#i doooo

"What happened to the Zone?? Flame's whining so much" - bruh, not only is the Zone back through writing that makes sense, it's got hype editing, music, and sound effects. Also Mistrul was 100% being ridiculous here. He let Flame go saying he wasn't going to kill him, only to follow them immediately, ambush Lomedy off a ghast, taunt Flame for being cowardly while rocking up with an 100 player army.

"Flame's combat training arc was useless. He never uses what his mentors taught him" - we see the return of the spear for mobility around the Mist, TNT cart knockout derby, and honestly, Flame not using a mace was rightfully on principle. Him burning the Mist's mace in front of Flowtives was devious, my jaw literally dropped.

"Mistrul lost soo much aura once he had a voice changer" - well, we not only had a crowd of non-voice changers from the UU events server, we had both a crucial side character (with insane voice acting) and a likely returning(!) + cracked PVP antagonist in this episode w/o voice changers.

"seeing Flame throwing so much to make Mistrul look stronger was hard to watch" - admittedly we don't know if this one is fixed, but establishing Flowtives, who is better than Flame at PVP irl, as a recurring antagonist will reduce the issue.

I could list a whole plethora of issues people were having with Flame that have been addressed now or started being addressed in this video.

NOW- Looking forward character arc wise:

I'm so happy I called Flame's need to explore what being "solo" means to him and his overall disdain for working with teams. There are multiple points raised here -

The Zone requires time to reflect and be alone with one's thoughts it seems. Which seemingly encourages Flame's "solo" mindset. But it actually doesn't! :))))

We see Flame prioritize his team from a place of concern, not frustration! We see his connection with Lomedy, and his realization that he's been dragging Lomedy around! We see him drop his freaking sword for pete's sake and some much needed reflection!

One thing Itz mentioned when explaining the Zone was still being able to communicate with your team members and call out comms. I feel like it's a logical next step for Flame's arc properly learning the Zone. Bc rn, he can solo-demolish in the Zone, but a combat master that can have peak comms with his team expands Flame's skill.

As mentioned in my other post, Skrilley has a lot of experience with a team and since he seems to be sticking around, could help teach Flame some chill and "team" skills.

I feel like we're on the cusp of a big change for Flame's character. But I'm kinda scared for it. In this episode, we see Flame finally "lose" someone.

I mean, Jaden has betrayed him, his LAW team has died before, but I feel like Flame has never had that kind of "my friend is dead" loss that Wemmbu, Parrot, and even Spoke have had. And those deaths have led to their want for a more peaceful or at least less life-threatening existence. Lomedy being "dead" gave Flame a consequence to his actions in a way.

It's a sign Flame might finally realize he needs something outside of combat as his identity. I'm worried Skrilley might have to die though; he's giving major Rejoice vibes. Either way, you could tell how stunned Flame was not being to do anything to help the village and with Lomedy's "death" in that he'd never been put in a situation he cared so much about before. He had guilt for fighting and wanted to avoid combat.