a man who's best friend is dead and hated. a man who got kidnapped and tortured in a war he wasn't a part of. over a country he wasn't in. connoreatspants is a time traveler. he knows about karl. connoreatspants wants to solve mortality. who can bring people back to life? dream. who helped build the watchtower over the prison? connoreatspants. who did tubbo give a nuke, so many months ago? connoreatspants. who is long overdue for the spotlight, for revenge, and for his true power to be seen?
what if you woke up one morning and checked your Youtube Recommended videos and you got recommended a true crime video by one of those girls who do their make up and shit while talking about true crime cases and the thumbnail had your photo in it with the title “The Unexplained Murder Of Y/N”
I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
"giant monster lady and her extremely supportive little husband who she and in fact most people could snap like a twig" and "giant monster guy who is actually very gentle and nonviolent and his pint-sized wife who can and will kick your ass" are both very important and bisexual tropes
Stream starting with Jack spending his birthday alone, drinking in his empty hotel is... quite depressing man...
"I don't think I left this room in 80 days" damn, welcome to the world of depression man...
He's wearing the L'Manburg uniform as well. Haven't seen that since Tommy's death
He's gonna tour the smp
He also keeps having "momentary blindness" (the screen going black) and I'm pretty sure he decided it's canon
Jack and Shroud one interaction my beloved <3 ("We're the only one on the server, guess that means we gotta become friends" yes, yes you do)
"It's been quiet without him, you know, Tommy. It's been really quiet. I'll be honest I've actually- there's been very little to do with him gone" man... it really does makes you realize how much Jack was reliant on his semblance of a connection to Tommy (the whole "muse" thing Wilbur mentioned in his own stream seems to apply quite a bit for Jack)
Ooooh, he's talking about the heist that he, Quackity, Tommy, and Tubbo did! Man... remember the cartel? Good old days...
Jack just discovered the remanents of the beetroot cult
And now he's going to the museum. Glad that that museum is getting the attention it deserves
Mood immediately going down upon entering the final control room as it usually is. Though Jack wasn't actually there for that but, you know, he joined just one day after
"I miss that part, I miss L'Manburg. This was a lot easier when we all were friends. And, I mean Dream- I mean, there were enemies, sure, but, I don't know, we fought them together. Everyone feels so distant now" I wish c!Phil heard this when talking about his bs on how people are better off now that L'Manburg is gone...
"This [Manifoldland] was my cut of- cut of the woods. And it was untouched as well until I-" o7
And now he's going over where Tommy was exiled through the Nether, trying to find the point where he was killed
*staring into lava* "I don't think I wanna visit this place. I don't think I wanna look at this one. I think I wanna go back. This isn't really where I wanna be" Jack your trauma is showing
"Since when was Tubbo's house back? Didn't Tommy burn that down? I think? It's what Tubbo told me" One of the times for sure, but wasn't it destroyed the final time by Dream? Do I remember that wrong?
"Let's go to Fundy's place. I have not seen him in FOR-EVER. I don't even know what he did. I don't even remember what he did after L'Manburg" In all fairness, Fundy also probably doesn't remember...
Oh yeah, I forgot that Jack was the one who built Fundy's tower. And now it's blown up... man...
"I don't know if you could tell, but I've been pretty purposeless for the past 80 days"
"I just wish that someone would have logged on" See, that's why I say that it would honestly be beneficial for Jack more than anyone if he and Tommy mended their relationship. He just really desperately needs a friend...
"Everything I care about on this server gets blown up or destroyed or taken advantage of or... or they- it betrays me"
"I know Niki became an anarchist or whatever- at least she's happy. At least she's happy" My rocket duo crumbs for the month...
Also, Jack noticing that Quackity's business offer fell through, though, to be fair, Las Nevadas is also without customers and still unfinished
"I've never done anything for me. Anything at all" That's sort of a stretch of course. I mean, he wasn't trying to kill Tommy for someone else. He didn't take over the Hotel for someone else. But I get why it feels that way to him...
And his new objective is to create a place for himself, that caters solely to himself and where he's the only inhabitant, which will not end well for him because clearly isolation has not worked this far either
"No one came looking for me"
Final thoughts under the cut
I genuinely enjoyed the stream. It feels like he brought up quite a few of the stagnation problems there have been with the server lately and he integrated them well in his own storyline. I do hope that this is gonna go somewhere though. Maybe get integrated with the sort of bigger storyline we got going on? The one revolving around Las Nevadas and Quackity in particular at some point. Because it feels like season 3 so far has just been a bunch of loose threads that never gave us any kind of payoff.
