Feels like bolas rojas saw all our art and theories and decided to really play into it even more, Phil is making insanity jokes that are very out of the norm for cc!Phil but very in character for how we've interpreted q!Phil in this event so far
Theory: The Clone X was not Cody like some people think or even Fives (I know he's been dead for a very long time but so was Boba Fett and look where we are. Plus, Echo was supposed to be certainly dead too; making him Winter Soldier-esque storyline wouldn't be that surprising) or not even Slick.
((Also, now that we've seen his face devoid of any tattoos or scars I think first two takes are definitely not applicable anymore; they wouldn't put that much effort to make him unrecognizable))
Back to the point: In my opinion, The Clone X was none other than...
Fox.
Now let me explain.
Who else, other than X, was loyal to the law and justice dictated by it over any moral or ethic code?
Fox.
Who else was portrayed with such single-minded focus on hunting down traitors of the government he served, regardless of what it was?
Fox.
Who else could know not only Coruscant so well but also identify Rex like they knew each other?
He already was a remarkably successful tracker of traitors, why not make him more efficient by pointing them out for him?
So heres how I feel about the vtuber model situation. Keep in mind this is me talking strictly for lore/roleplay/immersion moments/purposes! Bad having a vtuber model permanently is not set it stone!
I really love Bad’s cubito and the body language he uses with it, ESPECIALLY when it comes to lore. He shows how his character is feeling so well by just using his cubito, he’s so expressive with it. One of my favorite examples of this is the spiraling stream, just him sitting on the floor and slowly moving the camera we knew IMMEDIATELY he was sitting rocking back and forth on the floor. He does SUCH a good job with body language, its super ingrained into his roleplay and it makes you way more immersed. All of his 3rd person zoom ins and his emotes.
And I feel like the model kinda makes a separation of that, it clashes. Im really struggling to find the words to explain it, but it feels like it takes away from Bad’s cubito as a character, Q!Bad, because it feels like theres another complete separate character, the vtuber model. This disparity comes from the fact that we are so used to his cubito being Q!Bad, it IS Q!Bad, after seven months of him roleplaying as him and using his cubito in these ways. So the model feels just absolutely not Q!Bad, it feels so completely different and detached from his character because that hasn’t been what he’s roleplayed with, that isn’t the character, his cubito is. So, character wise, it doesn’t feel right, it feels like theres almost two characters. It breaks the immersion of Q!Bad as a character as his cubito.
A lore accurate model might help, but again, after seven months of having Q!Bad being the cubito, it would still not feel the same, and we’d lose out on his immersive body language and the nuance of how he uses his cubito in his roleplay. I also just love his cubito so much I wouldn’t wanna lose that-
And, especially now, with how crucial and important the current lore is, and with it escalating and leading up to something big, I feel like now is a bad time to introduce a permanent change like this.
So, my ideal scenario would be to not have a model during lore times. Kinda like how Baghera and Slime will turn off their webcams during lore times.
Keep in mind, I love the vtuber model, this is me talking strictly about how it affects lore/roleplay! I think its really cute and cool, and it was a fun stream with it, I did enjoy it! I just feel like it conflicts with Q!Bad as a character too much, and its a bad time to do that with everything thats been going on. My main, personal opinion is that I think that the model should be used to represent Bad the content creator, not Q!Bad the character, and using it while roleplaying as that character thats been established already for 7 months ruins that immersion thats been consistent. And its also hard to do that when he’s always in roleplay mode when he’s on the server.
i really hope i articulated this well ahh, i know its literally the first day and nothings set in stone, this is not neg or crit at all, just my thoughts on how the model can effect things after bad talked to chat about it a lil-
(i expand on a lot of my thoughts and opinions in the tags, read em pleaseee ↓ :D )
transcript of the Eye's cinematic from purgatory day 1 for the purposes of archives, theories, analysis, etc:
"And so the blind rats scamper into the open jaws of the cat...
Welcome, sinners, murderers, vermin. You know, this used to be a cute little place. I believe they called it, 'Egg Island'? I'm sure you all would have loved to be here. They were so kind to send you this way.
Unfortunately, I despise each and every single one of you with every atom in my being. People like you do not deserve a pleasant little break from the stresses of your previous island, so I've taken the liberty of changing this place. Welcome to your Purgatory.
