Wow, an AvA/AvM post after a long time. I might still not return because of one thing:
Victim gave Alan a virtual battle, not only that, he also gave Alan a mental battle. Look- imagine seeing all your family photos being deleted right in front of you, imagine seeing your favorite things being thrown by force in front of you.
And then this scene.
From this short.
And most of the fans still find reasons to hate Alan. To hate Alan Becker. To hate the director, the creator, the one who made this fandom happen.
Here's a random list of the most commonly used designs/headcanons used for the AvA/M characters (from my personal observations) that nobody asked for :D
Okay yes. I know, I know - everyone has their own interpretation of the AvA/M characters. I've noticed that every artist in this fandom have their own unique designs for them, which is great.
But I've also noticed some similarities in the designs and hcs here and there. Here's a list of the most commonly used character designs and headcanons for the silly stick figures, and I'll list as many as I can remember or find.
(This list is based on different artist's designs as well as the many fanfictions I've read. I'll be using my personal interpretation of the characters in this post, such as gender and pronouns hope you don't mind <3)
The entire Color Gang
Battle scars from the Showdown where they all got stabbed
Friendship bracelets, with red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and sometimes purple beads
Messy, unbrushed and untamable hair (I love this one)
Are siblings, with Orange being the adopted one and Purple being and Honorable Member
The Second Coming/Orange
He almost always has or wears something green to represent his powers (despite him not remembering how to use them at all) such as a green strand of hair, a green bracelet, or green eyes
He's often wearing something to represent Alan, too - most commonly a small cursor pendant or a cursor logo on his shirt
Has an artist glove
Wearing comfortable-looking clothes so he can crash and sleep whenever he needs to
Narocleptic or has a sleeping disorder
Also Alan's "favorite child"
Adores every single one of his creations (like Bob)
Red
85% of the time he's a furry/part furry
Cat ears (or his hair is styled to look like cat ears)
He's always wearing his yellow ribbon from Monster School (despite the fact that he actually gave his ribbon to the Warden in episode 30)
Loves his piggy
Something to represent Monster School - a jacket, a jersey, a hat, etc
Glowing eye/eyes from when he was possessed by Herobrine (twice)
Still gets nightmares from when he was possessed
Is the youngest or one of the youngest sticks of the group
Multiple bandages or band-aids over his arms and legs because he takes care of animals
Blue
Being a foodie (it's so cute, I love seeing a chubby Blue)
Having burns/chronic pains on his legs from when he fell in the lava in the Piglin War episode (and having his legs covered completely to hide the burns and scars)
Wearing a skirt ("because it's comfy" is the main reason, which I can understand because of his burns ((poor baby))
Keeps his chronic pains a secret because he doesn't want to worry anyone, but of course, they eventually find out
Netherwart or netherwart particles strewn in his hair
Having a sweet smile or countenance (despite the fact that he's insanely brutal when he fights)
Having potions attached to his waist or belt
Wears a scarf
Being the healer, doctor, and "Mom" friend of the group because that's just how he is
Green
Being a Spanish-speaking diva, mainly because of the Matador short (YES, I'm all for this one)
Being black or dark-skinned (because he's DJ's boi)
Almost always wearing his headphones even though we hardly see him with headphones anymore
Dreadlocks
Wearing something purple-colored like a bracelet, necklace, or hairtie to match with Purple as a sign of their friendship (or romantic relationship)
Something music note-related on his clothes or a small music note tattoo
Still has a constant fear that Bob is watching him
Arachnophobic (but that's canon)
Yellow
Having small feathery wings and/or a small star-shaped scar on his forehead from the Lucky Block Incident
Being messy with redstone dust, which is smudged on his clothing
Wearing a vest or blazer to look eccentric or smart
Keeps his laptop and/or staff with him at all times
Is claustrophobic
Is an insomniac
Is a huge fan of the Chosen One
Glasses 👍🏼
Purple
Almost always wearing her hair in a braid
Regal-looking clothes, despite not being a ruler of a village anymore
Wearing something green-colored like a bracelet, necklace, or hairtie to match with Green as a sign of their friendship (or romantic relationship)
