typing from memory so I'm bound to miss or misremember something but: a couple of my favourite Etho moments from LimLife are exclusive to povs that aren't his because they're largely just moments of Etho expressing frustration.
The first is when Gem (as Cleo) unceremoniously kills him maybe a second time after he goes to the clockers for 'family dinner'. Bdubs does warn Etho about his impending death but what bothers Etho is that he was playing into a creative roleplay angle and essentially got punished for playing along. The second is similar, when he tells Scar he's about to break character, because again he's playing into the dad character trying to play around with his sons and is instead being hit a bunch for it in ways he doesn't see as befitting the scene or framework. I think this tells us a bit about Etho's concept for the function of improv in the series and its relationship to the death game competition they are all participating in.
It's also further substantiated by Wild Life, where Etho talks to both allies and enemies about events from his perspective and the upcoming plans, namely that he will go along with riding Scar's very-obviously-a-trap 'rollercoaster'. iirc Etho doesn't actually call out the game being played here explicitly, but he evidently wants to give Scar a payoff for what has largely been a season-long plan with team skin theming that hasn't really amounted to a substantial effect. Etho knows the rollercoaster is likely to kill him, knows Scar in particular likes to kill him, and still chooses to play along because of the value Etho has placed on improv and creativity for the series.
The LimLife death frustration isn't from dying, but from how rote, uncreative, and therefore meaningless it is. I think these moments of minor frustration are really interesting to me because it's reflective of Etho's thoughts for what the life series is, where it's value is, and what his place in it 'should' be - it isn't just a logistical or detached choice but instead a mindset he plays in that can drive emotions in him if things get misaligned, negative emotions which he doesn't want to indulge in as part of a character development, which i dont think is necessarily true of everyone.
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