#basically the Watchers lore

[thesaltyblobfish]

OUGHHDDDFFF I FINISHED IN TIME

Lab AU Grian for the art contest by @inkieflame

[andr3w-the-d0dgeb4ll]

The parallel of the Martyn vtuber lore and Grian watcher lore in terms of eldritch horror is something I want to mess with more..

Like with Grian, this is the horror of being elevated to a higher being than you were ever meant to be. Comprehending more than your mind was built to comprehend, given divine madness by beings who do not truly understand that they are ruining something already perfect.

Going back home, returning to the being you once were, but no longer able to enjoy your old life. Everything is meaningless now, your friends and family a mere speck in the vastness of your new mindscape.

Truly, this would be hell.

But on the other hand, Martyn. What was once a higher being, viewing this smaller world through a screen, he is now one of them. Shoved into a new body, made to pretend he is exactly like these beings so beneath him.

Your vision has been narrowed, your hearing limited. Your body is no longer yours, now it is a part of the game. Divine madness is your new curse, but in a complete opposite way. You ARE divine. You are a God of this world, why are you now TRAPPED in it?

I wonder what they'd think of each other, Grian and Martyn, if they both knew the truth of each other's existence? Would they envy the other or pity them?

Or maybe I'm just talking out my ass and none of this is true-

[cinnamonbeka]

so like,,,

1) if its canon canon the dead float around and watch shenanigans and

2) jimmy solidarity, our resident canary, dies first all the time

then surely hes spent a lot of time floating around and watching,, wonder if hes Watched enough to become one

[fluxedbuds]

The Watchers sound fun. Would love to have a base knowledge of that someday.

I can give you that!

Basically, they were introduced in an old-ish series called Evo, as mysterious semi-powerful figures that set up little puzzles to be solved and punished crimes with mild annoyances. They talked/typed weird and liked depicting themselves as angels, and also threw meteors at some cops once which was cool

On a meta level, they were explicitly intended to be a representation of the audience itself- literally the people watching! but with more direct influence than an audience, obvs. unless youtube used to have a Throw Meteors button

[yourqueenb]

Reading the new lore tablet really just confirmed my theory from chapter 2, but I think I have it a bit more fleshed out now. I think the creation of The Watcher was what split the realms in two. And if they ever become whole again, The Watcher will die or cease to exist. He even says that he’s pretty much existed since the realms came into being himself.

But the realms are constantly trying to get back to their natural state and have been since their initial separation. It might not have been noticeable at first, but as time went on, the “rifts” got bigger because the realms were moving closer and closer together. And this happens every time The Watcher resets them.

How does he reset them though? By using realm-walkers. I don’t think he can leave the space between the realms. So he needs someone who can travel freely to close the rifts. He probably gave all of the past realm-walkers the same little spiel he gave MC. And once they close all the rifts, the realms are pushed farther apart, The Watcher can live a few hundred years more, and the realm-walker dies — maybe because closing the rifts has some sort of negative effect on them or it just eats up too much of their light — which explains all of their mysterious disappearances.

The “Old gods” thought they were doing the people of Morella a favor by separating Light and Shadow since they considered magic to be inherently dangerous. But in doing so, they caused everyone to have to pay a terrible price every time they use their “pure” Light magic and most likely exacerbated, if not created, the strife that exists between Light and Shadow

[corvin-ito]

nowe that i think about it there were some parts of watcher dlc that were weirdly close to my improbable vision of how a nightcat campain could be, i'll mention that in the tags so dont read em if you wanna avoid spoilers, a lot of this post is tags rambling

[coatree]

The star of the show

Small flash warning ;P

The still frames <3

[astrowarr]

(slaps the roof of my roomies zombie apocalypse au) there are so many political nuances in this bad boy

[pocket-watcher]

Day number ??? Of clearing out my room. Things I have discovered:

My gigantic DS game collection of which I will probably keep 5 games (Drawn to Life, Drawn to Life 2, Mario Kart DS, The Simpsons Game, and Brain Age… maybe Cooking Mama 2 but I’m not sold on it yet)

My 3rd grade recorder which I CAN STILL PLAY

Neon pink shoes (never worn, but are my size) from this one time a company messed up my order

A MHA shirt I wore so much it cracked to the point of no return

A red electric guitar my friend gave me and I completely forgot existed

And Christmas decorations…. It’s June?? Why are these not in the Christmas box in the attic?!

