#chorda's analysis

major predictions (stuff i really think will happen / otherwise put a lot of thought into)

this place is where mango tested their command block staff and that's why it's all messed up

this theory was actually proposed to me by my brother, who suggested it after the first teaser gif for this episode was released (the one with all the flying animals)

at the time, we wanted to come up with a reason for all the weird stuff going on in the teaser but now that we've gotten the second teaser gif and the name of the episode, it might not hold true anymore since it looks like the episode will focus more on note blocks

anyway most of the reasoning behind this was just. the mobs kinda look like they're flying as if they were in creative mode cos they're just floating

so i joked that this is what it would look like if you ran /gamemode creative @/e (as in the command affects all mobs and players)

finally getting info on what happened to purple before current arc (episodes 20 - now) / before they met the colour gang

i really want to know what happened to them after ep 10, after they got dragged offscreen by the villagers,,,, i've come up with 3 possible scenarios and if any of them end up being canon i will SCREAM

scenario 1: they got put in the jail cell blue and green were put in and remained there for an unspecified amount of time, which probably made them very lonely and desperate for connection. this is now a great time for mango to come in and rescue them, thereby indebting purple to them forever

scenario 2: they got exiled from their own desktop by the villagers, who basically kicked them into the nether and destroyed the portal after them. maybe they're desperate to go back, and that's what mango offered them in exchange for their loyalty

scenario 3: exile again, but they go and live on the colour gang's desktop while they're still going through the events of portal arc (eps 8 - 14). you ever wonder how they got onto the colour gang's desktop to be there for the events of vs league of legends? yeah

i also really want to know how they met mango, but particularly when they met

^ i go into more detail about this in my timeline post (link coming soon but essentially the timeline of events for purple goes creation -> ??? -> ep 9-10 -> exile / imprisonment -> met king, agreed to serve them -> vs league -> still working for king / inner conflict -> current arc) but i think it would be very interesting for them to meet mango before vs league, since that way, mango likely forced them into betraying the colour gang in the parkour plan, which means they never chose between the colour gang and mango :"

i really hope we find out why they chose to follow mango,,,, like what did mango offer them that was so important to them that they ignored all the warning signs saying mango never really cared about them? (notable examples include mango shoving purple aside immediately after giving them a headpat in parkour, and the scene where mango blasts purple through a wall using the staff in ultimate weapon)

^ personally, i think initially they might've wanted power but it quickly became more about affection / friendship / validation, and mango knew and exploited this to keep them loyal and controlled

as for their backstory, i have absolutely no idea SHDJSHD but this episode is probably the most information we'll ever get on purple so might as well hope for it

also maybe they could convey all this to us using the same visual speech thing that red and second did in lush caves? it's quite complex information so i don't think gestures will be enough here

why i think green is in a good position to forgive purple

they've got the most information on purple in general, since they saw the mission briefing in parkour and they were there for the events of episodes 9 and 10 (villagers and the end)

from what they told blue and yellow in ultimate weapon, they know that purple's serving king and they're not equals since there was a frame in their visual explanation that showed purple kneeling in front of mango on their throne, then another frame of mango commanding them (timestamp 3:30 if you'd like to see)

^ so like. maybe they'd believe it if purple told them they didn't actually want to betray the colour gang but they were forced into it / they still want to be friends

they actively extended friendship to purple in vs league (they held their hand out to purple after second initiated their introduction, and they stayed back to encourage them to join in the match at the end)

purple sacrificing themself to defeat king

i really don't want this to happen actually but i can see it so clearly it's awful

look. it's just that purple is so loyal to mango despite how badly mango treats them, so if they do end up joining the colour gang i just. i wonder if that loyalty will carry over with the same intensity

second rediscovering their powers in the fight against mango

mm i actually didn't come up with this theory independently (i think maybe i saw a post by @/tulipsempai that made me consider it?) but i think it's an interesting scenario

