hello @umcytblrsexyman. i am here to tell you about Twitch SMP VikingPilot (in a post and not an ask because this is going to be long and have many images)
Twitch SMP was a stream-only series that happened before Skyblock Kingdoms. Viking doesn't have many vods of it, but Ruby does! thank you rubyco. also i have transcripts of nearly every lore stream because mania consumed me
i have talked with solar betweenlands a few times about how it's a shame that TSMP happened after the first sexyman contest because oh my god tViking. he's a ruthless capitalist that swindles people into owing him things. he sees everyone around him as tools and only cares about how he can manipulate them to get what he wants. he's a conniving bastard with his heart set on world domination, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal.
did i mention he has a steampunk aesthetic? look at that vest! the skin was originally made for Viking's streamed series Create as a Ghost, and got repurposed for TSMP. man, he would've loved all the new copper blocks. also he also lost his arm somehow before the events of TSMP and had to build himself a new one. there's an implication that its because something happened in the Nether.
Vintage: Rubyco, you are banned from the Nether. Rubyco: [distress] No, I don’t wanna pull a tViking! Please! Avid: [laughs] Is “T” in “tViking”, is that… What does that one stand for? ‘Cause I– Rubyco: Twitch SMP. Avid: Mm, okay. Well. Vintage: Yeah, Viking made it his entire goal to never access the Nether the entire time we were on the SMP. So every time he needed something from the Nether, in other words, it turned into “Vintage and Ruby, you’re gathering materials”. Avid: Huh. Vintage: Mainly Ruby. Rubyco: –'cause we said “aye aye”. Avid: Can we- can we retcon that to “trans Viking” and call it a day?
👏 HE'S TRANSGENDER 👏
oh, right, also: you know how i talked about Sapphire? he's stuck in the timeloop with her. Sapph's the only one aware of it, though, so she's watching things play out the same again and again and again while tViking tries to solve the riddle of her existence and gets increasingly frustrated. Sapphire is a problem that he needs to solve. she's a puzzle he needs the answer to. and the longer it takes and the more missteps he makes, the more it hurts the one person he cares about, despite all of the denial and all of the pretending: his sister, tRuby.
tRuby and tViking used to have normal lives in a short-lived world, TwitchCon SMP, before being trapped in the timeloop as a way to both save their lives but also imprison Sapphire in tRuby's body. neither of them have any memory of this besides a vague familiarity when they saw each other again for the first time. and, due to an error in transporting them to the new dimension, tViking was left on his own for a year and warped from the silly goofy guy tRuby remembered to the scheming manipulator desperate for control he's become. on top of that, they're siblings. tViking has been mistreating his sister this entire time and disregarding xer paranoia and trust issues and using them as a tool.
and on top of all of that:
he's possessed.
...so basically, vote VikingPilot.
