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Read Between The Line From The Other Side
buckle and lock in folks. i fear imperialfire is one of my favorite duos so this is bouta be LONG
Wemmbu's tones during the entire fight just keep coming back to me man. He sounds so TIRED.
When he was telling Flame "Are you seriously gonna make me hunt down Lomedy, or any other friends on the server you have? Really?" like Wemmbu doesn't WANT to that's the whole thing HNGGGG he doesn't WANT to do ANY of this he didn't want to be apart of Arachnids Civ, he didn't want to be fighting Flame now, he didn't WANT any of this. I absolutely adore this because it is almost a DIRECT parallel of POWER ARC
In POWER ARC Wemmbu was instigating fights, he was running into battle, HE was the one who sought out Flame to fight over and over. I've seen people on tumblr talk about how it was unfair to Flame how Wemmbu was trying to take a title that FLAME earned for himself, but after factoring in this fight? I think it was absolutely perfect. It's a comparison of how UU was back then, and how it is now. It ties in what Parrot was saying to Saps about how the server USED to be, it's direct characterization and its SO SOSOSOSOS GOODDDD
But back to my original point, Wemmbu sounded absolutely dejected and again in his TONES. "Or are you gonna keep digging away from me."
If this was the battle Flame truly wanted, the end of that sentance would have an uptick in tone. It would be a taunt, Wemmbu goading him into surfacing and fighting him. Here it's completely FLAT maybe even downturned.
This fight wasn't what Flame wanted. This fight was him beating up a desperate Wemmbu who only cared about the ONLY chance he has to save Egg. I wanna bet that Wemmbu wasn't even thinking about HIS freedom. His thought process ended at "Get Egg to safety" and didnt go to "Oh if Egg is free then I'm free" like YOU SAID @spokes-wormhole Wemmbu doesn't CARE about himself and it's so apparent here this is the one time I want to fully throttle Flame and shake him so hard to make him see what he did wronggg
If this was the fight Flame wanted, Wemmbu would've adapted. Flame caught Wemmbu in the same position with the webs sooo much I feel like again if this wasn't a battle out of desperation then Wemmbu would've adapted and figured out that Flame was using this over and over again.
FLAME EVEN CALLS IT OUT WHICH MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE APPARENT!!! He TELLS Wemmbu that he can restock, that he should just go get water and not fight drained, he basically said that he would rather Wemmbu go get a restock than just fight him with dwindling resources.
As @spokes-wormhole also said, "wemmbu is so desperate because this is egg's life on the lines, but he's desperate enough to not even try to help himself."
He was throwing himself headfirst, because if he left for a second just to restock? What if Flame pulled the stasis because he thought Wemmbu was running? What if Flame thought he wasn't being hOnOraBle and pulled the stasis. Again, this was the situation to Wemmbu. if he didn't win, it was all going to shit.
You could almost SEE Wemmbu's gears turning in his head as Flame told him that he was gonna give Egg's pearls back no matter what. It was that INSTANT split second change. To Wemmbu, this was Egg's life on the line. If he won, Egg would be safe, and if he lost, Egg would be dead.
This also just instantly tracks back to Rejoice for me, and as @goldfrog said, "To Wemmbu, he could have avoided Rejoices death if he refused to team, so its his fault. Wemmbu doesnt want to live through another friend dying because of him, so he’d rather die than take the blame like Spoke said. Says a lot about how Wemmbu despises guilt so much hed rather die than face it."
This battle ran so much more deep for Wemmbu than Flame realized. Yes, Wemmbu has only really lost Rejoice, yes it was from a Warden and not even directly himself, but YES he took it as his fault, YES he cared about Rejoice, and YES in WEMMBU'S EYES he let Rejoice down.
It was a matter of title for Flame, and it was life or death for Wemmbu.
I strongly believe (THIS IS ALSO BASED OFF WHAT @spokes-wormhole HAS THEORIZED AND HEADCANNONED) that Wemmbu would not survive Egg dying. Rejoice already changed him so so SO much, and losing Egg not only means that he loses a friend.
Losing Egg means he loses someone HE brought onto the server. Remember TZE? It was Wemmbu who asked for Egg to be on the server. Losing this battle with Flame means that he lets the one person who has ALWAYS had faith in him, ALWAYS, he lets them down. He would be the reason, and it would only be his fault in his eyes. He wasn't strong enough, he wasn't smart enough, he wasn't ENOUGH.
