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grumbo week day six au / alternate smp

digimon au :D

mini lore drop: this is them reuniting after months in the digital world, but uh oh! mumbo seems to be on the bad guys’ side!

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Grumbo Week Day 6: AU / Alternate SMP

grumbo if they were in khr cause i loveeeee khr :>

mumbo has the sun flame and while he does use it to heal ppl he mainly uses it as a trigger mechanism for his contraptions

grian has the lightning flame and he uses it to make his weapons even more dangerous and also to shield himself and the ppl he cares about

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grumbo week day 7 free day

super lazy drawing cuz i’m VERY burnt out… but look at them…

anyways, this was super fun to do! thanks to @grumboweek for these great prompts!

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rituals and such

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One Last Catch

a dredge inspired au for @grumboweek! (also on ao3, please mind the tags)

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A small dredging boat sits, alone, rocking in the tall waves of the deep ocean. On the boat is a single fisherman. He hums to himself as he casts his net into the sea. 

The sun had set many hours ago, sinking below the horizon and leaving space for a deep blanket of fog to take its place. The moon and stars seem to cower, slinking away as if afraid of what lies beneath.

The fisherman simply hums. 

He secures the nets to their hooks and goes about organizing the day’s catch. There are a few small crabs he picked up on the way out of the bay that morning. Or was it yesterday? He shakes his head with a chuckle. The days sure blend together when he’s at sea. He pushes the crabs to the side of the hold. 

There are a few smaller fish as well, some standard catches for this part of the ocean. They might be unimpressive, but at least he can get a fair amount of coins for them. He hefts them up, one at a time until they are more securely placed in the hold. He needs to make room for this final catch, after all. 

Finally, he turns to the odd one of the bunch. Although the size and type of this particular specimen is unremarkable, its appearance is anything but. Everything about it screams wrong, wrong, wrong. Its eyes bulge. The fins sit askew and the tail is bent at an angle that’s anything but normal. A blue slimy substance creeps its way across and under the scales and leaves a residue on his hands when he shoves it against the other fish. 

He suppresses a shudder and wipes the slime onto his trousers. Its dead eyes seem to be piercing into his soul, all knowing. A creature that knows the depths can look back. 

The boat lurches. 

Water sprays over the side, drenching him and the deck. The fisherman scrambles up, rushing to secure the door of the hold before any of his fish can be reclaimed by the sea. The hull creaks and moans as whatever is in the net fights back. A wide grin breaks out across his face. It seems the wait for one final catch was worth it after all. 

The mechanisms holding the net struggle against the weight of whatever creature has found its way into his possession. When it breaks the surface it writhes in its confines. It is mostly black with trails of white along its body, and the many tentacles lead him to assume it is a new type of squid or maybe octopus. He hauls it onto the deck with a grunt. 

Up close, the tentacles look in bad shape. Some have been caught in the net and bleed weakly onto the deck, others are covered in the same blue slime as the corrupted fish in the hold. His eyes scan up the creature and—

It has a face. 

All fish have a face of course, but this one. It’s not a face he was expecting. This one looks far too humanoid. The eyes are dark and panicked, as it struggles to breathe in the open air. Its face is white, pale as is expected of a deep sea creature. But the thing that catches the fisherman’s attention the most is the dark mustache shaped pattern under its nose. Something far too familiar. 

Something scarily familiar. 

Something he thought he had lost long ago. 

He feels frozen at the sight. The noises the creature makes begin to sound far too close to human. It’s hurt, dying maybe and all he can do is stare. 

It can’t be. Surely. His partner had drowned years ago. Taken by the sea. And yet this creature of the depths shares his face. The ocean wouldn’t be so cruel, would it? 

In the time that he’s been frozen the creature had slowed, breathing appearing to shift to accept air instead of water. It seems aware. 

It looks up and they lock eyes. Grian sucks in a breath. It can’t be. But maybe it is?

“Mumbo?”

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grumbo week day 6: AU/Alternate SMP

hello grumbo enjoyers have you considered pixie hollow au 👉👈

Details below cut!

so in this au mumbo is a tinker talent(as it should be) and grian is fast-flying talent. Coming up with the talents was the easy part, the hard part was drawing mumbo NOT in his suit 🗿

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In which Grian travels to other versions of his life, and Mumbo is always there. 2.5k, for @grumboweek Day 6: Alternate Universe.

