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also i'm not kidding I think Texty should have caused Airy's death for no reason other than it would be funny . like the laptop is just inexplicably on that log where Airy falls and he trips over it and anticlimactically dies and it just cuts up to Texty going "that's right BITC--" before immediately running out of power and/or malfunctioning due to the water

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Anyway while rummaging through the ONE tags and a few critiques, I’ve noticed a lot of debate over what Stone’s whole deal was given the ending of the show and. Well I want to speculate a little

Going to be referring to Stone as he/they because the wiki is telling me it's he/him but they/them feels Better to me . I get to gender the Stone.

also this post will be Long. Forewarning you!!!

I don’t think Stone is evil, first of all. I saw at least one proposal that Stone was acting out of some form of malice,, and I reeeeaaallly doubt it; the character we see is frantic and anxious, without any hints toward some darker intentions or. Idk, conniving? Attitude? it just doesn’t make sense with what we are shown of Stone. Granted we aren’t shown much but u know

Unless you want to count Liam’s wonky ass hallucination thing with Stone going like “you think you understand, don’t you?” Or whatever — but I count that Even Less since that was. Again. Wonky Liam hallucination or somethin, not Stone’s actual character

Cool idea for an au though I’ll say that much!

now I ALSO don’t think Stone was totally in the right either, but it's one of those situations where he was going to be some form of Wrong no matter what he did.

In my interpretation of Stone’s abilities, they could see the past and all possible futures with the past/present in mind. From what I've seen in the tags, this is a popular headcanon, which is great because if I was alone in this interp I think I would explode

When put into the Plane, I think he saw two things: The ending we got and an alternative. Or perhaps multiple alternatives depending on smaller factors. And I think whatever alternative(s) he saw were either of equal suffering or worse, meaning he was put into a situation of picking between evils.

For example, say he sees a future where Liam doesn’t involve himself with trying to stop Airy and just tries to reintegrate into society after being eliminated. This leaves Airy to continue ONE, perhaps even running through a full, “smooth” competition with no more or few additions, meaning a winner is chosen and everyone else eventually gets to go home. But then this allows Airy to keep going into a season three, maybe four — and it becomes a trolley problem.

Leave these contestants stuck forever and stop it at season 2 as a means to minimize future suffering, or just allow it to run its course.

The issue lies in that. This really should not have been Stone’s decision to make. He's - intentionally or not - playing God with lives that he should not be allowed to Play God with. but at the same time, he likely was aware of his limited time and didn’t see a future where he could communicate everything to the contestants before his elimination (let alone let them debate on it). So it’s…. Yeah. Literally a trolley problem. Let the trolley hit 5 people or flip the lever so it only hits 1.

anyway My point is this. This gives Stone reasoning for his actions and makes his role in the show more understandable. He doesn't just send Liam on a wild goose chase ending in failure/hopelessness for no reason; he does it because in his eyes, the other options were worse.

Yeah, he led them all to a bad ending, but we don't know what he could have seen in the alternatives. Especially if Airy's season 3 was the same regardless, in which local lantern yoinks the got damn loved ones of this group into the next round of hellworld. Not only would there then be compounded suffering on the group we already have, but suffering for those characters, and I EMPHASIZE that one of the season 3 contestants was going to be Charlie's MOM. So like. Um....

And since this show LOVES to fuck around with human mentality and rationality, I think it makes sense to include the world’s most fucked up trolley problem in the middle, even if not made abundantly clear to us.

I also like the addition to this idea that Stone just wrote as much as possible on those sticky notes, regardless of if they would end up used or not, explaining why some (like the 5) still don't make sense afterwards. They wrote everything they thought could help lead into one or a few futures, and at that point, it was up to Liam/Bryce to go from there with what they were given.

AKA Stone doesn't see just one, unchangeable, solid future, and he can't predict exactly which one will come to fruition. He can only nudge the people around him in directions he thinks are most favorable.

And for all we know, the smallest thing could have fucked up his entire plan and led us to the ending we got to. Amelia not giving him the sticky notes (why would he go for them if he thought she'd never give them to him in any possible future?) could have been what forced him to hide the sticky notes in Liam, and when that leads to his elimination, he just panics in that last minute to write out the last helpful thing he can -- The votes are fake.

now why he decided to write each letter on an individual sticky note is beyond me but idk maybe there's a butterfly effect SOMEWHERE in that nonsense shdgKJDSHG

anyway. yea. That's all. I am thinking about Stone

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talk to me about texty if you’d so be inclined

