#especially watcher grian

[ghostly-groves]

looks like it's time for another round of is that mcyt fanart of a blond british white boy with a red shirt and bird wings grian or tommy

[redliferiot]

grian pearl and scott: none of us chose or even truly desired to win, rather, victory was thrust upon us like the cloak of destiny that we all don. victory was unwelcome and in some cases unexpected, it could've been anyone but it was us martyn: i murdered cause i wanted to win and i won cause i wanted to murder

[autumnwhistles]

Introducing Last Life: The Unofficial Musical! I've been working on this for a while and have finally finished recording the first song, out of something that looks to be 45 at the moment but I'll probably trim that down.

The musical follows @inthelittlewood's version of events (Watchers are canon, etc) because his lore is awesome, but you don't have to understand that to listen to it, since it wasn't even revealed in Martyn's perspective until the last episode. That'll be the same here, with the Watchers just playing the role of the chorus/narrators (who mainly sing this song), and some being the voices that speak to Martyn in his POV.

Because I'm following his lore, c!Martyn is the main character, and there's also a lot of focus on c!Scott because he was the winner of the season (and in my mind there are a lot of contrasts and parallels between the two, with Scott defying the rules of the game while Martyn is following the instructions of those who made the game, and occasionally trying to question it/break out of that cycle but being manipulated back into it – see the start of his episode 8). However, I am trying to give justice to other characters and POVs as well, since Last Life was due to the creation of everyone and I don't want to dismiss anyone's contributions as unimportant. Throughout the musical, the Watchers/chorus informs us about wider events at various intervals (through song), and I'm trying to give a lot of other people solos/duets too – for example, I'm writing a Tango solo song ("You Bet Your Life") at the moment; I'm planning to do a "Die For Me" for Cleo; Joel and Scar have a duet about various perceptions of them after Joel has turned red (they're not interacting with each other but are singing at the same time); etc. It'll definitely take a while to finish, but I do plan to see it through. There are also going to be musical and lyrical analyses on here explaining my thought process behind a lot of aspects of each song.

Full lyrics here!

[quaranmine]

maybe it's because there were so many perma deaths in session 6 and also because i was too busy off breaking into fire lookouts in arkansas to be looking at spoilers on tumblr, but i feel like i have seen....two posts total about that weird glitch that happened to grian when he pressed the button and died at the same time. like, it's entirely possible i missed discussions of it since i was a few days late to watching session 6 related stuff, but i also feel like maybe it got lost in all the other wild stuff that happened (i.e. curse breaking)

anyway. what WAS that. a glitch, obviously, but omg. man really got knocked out of the land of the living for a moment. never in my life have i seen a more accidental-but-obvious example of Watching. it's like when he was afk in limited life, in the sense that he was suddenly present-but-not-present anymore. he briefly became a ghost. do you think, for a moment, he could see lizzie and jimmy and mumbo spectating the wither-warden fight? and knew he wasn't supposed to be there, he was supposed to be waking up in his bed as a yellow life (but maybe he was supposed to be there all along, not participating, but watching)

[minecraftbookshelf]

“You’ve got to let evolution take its course.”

- Grian, Secret Life Episode One

(Emphasis not mine)

[chambers003]

i’ve got thoughts about the waffleduo canon soulmates*, watcher!grian (optional, but also include the secret keeper in this part of the list if you count this bit), mumbo’s first life game since the soulstealing event, mumbo having the waffle in secret life implying that’s all canon, mumbo and grian having such similar tasks, each of them immediately going to the other to try to complete their tasks (with varying results). and all of these thoughts are connected, but you have to connect those dots yourself i’m too busy to do that right now but it’s there and it’s so obvious right? right? you get it

[cleocatrablossy]

[modernsuperhero]

Anyway. Red Core AU where they escape the games and they get reincarnated into regular mundane lives except for their Red Cores which remained as violent and sometimes monstrous vengeful ghosts except they can't like. Do anything unless their living selves let them. So the dynamic is like "what do you want to eat" <<the souls of the innocent>> "a bagel" <<NO>> "two bagels"

[berrysquared]

May I ask for lore from your superhero au?

