So Much For The P.A.C.T . . .

TPOT Spoilers

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So with the release of TPOT 16 I’d like to give my own perspective on who One might try to make a deal with next, this will be a long one so be prepared for a lot of text.

First is pencil which seems a bit obvious, One having rigged the system to allow her to join alongside liy so we know they wanted Pencil on the game for some reason. I believe this to be because she would be pretty easy to manipulate into a deal, we’ve seen once she becomes a contestant again she immediately goes over to Book and Icy to try and start the Freesmart alliance back up despite the fact that both the others have moved on from it. She does this on multiple occasions and from what we can see both Book and Icy seem kinda fed up of it and annoyed and Pencil since the alliance has been out of commission for a while and seemed to cause a lot of their problems during BFB in my opinion.

So I think i’ve made it a little obvious that One would offer a deal with Pencil to start back the alliance and get her friends back, with Icy eliminated she’d probably try to get a new member but I’m not sure who that would be. As for how One would pull it off I do have a theory. For starters I don’t think One can just control them or change their will to make them like Pencil, if they could do that then what would be the point of making deals instead of just making the contestants do what they wanted. Instead I think One would manipulate the next challenge in order to engineer a situation where Pencil could heroically save Book + and ‘alliance’ members promised, causing them to like her enough to team up with her.

My other theory is actually Black Hole. First of all when Icy and Fanny are watching One from Two’s room we see them watching BH up in the sky dealing with the crack formed from the timeline getting messed up so we know One is keeping an eye on them. Not to mention that this guy is STRESSED for most of the dammed season, it’s visible in his voice. First was trying to enact the Death prevention pact the team promised to adhere to despite the many MANY deaths around him. Admittedly that got sorted in TPOT 10 where he and Fanny both agreed to focus a little less on the pact due to their dwindling team. But even still the man can not catch a long enough break with the ENTIRE COLLAPSE OF THE TIMELINE. For most of TPOT 15 BH sounds like he’s about to have an aneurism, only alleviated when everyone remembers the timeline distortions and when it suddenly stops due to One’s influence. Even now he’s still dealing with the crack in the sky and he seems to be able to deal with it pretty well but is obviously stressing about it.

Safe to say One would probably try to take advantage of that to coerce BH into a deal. While I’m a little more unsure of what One would actually promise to BH I imagine it would likely be help with closing the crack as we’ve seen them able to do it before. Furthermore I feel like BH had a chance at not agreeing to the deal, or at the very least being VERY weary of One like BB and Gatey. He would not trust One and I could feel up but would probably end up sweet talked and manipulated into accepting, if not just blackmailed like Gatey.

Thanks for listening to me ramble and put your own theories in the comments, I would love to see other peoples opinions on this.

Everyone gets to be a little selfish

So TPOT 17 was Peak, had to draw my favourite scene.

End of the timeline? - Gold_Music16 - Battle For Dream Island (Web Series) [Archive of Our Own]

Finally got the motivation to write this after weeks of procrastinating

Just a one shot where the timeline collapses in TPOT 15 and a different deal is made.

Black Hole angst is a passion of mine

Damn we getting a new episode sooner then I'd thought. Istg if we don't see more Leafy I need more of her.

This might be the episode the contestants (Excluding Firey) get to know Leafy is alive and watching them, if so can't wait to see how that goes down. Hope Ice Cube's okay.

Also I got a few thing in the works so expect some more posts soon

Agreed

we agree this is how One and Donut's conversation happened right

Ok so I wanna talk about Leafy in TPOT for a second cause I am a firm believer One kidnapped her which raises the question of what One did with Leafy. It may not have been for a deal considering her name never shows up on the paper like everyone else but that could also be because One wants to hide the fact that she has Leafy from the TPOT contestants since she shows multiple people the list of her own volition.

In any case if One did try to get Leafy into a deal it could one of two very different ways considering how absolutely traumatized Leafy is. Either it would work right into One's favour or the biggest nuisance. I drew some low quality drawings to get the point across.

