#team: freesmart

[tapwater118]

by the voters’ choice, here’s d-side freesmart!

(just copying and pasting book and icy from the other post)

book is a crazed conspiracy theorist who doesn’t have as much of a hold on reality as she probably should. stays up late looking through “the deep web” (the third page of google search results) for the things the government doesn’t want you to know. she thinks her friend taco is an alien sent here to survey earth for her alien overlords

dry ice (renamed from ice cube) is very sweet, if overly conflict-avoidant. she is absolutely a follower and was (is?) pencil’s go-to yes-woman for a while. she’s become more of her own person as time’s gone on, but still very much relies on others for affirmation

sugilite (renamed from ruby) is that “punk-ass kid” your over-bearing dad always told you to stay away from because she’s “a bad influence.” always looking to get into mischief for the sake of it, she does stupid things not because she is stupid but because she is legitimately trying to stir trouble

pencil, the leader, lives a very rigid and regimented lifestyle, and expects those around her to do so as well. she will not hesitate to criticize even her closest allies for the slightest of errors, and will offer (often unwanted) suggestions for how they can “improve themselves”

match is a goth 4 lyfe. she’s constantly annoyed with pretty much everyone around her, though that usually translates to taking charge of a challenge when everyone else is either goofing off or paying to much mind to the little details. she and pencil actually don’t like each other all that much (at least not at first)

bubble is one of those daft fools that actually believes in world peace. she’s a friend to all, and is more than willing to do what it takes to put a smile on someone’s face (read: very manipulable). she’s honestly the glue that holds freesmart together. she swears she got match to smile once, but no one believes her

[amxthystiine]

!!~TPOT 16 YAPPING~!!

Had more thoughts about why I’m so insane about this ep and why I’m so glad the silly guy got a W for once

It’s cause of all the parallels and how the message really hits close to home for me and aughhh

Pen and Pencil parallel with handling the loss of those close to you with this being especially devastating and ironic considering Pencil is technically responsible for Pen struggling with his loss as she put down the straw that broke the camel’s back (Eraser elim and also reality falling apart methinks) AND the fucking reference to the last episode in TPOT 16 as seen here:

Match and Pen parallel shown with that line transition a and coming into their own characters when forced to be separated with a group that’s formed so much of your personality that you’ve been a part of for so long (IVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE COUNTERPARTS IN THEIR CLIQUES RAHHHHH)

Pen and Liy foiling with their problems with anger specifically but paralleling with the fact they both struggle with it and also their absurd strength when it controls them (I really hope neither of them are taken away when it’s too late I’m really digging their dynamic!!!)

ALSO TPOT 15 CONSEQUENCES MENTIONED

ALSO HE WAS SO EXPRESSIVE THIS EPISODE VA-ING,ANIMATION AND ALL AND I NEED THE SONG THAT PLAYS DURING PEN AND LIY’S CONVO STAT IT WAS SO NICEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!

LOOK AT HIMMMMMMM!!!

GOD NOT EVEN FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THE PERSPECTIVE FUCKERY DURING THE VENTING SCENE IT WAS SO DYNAMIC !!!! OH MY BOY PEN!!!!

BIG fucking fan of this episode while it doesnt beat the last it was really fucking good and could compete with it honestly Pen my beloved I’m joyous as FUCK you FINALLY got the development episode I’ve been banking on you having since BFB 1’s team splitting scene !!!!!!

[holosart]

We like other colors, but...

Pink just looks so good on us!

[elijahyar21]

Weekly Poll #6: What’s Your Favorite Team in BFDIA

[deathpactagainn]

team no name is real!!!!!

[norazingrid]

bfdia 13 spoilers

I WAS SO CONFUSED WHY DID THEY MAKE A REFERENCE OF FEAR GARDEN,

[cloudtheangeloud]

Imagine if this was BFDIA 13’s elimination scene

[ghostymitten]

Icy! icy! What are you doing in... the yoyle Land!?

Day 5

[softichill]

Objectober day 6 - Alliance

Very quick doodle of the OGs

[talkingteardrop]

full teams ive made[tpot/bfb/bfdia] (taco and dora designs HEAVILY based off the designs from @galaxy-brushs-asks-blogs)

Just not

Death P.A.C.T again (plus liy)

Team Bleh

Freesmart

[thatonedemonnamedlucifer]

first of all I’m glad Yoyle City is now a recurring thing. Secondly, let’s face it: WE ALL WANT A FREESMART SUPERVAN OF OUR OWN.

