#character analysis?

Because yuo are twelve, and you love your twin brother because he is your other half. He gives up so much for you and you go with him to solve mysteries because it makes him happy. Sure you have spats but he is your brother and you love him.

Now you have a crush, and you're going all out because you *think* you love this guy. You dont, its summer and you're twelve but that doesn't matter. Because you're twelve and a summer romance with a cute guy is everyone's dream. And sure you would *like* to help your brother with this mystery laptop that connects to the mystery of the summer, but that will always be there!! This guy you like probably wont be. So you decide to make yourself happy.

Your brother, your other half, has been acting weird. But you brush it off as sleep deprivation. The show must go on. And then you're in your dressing room, and the puppet you made in your brother's likeness is saying he made a mistake and he needs help. And sure you're a petty twelve year old girl but your brother comes first, so you go to find the journal. And you do! You find it! But he finds you, the monster in your brother's body... with his voice and face. But his eyes are wrong and his smile is too wide and (HOW DID YOU NOT NOTICE). and he threatens to kill you, pretends to drop you in this pretty little prop you made for a crush (it seems so stupid now doesnt it?) and in the end you get your brother back.

But you still have nightmares. You were too late. You didn't belive your brother in the puppet. He dropped you. And eventually they die down, because all things do, but it doesn't go away. And then you find the letter, promising you death. Promising your brother death. Promising you never get justice. And the nightmares come back. Your brother's dead body. Your dead body. The watertower. The note. You dont tell anyone, but you silently promise yourself to be more helpful and be there.

Accept your new grunkle even if he hurt your current one, believe your current one! go and get the unicorn hair to protect everyone. And then you hear your brother saying he doesnt want to go back with you, he wants to stay here and be a nerd and mak you face high school alone! And suddenly you wish you could go back to stupid adventures and summer romoances.

so you grab your bag and run. and then the man appears, eyes hidden and smiling wide, someone you know (you trust him? not much but you are twelve and are about to loose your other half) and he offers you what you want. Your brother, more summer, no end of the world of demons. Just adventure and your grunkles, and your brother. So you give him what he wants and shake his hand.

And then you see it. The wrong eyes. The too wide smile. You didnt notice. Your family is in danger of this demon again. Its your fault again. (Not really. because you were tricked like your brother and your grunkle. But you are twelve and loosing your other half and loosing the world. And you shook his hand)

Okay so i rewatched kings arc so that i could see where parrot’s pov is going chronologically and i have some observations/theories etc of where he’s going with the story

The main thing parrot learns over the course of this arc is that ends do not justify the means, best exemplified in how lettuce is framed as a foil of parrot who is willing to do depraved things for the good of the server, while parrot is not (ends justify the means is also a belief held by wifies, just noting down)

How successful is that mindset in politics? All things suggest that this way of approaching politics is overly simplistic and naive - will parrots’s immovable hopecore be enough to ‘save the server’? Lettuce, who is much more intelligent than people assume of him, thinks not.

During this arc, many people say that ‘the server needs a king like parrot.’ this statement is huge for his ego, definitely, but is that a bad thing? It parrot’s idealism actually effective? This is probably the main draw of the kingdoms arc.

Parrot actually has such a big character growth moment with wemmbu during 2 Minecraft Pros VS 1000 Hunters. I think he was being incredibly genuine with the apology. 

His relationship to wemmbu is actually so fascinating. At first, he deems wemmbu a “bad person” due to his violent and powerhungry reputation, but doesn't have that many personal ties to him. Then, during the treasures arc great sea episode, he meets invis wemmbu who kills boomie. Its canon that parrot deduced that wemmbu was invis knight already, and because he saw wemmbu (bad guy) kill boomie (good guy), he gains more personal hatred for wemmbu, which he airs out during the search for wemmbu episode by going director mode on his ass. But in that same episode, he learns that his conception of good and bad is overly simplistic and relies on stereotypes, so he immediately ‘upgrades’ wemmbu to the ‘good guy’ category, which he just makes ‘everyone that parrot likes’ (he thinks he has become more nuanced in his perception of good and bad but no he hasnt he is still operating on the idea that good people deserve help and saving while bad people deserve pain and death, he just kinda shifted what it means to be good) anyways after that he is super chill with wemmbu during the 2v1000 hunters vid, and they have a truly open conversation where parrot explains why he did what he did, condemning his actions, saying he will strive to be better, and exemplifying that he knows why what he did was wrong. 10/10 relationship portrayal. After that they chill with each other. good job parrot you’re learning how to make genuine relationships with people!!

