#psmp guqqie

[probablyaseamonster]

part 2 of my Pirates SMP theory

So last time I ended off on the realization that if the People of the Yellow Ship are basing their choices off of the character's backgrounds, then Scott is probably going to be the next victim (sorry people who are already attached to the Denholm brothers).

But regarding my joke about hair colour being the reason it can also work because. You know.

But now here's where I start theorizing about the future. I think, that the Kestrels will be eliminated first, or at least targeted the most overall. If this is how it goes than it implies that there is monetary gain to turning innocent pirates (haha, there's no such thing) to stone. Much like real cultists, there be gold to be given if you can just persuade 'em. I assume that Scott also comes from money so it would make sense in that context too. Owen also comes from money but I doubt he'll be targeted until towards the end, due to his main character energy.

Actually, it would be a subversion of tropes if Owen was picked off early. It would be an opportunity to make like a true DM and control the world from the aether. Make like a Grian and become a god of spectators. I doubt it will go this way but it would be an interesting choice.

If my theory of the Kestrels being picked off first turns out to be true more or less, than it would honestly be a waste. Starkid taught me that leaving the more unlikeable characters alive closer to the end (hi Ted) tends to be the right call. I think. I don't actually consume much horror media, I don't know how this works as well as most people. But it is interesting to me that the Kestrels are the only faction to not have been given a more favourable, positive value.

The Kites may be brutish murderers (at least to some) but they have honour, and passion. The Nightingales were mentioned once to value family, which combined with adventure is a combination of values I've never seen before. And the Herons are already pretty appealing to the Ravenclaws of us (sorry to invoke the worldbuilding of Miss Rowling). The Kestrels are really only mentioned to value wealth which, especially with much of the mcyt community being young anti-capitalists, already gives us a reason to dislike them. Especially with Sausage, Kyle and Oli really playing into the greedy rich man archetype, and Scar committing crimes of the stealing and scamming variety (although let's be honest, we can't hate Scar for that, if anything. There's a reason why most of the fanart so far has been about him and not the lesbian couple whose deaths kickstarted the lore, I see you all).

I haven't seen Martyn's POV yet so I don't know where his character lies on the spectrum, but Guqqie seems to be the only good member of the Kestrels, though even she dabbled a little in the casual blatant joking classism. With her gone, and Sausage seeming to consider himself leader (getting indignant when someone suggested that Jellie lead the Kestrels), the Kestrels might have an opportunity to corrupt and become even more villainous. It would seem like a waste if they were eliminated before they had a chance to become memorable villains, though maybe there is a reason for that. After all, one of the easiest ways to make a villain scarier is to have them kill the lesser villain off (some good examples are Toffee from Star VS and The Mayor from Lego Monkie Kid, even though Toffee didn't really kill Ludo).

Now if the People of the Yellow Ship (YES, I'M TRYING TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN) were smart, the faction they'd target next would be the one that poses the biggest threat. This could be two, really. The Kites pose the stronger physical threat, of course. They're all fighters, and the Kites seem to have the least qualms about killing, if things come to that. If it comes down to a physical altercation between Kites and Yellows, the Kites would presumably win (unless we simply haven't seen the true force of the People yet. That would be interesting, if the faction set up as the most physically powerful was less than the villains (after all, a Kite was the first to die to the vines), though I wouldn't expect that from fictional cultists. Something about them just gives a d&d wizard vibe, if you know what I mean)

The other next best choice to attempt to eliminate (assuming, of course, that the villains are tactical like this) would be the Herons. Discovery is literally in their bio, and they seem like the most likely to play detective. If the Herons discover what the People of the Yellow Ship are up to, then they could rally the entire rest of the Faction Isles, and all the pirates from all the other branches across the archipelago, to take down the threat of presumably smaller numbers (unless some don't believe them, or the writers want to make a political allegory and have them not be able to all come together even in crisis (I watched Don't Look Up yesterday.)). The People have a branch (if abandoned-looking) on the Isle itself, which might even mean that they have a spy on the inside, pardon the paranoia. But this gives the Herons an opportunity to investigate without even leaving home, which honestly must be terrifying for them.

