#cio rambles

SKIP IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE EPISODE!!

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So that episode, huh?

Now, before I go on a ramble, I gotta mention i love Leafy

Master ragebaiter. One deserved it. My fav never misses (except in postsplit bfb but they butchered her there)

Anyway lets talk about

Recovery.

Recovery is a strange thing in bfdi- recovery centers just work

Theres a bubble recovery center for example, the main recovery center, the hand powered ones, etc etc.

Im sure theres others but I cant remember all of em.

But something about recovery centers is..

How do they work?...

They can recover anyone. Any object. They're reliant on these things, since some people are fragile.

Well.. what if recovery centers weren't always existent in this universe?

For example, Bubble was able to be recovered by blowing a bubble from a bubble rod (unless im misremembering)

..and Firey Jr was recovered by a small flame on a torch

Maybe they weren't always a thing, but like the algebrians, the ability was given to them.

Before the creation of recovery centers, certain objects can just.. recreate themselves. Probably mainly elemental ones (cloudy, firey, bubble, lightning)

But it was unfair to other objects.

So.. Recovery Centers were made to recover anyone and everyone.

Yoylite comes to mind when it comes to their creation.

Yoylite seems to be a major plot point for alot of things...

1. Yoylite originates from the planet the contestants are from, due to the yoylite mines existing

2. Yoylite is most likely what gives contestants the ability to recover with the recovery centers.

So people made the recovery centers using yoylite power. Thats obvious yeah?..

How.

Who made them.

There was even an announcer recovery center. AND A RECOVERY CENTER FOR RECOVERY CENTERS??...

With all that in mind, heres where I want to pause and have a deeper talk.

If recovery centers can do so much

Why couldnt they bring Three back?

There is a chance that no one thought about it, they are all caught up on the competition and all..

and who in their right mind would want to risk killing Three to have a small chance to recover her?...

I dont think Four would dare do such a thing to Three specifically.

However, would it have been possible to recover Three in perfect shape using a recovery center?

It recovered everyone else, including the announcer who wasnt even from that planet!

It recovered several of characters who weren't just objects surely!! Surely it could help Three.

..my answer?

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No.

No it can't.

And the reason?

It lies with X.

X is the only algebrian to have been recovered.

How? How is X able to be recovered so casually?.. did Four really just forget about helping Three?...

But Four had this power since they were at the meteor... they could've learnt about it anytime and done it anytime.

Except they couldn't.

X's whole concept is he's a variable. He doesn't know what his value is, so he has to find it.

A variable's value is always changing. X can be 3 in some equations, and 7 in others.

When Four recovers him, I'd say his value is that. 4.

He's the most unique of the algebrians as his value can change.

Meanwhile the numbers have to stick to their value, its their identity.

Without their value, who are they?

X is X, and can be any value.. its probably why they have similiar powers to Four currently.

But 3.. her value kept shifting when recovered by 1.

Because 1 isn't 3.

The only people I could see recovering 3 and saving her are people with the value of 3..

Which could either be 3 (not possible) or X (who needs to have the value of 3).

..I feel like in order to save 3, 1 and 2 have to team up.

Its the power of two.

The title of the show could be a double meaning.

It's Two..

But it could be two people.

One and Two.

Together, they make three

Two didnt help seal One, and Two was oblivious overall..

They were "in their own world."

Until Tpot started.

Like how 6 and 9 did in the 1,500,000 sub special, they could combine into 3, or they'd just hold hand/foot to heal 3 together

It'd solve One's lonely issue. You cant face your problems alone

(Separate from the recovery ramble)

Also Leafy is definitely going to be an important piece in One recovery later on.

Leafy and One are very alike, but One is a fake bfdi fan and didnt watch all the way through.

I got a feeling that Leafy was placed in a fake landscape, and thats what "erased" people go to

And One can pull her out anytime.

But there's something bigger than just that.

Where did he get the Mephone from?.. if it was the first time he ever went to Meeple in season 2 episode 8?..

He had these devices since the second episode (unless i missed smth in episode 1)

How did he get the phone? When? The laptop?

Cobs has been in control the whole time.

"It was generated by Mephone" No it wasn't. Soap's phone didn't disappear at the end of s2e17.

It's a real mephone. From Meeple.

Did he get it from Cobs?...

Not Cobs personally, just in general. Like it got shipped to him?..

Did Cobs.. want this?...

Was it a way for Cobs to keep an eye on the contestants and Mephone4 more closely??...

Fan constantly blogged. Online.

I'm sure Cobs could've seen them.

And.. if Cobs didn't personally send the phone to Fan himself.. did Mephone4 provide it?.. to keep the stereotype of Fan accurate?

I doubt Mephone4 would've.

The meeple phones are...

Really suspicious.

