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So I've talked about my interpretation of DL! Scott quite a bit here and I've mentioned before I didnt really talk about DL! Pearl herself for the sole reason of I didn't have much to say, well now I do so let's get into this.

Pearl doesn't hate Scott and I'm tired of people acting like she does.

C!Pearl is a difficult character to pin down especially in double life. She's emotional, scary, caring, impulsive, and more but she doesn't have any ill will towards anyone.

Pearl started off her journey in Last life, teaming with Scott and having fun together before Cleo joins and they become the Gs. The game ends and as we all know Scott is declared the winner.

Then Double Life comes around and Pearl impulsive goes along with Martyn going into the nether and having fun with her friend not realizing the pain she's causing to her soulmate, both physically and emotionally.

So when she comes back to the overworld and finds out everyone but Scott and Cleo have their soulmates she gets excited. They're her friends! They could all team up together and be allies!!

Not realizing that's not how the games work.

Scott felt hurt by what she's done, leaving him without a second thought so it only feels right to leave her just like Pearl did to him, he didn't know Martyn would follow but that's not Scott's fault. Pearl meanwhile never realized how much her actions hurt him, in her eyes Scott just left her for no reason. Quickly followed by Martyn blaming her for his soulmate leaving too even though it was Martyns idea to go into the nether in the first place and by result she was left alone.

So that's when Pearls heart broken arc started, spending most of her time watching from afar and/or messing with Scott. Even through her hurt it's clear she never wanted him dead or injured on purpose she just wanted him to be hurt like she was, the feeling of being cold and alone when your sitting in powdered snow just hoping it'll stop but the feeling lingers.

The reason she became the "Scarlet witch" in the first place wasn't truly her not Scott's fault. She was messing around causing chaos, like giving the rancher their horns, or stealing Scars horse, but this time was different. Not noticing the Enderman following her caused the death of Ren and BigB, a mix of her impulses and Rens cluelessness ended in Ren called pearl a witch that brings misfortune banning her from their home.

So she was alone again wandering the world with Tilly and her other dogs with no other company. Most of the misfortune Pearl faced never came from Scott, of course if he hadn't left with Cleo it wouldn't have happened, but you could also make that comment about Pearl leaving to the nether with Martyn. It was never on purpose it was unfortunate circumstances that ended in dispair.

Pearl didn't mean to kill Ren and BigB

Pearl didn't mean to abandon Scott

Pearl didn't mean to kill Joel and Etho ending their first life

She never meant anything bad to happen to anyone but the constant misfortune that followed her, mistake after mistake caused her to go insane which effected her relationship with Scott as a result, blaming him for her misfortune when it was simply an accident.

When Ren and Martyn ask Pearl to join the broken hearts club she points something out. Both of them shunned her away, similar to how she viewed Scott's betrayal she points out Martyn left her to try and win back Cleo blaming her for something that's arguably his idea, while Ren started the Scarlet Pearl comment because of an accident a name that haunts her to this day.

Joining the broken hearts club wasn't going to fix her insanity or even heal her like people make it seem, in my opinion it might've thrown her further into it. The gnawing feeling deep inside that if she makes one mistake, one accident, it might just leave her alone again.

So she stays with her dogs.

Loyal like a dog, they're creatures that'll never leave even if you hurt them.

Now let's talk about the final and Pearl's...forgivness?

Let's get something outta the way first, no. Scott's final death is NOT selfish, he didn't do it to guilt trip Pearl or anything of the sorts. He didn't die for himself or because he hated Pearl he died because he didn't think he deserved it.

How is this important?

Pearl's knows that's why Scott killed himself, she's teamed with Scott before in last life but we also need to remember their small alliance before the grand ending. Pearl and Scott are the last yellows so decided to team together to keep both of them safe and run away.

Scott and Cleo let Pearl into their bunker, they keep her safe and close by, Pearl helps them gain information from the reds. They're friendly but tense.

Eventually tho Pearl seperates, not because she hated Scott or ad payback, but because she knew their time was up and she wasn't going to hold onto false hope any longer. Sure they were both a little upset to no longer be properly teamed together but ending it with laughter and "Tilly death do us part" showed that they didn't have any bad will towards each other after all.

And the ending? They don't sound upset at all, Pearl talks happily about having trust in herself and Tilly while Scott does agree that Pearl at least had the chance to win.

Pearl pulled out her bow ready to fire as Scott pulled the TNT, thinking it'll end the same as previous games, a final showdown.

