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yet the people he dislikes end up as his friends or help him in some way. (Zam, Jaron, Spoke, Theo kinda, Minute, Flame, Jaden, Boosfer, Fanst and Baablu kinda, Yungy, ect)

(yes there are some people on both lists)

The only exceptions to this that I can think of are Eggchan, Rejoice, and Linnwyrm.

FLAME'S EPISODE HAS GIVEN MY BRAIN NEW CONTENT TO DISSECT SO HERE WE GO!

Buckle up folks, this is an analysis on Flame and the evolution of his self confidence.

Flame's really good at combat, he's a pvper, it's his whole thing, fight people, fight more people, fight better people. He fights. And he's GOOD at fighting, in and out of Unstable, because he's skilled.

Flame puts a lot of emphasis on skill. Skill comes from practice, training, talent, time, but also trust. You need to trust yourself in order to be considered a master in your profession, constantly doubting your every move is a sign that you lack self-confidence. Self-confidence is very important.

Especially when it's in combat where a wrong move or mistake dictates who lives, who dies, who wins, who loses.

To be good at pvp, Flame needs to have self-confidence, he needs to be a bit arrogant, a bit cocky, because it means he trusts himself and his instincts. Instincts that keep him alive.

We see this in the beginning of Flame's perspective, when we're first introduced to him and the phrase "I'm not like other players", which is a bold, arrogant, overconfident statement. It invites a challenge, it invites people to try and prove him wrong. The worst part is Flame is right. He's not like other players, he is better. He makes insane clutches, pulls off insane saves, steam rolls everyone in his path.

It's infuriating how cool he is.

And it shows that Flame's confidence is not unfounded, it's supported by his skill, by the fact he is literally just THAT guy. His first arc, Toxic Civ, is Flame proving that he is THAT guy while under geared and outnumbered. He wins the tournament, beats Jaden, deals with small armies trying to take him down, growing more confident each time. And it's not unfounded confidence, but pride comes before the fall.

It's Skill vs. Power Arc that things take a turn. For Flame, the arc begins with him getting destroyed by Wemmbu with his nukes, suddenly throwing off his pedestal as the 'strongest' and 'immortal'. Flame lost a battle. In theory, that would absolutely destroy one's self-confidence. Same with his loss against Law that pushed him into exile. Both of those losses should, in theory, destroy one's self-confidence, especially if that one has never faced loss.

But Flame's not like other players.

Because Flame holds skill above power and prioritizes the honor and fairness of a fight, these losses aren't 'true' losses in the sense Flame was out-skilled. Instead, he was overpowered, Wemmbu with his nukes, and Lettuce with his weakness potions and netherite army. Flame didn't have proper counter measures, he was caught off guard and under geared both times. It wasn't a true show of his potential, rather a cheap move to catch him off guard. If anything it shows how skilled he is and how others have to resort to cheap tricks to beat him.

Now is Flame in denial? Probably. But, he does eventually expand his combat range by getting mentored by 4 different combat masters.

Ironically and poetically, the burst of Flame's self-confidence doesn't even come from losing a fight or anything combat related.

It comes from losing his best friend, Lomedy.

Lomedy doesn't suddenly decide to stop being friends with Flame, he realizes that he's never Flame's priority in any regard, doesn't see himself valued, doesn't see all his efforts reciprocated.

This is highlighted when Flame saves Lomedy in Merchant City after he's held hostage by the Law. After they escaped, Flame doesn't ask if Lomedy is okay, he asks if Lomedy got the red stone he asked for. Which is a bastard move, BUT Flame's never had a friend/rival/sworn brother who wasn't proficient in pvp and able to defend themselves. Flame would have never thought to ask this question because he's been surrounded by Mane, Wemmbu, Jaden, other Diamond Trims, all players who would most likely find it insulting if asked if they were okay, because of course they're okay, they're strong pvper's, they can fend for themselves. Pvper's pride I'd call it, its an insult to their skill to be underestimated, it shakes their confidence if others think they're weak. (cough Wemmbu's lack of self-esteem cough)

But not Lomedy. Lomedy's Flame's first friend that can't just fight his way out of any situation. Flame's own ego, his own confidence and himself and others, makes him lose his best friend. That's what makes Flame slowly lose confidence in himself.

