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watching bingey's vod of the recent bliss fight is so funny like Brother Why Are You Complaining YOU CODED THIS!!! xD
in general LE complaining is funny af to me. the chatters complaining, on the other hand... like guys, i get it looks unfair, but wyll has a mace. their ONLY recourse is to run numbers against LE. idk what the general pvp knowledge is but genuinely, a mace is terrifying. a mace that you get enchants with upon a pop? that's even more scary. you can snowball REALLY easily, and he has on multiple occasions been able to do that. like ik it looks unfair but at the same time, it's the equivalent of bringing a gun to a fist fight. not to mention the ultimate support in mugm's gold gem. like yea they have 10 people but also notice how most of them are on brink of death after each fight with 2 totem pops. this shit is not unfair by any means. especially if they get additional members in lezy and silva? like, come the fuck on.
also, if stormz or pika slip up once, it's kind of over for solar eclipse(flare?). stormz in particular is the win con bc he's been shutting down wyll so completely. the fact that they complain about that is kinda funny too ngl like it's just smart play. if the power is in the fact they have numbers, the imperative would be to keep as many people alive as possible, and the method to do so would be to shut down wyll, who can instakill everyone.
i do wonder if shutting down wyll is a better gameplan than just trying to kill the minions as quick as possible. i kinda like it bc i feel like if too many on the LE side die, they will run (which is reasonable) and it's pretty hard to catch up to someone that's running properly in minecraft; wyll runs speed or puff and we don't need to talk about mugm. so it's about maintaining the numbers but also stopping quakitus + pinity + pro + bingey from being too effective. it does seem that as long as they can pop pinity, it seems like it's basically insta-kill bc afaik pinity's binding vow is to take triple damage after totem pop from gems.
on a final note. i'm so biased lmao they were talking shit about stormz and i was like "NOOO STOP DON'T SHIT ON HIM HE'S PLAYING DEFENSE :(((" xD the comms on LE side are so different from the comms on SE(SF?) side; tbf, they WERE being beset upon by 9 people, and wyll and mugm are kind of crashouts on the best of days lmao. quakitus is also possibly the most sharptongued of the entire server. so LE was just insulting everyone xD STORMZ IN PARTICULAR LEAVE HIM ALONEEEEEEEE stop being mad that he's doing his job well 😭 YOU CAN'T BLAME PEOPLE FOR PLAYING SMART STOP DOGGING ON HIM 😭
I wonder if the reason why Spoke is often held to higher standards than anyone else on Unstable (including the villains that caused the deaths of thousands, committed mass kidnappings, coerced thousands into joining their criminal enterprise, or abused him in particular) is because he's an unreliable narrator in a way people aren't used to.
Spoke has a tendency to hold onto guilt far more than any of the other protagonists. He sees himself as worse than he actually factually is. And he claims often to be evil (examples: he had a whole speech trying to convince Jumper not to work with him even when their goals aligned because he saw himself as not good enough, he tried to point out to Jamato that what he was doing was fucked up by saying "you're just as evil as me" when Jamato is just objectively so much worse) and holds himself accountable for things he wouldn't judge others for (see him not getting upset at all at Vix for having made escape plans that didn't include him despite having thought it important to clarify every time that even if he escaped he'd come back to free everyone, or even his only judging Jamato for his continuos use of exploits only after finding the water in the Nether despite having been made to feel like a monster for ever exploiting in the first place himself).
Usually, unreliable narrators are more so used to minimize the flaws of a character's actions, not to enhance them. And I wonder if this twist to the norm is what throws people off so much. If most don't notice the unreliability of his narration at all. Or if they notice it, but somehow mistake it for minimizing instead.
So what has Spoke done? He killed Rose and a bunch of Jumper's spies. All relatively innocent characters that didn't need to die.
What is one prominent character that hasn't?
He stole. Like literally everyone else. Lied and manipulated, like literally everyone else.
