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queensparklekitten · 5 years ago

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11-year-old me’s takes on Willcraft Animations Monster School

My pre-teen self had massive amounts of fanon and headcanons with the Monster School videos that actually made the videos more complex and worldbuilt than they ever were in canon. Part of this came from me imagining up dialogue into every single video, part of it was just me observing and coming up with theories.

Anyways:

The reason Creep has to steal others’ work is that he can’t see the whiteboard behind Ghist. (seriously, watch the Crafting video, he sits right behind a ghast!)

Speaking of the crafting video, you know how Creep made a pickaxe, Ghist made a lantern (out of Zombee’s head) and Skellington made an ender eye? They were all planning to go mining and exploring strongholds after school.

In the cooking video, Zombee puts gold in the cauldron. Why? Because he thought it was an actual cooking ingredient- namely, butter! After all, there IS a popular YouTuber who refers to gold as butter in Minecraft... and Zombee watches him.

What a lot of the characters (except Zombee, who does NOT commit autocannibalism) made in the cooking video is something they like to eat. Endie loves melon, Mucus likes cake, Spider likes that stew he made with the potatoes and the villager and the XP point, Zombieswine likes mushroom stew, Skellington likes anything he can make to look cool (like that chicken-and-melon thing that looks like a flower), Ghist eats porkchops and apples when she can access them, and meanwhile, Creep put TNT in the furnace because TNT is the main diet of creepers. Also, the dyes are all flavoured.

There’s a password to get by the iron golem in Stealing. The password is different for every species. Creep got past, but Zombee tried “lemonade” and failed because that’s the creeper password. (i picked Lemonade from a lyric in the Creeper Rap video)

Zombieswine and Ghist formed that alliance because many Nether mobs have an unspoken fraternity that comes of living in the land of fire and death.

You know Endie’s terrifying berserker mode? All endermen have that, and it awakens for the first time in pre-teen or early teen years. Before then, making eye contact with a player has no effect, but then again, it’s not like younger endermen ever leave the End, so they probably won’t have player encounters. Some endermen simply have heightened kill instincts and highly heightened desire to kill, and have their strength and physical stats upped. Other endermen enter a completely different state of mind where they practically become someone else, and are entranced in their desire to KILL in an over-the-top way that often involves toying with or dismembering your prey before killing it, as well as eating it afterwards. Endie is firmly all the way at the “different state of mind, decisions made entirely by subconscious because the conscious mind has one thought and that’s KILL” end of that spectrum, making him one of the more deadly endermen when in berserker mode. Also, when this superpowered killer state is about to awaken for the first time, there’s signs all over the place. In the Hiding video, remember how Endie was noticeably meaner than usual, throwing a bookshelf at Zombieswine and going out of his way to give himself a better hiding spot then the others? That’s no accident. Endermen suddenly losing their morals is a sign that their berserker mode has awakened and that next time they make eye contact with a player, that player will be DESTROYED.

Word of Endie’s superpowered killer side spread REALLY fast, and everyone knew about it very fast. By combat class, everyone was raring to see it. That’s why, when Endie covered his eyes due to being slightly scared of his sadistic killer alter ego, Spider climbed on him and moved his hands. When Endie fought in that class, everyone cheered him on and freaked out.

Also in the combat video, when Skellington is forced to use a bow, he remembers that he had arrows in his backpack, and he fetches his backpack. He intentionally hid the poisoned pumpkin pie in there, and it was his plan all along to use that instead.

Zombieswine plays Super Mario. That’s why he always gets mushrooms involved in what he does.

In the Halloween video, the reason Zupay griefed the second house too even though it gave him candy was because he hates that flavour.

Endie does eventually get over his fear of his berserker mode, seeing as he willingly enters it in Scaring class. He still won’t use it against other hostile mobs without a reason to, though. It can still be activated against them, though, which Herobrine exploited when he used illusion stuff to make Endie see Witton as a player just long enough to activate his superpowered killer mode in the second combat video.

In the field trip episode, Zupay went dragonriding because, on the bus, Endie told him and others about it when he was chatting about the End on the way there. Endermen do ride the ender dragon sometimes, but it’s a rule in the End that you can’t do it unless it’s on the dragon’s terms, a rule which Zupay straight-up broke. Later on, Endie is chatting with the enderdragon because he knows her, and he’s both apologizing for Zupay and talking shit about him.

The bus trip episode takes place after the second combat one. And when Hildegarde confiscates the flint and steel, Zupay NEVER gets it back. Serves him right!

You see that rec room at the beginning of the second combat video? And the other room Zupay was in? Yeah, the second room is meant for killing practice, on chickens and animals, but it’s not used nearly as often as the rec room with a snack bar and a block crafts section.

The longer Endie spends in berserker mode, the more violent he gets, and the more likely he is to go out of his way to inflict as much pain and suffering as he can before the kill. He also loses the ability to distinguish friends from enemies when in berserker mode, as can be demonstrated when he not only mercilessly tears apart Multus in the second combat video, but also seems to take sadistic pleasure in doing so while leaving his enemy alive as long as possible. Only other endermen are immune to being seen as kill targets when Endie is in that state. The same is true for all endermen.

Mucus freaking LOVES redstone.

Before I saw the Christmas episode, I’d formed headcanons about where the characters all lived. I liked them better than the caves, so I decided that during holidays and events, it’s considered good luck among hostile mobs to spend the night in the nearest cave, especially if you decorate it a little. (yeah, for Nether mobs, this includes under-lava caves.) The energies from caves (the darkness, the noises that scare players, the treasures, the protection from sunlight) is believed to bring power and fortune. As for where they live when it’s not event season, Skellington’s place is a mob spawner room, Cavell’s is an abandoned mineshaft, Silvester’s is a stronghold, Endie lives in the End (and he teleports to the Overworld so he can hang out with his friends in caves during events), Ghist lives on an overhang in the Nether that’s partly walled off by lava, Spider and Creep live in a forest, Zombieswine’s place is just the fiery Nether terrain, same with Maggie but she’s closer to the lava sea, Blaise and Witton are Nether fortress roommates and don’t believe the cave superstition, and Zombee and Mucus actually do live in caves (the latter is near the bedrock layer).

You know the ripoffs? The monster school videos made by people other than Willcraft, videos that copied the format but lack what makes Monster School awesome? Yeah, those are actually different schools, but they exist in the same universe. Every now and then there’s competitions between the schools. Come on, that one building can’t fit every preteen/teenage hostile mob around! There’s gotta be several.

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