The Nightingales have some overlap with the Herons, but they seem to value adventure more for the thrill, for the personal experience rather than documentation. The type to judge a Heron for taking pictures while on vacation, if it were a modern setting. Combine that with the fact that I haven't seen many Nightingales so far, and this makes it seem like they'd be the least threatening to the cult. The cult might even view the Nightingales as distractable bleeding-heart losers who care about family, yuck. /j This puts them at the least risk.

Now, who does that leave to be, if all goes to plan, the last one standing? HeyGraecie (I've never heard of you before, sorry), the only character revealed yet to have been a Nightingale since before this year's Factioning. And... Acho. The one who left the Herons for the "family" faction. The one who has a brother who will probably be targeted next.

Damn... between you, Acho, and Olive... I hope you both at least are allowed to attempt to be heroes.

[glowsticcc]

day 6- party

pirates smp was the only time i witnessed sunship duo rp live and i became immediately endeared with them just for them to die within the hour >:(

but ykw i can pretend they got to be happy so here’s them getting wasted together :3

@mcyt-yuri-week

[o0ogalaxyroseo0o]

Pirates SMP: Pronouns!

Here is a complete list of the pronouns of the Pirates SMP cast members (In alphabetical order)! Please tell me if I got something wrong.

Acho - He/They/Star

Aimsey - Any

Apo - Any

Bek - She/Her

Cleo - She/They

Eloise - She/Her

Eret - Any

Graecie - She/Her

Guqqie - She/They

Jojo - She/Her

Krow - It/He/She

Kyle - He/Him

Martyn - He/Him

Michela - She/Her

Oli - He/Him

Olive - They/Them

Owen - He/Him

Puffy - She/Her

Red - He/Him

Ros - She/Her

Sausage - He/Him

Scar - He/Him

Scott - He/Him

Seapeekay - He/Him

Shelby - She/They

Shep - He/Him

Snifferish - Any

Tubbo - He/Him

Water - Any

Willow - He/They

Please note that for a small number of the cast, these are not the same pronouns their characters use. These are just the ones the CCs themselves use. Also, if you know Shep’s pronouns, please tell me so I can add them.

[cheetahdash]

"to those who loved." <3 @aimseytv @guqqie

[shiningstarlight101]

Some quick pen drawings of some pirates 🏴‍☠️

[inkcoveredmoon]

Hello PSMP fandom!

I wanted to make playlists for all of the characters in PSMP but seeing as I cant watch everyone’s POV I need recommendations for songs! If you have any just drop the title, artist, and character and I will put it down to be put in the playlist!

Just to be specific it’s a character playlist not a character’s playlist! Songs about them not that you think they’d listen too. ^ ^

[m0ther-of-p3arl]

i could be wrong, but something tells me we've not seen the last of p!sunshipduo...

[sillyfairygarden]

[transgender-png]

absolutely devastated rn i sincerely hope they come back as ghosts or something :(

[shubblelive]

“ahhh i will talk to this random stranger hahahaa- where we’re you???”

“i got lost!!!”

[lesbopallascat]

the end of scotts first psmp ep is so funny. aimsey and guqqie literally die and then DANCIN THROUGH THE SPHERE

[probablyaseamonster]

So you know how my Witchcraft SMP theory got almost 500 notes? Like I'm talking in the late 490s?

Well I'm doing it again. This time with Pirates. On Day 1. Because I can.

... I'll probably update this later.

ANYWAY

I was thinking about the weirdos who took Guqqie. I didn't catch their nametags if they had any (my screen was being super blurry, it's been a problem for like a week), so I'm starting to call them the People of the Yellow Ship (Because notably they're the only ones with a brightly coloured sail and we need more yellow as an intimidating colour. Too many derederes. Not enough Bill Ciphers).

I was wondering, because they explicitly singled her out out of a large crowd of currently loud people. Was it her bright pink hair? The mysterious gleaming circle thing on her shirt, whatever it is? Maybe, but I think it'd be more interesting if the hatred (or admiration? whatever emotion behind the intent) wasn't based on something so surface level. If the People knew some deeper things about Guqqie.

