yknow a moment from today that I feel is really under appreciated and kinda highlights the difference between the people q!Bad trusts and the people he doesn’t?
(this is about the characters obviously. You cannot make me use q! on long analysis posts. None of you can make me.)
Aypierre was showing Bad the room he used to capture and question Fred, and built into the only entry into the main room was an inventory scanner.
An inventory scanner - the thing Bad was hesitant to use to save Forever because he was scared of the islanders knowing of its existence and turning it against him. He did it anyway obviously because he cares about Forever but it’s clear he knows this is the one thing that could remove all his carefully built up protections in an instant. And the only way into the room was through it.
So Bad stops, of course, and Aypierre (who already walked through it first) notices and goes “I’ll just give you your items back, come through”
And Bad says “Ehhhh no, I…”
And Aypierre reassures him “You can come through. Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry.
And Bad repeats “Ehhhh no…” And then “Forgive my paranoia, can you disable it? Or make an opening for me?” He asks it very politely too, as if he believes it’s a hard ask (it’s not).
And Aypierre does. That’s why I think this moment is underrated. Bad asks for forgiveness for his paranoia - a paranoia that has been built up and rewarded and reinforced by his experiences on the island - and yet Aypierre doesn’t treat it like a burden. He doesn’t complain about it, he doesn’t tell Bad he’s overreacting, and he certainly doesn’t try to guilt-trip or otherwise insist Bad go through when he’s clearly uncomfortable. He just… makes another opening, and Bad walks through that, and the moment of hesitance, of distrust, is left behind. Not just left behind, but accepted. From Bad’s perspective, Aypierre has essentially communicated that “I can see you don’t trust me fully, and that’s okay, I understand why. It’s not a big deal, and I can move on.”
And I think that acceptance is why Aypierre has managed to gain an impressive amount of Bad’s trust so much faster than other islanders. I think that’s why when he told Bad he put cameras in his house, Bad didn’t get upset.
A lot of islanders, even islanders that are Bad’s friends, would not have reacted the way Aypierre did to Bad not wanting to step through the inventory scanner. And it does make a difference.
by far the funniest fucking part of the qsmp community has to be like the pervasive sense that everyone is really gunning for their blorbo to get kidnapped soon
Holy shit a bit ago Bad attempted to activate his enderpearl stasis chamber and it didn't work so he and chat assumed that he forgot to restock it. then he and Dapper dug into an area with like a million mobs and hundreds of silverfish rained from the heavens. It looked like one or both of them were going to die- and the pearl chose that exact moment to finally work so he was able to run over and activate dapper's stasis pearl too. crazy shit
late night trio is going to be forever redefined after that question richas asked bad. "what time of day is your favorite?" oh sweetheart..... :( late night trio will soon represent the loss of the moon, their guardian from the sky.
cellbit and fit got into the federation headquarters !!! they started to investigate and even went to the place quackity disappeared (thing they don’t know)
but it didn’t last long because cucurucho found them and weirdly enough cucurucho wasn’t angry at them (specifically cellbit) but more stressed, he said he hasn’t assigned him a mission YET
after both cellbit & fit left the federation, fit went to his place and found A CAT which he along with bad have been theorising about them being spies for the federation
I fucking love the EN QSMP Updates account because like
The way you don’t even need to watch the clips to understand what happened here. The way the statements are phrased. The way they’re one after the other. It’s beautiful. A story about fucking around and finding out - told in three parts.
bad is thinking of using the Barbie Playlist as his Purgatory 2 soundtrack and considering of adjusting the shaders to have a pink sky, just for the vibes
You forget how bad Phil is about treating first impression assumptions as fact till you hear stuff like, Bad can’t lie, you know Bad infamous for lying all the time he would die without lying.
RAHHJHHHHHH Q!PHIL HAS HIS WINGS!! THEYRE DAMAGED AND IM THINKING SO MUCH ABOUT THAT AND THE LORE BEHIND IT THAT THIS MF PROBABLY WONT TELL US AND AHHHHHHHHHH