#redux!snowball

[bfdiredux]

Snowball has been a pretty one-note character only starting to get development in TPOT w/The Strongest Team on Earth. Spent a lot of time in the TLC. In BFDI, he didn’t really have friends except loosely the group of Eraser, Blocky, Pen (& Coiny?). At least Coiny. He mostly had the rivalry with Golf ball and his ableism(?) against contestants without limbs. Could he befriend someone limbless and learn better rather than it just being phased out of his character?

~🌀 anon (<— if anons can be named. If not I’ll just sign off with 🌀)

Yeah... Him having his ableism phased out instead of tackled was SUCH a missed opportunity.

So yea,, cw ABLEISM.

Characters can be bad and bigoted and fucked up! Those same characters can also grow and change.

Growing and changing also doesn't mean becoming a perfect angel either. Morality is a scale!

Arrogant, stubborn, cocky, and egotistical.

Probably brought up in a small rural town- very tight-knit and full of people who enabled Snowball. Also growing up in a toxic environment that pushed the values of strength.

Benevolent ableism going into BFB and TPOT. To him, if you aren't able-bodied and able-minded, you are weak. You are not of good use and need protecting. And he is DEAD SET on this.

There is nothing inherently wrong with valuing strength-- it's how you value it that can be wrong. If the team is full of weak people, they will bring you down. He won't let that happen. He won't. He will be strong for them and for himself. He will remind him that he is strong.

Applied to BFDI to win a REALLY COOL ISLAND!!!!

Total jerk throughout BFDI. He is made for others to not like him. He is meant to be punchable. Punch him please.

Enabled by Pen, Eraser, and Blocky. Pen goes on to regret this, Blocky stays neutral on it, and I don't know about Eraser yet.

Super pissed when the island is sold. Really, more upset that he didn't win it than anything. Announcer just gave him someone to take that anger out on. Poor Leafy dude!!

He doesn't get invited back for BFDIA and will likely not appear in IDFB-- well. May have him appear for a couple of talking scenes with Eraser and Blocky?

Four invites him to BFB drspite everything(...it wasn't really because Four likes Snowball, it's just because Snowball participated in BFDI)

I want to force him to confront his ableism. Ruby and Lightning being on Iance with him is one step to that. Golf Ball as his rival and Pin with The Losers! too.

Maybe Pen starts to call him out? With backup from the aforementioned characters-- although depending on when this is Ruby may not participate.

TPOT is when Snowball really starts to confront himself. Those thoughts sit in the back of his mind and he tries to push them aside. He's been arrogant and mean and he's excused himself on it for SO LONG.

He is not very popular amongst contestants, including his own team, and he starts forming a strong bond with Grassy despite so.

He gives the vibes of someone who will try and fail several times to be better before actually making progress. That progress'll amp up around TPOT 10 and beyond.

Being on The Strongest Team on Earth will humble him so hard 😁

Sorry I don't have more on him,, he's got a lot of potential! I'll probably go back and make a second proposal for him later.

[bfdiredux]

do you have any backstories for the characters? ^^ i would love to know

HAHAHHAHA!!! BACKSTORY TIME! BACKSTORY TIME!! Kicking my feet.

Some characters have drafted backstories!! I'll go over every one I can remember/have planned. I'll count backstory as anything that happened pre-BFDI or before the character's debut in a gameshow season.

CAKE

Cake was raised by two parents who did NOT get along. The only reason they were together was to keep him happy(good job /s!) This meant a lot of conflict. Even over the smallest things-- they could not stand each other.

It's not even that they were bad people either. They just. DID NOT GET ALONG. And his school life wasn't much better: bullies and little friends are a shitty mix.

So, going into teenagehood, Cake drowned out his problems by popping in some earbuds and listening to music while working. His SMALL circle had huge Goiky's Dragons fans, so tabletop RPGs were a good way for him to stay distracted.

He also had his trans actualization when he started getting into Loser as a preteen. Cake was a DIEHARD Loser fan at the time and idolized the man. He dreamed of going to Loser's performances and meeting Loser in person.

I want to make an IDFB episode that focuses on Cake!! Tempted to call the episode "Cake Day"! It would be about Cake and his grandfathers on his mother's side taking him to a live Loser show for his 16th birthday. It'll introduce both characters!

