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[jelliefishhhh]

they call me kim dokja the way I think I should be a separate outside observer and only exist to watch my friends be happy with each other and to be a stepping stone to that goal

[goldfrog]

On Parrot & Selfishness

I really hope Parrot's next arc is him discovering the server doesn't need him. Or at least, not in the way he thinks it does.

Parrot's long been the upholder of moral justice and righteousness on the server, all about doing the overall right thing, defeating the Mafia, giving out treasure, running against Lettuce, rebuilding spawn. Everything Parrot does is for the good of the server overall. But never himself. Parrot's strangely selfish in the way he insists on being selfless, having to do the right things his way. Which is usually fine, because he is typically in the morally right, but now that he's king, I think Parrot's going to discover that he needs to be selfish, or forego the title of king.

The clear issues with Parrot rebuilding spawn is obviously overpopulation, as well as a strain on the server from having to support that many players. Things are no doubt going to go wrong very fast and it's going to stem from Parrot's immediate desire to do the right thing without thinking first. Which isn't a bad trait to have individually. But now he's king. He must have foresight beyond just the end of his initial plan, he needs to set himself in the worst possible outcome to ensure better ones occur. Parrot is hopeful, which isn't a bad thing, it's important, but he's king. He needs to be pessimistic, adaptable, accepting some of his plans won't work out right.

And his plan to win over the people sure isn't working. He cannot fathom why Lettuce, who manipulated the server into practically dying for him, was viewed in a better light than him, whose trying to make spawn better.

And that's because Lettuce thought of the people, not the server(the land and the people are not the same). Sure, Parrot's going to have the hearts of the newer players, but he hasn't really done much for the rest (besides Capital City).

Once again, Parrot being hopeful, kind, wanting to help, acting immediately on his want to do good, aren't bad traits to have as a person. But they are bad traits to have as a king because Parrot is stubborn in those values, he'll die on the hill.

Parrot needs to discover that the server doesn't need a king, it doesn't need a leader, it doesn't need an upholder of justice when all things are going relatively well (compared to the Mafia and late Law). Parrot isn't needed, not in the way he wants to be, not in the way he needs to be. I talk about Flame and identity issues, but boy does Parrot have them too, centering himself around his morals and desire to do good. Once again, not bad things to have, but tricky to push onto the server at large.

Parrot needs to be SELFISH for HIMSELF. When is the last time he's truly done something for himself? Sure he does things for himself, but that's usually only because it benefits a wider whole. I need Parrot to be discarded by the very people he wants to serve and protect, to realize the king of his ideals is not needed, to seek something for his own sake.

Please let him realize he is worth more than his moral code, let him struggle to find worth, let him find it in something he truly loves not because it benefits others, but because it benefits him first.

A relatively short yap compared to my others lol. Thx for reading :D

[beforetimes]

rereading the notes i made when i was watching 'the search for minecraft's sunken empire' again and oughhhh how passively suicidal parrot was being touched on so explicitly is something that should've made me way more insane than it did already (guy who wrote an entire fic based on that conversation immediately after watching).

like the conversation between theo and parrot in this video is so insane i don't know how more people don't talk about this. like i'm going to leave the transcript below before getting into it more.

theo: you're not going to be able to save everyone. and especially not -

parrot: yes i will!

theo: - if you have nothing.

parrot: yes, i can. i will be able to do it. i'm going to save this server, theo.

theo: listen, bro. i want to join you, like, you - you - you're smart, like, you're, we make a good team. but, like, every single time we get a foothold, every single time we get a single w, we throw it all away. you're not going to survive going on like this.

parrot: well, yeah, of - there's a chance i don't survive, bro! but i'm willing to take that risk!

theo: oh my god, dude, i... [after some time passes] have you always been like this, and i just didn't notice?

parrot: [quiet exhale] nah.

theo: then when did it happen? when did you start becoming like this?

parrot: story for another time.

