I've never seen a yandere shove their own red flags into someone's face and explain the consequences of being with them and still have the person go for it nfjdgskgnkf like damn, props to the listener for having the balls for that .
pLs I THOUGHT BESTIE COULD BE A BAD B BUT CLEARLY THE LISTENERS IN BALANCE AREN'T THE SMARTEST (excluding Smartass duh) LIKE THEY SHOULD TAKE NOTES FROM IMP!ANGEL THEY WENT DOWN BUT THEY DID IT LIKE A TRUE ICON
@@MenacingAngel_ I THOUGHT THEYD BE BETTER THAN THIS AND PULL AWAYYYYYYYYY BESTIE PLEASE DONT DO THIS TO YOURSELF!!!!!! ALL THE OTHER YANDERE LISTENERS ARE SCREAMING RN
@@Kazbur_ nah fr He literally told them that they’re fucked if they continue and they just fucking didddd 😭😭😭 here we can see the difference between being brave and being stupid 😃🔫
@@ishouldreallychangemyname948 real 💀 like I get that if the listeners figured everything out and like didn’t need to be told somethings we would have had like few minutes videos of silence because it’s the listeners speaking and it’s also for the plot but STILL LIKE WARDEN, DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THEM THAT SUPID DEMON AHHH😭🔫
The change in the tone of voice when Blake said “I can’t give you space” gave me chills. I can’t wait to see what happens with the rest of this series now after this audio!
"You know me, you know how I am" - I love how ominous this is, the warnings he's giving, but still not fully explaining, and the risk the listener takes (I've heard them referred to as Bestie and I love it omg) FANTASTIC.
Oh my god their relationship is so fucked and fraught and delicious, give me more. Blake and Bestie sleeping together once, Bestie regretting it and pulling away, I can see how that would hurt Blake... them trying to be friends again, but Blake still carrying a torch for Bestie, feeling tortured by his feelings but wanting to respect their boundaries so he pulls away... hurting Bestie too... and then trying to be friends a THIRD time, with trust-me-this-is-platonic cuddles and compliments and soft touches and spending the nights together, God they keep torturing each other with their feelings. Bestie kissing Blake was so powerful, like a perfect moment, but after everything I understand Blake's hesitancy... but that warning, that threat and Bestie taking it anyway.... man I can almost forget he straight up tortured Sunshine. This is extremely rambly but god this is good, Blake is quickly becoming a yandere favorite, he's so complex and multifaceted
God, I love how you write your Yanderes... Each one having their own shade of Yandere, different tactics and obsessions... The lengths they'd go for their listeners... And the fact that they know how he is... who he is... and that he's willing to put in so much effort to keep that control if it means keeping them in his life... even if it means he can't be with them, but still be in their life... 😭
Timestamps: 1:07 - “Being with you makes me feel better.” *[...] [Laugh]* “It doesnt have to be anything specific that you do, it’s just… you. You make me smile, you make me happy. I like being with you. That’s enough.” 2:26 - “I dont wanna lose any time I could be sharing with you, so when work throws a wrench in that, it gets me in my feelings” 4:48 - “I cant always keep my head above the water, but being with you is like… having an air tank. I might be below the surface, but im still getting oxygen. You are that oxygen that keeps me going when I’m under.” 5:28 - Stuttery Blake, offering to make them breakfast again if they want him to stay the night 6:15 - “I’m creative, I’m sure i could whip up something good to put a smile on your grumpy morning face.” 7:53 - Blake asking his Listener if they want to head to bed, and them asking to stay up a little longer 8:57 - “We’re finally getting your sleep schedule back on track, last thing I want to do is throw it for a loop again” 9:17 - Listener asking to lay their head on Blake’s lap 10:30 - 14:57 *Blake tracing spirals and patterns on his Listener’s skin to help them relax* 12:50 - _Down, down, down_ 15:12 - 18:30 *Listener asking Blake about the reason why he pulled away from them, and it was because of his feelings for them* 18:54 - *Blake and his Listener hooked up in senior year, and his Listener thought it was a mistake* - They didn’t want to lose their friendship 20:04 - It didn’t feel like a mistake to Blake, though 20:17 - “It felt like… someone switching on the lights, and suddenly realizing that I’d been standing in the dark all that time before. It felt like life was suddenly in color. And I told you that.” 21:15 - “And things just… seemed to fall apart after that.” 21:28 - Blake saying that he would have been okay with just staying friends because what was most important to him was having them in his life 22:40 - Listener pulled away after that 23:25 - “It felt like I got a taste of everything I’d ever wanted, the most amazing feeling I’d ever experienced and then the next morning, I didn’t just lose the chance at that, I lost my best friend. The reason to not be together was so that we wouldn’t lose our friendship, and then it felt like we did anyway.” 25:09 - 26:07 Blake gave them space, but tried to show them that he was still there, and managed to find a balance with his feelings 26:31 - 29:20 And then they started hanging out again, and the feelings came back. So Blake was the one that pulled away. 31:13 - “I’m tired of the dance. I just miss my friend. And I’ve sat with these feelings long enough to know how to manage them, I promise. I don’t wanna go. I don’t want either of us to go. Not again. Please.” 32:02 - *Blake:* [Whispered] Wh-what are you doing? 32:06 - *Listener kisses Blake, but he pulls away* 33:27 - Blake doesn't want to do this with them unless they know for _sure_ that they want him for the long run, because he doesn’t want to lose them again. 34:34 - *“Please. Don’t do this if you don’t want me that way for the long haul. I can’t be another mistake. Because it’ll break me.”* 35:28 - “If you choose me, if you let me have this, it would change things.” + Blake letting them know what he would do for them if they decide to have all of him 37:05 - “Don’t do this unless I’m what you really want. Because if we start, I’m not ever gonna want it to stop. So you’ve gotta choose. Draw the line here, and I won’t cross it, I swear. But if you pick this, it’ll be all of me. All of it. And we both know a lot of that’s not pretty. Please. Don’t give me this unless that’s what you want. Don’t give me that hope.” 38:21 - *Listener kissing Blake again*
@@kilarthmac Oh my God, I hope you know the work you do is honored and respected 😭❤️ some days I can't listen to the audios fully because I have work to do but I LOVEE when I can see time stamps like yours to at least understand what's going on, thank you!!