He threatened to blow up Capital City. Wemmbu actually carried through with it and without any reasonable justification for it.
Wemmbu also exploded Highwater, sacrificing thousands for Egg. Flame joined a faction whose stated goal is to kill all the new people (literally murdering immigrants as a solution to systemic problems that existed well before their arrival). And Parrot rushed into opening Spawn when he didn't have food production or safety under control, which led to the deaths of presumably thousands.
And yet the judgment toward them is nowhere near as harsh as it is for the one guy who's done nothing that egregious because they're all standard unreliable narrators. They present themselves better. They see themselves as heroes or as justified in some way...
It's interesting in an odd way
Astralyn: ‘I’m bound to a contract Moldy, they’re always watching me even right now, they’re watching both you and me.’
Moldy: ‘I do not CARE about your story. Just give the elytra or your dying.’
It’s really interesting that Moldy’s eyes are glowing, it shows how mad he is and how he desperately needs it, it really shows how much he values those around him.
It’s like he thinks of the gifts he gets and gives as small parts of the people. The elytra was a gift from Astral and emphasizes multiple times that it is from her, its like since he doesn’t have her close at the moment, the elytra is a reminder of her.
It also works for the gift Moldy gave to Yasmin, it was a piece of him and his feelings which is why he was so upset that she gave his gift away.
I wrote a Spoke centric fic, you should definitely check it out. Its super cool and great, i promise, you totally want to check it out (/j (think of me trying to hypnotize you image)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/82074536
Outrunning karma, that boy
Bare with me fam.
What if the hunters represent Spoke's past. Everyone he has killed that has had ANY meaning to him.
Yes. I mean to say what if one of those hunters represents Leo-fucking-wook.
What if these SHADOWS are his past catching up to him. What if in this arc we not only get Spoke facing his past, but we see the other protags face theirs as well.
Parrot facing his trauma and cracking under the pressure of a kingdom who repels him.
Flame chasing a future with his past still trailing his heels.
Wemmbu finding peace knowing chaos is a constant at his door
And Spoke. Finally facing the punishments and trials of his actions.
I think this arc will take some, if not all, our protags to the edge. It will at least test Parrot and Spoke as we've already seen. I just really am curious if the hunters represent anyone to Spoke. Leo is the first name I think of with major deaths related to Spoke, but naturally there are others.
ough.
first time showing off my art kinda nervous ;w;!! Yippie! I have a bunch of artworks stored i wanna show but ima post them one by one like one each day bc why not uhhh only one of them is gonna be non-spoke related in some way lmao XDDD anyway yeah heres the first one hes a silly. Also, dont feed my work to ai :D
experiment astral au.... experiment astral au.....
hello spokelings its me again. I'm thinking again
specifically about the way spoke was yelling at leo to pull his stasis so much in the final fight. at first this guy seems like he wants to see leo run away like a coward, but by the end of the video we know its basically "KILL YOURSELF"
its not like bloodthirsty protagonists are anything new, we have flame and wemmbu fighting over kills in the same episode. there's something Different about the way spoke does it. its not the simple lust for glory that we're used to seeing
back when he killed rose, ash said it perfectly! (stfu I'll bring up ash as much as I want in these) what spoke does is cruel. not a simple, upfront stab, no. its the traps. the deception. spoke doesn't just want honour or fame, he wants to Trick people. the idea that leo could be lured into a false sense of security, thinking he's safe and away from the fight, only to be dropped into the void, was EXCITING. to the point where spoke just HAD to see it with his own eyes
he's sadistic in a way that people like flame and wemmbu aren't. those two like the thrill of the fight, its simple fun! they like fighting and they like winning! no, they're not above intimidation methods to get their way, but they never seem to enjoy doing it. but spoke? he Delights in being cruel on purpose. there's a notable difference in the way spoke tortures people for information compared to how the other protags do it. he can never just trap them in a box and hit them, no. he builds ridiculous contraptions filled with potions! does the most unnecessary stuff and for what?? literally why?? hitting them with a sword would have been just as effective but no. thats no fun!
another thing is that spoke isn't very open about this side of him. he tends to keep it hidden. however, he was able to shout at leo all he wanted to, because to everyone else it just sounded like he was telling leo to retreat! dare I say he might have gotten a kick out of that too. that he could shout a threat so openly while everyone else had no idea what it really implied
anyway yeah point of this post is spoke is bloodthirsty in a very unique and sinister way. but we already knew that I just wanted to say it
Ok so hear me out on this one because it's
It's a little insane.
