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the people you stood behind and the people you step in front of

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straighten your back

go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT

go take your meds if you need to

drink some water

go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while

maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)

reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about

ITS TIME

but- ITS TIME-

If I have to suffer through March Halloween post so does everyone else.

- Fuck pawns knights bishops and kings

Quackity continues to be one of my favorite characters on the whole server. He is just so god damn smart. He picks up on the fact that something is horribly wrong with Bad quicker than almost anyone else, and more than that, he notices that there’s more to Bad’s behavior than meets the eye - over and over he asks Bad what’s wrong with him, why he’s acting this way, sussing out the inconsistencies in his motivation because he knows his friend and he knows that whatever happened here can’t have come out of nowhere. He’s the only one who’s figured out that Bad has been doing all of this for Skeppy’s sake, just by teasing honesty out of him one tiny piece at a time.

And then he did two things no one else has done - first, he pretended to be interested in the Egg to get more information on it and on Bad. Quackity has a habit of putting himself in high risk/high reward situations. The Mexican L’Manburg Rebellion, the Butcher Army, hell, even back to the L’Manburg election - he doesn’t do things by halves. He goes all in on the chance that he might get what he’s after. It doesn’t always work out in his favor, but this time it did - he came away from that encounter with probably the best understanding of the Egg out of anyone who isn’t currently under its control.

And then the second thing he did is even more impressive, because he shook off the Egg’s influence. We saw how strongly he was affected - as soon as he got close he forgot everything bad he’d been saying about it, he heard its whispers, he was completely entranced! I thought for sure that was it and all his cleverness earlier had been for nothing. But he pulled himself away! He snapped out of it!! He felt the pull of the Egg but was able to hold it at enough of a distance to run, because he recognized that those thoughts weren’t his and they wanted to make him do things he would never want to do of his own free will.

And then last of all, there was the second conversation he had with Bad, after he had run away from the Egg chamber. I’m sure a lot has been said about it already but I want to recognize how he made a point of leading Bad far, far away from anything touched by the Egg before he even spoke to him. He realized that the Egg’s influence had gotten stronger the closer he was to it and despite the fact that he was clearly still shaken up, he didn’t wait to act, he immediately moved to physically separate Bad from the Egg so he could talk to him again in a potentially clearer state of mind. And it worked!

For the first time ever, Quackity was able to get a genuine confession from Bad. All his real motives, his doubts, his original reason for doing all this. That interaction was the most honesty we’ve heard from Bad since this whole thing started, all because Quackity was willing to take risks and smart enough to put together what he learned and act on it.

And then he finished off by turning Bad’s own tactics back on him - he offered Bad exactly what he’s been desperate for this whole time. Control. Of the egg, but also the possibility to regain control of himself. Bad willingly gave his mind to the Egg a long time ago for Skeppy’s sake. He stands by that decision because he loves Skeppy more than he loves himself, but a little corner of his mind is still floundering, trying to remain himself. Quackity guessed this and threw that part of Bad a lifeline.

That whole conversation is a war between Quackity and the Egg, with Bad as the battleground. Over and over Quackity pulls Bad back to himself, reminds him of who he is and what he really wants, and over and over the Egg bears down on his mind to keep him under its control. It’s incredible to watch.

Apparently this was a rehearsal for the scene, so the extinguisher was a prop one (hence the moment Miranda sassy looks at the camera/crew for how he was acting her in panic), so they went on to it.

But someone had switched the extinguisher to the actual fire thrower that would be used on the scene (I dont remember if was proposital or not or simply a mistake because they were meant to be identical).

So this is their actual reaction, cause when he pressed the valve, he really wasnt expecting to fire come out, neither was Miranda, so their reaction is 100% genuine and they did freak out as on tape.