🎃 Romeoburg's Town Center 🎃

☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆ The #1 Romeo follower and last resident of Romeoburg (everyone else died we don't have a good HOA) ☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ゜ﾟ*☆ Romeo has barely any content in his own game. It's absurd albeit fitting. I find this a glaring flaw so I'm making up for it one rant at a time because I know he'd appreciate it!!! QNA: Do I make him angsty??? YES!!! Do I care that he's from a minecraft game??? NO!!!! Do I want to stone him to death??? YES!!! ☄️ DM for my Tiktok and AO3 (I write MCSM fics) ☄️ my neighbor over in Duloc: @whatsupduloc

[theadminromeo]

New Perspective -- Romeo Animation

My very first real animation with Romeo! I made this one a while ago but I thought I'd have it be my first post because it's pretty significant to me :))

All the areas are from significant points in the game!! The Fred area is where Xara says she watched Romeo kill Fred!! I have a lot of opinions on that guy, but that can be it's own post

Anyway I put a lot of thought and effort into this I hope Romeo would be proud 😞😞

[theadminromeo]

If you don't mind me asking, any headcanons as to what happened with Fred? My own headcanon was that they got into an argument and Romeo kind of... lost control. (As if Xara dies and you save him, he says something about how it 'like it wasn't even me') And also, how do you think they even got their powers?

Ok so. Truth is the story of the Admins is a little vague, obviously, but I still think we know more about it than some people tend to believe.

So, I know it's not exactly what you asked, but here's my introspection into the Admin's backstory:

Romeo is a mirror to Petra. Despite Stirpe mentioning that they had to cut a lot of Admin-centric content from the game, the story still does exist. They just couldn't expand on it. And you can tell from just the basic way things play out.

Fred left the cabin with Romeo and Xara after some pushing from the latter two (as stated in his journal). They eventually all formed their own civilizations (Romeoburg, The Oasis, Fred's Keep). Romeo had always been into the more violent aspects of their creations, while Xara and Fred's towns look more humanity centered. The followers of Fred mention multiple times that Fred was loyal and kind to his people (which is why he ended up with such a devoted following).

What's important more than anything is the way Petra's story unfolds in season 2. Her friends are all busy with, surprise surprise, their own towns. Initially, instead of seeing this as something unrelated to her and just the way life is, she takes it as a personal insult. She obviously tries not to, but eventually we learn that she is taking it extremely to heart, even to the point of believing there might be something wrong with her that's making the others not want to hang out.

The thing is that Romeo refuses to believe that there could ever be anything wrong with him, and that instead the fault lies in the others. This too is mirrored in Petra's story, with how she takes her anger out on Jesse and the gang at first, before revealing that in reality she's just insecure and misses her friends. Which... I don't know if you're following along... but is the exact same thing that happens with Romeo.

The only difference between them when you ignore them being completely two different characters is that Petra communicates her feelings and Romeo doesn't. The fact that this scene goes down in The Admin's cabin is one of the most well written parts of the entire game.

So what happened?

• Romeo got upset that Xara and Fred didn't have time for him anymore with their respective responsibilities, while he himself was more focused on the adventures and fighting (glances at Petra) and barely respected their hobbies.

• Getting more and more irritable, Fred notices. He knows that Romeo is well above them in power and that Xara and him wouldn't be able to stop him by regular means if Romeo were to decide to take desperate measures.

• He makes the gauntlet and decides to confront Romeo knowing that there would only be two outcomes--him dying, or Romeo defeated.

• Unfortunately, Romeo refuses to talk out his problems with Fred like Petra did with Jesse, because he sees any method of getting a point across that isn't fighting as below him and "weak." Fred giving him that one last chance to be civil is what spelt the end for the entire Underneath as they knew it. (Even at the end of the game, the only way we ever got through to him was with a few blows to the face. Some people just can't be reasoned with.)

• Xara recalls in episode 4 that Romeo had given them an ultimatum, that being join him in world takeover, or face the consequences. They didn't join and Romeo goes through with his promise.

• (This sort of goes into headcanon territory, but I have a whole post analyzing this point, so it's based on alleged facts.) Romeo is uncomfortable with killing Fred and decides to keep Xara alive, thus beginning his avoidance to direct murder.

