#featherweight!grumbot

[tinybitofart]

featherweight!grumbot doodle (becaude im bored)

i took a bit of an artistic liverty with the panels on his face looking like. the sister location animatronics. but its FINE

[doctorsiren]

Warmed up with some featherweight headshots

[d0not-disturb]

have youe evr read FeatherWeight..???? its such an AU its by DoctorSiren

Have I read featherweight.

Have I.

Read.

Featherweight

That fanfic altered chemicals in my brain

That fanfic made me an artist

That fanfic made me obsessed with grumbot

That fanfic inspired my human grumbot au

That fanfic made me a better writer

That fanfic helped me get through 2020 and 2021

That fanfic quite literally changed me as a person

That fanfic

Is my favorite fanfic of all time

I like so many things because of featherweight

I waited months for each chapter and every time it was worth it

My persona is based off of doctorsiren

Doctorsiren literally made a silly little fanfic that changed 11 year old me’s mind

So yeah I’ve read it

[sagethemayor]

I'M EITHER IM GOING INSANE AND LOSING IT OR IS THIS SO DR CLOCKWORK/MUMBO CORE WITH HIS INTERACTIONS WITH GRUMBOT⁉️⁉️😭😭

ALSO THE ROOM THEY'RE IN REMINDS ME SO MUCH OF LIKE DR CLOCKWORK'S LAB/WORK PLACE IM CRYING 🙏🙏💔💔

@doctorsiren What have you done to me with that sad Minecraft block men fanfic au of yours😔😔

(HE'S EVEN GOT THE GLASSES!!!!!)

[sirens-au-asks]

How's FwGrumbot? And 2 questions for the boy, What's the date for you? And Can I give you a hug? You seem like a very huggable lil dude(and also a hug for Jrum and Sahara)

I’m not doing the math to figure out the exact date haha (there’s a past ask where I actually did do that, and the date of the story at the time was July 5, so it’s still early July)

Also I cannot remember for the life of me what outfit Grum is wearing currently oops

[xelquaa]

a Traumatized Humanoid Robot with really bad daddy issues? no, i think we would just cry together

you have to fistfight your tumblr pfp. do you think you'd win

[xelquaa]

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[cookiethestar]

Hopes and dreams are burning.

Fanart for @doctorsiren featherweight au. Definitely spoilers. I love your au. Grumbot is holding his picture of his fathers. And the thing burning is his journal. In the background is zedbot and Amelia trying to comfort him. Check it out- Love cookie

[willowstream-hp]

An Analysis on the Character of Mumbo in Featherweight

By WillowstreamHP

I would like to start off this analysis with explaining what Featherweight is, and why I feel compelled to write this in the first place. Featherweight is a story by DoctorSiren telling the story of how Grian gets wings, and has to learn to cope with them. Now that is a VERY bad and brief summary, but it is COMPLETELY spoiler free. If you have not read this fanfic I highly recommend you go check it out, as it is the No.2 highest rated fic on Ao3. With that being said, have you not read it, this analysis will be LADEN with spoilers, going all the way to the most recently posted chapter. This is your last warning before I start getting into the intricate details of this piece of writing.

With that out of the way, I’d like to specify my motivations very briefly. Mumbo in Featherweight has always been given a bad lighting for how he reacts to situations, and his obsession with robots. This, in turn, has led people to believe that he is a bit insane. While I am inclined to agree, the purpose of this analytical piece will be to explain how this change in his behavior makes sense in the context of the story. In addition to that, I will also be explaining why he has the flaws he has, and how they make him a much more realistic character. The biggest reason as to why I am writing this is because so many people are bashing him in the comments for being unreasonable and downright stupid in the later chapters. Again, I am not refuting this point, merely explaining how it makes sense, and how it is a crucial part to his character. Essentially, stop bashing someone for having human emotions.

I’m being kind, so here’s one last warning before the big spoilers start.

Part One: The Setup

The setup to Mumbo’s character arc is done quite nicely. It’s established that Grian and Mumbo are very close, and from the beginning when Grian is hiding the wings from him Mumbo is nothing but respectful. The two share a deep bond, and it is important to both of them equally. When Grian finally decides to trust Mumbo with the information on his transformation, despite Mumbo having already known prior to this moment, he doesn’t really mention he already knew. He could tell Grian was uncomfortable with sharing, and so he didn’t bother to really press him for an answer. This is a sign of a deep, trusting bond. Mumbo understood that it was Grian’s situation, and that he needed space. He was also able to understand that Grian trusted him enough to share any important or possibly life-threatening problems with him. Yes, I know, he’s turning into a bird, that’s kind of serious. But he wasn’t going to be turning fully into a bird anytime in the next two days, and he was clearly stressed about the situation as it was. That’s a whole other analysis to write (probably not this one is already hard enough).

