#(between ren and martyn)

[applestruda]

The wolf

[hollowwish]

Thinking about how last season Joel was so desperate to break Jimmy’s curse vs Martyn this season, who runs around and gaslights and lies and planned to/has thrown his allies to the wolves before. Something about Joel's loyalty vs Martyn's illusion of loyalty that people can fall for

[enderwoah]

what's stronger than a diamond?

take this antarctic empire inspired fusion design of phil and techno! he was real fun to design (my favourite bit is his cape, it turns into mist at the very bottom like a waterfall (or into snow, your choice)) :D

also fun fact, this was lined with a feather pen that i had to dip into an inkwell :D my lining pen was broken by my siblings but this had the perfect nib !

red king design by @cherrifire + the gemcyt au by @chrisrin!

stupid doodle under the cut:

[riacte]

so hey guys i finished dungeon meshi yesterday and i'm still thinking about it

[kaesnpoint-art]

so that treesekai fic by @liloinkoink has been living rent free in my brain and I had to make some fanart for it (click for better quality pls)

[ethosiab]

Hello hello! I have little time (and energy, i'm a little sick atm haha) to draw, but I've got bbpau on the brain so I'm thinking of introducing each character's role in the story. Which brings me to ask-

These are very arbitrary groups, but those who are grouped together have interconnected stories and I think it's easiest to introduce them together.

I'll also obviously giving a bit more info on how each of them know Etho and/or Joel as i introduce them.

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

18. "…as encouragement." with Ren/BigB/Martyn iyw??? [alt: your fav BigB ship if you don't want to write polyam!!] /nf

oh man i love polyam let’s goooo. decided to place this at an ambiguous future MCC cause why not. we're manifesting ren in another MCC together.

(send me a ship and a number and i'll write some kissing)

The atmosphere in the dodgebolt arena is electric. It's Ren's first time back in MCC in quite a while, and the fact that he's made it to this point would be more surprising if not for his teammates- False, Cleo, and Cub- who he can't help but feel a little bit carried by. Sure, he's has his fair share of great performances, but the game has changed so much since he last stepped foot in it, and they're far more familiar with it's new intricacies. It's weighing on him especially now, waiting for the final round of a dodgebolt he's been... struggling in, to say the least.

As the previous round of dodgebolt ends and the waiting period for the next starts, the arena comes alive with spectators and other competitors alike swarming their friends, giving them tips or encouragement or praise for their performance. Ren is quickly swept into the crowd, people chattering on all sides. The sound is so much that Ren only barely hears someone calling his name, and only really registers it when he feels someone tugging on his sleeve.

Ren turns to see Martyn, with Bigb trailing close behind him. Ren lights up instantly, and lets himself be pulled into a quick and tight hug.

"Hey, that was a great round!" Martyn says, shouting slightly over the din of the crowd. "I think you guys have this!"

"Yeah, Falsie got some great kills off that round," Ren says, unable to hold back his smile as he remembers False's impressive 2v1.

"Hey, don't forget your own contributions," Bigb says, pushing him lightly. "You did some impressive dodging that round, and you got your own kill, you're doing great!"

Ren chuckles, only barely holding himself back from reminding Bigb that he also walked straight off the platform in round one, so perhaps those two things even out.

Above their heads, a tone plays out, letting the players know the next round is about to start and they should get moving to their places. Ren turns to go, but Bigb stops him with a hand on his arm.

"Before you go-" Bigb leans forward and presses a quick kiss to Ren's lips. "For luck!"

Before Ren can do much more than smile at him, he's passed in Martyn's direction to receive another short kiss.

"Alright, now go get 'em," Martyn smiles, gently pushing Ren in the direction of his teammates.

Ren smiles widely at the pair of them, waving as he's ushered off. Hopefully the next time he sees the both of them, he'll be up on the winner's podium. Ren's sure they'll both like seeing him in the crown again.

[murky-tannin]

Watching Bigb’s double life pov rn and actively loosing my shit over ep 3. It’s funny as all hell. Bigb says so many things just out of pocket. Also great for the role-play and characterization

[poppyberry]

I love the hilariously cartoony B plot that emerges if you watch everyone's POVs of this session

Grian decides that getting a snail to kill a player counts as a player's kill to help Jimmy -> Etho wonders if you can turn snails invisible and recruits Martyn to gather ingredients, meanwhile Jimmy gets a life from Ren in exchange for an alliance between Treebark and the Bamboozlers -> Ren, left alone, loses even more lives and now needs to get some kills himself -> Martyn goes to the Bamboozlers to get carrots for the invisibility potion so Ren can get a free kill -> Lizzie gives Martyn carrots -> Ren turns a random snail invisible, not knowing it is Scar's -> Scar dies to invisible snail -> Grian ends the session in a panic because Scar's about to lose his last life to a potentially still invisible snail

the sequence of cause and effect here is just so funny. no matter what you do in wild life, it will bite you in the ass one way or another. the Bamboozlers especially; Scar's death was literally instigated by his own allies' actions and none of them even know it

[cherrifire]

I think my favourite part about the 30-minute demon roleplay session between Ren and Martyn today was that for the first half, Ren didn't even know Martyn was streaming. So he was just acting like that for fun and whimsy.

