Gonna be honest, I didn’t expect this video to drop as much lore as 11, but HOLY SHIT.

- Good to see Victim didn’t do anything to Yellow, just looked through his memories. But the fact that Agent mimicked him and baited Alan was amazing and pure genius.

- Love that the shutters on the cage Orange is in can just be pulled apart lmao. Unless that’s Orange unconsciously using super strength…

- Orange trying to use his powers, getting frustrated, but then choosing to listen to what Blue would probably suggest he do (calm down and focus) is so cool, and shows just how much he knows them/how close they are. I love it.

- AGENT FOUND WHEN THE CG WERE KILLED BUT JUST IGNORED IT BECAUSE HE WAS SO FOCUSED ON GETTING THE CURSOR NOOOO FAM

- I thought the camera was Victim at first, until it started scuttling around like a spider and following Victim. Then I entertained the thought it could’ve been Dark. BUT I DIDN’T EXPECT TO BE RIGHT.

- THEY DIDN’T TIE UP RED GREEN AND BLUE?! THEY WERE RIGHT THERE IN THE PARKING LOT! GUYS. CMON. Y’all suck at your jobs. Do you not get paid enough for that?

- The lakeside shack is soooo grungy. No one’s been there in years. Chosen definitely abandoned that place.

- [This begs the question of where Dark’s been tho. And why he’s suddenly getting involved. Why was he spying on Victim? Or was he spying on Chosen?]

- CLONE GREY WORKER THEORY CANON!!! CLONE GREY WORKER THEORY CANON!!!

- Blue opening a door to Hazard, who just holds up a stop sign, fucking killed me.

- I love that you can see how worried Alan was, drumming his fingers on his arm.

- Red is such a child lmao. Yellow and Orange are captured, and he still takes the time to default dance on Ballista. Never change, Red.

- I like to think Green’s time as a sugarcane came in handy during his confrontation with Primal’s tendril…thingies…

- Also, the mercs are making a MESS of Victim’s facility.

- THE SHEEP IS ALIVE :D

- “He’s In Trouble” Technically accurate, if disingenuous.

- That trap for Alan was absolutely diabolical. Hiding Victim by painting the wall behind him his exact color, using Yellow to give instructions…It mimics a virus’s behavior so much. Malware often infect computers by making the user do things for them, and to see Victim and Agent doing that…Delicious.

- A while ago, on Twitter, I studied Victim’s crazy wall, and tried to figure out what he had circled on the right click menu. I noticed it was the rename option. This felt significant, but I couldn’t figure out what he’d use this for. I feel very vindicated for noticing this, and I LOVE how it payed off. Victim renaming himself, to give himself powers. Amazing. Love it so much.

- [This also feels like it’s setting up a future scene where Alan will undo this change at the end of the season, but not rename him Victim, instead something kinder.]

- Victim changing the rename from ’HACKER’ to ‘H4CK3R’ is so funny. “No no, spell it this way! It’s gotta be cooler!”

- Also, Alan absolutely recognized Victim’s name. He hesitated. He knew something was up.

- The tiny scene of Orange after Alan renames Victim is interesting. He def noticed or felt something, somehow, before the shockwave even happened.

- Love that Victim’s powers are blue themed. Also hate that I had a post in my drafts FOR MONTHS about the parallel of Green Life Energy & Blue Code in AvA11 and Orange’s Green Powers & Victim’s Blue Theme. I WAS RIGHT BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS A NONSENSE REACH SO I NEVER POSTED IT. GOD DAMMIT!!!

- “i’m coming home. did you miss me?” Chilling. Love it. It’s so taunting, so snarky, so malicious. Love it. Also sounds exactly like an angry child lol

- Chosen finally gets out of The Box and his chair :D And then instantly gets renamed and his powers taken away. Oof. Chosen is NOT having a good day. At least he’s free…? And not dead?

- Victim forcibly downgrading Alan’s computer to Windows XP LMAO This bitch is so petty and stuck in his past.