I love Texty so much they mean the world to me. Unfortunately I haven't given their character much thought (outside of how Genuinely I'm Serious I think they should've killed Airy) but girl the moment they showed up I was like Oooughhh... Yes. Playing around with the confines of what counts as an object by just having a got damn text box. Fuck yeas

did you know I saw a critique (genuine actual honest to god critique) that said it was stupid for Texty to use A's to reach to the goal in that one episode when W's would've been longer. I'm not joking Like stupid criticism aside, maybe they just wanted to scream. Have you considered that. Maybe they are ALSO distressed by the horrors of their new reality and found a fun excuse to let out All Those Sounds Trapped In Their Mind. HUH. Did you think about THAT

Anyway Texty means everything to me I was SO delighted when they came back. And when they were eliminated from the competition beforehand it was the first thing to get an audible reaction out of me in that I shouted "NO but I LIKED TEXTY!!!!! :("

They are simply my funny computer who likes cats. I have seen gijinkas where Texty gets cat ear headphones or just straight up cat ears and I'm like Yes. Yes. You understand. That's correct. That's how it's meant to be

Also there's no way in hell they stay dead post-canon I refuse to believe that. Liam can just unplug the planet and use that to plug their laptop into the computer. Boom. Charge (or just straight up transferring them over to the computer). Texty is alive. Liam is only 99% alone in the horrors.

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four bfb image jumpscare

I'M NEVER GOING BACK!!!!!!!! GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!

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WAIT does texty go by solely they/them . I was switching between she/they because I knew cheesy referred to texty as a girl in early notes or something but everywhere else is saying strictly they/them . i'm sorry for potentially misgendering the text box

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is liam

no . he is not. and in his situation he will never be

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there's so many possibilities with One's ending that make it extremely fun to play around with but I gotta say I am very happy to see the community taking the direction of Liam continuing the cycle at the end or just being Scared by the potential of becoming like airy. because i am nothing but a slut for cycles and/or the threat of one

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Funfact before tpot was made there was a alternate ending to bfb 16 where four couldn't revive fourty contestants! Everyone in TPOT was meant to be killed off bye!

WHAT??!?! WHAT????? 40 CONTESTANTS WERE JUST GOING TO DIE??? JUST LIKE THAT??? JUST PERMANENTLY DEAD???? WHAT?????? WHAT???

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the fucking bfb wiki entries send me every time i check them

His limbs, they are gone.

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DUDDE BFDI JUST WON THE CARTOON CRAVE AWARDS!!!!!!

OH EPIC!!!

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Do you know annoucer right? He and his species had to be built by someone so what if they were built by a small group of humans before they all went extinct and now there's a bunch of speaker boxes loose and eventually the speaker boxes start building speaker boxes that can't really feel emotions.

So one day a month after the end of bfb annoucer notices that none of his speaker box "friends" are replying to him so he goes to investigate the homeship and wait who's this weirdo.

Introducing annoucer-Y the newer better and cooler version of the speaker box! He can sing better host better and he can actually feel a emotion! The speaker boxes made a new version to be a better host and they gave them the ability to feel emotion but only one emotion, happiness.

Also they have a bit of complex regarding that fact and they might have slaughtered their predecessors.

(this is part 1)

So part 2 is going to be more about announcer-Y and his dynamic with announcer. So announcer just discovered that he's the last of his version of the speaker boxes and now he has to deal with this hyperactive goody two shoes that has a god complex. Announcer and announcer-Y's dynamic are like Glados and wheatley's dynamic. Announcer is super serious and he's currently hiding out with the objects to hide from the super nice but murderous announcer-Y. (a good song for them would be you're nothing without me) Announcer-Y just wants to get rid of this emotionless glitch and take over as host of bfdi so twos in danger as well because the new speaker boxes are built to handle algebraliens or so they think because they're still weak shit compared to them. So announcer-Y starts trying to convince contestants to join him by promising them stuff that they like or promising to fix things that some contestants don't like about them. But some contestants are more resistant so announcer-Y just kidnaps them.

OHH I AM LOOKING INTENTLY? I love the lil lore you've come up with for the speakers :0 N a funky emotional robot who's out here murdering .... HELL Yea king get it!!

Also u mentioned they're (Announcer-Y) like Wheatley so I'm already inclined to be like "oh my beloved" because. I ama big wheatley fan so what

But regardless!! 👀 Hell yea man!!

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If you were in bfb what object would you be?

HMMM!! Is there any object I really resonate with. Hmmm.

I think I should get to be an old rotary phone

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Leafy has a humansona

snowball: what is that. is that your fucking humansona? that's cringe

leafy: YOU'RE cringe!!!!!

snowball:

snowball, sobbing:

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May I present some good fanart

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My fucking god!!!! These numbers gay!!!!! Good for them, good for them!!!