[applestruda]

The hand and the beholden

[celestial-clownz]

I’m going to become a modern Socrate with you (/silly) it is really tragic how people don’t do more with them considering their character like Scott’s brand vs his personality is like the when you learn the general cutsey unicorn mermaid ( this is his brand) idea of mythos was gentrification for marketing and they can actually get really gruesome and insane (his personality) like that is the best analogy I can think of him. He is yuor angle or yuor devil. Sweet kind sassy gay man but he can and will say and do evil things to you. And Martyn on the other hand is just literally so big dog codded. He has his set people he sticks with that are his and he gets possessive. He’ll kill for them but when the time comes he’s not afraid to, as my friend rose has said, treat them as equals and have a fair fight with them. And they know this, but even after that he still holds them near and dear. And a lot of people think Martyn gets remorseful over that but he doesn’t. It never made sense to me, hes a guy who’s getting kicked and tortured around by gods yes, but he’s also out for blood.  in the same light Martyn is also a dork loser (affectionate) The thing about Scott and Martyn though is that they’re both loyal in different ways but it just works so well together too. Like I’ll never get over how Scott let Martyn kill him because he didn’t want anyone else to have his time. And then when Scott was talking about Martyns birthday party with him (important to add HE KNEW WHEN HIS BIRTHDAY ON THE ACTUAL DATE  AND NONE OF THE OTHERS DID) he was like “Scott could I please kill you it’s my birthday 🥺” he loves it. He loves it sooooo much because he’s a freak. And it was so pathetic and sad what’s wrong with him. but also Scott’s the one who’d put himself up on the chopping block for him and let Martyn kill him. That is their love. That invented love. And Scott has said he’d would even wanna pair up with him again and again in later series if he didn’t have his allies. In contrast to how flower husbands said they weren’t coming back. They are both just able to be their craziest around each other!!! But GRAAAAHHH I DONT SEE MANY PPL USE STUFF WITH IT. HELL I KNOW SCOTT AND MARTYN  ARE EVEN MORE ABNORMAL IN OTHER SMPS. I know the mcyt loves cannibalism but Yknow I’ve only seen ONE FIC where they cannibalize each other AND THAT WAS THE MOST INSANE THING IVE SEEN WITH THEM SO FAR AND ?? IT COULD BE SO MUCH MORE INSANE?? PLEASE MAKE THWM WORSE GUYS PLEASEEEEE LET ME OUT OF THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE IT CAN BE SO MICH WORSE THAN CANNLIBLISM

Anyways I had more to say but I’m jsut sososos not normal 

I think we should have Martyn and Scott be more insane

[tiny-minecraft-rabbit]

"Do you really think I'm evil?"

Ren frowned softly, claws scraping over Martyn's scalp. Only one of them thought to put a bed down, so they had to share, naturally. Maybe if it was someone else he would have suggested a pillow between the two of them, or someone sleep with their head at the foot of the bed- sleep in opposite directions. This was Martyn however, and even though it had been... some time since the two had been in such proximity to one another, that did not seem to erase the casual ease of which they fitted in next to one another.

"No, Martyn, I don't think you are evil, not really," he paused, thinking how to form his next thought, something he only did when what he had to say was more important than rambling on. Martyn was patient with him, as always. "I do think... That you have been through things that I do not know. That you have.. not quite changed- hardened, perhaps? Gained more mischief? Something of the like- Something to make others wary of you."

Martyn snorted at that, like it was a joke. For a moment it did scare Ren, that Martyn had no qualms with being waried against. They were still in the early game, Ren had more lives than he really knew what to do with (more than three- so many more than just three), and Martyn felt like someone that was standing on the edge of chaos and mayhem and everything you expected from someone on their final life- at the very least their second to last.

He wasn't scared though. He wasn't scared of Martyn, because Martyn wasn't evil. He wasn't frightening. He was Martyn: his hand, his partner, his lieutenant (he had a strange dream the other night of them being Pi-rats, Pirate Rats, and it was a good dream). He had nothing to fear from him.

But a small part of him, one that was still regaining his legs in his game of death, was starting to believe that some of the others did have something to fear from his dear friend.

"Do you think I'm foolish?" Ren asked, and he doesn't think he meant to ask that at all, but words tend to just tumble out of his mouth.

Martyn shifted, more of his weight pressing against Ren's side, "A little. Not more foolish than I, my- er- yeah."