Time to put my clown nose back on cause I'm down to jump into this yandere rabbit hole. That backstory reveal, the conflicting emotions Blake's speech evoked. The sheer desperation in his voice, Bestie ending their back and forth, their push and pull... I know it's probably not in the cards, Blake's bought too far into CloseKnit's propaganda and is too much of an active participant and asset to them, not to mention what he has done to Sunshine and Elliot and who knows who else, but here I am, still hoping that this incoming trainwreck of a relationship is salvageable somehow. Stellar work, Erik, truly. No one makes me root for doomed relationships and characters quite like you do.
Me, trying to justify liking Blake as much as I do: "Dad look! It's the Good Kush!" That small, tired, sensible part of me to me: "This is the dollar store how good can it be..."
I feel like I'm getting emotional whiplash from hearing Blake's love confessions then remembering what he's done/ is doing to Sunshine and Elliott. Both heartbreaking and angering!
Good gods, that subtle, gradual shift from nearly broken and pleading vulnerability through dark and warning into possessive and hungry over just a handful of sentences just gives me the tingles. You have honed your craft to a razors edge, Erik! You keep setting the bar higher and higher, and I am 👏 here 👏 for 👏 it!
Not sure if you noticed the thumbnail at the back, because I thought at first it just represents the icon of Elliot but it says, "If we do this, you're mine." And after hearing the whole audio, that kinda makes it creepier. Omg. I know that Blake is a villain and all but I understood the part where he was so scared to be a "mistake" once again after that first kiss from the listener especially from what happened to them from the past. It's definitely traumatizing. Good work as always, Erik. I'm always intrigued with all the stuff that you do. Thank you so much for existing and for showing us your talents. 😘❤️
This is the only comment I’ve found that says anything about the background! I noticed it too and I’ve been scouring the comments to see if anyone else saw it!
It's always so cool to see how differently you write yandere characters and how you give such a wide variety of levels for them instead of just the usual internet yandere trope of "I love you and I'll kill for you". Blake is a perfect example of that with how your able to change his tone and personality just by what character he's interacting with and the best part you made Bestie actively know about how Blake can be and even despite that they still want to make it work and I'm genuinely hoping that things work out for these 2 in someway.
lord i ADOOORE how blake’s feelings evolved,, him having just these internal battles and confusions really hits close to home and it’s so well done :’)
since we're all doing red flag metaphors, here's mine: wow these flags sure are bright red and i definitely know to stay away from those but these ones have such an intricate sewing pattern that i can't help but stay. y'know, to admire the handiwork.
I know he’s a yandere, i know he’s not meant to be healthy, but the fact that he has exerted this much control for this long even at the initial kiss here when he’s giving them an out? Being honest about whats going to happen once we’ve started? Idk bout ya’ll but im hungry and blake is served
You know I can really see where he's coming from with the whole "please don't put me through this again, I won't survive this"... But the rest? HOLY FUCK, RUN! RUN VERY FAST DEAR LISTENER!!!
Hearing Blake be so vulnerable bc of all these feelings he has and has had makes you understand a little bit more why he’s going the lengths that he is to save his “friend”. I’m not saying it’s the right path however it’s all his feelings mixed into one and it’s exactly what he just told “friend”. I’m excited to see where else this goes and like always Erik you never fail to amaze at the voice acting department
There is the possibility, once Blake’s friend finds out what (and why) he’s doing what he is, they’ll be on board and down in the basement with him. They already know what kind of man he is. Maybe they’re a perfect match for each other 😏 and I’m so here for something like that!
The amount of emotions flowing through me at this moment, listening to this audio, is overwhelming. I can feel the internal struggle, the battle of emotions in this script, everything. The lightness of caring for someone, reminiscing on the good memories, amplifying them with the person, wanting more, more, more. On the other hand, the feelings of possessiveness, wanting nothing more than to have the affections of the person you love, care for so deeply, but not wanting to be pushed away. The lightness of a memory becomes a prison, wanting it so much, to relive the memory, create new ones, too, but these dark tendrils keep pulling you down, creating more and more of them. It’s suffocating. Blake tracing patterns over skin, again, was so heartwarming, even if the action was laced with longing, sadness, only wanting to ease, soothe, calm, despite the complicated feelings inside of him. I could almost feel the touches, carrying so much meaning behind them, and smiling too, indeed trying to figure out the shapes. It is comforting. I couldn’t help but cry during this audio because I feel for Blake in this situation. Emotions can only run so deep before they become so much, one drowns. Clinging onto a beacon of hope, something, anything to keep you afloat, to keep you in a place where you can still feel, feel warmth, feel light. Emotions are also terrifying when out of control, not being able to hold back, and I feel the intensity of Blake, holding back, not wanting to spill over. This is devastatingly painful, even though there is so much darkness collected in one’s inner depths, desperately trying to find a way to breathe like once before. “The things I think about you, how much I want you… it’s the stuff you’re not supposed to say out loud. The stuff you’re never supposed to admit to feeling.” This feeling, this intensity is scary, especially for the one feeling it, doing their best to hold it within themselves. The more these feelings are stored away, the more they grow in intensity, due to not having an outlet, creating a loss of control. This premise is terrifying, knowing how the psyche can become consumed by these emotions, transforming into a monster of one’s own making. It’s not for the faint of heart. Yet, the beacon of hope, shines their light, and initiates the next chapter of the story. This script was painfully beautiful, Erik, so was the voice acting. Thank you, always, for sharing your creativity, your stories, and your voice.
