King Glowey's Statue

The King Glowey Statue was a large, floating statue above the residence of King Glowey that made up the skyline of Squid Island when viewed afar, loosely based off of the concept of the Beenny Mayor Statue in the previous series. It was constructed solely by Jelly in honour of King Glowey and partly in memory of Henward the Squid, given its location and use of magma to attempt a glowing aesthetic found in glow squids and the deep blue colour of regular squids respectively. Geographically, it is east of Slogo’s Lighthouse, and also west of the former Crain Crib and current site of the community farm. It was initially attacked by Crainer with flint and steel before its ruins were demolished on January 3, 2024.
== Background ==
Early on, the series was unnamed. However, commenters could pitch ideas on what to name it. Popular suggestions included Reunion Island, Tree Town or Sheep Town. However, while officially going to name the then-peninsula and series, Crainer had spotted a squid off the shore of the island, giving him the idea of naming it Squid Island, oblivious to the fact that it was still a peninsula, not an island (yet), calling the squid a “leader” and the ‘God squid’. The squid, posthumously named Henward, quickly swam away from the coast into the sea, later despawning there. Once mourning the loss of Henward, they decided to find a replacement squid to be their leader, choosing a glow squid for their unique appearance. Eventually, after going into the mineshafts, looking for both the glow squid and a name tag to prevent despawning, they had found both in the same general area. Multiple, however, and so they brought only one. It was a doozie trying to safely bring up the glow squid to sea level without having it either suffocate or drown; it required constant trial and error and mining in order to fetch the squid. However, they succeeded, and coronated it King Glowey.
== Construction ==
After losing a boxing match to Crainer after the pooper incident, Jelly decided to build a 16-block tall statue floating above the residence of King Glowey in honour of said squid in addition of memorial of Henward. He dyed the sheep in the new sheep farm shades of monochrome white, but mainly shades of blue and cyan. For the glowing part, he originally considered using glow stone, though later rejected this, as he didn’t want to go into the nether, instead opting to use magma blocks, testing whether it was flammable to wool considering that magma is just lava that hasn’t yet escaped a volcano in real life. Once knowing that magma wasn’t at risk of burning down statue, he began building the statue tentacles-first, initially using whites and blues for the tentacles. Once the six tentacles each achieved a height of seven blocks, Jelly then began constructing the head, seemingly hurried, considering that the only colours were blue and cyan. Once completing the head, Jelly finally decided to add the magma for a rushed smiley face, tainting the look of the statue from a southern view for the worst.
== Arson attack and demolition ==
Main article: 2024 King Glowey Statue arson attack
While the final stage of the construction of Squid Island's canal was underway, the time came for the demolition of the original King Glowey Residence, by removing the barriers, connecting it to the canal system, before adding the dam at the connection, officially ending the construction and demolition process and making the residence a part of the sea again. Crainer, having foreshadowed intent of malice by sneakily showing Josh flint and steel, despite the wishes of the other two, especially Jelly, randomly jumped straight into the residence aiming for the statue, before igniting it on fire numerous times rapidly from the tentacles. Crainer, albeit poorly, attempted to cover up the attack as initially being 'a slipping accident', 'accidentally' igniting the statue while 'falling'. While Slogo attempted to deescalate the situation, Jelly frantically attempted, in disbelief, to put out the fires, though failed and called out Crainer for it. The fires continued spreading upwards, before Crainer ultimately admitted that he intentionally set it ablaze. later demolishing the remaining wool and magma smiley face.
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