Through his pvp training arc, Flame learns how to exists outside of the title 'The Strongest', and returns to fight Law not as a wanted fugitive demanding a fair fight, but a trained combatant who will show you that the fights not going to be fair. And he wins. But winning doesn't make Lomedy come back.

It was Flame stepping off his pedestal, admitting he was WRONG, that his instincts, the basis of his skill, of his identity, led him astray. That he doesn't need to always be killing people or looking for strangers' approval. Flame apologizing to Lomedy and returning his mace was a sign that Flame had humbled himself. He's still confident in his pvp skill, but he realizes that he can be wrong about others, that he's different from players in ways he hadn't realized before, that just because he would do something doesn't mean others would. His over-confidence is curbed, through his reconciliation with Lomedy and his reflection during his Training Arc.

It makes his instincts shift. Now there's hesitance. Flame isn't willing to jump the gun on judging others anymore, he's not going to state what he outright thinks because that's how he lost Lomedy. Flame's trying to be more understanding and sympathetic. Which is fantastic character development.

But there's a balance.

Flame has always trusted his gut instincts. When the rest of the server thought Wemmbu was dead, Flame denied it, because he knew Wemmbu, knew his rival wouldn't just vanish like that. Did he know why? No, but he knew Wemmbu wouldn't do that because he's a pvper like him.

Flame is REALLY good at reading other pvpers. He understands them to the point it's scary.

For example, Flame found it odd that Mistral stayed in the Mist despite there being little to no challenge. Pvper's are a certain breed of players, most roam around in search of others who will rival them, so Flame was obviously stumped why Mistral would isolate himself to such a remote area and not jump at the opportunity to fight Flame when he first entered.

And then Flowtives enters the picture, and Flame is immediately suspicious of why another talented player is also just stuck here, why he's grouping with him and Skrilley instead of going off on his own (most pvper's are either solo or join together in small groups). I know many people were suspicious of Flow when he started hanging around, and I would like to propose the idea that maybe it was obvious because it was obvious to Flame that Flow was suspicious.

Once again, Flame is scarily perspective, he can read people to a T, and he knew instantly something was up with Flow and Mistral.

So why didn't he do anything about it? Why did he wait till it was too late?

Because he hesitated, because he knows the consequences of what being wrong can lead too. He doesn't want to randomly assume that everyone is like him, so Flame's polite about it. He tries to overlook things, giving Flow the benefit of the doubt.

But deep down, your gut instinct is always right. The task is separating it from the paranoia and bias of your mind.

Flame knew Flow was suspicious. Flame knew they shouldn't be searching the ice cave, Flame knew that Flow and Mistral not having Lomedy's mace was a weird thing.

But his instincts were clouded by the mere idea that Lomedy might be dead. It makes him spiral. He throws his sword out of his inventory. HE THREW. HIS SWORD. OUT OF HIS INVENTORY.

That's rookie level mistake bad. That's what we would expect Egg to do. And Flame did it mid-fight. That kills self-confidence.

Now does Flame eventually lock in and demolishes Mistral and leave Flow with nothing but the armor of his student/friend and a burnt mace&elytra. Yes.

But he is now treading a tightrope that he's far too aware of, leaning one way and he falls back into the overconfident, cocky killer. Lean towards the other and his ignorance results in deaths that could have been prevented.

Flame began by trusting his gut, running off the thrill of a fight, and annihilating anyone who opposed him. Then he learned that being humble is a skill, that death is not a victory, and that he can be wrong. Now he has to learn how to balance instinct with restraint.

Trust your gut. You know more than you think.