LOSER AND WINNER

They met during highschool, in which Winner got some bullies to leave Loser alone.

They both started off as kids with big dreams. Loser wanted to make it far from the start and Winner was there to support him through it all.

In their early twenties, they got into a talent show and were met with praise, basking in the attention. Within a month, they became a viral sensation.

Loser loved it. Winner didn't. They felt pressured and stressed. So, when Loser came to them with a movie deal, Winner finally put a stop to their team-up. There wasn't a big fight. Loser tried to be understanding and was deeply hurt. He eventually broke contact with Winner and went off on his own.

Winner faded into obscurity-- no matter how hard they tried to get back into the spotlight, hoping to be seen by Loser again, it never worked out.

FLOWER

I don't have a strong idea but I do have the foundation for a backstory!!

Flower was brought up in a wealthy family, raised in values of status and fortune. Stereotypical rich highschool popular girl bully.

Her parents made it very clear to her that she would eventually be on her own and have to learn to fend for herself. To act like and be an adult. They gave her starter funds when she said she was ready to move out.

PIN

Raised by great people who encouraged her to express herself. To be herself no matter what stands in her way. We'll see how that turns out.

TWO

This algebralien has a streak of bad luck to their name!

Friendships rarely did work out for them. Despite being omnipotent, Two was pushed into doing what others wanted. Two wants others to like them. Others(One) took advantage of their power.

They had a best friend in One, or so they thought. When One was trapped away, they felt at fault and struggled with their self esteem for a long time.

Then they met Eight!! They and Eight would all. Become a QPP-- which ended after Two helped Fourteen. Right before Fourteen showed his true colors.

So, Two left the algebralien world behind in search of new adventures.

RUBY

The youngest of too many sisters to count!!

Ruby's sisters were all majorly successful in some form or another-- artists, scientists, doctors, CEOs... The list goes on! Ruby wanted to be successful too. In her childhood, Ruby explored several things to find what she liked. She tried cooking, photography, painting, and writing before landing on acting.

With the support of her closest sisters, Ruby pursued her goals and applied for BFDIA to get her name out there.

LEAFY

Leafy spent a lot of her life with her legal guardian, her uncle!! She probably had a forest in her backyard. In her childhood, she'd go to summer camps that taught her vital survival skills for the wilderness-- skills Leafy would put to use by going camping with her uncle in the fall.

GOLF BALL

Golf Ball grew up in a small town in Yoyleland and moved to Yoylecity for college. One day, perhaps a few years into her studies, something happens in Yoylecity that causes it to be abandoned-- and leave Golf Ball with some serious trauma.

I don't have enough clues from Canon!IDFB to tell you what exactly happened,, but as I start to piece together a solid timeline I should be able to.

GELATIN

Gelatin got into science during middle school. It started with biology, went into biochemistry, and finally landed permanently on chemistry.

After graduating highschool, Gelatin started college-- having to stop halfway through this parent's steakhouse business that he inherited and did not want.

FOUR, X, AND ROBOTY

The epitome of algebralien chaos and his polite best friend!!

So, I don't know how Four and X got their powers, but they have some!!

X and Four met at a young age! They stuck together through rough patches and as they began to discover their own power. Four easily learned to master theirs while X fell behind and began to show signs of struggling with their own self-worth.

Four frequented the Equation Playground because X spent a lot of their time there. Through X, they met a lot of other integers-- including Two, who set up doorways into personal domains for ease of access. X was on good terms (but not particularly close friends) with everyone.

However, due to boredom, Four began looking for other things to do and took X along with him. X eagerly complied. This included Four being inspired enough by Two making those gateways-- they tried making one of their own and made a lifeform with a gateway instead.

Roboty! Four gave him to X as a gift so X could go to Four's domain without Four being present. X took Roboty everywhere with them.

One day, Four had the idea for a new adventure. He had seen BFDI and BFDIA and wanted to try it for himself!! When you get this number obsessed with something, it's hard to get him to stop.

He made a physical copy of BFDI and then got X and Roboty to come with him, proposing an impulse season for BFDIA: BFB. X was ecstatic and Roboty did not want in.

A couple of much rougher ideas -

Snowball being raised around bigotry and toxicity, specifically idealizing strength.

Basketball being into robotics as a kid and pursuing it as a job.