#before Double Life

[all54321]

The Spell of Silence

Grian joins Hermitcraft still as a Watcher. He still split from the ones who turned him, but he still acts as one even solo. Scar discovers and it doesn’t go well for him.

This is the first AU that isn’t really Scarian. I tried, of course, but the way I made this AU and the direction I was taking it… it just didn’t seem like a possible option anymore, not for this AU at least. I made a different/generally darker AU where they do get together, but that’s a whole other thing. Scar does kinda have a crush on Grian still, so… there’s that? His love quickly turns into hatred though.

Grian is pretty evil in this au, but in a more passive sense. He just doesn’t care about so many things that he should care about. The life games though, he goes fully unhinged with them. Like, have you heard his laugh in 3rd life?

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Grian rubs a hand over his face, this was not how he saw today going. He paces a few feet away from where Scar lays on the ground, unconscious. He’s not worried, he’s… he just doesn’t want to deal with this at the moment. Grian especially doesn’t want to deal with this if the spell doesn’t work. He casts a glance at Scar again, he also doesn’t know what he’ll do if his spell has… side effects. It shouldn’t, but it’s not like he’s tried to do something like this before.

A quiet groan pulls Grian from his thoughts. He leans over Scar, “Scar? You okay?”

He slowly opens his eyes, eyebrows furrowing in confusion, “Grian… what…?

“How are you feeling?” Grian prompts again, wanting to make sure he’s fine. He may have little regard for what happens to others, but he doesn’t want to permanently hurt any of the hermits. It could also blow his cover if Scar doesn’t recover from this.

Scar stares up at him in confusion still, as if trying to piece the last few moments of his prior consciousness together. After a few seconds he seems like he does because he bolts upwards and backs away from Grian. “You- you were…” he trails off, clearly unable to form the words. Scar still tries, as shown from the increasingly more horrified look on his face.

Grian sighs in relief, “good, it worked.” Considering how little time he had to prepare the best spell, this worked pretty well.

Scar refocuses on him, “w-what?”

“You’re not going to say a word about what you just saw,” Grian says, all traces of warmth gone. “Literally, you are unable to say anything.”

Scar doesn’t say anything, clearing trying to test if that’s true. His horror returns full force the longer the silence goes on. Grian’s rather impressed by this, he didn’t anticipate the spell working this well. After a while Scar swallows, his voice full of nerves and resignation, “why…?”

“Why what?” Grian asks, curious, before immediately realizing, “ah, right, the spell. You can’t clarify.”

“That.”

“The spell?” Scar nods, so Grian continues, “so you can’t tell anyone what you know now. The only other option is to forcibly remove the memories from your mind, but that has a chance to completely shatter your mind, and I’d rather not do that.”

And Scar’s back to looking horrified.

“Now,” Grian adds, “I’d recommend pretending like none of this happened so no one asks questions. I will take my chances with the memory altering spell if you leave me no choice.”

Much to Grian’s surprise, the horror fades from his eyes. Less to Grian’s surprise, it turns into anger. “You… what are you!?”

“I don’t think that’s relevant,” Grian replies easily. Anything Scar learns can’t be shared, that doesn’t mean he needs to tell Scar anything.

“And why not?”

“It’s not important for you to know.”

“It’s not like I can say anything anyway, what’s the point?” Scar angrily snaps.

Grian scoffs, “I don’t need to tell you anything. You barged in here first, I don’t owe you an explanation.”

Scar just glares daggers at him for a few seconds before respond, “why are you doing all of this?”

A grin spreads across Grian’s face, “why? Because it’s fun, of course.”

“Fun? You consider that fun?”

“Chaos is always fun, I thought you guys knew that.”

“You literally-“ Scar falls silent.

“What better way to cause chaos then those games?” Grian says gleefully, knowing what Scar was going to say. “All of you crumbling into fear and paranoia, fighting each other to come out on top, killing without mercy, betrayal. So, so many fun things that don’t happen here on Hermitcraft.” Scar takes a step back at Grian’s passionate response, nerves not even hidden. “I create those games because I can’t do any of that stuff here.” Grian pauses as he realizes he’s doing exactly what he said he wouldn’t. He shrugs the thought away as an idea comes to mind, “you know,” he begins, voice dropping low and edging on a purr. “Wouldn’t it be fun if in the next game I let you keep your memories too?”

