Guybrush Threepwood - Blog Posts

Cant stop thinking about @genaleah's wildcard AU, so here is some headcanons and notes! Designs are based off of genaleahs as well :)

my nostalgia for the monkey island games always has me going back to play them. all of them. I finally got to MI2 and

Look at this

GOOBER

made a guybrush playlist awhile back but always wanted to send it on a "special day". guybrush is a character that gives me a lot of comfort and i'm really proud of this playlist!

Just me and my wife and my husband staring lovingly at each other!!! I love Return to BITS so far!!!!

(i still haven’t finished it but i am savoring every moment of these two together <3<3<3 

p.s. also hope to see fanart of these two plunderbunnies eventually ;} )

*holds drawing to my face and is shaking with happiness* GUY!!! GUYBRUSH!!! SKELLY BOY BRUSH!!

[Id: The picture is a portrait of Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island Series. He is a man with a lean face with semi-wavy hair pulled back into a pony tail. His features are skeletal and his face is worried. Sunken eye sockets and cheekbone definitions. This portrait has a neon blue plain background]

My BOYS!!

Instagram is butchering my boy so I must turn to here! Ahoy there, please that this little meme while I shake uncontrollably until return to monkey island is in my steam.

The day that happens I will become less normal than I usually am

MIWeek 2022 Day 7

I would be honored to share with the class, gather round... i suppose??

To be honest, I’m excited to have a new monkey island game come out this year (hopefully!) The first trailer felt like a good sign and the second trailer just kept giving me the same giddy feeling. There’s a lot of talk and suspecting of what the new game is going to contain. I see a lot of people and where their attitudes lie on this new entry. It’s interesting and I think I can understand their skepticism, but I’m just excited.

Seriously, I heard the theme and guybrush’s voice and I couldn’t help but start grinning like an idiot. 

side note: sad that this is the last day of Monkey Island appreciation week but, I raise my bottle of grog to next year’s week of Monkey Island! Cheers!

MI Week 2022 Day 6

Wowee, can't believe I've made it this far ^^; well, we're all here for the post. Today I wanted to share this. It's my first ever drawing of guybrush way back in 2021. During the quarantine I guess learning about games turned into loving games. The monkey island games were the first video games that I actually wanted to play for myself. I've learned a lot about the games from countless video essays and have fallen more and more in love as I kept playing.

I'm proud to know a really amazing game and see amazing things from it!! Im proud and happy I can give a little appreciation to a really cool series.

MIWeek 2022 day 5

Ummmm, this one is a bit of a head scratcher. Lechuck’s just been a really cool villain and he’s been a someone that feels right in his many different forms. But to me, he’s always been a goofy guy to contrast the goofy guy-brush. pfft I know but I think I’ve narrowed it down…

First, HIM. Dunno, I think this felt truly like he cared for Elaine. The introduction of him in the beginning, the sort of longish love confession to her is charming. Honestly and her outright refusal shows how his undying love and persistent Lechuck is to have his way. I like his spirit, it’s nice he continues to have it from game to game.

Second, HIM

Ok, tales Lechuck is because of personal reasons. BUT, pushing aside those reasons, he’s so convincing. It’s nice to see a fresh face of Lechuck, and one not rotting away as well. Look at the big dumb grin, it’s just sooo goofy. It’s a new status and I really got convinced of him being human, well that and being a cool, like able character. and then he stabs me in the heart but we don’t talk about that hehe

MIWeek day 4

Ok I’m thinking we can do this three different ways

Guybrush makes his own. Guybrush does a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle and a real-ass goddamn pirate sword on it. Definitely gold and red highlights on the flag.

I’m thinking like a memento to his time back on melee, so like I’m thinking of the “I beat the swordmaster of melee island” T-shirt.

My personal favorite…. Guybrush glued Murray to a flag and stuck him there as a flag of terror and possible lookout.

As you can tell, I am COMPLETELY serious, deathly if you will. A flag’s gotta mean something. Could his flag mean death??!?

MI Week 2022 Day 3

If we open ourselves to mixing in other piratical franchise, I am so down. Our Flag Means Death x Monkey Island??? It’s a goodie, welcome to my Tedtalk on why…

If we have Guybrush as our main man Stede Bonnet, I propose Elaine to being Blackbeard. Izzy is replaced by Lechuck. Guybrush and Elaine get their own dynamic of trying to understand each other’s worlds. Leizzy ( no no that feels so wrong) protests the idea because he’s in love with Elaine!

Side note: I haven’t completely finished OFMD but….. having this with Monkey island means the ending of Chapter 4: The Trail and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood could be played for laughs (or more like I don’t want to be punched in the feels at the end of that game)

Uhhhhhh Largo. I want largo back, seeing as this is a continuation of Lechuck’s Revenge. I would love for him to be the governor or first mate to Lechuck once more… I mean,

“Where you go, on sea or land, you can’t ever hide from Largo Lagrande!”

Guybrush could be back against the wall against some pirates on Scabb and we get approached by Largo himself. He could decked out in riches and surrounded by lackeys.

Day Two: Returning Cast

With the new game announced, that means some of our faves are coming back. Some were announced, others weren’t, so the question now remains: which favorite side character of yours would you like to see in Return to Monkey Island?

Ironically, the Sea of Thieves tall tale is the worst offender, though made by fans.

It's great as a way to lure SoT players into Monkey Island, but they botched it in a few ways; mischaracterisation of Cate Capsize, relying on one of the limited time Adventures for build-up, taking place immediately after Curse but not referencing Demon LeChuck in favour of the most toned down version of his zombie form yet, incredibly tedious movement and not playing around enough with the inherently weird in-universe explanation; it doesn't take place on the real Meleé or Monkey islands and instead in the delusional realm of Guybrush's memories, distorted by his nemesis.

Rare had the chance to give us a world of Guybrush's own desires turned against him by LeChuck and it's just Meleé island but he's a popular has-been, and not a hated has been? Maybe it's so lukewarm because of the demographic of SoT, but come on. We could have had the nightmare pirate LeChuck positioning Guybrush in a much wackier torment nexus.

Sorry for the rant, and don't get me started on the questionable ending of Guybrush apologising to the fake townsfolk.

It's really funny that MI2 predicted Guybrush as obnoxiously stuck in the past, clinging to iconic moments and places that made him famous until everyone got bored with him completely, only for the franchise to become exactly that after Tales. We got the beautifully and artfully made Sea of Thieves DLC, which really does capture the FEEL of the original SoMI but in 3D, but there's nothing original about it, it's literally made TO be a retread, even narratively. Then Return came, and while we have a lot more original content, characters, and places, the entire story still REVOLVES around LeChuck and the Secret. Playing it with my brother was frustrating because while we both grew up with MI3 and MI4 (and the first half of Tales), he only got to briefly play the other games Return puts a LOT of faith in the idea that you will recognize places and events that shouldn't necessarily define Guybrush as a character. This fandom has been full of mi1+mi2 elitists for forever but now it feels like they've snuck into the dev team, too.

This has got me both excited and nostalgic. Curse of Monkey Island was a great game back in the day! Love that Sea of Thieves is working with other pirate IP properties!