Only to see Scott say his final words "Tilly Death Do Us Part" with a smile on his face and Pearl finally realizes what he's doing. She ends her video distraught in her voice before saying she forgives her finally showing how even through everything she doesn't hate the other.

And this moment is the most controversial as the take this as Pearl lying as she "still has a grudge in other games" when that "grudge" or "wish her vengeance" is just Pearl either joking or her actively trying to rebuild a relationship with Scott.

Double life did hurt their relationship but that never caused a big strain or even hatred on either side especially Pearl's.

Since double life they didn't team in limited or secret life, but they weren't enemies, they didn't become "enemies" until the ending of secret life so it's not like she had a grudge over it mostly just using it for a little reference or too poke fun at Scott. Pearl definitely had more resentment towards Cleo out of everyone but not Scott.

Then wild/real life happened and they teamed up.

Now we had wild life where they're closer than ever, Scott even changing his skin to match with Pearl was they're red and we even see Pearl actively mourning over Scott's final death. Clearly that distain slowly running it's course, they still joke about double life to this day but never any malice like during limited life. Pearl's fondness for dogs also growing with Scott helping her obtain them and attempting to name them something different but hey that's just how pearl is.

In conclusion, CAN WE PLEASE STOP SAYING THEY HATE EACH OTHER?? It's fine for a story plot or even a little rivalry is fine but Protaying either of them as bitter ex's who want the other dead when they're both just people who were hurt and are building back up a relationship.

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purrfectkittyistuff · 2 months ago

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You have no idea how much I love Leagcy smp. The fic I'm writing at the moment is in Leagcy setting and it's all about Jimmy.

Jimmy Legacy SMP thoughts

This has been in my drafts for months but it's presentable enough, I might as well post it now lol. Woe Jimmy suffering upon ye. Gem is particularly involved this time

Jimmy is wearing a bee onesie daww

Jimmy is doing very well and has 0 deaths for awhile whilst many others have already racked up one or few or. ten. He's proud of himself and swears to keep it that way, but Gem placed bamboo around his base which accidentally killed Jimmy when he logged in on top of bamboo? He lost all his stuff and Gem felt bad so she gave him some things, but he proclaims that that's not enough and that Gem's going to get his full wrath (Also Gem doesn't really feel that bad lol she will keep teasing Jimmy with bamboo. Especially in an... incident....). Next time they talk though Jimmy's asking her for a favor and praising her and calling her one of his greatest friends. He asks Gem to rebuild his base and is VERY happy with the result, even as Gem slyly incorporated bamboo in there. Jimmy even offers to pay her even more for her work but Gem refuses (thank you Gem) (Also Jimmy quickly racks up 15 deaths anyway, way more than anyone else)

Jimmy gets the starting village bell and then hides it in one of the houses, putting up a sign allowing people to come in and "see the surprise" if they pay him one diamond. The bell pretty much immediately gets stolen and Jimmy starts interrogating people. He builds this interrogation room with a huge table to make the suspects feel small, and also gives himself a fancy chair whilst the suspects get a stone slab to sit on. He interrogates Sausage, Scott and Pearl, but somehow the situation gets turned around and they're all aware of where the bell is (Pearl claims she didn't though. Shrugs) and start giving Jimmy clues to find it. When he does and starts heading home, they kill him. Awesome. And then someone steals the bell again. In Jimmy's pursuit he accidentally freed a villager from one of the villager houses and then his base was encased in a dirt box as a punishment

Gem at some point helps Jimmy build a bit again, and when Jimmy's far away from his base and desperate for specific logs, Gem says she'll bring him some for a handshake, +1 respect, and a hug. Gem also a few episodes later leaves him a shulker box full of goods with a sign "thank you for being such a good friend". The Elytra in in though IS named "chicken wings" but Jimmy doesn't take any offense to it

Jimmy has been promising to get back at Gem for awhile now, but debates being the bigger person and instead just leaving her a cake in thanks for her gift. But then he sees his player head, reminded of how Gem killed him, and immediately decides against it. He puts bamboo all over Gem's base and Gem basically says she'll get back at him and she's no longer his babysitter or something

Jimmy is now on 22 deaths, "over half of those deaths are from other people killing me. I've died, I reckon, about 6 times on stream from other people just shooting me. Before you say I bring it upon myself, I haven't. Any of the times, I haven't, I promise."