Is often associated with cherry blossoms - wears a small flower in her hair, has one in her lapel or breast pocket, or wears a small pendant
Visits her mama's grave often
Also sometimes given music note patterns on her clothing
Everyone gives her different nationalities, but most commonly British, French, or Japanese (sometimes all three)
Calls King Orange/Mango "Dad" after AvM 30
King Orange
T u r t l e n e c k s w e a t e r
Majestic hair (we all love a beautiful king)
Handsome and regal in his King uniform, but post-AvM 30, he's just a normal-looking guy (but still with majestic hair)
Has back problems
Extremely overprotective of his kids
Used to be or is good friends with Corn Dog Guy
Why are all of his designs legit so fineeee (I'm not simping, it's just a fact)
The Chosen One
Emo (I'm being serious)
Red eyes while he was the Chosen One, and normal eyes while he's No One
Can't swim without his powers
Has multiple battle scars from the Showdown
High pain tolerance (which makes sense)
Has a scar on his ankle from the cuff (when he was imprisoned by Alan during the first few years of his life)
Is Aroace/Aromantic
Has a crush on/is a huge fan of Freedom Guy
Arachnophobic
Is Orange's older brother, but their relationship is complicated
Non-verbal or partially non-verbal
Eats like a starving man every single time he's given food
The Dark Lord
Also has (very ugly) battle scars, especially after getting absolutely destroyed after the Showdown
His design has gradually changed from a handsome manipulative charming villain to a disgusting, gory, virus-looking but equally handsome monster from the depths
Is charming but hateful
Often has a pet ViraBot sitting on his shoulder or following him around (and the ViraBot's name is Ted, trust me)
Black eyes, red pupils (peak design tbh)
Has spider legs coming out of his back or attached to his outfit
Victim/H4CK3R
Wearing something cyan or light blue, even before his transformation to H4CK3R (like a cyan tie)
Emo (still being serious)
Workaholic (especially after Mitsi's death)
Used to be besties with Agent but now hates everyone and everything (except for his dead wife)
Also non-verbal or partially non-verbal, or has a speech problem like stuttering (which slowly dissapates during his time with Misti)
Isn't an insomniac, but never sleeps
Has a smoking problem
Mitsi (I only have a few for her but I love her)
Knows how to deal with money despite Vic being paranoid over it
Loves flowers and has a garden, often with lilies or chrysanthemums
The Absolute Authority of RocketCorp but still the sweetest angel alive
Will drag Vic away from his desk and force him to rest when he's been working too much (which is actually adorable
Honorable mention for Vic and Mitsi: They're married and have a pet sheep which is basically their child <3 (and Agent is the super awesome third wheel)
The Mercenaries (Agent Smith, Lasco/Primal, Ballista, and Hazard)
Agent has a crush on Primal or vice versa
Agent's design is also fineeee (still not simping, just speaking facts)
Primal is a female 90% of the time
Ballista has SERIOUS anger issues, even over the smallest things
Hazard is either a coffee-holic or hates coffee, nothing in between
Agent likes tea
Agent looking at the other mercs and going "why on earth did I ever think it was a good idea to hire these people"
The mercenaries have a childish, sibling relationship with one another, and Agent is the older brother
Primal and Hazard constantly make fun of Ballista for being short
Not enough people are acknowledging the fact Dark's canonically a little bitch
Like, he acts like a coward in all three of his episodes. He begs for his life before Chosen in AVA 3. He panics when the computer's exploding in Flashback. He runs away from Orange in Showdown. And to clarify, it's not like a normal thing in AVA. This series is full of brave people, Dark is the outlier here.
Chosen thought clearly when the computer was exploding. He never needed a wristband to boost himself, he always had trust in his base abilities. He ran for his life only once in Wanted, besides that he's always brave, always fighting, never begging. Even in the Box, he refused to yield to Victim and almost defeated him through sheer determination.
King spent months learning all about Minecraft to achieve his goal. He fought like 11 people at once, even when brought back to a normal mortal he fought, almost regained his staff, and still managed to steal Yellow's while pinned and surrounded. He was never afraid, he always fought, he WON. He wasn't defeated. He willingly gave up.
