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vampires owen is such a compelling character. guy who is awfully comfortable claiming the moral high ground from his perch high upon a stack of two thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine corpses.

#very fun guy to watch do things but make no mistake. this is because he sucks.#vampires smp spoilers #vampires smp #owengejuicetv #mcyt #analysises #a-post-lon

i think the vampires smp dynamic i'm most interested in seeing interact is legundo and shelby.

at this point in the series, pretty much literally everyone is motivated first and foremost by survival. whether that means getting ready to kill the folks that are a threat to their survival before they can kill you, whether that means lying and trying to suck up to someone or everyone to try and find any outcome that doesn't get you killed, whether that refers to everyone in your faction, or you and a couple close friends, or literally just yourself, no one wants to die here. the few for whom survival is not their most urgent priority, it's because their most urgent priority is revenge.

legs and shelby both want to get out of oakhurst alive, and have both expressed that if they need to kill to keep the people around them alive, they'll do it. but they're also two of the people most motivated by helping others and trying to find a peaceful solution where they can.

legs has been trying to reach out to the vampires from literally the minute he realized vampires existed. he's offering the option of a cure as a means to help them with the extremely limited information he's operating under, but fundamentally what he's offering applies regardless of the cure: we don't have to fight. we can work together. you're not inherently a monster; it's your actions that determine that. he keeps trying to reach out even as certain vampires thoroughly attempt to burn that bridge. he's been trying so hard to trust everyone. legundo wants to make sure as many people as possible make it out of town alive, and what that means is that if the coven vampires keep killing people, well, lose the leg, save the life-- he's promised to do no harm, but he's also already dismissed himself as beyond redemption.

shelby, meanwhile, is the most obviously worried of the vampires about doing the right thing. they refuse to drink human blood until they're presented with a situation where it's the only way to help avid, and then in the aftermath of that she's constantly worried as she watches avid's downward spiral slash manic episode, because if he turns into a monster that is now her fault. she doesn't want the cure, but as long as it didn't involve killing anyone they wanted it to be available to those that did want it. they react with discomfort at best when various other vampires talk about just going and killing a bunch of people, even though they try really hard to rationalize it to themself, and have thus far managed to successfully be a noncombatant every time. however, she has repeatedly expressed that she is willing to kill if she has to to defend the other vampires; she'll probably psych herself up enough to actually do so if put in a situation where they don't see any other options. a recurring theme throughout her perspective is that she's really worried that everyone wants to kill her, while literally everyone else likes them a lot and would at worst be extremely reluctant to do that.

i just- i don't think them talking to each other would be enough to fix everything, the tensions in oakhurst are already too ingrained to be solved by communication. owen will never feel that his revenge is complete, scott's end goal is to go back to being a tyrant (and legundo will never like him anyway), i genuinely don't know what pyro's doing but it will probably continue until there's another dramatic status quo change and so will whatever avid's trying to do, cleo may very well still be trying to kill the prime vampire, and none of those things can be resolved by a conversation. shelby will be prickly and defensive, legundo will try his best to be diplomatic with incomplete information but definitely can't conceal his dislike of scott. but, again, shelby's worried that the folks in town will no longer accept her, either in general or if they choose to remain a vampire, and legs is uniquely in a position to assuage these fears, to tell her straight up that he's not going to force her to take the cure, to start accepting that he might not be able to cure avid, and able to use the abundant social influence, the trust, he has to make sure that if she did ever want to come back to town, or even just visit, that would be an option. i think the conversation would end in a mess, but i think until that point, it would be very refreshing and would be, quite possibly, critical to the only chance either of them have at finding a peaceful way out of oakhurst eventually.

#vampires smp #legundo #shelby shubble #crimsonblr #check out my very thorough analysis of which characters i am interested in here!! yay!#and please picture. shelby expressing their distress about crossing the line of hurting/vampiring one person.#legs saying something to the effect of Well you're still doing better off than me.#also look all i'm saying is the doc doesn't have a lot of people who are willing to reach out to him. shelby isn't either. but she'd #be more likely to express some kind of kindness if confronted with his self-destructive tendencies than some people and more likely to #be confronted by those tendencies than most of the people he's still closest to have been so far.#analysises #a-post-lon #long post

As you will eventually find, the other thing I'm really good at doing is increasingly niche crossovers. So! Rotating the idea of Flipside Zer0 Rift and early-episodes Vampires Avid interacting. They have the same modus operandi of "keep on yelling about the thing that you know is dangerous even as this makes you look increasingly dangerous and unstable to everyone around you". They would make each other measurably worse.