[tapwater118]

uhhh freesmart classpect go

pencil - knight of blood

match - witch of void

bubble - maid of breath

ruby - page of time

book - maid of space

ice cube - heir of rage

[randomuzerthelozer]

Do you all ever think that Book saw pencil and matches friendship and just saw toxic grabage(THAT ONE IDFB SCENE AS A EXAMPLE) and she couldn't belive Match would stay as Pencil's lap dog for so long. And she saw her in a way as pathetic (Match acting as if she has the same power as Pencil dose). But then she meets pillow and realises the shit toxic yuri dose to you. I ADORE the fact Book's character acitvley showcases how Freesmarts and the toxictiy within it affected her future relationships. From her whole Taco thing, to Pillow

Like do you think the reason she hasn't left pillow is because she isn't ready to admit she yet again feel into the hands of a horrible person, even if she herself didn't realise how horrible that person. She isn't ready to say she did the same mistake again, because it's not logical to repeat the same mistake(FROM HER POV)

I love the fact her part in freesmarts left a affect on her, she may act all "girlboss" in Bfb 1 leaving, but the way she see's her relationships and the role she takes in them is still so simallar. Mabye her taking the role of Pencil(Towards taco) and Match(Towards Book) is some poetic irony(most likley not done on purpose but still). Mabye the reason she keeps linger on is because she isn't ready to say she did the same exact mistake as she did all those years ago by joining freesmarts, mabye she isn't ready to say she's more simallar to Match then she wants to be. She thinks she's rational and would standup for herself but she dosen't. She's not ready to admit she's just a more snarky Lap dog.

Mabye her next role will be Bubble and mabye finally she'll break out and end the cycle

[oscteamstournament]

teardrop?

...

I mean, I guess it technically counts?

Teardrop has been considered for the tournament

[qiouniakacolef]

I still remember when i named my school group for a project "freesmart" (best day ever ngl)

[evilherehotel]

one is a very interesting character to me. with most of the lore still up in the air as of the time this is written, it's hard to be sure who exactly she is; or, who she was. today, i want to take a closer look at what we have her character and try to figure out what that "was" could've looked like.

first, i'll start with what we know.

above all else, one is controlling. whether that be in a literal sense, when one influences the world and events around her, or in an emotional sense, when it comes to manipulating others in order to get them to agree to her deals.

in tpot 13, she tells basketball that something they have in common is not liking when things don't go their way. this makes sense for one; every little thing she does is planned, prepared, controlled. she knows the steps people will take before they even take them, she knows every move she needs to make to get under people's skin, and she knows how to make everything go according to plan.

but what about when it doesn't?

in tpot 17, it's as though that control slips. things don't go her way. she isn't nearly as put-together, nor is she calculative or patient enough to even try putting up her persona and coaxing donut in the same way she has with her other signatories. her room seems to reflect her state of mind, scattered and disorganized. she's not stable enough to think of a way to convince him, or even think to hold him down, and her lack of control in the situation gives donut more free will, the ability to reject her deal, and, more importantly, the ability to fight back.

this act is something so spontaneous, so unpredictable, that it causes one to snap and immediately try to grab this control back. she becomes blinded by rage and attacks him, yet her scare tactic only shows more of her weakness: one can't handle feeling powerless.

although she's stronger than donut and was more than willing to show him that, her behavior also seems to stem from a point of insecurity. being disobeyed, treated not as an all-powerful being but instead an equal - or even a lesser - is her breaking point. obviously anybody would be mad over getting kicked, but it's clear something deeper must've been triggered in one in order to get her that manically angry.

where did this need for control come from? how does this tie into her past?

to know this, we should first look at another key detail of her character: her deals.

on first glance, one's signatories don't have much in common. they're easy targets, people with weaknesses that one can easily find and exploit, with not much other correlation. but upon closer inspection, a pattern makes itself clear in every single person that one took into her room.

when fanny joined death pact again, she was taught to abandon her own beliefs and objectives and instead prioritize preventing death. for a while, she obliges by this, even as it causes them to lose challenges and causes her friends to drop out of the game like flies, until she decides she has enough of it and rebels against the others and their beliefs.

