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im like so normal about uu!zammbu as someone whos only watched like four episodes total, one of which was entirely out of order compared to the rest. In the escape room video, Wemmbu initially getting all the weapons while Zam gets all the armor..... while Prince Zam gets all the armor. The royalty gets the armor. And Wemmbu still ending up in the offensive position when they end up with Clown in the End, telling Zam to run. Like? Knight!Wemmbu with his Prince Zam fucking save me. Im especially normal about how Zam and Wemmbu both have that same like. unnerving little laugh in their voices while they talk, but like, the difference between them is that from what ive seen it's a defensive thing for Zam, but it's an offensive thing for Wemmbu. Wemmbu goes silent or at the least drops his little giggle when youve fucking Got his ass, but if he's got you, and he knows he's got you? You get the voice. But the opposite seems true for Zam.

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For those of those looking for the Minute comment about being inspired by Zam season 3. It's in the "Murder Chicken Machine" vod convo starts 35:00

And it's just shocking how much Minute s5 just exactly Zam s6. Complete with a morality of doing good for the server, not banning his enemies, and making up for his past as an assassin.

And he's so solid in it, so unaffected by JokerZam's berating and trying to prove to him that he is evil deep down.

And that's exactly how Zam is this season, unmoved by comments about him breaking and just kind of sad that everyone is trying to get him to break.

But he also was the Joker who embodies the chaos of the server, the endless violence. Who insisted Minute would break, who insisted that Minute would have to ban him to stop him. Is that not exactly what Zam is facing this season?

MINUTE: "do you want to know why [I never farmed you off the server before this] cause I know, if I do that. If I let myself go there, if I cross that line, if I give into.. whatever you call your anarchy. If I do that, I know I'll never come back" ZAM: "but I want to see what happens when you break that rule, when you go [laughing] I want to see what that does to the sever! That's exactly what I want"

It's just so interesting how much s6 Zam has put himself in the exact same position Minute was in. How much it makes sense for Zam to do that. And yet the role reversal is so perfect it's crazy it hasn't been talked about more. Zam almost distances himself from it because he's not trying to cause peace on all of lifesteal, just trying to control his own bloodlust. But that was also Minute's goal.

And it's so delightful how much of mcrp is just placing yourself in odd situations and seeing how you might react. Zam throwing himself into the Joker, then throwing himself into pacifism. Betraying team awesome, betraying eclipse, joining the wormhole, making an empire, championing unbanning players. Whatever arc Zam goes on he just commits so fully and embraces all consequences of it.

I can't wait for Minute and Zam to yap this season. Please do it at some point. Pleeeasse.

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also I did NOT give Minute enough credit with rp in the moment but looking back through the vods and watching it back to back and not having to wait days in between 5 voice lines... this man cooks.

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pocky day doodle ;p

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With the whole swagdoons stuff that’s happening

I’ve always been deeply curious how many of the people who like my tweets are actually princetech shippers

Because I like them platonically but sometimes i get those moods where I want to see them in a more romantic light

I’m just scared to post obvious princetech on twitter at risk of being burnt at the stake, I wonder how many of those people feel the same

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With the whole swagdoons stuff that’s happening

I’ve always been deeply curious how many of the people who like my tweets are actually princetech shippers

Because I like them platonically but sometimes i get those moods where I want to see them in a more romantic light

I’m just scared to post obvious princetech on twitter at risk of being burnt at the stake, I wonder how many of those people feel the same

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wemmtech and princetech

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I've been thinking of empire & co recently.......

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It's so interesting seeing all the protagonists flaws so clear and seeing the consequences of them right in front of us. Also I like analysing things and people

Wemmbu doesn't care about people except for Eggchan, and he has close to no allies now because he prioritises himself over anyone he's made connections with. He became close with Wato from their time together, and mind you Wato hates talking to people. They had trust in each other, Jaron gave him the mace out of trust, Pangi was Pangi, and he just abandons Skyblock Civilization when given the option to escape danger. He only cares about Eggchan, and maybe debatabally Zam because he was worried about Zam being completely alone against Clown's goons and prioritised Zam's safety in the end

Spoke on the other hand cares too much. He puts so much faith and trust into the people he meets. He was easily tricked by Ashswag because he trusted Ash so heavily that the only thing that made him lose that trust was the fact that Ash blew up the farms for no good reason. Minute saved him one time and his reaction was to put so much trust in him, and he lost Minute to the Mafia. And literally Planet was spying on them while invisible but then was so quick to be like "yeah he's nice we should team". Similarly with Bacon, he put a lot of faith in him to be an excellent teammate and Bacon runs at the first sign of danger

Parrot doesn't care about himself. He cares about himself so little that he forgets to care about anyone else, and it caused him and Wifies to have a falling out. He didn't care enough about how Wifies felt. He's reckless with his own life and it fully contradicts what Wifies wanted. He watched Luigi die at the hands of the mafia, and now the only thing on his mind was to get revenge even if it killed him. He's so selfless that he's selfish. He was willing to keep Dean on the team even after finding out he has been the reason the mafia kept finding them and putting them in danger, evident from the fact that he was running around trying to find Dean for a good few minutes because he didn't want Dean to be by himself. When he was being chased by Clown is put Wifies in danger, and he thought the only way for everyone to be safe was to disappear of the face of the earth. And that still put Wifies in danger because Clown threatened his life if he didn't tell him where Parrot was. He cares about himself so little that he tunnel visions on anything self destructive and forgets to think about how it would affect others because he thinks it's better for everyone

They're all so flawed and I think that's so beautiful. This was also an essay that I did not expect to become an essay

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Derap after having the most gayass situationship with Wemmbu

Derap: no yaoi though

Like sureeeeee bro

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chat. with wemmbu’s long hair do we think egg has ever brushed through it for him

-eme

thank you, eme. now i have a very clear image in my head, and i needed to draw it. egg definitely helps wemmbu with his long hair, brushing, and/or braiding.

