#i've watched too many myhouse.wad video essays and then watched a few backrooms in minecraft videos

[indigo-flightly-falls]

Anybody wanna hear my headcanon for what exactly the fuck BigB is?

To bad you're hearing it anyways <3

Under the cut because I tend to ramble, but TLDR: Living liminal space gains a human form because it permakilled people a bit too often.

BigB's first form was originally made as a modded world made up of several layers of liminal spaces, with each layer being more and more unsettling and disturbing. The world was created as an escape room type mini game, but this plan was scrapped after a beast that seemed to connect to the world itself started spawning. A beast that was never coded in, despite the attraction's name.

You see, the world was angry that it had no purpose besides to unsettle players. That people could walk all over it with no worries for their safety after a while, that it would be destroyed with no warning and it could do nothing. So, it took control of its own code and created a monster to chase the players out. It didn't mean to permakill them, just to get them to stay away.

But, plans were made to shut down the world anyways. There were to many permadeaths that were promised wouldn't happen, it was too big a risk to keep open. And the world felt itself be deleted. It felt itself be torn apart to stop existing. So, it gathered all of its strength and, the beast as a base, transferred its AI into a human form.

This form had no name until it learned that its world used to be called 'Escape the Big Beast Labyrinth'. Big Beast, or BigB for short, decided it was a fitting name.

Extra info:

BigB kinda had to learn how to be a human. he may have failed for a while

Also BigB uses he/it pronouns, with no preference between the two

BigB actually has a small chance to open a portal to a dimension very similar to his original form every time it opens a door. Luckily it hasn't happened on a public server yet (those cobble backrooms feel familiar. wandering around in them might not be the best idea)

When back in his original dimension, BigB is typically thrown into its beast form. In this form, BigB is connected to the world itself and struggles to remember what has happened in its human(ish) form.

(he's completely alone when this happens. the world is destroyed and no records of it exists. he is left to roam the empty halls as long as it takes to remember who it is)

It often forgets little things about being human (blinking, moving limbs in the correct ways, etc)

He feels really guilty about permakilling players before it had a human form, and that's one of the reasons it decided to rule the Speakers as a peaceful ruler.

If anybody were to find out about his other form without BigB telling them, it would probably be Etho, Skizz, or Grian. Martyn is only absent from that list due to Martyn also not exactly knowing how humans work for different reasons

BigB doesn't tell the others about its past due to how... different it is. While the others sometimes have weird backstories, nothing really comes close to BigB.

(the others wouldn't really care if they found out btw)