ice cube was used as a pawn of sorts by freesmart, a replacement for members that were held to more respect and value than her. her and the others always did what they were told for the alliance, and when she eventually splits off from freesmart, she is almost immediately coddled and controlled by book, still completely unable to speak or think for herself before she eventually snaps at book and leaves altogether.

basketball was completely complacent in bfb, her only feature outside of her loyalty to 8-ball being her empathy for others. this shines through in tpot when, even despite their differences in personality or team, basketball looks out for others more than herself, but nobody else listens to her when she tries to voice the problems she's seeing. this complete disregard for basketball and what she cares about is what causes a downward spiral of events beyond anybody's control.

gaty and two became attached to eachother very quickly, becoming almost codependent in a sense. gaty gives everything she has to two, and her willingness to stay in the hotel with them, to keep them happy - their willingness to keep her there because of their attachment - only puts her in more danger, and ends in them being separated for good.

it's stated outright by one that donut puts others over himself, even people like pencil and their mess of a team. he chooses to be selfless, a voice of reason, a leader that holds the team together despite the chaos it always brings in its wake.

her deals that weren't shown to us onscreen tie into this as well:

bomby, since his debut on bfdi, has been used as a weapon or tool by all of the people around him, mistreated and hurt and never taken seriously despite the fact that he tries to be strong and independent in the later seasons.

bell's privacy is treated as a joke by both the narrative and the others, and struggles to be left alone without help, help that more often than not isn't provided to her.

needle spent so much of her time in bfdia trying to appease others, which led to her being easy to take advantage of. she literally played on two teams at the same time in order to make everyone happy with her, but she eventually decided that she was tired of being used and left these groups, turning against them and deciding to win for herself.

barf bag's autonomy being tampered with started an apocalypse that changed the way she viewed herself and caused her to avoid her team for a brief period of time because she didn't want to be seen as a monster. in that same episode, her nightmare involved people doing things that she couldn't control and influencing her in ways that she couldn't stop.

what do you notice about all of these characters? all of them were overshadowed by others, either by prioritizing them over themselves or by being taken advantage of. all of them want to be recognized, respected, and heard, and despite that, all of them lacked one thing: control. if they wanted control in their lives, they'd have to fight for it, if they wanted power in their lives, they'd have to snap to get people to see that they deserved it. and if that weren't the case, the world around them would snap for them.

one seems to be very, very familiar with this kind of person. familiar enough for them to be her only targets, familiar enough for her to know exactly what to give them and exactly what they want to hear, familiar enough to suggest that this kind of person is much closer to her than just a means to executing her plan.

familiar enough that it could also very well suggest that this kind of person was one herself.

now, we really have no idea what one's past looked like, but we do have a crucial detail given to us by six in tpot 17: she was supposed to be gone.

this implies that one must've done something, something so bad that it made the other algebraliens decide to get rid of her for good. could this have been something ongoing until they decided enough was enough, or was it something bigger than that? had one, perhaps, snapped, the same way we saw her do when she was tested in tpot 17, the same way we saw multiple of her signatories do when they were tired of being pushed aside and looked down on?

in tpot 13, one expresses that she does have power, "but not enough." while this could easily be read in reference to her plan, it also hints at how she looks at herself: her power is not enough. one is not enough.

she needs two's power because she can't reach her goal without it. she needs to become something bigger, something more, in order for her to feel like that's enough for her. being obeyed and looked up to by her victims makes her feel powerful, like she's more, like she's enough, having constant control makes her feel like she's enough, having everything she wants handed to her makes her feel like she's enough, because maybe, she never had that.

maybe, one was just like her targets, selfless and almost complacent at times, observant enough to spot the issues others were having, even if she was the only person who did, even if none of the others took her seriously, even if they pitied her, treated her as a lesser, and acted as though she had no power in her own life.

and all of that lasted until she decided that everyone deserved to be a little selfish - it's only fair.

she became tired of giving herself and not getting anything back. she became tired of being looked down on, tired of not having control - all one wanted was control for once, and she would get that whether they liked it or not.

and that frustration was enough to make one snap and do something that earned her imprisonment in the moon, which only served as a painful and enraging reminder of how they saw her.

she was going to get out, and she was going to make sure that nobody ever looked down on her again.

for now, this is all theories, and it's a bit rough, but i appreciate you guys for sticking around this long !! lets see how well these theories hold up.. if they do.. at all.. um