Reaction to “I joined VOID STEVE's side” - Rainbow Quest Ep. 140
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsr6KAkGlso
Unless I’m mistaken, Rainbow Quest has 280 episodes, which means I have reached the halfway point of the series. *tired victory fist bump* I am finally on the other side with the other fans who have seen the entire thing.
I do have one comment about RQ being less than 300 episodes long: Wow, RQ is shorter than Steve Saga. I appreciate that as someone who doesn’t enjoy binging extremely long series. It’s really satisfying that the story has been condensed.
Hmm, it’s harder to differentiate Sabre’s voice from Sabre’s “reading other character’s text” voices with the Shadow Sabre voice mod. I need to take a moment to figure out who at the villain table is talking.
I have a mental image of Shadow Sabre reading the text of a happy-go-lucky character, and it’s hilarious.
It’s amusing that Sabre is using more complex words, especially on the spot. Like “yes, the eviler you are, the bigger your vocabulary is, mwahaha.” To be fair, as a writer, I can confirm that using more complex vocabulary in your writing is not always a good thing.
This episode is going to be fun to dissect for my analysis project because this is revealing Sabre’s interpretation of Shadow’s interpretation of the Darkness philosophy. Secondary sources, amirite? says the person who runs Incorrect Steve Saga Quotes without watching the primary source first
I love how Sabre is summarizing all of Shadow Sabre’s spiels about oblivion into “I murder for fun.” Although we haven’t seen his humorous side in a while, it feels in-character for Sabre to exaggerate and parody his enemies, though I can’t remember if this would be in the style of Steve Saga non-canon Sabre or pre-Void Rainbow Quest Sabre.
Shadow is claiming that Sabre enjoys getting responsibilities in Rainbow Void’s rank. My headcanon is that Sabre, although he dislikes playing as the villain, is secretly feeling so smug for tricking Rainbow Void, and Shadow is interpreting Sabre’s smugness as a sign of power-hungryness. The headcanon of Shadow thinking that smugness is a sign of emotional manipulation is hilarious.
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Alright, we’re at the Yellow Outpost. Belated congratulations for Leather Chestplate Yellow for getting promoted into a leadership position.
I see three possible ways this will go:
1. Sabre will successfully warn the Steves to run away. It doesn’t matter how soon or how late because I’m assuming these Yellow Steves can outrun Soul and Corruption
2. Sabre and Yellow Steves will be stuck arguing until Soul and Corruption will swoop by, and all the Yellow Steves will go like “wtf, Sabre, why did you distract us and let your Darkness bros ambush us?”
3. Sabre will be forced to scare off the Yellow Steves so they don’t face Soul and Corruption’s wrath.
...Yup, it was way 3 that happened.
I like this. We’re not going too many steps forward to make the obstacles too easy or the stakes meaningless. We’re not going too many steps back to make the story unnecessarily depressing and repetitive. We’ve struck the satisfying balance of going one step forward and two steps back, where Sabre actually does something to save his friends but gets his reputation severely ruined as a result. Progressing with a cost. This type of plot progression is ideal to me, and I prefer this much more than the monotonous “scrambling and losing” episodes that Sabre had before he got infected. I hope RQ keeps going with this type of story progression.
Hold up, Shadow using lightning is a choice? Is it hard or easy to mute the lightning when he uses power? Shadow doesn’t talk about things he struggles with, so we’ll never know if he finds it hard to mute lightning, or if muting lightning is easy for him but he keeps using lightning for the sake of dramatic entrances/exits.
Soul and Corruption seem happier about the destroyed Outpost than Shadow is, who only sees the destroyed Outpost as the most realistic thing to do. Seems like those three differ in how much they enjoy destruction. So much for being “One.”
