#really though it’d be easier to call it a drug addiction if it was POTIONS he was addicted to. not just the netherwart

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Okay serious question: why does everyone keep saying that netherwart is like drugs and that Blue has a drug addiction?

Netherwart on its own is useless until it’s combined with water, and even then the resulting awkward potion is still useless unless a third ingredient of Blue’s choice is added. It’s got no effect of its own. Yes it’s not coded to be edible in-game but it doesn’t even affect Blue in any way when he eats it.

I’ll buy that he has an addiction to the stuff; drugs aren’t the only thing a person can become addicted to (caffeine addictions are often not recognized as such because the idea of needing it to get through the day has been so normalized, and because most people supplement with coffee or carbonated drinks instead of, like, caffeine pills. I’m not even gonna get into social media addiction or adrenaline junkies). But Blue isn’t eating it to get high, it doesn’t give him a high.

He just likes the taste. Honestly it’s more like he’s addicted to eating cardboard or play-dough.