MCC Winner PoV

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[barkingupthelittlewood]

i feel like there is a significant overlap between the xbralis fanatics and the treebark warriors. myself included in that. their dynamics are so different, but i feel like i always see folks who are big on both pairings

[orangeocelotmartyn]

xB: Y'know I actually installed a new game, and I was like, y'know what, I'm just gonna play a little bit of this, and just kinda chill. And then I was like, y'know. I-I started. On that there...uh, shaft. And you never wanna start. On a shaft. And then just leave it, y'know what I mean? You should finish, is all I'm saying.

[orangeocelotmartyn]

[in chat: Katie: i can be a backpack Katie: i store things] 4c: You store things? Do you have a lot of inventory space? [Katie: inventory! [Katie: yes! 4c: (through laughter) I just-I just carry you on my back through the caves. [Katie: huzzah! 4c: (through laughter) I fear, I fear my character, how I view my character is like a little, short slime, who's like, who's like 4'11. If I was trying to carry you on my back that would be really awkward. (he laughs) [Katie: goo puddle 4c: "Goo puddle." I would just get squished. [Katie: LMFAO 4c: I don't have bones. I'm just slime. [Katie: YOU DONT HAVE BONES??? [Katie: woah. 4c: We had this discussion today, I'm just slime. Yeah. [Katie: the more you know 4c: How do you think I bounce? My whole body, like. Squishes into a ball and then bounces right back up. "The more you know." Yeah. (reading chat) "It's canon, 4'11," well I don't know if 4'11 is canon for the-for the height of the character. I just imagine my character is just a lil guy, y'know? He's just a little gremlin who steals from people's pockets.

[orangeocelotmartyn]

[orangeocelotmartyn]

He hates ice cream 😔

[orangeocelotmartyn]

[orangeocelotmartyn]

4c: Oh, Ish, do you wanna see a cool sticker? (puts down a red heart sticker in front of Ish) Scott: Hello! Cam: Scott, it's Hole in the Wall! Scott: I know! Ish: Well isn't this nice, 4c. (4c laughs harder, runs away from Ish) Scott: We ready to wall the hole? Cam: I'm ready. Ish is the master of the hole. (Ish laughs, gets serious, beat of silence) What? 4c: That is what he says. Ish: I, I started-I started off really liking—cause you started with "Ish is the master—" Cam: No, you-you were really good at Hole in the Wall, you were brilliant. You were really, really great. 4c: Oh goodness me. Ish: You need to phrase that in a manner, that is...a little bit—different. Cam: Oh, sorry. Oh. Well you're really good at getting through the hole in the wall. Ish: No, no— Scott: You're a hole master! Cam: You are a hole— Ish: No, no, Scott. That is not helping. Scott: Wh-oh— Ish: This—okay. I am a master. At Hole in the Wall. Scott: You're a master of hole, okay. Cam: Okay, good. Thank you for clarifying. Ish: No, no no no— 4c: Glad we got that clear. Cam: That's perfect. That's really great. Scott: Yeah, glad we got the right order. 4c: Okay. Alright. Ish: Chat, I need help. Cam: Bring on the wall! 4c: Audience blockout! Scott: I'm sorry, you of all people cannot say, "chat I need help," with the stuff you have been saying in our group chat— 4c: Oh god, no, no— Scott: You literally went onto 4c's stream when he was AFK, and put on a skin of you shirtless! (4c laughs) You that you could stand in front of the camera. 4c: (sees his skin walking around in the dome) Wait, that's me! Why am I down there? Scott: I will not be having-I will not be having any of this. Thank you very much! Ish: 4c was AFK, 4c was AFK in MCC Lobby, so I changed 4c: No way— Ish:—it's called my "Ish Daddy 2 skin." Uh, I changed to that skin— Scott: Why—what was "daddy 1?" Ish: Uh, it was taken, (through laughter) that's what it was. It's a username—

[orangeocelotmartyn]

4c: Yeah, but, essentially, like. It was crazy how you managed to find every single thing I cared about in the server, and...broke it. Like, you made me not care about—like, I noticed that when Apo came over, and was like, "oh do you wanna go and play in the arena?" And I couldn't backstab anymore. Or like, oh, Cherri was like, "oh you wanna come parkour," or, "you wanna-you wanna come play some Farkle?" That was why I was there! That was why I was put in that—I-I was like, processing, I was like, "what do I do now?" Like it was (through laughter) genuinely like. I just have to keep going, I guess. (trailing off) But yeah that was it.

