"I know you think you are breaking the cycle by sparing me"
"One day you're gonna look around and you're gonna see you've made a mafia of your own. You're gonna see that you're surrounded by sycophants and people who will do anything to please you. And all you care about is accruing more and more power... and when you realize that, when you come to your senses, I'll be there."
-General Ashswag, The End of the Minecraft Mafia
He was right. We thought he was right before.
I thought the other moments were Ashswag being right. When Spoke attacked Mapicc and Zam. When Mapicc "died." When he lied so MANY times. When he just mongered for power. I thought this quote had already come to pass.
oh HO was I fucking WRONG.
He made a mafia of his own. The Null is his mafia. They are his sycophants they are the ones who live to please him and do his bidding.
All he wants is power. He wanted a quadrant of the End, now he wants the full dimension. He will march onto the Overworld, and soon the Nether to properly claim it as his. He doesn't care about the bodies on the ground because they are all for his greater purpose.
Just like Ashswag. Just like the Mafia arc before.
I have said he won't stop. Even if the world is burning around him and his throat is filled with ash. He will not. I thought maybe, just maybe he could go back, that he could change.
Every story needs its villain, and Spoke is unfortunately (but not surprisingly) that villain. He has no limits on what he can do now, unless it's resources. He has those sycophants who will do anything for him.
And they do it for a lie.
Spoke isn't strong like they think. He isn't what they truly want. Like many times before, he is absolutely gaslighting them and he doesn't even MEAN to. He is running on hubris, spite, and a mirage of trust. He covers what they perceive as weakness with something JUST on the edge of calculation.
Yes, he killed all those players. Yes, he is tearing civilization after civilization down. But. He. Kept. Minute. Alive.
After all this time, after all these months, maybe YEARS, he still cares about Minute.
He cares, and he's scared to admit it because it'll make him lose all the power that he has just gained. It would make him fail like Jamato-- who in turn knows that Spoke is inadvertently lying to Null.
He thought that sending Mapicc into the "Void" would help him? No. Ohhh no Spokeishere. You just put him into a box where you know he won't get hurt. You threw him into a dimension only a handful of people know about, and it was to protect him. Deep down it was to keep him safe. (also throwing out my theory that maybe Wemmbu or someone will realize somehow someway that Mapicc in the Underworld and go get him)
He spares all these people thinking it'll fix him that he'll break the cycle that it's balance out what he's done. He thinks this in a black and white matter where it's either in his plans or not.
He doesn't see what is right in front of him. Inside of him.
He is cocky. He is too power pilled. He is blinded.
He doesn't see ahead anymore. Notice how he went from mischief and traps to fighting? How he doesn't predict anymore and he just is so upfront about conflict? He explains it in a matter that makes you think that he is thinking ahead, when he really isn't.
Let's bring back Minute. He really thinks that Minute won't keep trying. Null made him so self assured, that he isn't even WORRYING about Minute coming back to mess with him. He doesn't think about Jumper, or the prisoners who escaped. He doesn't think about the fact that his castle is basically free to walk into.
He has lost his ability to think ahead because he has no need in his eyes to do so. He has most everything he could want at his beck and call, he has everything he ever wanted.
Let me back this up, Spoke has ALWAYS. ALWAYS. wanted an army of his own. Forget the power, forget his trauma, he has ALWAYS wanted people under him who will do things to his will's end.
He manipulates, he lies, he fakes, and he cheats. The manipulation of Wifies and Parrot? That 100 player (might be off) army he made? The favors he still holds over Parrot's and Wemmbu's heads?
He has always wanted control over people. The signs were there all along and now they finally tie together.
oh spoke. oh dear. they were right about you weren't they?
Let me give y'all another parallel.
"Every Mafia member goes down with me"
"If I die, the entire army goes down with me."
He is directly proving Ashswag correct.
That isn't isn't even what is making my brain scream. It's the fact that this blatantly shows how he just didn't care or believe Ashswag in the SLIGHTEST when they had that talk.
He basically had it go through one ear and out the other. He didn't think that he would go down that path, he never did. We have NEVER had a flashback with Spoke to that time with Ash. Never. That is a direct representation of this.
Another detail I'd like to point out, a parallel if you will.
Wemmbu being offered thorns by Arachn1d and refusing them.
Spoke using thorns and practically priding himself.
Because to Spoke, when he uses thorns, HE isn't doing anything. The baseline of the thorns mechanic is that damage is dealt to the attacker after hitting you.
It's the other person's fault.
Technically no blood on his hands right?
I think this will be the breaking point for Spoke, when he realizes that Jamato was right and he was wrong. Jamato is an interesting character to me because like Ashswag, he also has ALWAYS clocked Spoke's shit. Always. He calls out his hubris, he blindness, his inability to see failure, his flawed trust in Null and whoever is around him.
He has always been right. That will destroy Spoke.
Upfront brutality will only get you so far darling. I fear that sooner or later, you will crack.Jamato and Ash will both be right about you. They ARE right about you.
Jamato, Leo, Jumper, Mapicc, Rose, Minute, Planet, Parrot, Wemmbu, Flame, all of them.
How long till you are crushed by the people you have undermined.
How long until the blood on your hands cracks and flakes away leaving nothing behind.
When will you see that you only escaped what was coming for you long before even thought about this.
Mark my words Spokeishere. The second you see, it will be the last time of clarity for you, and it'll tear you apart.
You will die trying to disprove them.
