magnecalliope:
I wonder if the reason Ros seems so much happier in Clown’s company than anyone else is because he gives her tasks to do and asks her for help.
Everyone else is either too independent to ask for help or they believe that she is too incompetent to be of help to them, and so she desperately grasps at anything she can do to be of use to others, and sometimes makes things worse in the process. Because they don’t trust her enough to help and so she doesn’t have enough information to make good choices, or because she is driven to extremes trying to prove herself to them.
But Clown does ask for help. He asks her to help him get materials, or catch him up on what he’s missed, or grind skills together, or fight off mobs, or protect him from Molluskus and Sneeg. Even when he’s just goofing, the joke is never that he doesn’t believe in Ros’s competency, the punchline is that he specifically would need help with completing the task.
He’s always quick to praise her successes, even seemingly small and silly things like cobwebbing players that are standing still, or pillaring with a stack of crafting tables. How many times has Aimsey expressed fondness for Ros in an infantilizing way?
And now he wants to build a castle with her. He asked to help her with her most favorite thing to do in the whole world. He is engaging in her interests. He’s not just treating her as an authority on the subject, but he’s asking her to actually collaborate and teach him, the way he has taught her about survival minecraft mechanics and pvp.
(via taag-the-withering)