Restrain yourself. Your actions always impact others.

Knowing which once to choose is a wisdom only experience and failure can grant you.

Flame's got a rough road ahead of him.

Thank you so much for reading my yap, this is incredibly long, hope you enjoyed it :).

He brings it up to Parrot fairly early on in the episode as their hiding away in the vault waiting for Leowook and co. to deal with Clownpierce. It feels a little out of nowhere at first, but I remember being gobsmacked by it when I first watched the episode!! Because what Wifies specifically talks about with it is how the supercomputer AM can think SO much, but it cannot act because it is trapped in wires and circuits. About how AM hates humanity so much as a result, with one of the five humans AM traps in the short story even being one of its human creators. It's a really appropriate anecdote for Wifies to bring up here given the trials Parrot faces over the course of the episode, and is absolutely meant to parallel Parrot's personal ordeals with AM's struggle in the short story.

Which is, uh... potentially a pretty goddamn grim outlook for Parrot's character arc, considering how vengeful and cruel AM is in its hatred!! AM lashes out at humanity for creating it, only for its existence to be a form a torture, resulting in AM destroying the world out of this hatred.

This little reference isn't just relevant to Parrot, however, and that's what I really love about it - it's stuck with me from the very first time I watched the episode honestly! And I think I'm finally starting to unravel for myself the why. While Parrot is the obvious parallel in this episode, the mention of AM actually simultaneously serves as a peek into Wifies and Clownpierce's characters as well (among other things)!

Just think about it! Wifies in this episode is consistently left on the sidelines by Parrot, who is too scared to involve him in the situation for fear he will die. Yet, this is explicitly against Wifies' wishes - he wants to be there for Parrot and help him. In his own words when he sneaks into the Vault, he "couldn't just let [Parrot] be here alone. I'm not trying to let you die."

But what can he do?

Wifies can think all he wants but he is still "trapped" by his personal limitations, his "wires and circuits". He cannot go beyond these limitations and act in order to effectively help Parrot. He is just as trapped as Parrot, albeit by a different sort of cage. Wifies isn't a brilliant fighter, and while he is a good thinker, his attempts throughout the episode to protect Parrot largely fail - he can't beat Clown, his escape tunnel doesn't work, and worse, he can't even be there for Parrot because Parrot is consistently trying to keep him at arms length and leaving him out of the plans, not trusting Wifies to be safe nor allowing him to help. How can he act if he isn't even allowed to be there? His hands are tied!

Not only that, Wifies even unintentionally becomes a detriment to Parrot at one point when he is taken hostage by Ferre, as if the narrative itself is trying to drive the point home further to Wifies regarding his own ineffectiveness. This all leads to frankly one of the most heartbreaking messages in Unstable for me, where he apologizes to Parrot for "being a liability".

"One day you're gonna look around and you're gonna see you've made a mafia of your own. You're gonna see that you're surrounded by sycophants and people who will do anything to please you. And all you care about is accruing more and more power... and when you realize that, when you come to your senses, I'll be there."

-General Ashswag, The End of the Minecraft Mafia

He was right. We thought he was right before.

so

so

many times

I thought the other moments were Ashswag being right. When Spoke attacked Mapicc and Zam. When Mapicc "died." When he lied so MANY times. When he just mongered for power. I thought this quote had already come to pass.

but no

no no no

oh HO was I fucking WRONG.

He made a mafia of his own. The Null is his mafia. They are his sycophants they are the ones who live to please him and do his bidding.

All he wants is power. He wanted a quadrant of the End, now he wants the full dimension. He will march onto the Overworld, and soon the Nether to properly claim it as his. He doesn't care about the bodies on the ground because they are all for his greater purpose.

HIS purpose.

Just like Ashswag. Just like the Mafia arc before.

I have said he won't stop. Even if the world is burning around him and his throat is filled with ash. He will not. I thought maybe, just maybe he could go back, that he could change.

