#do you guys ever think about how fucking cool the qsmp is

[locoier]

i love qsmp because it forces me to like. actually work on my language skills. like so often i find myself watching content in portuguese with spanish translations. so im watching content in the language im trying to learn with subtitles in my second language and i know that my brain is actually working and learning yippie

[arinninjagosleftovers]

Not ur DMs but oh man!! Do I have a character analysis to dump upon you. I’m not gonna do a ton of editing, but I do wish to share.

Oh bro, Q!Foolish is so cool as a character. Him and BBH are literally both insane in the exact same way, but with such different views on morality. It results in wildly different ideas of themselves and the world around them!

Foolish is selfish and he knows it, but he also loves his family dearly. He will do anything to protect the people he cares about even though that circle is pretty small. Anyone outside the circle is fair game tho. (BBH is an exception because he’s trusted, but Foolish and him love endangering each other for sport). By “fair game,” I mean Foolish will actively throw anyone under the bus just because he feels like it. Honestly doesn’t even have to be for any particular gain. He will absolutely do things just to see what happens. He acts like a morally grey immortal who doesn’t quite understand how normal people think anymore.

At the same time, a lot of his actions do have motives. A big part of his character is that Foolish just wants rare/unique items and will do nearly anything (including endanger others) to get them. He sees the island as a game to win, which makes it easy to not care about consequences for himself and others. He’s not malicious and he doesn’t seek to cause others pain, but will still do things knowing full well they could harm. He also fully accepts other people seeking retribution for his actions, because he’s got a “fair is fair” type mentality. He will simply deal with whatever consequences float his way for his actions.

Because Foolish is aware of his selfishness, he will never try and take a moral high ground. He doesn’t think he’s a morally just person, and he doesn’t care to be. He cares about chaos for the sake of fun, doing things to get him stuff, and protecting those he loves.

(Also, Foolish & Jaiden as people are both the embodiment of chaotic neutral. Everything they do together is fun as Jaiden enables the hell out of any idea Foolish has. Morality be damned, they just wanna be menaces for the sake of it.)

Also also, Foolish is actually smarter than he appears and presents himself. He’s actually a strategist at heart, but will only use it for his own personal gain and often under the table lol. He’s silly, but he uses that to play all fields and knows how to keep things secret. His behavior will often trick others into underestimating him, but unfortunately also leads to people fundamentally not understanding him or his motives.

Idk,, I stay spinning these Minecraft people in my brain like a microwave lol. I could probably give similar level analysis on a handful of my other main QSMP people, but yeah. Foolish is especially cool to me because people who have zero illusion about being morally fucked by normal standards are soooo interesting! It’s a very atypical way to aproach the world not giving a shit about morality while also being zero percent malicious. His /goal/ isn’t ever to hurt people for the sake of it, he’s just a means to an end kind of guy. He’s neat because about him and his explanation for his actions tends to embody a genuine sense of neutrality in the most insane way possible.

god this is so cool

I really want to watch more of Foolish’s vods to really get a grasp of him and I can’t really add onto this much at all but oh anon I appreciate so much. Thank you for this meal of a character analysis served on a silver platter

I think the type of morally grey Foolish is, is by the far the most fun to me. It’s that loyalty to these select few people and that loyalty will not change unless extreme circumstances causes it to. So so interesting. And also like. Him being friends with others but if given the popular he will screw them over? That’s hilarious. Good for him, doing things for the bit and for his own personal gain. I wouldn’t, probably, but selfish characters are soooooo… rotating around inside my head.

[gyaru-tau]

but like fr. i mean this so sincerely that like. at least with my own experience this guy kinda unintentionally hits the nail right on the head because like. Ok lemme break this thing down a little for those who wanna follow me into this dark alleyway.

So like. considering the events shown in "the beginning", hc/q!phil (just gonna use q!phil for the sake of simplicity), Phil was seemingly. allegedly. fully "human". But jump cut to qsmp after Phil has his wings, and he's doing these different bird related things, ESPECIALLY around the people that he trusts. He perches, he talks to other crows like Brian, he builds nests for both himself and the people he loves most... So either he suddenly got the desire to do these things after he got the wings... OR they were always there from the start. And I'm pretty inclined to believe its the latter, because like. Back in "The Beginning", Phil is incredibly devoted to making those fake wings. And it feels like more than just. an inventor being frustrated over his constant failures. This isn't a creation that will better society- as far as we know there ISN'T a society around for Phil to give this to. It's for him and him only in complete isolation from anything and everything.

His entire world revolves around this one single goal, and he is willing to risk his VERY LIFE if it means he can succeed. He has wanted this ever since he was a child. He would quite literally rather DIE than not be able to fly. It feels so deeply, DEEPLY personal. It's not just rooted in wanting to fly because flying is cool, it's the desire to do something that you know you were always MEANT to be doing, but were completely robbed of due to circumstances beyond your control. When Phil gets his one glorious moment up in the sun before things go awry, he figures out how to fly and keep his momentum near instantly, almost as if it was a movement so ingrained in his psyche that he required no real practice in order to do it. It's just something his brain was evolved to know how to do from the start.

Jumping back to qsmp; this complete devotion is to me, what makes Phil's constant loss of flight hurt so fucking much, because each time it's like watching him be stripped of such a crucial part of his identity by people who don't care about it beyond reasons that would only serve their own interests, like when the federation clips his wings, or the Ender King tears them to shreds out of pure spite.. The only time he sacrifices his progress of being able to fly again by his own volition is when he brings Tubbo back to the boat at the end of purgatory; an action he knew that he could still recover from with enough time, but is still clearly a devastating blow to his own perceived self-worth once he loses it. and I know this BECAUSE HE WAS LITERALLY WILLING TO DIE AGAIN IN HIS SECOND ATTEMPT TO FLY OFF THE WALL.

but anyway. i don't really have a set conclusion to this post or anything but man. man do I think about this shit a lot.

q!phil is unironically one of the most blatantly therian characters I've ever seen in any media i've partaken in and i am being so completely serious