#Icarus flew too close to the sun

[alexandraisyes]

Silly bird thing for a silly discord thing

[mossthegaymer]

SPOILERS FOR END OF SOS SMP (SCOTT POV)

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He became Icarus!!!! He flew too close to the sun :>

If w e could do art we would so draw him as Icarus with his wings melting as he fell.

[ya-boi-haru]

Icarus running away from Rae and back to Fable, back to something that they're way in over their head, to a place where they're hearing nothing but Fable and his half truths, but Icarus knows they're in too deep...

Notice how Icarus flew off in the direction of the rising sun...

[lemonlimestar]

like moth to flame

[agentc0rn]

Consider this...Volca Mecha suit Lysandre...

[hwajin]

watched hyuns one kid room and kinda wanna write a fic where he's so obsessed with everything beautiful that it destroys him at some point..........

[transearthmover]

mirage being called sunshine and v2 having the icarus motif is driving me So fucking crazy

[bookish-cravings]

Regulus Black is just an Icarus variant when you really think about it

[scruncheduppaper]

i love stanford pines can we please get an amen in the chat

[adealiz]

Moth seeking heat and Molten willing to give

I got inspired by this song ❤️‍🔥

[blu-bat]

Love how Luffy wanted to be pirate king so bad and accidentally skipped a step and just became god

[welcometoqueer]

I think it’d be really funny if they found the sub, rescued and took the teenager out, and then sent it back down with the billionaires still inside and no contact

[eggonthemoon]

Play with fire…

[cactuupng]

I hope it's still okay to talk about traffic!Mumbo

A lot of the times,it's either Grian or Scar or Martyn that's popular within the life series fandom,but Mumbo's my favourite character so I'm glad that you like him a lot as well!

I just love that Last Life kind of started so good for him,with the Southlands,the aha jokes,the base and farms,but then he and Grian had that moment on the bridge and would only be red with Grian,who wanted him to join him SO BADLY,if he killed Mumbo fair and square.

Then Mumbo turned red and went INSANE with the end crystals.He was forced out of the Southlands (I think),he was trying to attack so many people,and didn't hesitate to push Impulse off of the SAME bridge that Grian tried to kill him on.He still joined up with fellow reds but he kept moving through different people,until he met up with Jimmy,a fellow Southlander,and died in his home,by the hands of one of his closest allies.

He's just kind of a tragic character that's different to the usual angst of the life series,somebody who wanted friends but lost them all and went insane and bloodthirsty because of it.

This might not make sense,or just feel like a basic explanation of Mumbo's Last life journey,but still,it was nice to talk about him and I love your art of Mumbo!

Yes yes yes YES!

I absolutely love traffic!Mumbo because the more you rewatch his povs, the more tragic he seems to become.

Like you said, it started out great! He got a group of friends, he got 4 lives, jokes - everything was perfect! But then the Bastion happened, and he lost his first life. Okay, that's scary! He hadn't died on hardcore before, so it's weird and was definitely a lot more terrifying than if he died on Hermitcraft.

He calls for help in chat, asking if someone, anyone, can come help him get home and protect him. He buries himself underground, waiting for Martyn and Jimmy to come back for him. No one comes, though, leaving him to wait. He's completely alone for the night, terrified to go out in case a mob hurts him and kills him again.

Mumbo's rightfully upset at them, commenting how the "aha" is traumatic to him now and how he can't do it due to not having a spyglass anymore. Meeting up with Grian, Mumbo makes a jab at himself about burning and dying, clearly still upset.

Then he dies again at the hands of, again, lava, but this time it was because Scar poured it on him. His friend from another world, killing him just like that, not really caring. He respawns, but he stays burning. Mumbo tries to jump into the water, trying to distinguish the weirdly non damage taking flames, but they don't disappear no matter what he does. The others don't comment on it, as if they can't see it. He's still burning. It's still warm.

and THEN THE GHAST BRIDGE?? INCIDENT HAPPENS??? Mumbo only heard talks about red names and how they can't team with non reds, only seeing Joel act that way. He's never experienced this. So it's incredibly distressing when he watches his best friend die in front of him, going down to red. He leaves a sign at the bottom, saving Grian's stuff and pleading for him not to hurt him, because hey! I saved your stuff! I'm your pal!

