#ghasts

I have cried about him no less than 3 times today

Did the soulsand dry him out??? Did his mommy abandon him??? Are those his mom’s bones and he got dried out waiting for her??? Do ghasts shrink if they cry too much? Why do ghasts eat snowballs if they’re from a no-water environment? Are ghasts from the overworld originally and that’s why there’s fossils there too?

I will give them the love and care and warmth you wanted to give them, if only you were able to fight a little longer.

I will tell your child of how hard you fought for them, how you gave every part of yourself to ensure your child survived. how you used your bones for their shelter, your meat for their hunger, your tears for their thirst, used your life for theirs. they will know of your sacrifice, and that the sacrifice was of love.

I will give your child what you could not, in your honor. they will know of the warmth of love instead of the scorching heat of despair. they will know of open skies instead of restraints and cages. they will know of happiness and full bellies and gentle rest and of ease.

these should have all been yours to begin with, and yours to give to your child, but my forefathers stripped that of you and your kind. whether I am doing this of my own morality, to atone for the sins of my ancestors, out of guilt that should not be mine, out of kindness from one creature to another... I do not know.

This is my final apology to you.

Gonna be real with you, crying over ghasts was not on my 2025 bingo card-

Bonus because people were feelin bad bout all the ghasts they've killed:

WE'RE GETTING RIDABLE GHASTS IN MINECRAFT

THE GOGGLES ARE SO FUCKING CUUUTTEEE

Apparently, they start out as Dried Ghasts, and if you pour water on them, they become Ghastlings. Then if you throw snowballs at the Ghastlings, they become Happy Ghasts and you can ride them!

What if Ghasts are the result of failed attempts to breed a mountable mob in the Nether, for the piglins. And, what if, they eventually succeeded?

Think about it! Their designs are just similar enough that it could be that dried Ghasts and angry Ghasts are failed breeds of Striders! They originally wanted a flying mob in the Nether for riding, but they always turned aggressive. Perhaps they had to introduce another species into the mix that grounded the Ghast until it evolved into a Strider, or perhaps generations of feeding them warped fungus and having them be exposed to lava, eventually caused them to adapt?

Because LOOK AT THEM!!