Imperialfire when I catch you-
(TYSM FOR LETTING ME USE YOUR IDEAS I ADORED SEEING WHAT YOU ALL MADE OF THE BATTLE :D ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT)
i vowed to get more insane on main, and boy does this latest episode have me insane, SO. imperial fire ramble:
i think the most important part about flame and wemmbu's relationship is they THINK they understand each other, and they let this shape their interactions. but they don't actually understand each other. they assume they both have the same intentions — they assume they fight for the same goals. so flame has crafted a vision of camaraderie with wemmbu over what he thinks is a shared desire to reach their full potential as fighters, while wemmbu thinks flame is genuinely out for his head — because every time someone has tried to hold egg over him like this, it was because they wanted something from him.
most of wemmbu's fighting is part of some sort of transaction. he fights to gain favor, he fights to keep a friend safe — fighting has always been a means to the end, something to help him gain power. so he can't really comprehend that to flame, the fight itself IS the reward. the fight IS the transaction. the fight IS the power.
and flame operates on a similar, but opposite, line of thinking. he genuinely enjoys fighting. he's passionate about it. THAT'S what drives him — he's not trying to gain anything out of fighting other than skill. so he's confused when wemmbu treats fighting as a chore, as something that he HAS to do instead of something he WANTS to do.
they fight, and flame sees it as a duel between friends, and wemmbu sees it as a power struggle. neither of them really understand the other's motivations — neither of them really try to, because they don't think they NEED to try. they make assumptions and aren't corrected until the last minute, if ever. they just fight. over and over and over again.
Between the Lines
Azali dropped Deadlock and now I feel prompted to psychoanalyze the song with Kingdoms Arc Wemmbu and how he manipulates the narrative.
BUCKLE UP ITS YAP'O'CLOCK!
Kingdoms Arc starts with Wemmbu at the happiest he's been in a long time. He has a base that he's building, he has his best friend, he has other friends such as Jaden that he can call upon, he's no longer seen as a server wide criminal.
Kingdoms Arc ends with him being trapped and betrayed in a civilization he hates, down 2 maces, his best friend is captured, his other friend was willingly taken so he wouldn't be alone, being used as a weapon in war, and is once again a server wide criminal after blowing up multiple important cities, having lost all prior alliances in the process.
Did a full 180 on us there. I'm still recovering from the whiplash.
The entire arc has forced Wemmbu back into old habits, habits he tried very hard to forget or unlearn during Invis and Law, habits that have stemmed from Power Arc and beyond, only this time, his character development is in forced reversal. Wemmbu wasn't lying to Flame when he said he had no choice in all the destruction he has caused. Egg's life is being used as a threat against him, and Wemmbu values Egg's life a lot, so safe to say, he's willing to do a lot to ensure Egg doesn't die.
This motivation has been very different from his previous motivations, and while yes, he did want to become stronger to protect himself and Egg (that's another can of tax duo shaped worms), Wemmbu's motivation for doing the things he has done have been revenge (Zampire, Law and Pirates), power (Mafia and Power), or self-fulfillment (Power and Invis). Kingdom's Arc stands apart. Wemmbu's entire motivation for going after the Blue Trims, fighting against and for Arachnid, and participating in the Civil War are not for revenge, power or self-fulfillment. Wemmbu is purely driven by the need to ensure Egg stays alive and safe. We know the lengths Wemmbu will go to do what he wants done, so it's no surprise that Wemmbu dives headfirst back into his war criminal tendencies the moment he feels backed into a corner. It's a defense mechanism hidden behind layers of humor and laughter.
Now the reason why I wanted to bring ANY of this up with the release of Deadlock, is because I've realized how Wemmbu likes to manipulate his narrative to make it seem like he's unaffected and unbothered. Spoiler alert, he is not, he's very emotional actually.
First off, Wemmbu is very unserious, he doesn't care about the interest or well-being of others(general) or the server because to him, 'It's a game'. Direct quote taken from when Deputy_Ace (irdstln) confronted him in the Great Sea after his escape. My point is, Wemmbu seems to brush a lot of his war crimes/terrible actions off with jokes, laughter, humor, anything to make it seem like it wasn't a big deal. But it is.
Wemmbu never directly states he's bothered, or mad, or grieving. But he is.
This is where Deadlock comes in. Background music in UU serves mostly as hype music when it comes to Wemmbu and Flame, when a beat drops, you know people will be dying in mass. However, Deadlock stands out to me because of its name, but also how the music isn't the usual hype up/energetic exciting tune.
