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oops a brawl stars/arg sideblog. main at @natto-axolotl

[wkbrl]

pinned post yippee!!

hello i'm natto! 16, chinese, nonbinary lesbian they/them i literally witnessed the birth of this game have watched it grow for better/worse and become gay alongside me. D1 sakura spike lover

i like and follow from my main @natto-axolotl!

this is my sideblog for brawl stars mostly (canon url haver teehee), but also maybe some other stuff in the future?

i also have a general meta sideblog at @rchcptr and art at @nattodoobles and @thespaceaxolotl. i love shilling my inactive sideblogs

things to keep in mind:

i will post leaks (tagged as #leaks)

i swear on here

i will have anon asks open but i can't guarantee punctual responses (pov you are in the american school system)

i might talk about cn server exclusive content??? did you guys know there's cn server exclusive brawl stars content

if you need anything tagged please send a non-anon ask!

[lesbiansurge]

did. um. are people really trying to theorycraft over mico namedropping martin scorsese in the animation. Can any of us use google or any sort of search engine.

[lesbiansurge]

okay i have seen a lot of people talk about this so im very curious: Why is everyone saying mico is mexican. not doubting anyone i just feel i am missing something

[lesbiansurge]

okay i looked it up mico is literally just "little monkey" in spanish. okay man.

[wkbrl]

11/14/23 no break this time:

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jesus FUCKING CHRIST.

[wkbrl]

wake up bro shelly just killed a man

WHAT

[wkbrl]

11/9/24:

You know the drill. New code!

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Also, new Rik logs!

[lesbiansurge]

and if i said rik had feelings for bull. what then.

[wkbrl]

11/7/23:

You know the drill! Bizarre Circus promo art drops but HEY NEW CODES

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Damn, Bull.

Also, many people have already commented on the new tape, but it seems to pretty explicitly confirm what happened in the Super City animation: the gems are responsible for some form of powering up, but we don't know to what degree.

[ghosts-station-deactivated20250]

theres a new time code and turns out i was right

it was the gems

(carl voice) my calculations are always correct

[lesbiansurge]

@wkbrl brawl star garten of banban au NOW

mortis is banban

dynamike is banbaleena

surge is jumbo josh

belle and sam are opila bird and tarta bird respectively

pearl is the opiling the player befriends

i think willow should be stinger flynn

captain fiddles and the crew are pirate trio idk

nabnab is chuck

nabnaleena is gray

queen bouncelia is mandy

bittergiggle is that jester fuck (not saying his name.)

sheriff toadster is colt

kittysaurus is nita i think

i forgot if there are anySYRINGEON is ummm pam. idk

i forgot if there are any other banbans

zolphius is uhhhh ummmm 8bit???? maybe rt. idk.

[lesbiansurge]

dynamike is so cute here awwww awwww adorable

[lesbiansurge]

this post was a mistake because when i see the image in my notifs he looks like banbaleena

[lesbiansurge]

did anyone see this in the time coder yet

[lesbiansurge]

if i see one more person calling max ableist im going to start killing ppl. she is NOT ableist just because she thinks meg isnt ready to do superhero things with them (ntm that kind of got retconned with the description changes). in fact i think saying that shes ableist kind of erases her own autism coding. if anyone is ableist in brawl stars its byron and mr p.

[lesbiansurge]

[id in alt]

okay to be very fair ive only seen it occur twice but thats still enough to grind my gears about it. i think the summary of it is like "max does not think meg, who is implied/coded/assumed to be autistic, is ready to be a superhero with her and surge" which just reads like a really really bad-faith argument to me.

theres nothing that implies max is barring meg from her heroism due to her autism (assuming she is autistic). you could argue its more subtle, but with how often brawl stars does things subtly (not very often) the likelihood of that actually being canon is very low. i would think youre just letting your headcanons take over your perception of characters (something i've seen happen WAY too many times in specifically brawl fandom).

you could also argue that it's less max being ableist and more the two of them being affected by an ableist system but at that point it would be more accurate to just say The system is being ableist. as opposed to one person affected by said system.

i think it also irritates me a little bit because there is like actual genuine ableism in some aspects of brawl stars designs (off the top of my head: 8bit being DID-coded but his only alter being evil, characters using prosthetics having the prosthetics malfunction/turn against them [notable exception being belle], pearl's shitty "free diabetes" joke, and probably more that im not aware of). but like.... ppl are only calling max ableist because of how they interpret a different character she interacts with. it feels performative and/or like youre making up a guy and then getting mad at that guy.

[wkbrl]

11/5/23:

Brawl Stars's Twitter posts This to promo Dark Clown Sam but HEY NEW CODE

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Keying them in gives us this scene— yay for lore and character interaction!

Also, as a bit of a sidenote, the app version of the timecoder appears to be non functional for me, so I've been using the web version of the CCTV interactive instead.

[lesbiansurge]

30 year old brawltuber who still makes teaming jokes: theyre debating on if surge should be legendary or not and i just cant with the community today

me: *heard the word surge and got so hard i got nauseous* i think i hauve Covid

[wkbrl]

11/2/23 ADDENDUM (thank you @ghosts-station!)

