AWH... I'm skipping through Roier's QSMP Day 1 VOD because I'm looking for a specific thing, and I just noticed that when Jaiden stands in front of the group to do her introduction and her mic isn't working, Mariana laughs (not in a mean way, I laughed too) and Roier immediately smacks him and tells him off for laughing.
[Timestamp ~36m 50s, volume warning for Quackity's awful mic]
It's such a little thing, but I think it's really sweet in retrospect, especially considering how Roier and Jaiden have become such good friends in recent weeks :')
In honour of the hellsite crashing and burning, here is an ancient meme from the time some admin goofed and wrote "hilo" in the activity box on the feed
You do you guys i promise but as someone who sees thomas as your cool and funny uncle/cousin i find it really odd seeing everyone thirsting for him. This is like seeing ppl drooling over pedro pascal aka my chilean uncle like 😵💫😂
I think it would have been neat if we had gotten an actual romance with the Emperor. Like, you don't even get special dialogue with the companions that walk in on you if you have sex with it, and I think the only people that even acknowledge that you slept with him are Orpheus and Raphael [surprise surprise they are both assholes about it too], and your character doesn't even have an option to defend or even say anything like??? You're not going to defend your own lover??? It is literally in your head and doesn't say anything about their comments too like?????
It really annoyed me, considering its dialogue leading up to the one [one] romance scene you have with it.
It's the one constant in every playthrough of the game and has so much relationship potential it kills me.
Can you imagine a romanced Emperor having more of a reaction to your character betraying it? Or maybe having more dream cutscenes.
How would it react to being broken up with? Or your character asking for a kiss like with the other romanced companions?
Would he be open to telling you about his past identity? What about sharing memories of when it was enslaved by the brain? Maybe you could have an arc with it about accepting your character as a humanoid, and he could have something different to say if your character chooses to accept ceremorphosis? There was just so many ways that their relationship could have developed and it's kind of a shame we didn't get anything.
They seriously could have leaned into him not giving a shit about Tav and only indulging them to get them to do what it wants and I would have been happy just to explore ANY new dynamics. God I could go on for days about this stupid sexy squid. I was going off in a text chat about it and now I have to spill the bitching into here because I need to do more screaming into the void.
QSMP AU(?) where all of the islanders are actually missing people and eventually they escape the island only to be thrown back to normal life and having to deal with the trauma