What if... What if Jamato really is the server Op? HEAR ME OUT
If he IS. Which I really think he might be with that portal move they pulled in Wemmbu's vid. If he is, why hasn't he used that power to stop Spoke already? I hear you ask, yee of little faith. Well I'm here to answer that.
Jamato wants to beat Spoke fair and square. No glitches. No exploits. No power. No cheats. Because that's the *only way he'll learn.* BUT☝️ I don't think he'll be above manipulating a situation into 'fairness' in order to do so.
Just picture (this is where this whole theory is coming from) Jamato with an army of players ready to stop Spoke, and Spoke*laughing*, because when has an army ever stopped him before? "You think an army is going to beat me? You've just doomed these players to die, Jamato!"
And that may be so.. but what if he evened the playing field? What if he wiped Spoke's inventory and gave him *exactly* the same gear as his army? What then?
"I'd like to see you lie your way out of this one, Spoke."
Can you. Can you see my vision. Or am I going insane? This one is maybe a little TOO out there... But just imagine... Ough...
I just watched Quakitus’ showtime SMP vids and now I feel sick to my stomach.
What a silly little guy
Spoke is not like wifies
spoke’s peformance when he thought mapicc was dead is so sad because despite all the jokes about him being like wifies in the comment section, he might evolve to become something like wifies, but its actually really unlikely.
the concern that spoke expressed towards mapicc being dead wasn’t a wifies move, because he’s not overprotective, he’s dependant
wifies wanted parrot to rely on his own actions, and keep himself safe, but spoke relies on mapicc for his own actions, letting mapicc’s decisions and his eventual (not really) death shape his actions, meaning he’s dependant, not overprotective like wifies was.
while i do think that spoke could go into a villian arc right now, i actually find it really unlikely at the end of the day because its not pure evil shaping his motives, its probably something around an undiagnosed mental disorder.
when you have a mental disorder and are dependant on someone, that someone can suffer the consequences of your actions or the way your mind works, eventually being in charge of your mental health without ever consenting to doing so.
being in charge of someone’s mental health when you dont want to is really hard, and as someone with personal experience, can be really draining causing the person that is being depended on to leave.
spoke being dependent on mapicc could be really damaging to mapicc, which might mean mapicc will leave spoke, leading into a villian arc rather than going into one right now.
I feel like im yelling at a wall though and making connections that dont exist though
Yes!!!
This has genuinely bothered me for a while, cuz Wifies and Spoke have some similarities, but the situations and dynamics are so different and the way they and their counterparts actions and reactions are so different.
Random thought I had and dragged a couple friends down the rabbit hole:
Being chunk banned is like being voided, except nothing happens. You’re stuck in a cold, black void. You’re body can’t handle being there, so the ban destroys your body for the time being, making your consciousness the only thing that exists until you get out.
Time works differently in the void or it feels different. Seconds feels like minutes, minutes like hours, hours equals days, days become months, so on and so forth. You lose all sense of time and purpose as soon as your in, doomed to wait until you get saved from this nightmare.
How you perceive the world also becomes a huge difference. You have become so used to the cold nothingness that numbs you, the silence that was so ear shattering has disappeared and your back in a world with loud sounds, people, colors, shapes and temperatures, worst of all you can’t ignore it and you can do nothing to numb the pain.
