#drastics

[killswirl]

based on my beautiful s7 au. giggles

[princeysage]

Rozam please, because they are such freaks about each other in Ro's latest video?

gay as hell to. checks notes. kill your friend's minecraft dog

my honest apologies this ones like a month late ive been busy and forgot abt requests sob forgive me pls

[semifontos]

Zam has violent plans for next season that he knows the people will love.

He's going to be like Roshambo??

[oneformercy]

Hi Mercy!! One Drastics for the ship bingo pretty please...

Hi nitew!! One Drastics coming right up!!

I love Drastics. One of my favorite duos and up there in my top three favorite Zam ships. I’ve talked about them in Season 4 before, but it bears repeating, the impact the two of them have on each other is so interesting and Zam’s ‘Thank you for everything’ before the wormhole absolutely kills me. And the fact that Zam knew Ro was going to betray Spoke and was not only okay with it but wanted to do it with him!! It’s wild, the fact that Zam still had that kind of faith in Ro is wild, I would be so fascinated to see how things would have changed if Ro and Zam had somehow managed to pull off a final betrayal against Spoke and Mapicc. Something kind of religious in that. The way Zam goes out of her way to speak highly of Ro or reference her past plans or include her in things is so special too, like Ro is very deeply beloved on the server, but the fact that Zam very openly *respects* her past just liking her company makes their dynamic stand out to me.

Of the relationships between Ro, Zam, and Mapicc, RoZam is the only one that I like to characterize as an unambiguously romantic relationship (I tend to hc both Dualities as aro/arospec so romance isn’t really a part of what I like to imagine they have going on and Devotions are entirely undefinable, so while I think there’s romance in there, calling it a romantic relationship doesnt feel right to me). I have this whole like. It’s partially an au, partially sort of a headcanon, partially sort of a reinterpretation of canon? Idk exactly how to describe it. But like, I hc Ro as being aro bi, but liking the idea of romance and enjoying being in a romantic relationship as a thing that he does with a person he cares about deeply despite not experiencing a specific attraction them. So in my head Ro has as much romantic attraction to Zam as he does towards Mapicc or Spoke or Jumper, but he enjoys being in a romantic relationship with Zam because it makes Zam happy and it’s fun. And I like to kind of mess with exploring that as like… sort of a parallel thing with the Team Awesome fallout, kind of thinking about that relationship starting when both of them are a bit messier and Ro assuming her feelings towards Zam are romantic and trying to perform an ideal of a relationship the way it exists in stories and media and getting fixated on being a good partner while neglecting their actual relationship because she’s too busy trying to play a part she’s imagined herself in rather than being her genuine self and deepening her connection with Zam. Meanwhile Zam is getting all fucked up about it because it doesn’t feel like Ro actually wants to be with her as an individual despite the fact that Ro is technically doing everything that would be expected of him and is obviously putting in effort, so maybe she’s the problem and doing something drastic because of it. And it all turns into this messy young adult breakup and complicated polyamory drama and Mapicc lights Zam’s car on fire at some point and then four years later when they’ve all grown and reconnected they try again with a better understanding of who they both are and it’s great. This is entirely unrelated and unnecessary to add to this post but I’ve wanted to describe how I see them for awhile and never really had the opportunity so I’m doing it now. I love exploring aromanticism in characters and polyamory and unconventional relationship dynamics and Team Awesome is my favorite group to mess with that in partially because I see Ro, Mapicc, and Spoke as different flavors of arospec (aroallo but romance interested, demiroallo with a fluctuating degree of romance repulsion, and romance repulsed aroace in that order) while Zam is very romantically inclined in my head and partially because they are so so messy and that’s fun to me. I think it’s interesting to think about a romantic relationship as something you do with another person rather than an emotion you’re both mutually feeling. Anyways I really like Drastics I think they’re really fun

[oneformercy]

YOU GET IT,,, U GET THE ZAM AND RO DYNAMIC UEUEUWUEE maybe its the lack of sleep but i teared up bc of ur tags bc "thank you for everything" hurt me so so much. all of ur tags made me sooooo ough...but like esp how zam specifically lost ro at the end of s4 bc i think a lot abt how badly mapicc & zam WANTED her w them but it js didn't end up happening for a number of reasons. and how when given the Choice on who they have by their side for the s5 finale, they chose her. which like this has strayed from drastics specifically but yeah. zam has always ALWAYS valued ro so much i love them dearly

-mcytegg 🥹

THAT MEANS A LOT TO HEAR!! You are The Roshambogames person so it means a lot to hear that my thoughts on them resonate with you. God yeah. Wormhole in general was just so agonizing from every perspective but Zam’s reaction to losing Ro makes me so emotional. Not even just that conversation but the way afterwards she’s alone completing Spoke’s tasks and thinking about Ro, it’s all just. Sweet. She loves her! Ro and Zam are both people that get incredibly caught up in their heads, their relationship at its most volatile is more about the space the other leaves behind and the idea of them than it is about the reality of who they both are until they both get their whole images of themself brutally and totally destroyed. They build eachother up, both for the better and for the worse and there’s a vulnerability that they can share with eachother that neither of them (but especially Zam) can share with Mapicc or really anyone else. Idk, like I feel like Mapicc loves every part of Ro, but if someone else had the some of same ideas or plans that Ro had, Mape would not fuck with them to the same degree, but Zam in addition to caring about Ro as an individual is invested in her ideas and plans and symbolism for what they are and that gives the two of them something special even when Zam doesn’t innately understand Ro to the same degree Mapicc does.

I want to see them do another lifesteal story together so bad, whether as teammates or enemies or whatever. Ro’s S5 and S6 teams have been fun but (from my limited S5 and S6 exposure) they both lacked that backbone of an underlying ideology or theme behind their actions when it wasn’t being provided by their enemies, specifically when their enemies include Zam, so like! I would be happy with any team for Ro so long as they were willing to storytell with her, but her and Zam have so much fun that I really want to see them involved again. I didn’t expect to like them as much as I did but after hearing the devastation in Ro’s voice during the end of Team Awesome I was totally hooked. Something so special about being elevated to godhood through one person’s belief in the myth you’ve made for yourself and in turn allowing them to rewrite that story by trying to meet their expectations.

[killswirl]

self indulgent... drastics hehe

im thinking mostly of s4 here.... i miss them bad. praying s7 gives them a crazy resurgence bc they do such fun narratives together and you can tell they both rly fw eachothers character arcs a bunchhh (thinking abt zam saying ro gushed to him in dms abt how much he loved him betraying team awesome bc of the duped items) and gosh how bad zam wanted to end the server w ro in s4 but he couldnt manage and just had to watch him give up like almost everyone else he loved. Yeah. also he's a very underrated part of castle arc like mapicc was NOT the one who killed rhis guy 14 times in a day. all him. i wish ro trusted him more. they couldve been so much. medusa felt beautiful. love them. </3 come back home please

[secretnote-blog]

The Drastics at Lincoln Hall including a instrumental first half of the set.

To see the complete set of videos visit secretnoteshows.com/drastics