#flipside smp #flipside zer0 #vampires smp #rift115 #avidmc #mcyt #for the record we can extend these parallels. vampires in vsmp aren't inherently evil but do have a lot of physical power over others #that means that the ones that do choose to be evil are a legitimate threat and are difficult to stop #and my read on server anomaly is that it's not malicious but it IS capricious #which if you're rift and you've just gotten stuck in the void a bunch isn't necessarily better #both of these two are fuelled by a desire to protect others and desperation and fear #which is causing them to make unwise and reckless decisions #and of course they're both literally shouting from the rooftops #vampires #< turns out i use a different tag for blog sorting reasons than for Being Perceived reasons #wow my art #a-post-lon #oh also when i brought this up on discord it quickly turned into au where server and rift are there in vampires smp #and promptly derail everything. yippee!

I know that @mcytblrlittleguy is looking for sufficiently Little Guy fanart of all their nominees, so I hope I squeezed this in in good time, because I am not letting my little guy go into this tournament with anything less than the best.

#hi server i know you're reading this. i put you in a tumblr bracket. sorry <3 #server_anomaly #mcytblr little guy art submission #mcyt #wow my art #a-post-lon

As propaganda for @mcytspotlightbrackets: here's RoseRocket, who you should vote for in the spotlight polls. She's really cool and you should check her stuff out!

#roserocket #mcyt #mcytspotlightbrackets #wow my art #i will start actually propagandizing later it is late and i am a little bit no thoughts right now. for now.#actually maybe i will do so later tonight #a-post-lon

Got a decent chunk of the way through SerotoninRat's Xpiration Date perspective before coming up with this idea and having to draw it immediately right away. I didn't even look at a reference for the let's take ibuprofen together anime girl image. This is the vibes that Sero's character in that game gives off. Take my hand.

(Incidentally, you should vote for Sero (and my main creature server anomaly) in the @mcytspotlightbrackets, though that wasn't actually the main motivation for my drawing this immediately, I just really wanted to. I'd be remiss not to mention it, though.)

#serotoninrat #xpiration date #mcyt #my spotlighting commentary on sero's poll will be impending Soon i got softlocked by needing to watch a lot of videos in order to #be able to provide informed and up to date insights #and also got incredibly distracted by seeing a name i recognized in one of said videos. kind of embarrassing of me tbh. laser focus.#also i still need to draw server vs vintage for its poll. that's still happening. never estimate me.#and hey. also. never give up folks. you've got a decent shot at this matchup as it stands and #if all else fails you've got at least one person into your works from this. i'd like to think i'm an excellent patient zero.#ANYWAY. observe church of world beauty serotoninrat ibuprofen meme. watch its video and agree that those are its vibes.#wow my art #a-post-lon

I don't actually have any insightful commentary on this one, I drew it while hanging out in vc with my friends because it is the vibes. Navibree's Beast Life perspective is really good and really emotionally devastating, guys.

#beastlife #oku occultwhiskers #lyre occultwhiskers #mcyt #wow my art #i do also have a bunch more fanart for this series but it will be coming a little bit later tonight (or later than that)#and-- reminder to self-- i'm probably gonna keep workshopping oku's hairstyle it's not quite this #anyway yeah yay yippee etc #a-post-lon #bugs #moths #< just in case there's anyone who needs those tagged. Realized that might be a good call

ONLY DRIVING A FEW KIDS TO MADNESS / MAYBE THEY WERE PREDISPOSED TO MADNESS, WHO KNOWS?!

Do I actually believe that server_anomaly can cause corruption effects? Well, uh, I'm still genuinely unsure. However! Do I have an idea of what those corruption effects would look like if they were real? Yes, of course! Cool subtle darkness aura, or whatever that is.

And if it can corrupt people, Rifty is one of those people. Obviously. Sure, his bloodlust is directed at it, but from the evidence I can find, that's sort of also the case for both of the people who gladly killed on its behalf!