• The end???

This is my personal way I see how things played out. I could go a lot more specific, but it'd go wayy more into speculation than this is, and it'd take forever.

As for your last question, I whole-heartedly believe that they spawned in as Admins. Never once human before!!! No way Jose!!!!

I know a lot of people believe that they were originally human because of a line Romeo says at the end; "I hope I remember how the 'normal way' even works." But I think this line has been terribly misconstrued.

I believe the reason he says this is because, back when they first left the cabin, they were much more in-tune with their human community (perhaps besides Romeo, who originally was more lenient with their agricultural interests at first?). If they actually did find some insane way to be all powerful, then it probably would have been mentioned in Fred's journal that recounts leaving the cabin.

And, ultimately, they're obviously supposed to represent creative mode players. You don't find a magical artifact to play in creative, do you? You just spawn in like that.

Thanks for the ask!! I encourage anyone to keep asking me questions!!!

[theadminromeo]

Dear Pet Rock - TV Room

I feel like this song really fits Romeo 🥹🥹 the guy transforms all the time so I imagine he'd be a little more used to it than anyone else but. Being changed into a completely different body must be an odd experience still. Also he's suicidal. Can we talk about him being suicidal?

[willowingcreature]

psst @theadminromeo I have a small theory / idea 👀 since I… also like to rewatch mcsm gameplays and notice tiny details (I have a TON I could share) here’s one about romeo specifically

!! spoilers for mcsm s2 obviously !!

if you pay attention to the admin in the final battle, every time he shifts into another person’s form he looks more and more like them. now idk if this was just a weird design choice by telltale or not (considering his Petra form looks more similar to him than when he changes into Fred), but with the images provided you can see:

First time when he changes himself to look like someone else is Vos. Here he looks relatively normal (also in this form he becomes as big as the first version of himself you fight in the game, probably alluding to when Jesse first evaded the construct in the sea temple)

Second time (the snowman form he used before) he transforms, he looks a bit different than the snowman form he had before. Maybe he’s just showing off, but you can see the “snowy” parts of this form get darker and the rest of it changes to colors / textures similar to the admin’s true form

Third time he transforms (Petra), he looks EXTREMELY similar to his normal self, especially since there’s a notable trail that follows him with frames that look like his normal form.

Combine all of this with the progressively worse and worse glitching effect - I think the admin’s forms changing to look like him more and more are meant to reflect how he’s losing his powers the more Jesse hits him. Like the more he gets hit by the gauntlet, the less control he has over his abilities (including shapeshifting). Though this could also be just me overthinking lol

anyways yeah cool detail in mcsm

[theadminromeo]

This is some awesome analyzing! I never took the time to go frame by frame to figure out who he transforms into!

I do have a feeling that the reason Petra looks so similar to him in this is because Eric confirmed that, while making Romeo, he was supposed to be a bit of a mirror to Petra. They both have the same internal issues, that being their friends splitting apart. But Romeo deals with it in an unhealthy way (i.e. murdering everyone 😭😭😭) and Petra deals with it in a healthy way (communication!!!)

Regardless, I never noticed the detail of how similar she looks to him here, so in my eyes its a nice callback to his origins as a character.

Thanks for tagging me!!! Theres definitely also meaning to the order of transformations like you said! They are 100% in chronological order!! I never even realized that!!!

[theadminromeo]

Quote from Ivor in season 2!

I like to HC that Romeo finds comfort in high-up places once he becomes human 😞 He's basically always floating while he's the Admin, so I imagine suddenly being confined to the floor would be... claustrophobic???

[theadminromeo]

hi 👀 hi there fellow romeo / mcsm fan… just want to say I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!! ^_^

that’s all ok bye lol

WHAT!!!! ME!!!

OMG..... THANK YOU 🥹🥹🥹!!!! It really makes me SO happy to hear!!!!!! To think people actually LIKE hearing me yap about Romeo.... probably the only thing I could ever ask for in life. I can die happy (after I get all my Romeo thoughts out)

Small animation post soon 👀👀 or so ive heard

[theadminromeo]

Fun-fact about Romeo from Eric Stirpe:

Some of you may already know this, but originally, when Romeo blows up Champion City in episode 5, he was going to teleport all the residents to Beacontown first!

