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[duskuntilthedawn]

ive noticed a pattern in the duos i like (orphan, ethubs, purples) and it all rlly boils down to history. skeppy and techno were my favorites since 2019 and that’s because they were each others first youtube friends, and it’s also rlly bc they were the ones i started watching first from the newer gen of mcyt lol.

if i rlly wanted to dig deep into my brain i could pull out some thoughts i had about the implications of their dynamic in dsmp with previous servers being canon like smplive (and directly tying in mcm), and I don’t remember the full context but there was a point in time where they were on opposing sides (? i think just bbh? it’s been so long lollll) and skeppy goes “wait techno, we go way back” — and this is 100% them Not in roleplay mode but it implies SO much history between them in a singular one-off line where skeppy thinks this is just regular server conflict and not deeply personal, and i really wish i could remember the context of this conversation because i really want to look into it deeply. techno has helped skeppy out by giving him free gear and food after a simple msg in chat, and technoblade would not do that for just anybody. not to mention, this video (again, 100% not roleplay) where technoblade is so at ease with skeppy and immediately agrees to hang out with him without relatively little suspicion, bcs he’s known skeppy for so long and can kind of rlly free his facade? he easily gives skeppy his trident and doesn’t get mad at all when skeppy accidentally kills him.😭. and in this video, they DO get into the lore with techno catching skeppy up with his wanted posters and bounty, and here’s a conversation i used to regularly spin in my head:

(longer post rambling about these guys and the other duo I’m currently obsessing over under cut)

[start]

skeppy: is there a bounty on you or something?

techno: uhh, i think they’re going to make a bounty soon.

skeppy: well, i would’ve gotten it just now [techno laughs] if there was. i just gotta title the video, i KILLED technoblade, I’m better than him, after all these years! (<- cheeky little reference to the sub wars they used to do in 2018)

techno: this is why, when people are like, ‘hey i have something to show you’, i just don’t respond.

skeppy: [laughs] you just don’t respond. but i get special treatment, and it.. didn’t end well.

techno: this is- this is how i trust. this is why people DON’T get special treatment, skeppy, this is why. [they both laugh]

[end]

and the idea of how every singular moment relating to the server is lore whether it’s intended or not shapes how i see skeppy and techno’s relationship in the context of dsmp. techno’s “this is how i trust” isn’t intended to be an in-character quote, it’s supposed to be a lighthearted jab. but again, simple one liners reveal so much about their unspoken history together you can’t just NOT ignore it. as well as the “special treatment”, there’s very few people technoblade would be comfortable being this vulnerable around, running around armorless and compromising his safety by doing so, playing along with a hot-cold game to find it. like genuinely u could prob count on one hand.

there’s a reason why techno calls up skeppy to trick him into freeing Carl from Sam’s prison and agrees to using it to trick badboyhalo with skeppy– and it’s because skeppy’s fun to hang out with. it’s a relationship built upon years and years of techno and skeppy trolling each other like this, they know there’s no hard feelings between them, bcs they do it right back at each other. skeppy isn’t afraid of techno like other people are– he’s not intimidated by him and that’s really why techno is so comfortable around skeppy. this is the trust techno is talking about. 

there’s also a small moment of red skeppy when he forgets bbh, he says technoblade was his best friend. we dont have any moments (or ones that i can think of) where it’s dsmp techno bringing skeppy up in a similar way, but i used to be a really big skeppy harpocrates truther because of this. Techno mentions skeppy a lot off-dsmp, one of my fav threads here – “i cant believe you would even like attempt to so doubt between our unbreakable bond”. All this to say, it’s the fact that even though they don’t have many on-screen moments together, they’re one of my favorites because they can rely to be there for each other, unspoken and comes up in little moments like these. It’s like when you haven’t talked to a friend in so long, but when you finally do see them again, it’s like nothing changed. (insert skeppy idot smp clip abt techno)

I didn’t really mean to go on a tangent about dsmp, but this idea of just “being there” and being the first, follows me in other mcyt i watch, with ethubs (and tbh, beetho as well– i get soooo happy when people post 10 yr old clips of them), and lately, if it wasn't obvious vitalasubz. 

They’re so different than skeppy and techno in that they actually meet in lifesteal, there’s no prior relationship to build off of, and they get a LOT. of moments together on screen, explicitly both in-character and as people. it’s the fact that vitalasy was subz’s first teammate, and they were together for the next two seasons. it’s the fact that they would never betray each other, sticking with each other when nobody else would, up to the end. I think they were the oldest, most consistent duo. they don’t need to communicate their needs with each other often because they know each other so well, they just help the other wordlessly, that trust was built off previous seasons.

Unfortunately there’s no way to watch season 2 or season 3 vods with the foundation of their relationship, unlike skeppy and techno. which is why they fascinate me so much and why i dig for clips of them throughout the years. I didn’t have the balls to post publicly about skeppy and techno back when i was obsessed with them, so a lot of my thoughts had been silently brewing for years, and most people don’t really know them like that and don’t even realize skeppy was techno’s only featured channel for years. I thank last life everyday for the ethubs renaissance. 

with subz and vitalasy leaving the server it pains me to come with terms that they pretty much are dead (i hate admitting subz is right, and subz saying he and vi won't talk anymore after he leaves lifesteal is SO. ugh), and you can really only keep them alive through talking about it, and to keep that in a permanent place– i dump all my thoughts on instagram stories and unless you see it in the 24hrs it’s posted, it’s gone forever. And u can’t rlly keep any memory like that a long-holding one.