Nom: All Owen's taken from that is that it worked. (audience laughs)

[orangeocelotmartyn]

4c: —and then the blindness goes away and I see this massive parkour—and I love parkour, so I was like, "oh, this is perfect!" It was not perfect. (audience laughs) It was not. (4c laughs) Owen: A special thank you to the testers of the team, as well, who put that together. Um, they really—they all worked together in three different installments, um, and I-they were all like, "yeah, he'll-he'll be fine. It'll be okay." 4c: And they tested it without checkpoints? At all? Owen: No, no one tested it without checkpoints. We-we knew each bit was p-was actually possible? But no one had done it strung together. So you were the first.

4c: I feel like, like, the-the biggest thing, like. I knew this is something I could do when I was parkouring, and just going through it. But it was just a fun moment for my character, cause as I said, originally my character was meant to be evil, or meant to be this, like, villain character? But in this moment it was like. I just had everything just hitting me all at once for my character. I didn't expect that, and it was crazy how that character kind of became, like, a symbol of hope? In a way? Which I didn't expect? And it was like, I was trying to like, say things like, "we can ke-we can get through this, we can make it out." Like, "we can do this," and then I just started saying the same phrase of like, "we always bounce back." Over and over and over again, until my voice was just giving out. But that was the thing keeping me going, and I think other people started saying it, it just became a thing. That was just going? And, um, I, like, that was how I got through it. At the end of the day. And also I can't believe you were watching me that whole time. Owen: I was so tired. 4c: That was sick and twisted. Luanne: I stayed up with Owen, I had to see what he came up with for this. It was a long night. Owen: I remember walking into our room being like, "it's going to be a long night." Just like, "I'll-I'll catch up with you later." 4c: Yeah, but, essentially, like. It was crazy how you managed to find every single thing I cared about in the server, and...broke it. Like, you made me not care about—like, I noticed that when Apo came over, and was like, "oh do you wanna go and play in the arena?" And I couldn't backstab anymore. Or like, oh, Cherri was like, "oh you wanna come parkour," or, "you wanna-you wanna come play some Farkle?" That was why I was there! That was why I was put in that—I-I was like, processing, I was like, "what do I do now?" Like it was (through laughter) genuinely like. I just have to keep going, I guess. (trailing off) But yeah that was it. Nom: All Owen's taken from that is that it worked. (audience laughs)

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Katie: Hello. (Nom laughs) Owen: Katie, uh, what lead up to your character answering the final question from the Creaking King— Nom: She wants me dead. Owen: —in the way that she did— Katie: No— Owen: —the Creaking King was a, a point of contention for you a lot, the Creaking King.

Katie: The Creaking King was evil and I did not like him one bit. Um, I think—this one was the third installment, I think? Of options that my character got? Which was crazy, cause initially—I think I have you to blame, 4c, for the whole answer...thing? Choosing between it? Because we were talking one night about what your Hell would be? Cause he was talking about his Parkour Hell and I was like, "I think it would be trolley problems, I'm incapable of making decisions," so I think, if I'm not mistaken, you messaged Owen and were like, "I have this really good idea about put-putting (audience laughs) Katie through, through the ringer and making her do trolley problems." So that wasn't even something that was meant to be, character-wise, that was just me? As a person, I suck at making decisions. 4c: I messaged Owen immediately. (audience laughs) Owen: Apo I think you also put some input into that question as well? Apo: Oh yeah, I wrote it. Owen: This is me not, I'm like, "it's not all my fault! It's Apo's fault as well!" Apo: Oh no, I'm-I-I did that, I'm—at the end, when like, you know, there was like, you know, fifteen other creators being like, "what's taking so long?" For like ten minutes— Katie: For ten minutes! I thought that everybody else had a— Apo: Yeah— Owen: We knew we had to give it ten minutes or you would just le-like, wait it out? Apo: Yeah. Owen: And we knew the other creators would start pressuring you into answering. Katie: Yeah that made— Apo: People—I, I mean I definitely I went to your stream and I was like, "okay, what's up, what's up now, who's-who's taking long-who's taking so long in the Creaking King area?" Katie: (faux innocently) Who would do that? Apo: Ahh— Katie: (faux innocently) Who would do that? (normal tone) No, yeah, I think that last point there was a really nice way to sum up my character, because—I mean, me and Kitty, we had a really good conversation beforehand leading up to it, which was kind of anticipating it? Where it was something along the lines of, "but I want to protect you, I want to make sure you're okay," and then Kitty goes, "well then you'd be just as bad as your brother for not choosing yourself." So then that was, in her monologue going through the decisions at the end. So...yeah I think that was a really nice way to wrap up my character in the fact that she, at the end of the day, chose herself? And it was also kind of a saving grace, I think, for Nom as well, if she were to switch it round, and she would take on the curse, I think Nom's character would forever blame himself. Nom: He would've been pissed. Katie: Yeah. Cause it was his fault, inevitably, that he ate the resin. Nom: Oh, yeah, completely. (Nom laughs) Katie: Yeah, so. She kind of saved him, in that way, and she knew that the best thing to do was to choose herself, because she'd-she has a found family—as Mae was saying, she found people who truly so-saw her for her, and believed in her, uh, and she didn't want to give that up for anything. Ah, but that doesn't take away from the fact that she loved her brother, she really did, but. Yeah. That's that.