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i can't believe they immediately started a shit-talking club

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theyre both sick in the head. just a little

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promised an ashtech post so i tried to make sense of my thoughts

I think what originally got me hooked on them is when Ash admitted that he would always choose evil if the choice was given to him, but Minute proved that he could be a good person too. that makes him want to be a good person for once. and Minute is the only person he can think of to help him with that

Ash isn't really a good person and he has no issue with this, but Minute has him wanting to be good despite that. the peace that Minute speaks of makes him want to achieve the same thing. even though he never quite meant to join the foundation and be 'good', now it is something he pursues

then there's the the ousting. Minute is voted out of the presidency without Ash present, the PMC betrays him and he has a moment where he entirely breaks by killing Zam. he's never been so close to giving up on the peaceful ending

however, the next day, Ash is back and Minute goes through everything that happened, bringing him up to date. Ash says that, despite everything, they'll figure it out. they'll get their peaceful ending. it's them versus everyone, he says.

Ash is the one that allows Minute to have hope again. Ash's confidence and his own hope overshadows all of the despair. and Ash is confident because if anyone were to bring peace, it'd be Minute in his eyes. because Minute even made him want to be good.

and while, in a way, Minute managed to make Ash better by making him pursue peace for once. Ash makes Minute worse. Ash says that Minute being a killing machine is in favour of their team and not the players, even though that would literally be proving Zam right.

Ash is very blinded by the thought of a peaceful ending to the point that he doesn't consider the fact that a peaceful ending built on top of a hill of corpses isn't peaceful at all. he actively pushes for Minute to kill those that are in their way. because that's how Lifesteal is and that's how they've always done things. you kill to get things done, why would this be different?

except it is different this time. because a peaceful ending is the opposite of what it has always been, it completely goes against what Lifesteal is. so even when he voices his worries about it, Minute trusts Ash, because Ash gives him the hope he needs. without him, the world feels grey

and during all of this it is Minute who Ash allows himself to be, I suppose, vulnerable to. Ash tells Minute "I love you," and "I'm scared," and that he feels safer with Minute around. he says that while it would be embarrassing to ask anyone else for things, he knows he can rely on Minute

then, once Minute is gone, he's dead, Ash feels a sense of despair at that. Minute was his hope as well, in a sense. he pushes through anyway, he's still going to achieve it for him. and then once all of them are banned, they meet up in a sort of 'afterlife' where Ash claims they've won. Minute tells him that they didn't and that's fine.

Ash still keeps clinging to it though. even now he says they were happy and they won, because that's what he wanted them to achieve. but at least they were together, and maybe that was enough.

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hallowed ween. as they call it …

(slightly different alt under the cut)

look closely ;p

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This is Wemmbu, Zam, and minute… please tell me you see the vision

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I'm cryyying. Minute is so cooked on this team. He's not going to last. And if we're supremely lucky, he'll pull a PrinceZam.

Bro is actually so against being evil it's the extent Zam is against exploits. Please MinuteTech, feel the lore, succumb to it.

Spoke had a speech on Chief's stream before the launch:

“Listen up team. This season’s gonna be different than any other season, alright? I mean first of all, we have a ton of new members, brand new world, but most importantly, we are allianced. And we are not just allianced, we are The Empire. Now, in past seasons, I’ve had like a little.. I think all of us have had different morals. Some of us wanted to be good guys, some of us did some bad things for the greater good. This season though, I think we have one goal. And I think it’s finally time that the players on lifesteal actually admit to something. That, deep down, we’re all the villains. And i think this season we’re going the first team to fully admit and take on that role, as the true villains of this server…[cheers of agreement. specifically a muahaha from Minute]. Now here’s the thing, a villain needs power, and power on this server, that’s not just gonna come from stacks of golden apples, that’s not gonna come from stacks of netherite armor, infinite shulkers of gear, that’s not what true power is. True power is when you’re able to bend the world to your will. [...] This season i want to make sure all of us can do whatever the fuck we want. Because noone will be able to stand in our way.We are the Empire!!”

And then one hour into Minute's stream, Spoke drops a stalagtite on Jumper and he feels SO BAD "I feel so bad for Jumper" (said only to chat) “Lifesteal sesaosn 6 is not going as expected” (no, this is exactly what I expected) “I’m not good at this evil stuff, I feel so bad right now.” (oh no)

and then Jumper “Yea, what are you doing MinuteTech? What happened”

“Yea okkay  we are not doing lore. We are not doing early season lore”

He is so cooked.