I have been obsessed with the Minecraft series Whitepine as of lately, mostly because I think the next ep will come out within the next month or so, given the time between uploading each oneΒ
But one thing in particular I've been thinking about is the detective Bormethius, because he is such an interesting character to me, at leastΒ
What I personally find interesting about him is how his personality and actions are so odd that it is the best word I can use to describe it. Like, at first, the very first time we see him, he seems like he is genuinely not that bad of a guy, he seems nice and like he is genuinely trying to do his job, and yeah, he might get a little to into it as we saw him yell at another person before Ivory gets questioned but he doesnβt seem all that bad but then he learns that Ivory was hired right before Mystiβs death and its mostly based off that fact that he thinks she did it
I thought for a while that was the only reason, but I rewatched it recently, and I do realize that Ivory is kind of suspicious, not because of her behavior but because she has no memory, was found in the middle of the woods, and seems to have come from nowhere, which is suspicious, which i think because of those facts he made his own theory of how it had to be Ivory because it seems like the obvious answer but he got so hung up on that theory he convinced himself that had to be the case no matter what information she gave and how there was no actual evidence that she had done it
And also, the thing is, he decides to do what a lot of detectives and police do in shows, which is investigate/look further into the case in ways they shouldnβt do, but in those cases, the audience roots for them when they do, but obviously, we arenβt ever rooting for Bormethius
I think he thinks that it was Ivory so much so that he starts looking at everything she says and does as rude or suspicious. I find the interrogation scenes so odd because she is being perfectly polite, and he says to stop patronizing him or being rude, and it is just so odd to see
Like we see the series sort of through Ivoryβs view, and we see Ivory for who she is, while the Detectiveβs perspective would probably be very, very differentΒ
It sort of reminds me of that scene in Agatha All Along where she is under the spell and thinks she is a detective, and her perspective is that Billy is a snotty teen who has an attitude and broke into her house to steal from her while we see later in the series his prespective is very different and he is actually very anxious and he behavior is very odd as she has a whole different perspectiveΒ
And also, of course, we have to talk about him beating up Ivory. That entire thing is so unsettling, because he was acting so weird during it too, like he also definitely planned it, he knew the majority of Whitepine was out, and he went and found Ivory, and when she was in his car, he told her not to talk or ask questions unless he spoke to her, and was so angry when she did speak and then right after he goes on talking to her like they are friends like βthis is my favorite forestβ and βits a nice day isnt itβ and he wants her to reply and right after all of that he goes on to beat her half to death, which I wish we saw a bit more of that not the beating but after he had stopped like, was he sorry he did it at all? When did he decide she had had enough? As well as did he want to kill her at any point then, or did he really just beat her, then decided that he was going to leave her unconscious there
And the fact that he decided to show up and ask to speak to her after he had done all of that, like he thought she would be ok with seeing him after all of that, and he seemed more embarrassed than he did sorry about what he did, and also i feel like he didnβt even get punished for it or anything because Zombie probably didnβt tell the police that he had done that