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Martyn: Jono! What up brother? Jono, I, genuinely, I'm not lying when I say this—I would say every...maybe every other day, or every third day, I have us playing Block bly-uh, Block by Block, uh, come up on my recommended on YouTube, and I just always watch it. (laughs) Like I just—I genuinely just keep watching it? I think I felt quite satisfied with, like, my contributions to that song, and then you are just like, just vibing on the piano. And like, neither of us look at each other, and we're just vibing through it like—that-that video just makes me feel (poking himself in the chest over his heart) so good in here. Like, really so good. And I—I'm still genuinely in the process at the moment of trying to find a decent, affordable, uh, digital drumkit. Um. So that next year if we-if we have another run at it I can do—do a bit more. You know what I mean? Um. Yeah, it's good. (reading Jono's message) "One of the highlights of the weekend."

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Martyn: Um, I'll leave it for sh-for Cherri to show you, but Cherri had this really cool book—and she may not even show it publicly, it may well have just been for her, but. Cherri had a book—which on the first two pages had numbers one through, like, a hundred and something like that? Um...and...basically everybody could claim a page, and then essentially, uh, draw something on that page, or write a message, or whatever else it may be, um, and I don't know whether it was for public consumption or just for-just for Cherri, I don't know.

Martyn: Um...but I-I'll leave it up to Cherri to decide if she wants to share that. I'll share the Nom and Katie one, just because that's quite funny. So. I don't remember what the numbers were, but there was a number that Katie had vocalized wanting, and the worst thing she could've done is vocalized that around, uh, NominalGravy. Because Nom immediately got the book before Katie, got the page, claimed it, and on the page just wrote, "Fuck KatieGoBrr," or "Fuck you Katie," something to that effect. So (through laughter) by time she came around to draw on the page, she'd just been absolutely done? Like, th-the sibling energy is like, so there. Even during all of MCC, the sibling energy is so apparent between them. Like, they rib each other all the time, but also like how proud Nom was of, uh, Katie during, uh, MCC was obviously very evident as well if you were watching my PoV. Uh. So that was really cool, that was really sweet.

[orangeocelotmartyn]

4c: When I joined Bannerfall my first thought was like, "oh it would be really cool to be like, the brother in arms kind of thing with Nom." And I was like, "oh I could be a knight," and then they told me that there weren't that many rogues? and i was like, "well i would play a rogue well, so i might as well, like, I don't mind doing that."

[orangeocelotmartyn]

[Question: So how did you come up with the concept of your character?]

{4c, Nom, and Katie edition}

4c: It's actually kind of funny when it comes to my character, cause when I first joined the Bannerfall discord and saw all the people there. They were like, you can be three things. You can be a knight, a mage, or rogue. And I thought about it, I was like, "I've been a rogue many times, on many different servers," and I was like, I could do that, I could pull it off, but I probably wanna try something different, something I've never done before. And I was like, you know what would be cool, I could find someone, I could be like, brother in arms (Nom nods), and be like knight brothers, and I thought that would be fun. And I send the message like, "I don't know, I'm deciding between knight and rogue right now," and I think it was either Apo or Owen, they're like, "well we have no rogues, like, at all," and I was like, "well! I guess I gotta do what I know," and so I was like, I-I'll just commit to it, I guess. 4c: And then I was speaking to Nom about this, and he was saying like, "well you could still do something like this, like, I know you're doing the thi-" like, he knew that he was doing the sibling thing with Katie, but he was-I found, we found a way to like, interweave it all, together, in a very cool way. So. Nom: So, Bannerfall Nom, the way he was, wasn't actually my first idea for the character. I had a completely different concept, um, which I can probably touch on a little bit more later, but. Uh, honestly the main thing, the-the development of Bannerfall Nom was: I joined the Discord for the first time, was panicking, looking at all the cool people in it, and then I saw KatieGoBrr join, I went, "welp, I know what my character's gonna be." (audience laughs) From that point we got in one call, and then...within—I-genuinely I think, what, two hours? Katie: Yeah, must've been. Nom: Um, just shot so many ideas, and then just it—the thing I love the most about my character—at least, I don't know if Katie feels the same as—I feel like. It developed as it went. Like I didn't go in— Katie: Yeah, definitely— Nom: —with just a solid plan from start to finish, it developed naturally, which I loved a lot. Katie: Yeah, I don't think we could've ever expected it to go the way that it ended up going. Like we had a general plan going into it of stuff that would happen, and like, points we would hit. Like I know at some point we were talking about, me finding out about the oath break? Nom: Yeah. Katie: But I don't think we ever anticipated what happened after that. And then also the ending as well. Never could've anticipated that. Uh. But yeah. Nom: It was about halfway through that I went, "ah, I'm not living to the end of this, am I?" (Nom laughs) Katie: Yeah, we so desperately wanted our characters to have a happy ending at some point, so we, alongside the— Nom: Tried so hard. Katie: —audience were just like, (desperately) "please let them be okay! Let them have a relationship at the end of the day!" Nom: After every main stream we literally—genuinely were like that, going like, "they need a happy ending, please, please—" Katie: Yeah. It was just slowly going down, we were slowly having that realization sink in of, "ohhh nooo." (Katie laughs) Um. But yeah, it was just same here for me, we jumped in a call together, we were helping each other out with our character ideas, throwing stuff at a wall, hoping it sticks. And, yeah, my character's quite close to how I am, personality wise, very bubbly, very like, jumpy, very outgoing, uh, so, yeah.