Option 1: Works in One's favour to easily manipulate her

Option 2: Leafy is the biggest nuisance ever, also the way funnier one im my opinion

It could also explain the state of One's room during TPOT 17 and as well as her attitude. Having to deal with a feral Leafy would do that to most people.

I drew these late last night so bear with it

Crappy drawing of these two dumb skrunklies cause I don't feel great today. God I need to see more of their dynamic.

BFDIA 19 VOTING

GUYS IM POSTING THIS AGAIN SEPERATE TO GET THE WORD OUT MORE

WE HAVE THE OPPERTUNITY FOR SOME OF THE FUNNIEST SHIT RIGHT NOW

PLEASE VOTE LEAFY TO BE HOST THE CHAOS THAT WOULD ENSUE WOULD BE HILARIOUS

Either her or EL both would be funny

TPOT 17 SPOILERS

Ok so it's finally out and I need to word vomit about it cause this episode was PEAK

First off Pen being sad and watching Blocky's old show for comfort, at least TV is finally doing something. Pen is going through some shit losing both his best friends and seeing it expanded upon is great.

IM SORRY BASKETBALL IS JUST HERE?? SHES OKAY?? I had thought One kidnapped her too but I guess not, but none of the other eliminated contestants mention anything about One. Has Basketball NOT SAID ANYTHING TO THEM!!??!! She was one of the people to resist their the deal and knew something was up. Even if One jumbled her speech or something so nobody could understand wouldn't they at least mention something?? Either way nice to see these guys again, also theories on where the EXIT door leads, I personally agree with it being either the second hotel door or equation playground. No Gatey though so they've more then definitely been kidnapped.

Oh Bottle's hosting this episode? Cool I like her silly vibes god knows CloudYay need it right now they stressed about the elimination. But also it's kinda sad seeing other people keep hosting for Two I really enjoyed them.

Pencil's panic attack was cool to see, last she remembers it was vote to eliminate so frankly it was pretty reasonable. Donut having to calm her down and remind her it's vote to save.

Anyway eliminations and honestly I think this was best case scenario. As much as I like Pillow and YellowFace most of the team was going through more important arcs. The only person I feel could be switched in without too much changing is Winner. Also YellowFace being so panicked and not wanting to go, things were finally going really well for him with Taggy. Hopefully they will be able to keep the warehouse going without him.

This whole scene with Fanny and Tennis Ball was cool, seeing how One is actively attempting to stop word spreading. I've already seen other people decipher the board so I'm not going to put it here (I'm lazy ik and also don't care).

Damn, Two still got depression and looks like shit, they're just bed rotting. I can't personally comment on how accurate the portrayal is but from what I've heard it's pretty accurate. Give them their wife back PLEASE I NEED TO SO THEM HOST AGAIN. Also i've seen people mention how Two is slightly paler and thinner from last episode which is concerning, hopefully they'll be okay. . .

THE FOURSE RETURNS HAHA IT'S SO ANGRY I LOVE HIM

Ok onto the contests I just had to mention this first.

The eating contest was some fun comic relief while everything else was happening, interesting teams to put on it as well. We got Black Hole sucking his up, Taggy selling theirs (nice to see the failed debuters out and about as well as the giant David) and Winner just... absorbing it? Liy being the only one who has to eat normally. Black Hole's little moral dilemma with the bugs was great, seeing him learn to balance the P.A.C.T with finishing challenges, he was trying so hard. Also Winner with the Loser O's, seeing that Loser maybe cared more about him then he thought, Also Loser not being famous anymore? Damn that episode really came back to haunt him.

I don't really have much to say about these guys, it was pretty tame compared with everything else going on. Nice to see Pen trying to branch out and connect with people.