i feel like it's fairly likely cos it feels like something that would happen in canon to give the colour gang a fairer chance against mango (since they're very overpowered right now, with both The Blocks and the staff)

but also i don't want it to happen cos it would go against my headcanon for how second's powers work,,,

basically, i think that their powers will only activate if they die, and i don't want anyone to die next episode ashjdg

anyway i don't think mango will kill anyone cos they'd just respawn back at the desktop, so it'd be more beneficial to keep them prisoner so they don't cause trouble yknow

the end portal texture theory

so you all know how the black hole that mango made with the staff in ultimate weapon had the end portal texture on it

i think there's absolutely no reason why it should look like that, unless it's really an end portal

the reasoning behind this is that if it was just a black hole, it could've used the night sky texture that was used for the witch's portal potions in ep 21

therefore, the end portal texture must mean something, right? (i really hope it's not just to look cool asjhdgh)

additional theory courtesy of @nano-blob, who i presented the end portal texture theory to first: what if everyone gets sucked into the black hole for an Epic Finale Battle in the end (which is actually still plausible since mango probably made another black hole at the end of the raid, judging by the motion and the visual effects)

minor predictions (a fair chance of happening / what-if scenarios / not much impact on how the episode as a whole will go)

purple didn't run into this portal for any particular reason, they just wanted somewhere to be alone and cry

green being mad at first then sympathising (maybe upon seeing that they're upset?)

^ alternatively, green telling purple that they got a taste of their own medicine and that they deserved it ("now you know how it feels to be betrayed, huh?")

purple thinking that green came to kill them but actually green's just concerned about them

green offers their hand / an opportunity for friendship to purple and they refuse initially cos they don't think they deserve it after the betrayal in parkour

green pulling some kinda pied piper deal with the noteblock they have in the second teaser (like using it to communicate with a bunch of mobs and rally them against mango)

it's possible that the colour gang might not defeat mango this episode, and we might have a final episode of just them fighting against mango

purple helping the colour gang fight / defeat king!!!

colour gang being distrustful of purple and green has to explain why they're friends again / why they've decided to trust purple now

wishful thinking (i want this to happen SO BAD but i know there's a very real chance of it not happening)

i'm sure you all can tell but i really really want purple to be emotional this episode,,,,,, a lot of things have happened to them tbh and they deserve to let it out

purple using invisibility potions to hide but they still give themself away cos green can hear them crying,,,,,, we've never seen their inventory so i don't think they have potions anyway but GOD IF IT ISN'T ANGSTY

purple joins the colour gang permanently and they go back to the desktop together,,,,, look i just want them to be friends so bad asjhd (also i need more canon purple content please)

i know it's not gonna happen because of what we saw in the teaser but i'm still audgdsu over the idea of one of them falling into powder snow and the other having to save them (either way works but man,,, it would be such a good plot device to show green that purple still thinks of them as friends / doesn't actually want to hurt them) (alternatively, to show purple that green doesn't want revenge / that they're just concerned for them)

^ the above theory was written before we got the teaser gifs that confirmed they're not in a snow biome, but an alternative version that could still work in the current setting is either purple or green getting into trouble and having to be rescued / needing help (trouble is very vague cos idk what's going to happen next ep)

other theories (varying probability and coherence but i thought they were interesting)

my sister proposed the possibility that this place is a trap before the teaser came out, and initially i refuted it cos i thought that purple running into this particular portal wasn't planned on their part (ie. they only came here because they were upset and wanted to run away after being betrayed). but now it's actually looking more likely cos of the noteblock trees and the episode being called note block universe?? it probably means nothing but well. it's green and their main thing is making music,,, it's just that the correlation is too strong and i don't like it

a scene where purple tries to hide from green behind a tree or smth but gives themself away cos they tapped a note block seems to have an ok chance of happening to me but also?? i feel like that's not enough of a reason for the trees to be note blocks cos it's too weird to have such a simple purpose