i am constantly thinking about yam. constantly. he’s the smartest character in the whole damn guild run arc. he’s a lot more sensible and level-headed than y’all give him credit for. like, i know in-game devsis wrote all his lines to be like…That. and when he was introduced in the first guild run installment, he literally broke down a wall. BUT: he’s genuinely…very chill throughout the rest of the arc. just grouchy?
see, i find it interesting that he does nothing when milk points his weapon at him. he doesn’t strike back, not even in self-defense. at any point he could have turned around and beat the shit out of milk to make him stop following him, but he…doesn’t. and he even (begrudgingly) lets milk stay by his fire and offers him food. so much for hotheaded? like milk is literally the one threatening yam and acting out towards him in a violent manner, and yam just sort of rolls with it. he’s never raised his mace against another cookie. not once. not even when he’s being threatened.
just interesting, i find. especially because this fanbase likes painting yam as some out-of-control, violent monster, while milk is gentle and calm. despite the fact that milk is the one to draw his weapon First. despite the fact that milk repeatedly grows angry and frustrated with yam and raises his voice at him.
anyway, that aside. when yam, milk, and dino meet mala, yam’s reluctant to join the quest to find pitaya. i think it’s less because he doesn’t care about the dragon valley’s plight, and more because he has a bit of tunnel vision, and is focused on finding dark choco first and foremost. (tunnel vision in the sense that he is not initially aware of how traveling with mala could help him with his actual goal.)
interesting as well that milk also wanted to find dark choco. and yet…he doesn’t mind getting sidetracked constantly. he’s probably trying to keep yam and dark choco apart, honestly. he sees yam as a threat, and is making the mistake of delaying their main quest.
(because, perhaps, if they weren’t so distracted, they could have gotten to dark choco before they found the sword.)
yam’s known from day one that dark choco isn’t exactly the almighty, perfect savior that milk sees them as. he’s known that their intentions for going to the dragon’s valley weren’t the most selfless. (and you know, perhaps their more selfish, ulterior motives are what made them susceptible to the sword’s power in the first place.)
and keeping in mind what he says above, look:
hm. interesting. obviously talking about dark choco. wonder what they were up to…? pitaya immediately changes the subject, so no real time to focus on that. but then after the fight, yam says this:
…yam knows where dark choco is, just based on what pitaya said. AND he now knows that something’s gone seriously wrong in their quest, and that the darkness has somehow overtaken them. i’m not sure if he knows about the cursed sword specifically, but now that he knows there’s serious danger, he’s more impatient than ever to find them. he’s the only one who realizes that something much bigger is happening here, so he’s the only one who can DO something about it.
mala and dinosour aren’t even involved with the search for dark choco in the first place, and milk is too busy fawning over and idolizing them to recognize that something is seriously amiss here.
perhaps this is just my dislike of milk coming through, but it’s difficult for me to believe anything he says is genuine and coming from a place of goodwill. if you ask me, he knows what’s going on with dark choco. and he’s purposefully trying to delay yam for more sinister reasons than he would like you to believe.
this just feels like he’s playing dumb at this point. or maybe, he’s panicking, because shit shit shit shit yam isn’t supposed to know that and he’s way too close to ruining whatever it is that milk has planned.
yam’s skills as a warrior are probably nothing to laugh at. if dark choco were to attack him, he’d be able to hold his ground, no problem. he’s fought dark choco once before already, i mean - considering how observant he is? he’s likely familiarized himself with their fighting style and knows their patterns and weak points, and he would be able to beat them in a fight this time around. yam is the one person who stands a strong chance against dark choco, and who knows…
maybe he’s the one who can break the sword’s hold on them. everything’s set up for yam to rise up and become the hero of this arc. he may not want to, but in some circumstances…you don’t have a choice.
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