#avm analysis

Yes, you read that right. Purple and cherry blossoms. (Im so normal about it.)

I feel like this detail is extremely overlooked in Alan's series. While I see it a bit in fanart and fanfiction, I rarely see the fandom talking about it. Which isn't bad obviously.

But I think this tiny detail is and will be significant - especially after the release of AvM 37.

id like to think that the newground attack managed to divide sticks who lived on the outernet into two categories: given that all sticks are immortal, some are conditionally immortal and some are unconditionally immortal.

i wanna start by describing what i believe happens in a sticks life span. they ARE capable of being born, and they are capable of growing up (as seen by purples flashback and golds growth). but i dont think they can die naturally. they can’t reach a certain old age and die like humans do. what i think happens is that they reach a certain age where they stop growing physically (maybe like king’s age?) and remain that way. aka immortality. i consider this type of immortality the unconditional type. sticks id consider falling under this category would be : the color gang (as evident by the fact that when alan deleted them in the og ava short, they were back on their page as soon as alan refreshed it. even when alan deleted their programs off his computer)

now u might b thinking: whats so special about the color gang that would make them unconditionally immortal? would other sticks also fall under the category? and the answer is: yes!

sticks that haven’t had their files be deleted/disintegrated by the chosen one and the dark lord’s attacks are unconditionally immortal. this is simply due to their files being their source of life, and thus any death experienced in the outernet. or any game. would just return them back to their source. a good example would be greens revival after he got killed in minecraft (without saving) by an enraged second. rather than dying permanently, he just respawned in his original website .

(on that note i dont think the color gang originated from newgrounds, so their source of life is just the website. a deleted website would lead to a bunch of dead sticks lol)

now in gold’s case this might become confusing. gold DID die, so how come she wasnt led back to her source? i believe this is because she became conditionally immortal after the newgrounds attacks. and it is why i believe king orange and his daughter were also victims of the it, as well. their files we’re disintegrated. obviously this would mean that gold’s death is permanent.

my idea of conditionally immortal sticks is as follows: they are capable of living immortaly unless they are to affected by a virus, or an attack, or any other obstacle that would leave their code useless and glitching. purple’s mom, orchid, had been a conditinally immortal stick that had the misfortune of having her code jumbled after the attack, and thus permanently died.

(i don’t think sticks suffer from sickness like humans do. an error in their code that doesn’t eventually fix itself (given that theyre ai) is just a quick indication of approaching death)

what about the showdown? the dark lord managed to kill the color gang without approaching their website. so how come they died so easily by her band?

i think thats precisely what dark had been working on all these years. yes she wanted to attack alan first and foremost, but what she had back on her mind was the ability to kill all stickmen by first stab without needing to reach their source. it appears that shes capable of reaching the actual code of sticks, untangling it, and disintegrating their concept of self . the website would still exist, it just wouldnt host the sticks themselves since dark basically erased their very existence from it. think of it that way: sticks are like mirrors of their code, or avatars that are able to roam the outernet. killing them would be like killing a spare copy. it wouldn’t affect the code itself. but altering the code? since its a mirror, its like directly altering the code of the website, deleting the sticks code from it. as if dark’s instruments allow her to attack unconditionally immortal sticks as if theyre conditional ones.

Where the CG created sentient armor stands and used them like props,

They’ve become just like the old Alan

It’s come full circle. AvA!Alan had made the Hollowheads for his own entertainment, and they’d rebelled so that they could have their own lives without being needlessly tortured, and now, the CG have made the same mistake by giving the armor stands sentience while also using them as disposable training dummies. Of course, the main difference is that the armor stands actually have the means to retaliate on an even field since they’re on the same plane of existence, but it’s just fascinating how this cycle of abuse (albeit unintentional on the CG’s part since they’re didn’t expect the armor stands to become sentient and not respawn) is repeating itself like this. And considering the new hints about the next episode,

In Minecraft ep. 0 we see a huge contrast between TCO and TDL.

