#ava analysis

The entire Color Gang

Battle scars from the Showdown where they all got stabbed

Friendship bracelets, with red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and sometimes purple beads

Messy, unbrushed and untamable hair (I love this one)

Are siblings, with Orange being the adopted one and Purple being and Honorable Member

The Second Coming/Orange

He almost always has or wears something green to represent his powers (despite him not remembering how to use them at all) such as a green strand of hair, a green bracelet, or green eyes

He's often wearing something to represent Alan, too - most commonly a small cursor pendant or a cursor logo on his shirt

Has an artist glove

Wearing comfortable-looking clothes so he can crash and sleep whenever he needs to

Narocleptic or has a sleeping disorder

Also Alan's "favorite child"

Adores every single one of his creations (like Bob)

Red

85% of the time he's a furry/part furry

Cat ears (or his hair is styled to look like cat ears)

He's always wearing his yellow ribbon from Monster School (despite the fact that he actually gave his ribbon to the Warden in episode 30)

Loves his piggy

Something to represent Monster School - a jacket, a jersey, a hat, etc

Glowing eye/eyes from when he was possessed by Herobrine (twice)

Still gets nightmares from when he was possessed

Is the youngest or one of the youngest sticks of the group

Multiple bandages or band-aids over his arms and legs because he takes care of animals

Blue

Being a foodie (it's so cute, I love seeing a chubby Blue)

Having burns/chronic pains on his legs from when he fell in the lava in the Piglin War episode (and having his legs covered completely to hide the burns and scars)

Wearing a skirt ("because it's comfy" is the main reason, which I can understand because of his burns ((poor baby))

Keeps his chronic pains a secret because he doesn't want to worry anyone, but of course, they eventually find out

Netherwart or netherwart particles strewn in his hair

Having a sweet smile or countenance (despite the fact that he's insanely brutal when he fights)

Having potions attached to his waist or belt

Wears a scarf

Being the healer, doctor, and "Mom" friend of the group because that's just how he is

Green

Being a Spanish-speaking diva, mainly because of the Matador short (YES, I'm all for this one)

Being black or dark-skinned (because he's DJ's boi)

Almost always wearing his headphones even though we hardly see him with headphones anymore

Dreadlocks

Wearing something purple-colored like a bracelet, necklace, or hairtie to match with Purple as a sign of their friendship (or romantic relationship)

Something music note-related on his clothes or a small music note tattoo

Still has a constant fear that Bob is watching him

Arachnophobic (but that's canon)

Yellow

Having small feathery wings and/or a small star-shaped scar on his forehead from the Lucky Block Incident

Being messy with redstone dust, which is smudged on his clothing

Wearing a vest or blazer to look eccentric or smart

Keeps his laptop and/or staff with him at all times

Is claustrophobic

Is an insomniac

Is a huge fan of the Chosen One

Glasses 👍🏼

Purple

Almost always wearing her hair in a braid

Regal-looking clothes, despite not being a ruler of a village anymore

Wearing something green-colored like a bracelet, necklace, or hairtie to match with Green as a sign of their friendship (or romantic relationship)

Is often associated with cherry blossoms - wears a small flower in her hair, has one in her lapel or breast pocket, or wears a small pendant

Visits her mama's grave often

Also sometimes given music note patterns on her clothing

Everyone gives her different nationalities, but most commonly British, French, or Japanese (sometimes all three)

Calls King Orange/Mango "Dad" after AvM 30

King Orange

T u r t l e n e c k s w e a t e r

Majestic hair (we all love a beautiful king)

Handsome and regal in his King uniform, but post-AvM 30, he's just a normal-looking guy (but still with majestic hair)

Has back problems

Extremely overprotective of his kids

Used to be or is good friends with Corn Dog Guy

Why are all of his designs legit so fineeee (I'm not simping, it's just a fact)

The Chosen One

Emo (I'm being serious)

Red eyes while he was the Chosen One, and normal eyes while he's No One

Can't swim without his powers

Has multiple battle scars from the Showdown

High pain tolerance (which makes sense)

Has a scar on his ankle from the cuff (when he was imprisoned by Alan during the first few years of his life)

Is Aroace/Aromantic

Has a crush on/is a huge fan of Freedom Guy

Arachnophobic

Is Orange's older brother, but their relationship is complicated

Non-verbal or partially non-verbal

Eats like a starving man every single time he's given food

The Dark Lord

Also has (very ugly) battle scars, especially after getting absolutely destroyed after the Showdown

