#okay firstly I’m getting into ls starting this season and this oddly makes me relate to the new players much more

[leafatlaw]

I don’t know how accurate this is to say, but, the pedestal people, especially the new players, put Zam on is so intriguing.

Lifesteal is a terrifying server to join, and maybe Zam seems like a constant to them. He streams the most, and this season has aligned himself with protecting spawn. He’s safe even when he’s not a pacifist, he’s reasonable and won’t kill on sight. So people like Kab and Derap want him to be their knight. They want Zam to protect them, be their teammate and ally. Because lifesteal is scary and having a veteran player at your beck and call makes it less so.

And then other players, like Mane and Flame, see Zam differently. Zams not just a protector of spawn, he is Spawn. And in order to make their mark on the server they need to fight, kill, destroy, Spawn. And well by the transitive property, they need to destroy Zam. He’s still on a pedestal but it’s a different one, it’s one he needs to be dragged down from. Either way it doesn’t matter, Zams still a target, center stage, sitting right at Spawn.