like this isn't even the full conversation which i can get into some other time if anyone really desperately wants to see me be insane over parrot's character in this video because i think this video is genuinely like top 3 for his character's arc but i think that the mention of parrot's passively suicidal tendencies actually being acknowledged and challenged here by focusing not just on how harmful it is to himself but how it affects the people around him is something that i find so interesting.

i especially love theo's line of 'have you always been like this, and i just didn't notice?' and parrot's response because of how it hones in on how parrot has been getting worse with how often he throws himself into danger for complete strangers' sakes more often than not.

it's not like he wasn't in his earlier 's1' videos but it's very, very clear that the lack of care he treats his life with has increased tenfold in comparison to those times. i also love how after this argument and his justification of his side to himself, he says 'in the grand scheme of things, theo didn't know anything about me at all' before showing the montage of all the people who've died in-part because they wanted to help him.

which like. no one kill me. i think that theo and parrot weren't particularly close at all until the 'tomb of the mafia' episode where parrot could become more open-minded as a result of his encounter with marlow and offer theo a genuine apology. before then i think they were definitely friends and could be called that, but the aforementioned conversation and the montage sequence in response to parrot's argument with theo shows that parrot defines himself and his life through the losses he's suffered and he thinks that until theo knows that, he's not going to know who parrot is at all. even if he never willingly yields that information. which is a very realistic way to deal with those complex feelings of grief and the guilt that can come with trying to cope with the (however miguided) idea that there could've been something that he could've done to save them.

all this to say that i think 'the search for minecraft's sunken empire' is top 3 most important videos to the building up of theo and parrot's friendship and i think more people should consider it and talk about it because i think the fact that theo and parrot didn't understand each other right away and still argued with each other is so important to parrot's character arc. like we SHOULD talk about the fact that they didn't start as this picture-perfect friendship. there's effort on both ends to make it work later on, when they do get closer and slowly but surely trust each other more.

(though i feel the issues are 'admittedly more on parrot's end and he doesn't make as much of an explicit effort to own up to his shortcomings until he takes initiative to apologize in the mafia tomb episode).

[jabberjaammm1]

I'm a real yoohankim freak

[kayuekou]

when you're reading a fic and they sprinkle in references that fit the time inside the fic and you realize the writer understands cultural context so you lowkey just ascend

[rainumb947]

When your ship is underrated(canon or not)/not popular enough in fandom/the lack of fics centered ONLY your ship, so you forced yourself to read the fic which the 'canon character is shipped with reader / 'y/n' / OC'. Then,you try to imagine the reader / 'y/n' / OC as the other canon character who you ship with the character in the fic.

Gotta eat anything that fuel your shipper's need,right?

[mandarin-sky]

I really wish Satoshoko got more love in this fandom especially compared to other ships like Gojohime (no hate to the ones who ship it) but I'm surprised it's not more popular when it has so much potential. I feel like they’d understand each other the best after what happened with Geto. I can really see them growing closer. It sucks that Gege doesn’t focus on characterization that much, because it feels like they should’ve had more interactions.

I also find it cute how, in Phantom Parade, Gojo invites Utahime to Tokyo to help cheer her up.

Yes, I know she says she'd never fall in love with either of them, but I mostly interpreted that as her way of saying that, she is still there for them even if it's not necessarily romantic. I mean it would be a bit out of nowhere for her to think about romance in that moment. It also seems like a way for Gege to ensure that no one interprets the scene romantically, making it feel more genuine to their friendship.

I think that’s why I like this ship so much. I like that Gege didn’t force her to think about romantic feelings for either of them. It makes the bond feel more genuine she genuinely valued their friendship and saw them as people, not potential love interests. Her connection with them came from a place with no ulterior motives. It makes the ship feel more like a genuine bond that was earned and developed naturally.

Relationships change, people change, they're not linear. She said she'd never fall in love with either at that moment in time. We don't know if her feelings would have remained the same or not under different circumstances. Regardless, ships are just ships and they don't need to be canon.