Purple tanked a world-destroying beam just to save the first friends he ever made in his life, and call out to the one he viewed as a father figure. Even with minor characters; Herobrine stayed defiant, looked straight into King's eyes with rage as he was being absorbed. Even the Witch didn't panic when fighting Reuben, and fought until she was literally unable to cause she was a harmless dye.
Like, this isn't a common reocurrence. This is Dark being visibly the exception to a cast of extremely brave, determined fighters who never back down. Chosen plays fair, King earned his godlike power fair-and-square, Herobrine simply came in, saw the issue and threw hands without asking questions. Agent saw a pissed-off, flaming Superman-like stickfigure flying at him, went "Nah I'd win" and ACTUALLY WON with a single strike of Pause. Alan saw like 50 ViraBots charge at him when a single one beat his ass easily, and went in to attack them without a second thought. Dark's the one who sneaks in a power-up ability cause he's not doing good enough for his standards, and then sends like 50 people at 2 mfs cause he's still having trouble while acting all smug about it.
Dark is a massive, Grade-A loser and not some super-badass like I see fans make him out to be. Give my Pathetic Dark content. I want to see him act like a pussy
So, I recent came across these posts [1, 2] and they're really funny, but they got me wondering...
What was the Virabot actually supposed to do, after it infected the computer? What was it's actual payload?
The one that gets sent to Alan is confronted by Orange and Alan immediately after 'hatching', so arguably, it didn't even get to do what Dark had likely wanted it to do. It got caught, instantly, and got pulled into a fight.
[And it wasn't even the Virabot that alerted them, it was the temperature of the PC, which was caused by CHOSEN trying to laser/flame his way into the computer. If he hadn't of gone after the it, the Virabot would've remained undetected for longer.]
What would have happened if Orange and Alan never noticed it?
What's interesting is that the computer is already infected just by the Virabot landing in it; the actual hatching of it from the application icon has NOTHING to do with that.
Just by the Virabot existing on the computer, it's pretty much already in control. It's task can't be ended, and it prevents access to the Control Panel, which are common tip offs that you have a virus as a lot of them do that. And there's also......all that other stuff.
Which I'll get back to later.
[Sidenote: I do appreciate the ViraAnti-Virus, that is still really funny. I also love how Minesweeper remained untouched.]
All of this happened the moment the Virabot landed, which means all of these things are part of it's payload. The Virabot is likely doing all of this from within it's application icon, but I don't think it was meant to remain inside of it. I think the hatching was intentional (if premature due to Orange smacking it with his hammer) as the main part of the payload: the Virabot itself.
Pretending that the CG don't exist for a moment, it's likely that the Virabot would have hatched from the application icon, and a conflict between it and the cursor would've occurred. Given how well Alan did against the thing in the actual episode, I don't see the cursor lasting very long, let alone doing any better.
So the cursor gets corroded, and because the Control Panel is blocked, Alan has no way of restoring it [going through the command menu is also probably blocked by the virus.]
Without a cursor, Alan is helpless. The computer is COMPLETELY vulnerable. The Virabot now has full run of the computer.
Which brings me to the other interesting thing the Virabot can do:
Burrow itself into the computer itself, which grants it total control over EVERYTHING. Even the applications themselves, which it can manipulate to it's whim.
I think this might've been what the Virabot was supposed to do to Alan's computer. I think it was supposed to take control of the computer, and I think it was supposed to start deleting all of Alan's stuff.
Which...Y'know...Kinda sounds a little familiar, doesn't it?
Hmmm. Interesting. Food for thought.
Anyway, that's what I think the Virabot's primary directive was, the task it was to execute against Alan specifically.
I also think it had a secondary directive.
A "Virus" is a very specific type of computer malware. Not every piece of malware is a Virus, there's loads of different types: Worms, Trojans, Keyloggers, Ransomware, Spyware, etc.
Viruses, specifically, function like so: "A type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code. Like a biological virus, a computer virus requires a host—a legitimate program or document—to spread and cause harm."
Ah, a host program or document, you say?
Like, say, all of a computer's applications?