[pufthebirb]

so.

life series watcher bird symbolism.

the three players who the watchers hate are jimmy, grian and martyn right?

grian is a parrot. we may keep parrots as birds (the way the watchers took grian in and made him one of their own) but parrots will never be fully trained to exactly what theyre told when theyre told to do it (grian is always in some way or another going against the watchers, always getting them upset at him)

jimmy. the canary in the coal mine. the watchers hate him, he listened to the listeners instead of the watchers in evo, so now they will use him for eternity as a prophecy of death killing him first every single time. the way people didnt care about the canarys life the watchers dont care about jimmys

and martyn. the watchers favourite tool. they tried to use him to get rid of grian in last life. they used him in limited life at the last second to cause a bit more suffering in killing scott and impulse. i see martyin as a messanger pigeon. hes the watchers messanger to the real world. when they dont have direct influence theyll use him bcause, like pigeons dont have a survival insinct to this day because their entire species was domesticated at some point, martyn has never even once tried to revolt against the watchers, hes always listened to them like an obedient little bird.

[sleepiestwizard]

helloooo desert duo pirate au with lots of worldbuilding, i hear? i would indeed love to know more

HELLO OMG. it is not done or posted yet (im probably gonna start posting once im over halfway cause i dont wanna make people wait too much in between updates) but basically!! it is like this:

boatem (except grian) are the crew of a ship called the flying jellie with scar as their captain! they go on many adventures and try to antagonise the newly crowned Red King (ren) and his Hand (martyn) (renchanting are not evil they are silly guys) and also a fearful crew of "pirates" called the Watchers, that rule the seas.

grian has grown up on the seas with the Watchers since his blood family was supposedly killed and the Watchers "found" him. as much as grian is concerned the Watchers are his actual family - even if he antagonises them sometimes - along with another avian boy he kinda adopted as a younger sibling when the Watchers "found" him named jimmy.

grian HATES pirates (the Watchers are NOT pirates thank you very much!) and especially the crew of the flying jellie and its irritatingly charming captain. until something happens to his brother jimmy and his only option is to go to scar for help.

shenanigans ensue

[the-somwthing]

canon scott: typically chill, thinks things through, has lots of allies and people tend to like him, he tends to survive till the end, in watcher lore the watchers kind of hate him because he didn’t go through with the boogeyman curse but yknow.

cringefail au scott: has lost all semblance of chill, everyone hates him, dies stupidly, watchers hate his guts simply because they think he’s annoying

I love this roleplay 😭

[hkpika07]

The reason for a lot of the fanon watcher lore is ATUS (and the universe shifts) (or was it as idk/idc) an honestly mid fic from 2019 with a shitty creator and the source of a lot of fanon watcher stuff like the masks and the tortured sad boi Grian stuff it pretty much just got really popular and a lot of people took some ideas and even now it's mark remains

kinda like the ace attorney burnt letters which from from my understanding just came from a popular narumitsu fic

Aw man that sucks ass. Yeah I remember ATUS when it got popular back when s6 was airing. The creator sucked. I heard a rumor that some of the hermits read the fic as well. Sucks that most of the fanon lore got taken from that. :/

It just sucks that something like that was reduced to grian torture porn basically. It's not even that interesting of fanon lore, it's just making Grian suffer and is very flat in concept. HC going the same bad route of not watching/interacting with the source material like the ace attorney fandom makes me really sad.

[princekirijo]

OK fuck it I've want to try one of these poll things and I've been struggling to decide so:

Context: I just beat Dark Souls 3 today (main game only - I've started the first DLC) I'm wondering what game I should play after I've beaten both DLCs. I know like 4 or so of my followers have played a souls game so if you haven't just pick vibes only or whatever I'm gonna play them both eventually. Only other souls game I've played is Elden Ring.

Pros of playing Bloodborne: I've heard it has amazing combat, it's one of the most highly rated of the Fromsoft games, I adore the aesthetic of the game.

Pros of playing Dark Souls 1: I just beat DS3 so playing this game would help me understand the lore, the level design is excellent, its a fun game too, ARTORIAS.

[meaningless-mayhem]

^prev yep, Hermitcraft(and Life Series, etc.) Twitter always appreciates funny Hermitcraft Tumblr posts. I think it's because a good portion of the communities overlap/are on both platforms lmao

Here's the link where I saw it:

We're just all crazy about our funny headcanons lol

Mumbo: Y'know, Grian, I've always wondered something — why are your eyes purple?