Pencil and Book crash outs HOLY SHIT THIS WENT HARD! Pencil is traumatized from being in the E.X.I.T for years and wants things back to the way they were before with the alliance but has no idea how to convey her emotions properly which leads to her seeming obsessive and selfish. Her actions are sill bad but it's clear it's because she's hurt and traumatized and because of that is left emotionally unstable which leads to her accidently pushing away the people around her. Despite this I find Book pretty reasonable in her reaction if you look at it from her perspective, she had just managed to repair her relationship with Icy by giving her space and has practically forgotten about Freesmart till Pencil joined back. By this point Book has moved on and found new friends in Winner and Taggy but Pencil just comes in and expects Book to immediately want the alliance back. Book needed the same space Icy did for there to be a chance at healing their relationship but Pencil, unlike Book at that time, is highly unstable and unable to regulate her emotions so she suffocated Book which only leads to things getting worse. Pencil desperately needs some therapy.

In the end, Pen's talk with Pencil does give some hope at a redemption arc, it would be messy and painful but possible. Pen understands what it's like to lose all your close friends, and he could have become like Pencil except he still had people to catch him, namely Liy. Pencil had nobody going back into the game. Hopefully Pencil will listen to him and maybe Pen could continue helping Pencil become better.

Going back to some tamer stuff for a bit the haunted house group was interesting to watch. The writers finally gave TV something to do which is great but he's still one I wouldn't mind getting eliminated. The nature vs mechanical theme was interesting and just more showing of the slight negative bias towards mechanical minds from the contestants. Admittedly though Tree had a point for leaving TV to save both himself and Grassy but TV still had a right to be mad. Him controlling the spider mech was cool, Spid-TV lol. The fight scene was cool and just having Tennis Ball and the Fourse crash onto the mech was funny

Now onto the best part of the episode, Donut unironically just became on of my favourite characters now because of this episode. One's room is destroyed and she is clearly unstable, things are falling apart for her and Donut's ass is not helping that. He is suspicious from the start about the contract and is the first I believe to actually ask what's in it which One immediately deflects. As their interaction continues One becomes more and more agitated by Donut's refusal to sign, eventually having a full crash out while slamming him against a table and stealing his legs as well. Props to Donut here for sticking to his guns and not changing his mind despite having his last limbs actively ripped off which kinda reminded me of BFDIA Pin when her limbs were removed. Connection? Probably not but fun to note. Also notice how One has switched from manipulation and sweet talk to straight up threats and blackmail to get deals, most people left in the game to take for deals are smarter and questioning her which isn't great for One. Her facade is breaking apart as she has to put more and more effort into securing deals.

I also wanted to go into Donut getting his limbs back anyway at the end of the episode. I believe this could represent how One is actually quite powerless in a way. Sure she has her magic which we've seen to be very powerful but it can't control others. While we don't know right now why One needs to make deals with the contestants it's clear they're important to whatever plan she has. And to get those contracts the contestants have to actively sign them, she NEEDS the co-operation of the contestants and that's not something she can force through her magic, they always have the option to deny her no matter what she does. We see through this scene that the contestants don't need One to solve their problems and without her they will find a solution on their own. I like to think that if One hadn't interfered when she did for any of the deals they would likely solve their own problem soon after like shown here. And that's not even mentioning the POWER Donut has right now. While contestants like Fanny, Ice Cube, Gatey and Basketball know something is wrong, especially Fanny as we see her actively try to show Tennis Ball he research, they are all under contract. They have all accepted a deal. DONUT NEVER ACCEPTED THE DEAL AND NOW KNOWS WHATS GOING ON WITHOUT ONE BEING ABLE TO CALL IN A FAVOUR TO STOP HIM. He is now arguably the most powerful out of the resistance gang now due to this.

Now this last part is purely speculation so it could easily be proven false but I noticed how both Fanny and Ice Cube could make out their research while Tennis Ball couldn't. While this could just be One messing up his vision specifically what if knowledge about One determines if someone can see the board. Tennis Ball has never seen one like Fanny and Ice Cube and would, by this logic, not understand the writing. But Donut, who has seen one would be able to. I hope that makes sense.

In conclusion this episode was peak, thanks for listening to this long ass ramble