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NAME MC SPOILERS!

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a quick sketch I did after I saw that frame of Martyn in Ren's episode

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i don't even have good screenshots for this 😭😭😭

my favorite blocks people. . .

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I made a series of card designs based on the canon and fanon curses from the life series!

The Canary Curse:

Based on the tale of miners bringing a canary in a coal mine to test the air. If the bird dies, the air is unsafe. This player will die first.

The Widow Curse:

This player is fated to final kill a close ally, friend, or partner. They make close connections that ultimately are betrayed, purposely or accidentally.

The Red Insanity Curse

This player will go insane once reaching their final life and gain a bloodlust that reaches beyond anything in their previous lives. They become reckless and completely unhinged.

The Enchanter Curse

This player gains an unhealthy obsession with enchanting tables to the point of life loss, endangering allies, and losing everything.

The Coal Miner Curse

Also a reference to the canary in a coal mine. This player will die directly after the canary

The Isolation Curse

This player will die alone away from anyone else, or to an act by their own hand.

The Allies Blessing

Rather than a curse, this card is a blessing. Allies or players who have landed themselves in good graces with this player will come to win a season in the near future.

The Winners Curse:

The final player of a season, the winner, will die after winning. To their own hand, or by other means.

Some curses are now broken! I still wanted to draw them despite that lol

Are there any you think I missed?

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She is dead Scar, you won... 🌎💔

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" Friends "

🌻💚 DESERT DUO DTIYS ON TWITTER ❤️🪻

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When you and your roommates are arsonists and walking embodiments of chaos. I'm gonna be real this team is actually so incredibly cool.

(open for better quality)

(reblogs do a lot more than likes thanks)

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ART DUMP BABY LETS GOOOO

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ok i get the appeal of "grian is running the games/secretly knows whats going on while the rest of the lifers dont," i really do. HOWEVER i am also a lifelong contrarian so here are some ideas for other lifers being the One Who Knows Whats Going On:

Scott has a bad habit of dragging the souls of his friends into friendly competitions without their consent. it's probably harmless, right? they never complained about MCC!

Jimmy pretends to be trying in the games, but secretly doesn't feel too bad when he dies so quickly every time; like he said in Secret Life, all the ghosts get to float around the server and watch everyone else, and he REALLY likes that

Pearl's a god! it took her a while to remember that whole Santa Perla business, but after she did... well, she always had a lot of fun in the arena in that life, didn't she? no harm in recreating a little bit of the thrill :3

after the Time Witch and the Necromancy Witch completed their ritual to return the Time Witch to life, all other Cleos throughout the multiverse got hit with snippets of the Time Witch's memory... including the thoughts of OTHER Cleos that they'd heard! a lot of Cleos, including all the Life Series Cleos, are now in a loose communication network with each other

Tango has a bit of a reputation, doesnt he? he likes games. he likes deadly games that people flock to regardless. maybe he got bored with the scale of his last couple projects and decided... a world's probably not THAT much harder to make than a castle, right?

feel free to add on :3c but im trying to avoid watcher/listener stuff just, because. so

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hhau vex arc part I bonus: mating marks, vexes, and not being enough

a small ramble [860 words] about that one time kane talked to grian about mating marks. this is early on, once grian is growing more comfortable in the vex commune, enough to tentatively spend time with others, but far from him feeling understood or accepted. back when kane still doesn’t understand a thing about avians. (he’s trying. in his own ways.) 

the topic of mating marks comes up because, well, grian has one! he has a bite from scar, and now thanks to nico and kane (and them having matching marks from each other), he understands what it really is. and once they learn he has one too— well. that shows that scar really means it with his little avian! he's serious about him! but... it bothers kane.

and he speaks up about it, mostly just baffled. he's not trying to be mean or anything!

he makes a thoughtless comment to grian—when scar isn't around—about how he wouldn't want to not have a mating mark if his partner had one. he just finds it weird! placing a lot of importance on that level of trust that lets you bite and be bitten.

he continues digging the hole underneath grian's feet by asking, "is it unrequited or something?" he doesn't understand it at all, and in his confusion, struggling with the idea itself, he tacks on: "i'd think my mate doesn't love me if he didn't want to mark me."

because that's how it works with vexes! the bite marks are mutual, and intimate, and they play into their instincts, both ways! kane considers them integral for a mated vex pair, and some other vexes around echo this sentiment.