This video was absolutely amazing 💜😭 I had to remind myself over and over the fact that he’s a crazy yandere who literally is in a cult. He’s so two faced and charming that I can’t see that side of him clearly while I’m listening to his audios with his listener. It’s absolutely spectacular writing
I have no words to describe how amazing this audio was, it made me feel so many emotions. The change in Blake's tone of voice once he said "I can't give you space" gave me chills it's so interesting to see how he goes from being vulnerable and broken to possessive in just a few sentences. We finally got backstory to their friendship and honestly I was not expecting the fact that they had already hooked up before. Their relationship is messed up in a way but I'm here for it. I wonder if it'll actually work out considering the fact that Blake has so many red flags especially because of what they did to Eli and Sunshine. I can't believe bestie just decided to ignore all those red flags even though Blake warned them lol. There's so much I want to say about this audio but that would turn my comment into an entire essay so all I have to say is that this Audio was incredible, the amount of emotions that were going on were so intense but they were conveyed so well! I can't wait to see how this story progresses, you did a great job Erik! Thank you for the awesome work that you do 💙
i wanna know what’s wrong with this friend 😭 omg i was hoping we’d finally find out. what are they possibly dying from or need protecting from please it’s been years what is it lmao? i thought it was inversion but that’s already happened. blake asked them, he said that they know how he is (so they know about his possessive behavior?), he said that he okay with them being friends (and implied that would keep them from his more possessive habits?), and the friend still said yes? i have never encountered a yandere that practically tells their obsession that they are a yandere, their obsession is already aware of their yandere tendencies, and then yandere asks permission, asks permissionnn to be a yandere to them and the object of obsession says yes and i totally get how the friend could fall for him. without yandere in the title and the content warning the speech (before the very very end) could fit right along with confessions from the romances on this channel. but he’s warning them at the end and they stillllll… lmao this is basically ‘i’ve loved you my whole life. i am perfectly fine being friends with no change in demeanor but if you get with me i go on x-yandere mode and you already know this. do you still want to get with me?’ ‘yes!!’ 😭
I told myself I wasn’t going to fall for this man. Reminded myself over and over again how he tortured my boyo and sunny sunshine and is a two faced lying yandere..but the moment the video started and he let out that GODDAMN CHUCKLE. my heart LITERALLY LEAPT. GOD. WHY.
I believe it was the great werewolf tsun boi David himself that said, "I don't know whether I should kill them or marry them". THIS IS SO JUICY AND MESSY I LOVE IT! Also, yes, we all know Blake is certified insane HOWEVER. Hear me out. While Bestie may not ever expect Blake to actually KIDNAP someone, from the way Blake talks, its not as if they're totally in the dark either. Sooooo can anyone else imagine Bestie and Blake (omg they're BBFFs, Bestie and Blake For Forever) in college and Bestie covering for Blake's... bloodier yandere moments? Like.... maybe even setting up a few moments? Idkkkk~ They don't seem totally innocent either is all I'm saying~ ;P
this hits too close to home with the push-and-pull dynamic they have, i could physically feel the awkwardness- the tension during his monolog about their history was so well-written! amazing work as always, can't wait for tomorrow's inevitable cliffhanger
I loved the song that you mentioned in the descriptions 😍 it fits so well! please do that more often in the future if you have reference or inspiration songs❤🥺🙏
I see, I see, no I actually don't see the red flags, and no it's not because I'm wearing rose-tinted glasses, I am actually genuinely trying to scavenge for them flaggies but I CANT. At least I know I'm fucked.
no literally😭 there’s no way him lying about kidnapping people and running a cult just to stop his bae from dying is gonna do this relationship any good in the long run (spoilers of recent blake vid) cause it makes you think if their death wasn’t fabricated just to ensure some evil gods have a means of escape, how would he react if it was a natural death??? he’s such a control freak it’s insane cause knowing the lengths he’s going through now to save them even though the evil sovereigns escaping could ensure EVERYONE (including them) dies then i’m sure if it meant they’d live a lil longer he’d lock them in a well furnished basement with three meals a day and never let them see the light of day😭 the most unhealthy attachment EVER😭
Bro I just had a thought. What if this friend is in a coma and Blake visits them in their mind. 😮 He us trying to get them help from death somehow. I could be way off here but had to share in case anyone else has the same feeling.
The way my jaw fell to the group. This is genius. Do you happen to remember that echo video that got taken down (it’s on patreon) where it was like a whole marvel what if? Type thing? Elliot’s scene in that audio was him telling sunshine to wake up as if they were in a coma so maybe that could have been foreshadowing something but it’s reversed characters instead of Elliot and sunshine it’s Blake and bestie. Or maybe I’m just going insane because Erik is keeping me on my toes all the fucking time
Bestie, what is wrong with you? And no, not with how you're failing to see Blake's manipulation. I'd even go as far as to say that Bestie has a manipulative bone or two in their own body. But what is wrong with you that Blake has to protect you from? Or is it just the more classical yandere shit about the world being a dangerous place yada yada? I don't think so. And the tone of voice in this video! I had to rewind the beginning so many times during the pattern drawing cause I kept losing focus and almost falling asleep. But no troubles like that later on in the video the way the tone shifted. I was way off in my predictions for this video but that's what keeps everything so interesting. And I gotta love the "If we do this, you're mine" in the maze background
tbh if Bestie was the "Villain" or/and the manipulator in the series it would be kinda surprising, pretty cool (the first 'evil' listener since we always play the victims *clears throat*) and honestly well deserved
@@MenacingAngel_ Yeah, I in no way believe Bestie is the 'villain' here. Tbh I think my thought about them being somewhat manipulative was probably just me falling for Blake's manipulation with him telling how they drifted apart and feeling somewhat guilty on Bestie's behalf. I think I need to listen to this again (and all Bestie videos) to get my thoughts straight but I don't think I'm ready yet 😁 I need to stew be thoughts for a while first to have a clearer head
@@evejohanna yeah again it would be pretty cool but considering the last time Erik made the listener a morally gray character the series (Fred and his listener/ Sam’s Vamps) got cancelled Netflix style, it’s probably unlikely that that’s the way it’s going.
