#pyro vsmp

I personally can’t bring myself to hate the ending because it feels like it would mean criticising the writing of a creator that I love, for something that was written through roleplay and therefore not planned. It doesn’t seem fair, and while cc!Scott could’ve done what Owen and Pyro did and made more of an effort to give his villain character a satisfying ending, I gotta respect that he made the choices he made.

“Scott is fully evil and therefore must die” kind of goes against the moral of vampires in my opinion- that nobody is fully good or fully evil and morality isn’t black and white (which is, admittedly, the message I got from his POV, but I think it applies to most of the others as well). I feel like making a blanket statement on “he’s done bad things and so must die” is kinda ignoring all the depth and nuance of his character.

Also. (And I know this is a low blow). Sometimes bad people get to live. Look around you. I don’t want to be the one to bring up realism in the minecraft vampire roleplay fandom, but if everyone in life got the ending they deserved then the political climate would be a lot different than it is right now. Just saying.

Anyway, my main point, as made above, is that there is no unbiased way to consume media. What’s rare about vsmp is that the biases are more dependent on the fandom than the creator. Not fully, though- as many people have pointed out, the cc!s do edit their videos in a certain way to comply with their character’s views of the world. I make my defence of v!Scott fully aware that my opinion is formed by my love of cc!Scott and the fact that I saw his perspective before anyone else’s. But I also think that when I see people attack his character they might be coming from a similar place with their favourite creator.

Like the characters in vsmp, nobody’s right or wrong in this discussion. Everyone has their reasons for their worldview and motivations for saying and doing the things that they do. Everyone’s the protagonist in their own story. The situations are all so nuanced and complicated and I don’t think it can really be boiled down to “he deserved it” or “he didn’t deserve it”