I wanted to get some outside opinions because I've watched this unfold for months and I honestly don't know what to think anymore.
This is about a close friend of mine. Minecraft roleplay is her biggest hobby. She spends a ridiculous amount of time writing characters, building lore, and creating stories. She's been in multiple RP communities over the years, and even when things didn't go the way she wanted, she'd usually bounce back pretty quickly.
This season was different.
The roleplay takes place in a supernatural high school where demonic entities are trying to invade a small town. Her character, who I'll call Amelia, unintentionally got pulled into the main plot and ended up becoming one of the characters most invested in researching the supernatural side of the story. While most people had slice-of-life plots, Amelia was spending most of her time uncovering ancient history, investigating ruins, and trying to figure out how to stop what was coming.
Early on she became friends with another character I'll call Ren.
Ren was a faerie who had a rough past because he was different from the rest of his kind. Amelia and Ren slowly built a friendship over months.
One of the biggest moments happened after Amelia accidentally made Ren sick while experimenting with a spell her familiar had given her. Because of how the lore worked, the illness left him vulnerable to dark magic.
She happened to walk past his house, saw him unconscious outside his front door, got him inside, and stayed with him.
One of Ren's closest friends actually told her to leave because Ren gets extremely moody and aggressive when he's sick.
She stayed anyway.
She almost got attacked several times because of his condition but refused to abandon him while he was vulnerable.
Eventually she figured out dark magic was affecting him, got a cure made, and helped him recover.
Nobody forced her to do that.
She simply cared.
Right after recovering, Ren sensed another faerie nearby and left to meet someone named Lyra.
That was the beginning of everything changing.
Something important about Amelia is that she already had a history of being hurt by friendships.
She'd been abandoned before.
She'd had friends drift away.
She'd had situations where someone new entered the picture and suddenly she wasn't important anymore.
Because of that, she had become terrified of opening up to people.
Ren was the first person in a long time that made her think maybe things would be different.
They planned a hangout after school.
To anyone else it would've just been two friends spending time together.
To Amelia, it was huge.
She had already decided that during that hangout she was finally going to tell Ren about everything she'd gone through growing up. Why she sometimes shut down emotionally. Why she struggled to say what she was really feeling.
She finally believed she had found someone she could trust completely.
Then the day came.
She told him to let her know whenever he was free.
He never did.
Later that day she saw him at the mall with Lyra and another friend.
She had gone to the mall because she had already bought him a early birthday present. It was a necklace she planned to enchant with protection against fire and dark magic so he'd be safer.
She never gave it to him.
She just went home.
Not long afterward she realized she'd actually fallen in love with him.
Over the next couple of days she became withdrawn.
Her familiar noticed something was wrong and, without Amelia asking, went to Ren's house to try to get him to talk to her.
Ren eventually came over.
Unfortunately things fell apart.
Something Lyra said upset Amelia's familiar enough that she completely lost her temper, threw Ren's belongings, threatened him, and even set fire to his lawn.
Amelia didn't want any of that to happen.
It completely derailed what was supposed to be a conversation between her and Ren.
Ironically, later that same night, Amelia and Ren actually managed to make up.
From Amelia's perspective, things were finally looking better.
She thought they had reached an understanding.
Later she learned that after leaving, Ren went to Lyra.
During that conversation he confessed that he loved Lyra.
He also talked about distancing himself from or dropping Amelia, despite previously reassuring Amelia that she would never be replaced.
One part of that conversation especially stuck with my friend.
Lyra reportedly responded by saying something like, "You knew her first... I'm only in the way," before kissing Ren's hand.
Now I was surprised because who says that and kisses the target person hand.
It was also forcing him to only chose Lyra in the whole situation, the result was that Ren reassured Lyra, and Amelia had came to terms with that she had feelings for Ren at the exact same time that was happening.
As the roleplay continued, things only got worse.
They were investigating the sewers because a strange fungi or whatever started popping up and a creature previously attacked Amelia down there. And all hell broke lose because something new attacked them and they got out and Amelia realized that Ren and his best friend were still down there so she immediately heads back down and Lyra climbed down after her and says 'she followed her' when in reality she stood by the exit the whole time and when the creature was near she ran off into a different tunnel instead of exiting the sewers. Lyra the. Said Amelia had abandoned her even though Amelia insists she never knew Lyra had been following her in the first place.
Ren gradually began seeing Amelia differently.
He called her selfish.
He said she was dangerous.
Eventually he blocked her.
Later he even believed she posed a danger to the people he loved.
The strange part is that Amelia never stopped trying to help everyone.
She had every right to break down and stop worrying about other people and leave them to this mess because she had been hurt so much in the past and I would have rather her have a villain arc because it seemed like she deserves one. But she didn't do it, she focused all her attention on the threat at hand.
She continued researching the supernatural threat.
She kept uncovering information that could potentially save the town.
She even continued sending Ren information despite knowing he'd blocked her because, in her mind, the bigger threat still mattered more than her feelings.
The biggest turning point came when Ren was being detained after one incident where his humanity switched off and something changed him. He ended up killing someone and tried killing her.
While speaking privately with him, Lyra suggested she could arrange for someone to be eaten by him because apparently that's how Faeries mainly kill people I guess.
Amelia and another person overheard that conversation.
That completely changed how she viewed everything.
After spending weeks wondering if she really was the selfish one, she couldn't understand how she was supposedly the dangerous person while hearing something like that.
Then Misty who plays Lyra dm'd Amelia and said that she would be on better terms with Amelia when mind you there is nothing that leads up to that because their last conversation was centered around Lyra deflecting everything bad about her onto Amelia's character.
Eventually the stress left the roleplay itself.
She privately asked an admin for another opinion because she genuinely wanted to know if she was seeing things wrong.
Afterward she decided to drop it and keep to herself.
Then she woke up to a message from a moderator telling her she needed to acknowledge Misty, the player behind Lyra, or she risked being removed from the server.
She joined what she thought would be a private conversation with Misty, but another person was already there.
The conversation mostly involved discussing Lyra's actions and why Misty didn't believe Lyra had manipulated Ren.
The part that shocked my friend most was being told that the admin she'd previously spoken to felt it seemed like she had a vendetta against Lyra.
She wasn't upset because someone disagreed with her.
She was upset because she had thought that earlier conversation was a genuine private discussion. If the admin believed she was acting out of personal resentment, she wishes they had simply asked her directly instead of leaving her with the impression they understood where she was coming from.
After that she more or less stopped talking.
She barely joined voice chats anymore.
She only showed up when an RP required her to.
This also wasn't the first time she'd had a story fall apart in an RP community. In another server she'd spent weeks planning a major storyline, only for the owner to reboot the entire series without warning after previously encouraging the idea. She'd learned to swallow her disappointment because she still loved roleplaying.
She tried to do the same here.
But this one stuck with her.
The finale is approaching now, and I can still tell she thinks about how different the story could have been.
Not because Amelia and Ren didn't end up together.
But because she feels like Amelia never even got the chance to tell the story she'd been building toward before everything spiraled.
I don't know if she's too emotionally invested, or if anyone else in her position would've come away feeling the same.
That's why I'm asking here, and the last time I write something this big.😭