I haven’t listened yet so first opinions let’s gooo 0:55 what problems does he have? Trying to keep sunshine in the basement? Funny. 1:25 I am ashamed to say that I blushed at this 2:58 feelings? 3:38 like what? Sunshine and Elliot? 4:15 “life’s too short to waste it sweating every decision and every result…you’ll drown in them,if you do that” 7:37 STOP I CANT TAKE ITTT 9:16 AHFVHRNSBJ 11:26 kinda reminds me of avior… 12:12 why does he make it sound like he drugged us or something…😰 15:55 embarrassed? Confused? Disconnected? 17:14 “it was like I was going through the motions and it just…um, the motions didn’t make sense anymore” 18:15 feelings about us?FOR us?😳😳😳 20:14 “it didn’t feel like a mistake to me. it felt like…someone,switching on the lights..and suddenly realizing that…I’d been standing in the dark before” 21:02 “and….maybe I shouldn’t have but I..I couldn’t lie to you about that..and things just…things just seemed to fall apart after that. you were my best friend, that was the most important thing to me. I..wanted to be with you like that but.. you said you didn’t and that was ok. I had to be ok with that it didn’t need to turn into anything. It was enough to just have you in my life I knew that…” I’ll come back and do more later… I need to work on a school project
This kid is always WOUND UP. Like, he’s never had a spa day in his life, but being with this one person feels kinda nice - cucumber slices on his eyes. So he decides to duct tape them to his face in a panic and throw punches at anyone that gets close. Is he ok. And I get his desperation to save a life, but the desperation to go in hard and irrevocably on a relationship in the middle of the night after he was lulling them to sleep- No “let’s talk about this again in the morning when we can have a lucid conversation” or “we can take this slowly so we both know what want from this;” no concessions toward them changing their mind in the future. Is this the antithesis of the Lovely-Vincent roommate arc? Either way, definitely intrigued to see where we go from here. And, like, why- why Blake go brrrrr. If he go snap.
Ok wait.. does anyone know what are the powers this listener has? In one of the earlier videos w Sunshine Blake says that he wants their powers on the side of Close Knit. On some of the latest videos he also says that if they're not able to complete the plan this listener would perish... Also Blake is most likelly the dream-walker that made Avior and Starlight end up in the meridian so i wonder if this listener somehow ties up to that as well...
Why do i feel like bestie is dying?..... Guuuuuuys.... is bestie dying?..... 😢 are we dying? 😢😢😢😢 im not even done listening and already im sideeyeing the flip out of my phone cause i feel like theres underlying issues we are going to find out about like next episode and im trying NOT to skip ahead and ruin things for myself! WHY DOES THIS MAN KEEP DOING THIS TO US?!
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Woah, that's a lot of flags! It's too bad I'm wearing my rose-tinted glasses so I can't see what colour they are.
Lol frl!😂
LMAOOO REAL
Blake: practically covered in red flags
Bestie: It's a great thing my favorite color is red
FR😭
Hey he's honest about them at least 💅💅🚩🚩
Looks like a party to me let's goooooooo
I've never seen a yandere shove their own red flags into someone's face and explain the consequences of being with them and still have the person go for it nfjdgskgnkf like damn, props to the listener for having the balls for that .
Not the Backround hiding "If we do this youre mine" LOL
I ALMOST SCREAMED WHEN THEY KISSED AGAIN, I WAS HOPING BESTIE WOULDNT GO DOWN LIKE THIS. UR STUCK NOW BESTIE, GOOD LUCK-
pLs I THOUGHT BESTIE COULD BE A BAD B BUT CLEARLY THE LISTENERS IN BALANCE AREN'T THE SMARTEST (excluding Smartass duh) LIKE THEY SHOULD TAKE NOTES FROM IMP!ANGEL THEY WENT DOWN BUT THEY DID IT LIKE A TRUE ICON
@@MenacingAngel_ I THOUGHT THEYD BE BETTER THAN THIS AND PULL AWAYYYYYYYYY BESTIE PLEASE DONT DO THIS TO YOURSELF!!!!!! ALL THE OTHER YANDERE LISTENERS ARE SCREAMING RN
@@Kazbur_ nah fr He literally told them that they’re fucked if they continue and they just fucking didddd 😭😭😭 here we can see the difference between being brave and being stupid 😃🔫
@@MenacingAngel_ Smartass is one of the few listeners to have a brain cell
@@ishouldreallychangemyname948 real 💀 like I get that if the listeners figured everything out and like didn’t need to be told somethings we would have had like few minutes videos of silence because it’s the listeners speaking and it’s also for the plot but STILL LIKE WARDEN, DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THEM THAT SUPID DEMON AHHH😭🔫
The change in the tone of voice when Blake said “I can’t give you space” gave me chills. I can’t wait to see what happens with the rest of this series now after this audio!
Wait time stamp?? I think I fell asleep while listening 😭
@@ghosty8193 36:00
dude that was pure TALENT holy sh!t, so subtle yet so strong!
I was like... did I misread and clicked on a yandere video? 😯
If you think I’m about to listen to Blake for 40 minutes you are absolutely right let me go get my headphones :)
ONGGGG
Blake: 🚩🚩🚩
me: aw look a parade :)
"You know me, you know how I am" - I love how ominous this is, the warnings he's giving, but still not fully explaining, and the risk the listener takes (I've heard them referred to as Bestie and I love it omg) FANTASTIC.
Fancy seeing you here 🤭🤭
@@l.llovely6533 >:3 💖💖💖
Oh my god their relationship is so fucked and fraught and delicious, give me more. Blake and Bestie sleeping together once, Bestie regretting it and pulling away, I can see how that would hurt Blake... them trying to be friends again, but Blake still carrying a torch for Bestie, feeling tortured by his feelings but wanting to respect their boundaries so he pulls away... hurting Bestie too... and then trying to be friends a THIRD time, with trust-me-this-is-platonic cuddles and compliments and soft touches and spending the nights together, God they keep torturing each other with their feelings. Bestie kissing Blake was so powerful, like a perfect moment, but after everything I understand Blake's hesitancy... but that warning, that threat and Bestie taking it anyway.... man I can almost forget he straight up tortured Sunshine.