[jams-sims]

Shout out to Sashisu because I just found out Gojo Va has a whole ass youtube channel. Where him and Geto VA play video game together. (They legit call eachothet gojo, geto etc.)

They then tricked Shoko Va into playing a horror game with them. They lie and say it suppose to have more player, and that neither of them are scared. I have never recovered- because you just see and hear Shoko screaming or booking it across the map. So in the wake of this new info, Shoko, Gojo and Geto gaming hours is now canon. Canon no no longer hurt me I refuse.

[averagebeatlesenthusiast]

when the friend group so tight knit the only option is polyamory

[yu--rei]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Unstable Universe (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: FlameFrags & SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF), Flamefrags & Wemmbu (Video Blogging RPF), ParrotX2 & TheobaldTheBird (Video Blogging RPF), ParrotX2 & Wifies (Video Blogging RPF), ParrotX2 & Wemmbu (Video Blogging RPF), FlameFrags & ParrotX2 & SpokeIsHere & Wemmbu (Video Blogging RPF), FlameFrags & ParrotX2 (Video Blogging RPF), SpokeIsHere & Wemmbu (Video Blogging RPF), ParrotX2 & SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF), Eggchan & Wemmbu (Video Blogging RPF), FlameFrags & Lomedy (Video Blogging RPF) Characters: ParrotX2 (Video Blogging RPF), TheobaldTheBird (Video Blogging RPF), Wifies (Video Blogging RPF), SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF), Wemmbu (Video Blogging RPF), FlameFrags (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Havoc Duo, Justice Duo, Imperial fire - Freeform, phoenix duo, Orbital Duo, chromablaze, UU quartet, havoc duo causing havoc, no romantic stuff, All Platonic - Freeform, Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Void Creature SpokeIsHere (Video Blogging RPF), Mentioned Wifies (Video Blogging RPF), Cartwings Duo, Avian ParrotX2 (Video Blogging RPF), ParrotX2 Needs A Hug (Video Blogging RPF), SpokeIsHere Needs a Hug (Video Blogging RPF), Dragon Hybrid Wemmbu (Video Blogging RPF), Demon FlameFrags (Video Blogging RPF), Mentioned PrinceZam (Video Blogging RPF), Mentioned Mapicc (Video Blogging RPF), Everyone Is Unstable, Torchflower duo, tax duo, ngl i might have missed some tags idk Summary:

When two morally decent people start to spiral its up to the two who were into that position to bring them back into the light and also stop them from destroying the world and massacring thousands of players.

[mcytduonames]

Guide to UU Protag Groups

(also the original protags, parrot spoke wemmbu, are called uu trio or unstable trio. WITH flame, they are uu quartet)

[scarlet-cookie]

Imagine the next time UU quartet reunites being Havoc Duo versus Imperial Fire Duo. Think of a scenario like this : Spoke threatens the server with an Armageddon type threat (like Ls wormhole or smth) after having been through more stuff (maybe indirectly caused by Parrot) & Parrot sees it as a failure of his own making and declares war with maybe the newer players he saved as his army, promising even more chaos and destruction. Spoke as a representation of the exploitation of older members’ wisdom (Jamato’s initial exploits) & a shadow of Ash’s villainy and Parrot as a symbol of neglecting causing overpopulation & a shadow of Lettuce’s failed vision. Both of them have tried repeatedly to save something else, to be altruistic, to be a hero, only to fail completely at that & still having a glimpse of hope they could “save” something still. Wemmbu and Flame, both having not really cared, just wanting to do their thing, dragging chaos and destruction everywhere, being labeled as infamous criminals and being fully aware of it, after learning how to be docile and to simply live in the moment instead of for the thrill of things, steps in to stop the chaos the other two are blindly causing. Because they see it. Because they have not cared before. Because they can understand it now. To save the two people with great potential from corruption by their own selves. But first, maybe a really epic fight to knock some sense into them.

Just an idea but it’d be really cool role reversal and symbolism.