Grian, panicking: I have Alexandria’s Genesis.

[the-maid-of-witchwood]

Gimme your favourite au ideas and who you'd throw into them (or like one au idea you like because you have like the neatest ideas)

Again, I’m gonna pull out a list of AUs I have previously written because I’m way too prepared for this.

Carrie AU 2.0

Has no relation to the first beyond being another play on Carrie. The whole thing takes place at the Starlight Theatre where Ruth ends up playing the lead in Cinderella’s Castle. Zoey, pissed and bitter about playing second fiddle to some dorky soprano, just decides to trash her opening night. Or the one where Zoey takes method acting as the Stepmother too far. (If you’ve seen CC, you’ll know what I’m hinting at). Ruth snaps and wipes out half of Hatchetfield before curtain call.

Also Lautity are here just flirting in the background the entire time. Like, they are the only survivors because they thought the other looked good in this hot all done up and left to make out.

Cinderella’s Castle

The one where Stephanie doesn’t have a good time. I’ve already spoken about it on here but it’s essentially the plot of CC but set in Hatchetfield, with some of the lore weaved in. Just for fun and angst. So you know she’s being dragged through that ringer.

Corpse Bride

Pete is Victor, Grace is Victoria, Steph is Emily. Need I say more?

Crossed Timelines

Having been killed by Max, Ruth and Richie wake up in some random location with Pete, Steph and Grace. But it’s not their Pete, Steph and Grace. It’s the ones from another universe where Max killed them three instead of Ruth and Richie. Basically everyone argues who had it worst and trauma bonds. Essentially reincarnation.

Dæmons (His Dark Materials)

Just shenanigans involving everyone having dæmons. That’s it. Mainly fluff and chaos.

Dirty Dudes Must Die

Written as a mock Nightmare Time episode. Essentially follows Steph discovering the guys at school being shitty to Grace, the school refusing to do anything, Grace getting kicked out of home for ‘sleeping around’ and subsequently her deciding to take revenge. Only things go horribly wrong and she ends up with four bodies on her hands. Fortunately the nerds who keep getting in the way are more than happy to help.

Hatchet Swung the Other Way

Gabe is the bully and everything changes. Not really. Essentially just a role swap: the cool kids are now the losers and vice versa, Gabe - Max, Grace - Steph, Steph - Pete, and so on and so forth. Potentially might take place at Abstinence Camp.

Heathers

When Richie said he hated Stephanie Lauter and wanted her dead, he didn’t mean it literally. Would be nice if Max knew that. Also it’s totally unfair that he has to put up with her annoying ghost instead of Max when it wasn’t even his fault she was stupid enough to drink drain cleaner in the first place—

Ride the Cyclone Tearjerker

Six teenagers die at Watcher World. However, Miss Holloway refuses to let Blinky torture all of them - so they reach a deal, she can bring one back to life. However, rather than pick herself, she leaves the decision to the teenagers. Aka, Ruth lets out her inner theatre kid for an hour and a bit; Steph and Richie attempt to kill each other a second time; Grace has a mental breakdown/crisis of faith in the corner; Pete is literally the only ‘normal’ one; and Max honestly doesn’t know why he’s here.

Sail Away to Canada

An alternative NPMD ending where they do actually sail away to Canada and get new identities. A lot more slice of life and silly scenarios of them trying to remain undercover… until Solomon drags them back to deal with the mess (Max’s ghost) they left behind. Only there’s one issue: Grace may or may not have lost the winning card of her chastity to Lautski and they might have to aggressively play Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide who’s taking the bullet.

Something Fun, Something Tasty

Another alternative NPMD ending where Steph’s sacrifice isn’t the death of what she cherishes most, but they’re humanity. Pete and Grace struggle to adapt to their new life as… whatever the heck they are now. Monsters? Pets? Vessels? Steph just feels incredibly guilty; she’s also kinda the new Miss Holloway.

Take a Walk in My Shoes

Steph and Grace wake up in each other’s bodies in what they think is just a random nightmare. With the help of Pete, they slowly uncover that there’s something a lot more sinister going on at Abstinence Camp. And maybe a certain deal that was stuck between Mayor Lauter and the Jerries over a black book…

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Essentially TGWDLM but Pete is Paul. And he has the unfortunate fate of losing one girlfriend to the apocalypse, while trying to escape with the other. This definitely isn’t something that’ll be used against him in the final act…