Love your art style btw! *^-^*

AHH THANK YOU SO MUCH !! This means so much to me truly ahhhh 💕

A lot of lore for the au is still in bits and pieces beacuse uni decided to kinda hit me like a truck this semester :’) im sorry about that

With my hotguy au the only rule I set for myself is that I’m fully following the guidelines for characters set by Scar on that one stream he did. So each role is (kinda) exactly what he wanted it to be (even if it meant making jellie an actual mayor and trying to make that work) and Im just trying my best to actually pull it together into one big au that is 90% just very silly and 10% angst backstories. I will be adding some characters which weren’t in the list tho! Like Scott (who for now is a starlord alien pirate who travels with Cleo on her space piracy adventures) and Joel (idk what he will do yet but hes gonna be there)

As for specific lore that hasn’t been out in the world yet, i can give you some of grians backstory I came up with help from the one, the only @1captainjordan4 my beloved 💕

(As I was writing this i kinda realised that this got really long im sorry, i will put it under keep reading ;-; also im not the best at writing stuff out so excuse that)

In this au Grian and Pearl are siblings who have been orphaned and have been living as street rats all their childhood. They have become accustomed to stealing and fighting (and got kinda good at it) from a very early age and steadily have been falling more and more into criminal circles.

During that time Grian got approached by the Watchers organisation who promised to provide for both him and Pearl in exchange of him spying on their behalf, being a messenger etc. Desperate, he accepts their offer but hides it from Pearl and just says he got a legit job or smth, knowing she would not approve of it as it is too dangerous and would try to discourage him and look for another way.

The missions grew more and more dangerous and with each one Grian distanced himself from Pearl further and further. (Which in turn pushed her to seek the truth and become an investigative journalist)

As time goes on Grian gets a job as a scientist and actually tries to live a normal life as a “retired villain” but still is unable to fully escape the Watchers who force him to take jobs every so often. This pattern continues until he gets indebted to Scar who saves him and in true Grian fashion just Has To stick around and help him until the debt is repaid and thus becoming cuteguy!

More or less

[definitelynotshouting]

I keep thinking about that one ask where it was mentioned that the hermits had never seen grian healthy before and im just like.

Man *said in the same tone as that one horse on a beach meme*

Imagine knowing someone for years and years and then realizing that they were on the brink of starvation the whole time

im not exaggerating when i say i think about this LITERALLY all the time. its just so harrowing. regardless of what any given person thinks about the situation, its just so objectively scary-- to know someone and be good friends with them for so long, and then learn they were actively dying in front of you the entire time you knew them.... thats terrifying.

And its gonna be something that pretty much universally gives every hermit at least a momentary pause. When they finally see a Grian who isnt starving, who has actual energy, who isn't conserving as much as he can because of the food scarcity, that's gonna hit like a hammer. It's going to REALLY highlight just how bad he was doing in comparison to now, and that's going to retroactively scare a lot of people i think

[mystilotls]

"There are those who watch, We are those who listen..."

(aka my Listeners design concept)

[dean-bean01]

Me listening to the same song on repeat so I can perfect every frame of an animation I’ll never make-

except for two “frames.” that’s all you get.

[the-lesbian-orpheus]

so been thinking of life series a lot obviously and I was watching Jimmy streams earlier AND I was relistening to Hadestown this week and

Here me out Jim as Eurydice

Y’all can choose the Orpheus

Do we see the vision? (Please guys- I’ve seen multiple life series animatics and at least one fanart with Hadestown songs I know these have crossover fans)

Did this idea spawn because even tho I’ve heard this soundtrack many times and had life brainrot for months something pinged in my head when Hades mentioned a canary for the mine???

…maybeeee

Edit:

Okay I accidentally ended up going on a big ramble about ideas for this in the tags so I might have to make this an AU now

if I do I gotta think of a cool name

[funny-passerine]

See I was dead when I woke up this morning

And I’ll be dead before the day is done

Florence + the Machine, 'Seven Devils'

[shortfeather]

If there isn’t a terminator doc fic somewhere out there I WILL riot

[murky-tannin]

Unpopular desert duo opinion ig but the cactus ring has never been the source of conflict in their relationship and it’s not just reductive of but straight up ignores their actual one to write it as such. They have 101 issues and none of them are cactus ring related