scar has a feather earring from grian, which is an avian mating ritual, but it's one that doesn't translate to other vexes. they have no idea about things like that! it doesn't make sense to them!

so when grian stammers that he gave scar a feather, nobody takes it seriously. kane doesn't get the gravity of that action at all, and anyway, scar isn't an avian!

kane insists that a feather isn't going to cut it with a vex. he tries to encourage grian to just bite, his advice coming from a place of good intentions. he's seen scar and grian interact plenty by now—including that one time grian jumped in harm's way to defend scar—and he really wants this to work out for them! he's well-meaning!

but grian can't do that. (regardless of some memories we're not going to mention here <3) he doesn't have fangs to smoothly pierce skin and leave a mark like that; doesn't even have the drive, doesn't want to hurt scar in any way.

he stresses about it plenty, though. it worms its way inside his head and now he's Worried about being a failure and a bad partner! because— well, he will always fail scar in this regard, won't he? (that's a thought that terrifies him to no end.)

he can't give him a mating mark. he'll never satisfy that instinct.

scar is honestly perfectly happy with how things are; he treasures the feather immensely and understands what it means. but grian's mind still spirals about this, nitpicks and pokes and prods until it feels wretched and awful.

because sure, scar is happy enough with the feather, but isn't that just a compromise? his vex instincts are a separate thing, and this doesn't touch them at all. it doesn't satisfy them.

and scar's doing so much for grian and his avian instincts! he tries to get high places for them, and helps making nests. he's careful around his wings, and on a rare occasion, preens them with so much gentle care. he tries to coo back when grian makes bird noises, even if it's a bit silly and awkward. basically, he caters to grian's instincts at every step, and... scar needs vex things, doesn't he?

he needs vex things, and grian can't bridge that gap and provide.

no matter how many avian things scar gives him, grian can't give anything back.

grian doesn't really know how to articulate all this. he just gets very upset and stressed, thinking he's doing things wrong, and scar will always be left with some innate longing for more.

but, even though scar spent time learning more deeply about his vex side at the commune, these things were never something he's needed. he went his whole life not knowing anything about vexes. now he knows, and he still wants to be just scar, first and foremost.

of course grian and scar settle this, eventually. they have a broken mess of a talk, and then a couple more, just to really drive the point home. scar understands the avian mating ritual for what it is, the way grian understands what the bite mark on his neck is. and it's enough! they don't need anything more! scar can't exactly give grian a feather either, so what?

as long as the two of them know what they have and are happy with it, who cares what the others think?

there’s one point in particular that scar makes, when grian expresses worrying about not being enough for scar’s vex instincts. softly, he reminds him that he gave grian that mark long before he had any idea it was a vex ritual. 

it was a them thing first and foremost, before it was anything else.

(and he’d like a bruised ring from a hickey just as much as a bite. he’s a smitten fool.)

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Who did you leave behind?

(if boatem after joining scar's crew tattoo/paint or just cut an identical scar as Scar on their arms bc pirate crew amirite)(yes this is a one piece reference)(yes I will continue doing them)(yes I don't care)

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some much needed tenderness 💕

you didn’t think hhau was entirely angst right? (yeah we’re surprised too honestly) @angeart

It takes Scar a second to realize that it’s actually not the mere thought of Grian’s weak laughter that has his body temperature rising, because Grian is touching him again. His fingers are grazing Scar’s neck, something that ought to inspire fear in this wretched world, but instead it sends pinpricks of a whole other sort of anxiety through him— one he’s not quite sure the name of.

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“Scar,” Grian says, and a weak grin tugs at his lips—something made of menace and mildly amused curiosity. “Are you embarrassed?”

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Rough grian and pearl pre-knight designs

As mentioned in a ramble grian, and now pearl thanks to another wonderful anon, are tied to the watchers in this au, and so they have sort of, idk non-mortal forms or whatever, so I'm just trying stuff out with them

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Boatem knights joel and lizzie

The hunter and the lady of the woods

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Fae Joel perhaps?

Fae jizzie,,

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minecraft sos jizzie 🫶🏼

originally i wanted it to have a nice contrast of aesthetics bc joel is cottagecore and lizzie is dark themed and stuff ( i have to catch on her vids rip ) but i had limited colours bc i used those paint pens lmao

i almost gave up on this too but i pushed through 🙏🏻🙏🏻