Gem and Jimmy go in the nether together to get wither skulls and then later kill the Wither together, which is cute... There is one part that I'd comment on more but I CANNOT figure out if Gem is saying "you're pathetic" or "we're pathetic" in response to Jimmy explaining that they've gotten very unlucky with wither skull drops, and now I can't say anything because my thoughts would severely differ depending on which it is...!! Gem also says "Being on call with you is a good workout for the smile muscles" (Also for what it's worth, Gem dies to the Wither and not Jimmy)

He and Gem do a coin flip on who gets the Wither loot, and Gem wins, although she voices uncertainty "this is cruel" and Jimmy insists "I've made my bed, now I sleep in it" (he brought up the coinflip idea). When Gem's running off, Jimmy, under his breath goes "I really dislike her" ??

Jimmy finds and tames 3 skeleton horses, and wants to give one to Gem, and names that one "Gem smells". Meanwhile Gem names one of his skeleton horses "Jimmy is the best". She later renames another one to "Meatball" because apparently she wants to start nicknaming him that in retaliation for the "Gem smells" horse.

There's this prank war between fWhip and Jimmy regarding his chicken shop (Jimmy builds a fried chicken shop on higher ground behind fWhips' shop to get more attention, fWhip buils a wall in front of it so no one would see it, Jimmy makes it airborne, fWhip smites it down into a burning mess on the ground) and I just want to point this out as an example of Jimmy being pranked and laughed at in a very "good sport" sense. it's fun. I wish there was more of this rather than just jokes made at Jimmy's expense with no further nuance

Jimmy started a raid on a village to try and get the Hero achievement, but died. Pearl came to save his items and to help him out though <3. And then as they were fighting together Jimmy accidentally killed her </3

Jimmy starts building a "mob head room" which he wants to be a secret from everyone. One episode later. ONE episode later. It gets completely vandalized with a bunch of honey comb blocks, campfires and his own head. And I know I've said this a few times before but I swear to god it sounds like Jimmy is about to cry it really does. My poor son. He's all better like 20 seconds later though

Jimmy and Gem had a bet at the start of the SMP which Gem won so Jimmy after a long time finally built her a little shrine cave room and Gem loved it... She kind of ran away though when Jimmy explained needing her head to complete the armor stand of her. He'd later put in a quest for someone else to do it for a bounty, lol

Jimmy and Gem choose to joust. Gem wins, Jimmy doesn't get even one hit on her. The punishment is that Gem gets to edit Jimmy's skin and he will have to wear the edited version for a week. So what does Gem do? Gives him a pacifier and shoves bamboo up his ass. Gem.. Gem....... Gem I love you but I really want to strangle you right now why did you do this. She's so sweet and encouraging beforehand too which just makes it hit that much worse. (Jimmy flies over to her for the skin, lands, and goes "did you like my landing?" which makes me extra emotional because. canary Jimmy learning to fly... And Gem is very nice to him). She does also give him her flower crown, antlers included, but, mghghhh the pacifier...???? Let it be a reminder that Jimmy gets infantilized in canon in many instances. I am not the problem,,,, And then they go and show it off to Pearl who goes "what"

Vile. Vile it is

Episode 17 starts with Jimmy mourning. That he has to keep wearing the skin for a little while longer. But he checks in with his bounty and an anonymous person did follow through and left him a Gem head. Jimmy expresses gratitude that that actually worked and that he wasn't just pranked again. But then he goes to his Gem shrine to but the Gem head on the armor stand and finds that someone already placed a trading villager head on it

"People were killing me on Saturday. How many deaths am I on? 38. Fantastic. I love myself."

The base Gem built for Jimmy is, to no one's surprise, incredibly cool inside and out. She even included a secret room that Jimmy finds has been filled with chickens.

Jimmy after seeing Gem's base: "bro that build has made me feel really bad about everything I'm doing on this server now. Should I even be here?" but then he does also take it as motivation to work on his own fantasy base that he's been neglecting. And he's doing great! He logs in next episode to find Arch actively fleeing from an udder he built on top of one of Jimmy's towers, dripping with milk... But this is something he also did to Sausage so good for him

He meets up with Sausage to let him know that it's Arch who's been doing this, but he forgot to take off his pacifier skin and Sausage goes "take that off, I can't look you in the face!" and I have never agreed with him more. He and Sausage plan out a prank against Arch and then go enact it together. Wow Jausage content that is actually bearable to me...!!

