#augh he doesn't knowww he doesn't understandddd

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I'm still thinking about Mumbo and Last Life and the Mounders

I'm thinking about how most of the Mounders have so much experience with Life Series while Mumbo only ever saw Last Life

Just. Pearl and Bdubs and even Joel and Grian have all been in (afaik) every season so far, they know how these games work by now, they've seen enough to figure out what does and doesn't fly.

Mumbo on the over hand just hasn't. He was there for Last Life, it was a shitshow, and that's all the reference he has. Mumbo saw a Life Series where all alliances are tenuous at best, where you would trade your friends for a life any day, where any 'friend' could be the boogeyman (and if so, they were a threat), where the moment Grian or himself turned Red they were exiled from their team and had to turn against them

Mumbo saw that any time someone can hurt you they will, and that's how he plays the game, both then and now.

The others, if nothing else, have seen Desert Duo in Third Life, they saw Green!Grian and Red!Scar work together the whole season. They've seen full teams assist in boogey kills. They know that the mechanics saying someone is dangerous doesn't mean they're indiscriminately so.

Mumbo still thinks that turning Red means a breaking all bonds and a desperate scramble to survive. He still thinks that the smallest chance of danger means you have to shun the source (boogeyman, yellows getting to guess tasks...)

Mumbo never left Last Life, he's still playing by it's rules