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11 Questions Tag
I was tagged by the lovely @court-of-wildfire
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My questions for you are:
1. Ocean, forest or space?
2. If you could save three things of yours (not including pets) from a house fire, what would you save?
3. If you were a character in a book, what would your 3 main personality/physical traits be?
4. What book got you into reading?
5. Top 5 animated films?
6. If you could visit any place, real or fictional, where would you go?
7. What sorts/clubs did you participate in in high school and did you like them?
8. Which of your five senses triggers the most memories?
9. What was the last movie you watched?
10. What’s your motto that helps during tough times?
11. If you could have any superhero’s superpower (DC or Marvel) whose would you choose?
1. What ancient God / Goddess is your favorite, and why?
Dionysus will forever and always be my absolute fave. He’s such a party bro and really just tries to mind his own business and have a good time. He’s also very petty/vengeful which I high key relate to. As far as I remember he never makes the first move, like he’ll leave you be if you acknowledge he’s a god and he just wants to party. If you fuck with him, though, he’ll tear your head off and that’s something I respect in a god. (Side note, he also marries Ariadne, the girl Theseus left behind after killing her freaking brother the Minotaur)
2. What are five things (tv shows, candy, shoes, etc,) that was popular in your youth that you wish you can bring back today?
Idk if they were really popular, because I was a 90′s baby, but I grew up watching 80′s cartoons like Care Bears, Rainbow Brite (my all time fave) and Lady Lovely Locks so I definitely wish I could bring those things back. They’re a trip and I always find my day dreaming thoughts drifting to them at least once a week. A well done reboot of Power Rangers would be nice too---oh wait. Oh, and Baby Bottle Pops. I was addicted to those things! I don’t think I’d eat ‘em anymore, but just seeing their commercials again with their little jingle would make me hella nostalgic.
3. Name your top five meme’s.
Hoe don’t do it, that awkward/yikes face meme, [softly] don’t, Friendly Reminder, aaaaaaaaand incorrect quotes (I think it counts?)
4. If you could choose your own 7 wonders of the world what would they be?
The tomb of Hatshepsut
My cat, Riley, ‘cause gosh is he a wonder...
THE FREAKING TERRA COTTA WARRIORS OF CHINE LIKE WHAT EVEN DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THOSE THINGS
The Kewpie Burger doll in Ohio
Hozier
Palace at Versailles
La Brea tar pits in California
5. If you could have a mythical animal as a pet what would it be?
I kinda wanna say dragon, but that’s just not practical...OH I’D PROBS WANT A GRIFFIN! LIKE THE ONE IN QUEST FOR CAMELOT!
6. Pick three artist / bands to compose a score for the story of your life.
Bastille, Hozier, and MSMR
7. If you could only keep two of your five senses which ones would you pick?
You will never understand the turmoil this question put me through. God, probably touch and hearing. I think I’d feel too vulnerable without those two. I could probably get by without the others.
8. What is your irrational fear?
Nails breaking. Like fingernails. I watched The Ring when I was little and the only part that gave me the heeby-jeebies was when the nail in the video plit the fingernail in two and to this day I’m like NOPE. GOOD DAY. WE’RE DONE.
9. What rule did you have to follow as a kid that you didn’t agree with?
There were a lot. I can’t remember any one specifically, but I remember my mom had this book titled 57 rules for a polite dinner table or something ridiculous like that. My mom would pull it out for everything! I don’t even think she read it, she’d just prop it up and point to it whenever I rested my elbows on the table or something.
So one day when she wasn’t around, I took the book and shoved it behind this giant wooden hutch thing in our living room. It laid there, forgotten, until the day we moved.
10. What are some weird quirks / rituals you do everyday?
I can’t think of any? I’m sure I have some...like usually after I wake up in the morning, if I don’t have anywhere to be, I’ll like in bed for 15 min or so just reading/derping around. Other than that, though, I can’t think of anything. Nothing that happens everyday, anyway.
11. What was the weirdest / craziest thing that’s happened to you at work and/or school?
So my high school had this cool Zoo/Bot program with actual, living animals (parrots, lizards, bun-buns, etc.) that had been donated to the school when the owner’s could no longer take care of them. My senior year I was an officer/president of the program and for some reason the only one that Bella, a huge green winged macaw, deemed worthy of her affection (which was strange considering she hated me the previous three years, but whatever). anyway, one day I was working in my yearbook class when a kid I barely knew popped his head in and said I was needed immediately in the Zoo/Bot room.
It turned out the kid had let Bella out of her cage and allowed her to run rampant and couldn’t get her down from said cage, or back in it (and class was about to end). So, panicking, he and the teacher in charge looked up my schedule and brought me out of another class just so I could sweet talk a bird down from her perch and into her cage. For little 18 y/o me, it was pretty wild.
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