My first thought? They targeted her because she was vulnerable. Like how real cultists operate, because I assume from the shot of the temple at the end of Guqqie's animation that they're meant to be interpreted as cultists. Now obviously real life cultists don't sacrifice people most of the time (although most media doesn't seem to acknowledge that), so keep in mind that these characters are probably not going to be realistic depictions. Of course. It's a story about pirates and eldritch horror made by gamers and influencers.

ON A SIDE NOTE. I think I'm the first person (at least on tumblr) to point out that the Faction/Pirate Isles have their own temple, as shown at the end of the intro. A caved-in greco-roman inspired structure that is surprisingly more overgrown on the very-much-inhabited pirate hotspot compared to the island with the abandoned and corrupted village (and somehow when Guccie made it to the deadly temple it started snowing. How exactly was it snowing on a tropical island? I hope this will be answered... are gods real? and at least one of them condones this?... hm... the eldritch vibes are getting stronger the more I think about it). Also I want to mention that it would've been so easy to make the temple aztec or something but I'm so glad they didn't. Adventure movies do enough damage.

But back to the theory. How is Guqqie vulnerable? Well, in Owen's YouTube series so far, we only see Guqqie a few times. Mostly getting along well with Aimsey, but one time is particularly relevant. I think it was before Owen had chosen to join the Herons, when he was considering all options (as skeptical as he was). Guqqie mentioned that she rarely leaves the island, as she is uncomfortable on the open sea. Mentioned that she gets seasick, and most interestingly, that her parents say that the act of getting seasick is "unladylike".

This sentence set off alarm bells in my head. Honestly whenever someone uses the term unladylike it concerns or enrages me, but past that. We don't know much about Guqqie's home life, other than that she was probably raised a Kestrel, much like how Scott was raised a Heron. On Aimsey's stream she said that c!Guqqie didn't like c!Aimsey at first, which at least to me implies that Guqqie's parents had instilled a hatred of Kites in their daughter, which Guqqie eventually broke out of when she fell for the swag enby with the tentacle tattoos.

Guqqie's parents instilling the importance of appearing ladylike to Guqqie reads that they wanted her to be a model aristocrat (at least among pirates), much like Scott and Owen. But the part where it gets dark is they told her this in the context of her seasickness. They thought it was unbecoming of a woman to need to throw up over the gunwale (yes I looked up what the railing of a ship was called just for this post, what of it), her face green as rotting bread. Which is, in a word, scummy. If your kid has health issues like this, don't be like that. You know, if there are any parents reading this, which I doubt.

cc!Guqqie had only an hour and a bit to tell her story to the other cc!s and their chats. And she chose to tell Owen's that tidbit of information. It seems like a comedic throwaway line, but I keep coming back to it. Something tells me that this was important. That it may have been part of the reason she was chosen.

I just realized something as I was writing this out. Oh god. If I'm right, then they'll probably go after Scott next.

pt 1.

[asterssunzephyr]

Unrelated to my last post, Ive ordered, for christmas, a grand total of $301 of cc merch.

*Shelby Shubble's newest sweater

*3 PSMP prints and a Kite Embroidry patch

*An Aimseytv Hoodie & Shirt

*A Guqqie sweater

why do my parents love me .... /j

[bluiex]

I WATCHED CLEOS POV SHES LITERALLY JUST A DRUNKARD GAVE EVERYONE THEY MEET ALCOHOL, GOING TO MAKE A BAT AND SELL BEER AND RUM ITS AMAZING

this smp seems so amazing already i hope aimsey and guqqie are ok!! tubbo being a kite surprised absolutely nobody same with scar being a kestrel, bluie did you take the faction quiz? if so what did you get? i got nightingale! AND ALSO ACHO AND SCOTT ARE BROTHERS??? I DONT THINK THEY MET YET THOUGH OH MY GODSSSS

this smp has consumed my brain and it’s only been 4 hours since it officially started

-🍞

LOL AMAZING I LOVE HER!!

I hope guiqqe and aimsey turn out alright- noticed in the psmp Twitter that they've "fallen" O-O

I didn't kno there was a faction quiz o:

[probablyaseamonster]

p!smp Guqqie is a rich lesbian who is canonically dyslexic and noncanonically autistic and who loves collecting crystals and I love her sm

[transgender-png]

i have a theory that maybe they were lured in by like a siren or something? idk but im so sad