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I mean, imagine being him. His dad was probably a little absent but it wasn't so bad, he had his mom! They had fun they spend a lot of time together and then she slowly dies in front of you, and you're reaching puberty/in a important age of development.

Your dad is STILL absent in your life, either keeping his time with being miserable, with the darn sword youre cursed in the future to perhaps also hold, and god knows what, beacuse he's just a kid who doesn't get the privlage of knowing what is his dad doing.

Then she dies, and his world crumbles. But he still got his best friend Kyoko right? And espescially now he can both kinda- bond, with the loss of the closest one, with her. He tried to fill in the void making pranks but over time they became more mean spirited, (headcanon time ->) pulling in his friend into it, hoping that perhaps doing it with somone else will help- until they both fail at a prank and get caught. Brad gets scolded hard, dad giving him attention and it's out of anger, beacuse he 'went too far', and Kyoko, his best friend? Suddenly she can't hang out with you anymore, people he perhaps considered second family suddenly turn on him. "You're a bad influence" They said. 'You're poisoning her head", "You're preventing her from sucess" They said too.

Another added in gulit, another person he lost.

He still has his dad, but does he really? The only time he got attention is when he was being lectured either about his behaviour or potential future burdens. Resentment slowly bulding up.

Then he goes too far, an accident, a fire starts. In his eyes, he didn't mean it, not all of it, but the town turned on him, his community resented him so much they wanted him gone. And his dad? According to his perspective he was a bit too fast to kick him out.

Nobody wanted him, was forced to go to a town he's a stranger to. Imagine him being lost, having literally nobody, no shoulder to cry on, nobody who knew him as this lost kid. He becomes a lost grown adult who learned that no matter what he did it ended up bad, so might as well play into this role and try to mold himself into it. I headcanon that he was doing graffiti, throwing rocks at glass, kicking down trash, etc, being sort of a piece of shit. Not only did he do it beacuse he was quite literally lashing out and not having a healthy form of controling his anger, but also beacuse that's the time where he got attention, where he was a threat, somone to not play with, somone who was 'cool'. Growing in thorns, keeping others away from exposing his soft self. He became toxic.

Another headcanon is his dad never visited, and if he did it was very rare and short. I mean, the man never answered back to Monty, not even ONE letter. The only time perhaps Brad heard of him was through newspaper, some pity money to live off and bail out letters. It was kind maybe but it all felt empty and insulting. I keep thinking of him being arrested and looking kind of...like an animal, especially when he bared his teeth. Leer came in and weponized his anger and resentment to his dad. They reminded him of the stupid, bloody venomshank. In Brads eyes, the sword was what ruined his life and has been cursing this family for generations (reminder that Bart Thanyiels father was also a gurdian) And then wow, he got the visions, another life he had claimed, of course he lashed out again and wanted to stop it. A-and then he becomes a freak of nature, a plant robloxian person. Not only it changed his life visually but also quite literally his way of living. I genuinly think Brad hates almost anything about himself and thinks he's impossible to be cared for. The last person who DID care about him through thick and thin was his mom, and it was AGES ago. I also headcanons he commits selft harm, but not through cutting, more like plucking at his leaves, punching stuff (thats why the mirror is cracked) sometimes to the point of his knuckles bleeding. Perhaps his overconsumption of the soda can count too. I really like Brad as a character and I find him tragic. Keeping shipping aside, Player is - without arguing- the best thing that happend in his life. Not only they saved his life, proving people cared, they also became his friend, thanks to them he could reconnect with Kyoko and his dad, and in the future perhaps with Calypso. The community also seems to not hate Brad anymore, I like to think they feel bad for him. It's just tragic they have to leave, like others did in his life before. Oughhhhhhhhhh Brad. And anoter thing, I cannot imagine canon chracters calling him Griefer bc wdym youre calling him based on the crime that literally ruined his whole darn life, sob??

anyway heres the bubonic plant i used for the window, dont take it as the canon design (my universe), im showing it still tho bc i like it

On paper, this Player is everything you'd expect from a selfless, dragon-slaying hero; It's very rare to see it without a smile on her face or a sword in hand. It is, after all, aware of the role it plays.

However, even from a purely objective point of view, "Player" is undeniably strange.

It isn't that the Player doesn't understand social cues, or how to read a room, or really any of the arbitrary, unspoken rules that govern polite conversation. It's just that, ninety-nine percent of the time, it prefers to operate on its own.

“Social cues? More like social suggestions.” ← “Player”, probably.

Everything it does is just a little off, from how it will hold eye contact until someone else breaks it to it's cheerful disregard for 'subtlety'. Her voice also never deviates from this sort of flat, vaguely amused drawl---which makes it very difficult to tell if it's joking or not.

However, it has this weirdly intense charisma going for it that manages to charm (almost) anyone it runs across.

Make no mistake: Despite its laid-back, friendly demeanor... this motherfucker is a vault door masquerading as an open book.