- THAT 3D DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT WAS SO FUCKING COOL HOLY SHIT WHAT

- Human side of the screen revealed! WE WERE RIGHT, ALAN IS JUST A FACE WITH GLOWING GLASSES TO THEM. THAT’S SO FUNNY. And it’s probably not intentional or anything special, that’s probably just the light of the screen reflecting off his glasses lol. He’s also only clouded in shadows cuz Victim downgrading the PC ruined the lights. It’s so funny that his visage was made so dramatic, when to the CG he prolly looks normal lmao

- I love how a lot of Victim’s attacks are towards the direction of the screen, towards Alan’s real self. He’s fighting the cursor, but his aggression also extends to Alan himself beyond it. But the screen is as close as he’ll ever get to actually hitting Alan himself. Breaking the cursor is all he can do to hurt him.

- ayyy Victim finally won that fight. Only took him 19 years. (17, in the timeline.)

- Alan…Alan you’ve lived with stick figures for nearly ten years by this point in the timeline. And had experience with stick figures in general for seventeen. Alan you’ve experienced them ruining your files so many times. You’ve experienced them screwing up the computer itself so many times. Please don’t tell me that you trusted LITERALLY ALL OF YOUR STUFF to be safe on your computer. DO YOU NOT HAVE A BACKUP?!?! ALAN PLEASE ITS BEEN 17 YEARS PLEASE TELL ME THAT YOU’VE LEARNED TO HAVE A BACKUP HARDDRIVE THAT YOU FREQUENTLY UPDATE. PLEASE. ALAN WHY ARE YOU PANICKING ABOUT YOUR FILES, THEY’RE BACKED UP RIGHT?!

- They’re not backed up, are they. Alan, Cmon man…

- Inside of the PC while it’s off reveal! It’s cool that some of the things Victim destroyed lingered there. They like, froze where they were when it shut off. Neat!

- Dark CLAPPING because he’s impressed with Victim’s ‘performance’, I cannot with this bitch. He is such a douchebag, I hate him. No I don’t, I love him, but he’s such an asshole.

- THATS NOT THE SAME VIRABOT AS BEFORE. ITS DIFFERENT. IT DOESN’T HAVE FACE SPIKES AND ITS BODY IS SHAPED DIFFERENT. THATS A NEW VIRABOT. HE REMADE THEM. DARK REMADE THEM. THEY’RE PROBABLY WORSE NOW. WE’RE FUCKED.

- Orange didn’t kill all of the Virabots. And, honestly? That makes sense. Why would Dark have summoned ALL of the ones he had into that fight? And even if he DID, Orange only killed the ones Dark threw at him, and the one’s he almost sent into the internet. Orange didn’t seek them out, he was responding to them. Dark, upon seeing Orange rip them apart, could have sent some away to keep them from being destroyed. Dark is arrogant, but he’s not dumb. He himself tried to flee that fight when he realized Orange was too powerful. He’s not above tactically retreating. He likely ordered the Virabots to do the same.

- What’s interesting is that the Virabots seemed to have found him and put him back together. Which is an idea I saw before in a few things, but most people thought Chosen probably went and found him, to confirm his was dead. Gonna be honest, I like the Virabots doing it instead. That’s just cool. Their subservience/loyalty to him extends beyond Dark’s potential death. Made to serve, completely and totally. Love it.

- Dark’s mission statement is active and unmodified. All theories about it being destroyed or altered are now debunked. Dark had it for the entire time he and Chosen were together.

- Dark’s viral powers are now a lot more…goopy. I wonder if this was always how they functioned, and we just never got to see it because of the way he used them in Showdown didn’t allow for it, OR if it’s a side effect of being reconstructed by the Virabots. Being killed could have altered them, destabilizing or glitching them. I’m unsure of which it probably is. Dark showcasing his goop could just be him showing how they worked to Victim as much as it is showing us, it doesn’t really answer this question. It’s possible his hand nub being black now implies that they’ve been changed in some way after his death.

- Alan said that we were at least going to see Mitsi again, when asked if she was going to be revived. With what Dark seems to be suggesting they do, use his viral goop to bring her back…I can’t help but feel like that’s going to end HORRIBLY. That is a recipe for disaster. That is not the way Vic should revive her. But he’s desperate, and he wants that. So he’s probably going to. Vic no :( ….