[orangeocelotmartyn]

[Question: So how did you come up with the concept of your character?]

Mae: I love reading fantasy, and I—I found out this...concept of being in the med—like, medieval ages, in a sense, and I really wanted to play into how women were treated in the medieval—in the medieval ages? Um, so I did a lot of research, and read a lot of—a lot, a lot of articles, and I was building my Notion, I wanted to build it in a way that was cuing people in to kind of how my thought process works. So if you go on my Notion you will find a lot of the articles that I kind of referenced in building her. Um. And then further than that I, growing up, was somebody who did feel very...lonely. Mae: I was—I grew up in ballet school, it was a "eat or be eaten" world, and people don't wanna be your friend. And—so there was a lot of feelings of inadequacy, growing up. And I felt like having this platform to be able to share a story of not only the way that women were treated, but also...the way that people can feel—like, I know how it feels, I know a lot of people in the community have, have said that the felt the same way, or they feel the same way. Um. And kind of getting to show the way that she finds family, after all the rough times, no matter what it was, through Owain, through 4c, and through Nom, and, like...She, she had people who genuinely loved her, and cared for her, and build up this- this confidence in herself, to then by the end of the story she was making her own decisions, and she was jumping in to things on her own, and, um. I don't think she would've gotten there without the people around her? Mae: Um, and I just wanted to...kind of wrap that story up, showing that like, no matter what chapter you are in your life, there's always another one? And there's always another opportunity, and there's—if you haven't found your people yet, y-you'll find your people. Um. And so I kinda—it was a dual edged sword of-of different issues that I think are very prevalent in today's world? That I just wanted to get to kind of touch on.

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Luanne: Um, I would've loved to interact more with, um, Frogue as well? Mostly because our characters both kind of had similar themes of being turned into something we weren't originally? And I feel like we would've bonded a lot more. I tried to imply, uh, very heavily that Kitty does not judge Frogue as much as others would, because, like, ultimately Kitty understood kind of like, his, oh—the way he reacted and responded to things. But I also would've loved to interact more with 4c, because—obviously we had our whole, like, plan to switch sides, but also because I feel like our characters would've understood each other well, as, uh, as well as me and Frogue, because we were both, like, outsiders in that way, and we both were like, judged for certain reasons, so I thought that would've been a fun thing to explore more. But unfortunately timezones and all that. But, yeah, that's it for me.

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Mae: The person who I would've loved to do so much more with is Martyn. Um, he and I have spoken about this afterwards, we had a long conversation of kind of what our characters would have done? Um, and I think you guys got a lot of pieces of it, and we kind of told our story through our minimal interactions, um, and there was a really beautiful arc there, I just think there could have been so so so much more done, especially with the rivalry we set up. We never had a plan, going into that. My tadpoles—having those tadpoles in the very beginning was literally just like, "oh my gosh, Martyn you should have tadpoles in your inventory," and he was like, "no." And I was like, "can I have tadpoles in my inventory?"

Mae: There was no reason for me to have them. Um, so then I was going to forcefully make him a father, and just like, give him the tadpoles?— Apo: I really wanted to give him tadpoles. Mae: —but then he stole them from me. And then I was upset that he stole them from me, even though he was supposed to have them all along. So, it just turned into a rivalry from the very beginning, and then...our timezones never aligned, and then we became monarchs at the same time, and that was really cool, and we had a couple really good interactions there, but then we kinda faded out. Um, but then at the very end we did have, um, kind of like a concluding...conversation, the Ball set something up really nice where I gave him a flower, and he gave it back to me at the very end, and he was the one person who kind of came after me, after (points at Nom) this one left me behind— Nom: Alright. Mae: —and (audience laughs) he came after me and we kind of got to conclude that story, so. It would've been lovely to expand on that more.