This is extremely rambly but god this is good, Blake is quickly becoming a yandere favorite, he's so complex and multifaceted
Blake: be careful what you wish for we both know I’m obsessive and possessive and I’ll never let you go
Bestie: jokes on you I’m into that shit
I literally said “jokes of you I have separation anxiety and trust issues.”
Bestie: this sign doesnt apply to me because i cant read
Bestie: Its opposite day, red mean green and green means red
YES MY PEOPLE
Yandere: *confessing to being a yandere*
Listener: "Fick it we ball."
God, I love how you write your Yanderes... Each one having their own shade of Yandere, different tactics and obsessions... The lengths they'd go for their listeners... And the fact that they know how he is... who he is... and that he's willing to put in so much effort to keep that control if it means keeping them in his life... even if it means he can't be with them, but still be in their life... 😭
Timestamps:
1:07 - “Being with you makes me feel better.” *[...] [Laugh]* “It doesnt have to be anything specific that you do, it’s just… you. You make me smile, you make me happy. I like being with you. That’s enough.”
2:26 - “I dont wanna lose any time I could be sharing with you, so when work throws a wrench in that, it gets me in my feelings”
4:48 - “I cant always keep my head above the water, but being with you is like… having an air tank. I might be below the surface, but im still getting oxygen. You are that oxygen that keeps me going when I’m under.”
5:28 - Stuttery Blake, offering to make them breakfast again if they want him to stay the night
6:15 - “I’m creative, I’m sure i could whip up something good to put a smile on your grumpy morning face.”
7:53 - Blake asking his Listener if they want to head to bed, and them asking to stay up a little longer
8:57 - “We’re finally getting your sleep schedule back on track, last thing I want to do is throw it for a loop again”
9:17 - Listener asking to lay their head on Blake’s lap
10:30 - 14:57 *Blake tracing spirals and patterns on his Listener’s skin to help them relax*
12:50 - _Down, down, down_
15:12 - 18:30 *Listener asking Blake about the reason why he pulled away from them, and it was because of his feelings for them*
18:54 - *Blake and his Listener hooked up in senior year, and his Listener thought it was a mistake*
- They didn’t want to lose their friendship
20:04 - It didn’t feel like a mistake to Blake, though
20:17 - “It felt like… someone switching on the lights, and suddenly realizing that I’d been standing in the dark all that time before. It felt like life was suddenly in color. And I told you that.”
21:15 - “And things just… seemed to fall apart after that.”
21:28 - Blake saying that he would have been okay with just staying friends because what was most important to him was having them in his life
22:40 - Listener pulled away after that
23:25 - “It felt like I got a taste of everything I’d ever wanted, the most amazing feeling I’d ever experienced and then the next morning, I didn’t just lose the chance at that, I lost my best friend. The reason to not be together was so that we wouldn’t lose our friendship, and then it felt like we did anyway.”
25:09 - 26:07 Blake gave them space, but tried to show them that he was still there, and managed to find a balance with his feelings
26:31 - 29:20 And then they started hanging out again, and the feelings came back. So Blake was the one that pulled away.
31:13 - “I’m tired of the dance. I just miss my friend. And I’ve sat with these feelings long enough to know how to manage them, I promise. I don’t wanna go. I don’t want either of us to go. Not again. Please.”
32:02 - *Blake:* [Whispered] Wh-what are you doing?
32:06 - *Listener kisses Blake, but he pulls away*
33:27 - Blake doesn't want to do this with them unless they know for _sure_ that they want him for the long run, because he doesn’t want to lose them again.
34:34 - *“Please. Don’t do this if you don’t want me that way for the long haul. I can’t be another mistake. Because it’ll break me.”*
35:28 - “If you choose me, if you let me have this, it would change things.” + Blake letting them know what he would do for them if they decide to have all of him
37:05 - “Don’t do this unless I’m what you really want. Because if we start, I’m not ever gonna want it to stop. So you’ve gotta choose. Draw the line here, and I won’t cross it, I swear. But if you pick this, it’ll be all of me. All of it. And we both know a lot of that’s not pretty. Please. Don’t give me this unless that’s what you want. Don’t give me that hope.”
38:21 - *Listener kissing Blake again*
Take your time!!!
Don’t sweat it 🥳
Finally done with the timestamps lol, sorry that took so long yall!!
@@kilarthmac Oh my God, I hope you know the work you do is honored and respected 😭❤️ some days I can't listen to the audios fully because I have work to do but I LOVEE when I can see time stamps like yours to at least understand what's going on, thank you!!
doing gods work like always
Time to put my clown nose back on cause I'm down to jump into this yandere rabbit hole.
That backstory reveal, the conflicting emotions Blake's speech evoked. The sheer desperation in his voice, Bestie ending their back and forth, their push and pull... I know it's probably not in the cards, Blake's bought too far into CloseKnit's propaganda and is too much of an active participant and asset to them, not to mention what he has done to Sunshine and Elliot and who knows who else, but here I am, still hoping that this incoming trainwreck of a relationship is salvageable somehow.
Stellar work, Erik, truly. No one makes me root for doomed relationships and characters quite like you do.
the way you lowered your voice with the line "but I won't be able to give you space." legitimately gave me chills
Arguably my fav part from this video
Me, trying to justify liking Blake as much as I do: "Dad look! It's the Good Kush!"
That small, tired, sensible part of me to me: "This is the dollar store how good can it be..."
I feel like I'm getting emotional whiplash from hearing Blake's love confessions then remembering what he's done/ is doing to Sunshine and Elliott. Both heartbreaking and angering!
Good gods, that subtle, gradual shift from nearly broken and pleading vulnerability through dark and warning into possessive and hungry over just a handful of sentences just gives me the tingles.
You have honed your craft to a razors edge, Erik! You keep setting the bar higher and higher, and I am 👏 here 👏 for 👏 it!
26:17 HE SAID THE THING!!! TITLE DROP!!!! THIS IS JUST LIKE WHEN THEY SAID “TIME FOR A STAR WARS” IN STAR WARS!!!!!!!