[yu--rei]

gng am I banned from posting or smth, I keep trying to post my parrot character analysis and it's not working 😭

[yu--rei]

you are very cool and awesome

ty ty ^^

[yu--rei]

Ive lowkey been fixtating on justice duo so this is a small rant on why I love this duo so much. also don't flame me I've watched like a handful of each pov and i just started watching wemmbu's pov from the beginning

✧─── ･ ｡ﾟ★: *.✦ .* :★. ───✧

wemmbu and parrot are similar in a way but also extremely different. Their both very forgiving of people that's betrayed them, for example BAT betrayed parrot twice and he didn't hate them, with wemmbu he got on good terms with parrot after everything parrot did and still forgave him. They have forgiving nature's despite the fact they act like they dont. Wemmbu pretends not to care but shows active concern or a need to help when said person is in danger. Parrot on the other hand has immense trust issues, we can see this displayed when meeting theo after wifies's death. parrot expects people to try and hurt him, which is why when he's proven wrong he's fiercely loyal, often risking his life to help his friends. it's one of the main reasons I love justice duo, because despite parrots trust issue's he still trusted wemmbu. something he wouldn't typically have done before, to me it felt like hearing wemmbu say that he didn't hate him struck something in him. I think a lot of people forget but parrot is EXTREMELY used to getting hunted down, clown, bat, those three assassins, the mafia (I think), the zam empire (iffy since it was more chance encounter stuff) and law(hasn't happened yet in the video I'm referring to) and mind you 4 of those hunts happened because of people he trusted, so to think about it from parrots perspective why would someone like wemmbu like parrot, parrot who has already been betrayed and lost so much didn't trust wemmbu, wemmbu was a potential alley, (also completely off topic, I see people dissing parrot about what he did to wemmbu's identity but if I recall correctly I'm pretty sure it was flame who asked him to help find wemmbu, he was doing his job) anyways, parrot uses the term friend loosely after loosing literally all his friends, so for wemmbu to think of them as friends must have shocked him. and I think that's why parrot trusted him, he was also aware of the knowledge that if wemmbu wanted to, he would. to for parrot who's extremely perceptive to brush off the fact wemmbu's shield changed is crazy. from what I know, parrot would never. not unless he absolutely trusted them and even then he'd still ask questions. peak writing bro, and it's not just that, the fact that parrot has managed to convince wemmbu on multiple occasions to side with moral is actual crazy work, to me parrot is a very emotional character despite being extremely intelligent, which is something we dont see to often in a character, because of this he makes decisions that lead to his friends eventual deaths, and as a result he becomes more closed off. while wemmbu is a character that thrived in chaos, until he experienced all those negative things (leave me alone Im still on his first playlist on his POV) and as a result he learns to be more empathetic in a sense. justice duo parallels each other so well because they kind of switch roles in a way, both have helped people and enjoyed it, both have gone through a needed change to become better people. this is why the duo's so peak, it represents change and duality so well for opposites.

✧─── ･ ｡ﾟ★: *.✦ .* :★. ───✧

I could go into more detail but I want to make a character analysis for parrot since Ive seen to many people slandering my goat 💔

[molesae-deactivated20260214]

Terukanene and their not-subtle crush on Aoi

I do think it's a little bit crazy that they all have in common a scene where Aoi is drawn from their POV and she has the same flowers drawn in the background (not the flowery add-on to her speech bubbles) and she is drawn to be particularly pretty to the viewer.

Not only that, but in two of these instances, this is a panel where Aoi tries to charm them (Nene and Akane) into doing something with her, and it would have worked on Akane if it weren't for the immediate threat (Teru).

We don't really get a reaction from Teru, because at this moment in the story, I think Aidairo wanted to keep his crush not explicit. (although, it's not very subtle that Teru has a similar pov panel than Aoi's love interest in the SAME chapter (59)). They still made an Aoi spread which makes her the prettiest she ever looked in my opinion.

But yeah, it's just funny to me that she has those three fools enamored with her who would go through hell to bring her back.

Aoi could be the main character of an otome game, it just would be very easy.

[mari-lair]

fight fight fight!