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A fact that not many humans know, or forget, is that Enderman tend to be very territorial. Most in the enderman in one area are part of a haunting so humans don’t tend to see the fighting between endermen territory. Ranboo also feels the same almost primal feeling of territory, but less so than full endermen. He respects their territories, only staying on them briefly unless given permission by the enderman themself. He himself has a territory. When he moved to the dream SMP, the previous haunting that resided within Manberg died in the explosion, leaving the land up for grabs. Ranboo didn’t care to admit the amount of nights he would succumb to his instincts, growing taller and nails becoming sharper, to brawl with any enderman who thought it would be easy to try to take his territory. Eventually, they stopped. And then doomsday happened and there was no more L’manberg, there was no more territory to be had and Ranboo moved to the Arctic. The problem with the arctic was that there was an abundance of Enderman everywhere, a rather large haunting due to only Techno and Philza living there and they were able to trade for pearls. Ranboo was happy to realize none of the immediate land around the cabin was claimed yet and he made plans to claim it later. His heart nearly stopped as he entered the cabin for the first time and be met with the emotionless purple eyes of another enderman.
“And that’s Edward, thought you’d like to meet them” Philza chuckled, clearly not noticing what was going on.
A static filled the air and Ranboo immediately tensed. He knew what that static meant. Get off of my territory. Ranboo felt his nails get sharper before he shook his head and forced himself to breathe. He didn’t want to fight. He was the one intruding on Edwards territory, what they say goes.
“You alright there?” Philza noticed the static in the air and the way Ranboo tensed up in response to it.
“Um- yeah I just-” Ranboo was cut off by Edward’s mouth unhinging and an inhumane screech left their throat. “I can’t be here” Ranboo ran out quickly followed by Philza.
Ranboo didn’t get it. Why didn’t he realize the land was already taken? Maybe it’s because Edward smells too much like a human after spending too much time with them that he didn’t even notice. Whatever the case was, Ranboo couldn’t enter the house, he just couldn’t. He didn’t think Edwards territory could go far, they were stuck in a boat after all. Ranboo was proven right as he reached a corner a couple of blocks away that were definitely not claimed. Quickly, Ranboo picked up a grass block, one around a torch so it would be snow-free, and rubbed the soft grass against the black side of his face before setting it down.
“Soooo want to tell me what just happened, Mate?” Philza sounded confused, slightly concerned as to why Ranboo had essentially just rubbed dirt on his face.
Ranboo flushed purple, seeming to have forgotten Phil was with him. “Oh, I um” He stuttered “Humans aren’t usually too aware of this but endermen are actually very territorial, and well, Edward didn’t take too kindly to me suddenly showing up on his territory…”
Philza made a hum of acknowledgment “And I’m guessing what you did was claiming your own territory around here?”
“Basically, I still need to mark more places around but I’m not sure how much space is left… there’s a really big haunting around here and I don’t want to cause any trouble or brawls because of it.”
Philza clapped his back, “Welp, I better leave you to it then huh? I’m guessing I can’t invite you over for dinner but I’ll bring you some”
Ranboo smiled back at his and nodded his thanks before setting off to find more areas around him to claim.