#<-- insane about how scott killed pearl in limlife.

[liauditore]

cw// implied character death, double life nonsense

because you are love itself.

[solsays]

So I have a headcanon.

Grian’s EvoSMP. We can all agree Grian either is a watcher or is directly tied to the watchers, it’s a large part of his lore. However, Grian is not the only hermit/lifer that came from EvoSMP. Timmy, BigB, Pearl, and Martyn (SolidarityGaming, Bigbst4tz, PearlescentMoon, and InTheLittlewood respectively) are all also from EvoSMP. And Martyn does heavy watcher lore in the life series to show that “they are still the ones pulling the strings”. So here’s my headcanon.

Martyn is a listener who tries to distance himself but can’t, so he tries his best to ignore it but he sees and hears what others don’t. He’s less chaotically fueled than your typical watcher, being a listener, but supports a few of their decisions, such as Jimmy’s canary curse, going as far as to help it happen himself as a player (“go canary hunting”). They controlled him temporarily in the finale of Limlife (spoiler alert) when he went crazy and killed both Impulse and Scott, which is why he acted so insane, was because of the watchers and the listeners.

Grian is a watcher who put himself into the death game, regardless of whether “he was only ever meant to watch” or not. He uses his powers to roll boogeyman, design the games, and put everyone back into this never ending loop of death that even he can’t escape now. The watchers basically said so you want to play? Then you must play, forever.

Pearl is also a watcher. She has pretty much successfully distanced herself, so she doesn’t interact with the watchers or mention them, but she acts mad (Scarlet Pearl) and defies them for putting her there (not sticking with Scott in DL and even hurting him even though they’re soulbound). Most people wouldn’t suspect her since she hides it better than Martyn and Grian, but she said to Scar in Limlife “I’m always watchin’ Scar, I’m always watchin’.” Which heavily insinuates she is a watcher among the regular players much like Grian. And the way she played Limlife, as a nosy neighbor, someone who just observes everyone else? I guess they do say old habits die hard.

BigB is a listener. He knows about Pearl and the two of them form the nosy neighbors, to use their experience from who knows how long of watching and listening to survive. He is fairly quiet and doesn’t exhibit the pure chaotic evil energy of most watchers, which makes me think listener rather than a watcher. Also Grian being so eager to team up with BigB in double life? Maybe he chose specifically BigB because he knew that BigB knew why they were here.

Jimmy was never a watcher nor a listener, but he knows about them, even if he doesn’t know what or who “them” are. All he knows is that they’re the reason he dies first every season, no matter who he’s teamed with, no matter how well he tries. And he knows they pushed him off the bridge in Limlife. He doesn’t like them.