#which is why he tries to backpedal away as elquackity is attacking him

[petrichormore]

Also I just had a Thought about ElQuackity’s second death.

We know that cc!Bad really wanted q!Bad to lose a life in the explosion, and therefore to some extent q!Bad also wanted to die but…

But Bad wasn’t holding a totem like ElQuackity was and well, a totem presumably repairs any lethal damage done to its user’s body - just enough to keep them living and nothing more - so ElQuackity must’ve still been heavily injured and near deaf from being blown sky high even after popping a totem.

But Bad wasn’t holding a totem, and he also got caught in the middle of the explosion alongside ElQuackity - the difference is that none of the wounds Bad sustained healed at all. Bad survived the initial explosion on 2 hearts (which is insane) and then was attacked by ElQuackity who brought him down to half a heart - HALF A HEART - before Max finished him off. One more hit and Bad would’ve gone down, and I don’t think ElQuackity would’ve given him the chance to get back up.

Except as ElQuackity was slowly but surely killing him, Bad barely fought back. He swings his sword half-heartedly a couple times, but out of those attempts he misses quite a few.

My Thought? Maybe it wasn’t just that q!Bad wanted to sacrifice himself and that’s why he didn’t fight back as q!ElQuackity ignored q!Max in favor of trying to kill him - maybe it was because he physically couldn’t defend himself. Maybe he was too injured, maybe there was blood in his eyes and he couldn’t see. Maybe he couldn’t hear past the ringing of his ears and couldn’t think past the spinning of his head. Maybe it was all he could do to stumble backwards away from q!ElQuackity (which he does if you watch his POV - he stands there stunned in the aftermath and then turns just in time to see q!ElQuackity slam into him).

Maybe it was all he could do to just blindly call out to q!Max for help and hope he heard it.

#my headcanon is that q!Bad was okay with dying in the explosion because that’s a pretty fast and flashy death #but he wasn’t okay with being slowly beaten to death by ElQuackity in a giant crator after the fact #which is why he tries to backpedal away as elquackity is attacking him #and that’s why he screams at max ‘kill him you need to finish him’ #it’s not a ‘do it max hes weak nows your chance’ #it’s a ‘you need to get him off me right now because I’m about to collapse and if he’s still alive when I do he’ll murder me in seconds’ #this is all just headcanon by the way i know that q!bbh did kinda intend on dying and that definitely played a factor #qsmp #qsmp analysis #q!badboyhalo #q!elquackity #qsmp elquackity #qsmp badboyhalo