Jimmy rebuilds the glorious dirt block, adds levels and protruding corners to it and ends up really liking it. "I actually really like it. Oh no, I like one of my builds..!?". he's very fond of the entrance too

"Dude, when did I get good at building things?"

If you know me you know that I think Jimmy IS a good builder and has been for a long time and. look, look at this interior he did all by himself

Tell me this isn't hella cute and cozy. He's proud of it too <3

Episode 20, the dreaded, dreaded, dreaded quiz. I had trouble sitting through this video awhile back but here we go. Gem and Sausage know that Jimmy is bad at Minecraft trivia and decide to do a gameshow type of thing and they invite Jimmy to do a quiz. They're confident he's gonna lose and will have to die as a punishment, IF he does well, he gets to live. No prize though, lmao. Only if he gets the the questions 100% correct, he will get a prize, which, is obviously not going to happen. They lure Jimmy into a tent, tell him to stand on a specific block, inform him that there's going to be spectators, and then activate a lever to make him fall into the actual gameshow room where they join him and promptly force him into a glass stage. Then Sausage goes "wait, shouldn't he take his clothes off first?" which makes sense. He should get rid of his loot so it doesn't potentially burn in lava. But um eugh anyway. He does get privacy as he undresses lol

He gets some questions right, some wrong. Sausage asks him an easy question because "I give you nice things, cause I like you Jim!". Jimmy gets enough questions wrong to be on the brink of death, turns to Sausage for the last question and Sausage goes "Alright, you know what, I will give you a soft-ball question. Okay, this is another one, because I want you to win, I want you to survive this, I don't want you to die, I don't want you to burn in lava, I don't want to have to laugh at you." Can you see why I'm having a wildly hard time sitting through this. Jimmy gets the answer right and starts proclaiming that he's won and he's free. Sausage is all "wow!! How'd he do it!!"

And then they douse him in lava anyway and he dies. I'm so glad Sausage is definitely not manipulative or a liar

I'd like to comment on his cubito body language too throughout all this. Jimmy is very fidgety and lowkey his prolonged cowering, prey animal stance makes me hurt. But at some point he goes "You see me hopping around in here? I'm confident!" as he jumps back and forth in his tiny cage briefly. Gem also comments "You're sweating, oh my gosh"

I will say, Sausage and Gem both later decorate the interior of one of his bases for free, so that was nice of them. But I will not forgive them jesus christ

Jimmy lost the footage for it, but apparently Gem took him on a scavenger hunt and gave him some nice gifts and some not so nice gifts

Since the beginning of the series, Jimmy has had a quest to find Sausage's lost pickaxe, which he does make an effort to do so but ultimately fails. Episode 21 now, and Sausage has gotten it back himself and demanding a refund. Jimmy asks how he even got the pick back and Sausage is all "Oh you don't know what I went through for this pickaxe, it should have been you who went through that!" - "No, it's your pickaxe! Why do I need to do it?" "Jimmy I had to do another quiz show! I'm the one who got burned this time, I know how it feels now!" - "You do know how it feels, you're the one who burned me alive.". Killing Sosig with my own bare hands

Jimmy is trying to weasel himself out of this, trying to convince Sausage to let him mark the case as "solved" (as if he solved it, and not Sausage) but Sausage doesn't want to let him which IS fair. Jimmy briefly suffocates Sausage in some pistons which was awesome. Ultimately Sausage agrees to let him mark the case as solved, meaning Jimmy has a perfect track record, although he makes a bunch of jabs at Jimmy in doing so and Jimmy does refund him. Just kidding, he exits the Clue corp, Sausage follows, Jimmy sees a skeleton, runs back inside, blocks Sausage out as he gets shot and tells him to stay out there and that they're done

Episode 23 is the last one, no fanfare, no finale stuff. He never gets to finish his megabase, I don't think he was even halfway done with it, and that makes me sad because I'd love to see a megabase from Jimmy of all people, the way it was coming along, it looked really cool, but alas

There is one last noteworthy interaction though, between him and Arch. He asked Arch to build him a sorter for whatever he asked in return. Arch did so but he also pranks Jimmy with it, showering him in chickens. It's very hearty though, Jimmy says it's the best prank that's been done on him and Arch says that that can be the payment, he doesn't ask for anything more. Thank you Arch, that was nice of you, even if Jimmy did inadvertently call it embarrassing. It was still a nice interaction to cap this off

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