#i miss bolas

[genevawrenn]

At the end of this all, looking back I think my favourite memories surround Team BOLAS in Purgatory.

Don't get me wrong, the Death Family will always be my favourite dynamic and POV but god I still think about the found family that formed in bloodshed.

It seemed rigged from the start, half their team hadn't been seen in months and the remaining people had about the collective knowledge of one Philza Minecraft on a sick day.

Despite how many times they were destroyed, over and over, they kept getting back up due to their 'fuck it, we ball' attitude. My god, I don't think any of us saw their first win coming and then they just kept doing it.

Someone would come along and kill them, deleting hours of work in seconds and they would laugh it off and get back up. It was seriously impressive from both a character and creator standpoint to watch their dedication. Their shenanigans and light-hearted attitude did so much for their morale long-term. They seriously pulled up their bootstraps and kicked ass.

They outlasted the dissolving of the third team among the remaining two. They were constantly in earshot of one another, moving as a pack and spending every moment of those short hours together in voice calls of just existing.

It was hell and it was sancutary.

It gave Cellbit a figure to look up to and work to better himself to make him proud.

It gave Baghera and Jaiden a family, something neither had experienced due to *lore*.

It gave the mourning father Slimecicle a place to accept the fact his daughter was dead.

It gave Foolish something to fight for and a fighting partner to work beside in the form of an old crow hybrid, with barely a word spoken between them they won BOLAS a day event.

It gave Carre a place to just be silly while also being a goat.

Everyone on the original team who logged in plus the second round of BOLAS members pulled their weight and did incredible in such a stressful event. The amount of clips, art and writing that were created following the interactions exchanged under those red skies will far outlive the short fortnight the event existed.

It was very bittersweet watching the two remaining members, Cellbit and Baghera, put on gas masks and wear them to the end in honour of their family formed out of circumstance that evolved into genuine growth and affection between them. They carried that respect onto that plane and to freedom, they hold the memories of the people who held them at their worst. They will fondly reflect at their best, hoping they were proud [spoiler, they always will be].

BOLAS came to mean a lot to both the characters and us, the audience.

I will remember you forever, my chaotic cult of creators. You were a delight and I am excited to relive the content whenever I feel like returning to a series that became a comfort one for me.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

sighhhhh. i miss purgatory </3

[shai-erri]

i miss bolas

[royalarchivist]

Slimecicle: Yeah dude, fckin'– Fck my arc I'm going on a cannibalism arc, I don't–

Cellbit: [Laughs then gets excited] OH YEAH– [Claps] Come with me, let's fcking go, bro! Let's fcking go!

Slimecicle: Let's fcking do it!

Baghera: I hope at the end we all just eat each other!

Cellbit: It's the most fun one.

Baghera: We lose a limb!

Slimecicle: [Nervous laugh] Um, Cellbit– Why do– why does it sound like you're talking from experience, bro?

Cellbit: Oh, uhhh...

Foolish: Yeah, he was super into that one.

Cellbit: Uh, I– what? No– what? No, nothing!

Foolish: He said "FINALLY!!!"

Cellbit: No– [Laughs] I hadn't said– no–

Slimecicle: Yeah, you were like: "Finally someone else gets it."

Cellbit: I haven't said– no! It was just a good idea!

Jaiden: "Finally" is crazy.

Cellbit: I thought I– yeah, that seems like a creative way of like, having fun and passing the time. Eating people.

[rakkuntoast]

bolas leader phil love you forever

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Rip to the newcomers but I am in absolute glee over Cellbit's excited bloodlust and Baghera's chaotic giggles

[kindlykolorful]

bolas bolas bolas bolas

[suckerforfluff]

bolas and soulfire (fandom) toxic yaoi

[bluetomatosoda]

I MISS BOLASSSSSS AAAAAA

[chaoticdazefire-new]

So I take it Threep won't be joining us again in book 3?

[genevawrenn]

Phil reading chat : "Kelp will help"

Undying Duo crumbs

[zeb-z]

also can I just say. the difference between the joy of fit and bagi having a full day with blue, getting acquainted with the base, reuniting with their loved ones, all relieved to have more materials and more of a team - and then the absolute misery of etoiles and roier, moving the few valuable possessions red has to a new base that got immediately discovered anyway, losing all their gear, getting it back, then burning it themselves before killing eachother, is just so fucking funny. the new blues had freshman orientation while the new reds had a trial by fire canon event

[normal-thoughts-official]

listen. yes it's pretty frustrating but i think it's so funny how they had aerin be an official LI, made his route fuck so hard even previous haters wanted to fuck him, and then had him dip in the same chapter that he had sex with MC for the first time. and then he's just been gone like it never happened for 9 chapters and counting. like i know ill get death threats for this but i genuinely think this was one of choices' funniest moves. what was going through their minds. 10/10 no notes

[royalarchivist]

Team Bolas: [Harmonizing]

Maximus: Hey, Slime!

Slime: Hey, how you doing, man?

Maximus: Bad.

[svtskneecaps]

(everyone arguing on call about what the purgatory event eggs mean)

bagi: YOU'RE BEING DUMB!! YOU'RE BEING STUPID!!!

roier: HOLY SHIT NO MAMES

cellbit: ok listen up-

bagi: NONONONONO, YOU'RE MY FUCKING BROTHER AND YOU'RE SAYING STUPID STUFF, I WON'T ALLOW THAT

philza: YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING SIBLINGS?????????

[flimsyzee]

At the current moment (Nov 24) On the first and last days Phil and Missa have spoken to each other, the last thing they've said to each other was and currently is

Missa: "Love you"

Phil: "Love you too"