#puppet rambles

the faxt that the world is so eerily silent if youre playing alone without the music. the fact that if you arent lucky the only companions you have on solo mode are the occasional passive mob. meeting the villagers- people that look like people you might know, but they all look the same, spar the outfits. they dont even speak a language you understand, and yet they seem to understand you.

the way that the zombies look almost like people- one from a distance at night could easily trick a player, one so alone they might be speaking to the passive mobs. the skeletons that look like yours, wielding bows and arrows, with a form of sentience allowing them to use the bow.

the deformed, tall figure of an enderman, something that once you make eye contact attacks you unless youre wearing a pumpkin.

youre alone until you arent.

and when you play with other people? god

hardcore groups losing other players. some worlds going one by one until theres only some or none left.

or the other worlds where you and your friends build huge structures, slaying a dragon, "completing" the game. and eventually that world too will be abandoned, just like every other world, solo or multiplayer.

is that what happened to the world ? did someone- or a group of someones -build this world by hand, alone or together, and eventually abandon it?

Valentina loves music, and there's some bands and songs she particularly loves, and... there's no guarantee that she'll ever get to hear those bands, let alone those songs, again. She'll have taken over and have to spend decades living with the cost as all the things, all the music that she was excited to have enter her life again, just... won't be there.

Because music is a reflection of the times that they're living in, the experiences that people have had, and the hopes for the future, and... what will any of those factors that made Valentina's favorites even be, if they even exist anymore.