Etho Sheep?

Etho sheep?

For the art game

i had such a vivid image of etho with long fluffy curly fleece all covered in redstone dust from just. wiping it off on his legs as if they were pants LOL

You don’t even have to be super isolated and rural for this. We live in a very small town, in an old house. We have a fireplace. My grandparents still have a wood burning stove. There are a lot of oak trees around, and sometimes those trees fall over or lose branches. Therefore it is convenient and cheap to have an axe and big pile of free wood, and to have fires instead of trying to use the heaters, and also if you’re going to have a fire you might as well have fun and cook with the fire. Like he’s probably just not in the heart of a major city.

Guys I´ll be so fr rn. Some of this 'new etho lore' isnt even that crazy. He just doesnt live in a city

the thing is it was soooooo easy to watch limited life and laugh at bdubs for being deeply mentally ill about what is basically the platonic ideal of Just Some Guy. but I get it now. I get it now

listen to me etho is aroace. and you may be thinking "but he's in so many weird relationships with romantic vibes" well yeah thats Because he is aroace. these people see this poor man with the void of want and go "i can be who he wants" and then etho is left to humour them because why not. this is not to say he does not love his weird little relationships or the people in them. he cares deeply and does love them, just platonically. which is why all of them are insane. like. look at any of etho's relationships and tell me they aren't a qpr. look me dead in the eyes and tell me etho and bdubs are not in a qpr. those men are in love (platonically)

*fighting the 'Etho doesn't care about Bdubs as much as Bdubs cared about him' allegations from the highest tower that I built and stand alone in on the hill I will die on, the people closing in from all sides*

I GET IT. I FEEL THE SAME WAY. I just think that Etho feels Bdubs loyalty is slightly too close to pity especially when he never wavers in it despite Etho not giving him reason to. To trust your friends, to believe in your friends, it can't be absolute fact - you have to hold space in your heart for doubt.

*kicks someone from the ramparts*

It can be both true that Bdubs gives Etho his undying love in a way that doesn't feel returned, and that Etho does return that love in his own way (which happens to be more logical, less self sacrificial, and frankly less intimate). The out of context Siken quote "if you love me...you don't love me in a way I understand", it's both of them! It's someone who keeps hearing "I owe you everything" (Bdubs) AND who thinks that it's not true and is tired of hearing it (Etho).

*pulls a sword from a body and turn to stab someone approaching from behind*

It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. It doesn't mean it feels fair. I ask myself frequently why they both act this way. But how much Bdubs cares about Etho is just as much about who Etho is as it's about who Bdubs is. You can't separate who Etho is from how Bdubs cares about him. And Etho is someone that cares. He does. I said I was gonna die on this hill and I meant it.

*jumps into the crowd of people below, duel-wielding daggers*

If you're cold, he's cold. Put him in your pocket