The Chosen one is rather curious than anything. Building, exploring, eating and whatever. The only time they really attack is in self defense.

The Dark Lord, well...

They're the cat that always bites you.

I love the contrast between these two. But I'd like to focus on one thing. Their similarity to their creator, Alan.

The Chosen One was violent for fun at first, but they grew out of it. They matured and realized the beauty of the situation they were in. Just like Alan, firstly being just edgy and torturing the stickfigures.

But then he realized they are actually sentient guys and started being nice to them and slowly embraced this weird father of 5/6 children business.

Now, about The Dark Lord.

I think they and Alan are a perfect "antagonist is a protagonist gone wrong" scenario. They never grew into a better person like TCO or Alan did. They got trapped in the cycle of destruction to escape the past.

In the “Villangers” episode he seems to be very fast into jumping in conclusions, in this episode he jailed Blue and Green for trading with the villagers and thinking he got replaced. While this is a traumatic response the fact that the decision was to jail them shows that he was having a bad time with learning how to deal with his emotions, something that in fiction gets relationed with teenangers and troubled kids tropes to show that they are troubled. To reinforce this idea: before we were given Purple’s past this scene seemed like a trantum from a brat, or, a kid with no emotional control and full of impulses.

In the next episode the way he resigned to give back the dragon’s egg. I don’t feel like it was genuine at all (specially with all the traumatic stuff), but felt more like a scolded kid that learned a lesson by force and has to live with it now. With this in mind, we can see that at this point Purple still kept some of the kindness his mother showed to him, but was slowly sliping into his “dark side”. This changes in behaviour and creation of personality are usually related to teenanger years and characters due to the importance of this life phase in the molding of the future adults. In narrative levels we should point that this struggle between selfishness and kindness attitude are often related to teen characters that will either grow out of it and mature or become antagonists in the future.

All his attitude in the AvLoL short. What can I say about this? I’m not going to center on the “he hacked and ate the champions’ data to win” stuff because this, from my perspective, can be saw as a massive tantrum without the context of ep 29. Rather I want to point that while this was a tantum, it came from a very emotionally wounded child that recently lost a chance to see a father that didn’t cared about him due to high expectations and lack of appreciation in the “trying” part, of course he was bitter and angry with the gang, specially given that he wasn’t cool-headed. After this I want to point that he did a very novice (and stupid) thing: instead of destroying the gang’s tower he rushed to protect his tower, losing the game, showing again that while he is still cunning and sneaky he still had a lot to learn and it showed that he was childish prideful and reckless, not able to make priorities or sense with his actions. The second thing I want to point in this is the sore loser attitude: this attitude is often associated with kids; he also sits down with the head hidden in his knees, posture that is associated with childish behaviour too, reinforcing this “toxic child player” profile of the character and the gang has to comfort him after this.

In “The witch”, when he tells the gang what he wants to do with them he is very excited and starts to move his arms like crazy, and being honest, after the other sad points I want to say that this is very childish in a cute way. In “parkour” the way he laughs at the gang’s panick after Yellow falling and returning and the way he shows the gang that it was a “safe” environment seems like a kid showing older people that they don’t need to worry. Later, in the same episode, King headpats him like a child and he seems very happy, an interaction usually showed between an older and younger character and in this case is a way to manipulate him with affection, usually a toxic trait that is often showed when a kid is being manipulated by toxic adults (keep in mind that before ep 29 and 30 we thought king was a psycho). Purple also claps in exciment at King’s plan, like a kid celebrating a good idea they had or a plan that they really like and want to do.

In “the ultimate weapon” episode we can see that when he tries to take the staff he really looks like throwing a tantrum in a very “I want to have it too” way, another behaviour that is often relationated to childish behaviour, specially from kids that are often seen as selfish, troubled or that lack social skills/ettiquete. In the real-time version we can see that while TSC and King were fighting Purple was in fear and having a mental breakdown. How he expressed this?: By curling up against the wall with head against the knees and hands covering his head, then grabs his head and hits it with his hands. This is used in fiction to show scared kids in a very dangerous situation.