The official Brawl Stars social medias post this video: (youtube link).

Within the video are timecodes. I've tried using them in the web browser version— doesn't seem to yield anything. If anyone else has a viable combo of them, please let me know!!!

We also got the free camera icon!!! (ignore the state of my account please) And with it a new timecode, playing a small scene with Nita, Leon and Mandy (guest starring Rik and Poco).

The security logs have been updated as well. The 11/5/1995 entry confirms Rik is the security guard in the Nita and Leon tape segment.

[lesbiansurge]

if i see one more person calling max ableist im going to start killing ppl. she is NOT ableist just because she thinks meg isnt ready to do superhero things with them (ntm that kind of got retconned with the description changes). in fact i think saying that shes ableist kind of erases her own autism coding. if anyone is ableist in brawl stars its byron and mr p.

[wkbrl]

comprehensive ever-updating post about cctv.starrpark.biz, the new lore website and adjacent topics. under the cut lesgo!

10/24/23: u/Laugh_Out_Loud on Reddit submitted this comprehensive post on what's currently interactive on the site. There are a total of eight interactive elements on the site: 4 small screens, 1 large screen, a logbook, a phone, and what appears to be a security tape archive. Details in the link. As of the writing of this post, the site still shows a login popup upon loading, and will not load if it is not filled in. No login has been found so far.

What's related is that a couple days prior to the 10/21/23 Brawl Talk, people on Twitter were posting about how the site domain had been renewed, and the HTTPS updated to be compatible with newer devices. (I'm not familiar with web design/science so bear with my shoddy terminology) Because of this, I'm chalking the current partially-inaccessible state of the new site up to HTTPS issues.

Things that could provide context:

Description refreshes for all characters were part of the Bizarre Circus update

The investor video and Season 3 Brawl Talk were deleted the day before they would be 3 years old. So potential retcon?

In the 10/21/23 Brawl Talk, there was a sudden jump cut to a shadowed figure watching the Brawl Talk from a screen. No explanation has been given.

In the same Brawl Talk, there is a brief moment where Piper's ingame model glitches out while discussing what to do for Mega Pig if you run out of tickets. In the same footage is a new background, with neon signs and a camera. The same camera is being offered as a player icon. No explanation has been given.

Current browsers that do not work (please help me modify these two lists!!!):

Firefox

Chrome

Browsers that do work!

Safari (?)

[wkbrl]

10/25/23:

@lesbiansurge mentioned that the investor video was deleted for contract expiry reasons, not retcons! thank you for posting this :D

OH ALSO IN REGARDS TO LRB the investor video getting deleted isnt anything implying a retcon, the contract between brawl team and the studio behind the investor video just expired 👍. i think they mentioned that in one of the podcast episodes

[wkbrl]

10/29/23:

Belated update, but the website has been down for around 4 days now (since 10/25/23). Most commonly accepted guess as to why is that it got leaked early and was taken down. Reddit's also hypothesizing that it'll be officially available once the Bizarre Circus season starts.

[wkbrl]

11/2/23:

New update brings the site officially to the app! It's accessed a lot like the now-ancient 8-Bit minigame— you tap on the camera element in the new UI, and it brings you to this screen.

If "Enter" is selected, a cool preloaded video cutscene plays and you're brought to the main UI of this new in-app ARG. There are a total of 6 interactables:

4 CCTV screens

Security tape archives

Security log

The CCTVs rotate through footage of various park locations rendered in 3D software: (slapshot list made by me late at night)

3 interior shots of Bull's diner from various angles.

3 (i believe) interior shots of the arcade; you can see 8-Bit style cabinets in the one I've inserted.

2 (i believe) shots of a beach-themed area. There were people sweeping the street in one of them.

1 shot of a bumper car attraction.

At least 5 exterior shots of the park itself; we can see the incredibly creepy crying logo fountain, the park entrance, and name 3 rides (Bumper Box, Rambler, Manic Panic).

The security tape archives has a short loading screen before it:

This, along with the security log, give us a concrete date!

The actual contents of the tape archives are currently very sparse. We have security tape archives and a time coder. What's interesting to note is that the time displayed appears to be real time— I'm GMT-5, so the time appears to be either GMT-4 or GMT+8. Nothing has appeared in the archive and numbers can't be keyed in for the time coder right now. No clue as to why certain fields are blurred out right now. I'm guessing that this is meant to be used for reviewing past footage like how people would scrub back/clip the WKBRL and Voice That Hears You streams.

Finally, the logs.

They start on November 2nd, 1995 if the dating goes DD/MM/YYYY, which means that Rik has been employed for 2 days as of the beginning. I'm guessing the dates are meant to sync up with IRL dates, since the ARG started 11/2/23. poor dude's gonna get his shit mixed.

Final notes:

The phone is currently not interactable

There's background audio; sometimes it's echoing footsteps and shuffling, but it plays creepy circus calliope music and the investor video Starr Park theme often.