#mcyt analysis

Let me start by saying that all four servers/projects spoken about below are near and dear to my heart, and I don’t wish any ill will towards the creators or the fans involved.

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Schlatt is the passionate, intense red to Connor's calm, reserved blue. I feel like this is the most obvious one and no further elaboration is needed...

Connor's initial yellow and purple color motifs can also be interpreted in an interesting way, I think: yellow is often used as a warning, which is kind of funny given Connor's tendency to attack others out of frustration or just for fun. Purple on the other hand often reflects wealth, something that Connor desperately wants to attain.

Ty is a fun one, as his pink motif reflects his relationship with multiple characters - he shares this motif with his mother Angel, but more subtlely, pink is the lighter form of red, which is the color motif of Ty's father figure, Schlatt. Pink is also often viewed as a calming color, and Ty is one of the calmer server members, at least on the outside.

Altrive's green is pretty clear to me, it reflects his technical pacifism, with green frequently being used to represent health and positivity.

Gold is a character I haven't seen enough of yet to fully put my finger on, but I do want to say that I feel that gold representing balance and yellow representing safety and generally friendly behavior seems to reflect him well from what I've seen so far, especially with his love for animals. The balance thing also works with his split-dye heterochromia design for extra points.

Grian ignores and tries to forget. He's more spiteful. He's more agressive or reckless when faced with reminders of his past.

Sometimes he'll have moments he'll freeze, others he'll snap and revert to how he was in YHS- with an ill-planned and cold attack.

Often time these moments are sudden.

Small things like white bunnies upset or anger him. if he has a bow and arrow on him, he'll often kill them on sight without a thought.

When things come crashing down, so does he. Its an explosion (sometimes literally) and it takes time for him to get built back up.

With Taurtis, its a slow acclimation. Its small things snowballing into him having dozens of moments and encounters and words stuck in his head, from small reminders throughout days or a week that make him shut down.

He goes through either denial, or completely shuts down.

He's never known how to comprehend his own feelings or process things correctly. Being easily upset can't co-exist with being a long-term roommate of Sam.

Taurtis ignores. then he denies. he blames someone or something else. and then he pretends he forgives, and then he breaks.

There's no point in his life that he's had a real understanding of what is and isn't okay, or what is and isn't coping

He's less likely to talk about it than Grian would be- and that's saying something. Taurtis has had a lot of severe trauma- bodily and mentally.

His breaking is quiet and alone. it's locked in a cave, underground, trying to process it. or trying to ignore it. trying to find small things to distract. trying to ignore what happened, pretending it didn't.

and then two minutes later i'm going off from personal experience about how the influx of scripted cinematic minecraft content in 2021 is not a degradation or rejection of improvisational writing, but actually a logical resurgence of the first gen mcyt machinima era, re-enabled by the increased audience of the minecraft genre, and the improvements of both independent cinema technology and the game itself

 because i've personally watched this evolve, as a creator, over the past decade.

i was in fandom, yes, but i was watching the evolution of fandom and content as a creator myself, so i kind of always had an eye on the technical meta of it all

content creation has overall become so much more accessible? 

and so much more collaborative it used to be like. you had to make it on your own, and even when you had friends in your CC bubble you didn't touch each other. but now it's all connected. collaborating with and actively promoting other CCs is now the common and respected practice, kind of even necessary as a modern element there's a shift now (a GOOD ONE) in the CC culture of collaborative promotion, the recognition that other CCs are not competitors but other potential audiences and avenues of better content CCs no longer exist as islands, it's in groups where they promote similar/compatible content and actively help each other improve their stuff it used to be a big deal when CCs had groups or collabs, but now it's the common practice

now, i’m not here to say sam hasn’t done anything wrong- he absolutely has. however, putting all of his actions in the context of leaving the badlands, being affected by the egg, feeling immense guilt over tommy’s death, having hannah betray him, and being stuck with dream all the time has worn sam down so much that the only thing he knows he can cling to is the security of the prison. 

so what happens when that security is breached? sam crumbles, and that’s exactly what happened today. sam needs help. he needs to reach out and say he can’t handle the responsibility of dream alone. but he hasn’t and he won’t because now, all sam has left is the prison- the very thing that destroyed all of his relationships and drove him to extreme callousness.