Yeah. I think that's why all of that stuff got rebranded to Vira-esque knockoffs. Reproduction of the Virus. I think, if those programs were to be run, or even broken open with a hammer again tbh, they would produce more Virabots, exactly like how the original hatched from it's own application icon.
This would, in turn, turn Alan's entire computer into a breeding ground for the Virabot. A nest, from which they would then spread into the internet and wreak havoc.
"But Dark was planning to send them through the Internet Gates!" Yeah, he was.
Because his plan was to infect multiple targets at the same time. Big targets. Popular sites. Great for producing more Virabots and infecting a massive amount of computer systems that access them. Maximum damage, right off the bat.
But I also think he planed on including ALAN'S computer into that mix of initial "nest" sites, as a personal jab TO Alan.
Alan made Dark. And then betrayed him. Dark is a vengeful stick. He's spiteful.
I think Dark wanted to shove it in Alan's face that he was just as responsible for this, the infecting of the entire world's computer systems, the destruction of the ENTIRE INTERNET, as Dark was, by proxy of being Dark's creator. With his computer producing Virabots, he would be one of the first, likely THE FIRST, sources of the infection and the destruction. He would be an origin point. And the world would know it, when they started tracing the spread.
Dark wanted Alan to be part of the chaos and the ruin.
And Alan would be helpless to do ANYTHING but watch.
[Unless he yanked the plug of the computer to put a stop to it, which wouldn't even matter. Because of the other massive websites Dark was also going to target. Dark won either way, and the only reason he didn't was because he got nuked by an overpowered teenager he accidentally triggered the godly awakening of]
Dark sending the Virabot to Alan's computer first was personal. He wanted to rub it in Alan's face just how evil and all powerful he'd become. To mock him. To rip away Alan's power and instill himself as a new God, an overlord who could wipe the entire Internet just because he could. Who could control everything.
A Dark Lord, destroyer of worlds.
So there you have it. I think the Virabot has two main payloads: Infect the computer and destroy all files and data until the computer is either completely unusable or under the Virabot's (re: Dark's) control, and infuse itself into the computer's applications to reproduce new Virabots that would then spread into the internet and repeat the process.
This sort of an aggressive take over and reproduction would spread very quickly, and the humans likely wouldn't have time to prepare ot even fight back.
Probably within a week, Dark could have overrun every single computer system on the planet, and brought down the entire internet alongside them.
And when you think about what sorts of computers his virus could weasel it's way onto, and the fact that the Virabots are at least partially sentient, enough to make decisions...
Well, let's just say the damage probably wouldn't be exclusive to the digital world.
The true horror of an onslaught of nigh unstoppable Virabots grows bigger and bigger the longer you think about it. Out entire modern society would collapse, almost instantly. Banking systems? Gone. So many people's money would just instantly vanish because the only record of it was tracked on computer systems. Medical records? Wiped. Hope you doctor kept backups of your medication info on paper. The production of pretty much everything? Stalled. A majority use highly specialized computer systems. Nautical and Aviation navigation systems? Emergency services? Hospital equipment and machinery?
Everything. Gone. Bricked, overnight.
Which isn't even touching military crap, which is a whole other level of terrifying.
When you step back and truly look at how bad the scale of destruction could have been if even just a single Virabot made it to it's target, you really start to realize how much Chosen and Orange saved our asses.
If Chosen hadn't of gone after it, if Orange hadn't of destroyed them, the entire world of AvA would've been fucked. Both human AND digital.
Everyone say 'Thank you Chosen and Orange' in the tags, please and thank.
Now start to worry, bc Dark's got a new Virabot in AvA12.