- Dark also just played him like a fiddle. Victim just got manipulated so bad. Dark is offering the thing he knows Victim cares about more than anything, due to him spying on Victim, in order to persuade Victim into joining him. Because Dark wants Victim’s power. Dark wants Vic to join him so he can continue destroying the internet. He wants a new partner. Dark wants a replacement Chosen One. Which Victim now has the capacity to be. And given how Victim still seems to have not known about Dark’s existence until now, it’s possible that Victim is completely clueless about Dark’s nature and what he’s done. Which has the potential for one hell of an explosive backfire if Victim learns that Dark might’ve been the one to kill Mitsi. Even if he doesn’t, I can’t see Victim being very on board with destroying stuff and killing sticks. He hasn’t fallen to that level of evil yet, which very much puts him in the same position Chosen had been. Unless Dark doesn’t want to destroy the internet, instead targeting Alan or Orange (for revenge), but even still, Dark would probably want to turn back to the internet after they’re done with them. So it’ll be a difficult situation Victim is in regardless. This partnership is a recipe for disaster…it’s gonna blow up.

So, in conclusion, where we’re left off at is:

Chosen is powerless and stuck at the lake, Orange is still stuck in jail, Yellow is in The Box, Red Green and Blue have successfully duped the remaining Mercs and are loose in Rocket Corp, Agent was left behind at the shack, Alan was forced to unplug his computer, Victim now has code powers, Dark is alive with a new breed of Virabot and his powers are goopy, and Victim and Dark have possibly teamed up.

It’s not looking good, chat.

A friendly reminder that Season 3 is planned to run to Episode 15. We have three more episodes to go to wrap everything up. We haven’t even made it to the climax of the season yet.

Oof.

Some final thoughts:

- Victim’s ability to manipulate the cursor into renaming a stick posses a serious danger for Orange. He could wipe Orange’s powers as easily as he did Chosen’s. Unless Orange is somehow immune. It might be a good thing the computer/cursor is out of play right now…

- This ability could also pose a threat to Dark, if they turn against each other.

- This ability could also come back, if Victim realizes how much of a threat to the entire Internet Dark is and isn’t able to defeat him himself. Victim might potentially need to rename Chosen and give him back his powers, depending on how big and bad of threat Dark could become. And with Victims new powers added into the mix…the potential for Dark to do something or for Vic to royally fuck up is significant. This are gonna get worse, somehow, and we can only hope Victim comes back from the point of no return before it’s too late.

- This new name change info throws a lot of what we thought of how sticks work into turmoil again. Because we thought that AvA11 established that a stick’s name was intrinsically tied to their identity, their very being. We thought that’s how Alan kept remarking Victim. But now it seems that a stick can be renamed and then takes on aspects of that name. And the names also seem a lot more…ambiguous, than we thought it was. The change from HACKER to H4CK3R seems to imply that spelling doesn’t matter, but intent also doesn’t seem to matter. Alan was clueless about what he was doing, he couldn’t have been subconsciously trying to instill certain powers. Chosen also didn’t seem to realize anything had happened, since he tried to fly, though granted he was paused and thus unaware for it in the first place. It’s a strange bit of new lore that I’ll have to think about some more.

- We now have no idea how Victim was being recreated. It he wasn’t being pulled back by his name, what was pulling him back? Do name changes for already existing sticks function differently from first being given a name at creation or recreation?

- The fact that Agent and Chosen were left in the same area is interesting. Also interesting is that Agent is probably clueless about Vic teaming up with Dark. Depending on what happens, Agent might be forced to turn against Victim, which would be painful for everyone involved. Agent wouldn’t WANT to betray Victim. But I feel like he’d be pushed to if Victim became a danger to the Outernet.

- Victim might keep his powers after the end of the season. His Animation VERSUS card in the one livestream was vague and hinted at there being more to him. This was likely to keep his H4CK3R power reveal a secret. Animations VERSUS will likely contain these powers in his move sets, because now that we know about them, they know we’ll want to play with them just like we want to play with Chosen and Dark’s powers. It would be strange for the game to have them for Victim’s gameplay, if he looses them at the end of the season.

- The fact that Agent saw the CG get revived has got to be significant. I will be so upset if that’s just glossed over to do a sneaky little pirouette over the fact that Orange can revive sticks if they don’t plan on reviving anyone.

I’m too tired to think anymore right now. My brain is fried. I’ll need to rewatch it a few more times later.

Also, the animation was fucking gorgeous. It was amazing. Absolutely stunning.