The rules are simple to follow. You will be divided into three teams. Every day, you will compete to determine who will get the big prize. Whatever team has the most wins throughout the following weeks is the ultimate winner. The daily winning team is decided by the following:
Activity: the amount of time your team has spent on the island.
Global tasks: you'll find these in the spawn area. I'm sure you're smart enough to find the right place.
Lives: the least amount of deaths per day. The bar to impress me isn't high.
Events: you'll see this on its relevant day.
Now, that's the boring stuff out of the way. I'm sure you're already hungering and dehydrated as you've been listening to me. Good. Whatever makes it harder for you to live. Oh, and every hour, a fun surprise will happen in the form of a devastating disaster that will surely make your days worse than they already are. Wonderful, isn't it?
Oh, but I already hear all you crying, 'What if we don't want to compete? We can work together to defeat you!' Naive and innocent, you all are.
One team is cursed. If the cursed team loses, say goodbye to all of your lives and eggs. What team is that? Can you figure that out? No. So make sure you do your best to win. But if any of the other teams win, they can pick some of the eggs to come back with them. Aren't I nice? I really shouldn't be.
Everything that you will be doing from this point on is for the safety of the eggs. Disregard your friendships, there is no room for sympathy in this land. And before I leave all of you to rip each other apart, the first important event will be on sixth.
personally i think the best way to look at this election in terms of "who am i (as a viewer) going to vote for" is that first and foremost, for us, this is a STORY. we are watching a story (and also a fun game and funny people doing funnies together, but for election purposes we'll say that)
therefore our goal should not be "which candidate has the best policies" or "which candidate is best for the island". we don't CARE. that's not our business.
we don't care what's good for the islanders. THAT'S NOT OUR BUSINESS. we're not islanders nor are we players. we are the guy in the bar watching the Truman show. our business is "what story do we want to see?"
each candidate offers something different.
(note: i don't claim to understand their platforms, for personal reasons i haven't followed it closely bc i kinda suspected there was gonna be drama and didn't feel like stressing myself over minecraft politics; my local elections freak me out enough lol)
for a rough example:
elquackity: obvious federation plant, clear enemy for the rest of the server. man-vs-government arc.
forever: did you like cellbit's infiltration arc? i could predict something like that following in forever's footsteps (forever sneaks around the federation, learns a few secrets, continues to make his changes to the server but does perhaps experience horrors, most likely a slower burn than cellbit's arc but certainly a lot of espionage and theorycrafting)
gegg: gegg chamg e world
those of y'all with a sounder grasp on candidates, sound off in the notes on what we can expect FROM A STORY PERSPECTIVE; i actively ignore the debates (they make me want to cry lmfao). i don't care what their platform is exactly, where will it take the story?
and i'll repossess your liver if i see any goddamn cc hate or harassment in there. this is more than not a safe space for that, this is an active danger zone. watch yourselves. <3
uh oh two of your sims (whatever ones you pick) wake up to their closets switched!! what would the different styles than their use to look like on ur two sims???
and because i know you want it, you dirty dirty bastards, here's a rare picture of a bathroom (just to prove that my builds DO include bathrooms i'm just bad a taking pictures of them)
If you want more pictures of bathrooms you'll have to subscribe to my only fans account
there r a lot of little things i love about brazilian culture/portuguese but by far one of my favorite things is that instead of just saying bye we also tend to say kiss.... like yea it's most often follwed up with goodbye but it doesn't have to be..... u can just give a verbal kiss and it is accepted as much as any other form of farewell!!! idk i just think it's rlly cute :]
I wanna say this before I forget (again). I low key hope we get an episode where we get a flashback or something to all the campers’ first days at Camp Campbell.
Something happens in the beginning of the episode that leads to one of the campers telling everyone about their first day there, then the next camper does the same, and so on so forth (what if there were two campers who shared their first days together, like Nikki and Neil? 🫢).
Everyone has told their story about their first day at Camp Campbell (except Neil and Nikki because… that was the first episode of the series…), except for one camper. Someone points out that this camper was there for everyone’s first day. That this camper was there for those many summers, and no one even knows how long they’ve been here.
They all look at Max and push him into telling everyone about his first day at camp. He does so, rather reluctantly. (And just imagine, that considering that he said he brought fireworks (?), or something explosive when he first came to camp, how chaotic that would be, hehe.) 😅
Well, either Max tells the story, or David, cause I can imagine David becoming camp counselor as soon as he turned 18, and I’m sure that’s long before Max started spending his summers at Camp Campbell.