I think about this a lot (as I do with all of Stirpe's asks, it's really a goldmine). And it diiiid kiiiind of canonically happen, because you can still see people from Champion City wandering around Beacontown since the developers forgot to get rid of them along with the actual scene.

Did Romeo save them out of "kindness?" Or to save face as Jesse?

Both answers have flaws. At first, I thought that I wouldn't be very surprised if he really did just kill all those people on a whim because he's done some INSAAANE stuff in the Underneath. But then, I realized that Romeo has proved time and time again that he prefers murder as a last resort--like with Xara, the Sunshine Institute (although that could be seen of more of an "eternal punishment" type thing rather than mercy), the prisoners in the tower he made for Beacontown, and even Jesse himself.

He could have easily killed any of those people. But he didn't.

So it is a little odd that he'd commit homicide against an entire colony of people for little to no reason. But under the assumption that he actually DID save them, it could be safe to say he saved the citizens simply because those are his.... much below minimum morals.

It wouldn't really make sense if he saved them because he wanted to keep the Jesse act. If he wanted to do that, he wouldn't have exploded the entire city in the first place.

In conclusion? Romeo doesn't actually enjoy straight up murdering people from what I can tell!!!!! Tormenting them for the rest of their lives and eating popcorn while his hamsters go through his dungeons and dragons campaign is a different story 😬😬😬😬

I really do think that he was REALLY heated during that moment, considering he kills Xara as an alternative. He even says later that "it's like it wasn't even [him]."

^^^ I actually have a lot to say about that line so stay tuned

[theadminromeo]

who up romeoing their burg

my sister made these for me ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[theadminromeo]

This blog has so far been my favorite

- Romeo (in all of his glory, including human)

- not shit talking the other two admins just because they're not him

- mcsm animations

This means SO MUCH TO ME!!!!

I have a lot more coming, I've been obsessed with him (and MCSM in general) for a long time now and it's not going away any time soon

Considering I've been too scared to make a Tumblr until like a few days ago (thanks to @whatsupduloc) I was scared I'd seem like a Romeo poser when I made this, so it's nice to hear you like it still 😞😞

(also I love the other two Admins!! You'll never find Xara or Fred hate here!!!)

[theadminromeo]

A question I often wonder is: With Romeo as the sole Admin, how has Jesse's Overworld lasted so long in peace?

And then I remember it hasn't. At all. 😬😬

Romeo canonically was watching during the entire witherstorm ordeal ("love what you did with the witherstorm"), so that begs the question on whether he really would have let the entire world be destroyed by it or whether he would have put an end to it eventually 😶

I know there are many HCs for where Soren found the command block, plus he was supposed to be an old builder, but my personal HC is that Romeo was bored as hell and left a command block for Soren to find to stir up some drama

[theadminromeo]

crying laughing at the duality of my Romeo roblox avatars

lore accurate transformation

[nil0u]

"Guys!! It's Admin Noli from Forsaken!!"

I am going to skin you alive in public 🥰🥳✌🤗

[theadminromeo]

Genuinely I fell to my knees in despair when I learned Romeo was being added to Forsaken. Like actual tears.

[theadminromeo]

house of puso bayani animation memee 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝 I mostly make Romeo animations but this once I felt like the Jesses fit 😝😝

[theadminromeo]

I feel like when most people like Romeo, they like him and know him for his Admin form, and it completely makes sense considering we get to see him as a human for like, 2 scenes max.

But, me personally, I've always been more intruiged to his human form 😞😞 even just those two small scenes give so much insight to his true personality and furthermore how he really felt while he was The Admin whether he knew it or not

It's unfortunate that we don't get more content of him as a human!! I'd KILL to have just ONE more conversation in-game with him!! Like!! On the way to the gate to say bye to Petra!! I swear we get to talk to every NPC ever introduced BESIDES Romeo.

Even as The Admin, you barely get to speak to him. Season 2 is an amazing game, but really, it's a bit everywhere