Cobs knows they're fake. Fake creations made by Mephone4. Why would he provide them internet access unless it were for his own gain.

Then Test Tube grants Fan his own original phone.

No longer associated with Meeple.

Their "rebellion" against the company after Fan lost his original phone.

This phone here is created with the tools Test Tube had. So it's fake compared to the realness of mephones.

So now they're no longer connected to Meeple on that fashion... but...

Speaking of the original phone...

Fan's original mephone was left on the Shimmers ship.

The mephones are very very important to the story in several ways.

In this scene, Fan wasn't even holding the phone when he dropped it.

It flung out of whatever invisible pocket he had.

This is either:

A. Left behind for the Shimmers to use in the finale

B1. Intense foreshadowing of Mephone4 going with the Shimmers

B2. Foreshadowing Mephone4's relationship with the shimmers

C. IF Cobs planned this from the start, the phone being on the Shimmers ship can cause chaotic karma.

No matter what happens.. Cobs truly was watching the whole time.

And the phones are always important.

Whether they're alive, like Mephone4, or not.

Also Soap possibly stole a phone from Meeple while she was there.

-They're apart of the SAFETY SQUAD. They're likely to run into danger

-Only Flying Buddy to not have THAT death

-Worried for Lightbulb's safety but not their own

-They can be a FIRE HAZARD if mad. It doesn't hurt them, but their surroundings?.. flamable.

Had to watch all three of their friends die. Now its their turn to watch Paintbrush die.

Lightbulb will not be able to laugh this off, and will express her emotions out

Fan will be granted more grief and his mental stability will decline even more about the game

Plus its confirmed non-contestants are going to have a bunch of screentime too.. not just the ones participating.

Paintbrush wont have to worry bout her if they're gone!!!

Perhaps Paintbrush dies by not trusting the blue ray enough.. and getting in the way and dying for her.

I dont know.. something about this season makes me think if someone's gonna die.. its not just gonna be one of the vulnerable contestants.

But the more sturdy ones are at risk too.

With things accessible such as WEAPONS made by Test Tube... who knows what later challenges can be- perhaps slightly dangerous?..

.....but things can get much more dangerous than wanted.. especially with a character like Jack.

I'm sure the safety team will be there to make sure it all goes smoothly... and if it doesnt?...

But like..

I heard theories of Shadow Milk Cookie being the last to corrupt

And honestly I dig with that.

So imagine-...

You're the head of the tower of knowledge.

A deity, a virtue so many cookies admire and look up upon for advice and guidance of the future.

You're honest with them, for you're all knowledgeable. You know the truths and what to do with them.

Then you're informed about the falling of your fellow virtues.

One by one, falling to their corruption and power.

Cookies go to question, is he next? Will we be okay??...

Having a major pressure on your shoulders, cookies wishing for the truth.. you give it to them.

But they don't like the truth heard.

People despise what's happening in the reality around them, are terrified of it, want to flee from nonfiction in favor of a happy ending.

??? Milk Cookie was also probably terrified. Perhaps he gotten hurt or something as the Beasts rose.

So he decides to lie once, just once to calm the storm as he figures out what to do next.

Maybe lie again to keep it steady, mix up the truth, he is the Light Of Knowledge, he knows what's best for these cookies.

And maybe what's best is them to be oblivious ?

The pressure of having cookies depend on him brings him to need to lie more and more just so people aren't frowning. Panicking...

Alot of Shadow Milk Cookie's motif is fooling around, being deceitful, and having a world where lies and honesty can't be distinguished.. there's hardly a frown within his world. He laughs more than gets angered.

SM is so unserious and playful, he treats the world as a show over reality.

I'm definitely getting lore wrong and etc, as I'm not a CRK expert who knows every in and out of a character.

Though knowing the hinting of SM and PV being two sides of the same coin..? I feel like SM had alot of pressure put on him being the knowledgeable one.

He probably had a break down that shattered his reality, and gave in to a perfect world where the truth no longer hurts you

Maybe I'm thinking too deep in all this but man.

Okay then Brian...

I guess I'll have to think of something else.

Let's say... perhaps... Mephone4 really DID do days worth of coding and programming in the span of a few seconds.

And let's say Springy WASNT made by Mephone4.

If you aren't gaslighting me, Mr Koch... you're telling me Mephone4 didn't subconsciously make Springy.

But, since he was glitching, Springy was made by some form of MeLife. Or at least some kinda Meeple tech.

Which... wasn't by Mephone4.

But the thing is.. life can only be MADE by MeLife. It.. it's in the name.

But... what if he was made by MeLife?... but not by MePhone4?...

What if the Shimmer Egg that is in Cobs' possession.. is still with Cobs?...

Okay. Hear me out for a sec.

Assuming Mephone4 didn't create Springy, that means something ELSE created Springy. And under that assumption, something else at Meeple.