The way the tone of his voice changes throughout the audio 🥰 I love Blake
Damn he got em. Moment of silence for the fallen soldier 😞
(Great watch as always btw)
rip
Not sure if you noticed the thumbnail at the back, because I thought at first it just represents the icon of Elliot but it says, "If we do this, you're mine."
And after hearing the whole audio, that kinda makes it creepier. Omg.
I know that Blake is a villain and all but I understood the part where he was so scared to be a "mistake" once again after that first kiss from the listener especially from what happened to them from the past. It's definitely traumatizing.
Good work as always, Erik. I'm always intrigued with all the stuff that you do. Thank you so much for existing and for showing us your talents. 😘❤️
This is the only comment I’ve found that says anything about the background! I noticed it too and I’ve been scouring the comments to see if anyone else saw it!
How am I supposed to pay attention to the lore when his voice is so soothing??? I fall asleep in less than 15 minutes
Real
Whenever I catch myself thinking “aww that’s sweet” I remember he is currently holding sunshine hostage in his cult’s creepy basement
It's always so cool to see how differently you write yandere characters and how you give such a wide variety of levels for them instead of just the usual internet yandere trope of "I love you and I'll kill for you". Blake is a perfect example of that with how your able to change his tone and personality just by what character he's interacting with and the best part you made Bestie actively know about how Blake can be and even despite that they still want to make it work and I'm genuinely hoping that things work out for these 2 in someway.
lord i ADOOORE how blake’s feelings evolved,, him having just these internal battles and confusions really hits close to home and it’s so well done :’)
since we're all doing red flag metaphors, here's mine: wow these flags sure are bright red and i definitely know to stay away from those but these ones have such an intricate sewing pattern that i can't help but stay. y'know, to admire the handiwork.
I know he’s a yandere, i know he’s not meant to be healthy, but the fact that he has exerted this much control for this long even at the initial kiss here when he’s giving them an out? Being honest about whats going to happen once we’ve started? Idk bout ya’ll but im hungry and blake is served
You know I can really see where he's coming from with the whole "please don't put me through this again, I won't survive this"... But the rest? HOLY FUCK, RUN! RUN VERY FAST DEAR LISTENER!!!
not me kicking my feet in the air like this man isn't a villain in Elliot and Sunshine's story
The way you write/act intensely obsessive characters is my SHIT
ong
Bro when he said "down down" i shivered SO badly cuz of the imp james vid 😭
Hearing Blake be so vulnerable bc of all these feelings he has and has had makes you understand a little bit more why he’s going the lengths that he is to save his “friend”. I’m not saying it’s the right path however it’s all his feelings mixed into one and it’s exactly what he just told “friend”. I’m excited to see where else this goes and like always Erik you never fail to amaze at the voice acting department
There is the possibility, once Blake’s friend finds out what (and why) he’s doing what he is, they’ll be on board and down in the basement with him. They already know what kind of man he is. Maybe they’re a perfect match for each other 😏 and I’m so here for something like that!
At some point I went "awe poor baby" but in the middle of that I suddenly remembered who I was listening to and physically recoiled😭
PLEASEE HE ALMOST GOT YOU😭😭😭
"how many times did you listen to this?"
yes.
The amount of emotions flowing through me at this moment, listening to this audio, is overwhelming. I can feel the internal struggle, the battle of emotions in this script, everything. The lightness of caring for someone, reminiscing on the good memories, amplifying them with the person, wanting more, more, more. On the other hand, the feelings of possessiveness, wanting nothing more than to have the affections of the person you love, care for so deeply, but not wanting to be pushed away. The lightness of a memory becomes a prison, wanting it so much, to relive the memory, create new ones, too, but these dark tendrils keep pulling you down, creating more and more of them. It’s suffocating.
Blake tracing patterns over skin, again, was so heartwarming, even if the action was laced with longing, sadness, only wanting to ease, soothe, calm, despite the complicated feelings inside of him. I could almost feel the touches, carrying so much meaning behind them, and smiling too, indeed trying to figure out the shapes. It is comforting.
I couldn’t help but cry during this audio because I feel for Blake in this situation. Emotions can only run so deep before they become so much, one drowns. Clinging onto a beacon of hope, something, anything to keep you afloat, to keep you in a place where you can still feel, feel warmth, feel light. Emotions are also terrifying when out of control, not being able to hold back, and I feel the intensity of Blake, holding back, not wanting to spill over. This is devastatingly painful, even though there is so much darkness collected in one’s inner depths, desperately trying to find a way to breathe like once before.
“The things I think about you, how much I want you… it’s the stuff you’re not supposed to say out loud. The stuff you’re never supposed to admit to feeling.” This feeling, this intensity is scary, especially for the one feeling it, doing their best to hold it within themselves. The more these feelings are stored away, the more they grow in intensity, due to not having an outlet, creating a loss of control. This premise is terrifying, knowing how the psyche can become consumed by these emotions, transforming into a monster of one’s own making. It’s not for the faint of heart. Yet, the beacon of hope, shines their light, and initiates the next chapter of the story.
This script was painfully beautiful, Erik, so was the voice acting. Thank you, always, for sharing your creativity, your stories, and your voice.
Blake-enjoyers are feasting rn and I’m here to watch and eat popcorn ❤
Ya know what, the Blake being a fortnite player makes so much sense after this
How dare you give me feelings and sympathy for this man. God damn. This isn't fair, Erik.
This video was absolutely amazing 💜😭
I had to remind myself over and over the fact that he’s a crazy yandere who literally is in a cult. He’s so two faced and charming that I can’t see that side of him clearly while I’m listening to his audios with his listener. It’s absolutely spectacular writing
And that my friend... is how a Yandere is born
I always gave the listener the benefit of the doubt, but now they're just ignoring the flashing red lights in their face!
Excuse them they're colorblind ❤
@@mitriarts1100 must be😅
I have no words to describe how amazing this audio was, it made me feel so many emotions. The change in Blake's tone of voice once he said "I can't give you space" gave me chills it's so interesting to see how he goes from being vulnerable and broken to possessive in just a few sentences.