Like when it comes to eclipse, it’s assumed vitalasy and subz are a do-not-separate and even if zam and subz wanted to elope, they just couldn’t because zam doesn’t have that history with subz like vitalasy does. it was a start with spawn cleaning, but those few months were being weighed in comparison to whole entire seasons. vitalasy drags subz into conflict with other players, otherwise subz would continue to grind and build his megabases by himself. It really is about just being there, there’s so many clips of vi wordlessly helping subz with megabase building, and subz testing out vitalasy’s traps with him. 

and nobody in the server really elaborates on it because they saw vitalasy and subz team in season 2, 3, they lowkey just accept it. we as viewers don’t have that and since the vods r mostly gone we don’t really know their history, we know About it but we don’t actually know it. subz can retell the story of broke vitalasy showing up at his doorstep with a catmaid oasis and subz just accepting it all he wants but it doesn’t change the fact that we don’t see it. It’s like season 3’s deliverance, subz retells it so we don’t see the “thank you” / “thank you as well” solemnity in his video like we do vitalasy’s. This guy makes fun of vitalasy instead! which, like, that’s a subz thing to do, but like come onnnn. (at least we knew that the sword was named deliverance from his video!)

I can only imagine what it must’ve been like to be vitalasy and subz against the entire server the first time, what they were planning and doing when running away/hiding out, or what they were even talking about. We do get a s3 clip of vi asking subz if he would betray him, and i love that clip so much even if it’s probably recited because it’s that uncertainty shown. In s4, we DO have those streams where subz is debating on betraying vi, and we see EVERYTHINGGG. and it’s so crazy we see everything they went through in s3 (which we don't know the full extent of) is being weighed against them in s4 when they haven't done much together. the videos don't show any of this, and they cut out the moments that hit the hardest-- see deliverance in vi and subz's videos vs their streams-- and it makes me long for the purpleduo s3 angst sooooo bad.

we get references to s3 when subz talks about how it's ironic they're against the server again (he namedrops the revengers LAWL), and deliverance is itself an easter egg. they were definitely not making angsty vent signs in s3 but it makes me wonder What they were doing then. like it's probably discord messages and calls but i still want to knowwwww >: i want to see the uncut footage of their convos from before they fight clown, before they enact the exploding mountain trap, the otherside trap, likeeeeeeee. pls.

it’s just really fascinating to me to have this kind of relationship on a server like lifesteal, and even they don’t escape the violence either, they kill each other only to ban each other off (4 seasons in a row wtf is wronf with themm!!!!) (also vitalasy carries this sentiment to when he leaves ls with jumper so like. It affects their other relationships too. wtf). the “betraying you would be betraying myself” line is seared into my skull forever and ever and it says soooo soo much about them. so attached to the hip they’re fused together.(<- AND HE WAS FIGHTING AGAINST IT. HE WANTED TO BE WITH ZAM STILL. if he couldnt have both of them then he decided he should have none. OTL)

this post is way too long but i just really wanted to write my thoughts down somewhere. i’m not really good at analyzing characters and dynamics like that so there’s probably going to be nonsensical or redundant points, and i do also realize that these duos are kind of not talked about at least anymore(when their popularity in 2019/2022 was why i attached myself to them too v_v). I also haven’t watched ls s5 so im sorry if vitalasubz are ooc, i saw the goodbye pandemic friend forever video and it fucked me up badly. I might be able to move on after writing this, as some sort of cathartic moving on thing so i can get into duos who actually interact but yeah that’s pretty much it.

tldr: i love duos who start with each other when they have nothing, and hold onto that bond for life

[bubobubosibericus]

the guys at r/fuckcars doing the lord's work

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[baker-chan-senpai]

dumb doodles

merry christmas, people

[macydraws]

exchange of blood.

[ratgill]

every ghibli movie is better with some guys in it

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[evilmafuyu666]

[aphel1on]

AuDHD is so funny sometimes like what do you mean my hyperfixations/special interests will last for years on end or possibly forever but they will cycle out every month or two with absolutely no transitional period or warning. like i will think about the same topic every day obsessively for 46 days in a row and on the 47th day with no visible cause adhd brain goes "ok! bored of that now" and autism brain goes "dw i got something queued up for ya" and i blast into full blown obsession on some other topic whose mental file folders haven't opened in 9 months. brain's out here treating hyperfixations like a crop rotation. once the dopamine runs out it cycles in another one but once something's in the rotation it never ever leaves. last summer we brought in one from when i was 11. it's so funny to me but frustrating too bc like. i cannot stress enough my inability to predict or control this. or how completely abrupt and random it can be

[heartorbit]

if we could stay connected, just like this

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather Previous / Next

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[miothle]

The Hanged Man Aventurine for HSR Tarot Collab!🌌✨