#*CHARACTERS. I SWEAR. these people have been friends for literal decades. i'm doing a silly.

[briefle]

so how did we feel about this quote huh.

i love the conversation that leads to it because it highlights exactly all the points of the many many meta posts written about etho's character growth. and bdubs reluctance to seeing it as it is, instead of a backstab.*

like. look at this.

this is a man that just finished asserting his role as "the glue of the server", because he is part of an alliance of two major and at this point extremely powerful factions.

and this is not something new they're pulling here. bdubs and etho have been going literally back and forth all season with a "come to my side", "nah, mine's better move here". which is also coincidentally what breaks the parallels etho-bdubs/cleo-scott.

but no, of course there's a line in the alliance that bdubs doesn't want drawn. because then he pulls these two lines here.

and it's here that etho suggests a fracture needing to happen. because the survival instinct is still there of course, there's a social game to be played here. but it's not focused at the individual anymore, rather at his allies as a whole.

why won't etho join the winning team, do they know something we don't? is there a bigger strategy at play? where is the threat?

why won't etho join the winning team, and by extension me? does he not care? did he give up already, without a fight?

feeling slightly threatened indeed. betrayed even.

#i'm sorry it's a long post. #i know this conversation was already in cleo's pov friday. but it's good to save some of these videos for different days #because ngl. i fully forget to process some of the things that happen sometimes. #anyway cheers for tumblr not allowing more than one format per post i had to get creative with the transcript #also canadians i offer you the EH joke. i'm sure it's not been overdone to hell and back already. and i'm so very original for it. #*CHARACTERS. I SWEAR. these people have been friends for literal decades. i'm doing a silly. #secret life #ethoslab #bdoubleo100