Part Two: The Shift

This is when things started to get dicey. Mumbo had made a few robot kids, okay. Nice. He’s allowed to do that. He wanted to have a familial bond with someone in a way that wasn’t just being friendly. It’s understandable to want to be a parent, and have a child that looks up to you and loves you just as much as you love them. Mumbo built the robots out of excitement, but also out of loneliness. Grian had been hiding from Mumbo on and off due to his own anxieties. While we tend to see a lot of this from Grian’s perspective in the early chapters, and keep out of Mumbo’s real deep inner thoughts.. we aren’t really kept from that much. When he’s building the robots, he isn’t stressing BECAUSE he’s building the robots. Building the robots was his way of shutting everything out and focusing on one task to try and ignore the situation. This is CLEAR EVIDENCE that something was wrong from the start. Go back and read it if you have to, he tends to be very clearly focused on the robots even if something bad is going on. It was his own, though flawed, coping mechanism to help him not to think about what was happening.

Part Three: Poultry Man

This was,, this was when it all went downhill. Grian and Mumbo had finally decided to trust each other, they were being a lot friendlier. So Mumbo, trying to be a good friend, decided to help him gain more confidence. He’d still been ignoring a lot of his own thoughts and problems with the whole situation, which is something that is very important to his character. Keep in mind, he wasn’t really all that expressive to Grian about his thoughts, other than he was worried about him. He never went into detail on why he was building the robots, or why he was worried about Grian. The last one might be obvious, you’d say, but is it really? He’s worried about Grian for Grian, but he’s also worried about Grian for a lot of other reasons. He’s worried for himself, he’s worried about what will happen to HIM if something happens to Grian. And so what does he do? He builds new friends, new kids to hang out with. He builds backups, in case something happens to Grian, so that he can have someone to rely on. Mumbo gets depicted as shyer as the story progresses, and this lines up with how his friendship with Grian slowly deteriorates till the fight. This leads to the important fact that his friendship with Grian is probably one of the only solid foundations he has on Hermitcraft. Sure, he knows the other hermits, but he’s definitely closest to Grian by a lot, with Iskall second. So when Grian started to ignore Mumbo.. you guessed it. More robots. The robots, which had originally been a way to keep thoughts out of his head, were now a way to keep himself sane. Which ended up backfiring. Another key factor is that he became hyperfixed on making the robots as real as possible. An easy explanation to that would be that, for example, Grumbot wanted to be more human so that he could receive better hugs. But I believe that Mumbo was doing it to convince himself that they WERE real. He had just been betrayed by his best friend, so he turned to the next closest thing: something he could PROGRAM to be loyal. Sure he gave them free will and emotions, but they were built to keep him company and support him. He made them for the sole purpose of not being alone.

Part Four: The Theme and Character Breakdown

The previous sections were a lot shorter than I expected them to be, but I’m preparing for this section to be pretty long. The point I’m trying to make is this: Mumbo is absolutely justified in having his coping mechanisms the way they are. I’ve seen a lot of people in the comments bashing Mumbo for building the robots, and calling him an insane idiot. But you have to consider what he’s gone through. He’d been overworking himself, he wasn’t sleeping, he has anxiety, his best friend betrayed him, and then later on his best friend had an outright fight with him and practically ended their friendship. Most people would probably cry for 2 weeks on end if this happened to them, but that would be because that’s their established coping mechanism. Mumbo had established another coping mechanism, and that was pushing the thoughts out of his mind through hard labor and thought. Building robots takes a lot of attention to detail and focus, which would make it extremely easy to push other thoughts out. The first robots he built, Jrum and Grum, were partly for the purpose of the mayoral campaign, but part of it was that Mumbo needed another way to anchor himself to Hermitcraft. Throughout the story he has rarely been depicted outside of his base, or with another hermit save for Grian. This indicates that he probably kept to himself a lot, and Grian was sort of a bridge between him and the hermits. His nature being shy aids to this point as well. Therefore, when he thought that this bridge might be crumbling, he decided to set up some new ones. Of course, in typical fanfiction fashion, they ended up having a huge fight and hurting each other through their words. Mumbo had already built quite a few robots at this point, you might say. Yes, he had, and guess what. They were mostly due to him trying to keep anxious thoughts out, and needing someone to stick with him when he was lonely. When did he start building his family? After Grian, who he probably considered like a brother, ditched him. There is a direct correlation between the events in the story and who he decided to build. It started off simple, with a simple, fun task. Grum was built for the mayoral race, and Jrum to go with him. The others, however, each come afterwards for different reasons. Amelia and Circuit were meant to help him and look out for him, and he built these when Grian was hiding from him. He built Sahara after they had gotten on better terms, a sign of hope that their relationship might not be ruined. Finally, he began building his family when Grian fought with him and flew off. Each robot lines up with a specific point in the timeline where something happened between him and Grian. Hence, each robot is actually a symbol of whatever trauma or emotion he was experiencing. For Grumbot and Jrum it was joy and happiness, for Amelia and Circuit it was worry, for Sahara it was hope, and for his family it was his loneliness and need for love.

