#remember bdubs nosing in on half profits on all those s7 shops

[bellshazes]

bdubs truely prides himself with being the blacksmith that forges every sword he falls on

I have been turning this over in my mind bc you're correct and I think it hits on maybe the thing that gives me the second most agony over any given Situation bdubs has put himself in, which is that he is really good at forging swords to fall on to such an extent that he does not know how to make swords that do not harm the user.

I love thinking abt him in comparison to Scar, who has a similar but distinct paradox: he dies a lot, and is constantly trying to bend things to his will through big talk, and dies often enough that him being dangerous is always somehow a surprise. he just does not choose to be on high alert at all times, because playing dangerous or loose is fun and has minimal consequences when you can get regeared easily - and he can play well in 3L when it isn't.

bdubs, though. oh, bless him. he feigns outrage at the s8 clockwork mansion and then is absolutely tickled leaving it that his friends would do him the kindness of forging swords FOR him to throw himself on. he is, unlike Scar, frequently terrified of dying, which is why he sleeps and avoids the nether; when he plays reckless he's selfish and loud and full of fairly empty bravado, which is a different kind of big talk. scar wants you to buy his snake oil, but bdubs wants you to mistake him for a more dangerous animal so he doesn't have to find out if he is. so he dies enough, because it's an easy bluff to call! everyone laughs at the guy jousting at windmills as if he didn't build them himself.

he rarely gets away with even accidental slights in LL and DL without making enemies, even when others do worse and come out far ahead socially. but as has been said the bravado also hides his competencies, because you never expect the guy with the big mouth to have tricky secrets. (this is why his tango/etho assassinations in 3L are still the most impressive scheme of all, and why the homewrecker bit is just so fucking doomed.)

but. But! he is not in the habit of letting those be in service of much but crafting swords that can be fallen on. Interrupts tango fk show off his cobble generator and then remarks not a whit on how technically impressive the pretty stone sugar cane farm is as a custom functional art piece tailored to its commissioner (tnt, suckers) and charges nothing for it. he is not very good at being red unless he's building a disgustingly competent crastle (the WINDOWS they make me sick). hard to throw yourself on a sword when you've only got one, though he does it beautifully in his LL finale that no one will ever see his side of.

scar can turn it back on because his dying and percieved lack of skills is a focus and a stakes thing. bdubs rarely can, because his dying and perceived lack of skills is because he will play the role that needs played for good stakes to be possible, and if those stakes are life or death he's already being cleo's sword or a hero with skizz or making a stand at his wrecked home. he has already forged the swords, the hilts are already buried in the ground. just one tiny push, and there he goes -

#i said gn but i lied. ive been thinking abt this for days #this post is also about wellsglazes. who? wellsglazes my friend wellsglazes. #but WG is literally the same as the boomers explosion deaths or a clock betrayal that immediately leads to hus death or -- #etc. fucking etc etc #peter posts #blogging with bdoubleo #i think i didnt gef across enough how bdubs' loudness in terms of just always saying things olays into this #bc it truly is a foil to scars always talking. but they are so good together #remember bdubs nosing in on half profits on all those s7 shops #he can move others! if its minimizing himself and hiding his own profits/angle usually