Every story needs its villain, and Spoke is unfortunately (but not surprisingly) that villain. He has no limits on what he can do now, unless it's resources. He has those sycophants who will do anything for him.

And they do it for a lie.

Spoke isn't strong like they think. He isn't what they truly want. Like many times before, he is absolutely gaslighting them and he doesn't even MEAN to. He is running on hubris, spite, and a mirage of trust. He covers what they perceive as weakness with something JUST on the edge of calculation.

He left Minute alive.

Yes, he killed all those players. Yes, he is tearing civilization after civilization down. But. He. Kept. Minute. Alive.

After all this time, after all these months, maybe YEARS, he still cares about Minute.

He cares, and he's scared to admit it because it'll make him lose all the power that he has just gained. It would make him fail like Jamato-- who in turn knows that Spoke is inadvertently lying to Null.

He thought that sending Mapicc into the "Void" would help him? No. Ohhh no Spokeishere. You just put him into a box where you know he won't get hurt. You threw him into a dimension only a handful of people know about, and it was to protect him. Deep down it was to keep him safe. (also throwing out my theory that maybe Wemmbu or someone will realize somehow someway that Mapicc in the Underworld and go get him)

He spares all these people thinking it'll fix him that he'll break the cycle that it's balance out what he's done. He thinks this in a black and white matter where it's either in his plans or not.

He doesn't see what is right in front of him. Inside of him.

He is cocky. He is too power pilled. He is blinded.

He doesn't see ahead anymore. Notice how he went from mischief and traps to fighting? How he doesn't predict anymore and he just is so upfront about conflict? He explains it in a matter that makes you think that he is thinking ahead, when he really isn't.

Let's bring back Minute. He really thinks that Minute won't keep trying. Null made him so self assured, that he isn't even WORRYING about Minute coming back to mess with him. He doesn't think about Jumper, or the prisoners who escaped. He doesn't think about the fact that his castle is basically free to walk into.

He has lost his ability to think ahead because he has no need in his eyes to do so. He has most everything he could want at his beck and call, he has everything he ever wanted.

Let me back this up, Spoke has ALWAYS. ALWAYS. wanted an army of his own. Forget the power, forget his trauma, he has ALWAYS wanted people under him who will do things to his will's end.

He manipulates, he lies, he fakes, and he cheats. The manipulation of Wifies and Parrot? That 100 player (might be off) army he made? The favors he still holds over Parrot's and Wemmbu's heads?

He has always wanted control over people. The signs were there all along and now they finally tie together.

oh spoke. oh dear. they were right about you weren't they?

Let me give y'all another parallel.

"Every Mafia member goes down with me"

"If I die, the entire army goes down with me."

He is directly proving Ashswag correct.

That isn't isn't even what is making my brain scream. It's the fact that this blatantly shows how he just didn't care or believe Ashswag in the SLIGHTEST when they had that talk.

He basically had it go through one ear and out the other. He didn't think that he would go down that path, he never did. We have NEVER had a flashback with Spoke to that time with Ash. Never. That is a direct representation of this.

Another detail I'd like to point out, a parallel if you will.

Wemmbu being offered thorns by Arachn1d and refusing them. Spoke using thorns and practically priding himself.

Because to Spoke, when he uses thorns, HE isn't doing anything. The baseline of the thorns mechanic is that damage is dealt to the attacker after hitting you.

It's the other person's fault.

Technically no blood on his hands right?

Now.

JamatoP.

I think this will be the breaking point for Spoke, when he realizes that Jamato was right and he was wrong. Jamato is an interesting character to me because like Ashswag, he also has ALWAYS clocked Spoke's shit. Always. He calls out his hubris, he blindness, his inability to see failure, his flawed trust in Null and whoever is around him.

He has always been right. That will destroy Spoke.

Upfront brutality will only get you so far darling. I fear that sooner or later, you will crack.Jamato and Ash will both be right about you. They ARE right about you.

