Fanfic Writing Culture Isn’t “oh Dang! I Wanted To Write About This Prompt With This Character But

somethinfg i sketched out in december after the ii finale and just got around to finishing it

based on a Real Conversation i had

dialogue under cut in case you can't read my terrible rushed handwriting

Panel #1 Knife: So is tea vegan broth, or is broth meat tea? Taco: WHAT KIND OF CONVERSATION STARTER IS THAT?! Microphone: Both of those names sound TERRIBLE.

Panel #2 Taco: I mean, broth isn't tea because tea is made with plants. And I'm pretty sure broth needs to be cooked in stock.

Panel #3: Microphone: But the meat's just soaked in hot water, that's how broth is made, right? It's tea in the sense that it's been cooked in hot water.

Panel #4: Taco: That's just boiling. The definition of tea specifically is boiled plant, not boiled meat. By that logic, you could say hard-boiled eggs or plain boiled water are considered 'tea' as well. Microphone: I mean like technically that's Egg Tea? Taco: NO.

Panel #5: Knife: Counter Argument: If the thing boils AND affects the water, it's tea. Taco: But with THAT logic, you could say something like PASTA WATER is tea!

Panel #6: Microphone: Pasta water IS tea. Taco: It is NOT a fucking tea! Knife: It's a soup.

Panel #7 Microphone: Well I guess soup is just tea with extra ingredients... Taco: Soup usually has meat or vegetables though.

Panel #8 Microphone: But you can add stuff like sugar and honey and cream into tea! Knife: Do YOU add sweet stuff into your soup? Microphone (in the background): SUGAR IN SOUP IS NORMAL! Taco (in the background): I beg to differ.

Panel #9 Pickle: Wait so is hotdog water tea or- Knife, Taco, & Microphone (with varying expressions): NO

So. I have some things to say about this scene, and in particular this piece of dialogue between the finalist duo and cobs.

I've been thinking about how inherently unsettling the way cobs says this is - "you both are safe", "there has to be a winner". cobs basically views the show as if he was the one who made it, and treats the contestants like characters. he has shown through 'killing' the contestants that he does not see them as real people, and acts like he’s the show’s... producer or director, toying with/manipulating MePhone and seeing himself as pulling the strings behind the curtain. Brian Koch said during one of his livestreams that he even has favorite 'characters' (Knife and Cheesy), which just dehumanizes them more.

So the fact that Cobs is talking about how he basically has plans for the season finale, to give it a ‘proper ending’ - plans for Knife and Suitcase, when he doesn't even view them as real and simply as just an extension of MePhone's immature nature, cannot mean anything good. He's keeping them both 'safe' only to finish the show, which who KNOWS how he intends to end it!! Maybe he hangs the finalists and the other contestants' safety over MePhone's head, blackmailing him into coming back to Meeple Headquarters. Maybe he pits the finalists against each other in some messed up way, maybe even violent! Maybe he manipulates the duo into being infuriated at mephone, and he leverages that anger against him. Would he even let them go back to the hotel?? They're stuck in Meeple Headquarters basically, stuck with HIM.

Cobs is essentially showing that he is in control now, that he intends to end the show HIS way. He even explicitly SAID that the only reason they aren’t in danger (from MePhoneX) was because there 'has to be a winner'. And for me that just gives off extremely Unsettling Vibes.

Idk if this makes any sense - basically, the knifecase duo are probably in trouble, and I am ANXIOUS to see what cobs is cooking up for them.

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Ok am I the only one who doesn’t really like how the fandom treats suitcase? Specifically some of the people who want her to win.

Everywhere I look I’m seeing “suitcase deserves to win because she’s been through a lot”, “suitcase should win she had hallucinations” etc, when her ENTIRE ARC was centered around rising above that.

In episode 16, Baseball went easy on her when she revealed she was having hallucinations, and that’s basically how a lot of suitcase fans are treating her, as if her trauma is a reason for her to win/give her a break, like it’s a REWARD or something. Nickel didn’t treat her like a friend and took advantage of her, and her arc was becoming confident and standing up for herself, BREAKING FREE OF THE EXPECTATIONS EVERYONE HAD OF HER, and now so many people are just ignoring that & belittling her character, putting those expectations BACK on her like nothing changed, and it’s just so infuriating??

ofc the majority of suitcase fans aren’t like this. But I’ve seen a lot of youtube comments especially do this. And it’s sad bc it’s just COMPLETELY fundamentally misunderstanding her entire character. By saying suitcase should win PURELY bc she went through a lot of shit you are running over her character development with a bull dozer and it is Not Okay.

Suitcase is my bbg and u should take to heart what MePhone said at the end of ii16, (might not be exact) “who will win, the strong one or the weak one? Which is which?” Both Knife and Suitcase went through very different things, their arcs mirror each other and that is what is beautiful about it!! ppl should recognize that although she isn’t perfect she should NOT be patronized just because of her character. She is there to WIN and COMPETE, she is on equal level to Knife, and is not there to be pitied by her fans.

I am normal about knickle