Perhaps it was Cobs?..

But wait! How could Cobs do that?.. Mephone4 is the only one who can use MeLife!!...

..........

Wrong.

Right here. Something always felt kinda off.

Support ending on older devices.

...devices?.. devices plural?..

Cobs was always studying the organic energy of the Shimmers, desperately wanting it for his own gain.

Though it's constantly questioned how the egg he stolen was used.

Thing is about Shimmers.. they don't seem to have one direct source of energy.

The source of light the shimmers have appears to be the energy they own.

Energy flowing through the shell inside, being orbs of light.

Which can separate and move around.

Multiple lights. More than one.

Now.. the baby shimmer has multiple lights as well.

Two main ones representing the eyes and extra particals of energy below used to float it upward.

Now, these lights are the energy source. The natural energy Cobs needed.

The eyes of the shimmers are the main forms of energy. The most concentrated. The strongest.

Now.. Cobs is a smart guy. I really doubt he would've used the only shimmer egg he acquired and used it all up completely.

So...

He made two.

Two Mephones.

Mephone4 and Mephone4s.

This screenshot is direct proof the energy here can be divided. Cobs used the main source of the Shimmer's energy to make Mephone4 as an experimental start. A beginning to test the waters.

It's why Mephone4 had so many tasks. He needed to see what the Shimmer energy was capable of. He needed to go farther and higher with the use of its power.

Mephone4s is a creation Cobs made because he knew Mephone4 wasn't pulling his weight. A Mephone that can replace Mephone4. Be the true accomplishment he needed.

Mephone4 n Mephone4s are practically identical in a few ways. But the main part is how Mephone4s had MeLife able to be installed.

Despite Mephone4s downgrading, the system still allowed MeLife and all the uses of Shimmer Energy. Mephone4 didn't lose any ability. He kept them. Kept the way to generate and recover contestants.

Now.. this is why Mephone4 dying didn't kill off the egg's use. Because it was split between Mephones.

But the egg wasn't used completely for Mephone4 and Mephone4s exclusively.

Cobs didn't want to waste such good energy.

He still had some left over.

The energy wasn't as strong, but seeing as other Meeple products can express, they too had a little amount of it.

Such as Mepad.

Mepad is able to teleport. How???... He can teleport, most likely due to some amount of Shimmer energy given to his device.

MePad isn't effected by the screams due to not having a core amount of Shimmer energy in his system. He was given some left overs.

Mepad was there when Mephone4 was fleeing, after all. Meaning Mephone4s was in slight development and not finished. Yet Mepad was given little energy.

Mepad has a personality, and isn't fully robotic. He sounds and acts robotic but he developed through the show to care and emote. He's more than other Meeple products.

Mepad was probably given waaayyyyyy less energy than Mephone4 n 4s but a vast bit more than future Meeple products.

As for Cobs, he was losing energy that he had from the Shimmer Egg. He's draining every last ounce of energy out of it into his Meeple products.

It's why they get worse and worse in design and function.

And, it's why he needs Mephone4.

Mephone4 is the most advanced. He has the most energy and power out of all Meeple products.

He contained a true part of the egg's energy source.

Yet Cobs lost control over him once he left.

The moment that wire was added into Mephone4, the control came back. And this control allowed Cobs to get Mephone4 back into the system.

Allowing him to create MephoneX by connecting energy sources.

Mephone4's energy source.

As for Springy.. remember Springy? The reason why I made this post?..

With the new context of there being MULTIPLE devices with MeLife, Cobs probably attempted to generate things with less Shimmer energy.

Which resulted in Springy being an awful mess.

Yet, he found some use for him and gave Springy a purpose. Sending him to Invintational.

Since Springy was created on a poorer version of MeLife, he couldn't help but glitch. He wasn't stressed or overwhelmed, it just was in his data.

He was imperfect.

Mephone4 was able to recover Springy due to technically running on the same network as whatever Meeple device created him.

So it was computer stuff. It was essentially looking through the database and downloading a file before it got deleted.

And doing so, allowed Mephone4 to bring Springy back.

This doesn't mean Springy has no bugs though, as he glitched after recovery. But it appears less harmful now that he was generated with a more stable software.

As for the original device that made Springy.. It doesn't matter if the device was alive, seeing as when Mephone4 died in season 1 all the contestants lived.

One last thing before I conclude this ramble.

Why did unplugging the Me device end everything for Mephone4?...

I like to think of it like this...

Mephone4 was connected to the main network of Meeple.

All his creations.. everything was on the network, the database.

Cobs couldn't have control over Mephone4 due to the device not being his. It's like how an actual phone works.

If you don't have the pass code, you don't have access.

Yet they all work under the same internet.

Cobs was able to delete the contestants due to the wire hacking in access.

Providing control.

But it doesn't matter when the main network is pulled offline.