Jamato, Leo, Jumper, Mapicc, Rose, Minute, Planet, Parrot, Wemmbu, Flame, all of them.

How long till you are crushed by the people you have undermined.

How long until the blood on your hands cracks and flakes away leaving nothing behind.

When will you see that you only escaped what was coming for you long before even thought about this.

Moment you realize that?

Mark my words Spokeishere. The second you see, it will be the last time of clarity for you, and it'll tear you apart.

So I’m pretty sure that the lore of this statue is that it was built in memory of a great battle that had happened a long time ago right

And to confirm my suspicions I went back to Wemmbu’s Power arc video to make sure if it’s one of the original og players. And lo and behold

I’m pretty sure that these two are the exact same person. And it just so happens that Flame and Wemmbu fought the 1000 players there. This extremely specific place where another battle had took place.

And from the looks of it they are a sword wielder. Which crosses the possibility that the mace and journal Wemmbu had found had ever belonged to them. But that means that the mace had to had belonged to another og player from these four shown

Now I’m curious. Cause this monument had showed five people. And the fifth one was shown at the very top of the monument, as if they’re towering over all of them. There is a possibility that they are the actual owner of the server instead of Jamato, and the four below might be their friends that they had first invited into the server. Which also means that one out of these four had created the Farlands that were seen in Spoke’s video.

And then there’s the number 4. 4 og players being towered over by a 5th player. 4 protagonists. Am I implying the existence of a fifth pov in the future? Mayhaps. But it’s just a speculation, as I feel like introducing a new protag this late into the story might be a bit too late for it. Idk though

And the question is. What happened to these five? Where are they? There are remnants of them here and there, and we were implied that other big events had definitely happened even before the story, or even the protags, had ever joined the server in the first place. What kind of battle did the knight (the guy with the knight skin) fight? Significant enough for people to build a statue to remember it? How did Jamato even got the knowledge for exploits? He couldn’t just. Know it immediately right? Did these five quit the server? Are they in hiding? Is one of the blue invis players one of the og players? When did Ash join the server? Is he possibly older than all of the protags? Is that the reason why he went mad in the first place? Are these five still friends with each other?

Mainly manepear

Like yes it affected wemmbu's character a lot BUT manepear had more reasons then wemmbu being a "lost cause" or not trusting manepear

Wemmbu made mane and flame's relationship (not romantic relationship btw) worse and also mane wants to have fun on the server and not deal with wemmbu not giving the mace to him

Which also wemmbu didn't listen too mane MULTIPLE times

Bringing eggchan to the tree house

Not giving him the mace (more justified of wemmbu but still)

And not following him when he said to do so

And a couple more i dont feel like mentioning

So anyway this is made bc i genuinely saw ppl acting like mane had "no reason" to leave wemmbu

Unstable Universe, one of the largest scripted servers to exist. Anarchy across the platform, factions rising and falling but everything still has one root- a theme. All stories have morals, so what does that make Unstable’s? It’s hard to narrow it down, with 4 different point of views, but there is one running theme throughout all of them- the fear of failure. This fear is shown in different ways in each POV, and the way different characters react to it and how it affects the community around them.

Flamefrags is one of the four point of views, joining last. Flamefrags reacts to the fear of failure with stubbornness and determination to be the best. Throughout the series Flame has been working towards the goal of being the strongest player on the server, but why is this? Why is he so determined? The reason is because he is scared of failing. He’s trailed by the fact that if he fails, he believes no one will love him truly. If he fails, what good is he? So he has his eyes set on being the best, because if he isn’t then he has failed. This affects the people around him though, like ripples. By choosing to have this goal, he has slaughtered many similar to a butcher. One of his close friends, Lomedy, has seen him as somewhat of a failure at a point in time because of this fact. When it’s expressed, Flame promises to change- because he’s scared of that word, failure.