When you get out of it, you’re stuck in a body that doesn’t feel like yours anymore. Maybe your body got destroyed and remade when you got back, maybe you’ve grown too used to the void, to not have a body and now nothing feels right anymore
After coming back everything is wrong, you’re body isn’t working like it used to and it’s constantly shutting down on you. You forget to breathe, eat, sleep and everything that makes you you. It’s much weaker than what you used to be after all the time you’ve spent away from it. You have to care for needs you don’t remember having or needing and you feel like you’ve lost all sense of your humanity. (or whatever species they are)
Both your mind and body freaks out, your legs can’t carry your full weight anymore, working like a newborn horse. Your hands can’t hold onto things for long before your grip gives in. You can’t fully process barely do anything without shaking like a leaf because of the exhaustion and overstimulation.
Your body is actively fighting you, rejecting your presence, trying to kick you out, because you are not the one who used to inhabit it, at least not anymore.
You don’t remember how time works anymore, you’re sense has become so skewed that you work for hours on end, without any breaks because those hours of hard work has been nothing but a couple of minutes in your mind. They have no way of actually adjusting back because how do understand the way time works again when you have lived so long without it being a thing.
You have to deal with migraines every single day, a nausea that won’t leave, you can’t fully process what’s happening around you, more times than not you’re dissociating trying to get away from it all. No matter how much you hide in dark rooms, run away to the end, but nothing fixes your problems.
You need the darkness, the cold feeling that hurts, a silence that can never be reciprocated. You need the void, to be chunk banned again, your practically going insane with how much you need to return, because you can’t survive like this. You can’t live like this.
thinking about uu!minute spoke and mapicc make me so ill. spoke and mapicc just admired and looked up to minute so much and minute adored them to death and spoke starting making his own traps and escape tunnels because he wanted to do it like minute and to mapicc and spoke minute was the best thing ever their hero their saviour it was minute that gave them the hope and possibility of actually being able to fight back against the mafia and even after spoke blows up at minute even when he screams at him to leave, the moment mapicc messages him that spoke is in danger minute zips across the entire server to be there for them i’m so ill i’m nauseous thinking about them they make me sick to my stomach oughhhhghhghh
Spoke as a voidling, but he’s actually a part of the void and functions like mix between that and a black hole.
The void consumes everything, leaving nothing behind, kinda how Spoke wants no witnesses, no consequences, no nothing and will go to great lengths to achieve that goal.
So imagine, every player he’s killed, both by hand and by his traps become a part of him. He consumes their bodies and souls, but not in the normal way, he’s like a black hole everything gets pulled towards his being, until nothing is left and there’s nothing he can do about it. Every body, soul, though and feeling gets consumed until it’s a part of him.
The invis mafia, the reason his questionable behavior got like that is because his body subconsciously pulled in so much negativity until it started sounding reasonable to him. All the guilt and hate he felt came from Mapicc, Leo, Planet and Rose and their own opinions about the mafia.
It would also be interesting if he could still hear and feel the deceased, they’re still there just trapped within his own body.
Every day I get more and more unwell about Spoke...
What if he slowly becomes my favorite
Funky little void man I like the way you work. I must rotate you and your guilt around in my brain. I must dissect your thoughts processes. Simultaneously acting like you're grander than everything but you're haunted by the narrative. The narrative is haunting YOU. Not you it. But the ones you killed... Oh the ones you killed. How they possess your every waking thought and action. Ropes around your wrists tied to their dead hands. (This goes for the ones that may as well be dead, too. Does it haunt you that your first friend left you? Does it? Does it rip your insides to shreds? The way they left you? They saw it in your eyes. You've become exactly what they feared. Do you see it?)
See that's what I mean about being Unwell about Spoke. The self fulfilling prophecy type shit.
Do you understand uu Tumblr do you UNDERSTAND?
This is so real, I need to see everything collapse around him until he has nothing left.
let him make every wrong decision, let BAT, his army, Flame / Parrot hunt him down, I need him terrified and desperate in a corner with no way out.
