#Secret life lore

[drunkintergalacticemotions]

The lore of Jimmy haunting Grian this session is making me go insane

[spectator-moon]

My thoughts on Martyn Secret life lore stream (Eyes and Ears AU)

first, Martyn why would you hurt me with that imagery? Poor scar ;-;

-I really like the idea of the logo being the pincer on the Watchers. Grian is a force of nature and should be represented as such

-I am of the personal belief that Jimmy did not break free from the canary curse, since he died right before Wither/Warden boss fight and the entire point of Canarys is to warn of danger

-slightly irralevently but I need to draw the Scar

-BOY do I love the idea of Gem being used as the Watchers new tool because of the Zombie outbreak (send Gem all the love for that skill!!!)

-love Gem being taken by Watchers in general, especially adding in her lore that in Empires she thought everybody was just roleplaying, so she came in thinking it was roleplay and got stuck.

-i also like the idea of Jimmy getting struck down because of the Watchers being confused by his "funeral" and once Lizzy dies, then going "wait no he's supposed to be dead hold on-" and striking him down immediately

-i need more ideas for art. Also references. Please more references proportions are awful

-"if given the right tools, how many seeds of chaos can {Gem} sow, and it turns out, she's a bloody good farmer." Good quote. Make art for quote

-negative emotions being ~spicy~

-martyn being the seperate party in the gang of winners

-the watchers pushed Jimmy off a ledge

-players still having that sense of connections and support (i.e. swapping out) despite being in murder games (also I love the idea that when the Listeners swap out players, the players get a choice, so it's all the much more heartbreaking)

-(personal headcanon that Ren was desperately hoping Martyn would recognize him in Tango's body)

-(personal headcanon that all players start new life series incredibly sore from being tensed as they fall, even though they're unconscious)

-(other personal headcanon that fragmented players i.e. life series players are the only ones who can see the fragments on other servers)

-Speakers maybe being part of a group which works as mercenarys (being paid in whatever currency they use to give players the task of helping each other) (speakers being true neutral)

-y'all imagine the cinematic beauty of the climax I want full animaticssss

-Grian couldn't cash in on success because he either isn't fully in, or because the Watchers are being petty

-the two watchers being the actually evil equivalent of Jesse and James from pokemon

-Grian has emotions about previous series absolutely stunning idea

-like the idea that Winners get to keep their emotions (hence Pearl and Tilly, Grian w/ Scar, etc)

-Fragement lore fragment lore fragment lore

-THE PLAYERS ALL HAVE FRAGMENTS AND I NEED TO CHECK THE POST WHERE EVERYONE PUT THEIR IDEAS FOR PLACES

-Martyn is furry (fragment dog collar) (very not serious)

-fragments appear as important moments from lore? (Can Scar just have a big ol' one where he got punched in the face by Grian from third life?) (I know they don't appear because final death but it was a generator of so much angst)

-autocorrect my beloathed. (Grian ≠ Groan)

-sometimes fragments become scars, and everybody gets confused because "this moment wasn't important I have no emotional attachment to this moment why is there a scar?"

-PLAYERS CANNOT REMEMBER THE EMOTION GOBBLING AND ARE JUST GENERALLY CONFUSED WHEN THEY HAVE AN EMOTIONAL REACTION TO SOMETHING SOMEBODY SAYS

-headcanon that the Watchers do a real shoddy job at emotion gobbling and often leave the memory, which can prompt an emotional reaction. Also, Watchers actively ignore certain negative moments in favour of those spawning more negative emotions (like a cobblestone generator but for negative emotions)

-datastream Martyn??? Please explain I have not the time to watch all the vods

-eeeee winner theory!!!!!

-we love Villain scar

-PEOPLE CAN SHATTER IF THEYRE TOO FRAGMENTED OH MY GODS PLEASE FANART AND FICS

-so wait if they get to watch how it ends does that mean they had to sit and watch Scar go insane???? That makes that sadder

-so without any knowledge of Datastream Martyn, can I suggest that mayhaps datastream means that literally Martyn leaps between worlds by moving through the literal data stream? I have seen references to a Doc, so maybe he and Martyn were experimenting and Martyn got stuck? I know something happened to Doc, probably bad given that the reference was 'yes the red stuff was definitely ketchup', so was it because of the knowledge he has gained? Again, never seen any data stream so take all of this with a grain of salt. I just like analysing stories and have read enough to be able to pick out plotlines fairly well.

-oooh lore comic i want to read that

-Secret Keeper is Watchers putting on a trench coat and going "yes yes no watchers here yes yes"

-imagine how invasive it would be to spawn in and just KNOW the rules, with no background for why or how you have that information. Boy that could be a cesspit for angst. Imagine the panic of that inserted information. (Grian has to calm somebody down fic???)

-new lore enjoyer, but I love this already.