We finally got backstory to their friendship and honestly I was not expecting the fact that they had already hooked up before. Their relationship is messed up in a way but I'm here for it. I wonder if it'll actually work out considering the fact that Blake has so many red flags especially because of what they did to Eli and Sunshine. I can't believe bestie just decided to ignore all those red flags even though Blake warned them lol.
There's so much I want to say about this audio but that would turn my comment into an entire essay so all I have to say is that this Audio was incredible, the amount of emotions that were going on were so intense but they were conveyed so well! I can't wait to see how this story progresses, you did a great job Erik! Thank you for the awesome work that you do 💙
i wanna know what’s wrong with this friend 😭 omg i was hoping we’d finally find out. what are they possibly dying from or need protecting from please it’s been years what is it lmao? i thought it was inversion but that’s already happened.
blake asked them, he said that they know how he is (so they know about his possessive behavior?), he said that he okay with them being friends (and implied that would keep them from his more possessive habits?), and the friend still said yes? i have never encountered a yandere that practically tells their obsession that they are a yandere, their obsession is already aware of their yandere tendencies, and then yandere asks permission, asks permissionnn to be a yandere to them and the object of obsession says yes
and i totally get how the friend could fall for him. without yandere in the title and the content warning the speech (before the very very end) could fit right along with confessions from the romances on this channel. but he’s warning them at the end and they stillllll…
lmao this is basically ‘i’ve loved you my whole life. i am perfectly fine being friends with no change in demeanor but if you get with me i go on x-yandere mode and you already know this. do you still want to get with me?’ ‘yes!!’ 😭
this dude throws me in a loop
I pick him, I choose him, I love him
If you know you know
I told myself I wasn’t going to fall for this man. Reminded myself over and over again how he tortured my boyo and sunny sunshine and is a two faced lying yandere..but the moment the video started and he let out that GODDAMN CHUCKLE. my heart LITERALLY LEAPT.
GOD. WHY.
Your yandere writings are just something else Eric
I believe it was the great werewolf tsun boi David himself that said,
"I don't know whether I should kill them or marry them".
THIS IS SO JUICY AND MESSY I LOVE IT! Also, yes, we all know Blake is certified insane HOWEVER. Hear me out. While Bestie may not ever expect Blake to actually KIDNAP someone, from the way Blake talks, its not as if they're totally in the dark either. Sooooo can anyone else imagine Bestie and Blake (omg they're BBFFs, Bestie and Blake For Forever) in college and Bestie covering for Blake's... bloodier yandere moments? Like.... maybe even setting up a few moments?
Idkkkk~ They don't seem totally innocent either is all I'm saying~ ;P
Kill them, just- kill them
Yeahhh, I also was considering that Bestie may not be super innocent either. More like Bestie(s in crime) lol
@@oriiiughh BESTIES IN CRIME I'M DYING-
stop! i cannot be falling for this man.
at least he warned them 👁️👁️
15:40 bro was so nervous that his breath was SHAKY
im riding a train that's ready wreck and honestly? im here for it the whole way.
this hits too close to home with the push-and-pull dynamic they have, i could physically feel the awkwardness-
the tension during his monolog about their history was so well-written! amazing work as always, can't wait for tomorrow's inevitable cliffhanger
We've lost bestie every body😔
I loved the song that you mentioned in the descriptions 😍 it fits so well!
please do that more often in the future if you have reference or inspiration songs❤🥺🙏
This reminded me so much of The Phantom Of The Opera. Great work 👌🏻
i am so addicted to this
Oh Damn 🥲
If this is manipulation it's certainly convincing but if it isn't I feel bad for Blake but also worry for Sunshine and bestie now.
The entirety of this video was me forcing my smile down and repeating “HE KIDNAPS PEOPLE!”
if i had a dollar for every time i came back to this audio…. i miss them so much 😩
too real
Honestly the labyrinth pattern took me a bit to read, but it's such a cool detail
What does it say?
@@everydayexercises5736 it's "if we do this you're mine"
I see, I see, no I actually don't see the red flags, and no it's not because I'm wearing rose-tinted glasses, I am actually genuinely trying to scavenge for them flaggies but I CANT. At least I know I'm fucked.
Not me waiting to get murdered in my sleep by this man
damn I feel like we could fix him though 🤡
🤡
WE ARE BOO-BOO THE FOOL 🤡
I love that we’re getting a 3 part instalment for this series, it’s so good!
Welp bestie dug their grave now 🙃
He totally pulled back and didn't take advantage of the tides turning in his favor!!! C'mon, that is a GREEN FLAG.
its almost fascinating how he blocks out any self aware thoughts he could have lmao its so unhealthy how he latches onto the listener tho actually 😭😭😭
no literally😭 there’s no way him lying about kidnapping people and running a cult just to stop his bae from dying is gonna do this relationship any good in the long run
(spoilers of recent blake vid)
cause it makes you think if their death wasn’t fabricated just to ensure some evil gods have a means of escape, how would he react if it was a natural death??? he’s such a control freak it’s insane cause knowing the lengths he’s going through now to save them even though the evil sovereigns escaping could ensure EVERYONE (including them) dies then i’m sure if it meant they’d live a lil longer he’d lock them in a well furnished basement with three meals a day and never let them see the light of day😭 the most unhealthy attachment EVER😭
hell yeah! another one of Erik's yanderes which are written with so much depth even the mariana trench cannot compare-
you know i'm in-
FORTY MINUTES. buckle up i guess 😭
i love how long your videos are it’s so perfect ❤
YAAAHHHHH!!! We love this man so much!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank u Erik!!!❤
sigh..Oh bestie, bestie bestie bestie..my love, you are COOKED!!😭😭😭💔💔💔
I DONT GIVE A SHIT HES A SACRY YANDERE HES JUST THE RIGHT FLAVOR(me personally would literally die for him)
NAURR I HAVE FALLEN AND I CANT GET UP
Bro I just had a thought. What if this friend is in a coma and Blake visits them in their mind. 😮 He us trying to get them help from death somehow. I could be way off here but had to share in case anyone else has the same feeling.
