyre lowkey rlly functional icl they dont have crazy lore they just care about each other so much and its really beautiful i love them. go my hanmape propaganda. and my revenants propaganda they make me sick i hope they both actually log on next season and i hope they continue to be just absolutely batshit insane about each other its so beautiful
and if i never elaborate on this one you have to forgive me becauae it is six in the goddamn fucking morning and I CAN'T SLEEP. things i've said before: a body is an open notebook. a body is an interrogation. things i've started saying and then failed to finish the fic for: a body is a performance. a body is a signal? or the medium through which a signal is conveyed. man okay . things i am considering: a body is a bargaining chip.
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re: an open notebook: a body is a thing you use to tell a story (consider: changing skins to indicate Significant Events Have Occurred. the acting out of behaviours such as limping when there is zero mechanical need for it. a body anchors you in a specific time and place from which a story can be unfolded). other people's bodies can be conscripted into your story. you know that thing in mcrp where in matters of disagreement about what happened fictionally, the person who has more narrative authority tends to get to decide? not as a product of actual mechanics or behind-the-scenes negotiation but because that's what the audience will know/remember/hear about? falling into someone's orbit or putting yourself in someone's orbit until you have made yourself legible to them and entangled with them, until they can reach into [who you are / what you are for / what you care about] and twist it for their own ends. drag you into a plot beat that forces you to change the entire way you present yourself to the world. overwrite the associations people have with your face.
re: an interrogation: a demand from the game itself that you ask what happened because (1) a body, as in a minecraft avatar, is not actually supposed to linger after the moment of death. the presence of a body after death indicates A Problem on the level of the game's mechanics. inviting questions of not just how and why did this death happen but also how and why did the outcomes that followed the death happen. (pointing at martyn's double life episode 3. around 48:30 he sees that ren has died. he goes to where it happened and ren's body is just there, tinted red, fallen over on the hillside. Something's Really Wrong There! also, separately, shoutouts to evan wengine for the concept of [the items a person drops when they die == their corpse] on account of that fucking rules. and that stuff despawns after five minutes too, so if you're seeing it, you should probably pay attention before you get got too <3) (2) being in a place invites the question how did you come to be in this place and to what end? i think minecraft's a really good game for ruined and abandoned places, the feeling of [something happened a while ago and you missed what exactly that was but nothing has really changed in the meantime], and A Body in that place is a question mark. why here if this place was otherwise untouched for so long? why you? also being in another person's / your old abandoned base is being in someone's body. i believe this.
re: a performance: a thing i recall being struck by when i was watching third life was the use of red life skins specifically to signal i'm dangerous, you should be afraid of me. digging up notes from the wip i still haven't gotten back to: "if this is a story about bodies as performance, mechs as self-aggrandizing projections into the world of intention and threat, then you have to talk about the handlers’ bodies too, how they perform, how they hold themselves." also, reading someone's armour to assess how much of a threat they are. we can take them because they're just in iron. we should stay clear of all that because they've got diamond. this is like the open notebook thing in that it's about a body as a surface to write on before it's really much of anything else? thirdly (are we on the third point? i'm about to fall asleep at my desk) i'm sort of enchanted by the way that minecraft bodies can... overlap? blend together? yknow, like, stand a little too close to someone and oops you are Inside Them and it's not always easy to tell where you start and end. the not being able to tell is the crux of it to me. insistently performing a separate/distinct self when it'd be so easy to not... additionally from my notes: "clutching at each other in the dark, whole-body, and touching and touching and touching and it doesn’t feel like anything, it doesn’t quite have weight — imagining it, after, lying under the blankets, is almost the same. shuddering, then slipping right through each other, wrenching each other apart and fighting for breath as indiscriminate viscera splatters across the blankets, the wooden planks"
re: a bargaining chip: been thinking about this in relation to vsmp because i feel like my interest in Bodies has kind of faded into a background thing, which is funny when vampires are so good for thinking about bodies, and i wanna see what other angles i can spin up. thing is, i dunno, everyone seems so intent on talking around video game mechanics in the videos that that's just not where my attention has gone so far. but. gestures at how apo was turned. gestures at owen framing [agreeing with legs in this negotiation] as [having his autonomy taken from him]. hmmm. it's cool how minecraft bodies are like. A Whole Thing? it's not like you can mechanically chop someone's arm off in vanilla. you can't give up a piece of yourself, it has to be your whole body or nothing. i've considered something adjacent to this before when thinking about [mcrp working best at the level of the operatic], like, you have to do the big dramatic gesture, if you want for example to communicate that you're protecting someone you can't just yank them out of the way or hold your arm out in front of them, you have to physically put your entire self between them and the danger. the vampires get their hands on you and they get all of you, the way you make sense of the world and the way you move through a space and the way you are understood by others, whether you like it or not.