-making a proper movie with this concept would be AMAZING

-players were kidnapped lmao

-Scott having that forewarning for Jimmy and Scar is a funny thought

-Listeners are oldest children fighting their middle siblings (Watchers) because Mom and Dad will blame them for the poor player hurt

Making a part two because this is so long already

[queenarsinoethepoisoner]

Ok so cus of the secret life document type thing that @pixelcrafter234 made had me start thinking up my own theory, and wanted to share it! So here it is:

The Secret Keeper is a Watcher that long ago got put into a stone coma by the players, hoping it would kill it. And although the magic within the Watcher all but vanished, it did not. Fast forward to the end of 3rd life, and the Watcher originally put into a stone coma has been fed with the chaos and death of 3rd life. As the life series progresses, the Watcher’s powers return to them, and it is slowly gaining enough power to break out of the stone coma it was put in. At the time of Secret life, they had enough power to interact with the players and give them tasks. At the moment, all that is happening is great mistrust and deceit, which feeds them, but not enough. Eventually the tasks will become deadly and the Watcher will finally break out and take revenge on the players who put it in the coma for so long. The players know none of what the Secret Keeper actually is, only that it appeared one day and started giving tasks. The only players with any idea of the what Secret Keeper is are the players from Evo, but the Watcher uses a bit of their magic to block their memories of any Watcher interactions.

[isjasz]

COME HOME, Grian says simply. (---"The shadow people come by every once in a while")

Lil thing for @definitelynotshouting 's your half of the ransom about secret life scar 🌻

[dredgesnails]

procrastinating on sleeping so heres another set of trafficposts ^_^

1 / 2 / 3 / 4

[hybbart]

The hosts of the games (minus Grian, who hosted 3rd life himself) Each one was hosted by a watcher inspired by the original game to host their own.

lore below

The Boogieman (he/she) loves bloodsports and the drama of betrayal, so she created a game in which curses were bestowed upon players (some more permanent than others) and gave them the ability to gain and lose more hearts in order to encourage violence. He hosted Last Life after seeing how Grian's game ended and wanted more red life drama.

The Spinner (they/them) loves the relationship drama and tragedy of the games, so made a mechanic to pair up the players. Their favourite biome is the Ancient City because of its horror movie (the true romantic genre supposedly) like atmosphere, so they built the arena atop one. They cursed golden apples to break bonds and put them in the game hoping at least one of the pairs would participate int he drama of consuming them, but the planned failed to their annoyance.

The Clockmaker (any) is a control freak who interfered the most forwardly with their games. They wanted the most chances possible for stories and gaming, so created a mechanic to allow for more deaths and strategies. They ended up breaking Limited Life more often than not with their strange mechanics. They wanted a centrepiece to their arena similar in danger to the pillager outpost Double Life incidentally had, but broke it while attempting to make resources more plentiful to minimize time resource gathering.

The Secret Keeper (it/its) wanted to create a more relaxed game with more ridiculous and silly situations, so inserted itself into the game to hand out tasks to do instead of mull around until the players kill each other and mechanics to discourage hurting each other directly. It doesn't care for the drama the others before it loved so much, and didn't both maintaining the curses Boogieman placed leading to some of them breaking.

[phosphorus-noodles]

He didn’t die.

He didn’t die at the end.

Grian jumped off a cliff. Scott was slash killed. Pearl was blown up. Martyn was struck down.

But not Scar.

Scar escaped. He ended with 5.5 hearts. He’s still alive. The watchers didn’t take him back.

He’s… free?

[tommyfuur]

[sherlockggrian]

nobody wins, if I kill you / would I have to forgive you still?

casting gempearl on your dash everyone look out

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Life SMP theorizing is so funny (/pos) to me because like. There’s not really a canon, per se, so what you’re really doing is proposing an addition to the fan-created lore. There’s some running bits and storylines but for the most part the players are just doing some fun goofs n’ gags and sometimes there’s dots to connect. If you wanna make a really complex theory about motives and corruption and such you totally CAN but the only people who’ll ever decide if you’re right or not are other people in the fandom and also Martyn InTheLittleWood

[jam-isverysleepy]

BRo i have not slept, all the videos for secret life release between 10 pm and 4 am and as soon as i found out what happened with the canary curse i had to draw it so i pulled an allnighter, i hope you like it.

i am going to bed now , the sun is up.

this bird is so so dumb and so so stupid but i love him so much

also how dare he slightly break the curse right as it half way through working on a canary curse animatic.

[ouroborosreilig]

So please hurry leave me I can't breathe Please don't say you love me

+ them seperated

[lolli-popples]

"Were your lungs too weak? You suffocated so fast... The song wasn't done."

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[rozaalright]

religious c!jimmy who is also like a brother to Grian except it drives Grian insane because every time Jimmy starts praying to the Watchers, Grian's Watcher form keeps fading in and out of existence and he cant tell him about his true form so half the time its just:

Jimmy: "O Watchers above, please let the Canary Curse die..."

Overstimulated Grian: "Jimmy— if you keep doing that I swear I will make that curse worse."

Jimmy: "What?"

Grian: "Nothing......"

[theminecraftbee]

honestly I think an interesting martyn character trait to poke at would be the watcher lore as an expression of grief. as an attempt to rationalize and explain a terrible thing that keeps happening to him. to give it a reason, to give himself an enemy, to both give agency to the situation and to help temper his survivor’s guilt and tell himself he could never have stopped it anyway. as a construct of stories to build around himself so he can understand.

after all, that’s sort of what we do, isn’t it?

[izelthewashbear]

We've heard your prayer, Canary. Your call has been answered.