Another point of view on Unstable Universe is Wemmbu. Wemmbu takes failure through frenzy. Prince Zam was the first to introduce him to the fact that he can’t always win, and after that Wemmbu got locked into a frenzy to never fail again- but time and time, over and over he is seen as a failure. Once he reaches that goal the frenzy dies out and all he has is just the weary ache in his bones. The server got affected by this frenzy to never fail, like Flames impact. He massacred many, laughing while doing so even. Wemmbu needed to be the best just so he could prove he wasn’t a failure. The person it affected the most thought was Wemmbu’s best friend, Eggchan. Eggchan had never meant to get serious about the server, but as Wemmbu’s frenzy got more intense so did Eggchans burial in the game. Eggchan sacrificed real life things over a game occasionally, and on other notes in game he gets dragged out and almost killed just because Wemmbu puts him in danger just by being in this frenzy- and the worst part is he’s already killed one friend due to the frenzy, Rejoice. Wemmbu was so obsessed with killing Jaden, that he had dragged Rejoice into a battle he couldn’t win. That was another time Wemmbu failed, which just sent him deeper into a frenzy.

The third point of view of the anarchy server is Spokeishere. He handles his fear through denial. He refuses to think he’s a failure, he puts himself on a pedestal almost. Everytime he fails or messes up he buries himself in lies. He also manages to bury the people around him in lies, just to protect himself from that fear of failure. Spike put a blindfold of deceit over Mapics eyes so his best friend wouldn’t have to see how he had failed or messed up- but that never would last long. Spokes mistakes caught up to him, and slowly but surely his lies are unraveling around him. Yet another failure he is scared about.

Lastly there is the fourth point of view, the writer of Unstable itself- Parrotx2. Parrot is somewhat a mix of all three. Parrot risked it all in the Mafia and Kings arcs to get on top, to save everyone. Not because he wanted to save everyone, but because people would see him as a hero- not a failure. He went into a frenzy to not fail- to be perceived well- just not as obvious as Wemmbu. He worked tirelessly with Theo to collect all that treasure just to give it back out to the people around him. Parrot shrouds himself and others in lies. He says he’s doing good, that he’s saving everyone- when he may be actually digging the server a deeper hole with how he’s handing the population. Not only does it affect Parrot heavily, but it affects the entire server. The server cowers at the power of this bird, because of such an effect. Parrots attempts to save everyone just to not be perceived badly backfire on him heavily, because he really isn’t doing anything good- not at all. Besides, it makes sense for the writer of the story to be who shows the theme the most clearly in the writing.

i really like how much wemmbu and flame have recently started to differ concerning pvp. i mean they were always obviously fighting with different playstyles but it seems they really started to go in different directions in the newest wemmbu vids.

the brokeness of the players honestly really helps showcase this. bc its how wemmbu and flame react to being on the same playing field as everyone else concerning items.

you can see throughout the whole vid how wemmbu uses everything around him to its best, harvests all he can and uses everything to his advantage.

meanwhile, i could imagine flame in a similar position going more towards targeting players by themselves and taking their stuff instead.

its a matter of using surroundings vs pure combat skill, i think. not to say that they dont have the other, but its way more glaring to see that they lean more towards one or the other.

how flame is talented and skilled enough in combat to not really care much for resources other than the basics because he trusts himself and his skills to carry him.

and wemmbu, who wasn’t very skilled at the beginning still relying more on items, tricks, gimmicks, and his qucik-thinking. despite now also being quite skilled in pvp, he still doesnt trust his skill instinctively the way flame always has, because while flames talent alone was good enough to give him the title of strongest and his power. wemmbus power comes from his skills in using those resources he has access to.

idk if this makes sense, im just rambling now but. this vid really showed just how much wemmbu evolved in regards to pvp without it just being “oh its his osc/mace that makes him strong without them hes not good” well. here he is. naked and basically maceless, and yet. he didnt do any worse than flame probably wouldve done in a similar situation.