Bro lettuce is just such an amazing character: everything from his writing to his acting to his voice all makes him seem so believable for lack of a better word. 

Omg the way that it was theo’s capture that tipped the scale and had parrot activating ‘decimate lettuce’ mode. Omg. and plus knowing theo thought parrot died because of ouroboros, which is why he killed him then surrendered to the rest of law. These guys are each others fire. They kill for each other (but positive this time?). Man imma be sick they love each other so much

Also when i say love i mean it platonically no hate to theorrot but i think that there is always a platonic explanation and we gonna analyse using it. 

Lack of dean and wifies in the flashback/monologue at the start of i became king of unstable smp was definitely intentional, all other players were given names and their respective skins (which is big because sometimes names are changed and skins are the default skins, which would suggest that their names/appearance was not remembered but this is not the case for the mineciv flashback) this means that parrot is intentionally repressing his memories of dean luigi and wifies. Please i need more of this im not over this we need to have some more exploration of parrots grief please im not done cc!parrot please please dont forget them i need this augghhhhh

In this arc, theo is often reduced to comedic relief and his motives fully align with parrots. This makes it seem that his character’s writing was more of an afterthought, which i feel like is the greatest weakness of the arc (i feel like an easy way to save his character could have been to give him a bigger acting role in his training episode with flame - make him explain that what gives him the motivation to fight is the motivation to do what is right, and that theo finds that what is right is with parrot, for example). 

Hopefully we get an explanation of why theo has become so agreeable with parrot in the upcoming arc, because i feel like a very important thing that we learn about theo in the treasures arc was that he was not afraid to ask questions and criticise parrots decisions, which separated himself from wifies. Nowadays theo and parrot’s relationship borders confusingly on codependent, but this time im not sure if that’s intentional - but god i hope it is.

Parrot also learns a lot about politics and the server’s political landscape, which is important to the next arc. 

I love Lucie and how complicated her mentor-mentee relationship is with Bruce but this? Good lord. Like I doi think she genuinely means well, and context taken in, it makes sense. Bruce almost killed a man to boody pulp. But like, it's just so so so devastating for Zdarsky to put this line here because it introduces the idea of Batman as a curse, a someone who has violence inherently intertwined with his love for humanity. He has to channel that rage and need for vengeance into something concrete (Batman) to then become justice. And like this is a very very common theme and characterisation of Bruce but its introduced to Bruce so lovingly that it is just devastating. In a sense, because of this Bruce only is further determined to fight, because if his mentor said he's made up of violence, isn't that the only way for him to be bigger, to be the change he wants so badly in the world?

This is the point where he really can't go back, he can't go back to alfred, can't go back to Gotham, can't pretend it was just a rebellious stint like all those other times. He has to commit now, to his sabbatical that Lucie is so tenderly sending him away on and he can't go back.

Really it's Zdarsky thats tenderly sending Bruce off onto this journey, and I think it's done so in a tragically beautiful way. To really kick off Bruce's training years with a goodbye kiss and the gentle reminder that he is violence that has no yet been tamed is such a good writing choice. It's so inherently personal to Bruce because if it was some enemy of his or an antagonistic force saying it then Bruce might go to oppose that idea, to prove he's not as violent as they'd claim him to be. But it's Lucie saying that, Lucie, his first ever real mentor. Lucie, who he loves and knows loves him back. And because of that, Bruce will cling onto the sentiment, that he isn't anything more than violence and darkness and that he needs to be feared.

character analysis? theory? whatever you wanna call it.

before season 4 released way back in ancient April, I noticed something. you know how ii is with their stupid foreshadowing and how several characters in the exit interviews never bothered to think of their past (turns out they NEVER had one!!!! hahahahahhaaaa that's that's so that's making me so happy guys ahaha IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!!!!!) yeah that's just an example of the foreshadowing. i have so much more to say about this

And i know jayces suffering is meant to be a mirror of viktors. Im not discounting that. Hell, viktor more than deserves to be comforted. But this fandom tends to overlook how fucking traumatic what jayce went through was.