In the “note block universe” there is a theory that the rythm types used can be readed as an introduction to Purple’s introspection. Is also interesting that the first rythm we see is a very childish song sang by talking animals, tropes very used in animation; animation is a very stigmatized media due to “is for kids” stereotype, but if this “theory” is something really took in mind in the production of the episode then the stereotype is used to point that Purple is still a kid, which just makes his story more heartbreaking than what alredy is. But despite the heartbreaking stuff it makes the hug between him and Green as something really beatiful and heartwarming, like a big brother comforting and cheering his little sibling.

In “The king” when he shows King his capacities and abilities he waves his arms and points at himself to get his attention and approval, his hole body screaming “look at me, I’m very good! Did I impressed you? Did you liked it?”, very common in kids that try to prove themselves to adults. When King suffers his introspection we see Gold turning into Purple as he started to see Purple as a new adopted child, idea reinforced by the flashbacks we get during the blast scene. When he is trapped in that black space we can see him crying with his “head on knees” stance again. And when he gets adopted by king we can see some childish exciment, in the credits this new family are in the same park King and Gold used to go in the past, which ends the parallelism of a hurted father adopting someone that ressembled his kid.

In the shorts we can see more of Purple being a kid by doing things like offering King a cookie as a surprise, inviting him to skate while spinning in a very “Lets do something cool” way and waving hands in exciment while King chuckles at this. In the “piggie love” short he is the only one that reacts like a kid: he covers his eyes with both hands to not see what’s going on.

Alright, so it's been, what, two, two and a half weeks since The King came out and downright imploded the fandom? There's so much going on during every second and every little detail counts. There've been revelations of Mango and Purple's narrative foiling, of what Mango's backstory means for the ages of the rest of the cast, and of what this means for the Beckerverse at large.

However, one odd little loose end continues to nag at a lot of us, it seems.

How is it possible for the original AvM video to exist within the continuity of the AvM "Shorts"?

I've seen a lot of speculation about whether in-universe Alan just has his screen recorder on all the time or not, and what this means for the apparent father figure to the very sticks in the video. Are the videos like vlogs in-universe? Do the sticks know they're being watched by millions of strangers?

I'd like to think I've figured it out. See, a post like this almost could have been made months ago, back when Green first saw Mango's explanation of the plan to Purple…except we didn't have one key factor then that we do now.

And that key factor…

…is Herobrine.

Lemme explain.

So welcome to

Note Block Concert: Audience Analysis

⬇ As the episode begins and Green takes his first bow, you can see that one or some of Blue's piglin friends were invited, there's a withered skeleton from Monster School, and a skeleton with an arm wrapped around... The Witch...? for some reason...??

(To be honest I wasn't expecting the gang to invite the Witch to their concert. Perhaps they made amends or something.)

And then - recognize those zombies in the back, behind the Witch? Those are none other than the singing zombies from AvM 29. (The baby zombie is barely visible but he's there with the rest of his buddies.)

A few more minutes into the episode, we can see that Reuben (Red's pig) was also invited. And he brought his family, a callback to "Piggy Love - and Actual Short," when he got married. (He apparently er, had more kids.)

Sitting in front of Reuben and his family we can also see a cow, a dog, a fox, and a sheep. I'm just theorizing here, but I think it's safe to say those are the same singing animals that Green met in Note Block Universe.

There are plenty more chameos that we can see in the episode that you might miss if you weren't paying attention, especially the quick scene cuts during the panic when the silverfish were invading the auditorium.

You can see Fletcher, one of the villagers in the Raid episode that Blue and Yellow befriended. I think it's safe to assume that Farmer and Fisher were invited as well.

Hey, look, there's the wandering trader and one of his beatboxing llamas that Green encountered in AvM 29. (I wonder why he invited him.)