Chaos Construct and Playful Massacre (og version) are the two songs I will be comparing Deadlock to, primarily because they contain the uplifting/energetic beats.
Hints of Playful Massacre play in the background of Deadlock, split into intervals of a few seconds but the general beat is there. Playful Massacre sharply contrasts Deadlock because Playful Massacre is PLAYFUL, it's energetic, exciting, it sounds like someone is having fun, enjoying whatever they are doing. Deadlock, on the other hand, is frantic, it feels more stressful to listen too, almost having a 'hurry hurry hurry' sense to it. The bits of Playful Massacre played feel like they emphasis the massacre aspect more, the need to kill without the joy.
@wisdomsgemini (someone much more musically knowledgeable than me) yapped about this with me, and mentioned how Deadlock has a mixture of high whistles and blasting low notes that continuously get faster till the beat drops. "It has this specifically duality and independence that Azali has ALWAYS been amazing at. These high whistling notes just heard over a roaring bass line. It's almost a perfect representation of Wemmbu in this arc because it's an internal battle no one can see". (ty so much for hijacking my initial analysis of this, ur insight is actually goated)
The high whistle and low beats clash throughout Deadlock, it's chaotic, but not in the sense that Chaos Construct is. Chaos Construct, living up to its name, is chaotic, but the cello gives it this underlying sense of elegance. This is refined chaos, Wemmbu IS the chaos. However, Deadlock's chaos is frantic, stressful, the type of chaos that someone got thrown into, the type of chaos that is forced upon someone unprompted.
It plays during the bid for Egg and the fight, and despite Wemmbu laughing a few times during said fight, though his tone before the fight began clearly showed his hostile intent. Deadlock demonstrates that Wemmbu is WORRIED, he's panicked, something we've never directly seen out of him, but something that is there, just in the background.
It reveals a greater depth outside of the tone and the words spoken.
And this isn't the first time we've seen this.
Wemmbu is notoriously loud. He has a laugh that breaks the sound barrier after all. So, when Wemmbu goes quiet, you know something is up, that Wemmbu isn't his typically arrogant, aloof self.
I remember this happening two times, but I'm sure it has happened more.
First, when Mane left the lost cause sign. The entire time reading it, Wemmbu was dead silent. When he broke the sign, dead silent. And this sign impacted Wemmbu a lot, he didn't joke about it, or brush it off, or ever even bring it up again. Silence means weight, it means it heavily impacts Wemmbu as a character and alters him in a way that isn't spoken.
The next time it happened was after Rejoice died. After his death and during the fight with Jaden, Wemmbu spoke as little as possible, only doing so to communicate to Lopezz and Egg, but even then, he barely talked, and while macing Jaden, Wemmbu was dead silent.
Rejoice was the first time someone Wemmbu cared about died, and Rejoice died in front of him as Wemmbu was powerless to prevent it (power arc has the buildup of the century). That really altered Wemmbu, and when he eventually got the elytra and defeated Jaden, he was more vindictive than usual, his humor was fury in disguise. He spared Jaden not because it was what Rejoice wanted, but it was crueler to leave him alive than kill him. Wemmbu never says he's angry, Wemmbu never says he's upset over Rejoices death. We only get that from silence, fury coated in humor, and a sunflower in an echest.
My final example of Wemmbu manipulating the narrative and hiding his emotions, is during the Battle of Highwater, after the battle is over. This is before Saps speech at the end. We see Wemmbu celebrating and joking around after it's concluded, so it's easy to assume that Wemmbu doesn't care about all the destruction he just caused (especially to Egg's favorite fishing place), however the battle has affected him, and we get this through amazing, titled shots of Parrot's armies gear floating in the waterways of the city. These shots evoke the sense that something is wrong, and including the dead's items, especially of the opposing sides, shows that Wemmbu isn't comfortable doing this, he's not here for his own goals nor is he okay with carrying out these orders. This is only furthered by how he intentionally misses the mace hit that would have either killed Parrot or put him dang close to death and how he stares at Flame in dead silence for a moment. Wemmbu hated it there, felt uncomfortable, being forced to work with people he didn't know or were furious with (staring at you Flame).
