#(even if there were no character choices involved for qbad here tho i still would love all ccbad has been doing so far

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

He’s hungry. He’s bloodthirsty. He’s killed and he will kill again and he will not feel bad about it.

QBad is the type of character who will not hesitate. As soon as he and Max determined Elquackity was not Quackity, they killed him as cleanly as possible to eliminate him from the elections entirely. When he thought Pac was hiding information from him, during one of Bad’s lowest points, he killed him and searched his inventory the second he had an opportunity. After Juanaflippa died, Bad was the first to start using an axe to avoid sweeping edge damage. When it comes to his goals, he does not hesitate.

His goal is to protect the eggs. Protecting the eggs means he needs to kill Elquackity, and search Pac for clues of their whereabouts, and modify his fighting style so they won’t get hit in the crossfire.

Protecting the eggs means winning.

He keeps hesitating. He didn’t farm Jaiden NEARLY as ruthlessly as he could have (and, for an efficient tryhard, that means a lot), and he didn’t kill Bagi until she gave him explicit permission, and he let Tubbo and Tina tell him no.

He’s already been destroying the people he loves, ever since the eggs disappeared. He’s been punishing them with mines and pranks, and torturing himself in turn. He is desperate to find the eggs, and that desperation makes him reckless, stupid, prone to more decisions that don’t line up beyond a quick emotional rush- before the eggs disappeared, he would have made the smartest decisions, always, because he needed to protect the eggs. But their disappearance damaged him in mental AND physical ways- the giant hole in his head, the colour blindness, the loss of smell and ability to feel pain. we are seeing the consequences of that in his reckless behaviour.

Of course he’s making enemies. Of COURSE he’s killing- dapper told him to. he might get the eggs back. It doesn’t matter if blue wins, it matters that the cursed team wins. It means Everything for blue to win, because he needs to get Dapper back. He is hesitating. He is ruthless. He loves his friends, and he wants to hurt them. They’re trees in his way, and he’s a lumberjack.

No one has begged him to stop, yet. Not really. They’re not desperate enough, not hurting enough, not broken enough- he doesn’t want to hurt them. the weight of their pain does not outweigh the horror of losing the eggs. Not yet. but how could anything outweigh that?

how can he asked to think clearly? dapper has asked him to win. how can a dog be trained into killing her own litter? Tubbo, once a respected enemy, asked him to stop hurting their loved ones, and bad listened. He spared Foolish and left red team alone and secured their victory against his own team.

No one has asked, “When will it be enough?” and he hasn’t been able to answer, “When I get my son back.”

I think the most important thing to know about qbadboyhalo is that he’s motivated by love