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GRUMBO WEEK DAY 3 - " Nightmare " @grumboweek

"read more" at your own discretion. messy+wordy explanation of the concept coming:) .

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pardon me for being late but i really couldn't stand leaving this looking unfinished so. had to spend a bittt more time on it (might even post for grumbo week even after the event's over if thats okay!!)

we all got over the progression from their friendship to their betrayal of eachother in Last Life too soon. i need people to mourn with me

"Nightmare" made my mind immediately jump to the series that waffle duo really got their share of angst from, Last Life. How an unbreakable bond of friendship strengthened by literally passing eachother something as valuable as a life so quickly crumbled into them both betraying eachother in the end, a Nightmare scenario that the two of them would've never even considered for sure. even grian, who upon turning red was still clinging onto the hope that their bond was so strong that mumbo would join him as a redname. (concept) even red mumbo, who in his last ditch desperation tried reigniting post-red yellow life grian's humanity by giving him the spyglass, the southlander's physical embodiment of their friendship, only for grian to crush it mercilessly ,,,,,,,,,

anyway for this piece i tried real hard to cram in as much symbolism and imagery and intent behind my lines and colors as possible, so heres some of it! (theres more but thats on you to figure out!)

Composition + just some of the details : the main concept that i really wanted to drive home is the use of the SPYGLASS as symbolism for the progression of their bond throughout Last life, up until the end. yellow-side grian holds up a spyglass, looking towards the right

day4 past and future concepts ahead the spyglass extends through the past to the present, like a solid line of sight into the future before its unfortunately crushed by red-side grian (him shutting down any friendship or reconciliation from mumbo) mumbo, back against the future, faced twoards the past, reaching his spyglass out looking for who his friend was, only to see a cracked figure of him staring back grian, faced towards the future in both drawings, but also looking back at mumbo, with different emotions but both with the same desire to move forward, one with adoration and another with the desire to move on from mumbo's dead body and focus on self-preservation. he knew he had to move on, and he was right.

SOUTHLANDERS BADGE: mostly for visual interest! but also unlike the spyglass, is an unremovable physical reminder for post-red grian (literally lodged deep into his shoulder)

CLIPPED WINGS: i felt like i had to mention that they're supposed to look clipped in the second drawing:) "HE NEEDS TO LEARN" was a real quote that was directed at both jimmy and mumbo, but we gotta adapt pfft ,,, this post is long. LOng long. i should stop. special SPECIAL thanks to my dearest @justrelaxhere for their hours worth of dissection of my drawing! god i could always count on them to squeeze every drop of symbolism out of my work. without them i wouldn'tve been able to fully articulate my ideas! okay thanks for reading people:D

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Grumbo Week - Day Six: AU

Week event held by @grumboweek

(Context: years ago there is a discussion of Soul Eater AU and I suggested Mumbo to be a flintlock firearm type weapon... and now its the chance to try it out :P)

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grumbo week day 7: Free Day!

tried a new style with this one!

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Grumbo Week 2024 - Day 4: Sun & Moon

listen I saw this pose on a Pinterest board and was immediately overtaken.

for the incredible @grumboweek !! technically I have one other little piece that I might still post but for now... this is it. Thanks so much for hosting this event it's been so fun to have an excuse to revisit the ogs!!!

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grumbo week day 4 past & present / sun & moon

i have no idea what I just drew.. the moon yearns for the light from the sun i guess

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Grumbo Week Day 4 :Past & Present / Sun & Moon

uhhh i totally didnt forget to do the day 3 propt nope haha why would i do that

anywayssss heres grian "theres no god up here except me" minecraft vs mumbo "is the moon big" jumbo

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grumbo week day 5 respawn / sick day

what a wet cat he is

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Day 4 prompt - sun & moon

Something something regarding sun and moon metaphors and silly comparisons regarding the day and the night

I really liked the background on this one ,I'm happy with the end result :33333

Let's collectively ignore I didn't do day three

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Grumbo Week 2024 - Day 3: Sleep

Fisherman Grian gets well deserved rest with his boyfriend watching over him <3

for @grumboweek !!

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Grumbo Week 2024 - Day 2: Date Night

Date night devolves into dancing together in the kitchen <3

Haha let's all pretend this is on time why don't we :) For event by @grumboweek