The way my jaw fell to the group. This is genius. Do you happen to remember that echo video that got taken down (it’s on patreon) where it was like a whole marvel what if? Type thing? Elliot’s scene in that audio was him telling sunshine to wake up as if they were in a coma so maybe that could have been foreshadowing something but it’s reversed characters instead of Elliot and sunshine it’s Blake and bestie.
Or maybe I’m just going insane because Erik is keeping me on my toes all the fucking time
Bestie, what is wrong with you? And no, not with how you're failing to see Blake's manipulation. I'd even go as far as to say that Bestie has a manipulative bone or two in their own body. But what is wrong with you that Blake has to protect you from? Or is it just the more classical yandere shit about the world being a dangerous place yada yada? I don't think so.
And the tone of voice in this video! I had to rewind the beginning so many times during the pattern drawing cause I kept losing focus and almost falling asleep. But no troubles like that later on in the video the way the tone shifted.
I was way off in my predictions for this video but that's what keeps everything so interesting. And I gotta love the "If we do this, you're mine" in the maze background
Good catch with the background lettering! I completely missed it!
tbh if Bestie was the "Villain" or/and the manipulator in the series it would be kinda surprising, pretty cool (the first 'evil' listener since we always play the victims *clears throat*) and honestly well deserved
@@MenacingAngel_ Yeah, I in no way believe Bestie is the 'villain' here. Tbh I think my thought about them being somewhat manipulative was probably just me falling for Blake's manipulation with him telling how they drifted apart and feeling somewhat guilty on Bestie's behalf. I think I need to listen to this again (and all Bestie videos) to get my thoughts straight but I don't think I'm ready yet 😁 I need to stew be thoughts for a while first to have a clearer head
@@evejohanna yeah again it would be pretty cool but considering the last time Erik made the listener a morally gray character the series (Fred and his listener/ Sam’s Vamps) got cancelled Netflix style, it’s probably unlikely that that’s the way it’s going.
The way I gasped when I saw the notification 😅❤
I was up at 5am waiting for this to drop!😍😍
40 minutes of manipulation🫣I’m scared
He’s so babygirl.
I haven’t listened yet so first opinions let’s gooo
0:55 what problems does he have? Trying to keep sunshine in the basement? Funny.
1:25 I am ashamed to say that I blushed at this
2:58 feelings?
3:38 like what? Sunshine and Elliot?
4:15 “life’s too short to waste it sweating every decision and every result…you’ll drown in them,if you do that”
7:37 STOP I CANT TAKE ITTT
9:16 AHFVHRNSBJ
11:26 kinda reminds me of avior…
12:12 why does he make it sound like he drugged us or something…😰
15:55 embarrassed? Confused? Disconnected?
17:14 “it was like I was going through the motions and it just…um, the motions didn’t make sense anymore”
18:15 feelings about us?FOR us?😳😳😳
20:14 “it didn’t feel like a mistake to me. it felt like…someone,switching on the lights..and suddenly realizing that…I’d been standing in the dark before”
21:02 “and….maybe I shouldn’t have but I..I couldn’t lie to you about that..and things just…things just seemed to fall apart after that. you were my best friend, that was the most important thing to me. I..wanted to be with you like that but.. you said you didn’t and that was ok. I had to be ok with that it didn’t need to turn into anything. It was enough to just have you in my life I knew that…”
I’ll come back and do more later… I need to work on a school project
This kid is always WOUND UP. Like, he’s never had a spa day in his life, but being with this one person feels kinda nice - cucumber slices on his eyes. So he decides to duct tape them to his face in a panic and throw punches at anyone that gets close. Is he ok. And I get his desperation to save a life, but the desperation to go in hard and irrevocably on a relationship in the middle of the night after he was lulling them to sleep- No “let’s talk about this again in the morning when we can have a lucid conversation” or “we can take this slowly so we both know what want from this;” no concessions toward them changing their mind in the future. Is this the antithesis of the Lovely-Vincent roommate arc? Either way, definitely intrigued to see where we go from here. And, like, why- why Blake go brrrrr. If he go snap.
Bruh this comment lmfao
“work bullshit”
um sunshine is literally kidnapped & in a basement HELLO bestie’s not gonna like this
BLAAKKKKKE KISSSSSSED WOOOOO
40 minutes?!?! GAWD DAMN! Thank the Lord that is Erik 🙏
Ok wait.. does anyone know what are the powers this listener has?
In one of the earlier videos w Sunshine Blake says that he wants their powers on the side of Close Knit.
On some of the latest videos he also says that if they're not able to complete the plan this listener would perish...
Also Blake is most likelly the dream-walker that made Avior and Starlight end up in the meridian so i wonder if this listener somehow ties up to that as well...
We don’t know what Bestie is yet
Am… am I starting to like Blake?!
Oh no….
Why do i feel like bestie is dying?..... Guuuuuuys.... is bestie dying?..... 😢 are we dying? 😢😢😢😢 im not even done listening and already im sideeyeing the flip out of my phone cause i feel like theres underlying issues we are going to find out about like next episode and im trying NOT to skip ahead and ruin things for myself! WHY DOES THIS MAN KEEP DOING THIS TO US?!
god this is gonna go so wrong so fast i can’t wait
Bro Blake is one of my new favorite characters
forty minutes of Blake? sign me the fuck up!!
I can't wait till this man gets his karma omg
Blake is a walking bright Cristal clear red flag 🚩🚩
How? If we didnt knew what hé did to sunshine and elliot how is he a red flag?
@@susannadavidjan8983 the "I can't give you space" was enough for me 🤷🏻♀️
YOOOOOO THAT FUCKING ENDING BRO!!🤯🤯🤯🤯
Damn you, Erik /pos You've made me catch feelings for Blake...
Love how he literally confessed to being a yandere to bestie's face
Well well, that’s a lot of flag there, too bad I’m colorblind