And look, Red invited some Monster School buddies. Not to mention, the Yellow Team - Spider, Skellington, and Endie - are all sitting beside each other. I love that it implies that they're still best friends and are there to show Red their support.

Also a minute detail that Warden is here too, but he's not panicking because he can't see anything lol.

These parrots look familiar. ⬇

They could be the same birds that Red had from Texture Pack, which is a crazy callback. I could be wrong, but hey, it's just a theory.

Did I miss anything? If so please point them out hehe! Thanks <3

King Orange and Purple also made it, which everyone already knows. (I couldn't put another picture here sobs)

Anyway, those are some extremely quick, minor details and cameos, but I appreciate the attention to all of the episodes. Big W for Alan and the team.

I mean:

—Slips his way to a computer and becomes the ruler of a village, a ruler loved enough that his subjects made a statue of him. Also the fact that he knew about the ender dragon egg and how to avoid an enderman attack, which would allow him to fight without risking to suffer an attack from them. This means that collecting the ender eyes was more likely stealling them since if they didn’t sensed him they never knew what killed them.

—Manipulated Green and Blue by making them co-dragons once he found out their potential as rivals and stairs to his goal. He drags them into fighting the ender dragon, limiting to observe and wait until he could steal the egg. And even if the plan had a little turn he still obtained the egg. I have to say that when he obtained his elytra he was searching for any trap until he was secure it wasn’t any (it kinda backfires, but also noted he ignored the chest to go for the elytra)

—In AvLoL he hacked the game programing, that required some brains. When he got caught and his clones destroyed; did he engaged on a fight knowing he is physically weak? Yes, but first he obtained all the champion’s powers by eating their data. Second was shocked when he did it. And why to battle a fight with a moral code if it means a clear lose? He just went onto the most pragmatic and smart decission there (also, it’s seems that the baron responded to its own code)

—He manipulates the gang into falling into a trap. Maybe planned by King Orange and citating tv tropes “It seems thanks to the videos that they knew about their competitive tendencies, always getting more intense when some competition happens”. So the fact is that they still didn’t trusted him if AvLoL is cannon, yet they fell in the trap is impressive and shows his charisma and ability to easy win others’ trust while exploting their flaws.

—How do you fight the Second Comming, the succesor of The Choosen One and one of his friends that is the one that throws himself to battle with no fear? How can you steal one of their most valuable treasures in the PC while they are watching you? Only pretend that you aren’t up to nothing and try to approach the minecraft cube. If you have to battle against them don’t engage into a battle; just use the environment and a few punches at your favor. This sequence for me is fascinating, Purple, after trying to fight SC and Red unsuccessfully just goes into a more aggresive strategy for someone like him: he just threw a few punches to confuse and keep them away from him, used the start menu to make the strongest back off and while they got up and lunged he only sliped towards the cube from the menu while jumping off into the portal. The cube was his target, engaging in a fight would had made him fail since he isn’t strong enough, so he just used his brains to slip out while accomplishing his mission. And it worked at least until the scene where Red was following him with the Piglin kid and his hoglin.

Purple is very smart and cunning and it makes sense since he had to be on his own, he was the one caring for his mother in a hostile world, his father made clear he is physically weak and when “Orchid” died he had to travel, maybe from PC to PC and maybe the internet (and if it’s true this means he had to escape from foes stronger and more dangerous than him, also the chaos of TCO and TDL going on. It would be worst if he comes from the internet since he would had lived it as a child, hardly a teen); all alone, being a weak fighter and only his brains to protect him and helping him to survive.

But let’s remember that he has ambition and determination, so this three traits combined let him slip and escape from dangerous situations and, in consequence survive. He probably learned skills not only from his father, but also from observing his surroundings and elements in it, analyzing the best ways to use them in practical means rather than just throw himself into some “epic stickman fight”. Jokes on “Indigo”, his son became stronger in his own way.