February Pablo Protests

The famous picture of Batmannn drowning whoori

Members| * Batmannn
* daniel1234

**Support:*** Padan1

**Support:*** Ultin42069
* Fighter69
* 5harky

The **February Pablo Protests** were a series of protests by Batmannn and daniel1234 which took place during the month of February 2021.

The motive behind the protests was for Pablo, the iron golem, to be freed from his shrine. Pablo was an iron golem that had recently gained attention within Saladistan, bouncing up and down inside a small cubicle, many found him to be funny. Batmannn, however, argued that Pablo's life was more than just a meme. He and his partner believed that Pablo was suffering, deep down, and that whoori was an evil abuser of iron golem rights. Thus began the Free Pablo Movement; a movement to set Pablo free, let him be happy, and free Saladistan from whoori's tyrannical dictatorship.

The protests were very controversial, and some of the demonstrations were seen as equivalent to terrorism by some. The protests spread unwanted violence, fear, terror and hatred across Saladistan, and times were looking dark for the village. The protests were the main factor contributing to the outbreak of the Pablo Wars, as many began to turn against Batmannn to support whoori due to the number of times the protest endangered civilians' lives.

## Background

As mentioned earlier, the protests were part of a movement to Free Pablo. Contrary to popular belief, the movement was first proposed by daniel1234, and not Batmannn, despite the fact that he would later act as the leader of the movement. Batmannn claims that he originally supported daniel1234 not because of Pablo, but beacuse "it was fun to shoot whoori and then run away". However he would soon become more and more serious about the movement.

## Demonstrations

Below is a list of demonstrations Batmannn and daniel1234 carried out during the protests.

### whoori

* Drowned whoori
* Attempted to punch whoori to death
* Attempted to kill whoori, however they only managed to kill whoori when he was AFK, as whoori's armor was way to overpowered compared to both Batmannn and daniel1234's
* Lured a creeper into whoori's house and got the creeper to blow up
* Vandalized whoori's mansion with water and signs with death threats on them (death threats by none other than daniel1234)
* Attempted to set whoori on fire with lava, ended up setting Fighter69 and 5harky's house on fire instead

### Pablo

* Almost set Pablo on fire with lava
* Almost drowned Pablo
* daniel1234 almost killed Pablo

### Villagers

* Attempted to drown the Heathers (claimed it was because Heather 3 charged him emeralds for a "doughnut")
* Attacked the Heathers, raising the price of their trades
* daniel1234 killed an unknown villager

### Others

* daniel1234 killed a horse (on accident, according to her)
* Batmannn lost Nightshade

## Reactions

Eventually, whoori gave Batmannn Alfred, another iron golem that would stay in Wayne Hillside Resort. Batmannn really liked him, however when whoori threatened to release him from the resort, Batmannn begged him not to. whoori used Alfred as compensation; if Pablo was set free, Alfred would be set free as well. If anything happened to Pablo, the same would happen to Alfred. This managed to cool down attempts to set Pablo free.

But eventually, whoori had to take an *extra* step, and put barrier blocks around Pablo's shrine, just to prevent Batmannn or daniel1234 suddenly setting him free. Pablo eventually became the most controversial mob in the village.

### External Reactions

The only players directly involved in the protests were Batmannn, daniel1234 and whoori. However, many players began to show their support for each side as the protests went on.

#### Sashie\_Bunny

Sashie\_Bunny seemed to defend daniel1234's actions for whatever reason, no matter how bad they were, much to the displeasure of whoori and Ultin42069. By extent, this meant that she also supported Batmannn and the Free Pablo Movement. Even when Pablo was almost dead thanks to daniel1234, Sashie\_Bunny still decided to defend her. However, when it came to the actual issue of whether to Free or Keep Pablo, she had no stance on the matter.

Because others thought she supported the Free Pablo Movement, this caused the Keep Pablo side to declare war on her on April 7th.

#### Padan1

Padan1 naturally supported Batmannn. However, he was somewhat confused, and offered to kill Pablo for Batmannn, and with an ordinary bow, at that. In actuality, he never did anything to Pablo, although he came up with several conspiracy theories that the original Pablo had been killed by daniel1234 and that the current one was a merely a fake put in place by daniel1234 to cover up for her murder. The only evidence Padan1 had to base this theory on was when daniel1234 once asked him for a nametag.

#### afuwu

afuwu was greatly indifferent to the Pablo issue, much to the annoyance of both sides. He offered to support the Free Pablo side but during the actual war did not have any involvment.

#### Ultin42069

Ultin42069 greatly opposed the protests, due to the amount of chaos they brought upon the Village of Saladistan. To Ultin42069, the days of the protests were some of the darkest and most hopeless days of Saladistan. After the protests, he wished to punish the Free Pablo side for all the times they terrorized villagers and endangered Pablo's life, believing that Batmannn and daniel1234's chaos and recklessness posed a great threat to the peace of Saladistan.

He also did not want Pablo to be set free, so that the traditions of Saladistan could be sustained. If Pablo was set free, he would simply become like any other iron golem; wandering aimlessly.

In the first few days of the protests, Ultin42069 seemed to be the only person to support whoori.

#### Fighter69 and 5harky

During the protests, Fighter69 and 5harky's house was burnt down by Batmannn on accident, as their house had been built out of wood. This made both of them very upset, and 5harky and Batmannn got into a pretty heated argument. Batmannn ultimately offered to rebuild their house, but according to Fighter69, he did a very bad job repairing it. Fighter69 ultimately decided to just rebuild the house himself, this time out of a non-flammable material.

After this event, Fighter69 found out that this was only one of the heinous things Batmannn and daniel1234 did during the protests. He soon developed respect for Pablo and offered to support whoori and the Keep Pablo side during the First Pablo War. 5harky, on the other hand, remained neutral.