No but I need to emphasize how different everything that happened with Philza was in regards to his "Kidnapping" (I'll explain why I'm putting that in air quotes in a moment) and why I'm still losing my shit about it.
For one, it's the DISTANCE. I've been looking through every other instance of kidnapping - it's almost always at spawn or at the federation building, or if they're thrown in jail it's instantaneous, like a bag thrown over someone's head. Phil's WASN'T. It was a note that directed him 10,000 blocks away, next to a waystone that only he has, telling him not to bring anything. They WANT him alone, isolated and out of the way, but not in the same way as the others; they don't want to deal with him, they just want him GONE.
That brings me to my next point - the notes. Other notes have just been passwords, coordinates, ect - but not for Philza. They wrote an entire story, taunted him, BLAMED him for not being there for his children, then told him to leave everything behind and come to the coordinates. It almost reads more than a ransom note than the usual Federation instructions. Then, when he gets there? It's another one. His own words, TAUNTING him, LAUGHING at him.
And again, we move onto the next point - the BIRDHOUSE. This isn't normal. The Federation doesn't DO this. Everyone else was taken to existing buildings, the underground complex, the prison, but Phil? Not Phil. They built an ENTIRE BIRDHOUSE for him, lured him inside with the promise of his children and left him caged and alone - far from everyone, far from his friends, his home, ANYTHING. This is PERSONAL.
This brings me to my last point - whenever someone else is "Kidnapped" they get kicked - something done to show their character has been knocked out, or taken in some way. Phil, though? He wasn't. He wasn't knocked out, he wasn't frozen, nothing like that.
He's still there.
Alone. Beating against the walls, surrounded by caged birds he can't free, in a cage he can't escape, with no possible way of getting out or getting into contact with people. He's trapped in every sense of the word, and there's nothing he can do but just watch the days tick by as madness sets in - because that's what happens when you trap a bird in a cage.
This isn't the usual Federation way of doing things. This is a demonstration; they're making an EXAMPLE of him, because he rebelled. He attacked their building, he demanded answers, and they showed him that THAT'S NOT HOW THINGS WORK ON QUESADILLA ISLAND.
This isn't a Kidnapping, it's a Punishment - and who knows if Phil is going to be the same if/when they're done?
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