i don't believe in past life or reincarnation theories. however, i cannot shake the parallels between fandom treatment of bdoubleo100 and the british media's hounding of princess diana before her death
i roleplayed bdubs x doc back in the day (<- 2020) and by rough calculation my rp partner and i wrote the equivalent of multiple novels of lit-format slowburn bdoc roleplay over the course of several months
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I think the reason Etho is more loyal to Cleo than he's ever been to bdubs isn't simply out of the blue character development, it's not that he likes her more or is afraid of her iit's not even strategy
I think it's mostlly that Cleo really inspires loyalty. Bc she is very openly very unflinchiingly loyal but also because she is a bit paranoid and expects to be betrayed and will not forgive easily or quickly if she is betrayed
Bdubs is incredibly loyal to Etho but let's be real there is no risk of Etho ever losing that. Etho has repeatedly not given Bdubs the same loyalty Bdubs has given him and yet Bdubs will always still choose Etho and put him on a pedestal. There's no risk there so there isn't any reason for Etho to grow or change.
Cleo though? Cleo doesn't put Etho on a pedestal. They won't accept anything from him they wouldn't accept from other people. They will call him out and if he betrays them, will not forgive it easily. And that means that suddenly there are stakes and Etho has to step up and through that I think he realises that hey maybe he wants to be loyal actually. He doesn't want Cleo to hate him. He doesn't want to hurt Cleo (and maybe he never realised how much he hurt bdubs because bdubs always came back)
actually thats one thing i respect so much about bdubs and etho. bdubs is considered one of the best builders on hermitcraft (and in general) and etho is considered one of the best redstoners of all time. bdubs used his building expertise to come up with a really inventive and uncustomary way to do redstone (prettystone) and etho used his redstone expertise to come up with a really wacky and creative way to build (the monstrosity). it's why they're so good at what they do—they take the conventions of what they've already mastered and use their experience flip it on its head entirely. they don't stop at mastery and are constantly learning and trying to inject their creativity into other areas of minecraft and i find that so cool....
Bdubs: "I'm Key," thanks for the five euro! "since we're at the topic, uh, of shipping now, what's your opinion on it?" i mean— (laughs)
to be honest— (stutters) i'll tell you right now, i've never—i've never actually read one, okay, i ha—i got the idea. Cle— (laughs) Cleo had to explain it to me. um—
i'm—i'm all for, like, people taking characters and creating their own story from it.
(laughs)
"Cleo explained shipping to me." yes. um—
i li—i think that's fun, you know? you take your character and you create your own l—lore from it. i'd love to see somebody take Darth Maul and make a, a, you know, a Darth Maul story out of it. that'd be fun. i like that.
(laughs)
so go ahead, write your own stories. i don't know—you know, there are certain people that, like, they—their passion is, ah, romantic novels. and that's what they write! they write romantic novels! people—people—there're people with different interests and stuff. and you—you know, sometimes people just do it for the money, and maybe that's what the shipping is!
who knows, but. all that to say it's the weirdest craziest thing i ever heard of. um—and (laughs) i don't know what would make you so insane to think that it's a good idea to do it. uh—it's fine, it's fine!
"No wait, he (Bdubs) has! Yes, he does; he likes to troll Twitter. Wait, 'run', what happened? No wait, why is everybody saying 'SCATTER'? I'm so confused, what did I do?"
- GoodTimesWithScar, 2022, to his chat on his birthday twitch stream, about BdoubleO100's dangerously close shenaggians involving the HermitCraft fandom
Etho feels to me like one of those guys who was aware of shipping but didnt really pay any attention and then found out oh Shit this goes deeper than I thought it did
lmao that's probably true. like "oh some people on the internet have a crush on me", which i guess most youtubers are aware of, is slightly different to "many people daydream about my minecraft oc kissing my friend's minecraft oc".
though i continue to find his horror (and bdubs' general confusion) at shipping to be hilarious like. okay, etho is approximately joel-levels of allergic to roleplay, so fair enough, but. bdubs? mr doubleo, sir, you yelled "he loves me!" moments before death as you frantically tried to return to the man you'd basically pledged yourself to and had absolute faith in. what the fuck do you mean you don't get it. what the fuck do you mean we're the insane ones. no one is out there doing shipping like you are, sir.
other than maybe scarian, but we already know they just get possessed by the ghost of homosexual yearning every time they're on a traffic server, so.
unfinished animatic plans *__* this was gonna be about double life to you and i in unison by la dispute. i have up obviously but I still like the sketches