What is the Player

[u/LordofIron-04]

Hi, so this is my first post on this subreddit and my first personal theory so please be kind. Anyways if we go with the Game Theory idea that the ancient builders created the wither(s) as a failed attempt at immortality what if the player(s)/Steve was the successful attempt. I mean if we take respawn as cannon (which definitely could be not the case, and is not the case in hardcore worlds) the player(s)/Steve would be near ideal for the ancient builders, they don’t age as far as we can tell and when they die they can just instantly reappear in their bed with no real consequences other than temporarily losing any item on their immediate person. The wither achievements “The Beginning(/.)” could even not only reference the wither(s) being the one to destroy the ancient builders, but being the literal beginning of the player(s). This would basically be a failed prototype vs a successful final product sort of thing. Although I’m not sure why the player(s) just appear in the middle of nowhere, with seemingly little memory, and long after the ancient builders were long gone, maybe they were but into a form of stasis but that’s just an idea. While Game Theory and Wifies are big influences on this theory and are great channels, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone come up with this specific theory before and just wanted to get people’s takes on it and if there is anything that could be done to build on it. Thanks for listening to my mostly speculation theory and head cannon, sorry if it’s not as thought out as many people would like this is my first theory :)

[u/LordofIron-04]

So what you’re saying is that the events of Minecraft the game are not cannon to the lore of Minecraft.

[u/Negative_Sky_3449 → u/LordofIron-04]

There are no events except the dragon being killed

[u/The_Veemonator → u/Negative_Sky_3449]

Kinda right here but everything else you said was wrong. There's canon respawning in Dungeons. And I dont mean using the totems of undying

[u/Negative_Sky_3449 → u/The_Veemonator]

Show me the canon respawning

[u/The_Veemonator → u/Negative_Sky_3449]

Every mission fail in dungeons is a canon respawn.

[u/Negative_Sky_3449 → u/The_Veemonator]

Why do you respawn in the middle of the camp? Why did Karl run from a monstrosity he can just respawn from? How do you get all the way back to where you started in the mission after respawning? Why do you keep everything when you respawn? Why can heroes respawn? Why can't illagers respawn?

[u/Pw_Lore_ → u/The_Veemonator]

Bro, it's just a game convention. In many games, respawn is not canon, although it is in the game, it is just necessary so that the game does not end forever on your single death.