Part 5: The Conclusion

Now as I stated earlier, I have seen quite a few people bashing Mumbo for how he acts in the story. The purpose of this entire writing was to explain how his character has been evolving throughout the story, and how the events around him have directly influenced him and his actions. The points that people have been calling him out for in this story are all points that have been CAUSED. Sure they’re flaws, and probably not a good way to cope with the situations, but they’re legitimate reactions. If you were to face a fight with your best friend, you’d find yourself in a bad place mentally and emotionally. Let me state it again: every action that Mumbo has done, every emotion he has felt, and every way he has dealt with it was perfectly rational based on his state of mind. He was not in a good place mentally, emotionally, and even physically. Being sleep deprived, lonely and anxious tends to lead people to make bad decisions. The people who are bashing Mumbo for what he does are blatantly ignoring the causes of those actions, and how all the reactions to the situations are completely believable.

I would like to wrap this up by pointing out that most of this is up for speculation. The points about his mental health and anxiety in the AU are pretty easy to read for yourself, but the more thematic elements are totally up to you to believe. I personally have done the best I can to take apart his character and demonstrate just how humanely written he truly is. You have every right to believe that Mumbo is an idiot for doing what he does, as that is your opinion and you are entitled to it. I just encourage you to consider what I have here and gain another perspective on this. I would be happy to receive criticism or additions to my analysis and even the few theories I snuck in there. And to restate, I do not own this AU, the concept of this AU, and especially not the concept of Hermitcraft. I’m just a fan who thought that some people needed a bit of an explanation on Mumbo’s character. I hope that all of you enjoy reading this, as it did take me a bit to finish up.

[d0not-disturb]

I never did

Wherever there is Grumbo, I’ll be there

When I die, look for me in the Grumbo moments videos from 3 years ago

Look for me in the video where Grumbot called Grian and Mumbo dads and in the video where Grian sends Mumbo the message, “shall we go and visit our son?”

Look for me in the Video where Emperor Grumbot says he gets his Mustache from his Dad

Look for me in Mumbo’s Last life POV

Look for me in the Featherweight AU

Look for me in a Scarian hate post

Look for me in old Grumbo art posts

Cause I’ll be there

Also to me ur 1

[mcytkinconfessions]

Hi there I have Grian kintypes from various sources but we're going to focus on featherweight today. :waving at all my kids: Hi Grumbot Hi Jrumbot hi Amelia hi Circuit! And if there's any Saharas out there, hi to you too! And also I'm sorry. And also, would you like a hug-?

- Featherfalling

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[doctorsiren]

I do this thing where I'll listen to music and draw based on the song. I have until the end of the song to draw something that the song reminds me of, and once the song ends, I have to move onto the next song and drawing So here's what I did for two hours today as I wait for my 3D project to finish rendering. Bonus points to anyone who can correctly name all 24 songs ;)

Featherweight AU

Snapshot AU

Doom / Void Twins

D&D

Other

It's a fun thing to do :)

[d0not-disturb]

YOU FUCKING FOLLOWED ME BACK???????? WTF/POS???????? IM COOL ENOUGH FOR YOU??? WHAO *EXPLODES*/POS

(THIS IS MORE OF A TELLING YOU THING THAT IM SHOKED/POS THAN AN ASK BUT AHHHH/POS)

POV:

✨Featherweight Grumbot pfp✨

[doctorsiren]

IT’S HIM IT’S MY BOY!!!

featherweight!grumbot doodle (becaude im bored)

i took a bit of an artistic liverty with the panels on his face looking like. the sister location animatronics. but its FINE

[doctorsiren]

did these back in January and forgot

The Solo kids and the Featherweight robokids wearing each other’s clothes for the funny

[doctorsiren]

Sad little boy