His design has gradually changed from a handsome manipulative charming villain to a disgusting, gory, virus-looking but equally handsome monster from the depths

Is charming but hateful

Often has a pet ViraBot sitting on his shoulder or following him around (and the ViraBot's name is Ted, trust me)

Black eyes, red pupils (peak design tbh)

Has spider legs coming out of his back or attached to his outfit

Victim/H4CK3R

Wearing something cyan or light blue, even before his transformation to H4CK3R (like a cyan tie)

Emo (still being serious)

Workaholic (especially after Mitsi's death)

Used to be besties with Agent but now hates everyone and everything (except for his dead wife)

Also non-verbal or partially non-verbal, or has a speech problem like stuttering (which slowly dissapates during his time with Misti)

Isn't an insomniac, but never sleeps

Has a smoking problem

Mitsi (I only have a few for her but I love her)

Knows how to deal with money despite Vic being paranoid over it

Loves flowers and has a garden, often with lilies or chrysanthemums

The Absolute Authority of RocketCorp but still the sweetest angel alive

Will drag Vic away from his desk and force him to rest when he's been working too much (which is actually adorable

Honorable mention for Vic and Mitsi: They're married and have a pet sheep which is basically their child <3 (and Agent is the super awesome third wheel)

The Mercenaries (Agent Smith, Lasco/Primal, Ballista, and Hazard)

Agent has a crush on Primal or vice versa

Agent's design is also fineeee (still not simping, just speaking facts)

Primal is a female 90% of the time

Ballista has SERIOUS anger issues, even over the smallest things

Hazard is either a coffee-holic or hates coffee, nothing in between

Agent likes tea

Agent looking at the other mercs and going "why on earth did I ever think it was a good idea to hire these people"

The mercenaries have a childish, sibling relationship with one another, and Agent is the older brother

Primal and Hazard constantly make fun of Ballista for being short

The one that gets sent to Alan is confronted by Orange and Alan immediately after 'hatching', so arguably, it didn't even get to do what Dark had likely wanted it to do. It got caught, instantly, and got pulled into a fight.

[And it wasn't even the Virabot that alerted them, it was the temperature of the PC, which was caused by CHOSEN trying to laser/flame his way into the computer. If he hadn't of gone after the it, the Virabot would've remained undetected for longer.]

What would have happened if Orange and Alan never noticed it?

What's interesting is that the computer is already infected just by the Virabot landing in it; the actual hatching of it from the application icon has NOTHING to do with that.

Just by the Virabot existing on the computer, it's pretty much already in control. It's task can't be ended, and it prevents access to the Control Panel, which are common tip offs that you have a virus as a lot of them do that. And there's also......all that other stuff.

Which I'll get back to later.

[Sidenote: I do appreciate the ViraAnti-Virus, that is still really funny. I also love how Minesweeper remained untouched.]

All of this happened the moment the Virabot landed, which means all of these things are part of it's payload. The Virabot is likely doing all of this from within it's application icon, but I don't think it was meant to remain inside of it. I think the hatching was intentional (if premature due to Orange smacking it with his hammer) as the main part of the payload: the Virabot itself.

Pretending that the CG don't exist for a moment, it's likely that the Virabot would have hatched from the application icon, and a conflict between it and the cursor would've occurred. Given how well Alan did against the thing in the actual episode, I don't see the cursor lasting very long, let alone doing any better.

So the cursor gets corroded, and because the Control Panel is blocked, Alan has no way of restoring it [going through the command menu is also probably blocked by the virus.]

Without a cursor, Alan is helpless. The computer is COMPLETELY vulnerable. The Virabot now has full run of the computer.

Which brings me to the other interesting thing the Virabot can do:

Burrow itself into the computer itself, which grants it total control over EVERYTHING. Even the applications themselves, which it can manipulate to it's whim.

I think this might've been what the Virabot was supposed to do to Alan's computer. I think it was supposed to take control of the computer, and I think it was supposed to start deleting all of Alan's stuff.

Which...Y'know...Kinda sounds a little familiar, doesn't it?

Hmmm. Interesting. Food for thought.

Anyway, that's what I think the Virabot's primary directive was, the task it was to execute against Alan specifically.

I also think it had a secondary directive.