“Next?” Scar whispers, taking another step back.

“Of course, why would I stop making those games, I have so many more ideas.” Grian approaches Scar, enjoying his fear, “two is far too low of a number.”

“Get away from me,” he mutters, any heat behind the words lost to the fear that’s taken over again.

“You’re free to leave whenever, I’m not stopping you,” Grian replies, only pausing when he’s right in front of Scar. “I don’t really care what you do as long as you don’t elude to what’s happened here today.”

“And- and if I do?”

“I’ll take my chances with that memory altering spell. So it’s really in your best interest if you keep silent,” Grian says, grinning widely.

Several expressions flit across Scar’s face before panic and fear take hold again. He takes a couple more steps away and, after Grian doesn’t follow, turns tail and flies away on his elytra, spamming rockets to get away faster.

Grian watches the slowly disappearing sparks in silence. This is a little annoying, he’s not too fond of Scar holding this knowledge, even if he can’t use it. It doesn’t help that he’s somewhat fond of the terraformer, because it makes him want to try less risks with keeping this under wraps. Well, he’ll just have to keep an eye (or several) on Scar to make sure everything is fine.

[nezhanetwork]

based on falseknees' comic :)

[colvencrusnr]

I cant find the meme i traced this over anymore . Lalala i am still stuck in double life

[crowshaped]

save me 29y/o rachel amber

[mxmarsbars]

third time’s a charm!

[78miu]

autumn love notes

[samtamdan]

[daily-dose-of-danno]

Danny warping/distorting himself requested by @ectospacecadet :)

Season 1, Episode 1 - Mystery Meat

Season 1, Episode 4 - Attack of the Killer Garage Sale

Season 1, Episode 10 - Shades of Gray

Season 1, episode 16 - Lucky In Love

Season 1, Episode 18 - Life Lessons

Season 2, Episode 3 - Pirate Radio

Season 2, Episode 8 - The Fright Before Christmas

Season 2, Episode 12 - Beauty Marked

Season 2, Episode 16 - Double Cross my Heart

[diazmaximoff]

Saw this on Twitter and tbh, I can't detect any lies🤷🏾‍♂️

[rainyinautumn]

Did someone say COMPLETE DATA ANALYSIS OF ALL THE DEATHS IN THE LIFE SERIES? No? Well. I did it. Here are some neat graphs for you guys to look at so that you don’t have to deal with the gigantic spreadsheet I did!

Let’s start off with the big bad question: what gets people killed in this game, anyway?

Note that a CAUSE OF DEATH is not the same as a KILL. Cause of death is what pops up in the chat when someone dies (ex. PearlescentMoon was slain by Smallishbeans, BdoubleO100 fell from a high place). The cause of death does not always account for player responsibility (ex. TNT traps). Generally, a player is only considered to be someone’s cause of death if the death occurs through direct PvP combat. HOWEVER, responsibility for an indirect kill such as a trap still goes toward a player’s total kill count—for example, Joel has 14 kills overall, 10 of which are direct enough for him to be considered the actual cause of death. After all, axes don’t kill people without being swung by someone.

A few other whacky things about kill counts:

Self-inflicted deaths do not count toward a player’s kill count (ex. Grian doesn’t get a kill for jumping off Monopoly Mountain at the end of 3rd Life, Scott doesn’t get a kill for blowing himself up at the end of Double Life).

When it comes to Double Life, soulmates are considered to share their three lives. No distinction is made between Soulmate A's life and Soulmate B's life, and each death only counts as one kill (ex. Joel gets one kill for killing Scott with fireworks, even though that also killed Pearl (however, Pearl’s cause of death is still Joel, as her life is considered the same as Scott’s)).

Using the /kill command does not count toward your kill count. Grian.

With that cleared up, let’s look at kill counts.

