Aimsey my brother in christ you're the one who made your glorified cameo character a nonbinary pirate lesbian with top surgery scars, sick tatoos, lily of the valley symbolism, and a tragic romance with a rival pirate WHAT WAS I MEANT TO DOOOO
“They’ll never know.” A drawing based on the fact that Aimsey and Guqqie’s love for each other will forever remain a secret and they were never able to express their love for each other publicly :,)
powcreations posted those pictures on twitter, with the caption that “they have fallen“
looking at them, it seems that both aimsey and guqqie are being overtaken by something, aimsey by the purple vines that were in the area they went in. guqqie looks like she is cracking and falling apart, pieces of her are literally falling out. it also kinda looks like they‘re made of marble or some kinda stone, similar to the building they stood in front of in the animatic. maybe she died by getting turned into a statue?
my main point is tho, i think there is something on the island that is taking over people, corrupting them, maybe even making them their pawns. in the intro it does mention that the story of pirates smp isn‘t about the pirates, but what lays beneath the island they are on. i think it‘s something evil, and that the “has fallen“ is referring to them having fallen to this evil being, their mind and soul being taken over but their bodys not necessarily being dead.
even though we've been mourning p!aimsey and p!guqqie to a degree even aimsey and guqqie didn't expect over the past 24 hours, their short but sweet time on the pirates smp has really given me a renewed appreciation for their character driven storytelling.
we all went into it with grand notions of where these characters might go and who they may become, but all we ultimately got was some backstory and a first and final shared adventure before they died, to be remembered by their clans separately and as strangers. not at all what we were expecting, huh?
yet here we are, mourning characters that served no purpose other than to kickstart an entirely separate story and raise the stakes for the surviving cast. why is that? because of the incredible storytelling aimsey and guqqie have built over their characters (c!sunship, arg!sunship, au!sunship, etc) we all imagined so much, only for those delusions to be ripped away from us. it was a complete subversion of our expectations.
that doesn't mean our ideas and our worlds mean nothing, because it's already been established that this is a relationship that is born and died across so many universes, so there has to be one alternate pirates timeline where they make it out alive and get their date, right? one timeline where they get to have a grand adventure? one timeline where they get to confess their love openly, and bring about a new age of unity for the pirate clans, breaking down all barriers? of course there is! it's in your head!
this has reminded me of early/mid game of thrones (when it was good), where a character was beloved and had an arc being built, only for it to be cut short by a stray arrow or an ambush. when you mourn that loss, you imagine what could have been, but never was. where that arc could have been going. that speaks to the quality of character building aimsey and guqqie have achieved. area unknown is back soon, and I'm so ready for them to achieve so much more.
thank you both for the incredible characters you've given us! <3
“aren’t you as captivating as a siren” [CAR CRASH] [BUILDINGS FALLING] "GOOD GOD" [EXPLOSION] *BABY CRYING* "WAAAAAH" [YELLING] "SHUT THE DAMN BABY UP" [POLICE SIRENS] WEEE WOO WEEE WOO [HELICOPTERS AND NEWS TRUCKS] "...WE'RE REPORTING LIVE FROM THE SCENE" [BANG] [LOUD COMMOTION] “MY LEG.. MY LEG”