crash with mobends and essential

[jagprog5]

Requires all three of:

• AquaAcrobatics-1.15.4.jar
• Essential_forge_1-12-2.jar download from here (scroll down to 1.12.2)
• MoBends_1.12.2-1.2.2-29.09.25-all.jar

To reproduce: begin swimming in water (horizontal swim, like in newer versions). crash is instantaneous

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.fuzs.aquaacrobatics.integration.mobends.MoBendsIntegration.applyRotations(MoBendsIntegration.java:36)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.RenderPlayer.handler$zed000$applyRotations(RenderPlayer.java:565)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.RenderPlayer.applyRotations(RenderPlayer.java:265)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.RenderPlayer.mda312cc$lambda$essential$getTransform$0$0(RenderPlayer.java:1275)
    at gg.essential.universal.UMatrixStack.runReplacingGlobalState(UMatrixStack.kt:269)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.RenderPlayer.essential$getTransform(RenderPlayer.java:1274)
    at gg.essential.model.PlayerMolangQuery.calculatePositionAndRotation(PlayerMolangQuery.java:268)
    at gg.essential.model.PlayerMolangQuery.getPositionAndRotation(PlayerMolangQuery.java:289)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderGlobal.handler$zjh000$renderExtraClientCosmeticGeometry(RenderGlobal.java:4383)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderGlobal.renderEntities(RenderGlobal.java:869)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.renderWorldPass(EntityRenderer.java:1808)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.renderWorld(EntityRenderer.java:1621)
    at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.updateCameraAndRender(EntityRenderer.java:1390)
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.runGameLoop(Minecraft.java:1119)
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:3942)
    at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:123)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:135)
    at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage2.relaunch.Relaunch.relaunch(Relaunch.java:124)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage2.EssentialLoader.preloadEssential(EssentialLoader.java:328)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage2.EssentialLoader.loadPlatform(EssentialLoader.java:116)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage2.EssentialLoaderBase.load(EssentialLoaderBase.java:148)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage1.EssentialLoaderBase.load(EssentialLoaderBase.java:293)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage1.EssentialSetupTweaker.<init>(EssentialSetupTweaker.java:44)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage0.EssentialSetupTweaker.loadStage1(EssentialSetupTweaker.java:53)
    at gg.essential.loader.stage0.EssentialSetupTweaker.<init>(EssentialSetupTweaker.java:26)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
    at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:98)
    at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)

Edit: essential team confirmed the issue and found a slight workaround - moving into third person at any point will prevent the bug for the rest of the session.