Not to mention the physical distance Wemmbu always puts between himself and anyone else during the Civil War. Even with his fighting style, Wemmbu has always been on the outside of any speech or conversation, hanging out at a higher perching point, away from everyone else. And the final fight in Capital City was Wemmbu dancing around Flame and Parrot, avoiding a fight with his rival because for them, fighting is a communication method, and Wemmbu HATES to be seen as powerless or weak. So he avoids fighting Flame in case he slips up and reveals the situation he's in. He uses his orbitals more, not only to destroy more of Capital City, but to avoid having to constantly mace players and be on the ground, close to everyone else. He's playing to his advantage, staying in the air where he feels safe and comfortable, something he hasn't felt since the war began.
It's a physical distance that represents how Wemmbu has isolated himself from the others, how he refused to rely on them or ask for help, even though Phoenix Duo would most likely help him out. It's stuff that never gets stated, but through looking at details, you can see more meaning than what is at face value.
There is so much of Wemmbu's character that comes from reading between the lines of what he says, of how the music contrasts his voice, the music itself, his tone, the silence, so freaking much is there, and I love it because it tells its own story of what is happening, how each of the protags are unreliable narrators, and how events are really up for interpretation and are heavily altered by perspective and biases.
Am I reading way into block characters of a video game? Absolutely, with no remorse. Thank you for listening to my song analysis covered in a Wemmbu yap as a disguise, having a lovely morning/day/afternoon/evening/night.
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If you see him, you're not the target
Decided to combine my 2 current hyperfixations together (purple minecraft guy and strange fascination with military jets)
Really happy with this one, experimenting lately with more graphic design elements in my art and typography, I'm a big fan of the metalheart and brutalism aesthetics.
You can't tell me elytras dont look like B2 wings
me when im overwhelmed
WEMMMBUUUUU AND EGGGGGG
YAYAYYYYY i love them sm smmsmsmsmsm heheheh ahhh look at them also i think im finally starting to make up my mind for how i want em to look yayaya
when you become untouchable, you’re unable to touch
thibking a lot of thoughts of that one exchange at the end of wemmbu's latest upload where flame was like "the whole thing you stand for is lame!!" and wemmbu just responded with "what do i stand for?"
i feel like that one line REALLY encapsulates a lot about his character. he's constantly being treated as a weapon, being pointed at different people by various third parties and told "go kill them" when. he just wants to have fun playing minecraft with his best friend.
the only reason he's so strong is bc he needed to be strong to protect himself and egg from a world that destroys and discards people that are weak. but bc egg didn't become equally strong, he's always going to be this weak link that can be used to direct wemmbu's wrath elsewhere.
there's nothing that wemmbu stands for, bc he's not in any conflict for political gain or for any grand cause. in fact, i'm certain that if it were up to him, he wouldn't even begin to be involved. but he gets dragged into these things over and over and over. and always has.
first it was zam dragging him into the conflict with spoke, then district 13 in the conflict with the invis mafia, then lettuce trying to use him to win the election (and district 13 part 2 in overthrowing lettuce), and now arachnid. he doesn't stand for or believe in any of the causes he's pushed to be a symbol for, he just wants to have fun and hang out with his best friend in a world so determined to crush that just bc he had the audacity to become strong
project hail mary doodle dump👎👎👎
am i sitting in a tin can
far above the world
Earth’s Scapegoat and her Sacrificial Lamb
The headcanon that Ryland Grace is aroace is so important to me. Because the respresentation of his relationship with Rocky being the most important relationship in his life is SO meaningful.
Like that’s just his buddy. His little guy. A friend, and that’s ENOUGH for him. It’s the most meaningful relationship he has and will have and he’s perfectly content with it
i think if he were to learn anything about the aroace label it would be through his students
agender Grace. clap if you agree.
One of the reasons people headcanon Grace as aromantic is the unfortunately realistic scene where they go "you don't have a family or a loved one" as if that's enough of a justification to send him on a suicide mission. As if not having a family makes Grace inherently less valuable and means he should be more willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
Grace wasn't sad and lonely, he was happy, he had a good life, he very much did not want to die. They have to do a looney tunes chase sequence and drug him because Grace was *very* unwilling to be the sacrificial lamb. Humanity's savior was dragged kicking and screaming into the role and called selfish for daring to be a coward, as if most of us wouldn't be.
And then he befriends Rocky, who never demands a sacrifice from him, who willingly prolongs his journey home so Grace can go back to his. Rocky has a mate back home and his species depends on his return, and still risks his life to save his squishy human friend. And Grace returns the favor.
And thus the power of friendship saves two planets.