The moment things are offline, all connections get terminated.

Like Bluetooth. Everything was paired with Mephone4.

Disconnect that, and the connection is severed.

Cobs could've pulled the plug anytime.

Cobs perhaps didn't want to pull the plug, because then all his devices would go offline.

Doesn't mean they don't function.. they're just disconnected.

This is a big loss to Mephone4. But it could be to Cobs as well.

But in the end it doesn't matter.

He got what he wanted.

"I wish for all cookies to be happy!"

Hey so what if Shadow Milk Cookie wished the same thing

And everything Pure Vanilla is going through is literally a repeat of Shadow Milk

Wishes to bring positivity to the cookies that look up to him

Got an education with a friend (possibly)

Barer of the souljam

Both wield staffs / have eye motifs

Wise and knowledgable

Went to school (Student / Teacher)

Had to watch his friend convert to evil (White Lily) / Had to watch his friends convert to corruption (The Beasts)

Had to protect the ones they cared for

Lost the fight and disappeared (The Great Flour War?? Whatever it was called and the Ancients disappearing / The Beasts being sealed away)

Lies to keep the peace

The truth is more painful than fiction, causing them to descend into despair

Corruption due to not being able to fix the world around them and the knowledge becoming too much (Truthless Recluse / Shadow Milk becoming a beast)

Truth and Deceit, they both have it.

Pure Vanilla is truthful while hiding in lies, Shadow Milk is deceitful while hiding in truths.

Pure Vanilla's souljam also never changed hue compared to the other Ancients. You'd expect it to be yellow or something similiar to Pure Vanilla's natural color scheme. But no, it's blue. The only blue color on his palette.

Pure Vanilla has way too many similarities to Shadow Milk for it to be mere concidence..

Wonder if they were made by the same witch or baked with the same dough.. something that gives them this otherworldly connection beyond the souljam.

Shadow Milk probably was depressed at the start to learning his allies became Beasts (I'm sticking with "SM corrupted last")

His corruption being slow as he was trying to process the truth he discovered. Acting a bit like Truthless Recluse (?)

As time goes on, he let's himself get more freed by delusions and lies to the point where making people happy is fed only by those lies.

Pure Vanilla wants cookies happy too... Shadow Milk is a jester

Jesters entertain.

Who's to say if the corruption of Pure Vanilla doesn't get stopped, PV wouldn't become a jester in lies too?

He would. Because it's the only way to keep those around him oblivious from pain.

In the end, without the comfort of his friends, PV would become like SM.

But unlike Shadow Milk, that reality wouldn't come. Because there are cookies who didn't outright abandon him. And they will keep going to pull him out of the dark.

If Gingerbrave and co weren't here, I think Pure Vanilla definitely would end up like Shadow Milk. His friends are what split SM from PV.

With allies by his side, who wouldn't give up on him even though he fell to darkness, he would never fall to insanity.

Gingerbrave even yells it himself, he doubted that Pure Vanilla would ever be wicked. He had hope.

Pure Vanilla and Shadow Milk are one in the same, but their allies are not.

The more I think about it, Lightbulb being Taco's second pick makes alot of sense

For starters, Lightbulb is easily trusting.

She's a lover, who appreciates alot of things. (In a stream or comment??.. it was said LB eats things to show she cares for said things. She eats things she loves. Sticks uh.. included??.. shes so silly)

Seeing how she reacted to Taco in episode 15, she wouldn't really have any malice towards her.

She's overall chill, no bad vibes as she lights up the game. Taco would've used this to sway her to team up, but also used more than that.

Knowing how Taco watches everything in the game, she probably picked up LB could get depressive internally but not show it on the outside. That could be something that picks at LB a bit that Taco uses to her own advantage.

Speaking of advantages, Lightbulb n Microphone have something in common.

They both have a special trait/ability unique to them.

Microphone has her voice/gain. Lightbulb has electric abilities.

Taco couldve got Lightbulb to progress through the show not through manipulation, but through jokes and strategies she used during season 1.

Wildness. Chaos.

But at the same time, a technique on using Lightbulb's power to sabotage when needed.

LB is like how Taco mentioned in II2EP15. Similiar to how her role acted.

Taco put up a front to be silly. Taco can make LB put up a front to be more serious.

Theyre reversals. Opposites, literally.

If Soap wasn't eliminated, she would've been the "angel" while Taco was the "devil" for Microphone.

In a Lightbulb scenario, I can see Lightbulb having Paintbrush being the "devil" and Taco being the "angel"

Cuz Painty can get really sour in attitude easily, not accepting her chaos. Taco does accept the chaos for her own gain.

But Lightbulb might realize her mistake in the end how much Paintbrush actually meant to her, and how LB misinterpreted Taco's "helpfulness"

So about the tail and floating in endless nothingness thing.

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