There was a space at the end of that statement, wanting to be filled with a Captain or Liege or King. He wondered if they'd end up filling it with something new this time around, or rehash something from their past. He doesn't think he wants to be a king again. A part of him wonders if he could just be Ren this time, or if they were always bound to play a role in these games instead of themselves.

"Do you want me to soften you?" And he thinks that's a worse question than the first.

It makes Martyn very quiet for a moment. Then, softly, "I don't think you have a choice in that."

He supposes not.

[theminecraftbee]

you know it's INTERESTING to look back at the double life soulmate pairs and see how they're doing now, relationship-wise, because that experience shaped every soulmate pair differently, i think:

ren and bigb i'll put first on account of "we have no idea since ren hasn't been in the series since double life". when will our doggy come back from the war.......

grian and scar are... grian and scar, the soulbond alone is only part of everything going on there. i think being FORCED to team shaped them a bit into being a little/lot more stable in their relationship with each other in limited life and secret life, as well as maybe taught them a bit about each other's limits. i am... honestly not a desert duo guy there are people who can do the analysis of the soulmate bond's impact on them WAY better than me but. it's part of their overall arc, you know?

martyn and cleo are fun. they both are still clearly CLOSE but they are also both still clearly mistrustful and angry at each other! they have this whole "the only one who can kill you is me" dynamic going on between each other that's very fun. i think being soulmates... obviously they were one half of divorce quartet and the resentment of being forced together did some stuff to that relationship. but i think maybe it also sort of gave them something that they appreciate about each other as well? and they DO care, despite everything. (i could GO INTO THIS LET ME TELL YOU.) so like, they aren't close friends or anything, but they Know Each Other now. and that's a fun dynamic.

impulse and bdubs are funny because i think their bond both did and didn't shape them. the thing is, like desert duo, their soulbond is only one step in their journey, the one that ARGUABLY only settled out in limlife after impulse permakilled bdubs. (note that this is the first series where bdubs hasn't gotten a clock! he is FINALLY PAST that one relationship!) that said i think being each other's ridiculously happy married couple did something to impulse specifically, actually. i think it sort of confused and solidified the grudge and it also like, showed him the almost-happy-loyalty that he wanted in the world. i think these days impulse, at least, has a different idea of 'loyalty' and 'betrayal' thanks to that. and bdubs... i think it's relevant that despite bdubs intentionally CONSTANTLY THROWING UP BETRAYAL FLAGS, he never actually did it. and i don't think he ever actually would. but in terms of their relationship to EACH OTHER? the soulbond was, yeah, only one step in how that arc went.

scott and pearl are... interesting. it's funny; for one of the single most consequential soulbonds in double life, it like... mostly hasn't come up again in their relationship? part of this i think is that pearl's LONELINESS had more of an impact on her than anything scott specifically did, and scott choosing had more of an impact on him. so to each other they're mostly... normal? both a bit mistrustful but like... normal? it's in the ways they act with other people that this experience shaped them, i think; i could say something about scott's next major relationship being mean gills, and the way pearl is only now learning to be a part of a team that cares again. also, pearl's discovery of her bloodlust. that kind of happened in last life to be fair, but it's relevant,

jimmy and tango are surprisingly simple because they were one of the most stable and normal soulmate pairs, lol. they're each other's ranchers! they're still friendly to each other even when their teams are on opposite sides! i think having one relationship where he was the more self-assured one was nice for jimmy and tango having a guy who, rather like skizz, was never going to point out much when tango screwed up on account of Pot Meet Kettle was nice for him, and they both know it was nice. they both get more into the teasing now that they know each other better--a big part of the early ranchers dynamic is that they Did Not Know Each Other but now that they DO it's starting to settle into something shaped more like the kinds of relationships both tango and jimmy tend to have (and they are BOTH the kinds of people to have a lot of friendly mocking in their relationships i wouldn't be surprised if that gets Even More in the future)--but i think out of everyone they probably remember the soulmates thing the most fondly, given the degree to which they are still Buddies.

etho and joel are... good lord the boat boys. on the one hand: clearly they both still enjoy pointing out that the boat boys happened. joel gets... weirdly jealous of other people hanging out with etho? on the OTHER hand they seem determined to murder each other so so so bad. i like to think that their soulbond is a thing they look back on fondly from this but ALSO they both have such weird commitment hangups and bloodlust that maybe the fact they want to kill each other SO BADLY was inevitable. also interesting, though, is how much of this bloodlust comes from etho, given that normally you'd expect joel's relationships to go the other way. what i THINK is happening is that joel still feels a lot of loyalty towards the boat boys somewhere in his head (hence the jealousy and not typically being the one to lash out), whereas etho thinks of it as largely Done and Past, but thinks of it fondly--hence bringing it up every time he has to kill joel, and also the weird tendency to gravitate towards joel specifically. I DON'T KNOW MAN I WOULDN'T HAVE PREDICTED BEFORE LIMLIFE THAT BOAT BOYS WOULD BE THE SOULMATE PAIR THAT WERE WEIRDEST ABOUT EACH OTHER BUT HERE WE ARE,

anyway i just think it's funny to look back on the various soulbonds and realize which ones have had a big impact on sticking around and which ones haven't, you know?