One that's likely received major upgrades, and probably built to be stronger and harder to kill. I wonder if the Virabot 2.0's payload will be worse as well?
warning, long ava worldbuilding post-newground-attack incoming
id like to think that the newground attack managed to divide sticks who lived on the outernet into two categories: given that all sticks are immortal, some are conditionally immortal and some are unconditionally immortal.
i wanna start by describing what i believe happens in a sticks life span. they ARE capable of being born, and they are capable of growing up (as seen by purples flashback and golds growth). but i dont think they can die naturally. they can’t reach a certain old age and die like humans do. what i think happens is that they reach a certain age where they stop growing physically (maybe like king’s age?) and remain that way. aka immortality. i consider this type of immortality the unconditional type. sticks id consider falling under this category would be : the color gang (as evident by the fact that when alan deleted them in the og ava short, they were back on their page as soon as alan refreshed it. even when alan deleted their programs off his computer)
now u might b thinking: whats so special about the color gang that would make them unconditionally immortal? would other sticks also fall under the category? and the answer is: yes!
sticks that haven’t had their files be deleted/disintegrated by the chosen one and the dark lord’s attacks are unconditionally immortal. this is simply due to their files being their source of life, and thus any death experienced in the outernet. or any game. would just return them back to their source. a good example would be greens revival after he got killed in minecraft (without saving) by an enraged second. rather than dying permanently, he just respawned in his original website .
(on that note i dont think the color gang originated from newgrounds, so their source of life is just the website. a deleted website would lead to a bunch of dead sticks lol)
now in gold’s case this might become confusing. gold DID die, so how come she wasnt led back to her source? i believe this is because she became conditionally immortal after the newgrounds attacks. and it is why i believe king orange and his daughter were also victims of the it, as well. their files we’re disintegrated. obviously this would mean that gold’s death is permanent.
my idea of conditionally immortal sticks is as follows: they are capable of living immortaly unless they are to affected by a virus, or an attack, or any other obstacle that would leave their code useless and glitching. purple’s mom, orchid, had been a conditinally immortal stick that had the misfortune of having her code jumbled after the attack, and thus permanently died.
(i don’t think sticks suffer from sickness like humans do. an error in their code that doesn’t eventually fix itself (given that theyre ai) is just a quick indication of approaching death)
what about the showdown? the dark lord managed to kill the color gang without approaching their website. so how come they died so easily by her band?
i think thats precisely what dark had been working on all these years. yes she wanted to attack alan first and foremost, but what she had back on her mind was the ability to kill all stickmen by first stab without needing to reach their source. it appears that shes capable of reaching the actual code of sticks, untangling it, and disintegrating their concept of self . the website would still exist, it just wouldnt host the sticks themselves since dark basically erased their very existence from it. think of it that way: sticks are like mirrors of their code, or avatars that are able to roam the outernet. killing them would be like killing a spare copy. it wouldn’t affect the code itself. but altering the code? since its a mirror, its like directly altering the code of the website, deleting the sticks code from it. as if dark’s instruments allow her to attack unconditionally immortal sticks as if theyre conditional ones.
finally, my last point (this is getting long): remember how the second chosen is capable of reviving sticks? what i believe orange can do is alter files. or reach the original files of sticks. awakened second’s first course of action was to go to a laptop, write a bunch of code, and they were instantly revived. second managed to rewrite their existence back to their website (which tdl deleted) and thus brought them back. that is also how i believe second would revive mitsi.
How do they view gender? The outernet seems to be something similar to humanity, but how does it apply to the characters themselves?
(most of the stickfigures are trans in some way. by definition)
Second, Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green have spent their entire existence on Alan's computer. Technically the fighting sticks have been on a website for a bit longer, but the mechanics of that are iffy considering the outernet's existence, so we'll say they only gained awareness around the time Second met them. Gender-wise, all they have to go off of is the internet, Alan, and vibes. None of them have inherent gendered features and due to the nature of their creation and when they were created I doubt they'd have a set gender at all
I headcanon that Red couldn't decide on a set gender. He's spontaneous and impatient, and even if she feels a disconnect, then I don't think it'd be her first reaction to think on it. They prolly just said fuck it and decided to have a little of everything.