A "Virus" is a very specific type of computer malware. Not every piece of malware is a Virus, there's loads of different types: Worms, Trojans, Keyloggers, Ransomware, Spyware, etc.

Viruses, specifically, function like so: "A type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code. Like a biological virus, a computer virus requires a host—a legitimate program or document—to spread and cause harm."

Ah, a host program or document, you say?

Like, say, all of a computer's applications?

Yeah. I think that's why all of that stuff got rebranded to Vira-esque knockoffs. Reproduction of the Virus. I think, if those programs were to be run, or even broken open with a hammer again tbh, they would produce more Virabots, exactly like how the original hatched from it's own application icon.

This would, in turn, turn Alan's entire computer into a breeding ground for the Virabot. A nest, from which they would then spread into the internet and wreak havoc.

"But Dark was planning to send them through the Internet Gates!" Yeah, he was.

Because his plan was to infect multiple targets at the same time. Big targets. Popular sites. Great for producing more Virabots and infecting a massive amount of computer systems that access them. Maximum damage, right off the bat.

But I also think he planed on including ALAN'S computer into that mix of initial "nest" sites, as a personal jab TO Alan.

Alan made Dark. And then betrayed him. Dark is a vengeful stick. He's spiteful.

I think Dark wanted to shove it in Alan's face that he was just as responsible for this, the infecting of the entire world's computer systems, the destruction of the ENTIRE INTERNET, as Dark was, by proxy of being Dark's creator. With his computer producing Virabots, he would be one of the first, likely THE FIRST, sources of the infection and the destruction. He would be an origin point. And the world would know it, when they started tracing the spread.

Dark wanted Alan to be part of the chaos and the ruin.

And Alan would be helpless to do ANYTHING but watch.

[Unless he yanked the plug of the computer to put a stop to it, which wouldn't even matter. Because of the other massive websites Dark was also going to target. Dark won either way, and the only reason he didn't was because he got nuked by an overpowered teenager he accidentally triggered the godly awakening of]

Dark sending the Virabot to Alan's computer first was personal. He wanted to rub it in Alan's face just how evil and all powerful he'd become. To mock him. To rip away Alan's power and instill himself as a new God, an overlord who could wipe the entire Internet just because he could. Who could control everything.

A Dark Lord, destroyer of worlds.

So there you have it. I think the Virabot has two main payloads: Infect the computer and destroy all files and data until the computer is either completely unusable or under the Virabot's (re: Dark's) control, and infuse itself into the computer's applications to reproduce new Virabots that would then spread into the internet and repeat the process.

This sort of an aggressive take over and reproduction would spread very quickly, and the humans likely wouldn't have time to prepare ot even fight back.

Probably within a week, Dark could have overrun every single computer system on the planet, and brought down the entire internet alongside them.

And when you think about what sorts of computers his virus could weasel it's way onto, and the fact that the Virabots are at least partially sentient, enough to make decisions...

Well, let's just say the damage probably wouldn't be exclusive to the digital world.

The true horror of an onslaught of nigh unstoppable Virabots grows bigger and bigger the longer you think about it. Out entire modern society would collapse, almost instantly. Banking systems? Gone. So many people's money would just instantly vanish because the only record of it was tracked on computer systems. Medical records? Wiped. Hope you doctor kept backups of your medication info on paper. The production of pretty much everything? Stalled. A majority use highly specialized computer systems. Nautical and Aviation navigation systems? Emergency services? Hospital equipment and machinery?

Everything. Gone. Bricked, overnight.

Which isn't even touching military crap, which is a whole other level of terrifying.

When you step back and truly look at how bad the scale of destruction could have been if even just a single Virabot made it to it's target, you really start to realize how much Chosen and Orange saved our asses.

If Chosen hadn't of gone after it, if Orange hadn't of destroyed them, the entire world of AvA would've been fucked. Both human AND digital.

Everyone say 'Thank you Chosen and Orange' in the tags, please and thank.

Now start to worry, bc Dark's got a new Virabot in AvA12.

Second, Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green have spent their entire existence on Alan's computer. Technically the fighting sticks have been on a website for a bit longer, but the mechanics of that are iffy considering the outernet's existence, so we'll say they only gained awareness around the time Second met them. Gender-wise, all they have to go off of is the internet, Alan, and vibes. None of them have inherent gendered features and due to the nature of their creation and when they were created I doubt they'd have a set gender at all

I headcanon that Red couldn't decide on a set gender. He's spontaneous and impatient, and even if she feels a disconnect, then I don't think it'd be her first reaction to think on it. They prolly just said fuck it and decided to have a little of everything.