[ani-craft]

(OP's tags)

sobbing and crying about the fact that Martyn can never say what he means especially about his emotions. He can wear the dogwarts banner on his waist, give him a life, give him netherwart in secret but he can’t tell ren or the world that he cares. Instead he hides behind his words (I was going to betray ren) because that’s all he can do when he knows there is something Watching him, preying on his vulnerability

[fountainpenguin]

Wild Life Session 1 takeaways thus far:

- Tiny Grian blends in with the fish

- Scar and Jimmy are doing their best... I don't have anything specific to say, but I like their cherry hill base plans. And I'm just really glad Scar decided to call them Bam Boys instead of Bang Boys.

- Grian's reputation as a cheater precedes him and it cracks me up... He really is out here like "You really think I'd cheat on you guys? I've been gone for like 5 minutes" and Mumbo and Skizz are just not having it.

- Grian: "I'm not here to share." [Realizes Martyn took all the sugarcane right in front of him.] "Oh, wait... Can I have some?"

- Etho calling BigB his big brother and saying he's nervous about wandering away and needs someone to hold his hand...

- I really enjoyed the Etho-Bdubs banter over the black horse. Bdubs had so many great lines throughout this episode. I especially liked "Wait, I can't take this- That's a bad example for the children."

- Giant Etho and Tiny Scott in the boat...

- Martyn looking around in confusion when he can't find Ren like "I think Ren shrank so much, he perished."

- Ahasbands... save me, Wild Life Ahasbands... Martyn gushing over Mumbo (to Ren) and imitating Mumbo's voice and talking about how cool he is (followed by their later teasing chat over Martyn inventing the wheel) is killing me slowly...

-> sldkfjsdklfj wait, Martyn really is gunning to bring Mumbo on his team, huh? Yeah, that's not gonna last.

- Ren and Martyn talking about how they were going to claim the top of the cherry hill unless someone already put down a sign, and then they reach the top of a long climb and there's just a sign saying Scar and Jimmy live there. Comedy gold...

Martyn: I think [Grian] thinks of you as 'less than half.' Mumbo, who has spent an entire episode bragging about being tiny and loathing anyone big: Or more than half. That'd be worse.

I'm crying.

- I enjoy Martyn saying "I love that for us" in regards to a group he's trying to schmooze his way into, but isn't yet part of.

- I'm fascinated by Sub 1 Club's obsession with getting as tiny as they can and opting to go into swim mode as a form of land travel.

- Oh gosh, Mumbo knows Martyn so well... The lack of faith he has in his honesty is incredible.

- Mumbo screaming at Martyn, "I knew you were tall! I knew it! You're just pretending to be small!" in regards to his personality despite him being small enough to fit in a pocket.

- Martyn leaving by saying "I'm not your friend anymore" sdklfjskd?? Drama in the Ahasband household tonight (/jk)

- Pearl, reluctant to kill animals that have low respawn: Yeah, but porkchops...... Scott: Taste great; yeah, you're right!

- The dichotomy between the other groups I watched, who mostly kept trying to mine or build after they shrank, and GGG + Impulse who started doing parkour.

- CACKLING at Pearl dying, asking her teammates for food, and Cleo looks straight at her and says "Arguably, you shouldn't need any" since her hunger meter refilled when she died.

- Impulse is going to be a really interesting balance to GGG because Cleo is being lightly "aggressive" towards Pearl (Denying her food, teasing her and Impulse for having a thing for soup since they're the Soup Group with Gem). Cleo and Scott cling to each other a lot, so Pearl having a close friend and not ending up a third wheel is interesting.

Scott, digging, calling up in a wobbly voice with his heavy Scottish accent: Pearl, there's a drowned down here! Pearl: There's a... clown down there? Impulse: There is now!

- I doubt the bit will be continuing, but wouldn't that be hilarious if the Clocker family tree extended due to Cleo joking that Pearl and Impulse were her parents?

- Considering I'm currently in the "Impulse and Cleo struggling with half-smothered resentment and weirdness over 3rd Life and stuff" arc in Dog's Life... their conversation about Cleo saying she doesn't trust Impulse is perfect timing. That is literally the arc I've been posting.

- Etho said they're playing in a 500 x 500 world instead of a 700 x 700 one this time. There are so many people this time, so this should be interesting!

-> Even on a server brimming with people, BigB's alone again... (It is very late when I'm scheduling this, so I will watch him another time <3)