Yellow I think would vibe with she/her. Perhaps influenced by the whole boys vs girls stereotype where girls are smarter and more mature than girls? While she is definitely just as smart as her peers (just more so in regards to technical stuff), I can definitely see her getting a bit carried away with the idea of being "better" in some way
Uh Green. I headcanon Green as he/they. And I am going to make up a reason for that right now. So Grren has shown to be fairly "cool" and wanting to be recognised as such. Based on what we've seen, Green tends to also be a bit of a jack of all trades type guy. I think he'd take he/they as a way to show that he's totes nonchalant about it (possibly also influenced by stereotypes he finds, like the idea of "cool" guys)
*groan of despair* ... I haven't thought about Blue either. Uh.... Blue seems more skilled at comprehending emotion and social situations than the others, and they seem fairly unbothered about a lot of stuff. This may be favoritism but Blue doesn't strike as someone who'd care too much about all this "gender nonsense", they're Blue what else is there to say? So They/Them is what Blue sticks (hah) with
Second uses They/Them, because like Blue, I can't really see them caring about it all that much. Depending on which headcanons/fanons for Alan one is using, Orange could be influenced by the idea that they like themself the way they were made (because they think Alan is cool) or just because it's not high on their priorities or interests list. Second doesn't have much to prove within the groups after all.
Side note: I gave Second we/us and personal pronouns because I felt like it, but that ain't a headcanon I'll use as often as they/them Second
Now in my mind it is very different for TCO, TDL, and Victim (Purple and King too, but for different reasons than the other three)
To give context on *why* it is different for the other Hollowheads, I'd go back to the fact the Colour Gang only has Alan and the Internet as their outside sources for Gender. Mind you, an Alan that would be willing to explain or at least brief them. Our surrounding context is what helps us identify the concept of gender and what it means to us as individuals and as a society.
Essentially, the Outernet is shown as a hub or a world where uploaded animations get to live. Notably, and considering the most we've seen so far has been stick figures, it is filled with animations dating back to the early-mid 2000s (presumably, internet art history is not my forte). What this means for Victim, who arrived there in 2006, is that his idea of gender and pronouns would have been influenced by the prevalent cultures of the Outernet at the time. And while, yes, this is more important in regards to Victim, but it's also important to note that this is the culture that TCO and TDL would have gotten their influences from as well, because I don't think they did much introspection while rampaging tbh
For TCO I headcanon as they/them, in the sense that they/them would have been a pronoun they heard used more so in reference to non-people (i.e animals, objects, robots, the like). Not only does this reference and take into account what the four years of being enslaved would have done to TCO's perception of themself and their personhood, but it also takes into account the effect being near-immortal does to someone (yes I consider TCO to be near immortal). TCO is not "a person" in the sense that they are both above the average person in all ways but also is trapped by the rememberance of being nothing more than a tool.
TDL I think is similar (They/Them) in the sense that they think themself above others, but also because they intrinsic don't see themself as a person. Perhaps they internalized their creation as to mean they are a tool and therefore not beholden to the rules of morality? Again, they/them has only/mostly been used in reference to one's humanity, so TDL would use they/them but be fine with others.
Victim's identity, more so after Mitsi's death but definitely before as well, is very revolved around rebelling. Rebelling against what Victim was taught about living by being kind and having fun and not hurting others (a value he then changes to not hurting people who don't deserve it do deal with cognitive dissonance). This also includes Victim's gender and pronouns. I don't really think Victim identifies as anything specific, but rather views having the choice to be whatever she wants as an act of rebellion in of itself. Additionally, because of that whole unspoken culture around pronouns defining humanity/capability for thought/morals/sentience, I think Victim would feel very uncomfortable with they/them or it/its as a pronoun
Uh might as well... King and Purple have set genders most likely. I'm assuming this because, while we aren't confirmed regarding King, it's likely that stick figures can't have kids on their own, they either are created along with their kid or adopt them. So, King and Gold were likely made together, and we know Purple and his family were also made together.
I do like the idea of transfem Purple, and gender queer purple tho (personally I like Bigender She/He Purple :3)
Okay, if you actually made it this far tell me if I should make one of these about sexuality because... idk I like sharing headcanons
"its been hidden from the public for many years, one of the issues that remains underground" how hidden ..
at first i had always interpreted it like. oh yeah haha some sticks are sentient and theyre cool but its Not researched into enough. however. could that simply entail that Any animations being sentient in the universe is just. a Normal thing. it's just stickfigures being mistreated that's the crazy part?