The whole conversation makes me sick, because Grian clearly isn't fully trying to kill Mumbo off. He wants to be friends with him, of course, but he can't kill him. Grian resorts to making pathetic attempts to drop him, but of course it doesn't work. He backs off the moment Mumbo tells him that he will join him if he kills him fair and square. Mumbo wants to join him, he wants to stay friends, but only if Grian does it fairly. Grian doesn't. He can't.

I'm skipping through everything to when Mumbo turns red because MUMBO ON HIS RED LIFE IS CONSTANTLY ON MY MIND BECAUSE OH MY GOD. This man is not used to this amount of bloodthirst. He's a killer, of course he is. His middle name is Killsalot god damn it! But he's not used to it being this much. He immediately goes insane, not hesitating to hurt, to explode, to push the limits. Seeing how Ren and BigB were scared of him if he even went NEAR them with something explosive, it filled him with power. "I like having this power!" he says, absolutely ecstatic of how he can do what he wants.

All this power comes with a cost, of course. Mumbo coming back to the place he called home, meeting face to face with Grian and Impulse. He shouldn't be here. They tell him that in the face. Mumbo tries to protest, to talk about about how he somewhat already was exiled already, but his voice gets quiet as the realisations hit him. He cant come home. Grian exiles him right in front of him, telling him that he should leave. He does, but not without doing what red names were meant to do. Destroy. Scare.

Back on the ghast bridge, Impulse and Grian are there. Mumbo doesn't hesitate to push Impulse off, laughing. Grian's upset, yelling at him while Mumbk tries to explain himself. Mumbk tries to do Grian's old tricks of breaking the floor beneath him, but he can't. Grian can now, though, not afraid to protect himself as he starts scaring Mumbo. All Mumbo fan do in turn is to apologise repeatedly, saying "sorry" over and over as if he didn't mean to do ehat he did, running away.

He keeps burning the flame. He keeps making the flame larger and larger and larger until its too much, until he burns himself down to ashes. He flies too close to the sun as he watches Jimmy die in front of him, realisations crashing over him after hitting his best friend of what he's done now, running away before turning back, hoping that he didn't follow. Grian did, though. He always does.

It ends with Mumbo getting stabbed in the chest as he feels himself dying. Not dying in the way that is on Hermitcraft, the way that it is back home. No. He's dying.

Mumbo has a constant theme with burning in LastLife. His first deaths relating to burning in lava, coming back permanently burning due to a glitch after his second one, his third happening right after exploding an end crystal right in front of him, his love for end crystals in the first place...

I like to associate him with a burning candle flame that just got too big, slowly burning himself down until nothing but a puddle of what once was remained.

[namelessprince]

choosing to ignore the Everything. this guy is daedelus coded and im no longer surprised they meet a greek god later on

[robots-are-kinda-hot]

welp. the faes have claimed another victim, the victim being me. curse you @valrayne-faeu /j

my faesona’s name would be Midas (true name), or Icarus (alias), or something along those lines. She’s a lonely kinda cryptid person that lives in a cave on a mountain like a dragon. I’ve actually drawn her before, but every time i started overthinking things and it made drawing her icky oof,,, but shes back now !! and i actually like drawing her this time

She’d meet Blue first in the human realm! Living on a mountain is a little isolating so she’d adore her new company. Just don’t mind her pupils- wdym they were slits? No they’re not. She has completely normal human pupils, see?

Midas is not fae, but she is not human either. Not completely. She’s a were-wyvern- a huge winged serpent species i made way back in middle school. They’re made from mages/humans w magic that have been struck by lightning, usually when they're young, and feed on storms. This adds some guilt into Midas and Blue’s friendship- Midas is actively lying about being human, and while Blue can’t do the same he can certainly omit that he’a a fae.

It’s kinda like this lol. Fae!Midas design and were-wyvern form under the cut bc the drawings r tall

These motherfuckers are BIG. And their wings are too. I don’t usually color things but they come in arrays of bluish greys, dark greys, blacks, etc against yellows, oranges, whites, you get the idea. Midas herself has dark greys and yellow eyes.

As a fae, Midas would keep her wyvern traits for my own self indulgence. I’m not sure whether she’d be able to transform anymore though. I think Blue would trick her into staying rather than her coming of her own volition, so their relationship takes a hit :( at least she gets to meet Dream…

I think the summer court would be a little (very) overstimulating for someone who has been isolated for so long, so she’d get a little place on the edge of things, out of the way of everything. While Midas wouldn’t forgive very fast, Blue still takes the time to teach her about how to interact with other fae, culture, laws, etc. As her transformation progresses their relationship mends and they become friends again