#lightmatter

Another EB battle sprite! Mani felt like an obvious next choice, since her design and name were already inspired by the Moonside segment. Unlike Jupiter, she's raring for battle; her lightmatter claws are freshly sharpened and she's gonna rip ya to shreds!!

I feel like they have one of the most beautiful relationships in the show.

I mean you start off in the very beginning of BLoSC, where Buzz is experiencing what it would be like for Warp to die. His mourning for his friend is so great, it causes him to act irrationally and to promise never to get close to anyone again. And he becomes reckless with his life, unwilling to take steps to protect himself. (I can't prove it but for me, it reads like Buzz has given up on life without Warp and that not only does he blame himself for his friend's death, he no longer values his own life.) But then when he is finally told that Warp isn't dead he can't come to terms with the fact that Warp is more partial to evil in his view of ethics.

Buzz finds out that he doesn't understand Warp at all, even though they have been best friends for 20+ years. It pushes distance between them.

The Movie ends with Warp defeated, and Buzz willing to fight beside people again, but their relationship doesn't end there.

Buzz continuously has to fight Warp again and again. You would think that Buzz would grow bitter, that he would hate Warp for what he did, but he doesn't. Sure they fight on opposite sides, but Buzz never once expresses hate towards Warp. Dislike for his actions, sure. But never hate.

Eventually, you get to Tag Team.

The episode that really splits open their feeling for each other.

Warp is incapable of admitting that he couldn't leave behind Buzz and lies about it. (If you think he can't drive stick, you are insane).

It's revealed that Buzz still has every intention of being Warp's friend again. But the episode ends with Buzz choosing his ethics over Warp when Darkmatter says that he won't change.

The best thing about this is that Buzz does not make that decision again when given the chance in Ancient Evil. He instead chooses to let Warp go and to pursue him another day.

Now it makes sense b/c at this point Buzz finally understands who Warp is. There was so much leading up to Buzz finally seeing Warp as himself and not what Buzz thought he was, or what Zurg wanted agent Z to be.

At this point, Warp has saved his life, thanked him for the help, and ignored Zurg's orders.

Buzz finally understands that there can be a gray area. Warp doesn't do evil for evil's sake, he does it to enrich his own life. He's really much more neutral rather than good or evil. He goes where the money takes him but isn't completely ruthless. He cares enough about Buzz to save him on several occasions and is willing to do good if it benefits him.

So essentially their relationship is about Buzz and Warp accepting each other's differences and respecting that they simply don't believe in the same things and that they can be friends despite this.

Aaaand then they had 42 be the final episode instead of Ancient Evil b/c god forbid we get some closure for these two.

The thing is that they are friends again by the end of Ancient Evil. And that's the cutest part, despite everything that happened, their friendship survived, even after it was destroyed, they rebuilt it.