#girls will ramble soooooooooooooo fawking much about the eggpire fr

[pinkseas]

Yoooooo! Okay so in one of your posts you mentioned that you thought that the eggpire members had differing levels of ‘freedom’ in terms of how far they could stray from the Egg (ex: Hannah and Skeppy needing to be very close by). What are your thoughts on that for each eggpire member?

okay SO!!!!!!!!

skeppy, i think, needed to stay the closest. by far. being even too far from it while still within the egg room would lead to irritation and frustration, would have him burning and freezing and shivering, feverish with the need to be back by its side. he’s safe within a few feet of it, and best when left completely alone and by its side. any sort of interruption to the time he spends with it has the same effects, leading to his bad moods when bbh tries to speak to him or lead him away. physically and mentally there’s a need to stay as close to it as possible, to do nothing but stay by its side.

hannah is probably the second most effected. her connection to the roses especially makes her vulnerable, as the egg honestly functions very similarly to the way a flower would- with the egg itself as the bulb, and the bloodvines themselves being, well, vines. that combined with how close she was forced to it (the same way skeppy forced Himself to be that close, for the others sake) leaves her ill when she strays too far or goes without seeing it for too long. whereas skeppy is irritated and feverish, hannah becomes very foggy, unable to think straight or clear her head. there’s a nausea and a tug in her chest and a fuzziness in her brain that rapidly gets worse, the weakness she feels turning to strength and her mind clearing the closer she gets. 

and then bad !! bad is honestly probably right in the middle. he’s given more freedom, as he needs it in order to spread the egg’s word and influence across the land, but still closely tethered. i think that doing something the egg dislikes or trying to stray for too long would lead to sharp stabs and aches of otherwise unexplained physical pain, headaches and muscle cramps and aching bones. and i think bad, honestly, could and would suffer through that if not for skeppy. skeppy is what keeps him close above all else, and the physical pain isn’t nearly to the degree it was before skeppy’s sacrifice freed bad from the egg’s control. the egg never fully got that control back, bad chooses to stay for skeppy’s sake. but by not belonging fully to the egg, the actual effects of being away from it are lessened, as much as it tries to keep him closer.

ponk doesn’t feel much, but then, he also doesn’t have much desire to stray. i think the vines making up his arm would start to grow loose and unravel if he were to go too far, a reminder that he’s bound, but because he’s fairly happy under the egg’s control and doesn’t necessarily care for freeing himself, the egg has less reason to try and keep him close. he does that on his own.

and punz !!! punz has the most freedom, easily, because no matter how far he goes, bloodshed follows. and the egg loves that. it grants him both strength and freedom and he uses that, knowingly or not, to make it stronger. should he have tried to leave things would’ve been different, but he liked the strength and power that the egg granted, actively wanted to keep it. since his possession it played a part in every bit of blood he shed, and therefore gained power from every bit, too. should punz ever think himself beyond needing it, well. rather than simply take away the power it granted, it could take away much of his own power, too, leave him far weaker than ever before and tell him he was free. leave him to come crawling back just to feel any bit like himself again, just to avoid that awful helplessness.

i am, honestly, not certain about antfrost. i think his near blind loyalty to the egg would’ve kept him close enough that the egg never worried about him straying, or there’s always the possibility that, if he thought the egg could bring velvet back (i can’t remember if that was canon or not LMAO), he himself never risked going far anyways. ant has always felt somewhat like the most steady member of the eggpire to me, so i think he’d be the only one to truly experience no consequence, or more accurately to never do anything requiring consequence in the egg’s eyes.