By the skin of his teeth, Grian leads the pack in total kills. The top three you see on that graph are the only players who have a KDR (kill-to-death ratio) of more than 1—for you folks who are unfamiliar with those, a KDR of more than 1 means you kill other people more often than you die. Less than 1 means you die more often than you kill other people. Here are the highest and lowest KDRs in the series:

“What’s this?” I hear you say. “Jimmy Wet-Paper-Bag-of-a-Man Solidarity DOESN’T have the lowest KDR in the series?”

No. No, he does not, and it’s actually really funny you should ask.

Because of Last Life’s mechanic of life transferring, even players that have been in all three installments of the Life Series don’t have the same death count. Eight players died more than three times in Last Life. Another eight died exactly three times. And one player only died twice.

By virtue of starting on yellow and never receiving any extra lives in Last Life, Jimmy holds the record for fewest deaths in an installment of the Life Series with just two deaths in Last Life. He is the only player to ever die less than three times in a game. This means that although he has just one kill, he has fewer total deaths than BigB (who has died a very standard nine times), the only other player with one kill, so his KDR is higher. Congrats, Jimmy, you’re not last in everything. But you are still the only player without a PvP kill.

Speaking of PvP, it’s time to look at how people do that! Here’s a graph of the top five weapons that tend to land PvP kills the most in the series:

And now here’s weapon preferences by game:

[Double Life not depicted due to lack of PvP deaths—only 4 occurred, using a diamond axe, a diamond sword, fireworks, and an iron axe respectively.]

Despite 19 more deaths occurring in Last Life than 3rd Life, the two actually have the exact same amount of PvP kills (28). It’s interesting to note the strong preference for bows in 3rd Life, which was a much more warlike game and had several fairly formal battles where people fought from a distance. Last Life required an overall sneakier strategy, resulting in a higher use of traps. In combat, non-ranged weapons like swords and axes were generally preferred due to fights often starting in close proximity and without warning, courtesy of the Boogeyman curse. Comparatively, Double Life saw remarkably few PvP kills, likely due to each person being twice as accident-prone by virtue of being linked to another player—in fact, with a total of 12, accidents accounted for three times as many deaths as PvP in Double Life and overall for more than half (57%) of the deaths in the game.

As for individual player stats sheets, here’s an example of one of those:

If you want to see one of those for ALL 17 PLAYERS, you can go to this slideshow! More details about the stats can be found in the presentation notes of each slide. And, if you have a really specific question and want to get into the nitty gritty, feel free to send me an ask! Hope you guys enjoyed the data!

[starcurtain]

I think it's really funny that everyone seems to be misinterpreting the recent Ratiorine crumbs we got, running with the idea that Aventurine thinks Ratio is actually a gentle scholar.

In the original video, Tingyun starts listing off people working with her group as models, but she only describes rather than names them: she has a lazy general (Jing Yuan), a gentle scholar (Ruan Mei), and a cool/laconic swordsman (Blade--how she got him, lord only knows).

Aventurine then gets visibly confused (that's what his "?" is all about), because the people that come to his mind for "general," "scholar," and "swordsman" don't remotely fit the adjectives Tingyun used. He thinks of Feixiao (the opposite of lazy), Sushang (the opposite of edgy), and, of course Ratio--the opposite of gentle. (As @hundredsspoons pointed out too, the Ratio emoji used is even the angry one where Ratio is throwing his e-chalk; this doctor is at his least gentle, lol.)

It's still definitely a Ratiorine crumb; Aventurine's first thought for "scholar who is hot enough to be a model" is Ratio, rather than any woman, but this is actually Aventurine thinking of Ratio as the dead opposite of Tingyun's description; he is not affirming Ratio is deep down secretly a marshmallow here.

Aventurine knows his man is a bit of an ass and accepts it as-is. 😂

[isjasz]

[Day 26]

Time set after bigbs death probably

Props to anyone that knows where the quote is from >:) (i had this idea in my notes for over a year LMAO)

[myrathefarmer]

Wildflowers and Weeds 💐

Redraw of my old Life Series Cleo designs over on Twitter!

[ethosiab]

isnt it crazy how up until limited life almost everything etho cared about got set on fire and burnt over and over again. wild.

you get the wip too because. i hate this.s

[crowshaped]

cutieful 🍊

[mxmarsbars]

happy pride month (again)