Man. The Herobrine really is summat else. We got:
- A glitch of a ghost in the machine that causes every error in the game
- The White Eyes character, stemming from a texture error, which becomes associated with the cave noise & eventually leads to the creation of the Herobrine myth
- Transgender swag
- The fucken. Brocraft stream that links to that ONE image & implies that either you or Herobrine are “asleep” & dreaming
- The way that Herobrine myths kicked up due to the TF2 influx, after the devs made mention of the game
- Every single unexplained structure in the game, all abandoned, all without a clear group that created them can & will be associated with Herobrine
- The mineshafts. The ruined portals. The deep dark. It’s kind of like a story, told in three arcs, if you squint right
- Like something that used to live there, toiled in the soil along with the worms
- Like something that got locked away, that wants to go back
- Like something that needs to be kept out
- Every single zombie looks like Steve. Does that say anything? Does it imply something about Herobrine, another reflection, but maybe a bit more sentient? With teeth that are a bit more sharp, with a malice that is a bit more cold?
- Mojang putting the “Removed Herobrine” note in for YEARS, then one day dropping it, only to bring it back 3 years later
- N*tch being scrubbed from the game’s lore, so he’s also (sometimes) scrubbed from Herobrine’s lore, leading to alternate origins
- He is the first player. He is the ghost of a fellow player. He is an architect, a miner, a builder. He is a friend to all the mobs, & an enemy to those that take all the trees & never replant the saplings. He is a curious onlooker, probably harmless. He is a deep loathing. He is a danger, a legend, just a myth, but is he?
- The way that people’s opinions of Herobrine have shifted through years, like a litmus test for Minecraft players as a whole
- It starts with the eerie feeling of being in a room you KNOW should be empty, but feeling eyes on you, anyways & ends with a sad type of goodbye, a dreamer seeking a dreamer condemned
- The way he’s more quiet, more calm, less prone to the griefing & attacks he was once known for, like his fire has cooled with time
- The Minecraft end poem. Maybe. Do you think Herobrine ever got to hear those words? “I love you,” & “You have played the game well”?
- The person with the Herobrine username, which has had the catboy Herobrine skin on for years o7