Long post ahead about the UU protagonists' writing, more specifically Spoke, so be warned.
For context I've only recently started watching UU, so the only Spoke video I've watched is his latest one, but holy. The guy is... terrifying charismatic. His video hits the ground running with all the lies and manipulation, then 50 minutes later you walk away rooting for this morally bankrupt magnificent bastard. Even more impressive, he pulls this off while lacking the clear redeeming qualities of the other UU protagonists, navigating a character arc centred on much less well-established tropes.
Obviously, all the UU protagonists are heavily flawed characters. That's what makes them interesting. Yet, I will argue that all of them except Spoke also have what I call 'likeability factors' built into their characters that help them remain on the audience's good side even during their worst moments. To elaborate:
Wemmbu is a self-centred mass murderer who would slaughter hundreds without a second thought. But the medium being minecraft, and so-called "death" being a ban, naturally soften the severity of his actions, because let's be honest we're not there to watch random players build dirt huts anyway. In addition, he benefits massively from the Rule of Cool (audience will keep watching and rooting for him just to see impressive stuff), his witty narration, and how he builds genuinely meaningful relationship with many characters. There's a very obvious deeper level to Wemmbu: he can't help but care about the people around him, and that is an extremely endearing quality.
Flamefrags is obssessed with being the 'strongest' on the server, often to the detriment of his interpersonal relationships. That can be frustrating to an audience. However, the obsession also gives Flamefrags a very clear direction for character development. There is no fear that his character will sudden go off the rail and become OOC, because the arc of self-actualisation is built so intrinsically in you basically know where he's going to go. It also allows him to foil a lot of other characters with differnet relationships to the concept of strength, adding narrative interest. Finally, he is by far the biggest benefitter from the Rule of Cool, especially in regards to his reputation and how no sane person will ever dismiss him as a threat. The constant respect makes Flame a very satisfuing POV to watch.
Parrot has a more difficult job retaining sympathy than the other two. As the designated smart-but-weak guy often reduced to screaming at Theo for help, the Rule of Cool does not work in his favour. More importantly, the self-righteousness and hypocrisy Parrot displays are some of the most alienating traits a character can have. Nonetheless, his intelligence sets him apart, and his long, emotionally-charged story with Wifies offers a lot of justification for his less savory qualities. Similarly to Flame, Parrots' obvious flaws give him an obvious direction to improve. Like in his latest episode with Marloww, when the character development finally sets in, it is immensely satisfying.
Finally, we have Spoke, who is quite honestly working with nothing. In his latest episode alone, he displayed all the worst qualities of the other protagonists, and none of the strengths. He is a pathological lier, trying to get Jumper to underestimate the size of an explosion even as both their lives hang on a thread. He is hypocritical, calling out BAT's unfairness as if he hadn't done worse. He hides the spies' netherite armour under the house of players he supposedly cares for, because ultimately the "found family" is about alleviating his own guilt than their safety. He sets up an innocent player to die in his stead, displaying a blatant disregard for others like Wemmbu and Flamefrags, then laughs. No puzzle-solving brilliance or combat skills, just paranoia, lies, and manipulation.
It would be one thing to commit to being a villain. And yet, despite not doing a single likeable thing in the entire 50 minutes runtime of his video, uu!Spoke is successfully presented as sympatheitc. How?
Ultimately, I think it comes down to the rather unique attitude he has towards his enemies in BAT. He can yell and quip all he wants when speaking to them; when he's alone, the narration sounds tired. There is no gloating or celebration when successfully manipulating Jumper; he acknowledges that she represents justice. There is no lashing out at Leow0ok in indignance; he accepts the animosity because he knows he deserves it. Every time a trap works, the music stops and the story moves on. There is a suffocatingly strong sense of guilt that permeates the video, almost as if uu!Spoke himself couldn't bear to elaborate on certain parts as he tells the story. It is an example of an already-complex character executed with beautiful subtlety, and the effects are incredible.
