The thing about albatrio to me is that they are the biggest (platonic) Yearners ever, they’ve known each other for less than a year and now they can’t imagine (and don’t want to imagine!) living without each other. In my mind whenever they look at each other they have the biggest sappiest looks on their faces, whenever they think of each other a dead wife montage plays.
Jay, Gil, and Chip are mana’s three loneliest most devoted people no wonder they met and near immediately became worryingly codependent, they are like Jesus to eachother
(They would never say this to each others faces of course, but they do kinda know)
Finally got around to watching Scott’s fifth episode of Vampires Smp and I have a few points of interest
(Spoilers under cut)
Finally got an answer to some questions I’ve had for a while, first a better guess at v!Scott’s age (1100-1400, apparently, including the 600 year nap) which really helps show you how much experience he has as a vampire. But he also mentioned having turned quite a few people in his time (including some friends from his human life) but never having a proper ‘coven’, this means Scott has not only several more fledglings but most likely has started several vampiric lines, possibly including Owen’s sire Louis, although I doubt he turned Louis directly
Scott’s definitely playing up his manipulations this episode, both of the humans and the other vampires. I’ve said this before but it’s genuinely impressive how well he can twist words and actions to suit whatever narrative he wants. I don’t think anyone else could have walked into Oakhurst (completely willingly and with no prompting might I add, which speaks to v!Scott’s arrogance very well) and been surrounded on all sides by nearly everyone in town and not only walked out of there alive but gained a lot of interest and sympathy from some of the humans, especially since he was openly gaslighting and manipulating the shit out of everyone the entire time.
Oh boy he Went after Pyro so hard huh, I may have not watched Pyro’s pov yet but I san smell the daddy issues pouring off of him like blood in the water and I think Scott can too. Makes you wonder if being posh is the only reason he calls Scott sire 🤨 but yeah Scott has been pulling the ‘I brought you into this world and I will take you out’ card with Pyro and Shelby, he also went with the ‘you turned Shelby and Cleo and you’ve been enjoying some aspects of vampirism so who are you to complain or ally with the humans’ which is both diabolical and the manipulation tactic every shitty parent uses when you defy them. World’s most dysfunctional found family.
Everyone’s flirting with Scott this episode, especially avid omg. Not relevant but very funny.
I think out of everyone Scott is the ‘final boss’, he’s evil and he knows it and he has no reasons beyond ‘it’s fun’ which is very fun to watch but also scary because this is a social game and it is Very hard to beat him in one of those. Also obligatory Witchcraft smp propaganda for more villain!Scott. (Although he’s a lot more.. sympathetic in that one)
Although I don’t think v!Scott’s had a hard life (very rich, noble line, charismatic) I also think he has definitely gotten much worse as a person over his many years, I can imagine mortal Scott as an obnoxious but charming rich guy with the years of vampirism and no consequences for his actions slowly making him worse and worse. Something something vampirism and the power over others it gives you is a corrupting force, which seems to be the case for the others as well, though they are fighting it in a way Scott probably did not.
Somewhat contradictory point (more of a theory than anything, because there’s no real evidence and it’s entirely possible it’s just my imagination) it would not surprise me At All if Scott is hiding some big event in his past that either caused him to choose vampirism or to gain the view of life that he has. Largely I just think v!Scott is entirely the type of person to lie to the audience and himself and pretend bad things never happened, and we’ve already seen how talented he is at rewriting reality to suit his needs. Just some of his phrasing in the conversation with Legs is scratching at the back of my brain, plus the very somber vibe of that convo that -while Scott was absolutely lying through his teeth for half of it, as he always is- seemed a lot more genuine than he’s been for most of the series. There’s just something interesting about characters that are never truthful, even to themselves, and even if I’m just reading too far into it v!Scott is definitely one of those characters
Oh him turning Drift was entirely on purpose huh, he absolutely knew what he was doing. It’s funny how he told Shelby it was an accident, especially after getting on them and Pyro for lying to him earlier, I guess it’s different when he does it.
Pyro told Scott about the ‘cure’, which I really didn’t think he would, huh.. interesting.
i AM an erwyn everstar is still alive truther btw, in a jrpg you can never believe they’re dead until you see the corpse, and even then it might pull something insane to bring them back
I love all versions of the ‘Chip comes from the hole in the sea’ theory both because it’s plausible, deeply compelling, and interesting for the character, but also because.. like
Okay, so you’re Chip ‘Bastard’ Nolastname, you never really wondered who your parents were, though you have little to no memories of them and grew up as an orphan. You always figured they were either dead or they had abandoned you, so you decided not to waste your time trying to find information on where (or who) you came from. Besides! You’re far too busy hopelessly searching for The Black Rose Pirates, the family who actually chose you (and then fell into a hole in the sea never to be seen again)
But now you’re nineteen, a co-captain of The Riptide Pirates, through your many adventures you’ve found friends and family new and old, including those you thought were dead. Now the only member of the Black Rose Pirates that you’ve yet to find (who’s still alive, he has to be) is your father figure Arlin.. who is still in the hole in the sea.. It’s fine, this is fine.
So you go into The Black Sea with your crew, almost die like twenty times, literally die (haha, fuck), discover some incredibly disturbing information that puts your sister (and the world?) in danger, your co captain leaves to go warn her, you experience the worst thing to ever happen to you (reading your grandfather figures porn). And after all of that you finally enter the hole in the sea, terrified but determined to face whatever is inside. And then you get the answer to the question you never even asked and you learn your deadbeat parent is the fucking hole in the ocean.
This isn’t a theory because I don’t think it’s the case in canon, but I like the idea of Andre’s chatters being somewhat like sub-personalities that work through his thoughts for him. Like them being different little algorithms that seperate parts of his ‘brain’ so they don’t affect the main Andre focused on fulfilling his directives (speedrunning).