Yellow I think would vibe with she/her. Perhaps influenced by the whole boys vs girls stereotype where girls are smarter and more mature than girls? While she is definitely just as smart as her peers (just more so in regards to technical stuff), I can definitely see her getting a bit carried away with the idea of being "better" in some way

Uh Green. I headcanon Green as he/they. And I am going to make up a reason for that right now. So Grren has shown to be fairly "cool" and wanting to be recognised as such. Based on what we've seen, Green tends to also be a bit of a jack of all trades type guy. I think he'd take he/they as a way to show that he's totes nonchalant about it (possibly also influenced by stereotypes he finds, like the idea of "cool" guys)

*groan of despair* ... I haven't thought about Blue either. Uh.... Blue seems more skilled at comprehending emotion and social situations than the others, and they seem fairly unbothered about a lot of stuff. This may be favoritism but Blue doesn't strike as someone who'd care too much about all this "gender nonsense", they're Blue what else is there to say? So They/Them is what Blue sticks (hah) with

Second uses They/Them, because like Blue, I can't really see them caring about it all that much. Depending on which headcanons/fanons for Alan one is using, Orange could be influenced by the idea that they like themself the way they were made (because they think Alan is cool) or just because it's not high on their priorities or interests list. Second doesn't have much to prove within the groups after all.

Side note: I gave Second we/us and personal pronouns because I felt like it, but that ain't a headcanon I'll use as often as they/them Second

Now in my mind it is very different for TCO, TDL, and Victim (Purple and King too, but for different reasons than the other three)

To give context on *why* it is different for the other Hollowheads, I'd go back to the fact the Colour Gang only has Alan and the Internet as their outside sources for Gender. Mind you, an Alan that would be willing to explain or at least brief them. Our surrounding context is what helps us identify the concept of gender and what it means to us as individuals and as a society.

Essentially, the Outernet is shown as a hub or a world where uploaded animations get to live. Notably, and considering the most we've seen so far has been stick figures, it is filled with animations dating back to the early-mid 2000s (presumably, internet art history is not my forte). What this means for Victim, who arrived there in 2006, is that his idea of gender and pronouns would have been influenced by the prevalent cultures of the Outernet at the time. And while, yes, this is more important in regards to Victim, but it's also important to note that this is the culture that TCO and TDL would have gotten their influences from as well, because I don't think they did much introspection while rampaging tbh

For TCO I headcanon as they/them, in the sense that they/them would have been a pronoun they heard used more so in reference to non-people (i.e animals, objects, robots, the like). Not only does this reference and take into account what the four years of being enslaved would have done to TCO's perception of themself and their personhood, but it also takes into account the effect being near-immortal does to someone (yes I consider TCO to be near immortal). TCO is not "a person" in the sense that they are both above the average person in all ways but also is trapped by the rememberance of being nothing more than a tool.

TDL I think is similar (They/Them) in the sense that they think themself above others, but also because they intrinsic don't see themself as a person. Perhaps they internalized their creation as to mean they are a tool and therefore not beholden to the rules of morality? Again, they/them has only/mostly been used in reference to one's humanity, so TDL would use they/them but be fine with others.

Victim's identity, more so after Mitsi's death but definitely before as well, is very revolved around rebelling. Rebelling against what Victim was taught about living by being kind and having fun and not hurting others (a value he then changes to not hurting people who don't deserve it do deal with cognitive dissonance). This also includes Victim's gender and pronouns. I don't really think Victim identifies as anything specific, but rather views having the choice to be whatever she wants as an act of rebellion in of itself. Additionally, because of that whole unspoken culture around pronouns defining humanity/capability for thought/morals/sentience, I think Victim would feel very uncomfortable with they/them or it/its as a pronoun

Uh might as well... King and Purple have set genders most likely. I'm assuming this because, while we aren't confirmed regarding King, it's likely that stick figures can't have kids on their own, they either are created along with their kid or adopt them. So, King and Gold were likely made together, and we know Purple and his family were also made together.

I do like the idea of transfem Purple, and gender queer purple tho (personally I like Bigender She/He Purple :3)