(i can sort of see it. in a way that the moral is that hey! animation is so cool in this universe it's Actually sentient!)
therefore. if we go with that Any animations are sentient in one way or another in the universe (and possibly created with the same logic alan's hollows were made with: draw, convert to movie clip, live.), it's way easier to imagine how sticks would be easily resorted to something more weak and easy to boss around. if you, say, animate a walk cycle of a horse and it becomes alive, you'd have a way bigger problem if you mistreat it and then try to take the reigns of it (VERY much seen in ava 4 when alan tries to fight nonstickfigure creations) — but stickfigures? they're an easy-to-make workforce !!
and considering how animations being sentient would be the norm, the possible attachment that comes with it — of course it would be grim to imagine animations being mistreated like that
and also pondering my orb on freedom guy in general. i feel like they might be either an internet nomad / or both a citizen of outernet and an eventual internet wanderer. the whole reason they know of stick slavery is because of either seeing it happen on the internet/visiting other people's pcs and see it happen
the latter could work with for example vics arrival. it goes quite well into the timeline! vic arrives -> the word of what they saw in the interspace is spread -> rocket and others begin to work on how to get out there -> freedom amongst them -> first interspace travel begins (potentially where the interspace trains started) -> freedom sees the treatment of sticks on other pcs -> manifesto is created somewhere prior 2011. that's only one way it can go though.
maybe another way is that they just hopped to other creators pc's through the internet only, say with the help of emails (avm lush caves style ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
if they originally come from the outernet, it'd explain how they seem to address the "public" by, most likely, meaning humans, and saying how "the world has been completely ignorant of that reality". of course when you don't live with humans and don't know a lot about their reality and the internet (at first) it's easy to think that all of them are ignorant of what happens to your kind.
however i can also see them being a guy traversing from one artist pc to another .. which is also inch resting
Ghost ranting about Green's glasses because they needed to get this down on words
With the whole "Green eating grass video dropping" and stuff
I wanted to explain my rose/orange-colored glasses theory in more detail. Because I made an entire timeline just to try and prove this. And for the other post I only put pictures and I find it super interesting.
(I know, I made another post about this but I'm going to say it again)
So, a lot of people already know that Green's sunglasses, (which he wears more and more often throughout the influencer arc) are orange, and that they match up with Second's as seen in the episode Skyblock. And that Green's glasses first show up in the episode A Special Song. Which was mainly just for fun.
And now he wears it in multiple posts now, mainly when he's alone, I've noticed.
Now, the term rose-colored glasses means having a positive outlook on life, sometimes not noticing the negative things or choosing to ignore it.
Green's sunglasses are orange. orange-colored glasses.
The meaning of the color orange, according to the top Google result is this.
Optimism. Rose-colored glasses is literally another word for optimism. And happiness + enthusiasm which plays another role in this. (Mainly with the rick/stickroll and with how Green's channel originally started)
And then there's the negative side. Arrogance, pride, impatience.
Traits that a lot of us associate with how Green is. It almost makes too much sense.
And working through my timeline, I find he mainly only wears those glasses when he's alone. Another very interesting thing to think about. The only time he wears it around his friends is, again, the rickroll episode.
Edit: I actually got that wrong, he did wear it at the end of the Minecraft vlog, but that's when his friends left him when he was trying to promote Instagram. So they might have seen something he didn't, or it just helps this theory even more. (Thank you so much to @dobrinata for pointing this out to me and adding it onto my original post)
So why am I talking about this? It's just a pair of sunglasses that have nothing to do with the plot whatsoever
I think, with how things are going so far, the glasses are going to serve a kind of symbolism, with Green's outlook of everything and how his perception of the new fame would change things, even if it isn't true he may have a more warped view of what happened, maybe with the Color Gang.
(I sound like I have no idea what I'm talking about XD)
They are sunglasses, too. He might be blind to what's going on... or...
(Just something I thought was interesting to think about)
So yeah, we might see more appearances of those glasses later on, but most likely, with how things are going so far, they'll disappear at the end, or at one point. Maybe it's the Color Gang, or maybe it's something else that he has to come to terms on his own.
Yeah uhh... thanks for coming to my talk where I rant about glasses lol-