can we bring back that whole thing abt how the necessity of a narrative is what dooms the character and apply it to mcyt or no. we cld even consider the even greater (?) pressure of having to produce a video or god knows how many streams from it that makes players fervently construct stories and endings. you know what im talking about. the narrative as a grave
bacon i know u check ur indirects sometimes so i just want to give you feedback as a loyal viewer who loves your content & has commented under your videos to boost algorithm before: that shit was genuinely ass & it felt like putting down a beloved pet. i hope as a client-oriented businessman you take this into account for any future endeavors much love & cant wait to see you on lss8 baconnwaffles0 baconwaffles0 baconwaffles baconnwaffles
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the "at least there's the view" line from bart in subnautica is genuinely one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in any media ever and i think about bart torgal at least once a week
theres something so dear to me about a guy who crash lands on a planet, knows he's likely going to die on that planet, and still finds a way to love that planet and the creatures who inhabit it
i shared a couple of my thoughts on creating this piece in my twitter replies, but I wanted to go more in depth with it since this entire concept has been haunting me since october!
first: the composition. this piece is intentionally in vertical orientation, and it's for two main reasons. one of them is the visual pluralism of joker 'exiting' toward the surface (top of illustration) and akechi remaining in the underworld (bottom of illustration), which is just like, wordplay but in visual form.
the second, more distinct one is to make obvious the readability of progression. as your eyes (and your screen) travel down the piece, they follow joker's (orpheus's) changing figure, and become witness to him as he actively turns around. similarly (this was an observation by someone in my replies!), as you scroll past the image, you slowly cut off parts of it until akechi is the only thing left. if in horizontal orientation, it could be read L->R or R->L which would obscure the action being conveyed: orpheus is looking back, not turning forward.
moreover, in regards to lighting and colors, i wanted them to reflect the gradual shift from the surface, to the underworld—from our true reality, to maruki's reality. closer to the exit, joker is kissed by the warm hues of sunlight. overall, his coloring is darker and more grounded; his shadows have form and weight to them. but, as he recedes back into the throes of the underworld, maruki's reality awashes both him and akechi in bright pastels that are saturated and shadowless—ghostly and unreal. it's that specific sense of 'unreality' that i wanted to convey.
the last thing of note is joker's reflection on the lefthand side. this, combined with the fact that you don't see akechi's reflection, represents their souls and the uncertainty of by akechi's existence: is he there, or not? is he real, or not? is he part of reality, or not? neither the audience or joker know the answer, which is why you can't see his reflection.
now, my jumbled thoughts on joker and akechi's relation to the myth of orpheus and eurydice!
this piece is a portrayal of the 'bad end' (accepting maruki's reality) because the defining component of the myth's tragedy is that orpheus, no matter what, will always look back. there's a variety of reasons/ portrayals of how he looks back, why he looks back, and when he does, but he always looks back. and it is always an act of love. orpheus looks back because he loves eurydice—he holds her so dear that he can't make it out of the underworld without knowing she's there.
orpheus is the active player in their myth—the one who traverses the underworld, sings his songs, and begs hades to let eurydice return. seldom do we get ever get eurydice's perspective. she does not have agency/control over her death, nor over her return—it is she who is taken to the underworld, and it is she who is bargained for—never is it her own choice. i imagine you can start to see the akechi parallels. despite the fact that eurydice is stripped of her agency, it doesn't discount the fact that orpheus's choices were made out of love for her at every step, and that he dooms them both because he loves her so dearly.
third semester as a whole is constructed on the cast's deepest, most intimate desires, and for joker, his greatest desire is to see akechi again. the same is true for orpheus. for both of them, that desire is what dooms everyone involved.
in another draft of this idea, i had a comic-like line overlay of joker's eyes, tearily turned to the side in unknowing. akechi's face was obscured, so neither the viewer nor joker knew what he was thinking. in this version, you see joker turn around, and outstretch his hand towards akechi. if you were to look closer at akechi's body language, you can see how he stands stiffly, and his foot is retracting, as if in retreat. you don't know what he's thinking. but you do see that akechi is looking forward, toward his own death, while joker looks back at him and wants nothing more than to see him again.
the caption i chose is ironic; everyone knows how this story goes. "orpheus, don't look back" is nothing more than a frail warning that does nothing to prevent what will happen and will always happen: orpheus looks back.
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