#grian gets to be colourful as a treat

[gingermaple]

IM SO GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH A KINGFISHER GRIAN FOR S10!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also your scart is everything to me

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!

[solargeist]

The Watchers in my AU are meant to be complicated and confusing. It’s part of why Grian stays for so long, why he’s so conflicted and why it bothers him to the point of venting to Mumbo.

They can be very kind, they do love him, they compliment him on everything. He gets gifts and everything given to him.

But on the other hand, bc they love him, they can be critical, telling him why that and why this, not that not this, they have pretty high standards for Beings that have seen everything already, not easy to genuinely impress.

They give him food, as parental figures should, anything he asks, but that’s sorta the problem, he always has to ask, there’s no way around this, no independence. He can ask for ingredients to cook by himself, but they’ll watch him.

He’s given clothes to wear, always within Watcher standard, dark and loose garments, open for his wings. He’d honestly prefer brighter colours, but that’s not rly a choice.

They tell him he’s special, he was chosen, better than the rest, a champion, a hero, and while it pets his ego, he feels pressure, they went out on a limp for him and he still can’t do enough. There is so much guilt.

Being here in the end messes with his psyche a bit, he’s much shorter than everyone, he has to rely on everyone, they all treat him like a kid, petting his hair or moving him via his shoulders instead of asking. He accidentally leans into this sometimes as a subconscious coping mechanism, he cries easier than he thinks he should. Tantrums where he has to press his face into his hands, or grumble and stomp off. He always has to apologize.

Despite being treated like a child, he is a Watcher child, so he studies a lot, he trains a lot. If he throws up from training, that’s no excuse (well by Flora’s standards)

He does feel a sort of comfort or safety around Aether, She’s lenient with him, but they’re definitely still not equals. She still hides things from him She thinks is too serious, She’s still overtly positive. He thinks abt Her sometimes, in hindsight he knows it was a family dynamic, and he feels guilt abt this too.

The Watchers love him, but they are ultimately overbearing, overwhelming, and frankly quite scary if you don’t play by their rules. Grian has reason to be cautious, the silent threats that hang over his head, never directly said to him, but traitors are cast out, if you’re not worthy you don’t deserve these gifts of wings or eyes. I think he’s convinced if they ever find him they’ll rip his eyes out with talons.

He won’t admit that he likes the attention sometimes, when his efforts are acknowledged and/or praised, when his hair is brushed. He wants their approval.

However, this is the only ‘human’ contact he gets. He doesn’t have anyone else, so it’s taken with a grain of salt how genuine his feelings are abt the attention.

[microwavesaferat]

Pov: going delusional cause you can now tie in regular hermitcraft into your Life Series AU TMA AU.

So y'all know by now that The Web contains my favourite blorbos, Scar and Mumbo. I think they both offer up so much in terms of lore, Scar plays into that character of the salesman and the fool whilst being conniving and really quite smart. Mumbo has the vibes of a put-together, smart guy who is actually at the whims of a universe that treats him like a slightly deflated football.

So both Web aligned, Scar fully aware and utilises this ability. Scar is also Lonely aligned, if anyone asks, he's only Lonely aligned. Oh the spiders he keeps around? They stop flies and he just can't bring himself to kill them, no big deal. I most closely relate flower crab spiders to him. If you don't know what they look like, they can change colour to blend in, have strong front legs and weak back legs, and generally hide in flowers (sunflowers). I will include an image under the cut, so ⚠️ trigger warning for spiders ⚠️

They ambush prey rather than making webs. The assumption is that a spider will make a web and catch food there, not in a flower. The same way the assumption is that Scar is clueless, wanting to make a quick buck with the snake oil salesman routine and doesn't have any plans, no sir! Also, sunflowers.

Mumbo on the other hand, he's not aware he's web aligned. His hair is going grey, he thinks, I mean, the hair is a weird, almost sticky texture, and is not nearly as thick as his normal hair. (Basically, after Grian hit him on the noggin with a mace, the mother of Puppets has been mending her toy the only way she knows how, knitting!)

The spider I closely relate with him is a cellar spider. This is one of the spiders also referred to as a daddy long legs (which just fits the general vibe). There's also a lot of similar behaviour that led me to this rather than the more commonly known harvestman spider. One is that cellar spiders, when threatened, rather than attack or flee, just start to vibrate. They just shake and hope you go away. If they're really threatened they'll kind of move around in a circle (if you watched any video with Mumbo in it, you know that man cannot stand still). Basically they don't do anything threatening, they occasionally catch prey that enters the web (someone just wandering past the spiders web in wild life) or play dead and nab the spider that goes for them (zombie mumbo being wayyyy more hostile as a corpse).

This sounds like I'm being mean to Mumbo, but in this au, he is not aware that the Mother of Puppets chose him, he is trying his best, but she pulls the string around here. A little nudge here and there, a little pull to the left just into that fence post, a little shove into the path of that tnt minecart. Just enough to keep her entertained. Mumbo is in complete denial of his arachnid-like tendencies. he just can't bring himself to kill the spiders, he says, he just got tangled up in these redstone lines, it's not a web, just really quite simple, they grey suits him actually (he's frightened of what's underneath). Everyone else assumes he knows, you know what it's like talking to a spider, never get a straight answer!

Grian knows. To be fair, Grian Knows everything. Scar is aware as well, but the Puppet master won't allow him to tell, that would be ruining her fun!

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

I just found your Grumbo apocalypse au and it’s already got me in a chokehold it’s amazing! On the subject of convex here we know what’s so different about grian and Mumbo but what’s so different about scar and Cub? Did they both come out of the wormhole the same weird or is one more wrong now than the other? I absolutely love this au so much keep up the amazing work!!

:D I'm glad you're enjoying it. I love the au and needed to return to it soooo bad.

Convex are my favourite side characters honestly. There's definitely some variation between the two of them. Both went through similar genetic scrambling through the wormhole, and they both have sharp teeth, glow-in-the-dark eyes, almost bat-like wings (small and nonfunctional but expressive) and various mutations like scales across their bodies.

Scar I think has more of the scales, covering his skin where his various scars once were. He also has sharper teeth and a more monstrous look about him. He's could eat a person without getting sick I think. He probably wouldn't, but I think he gets cravings.

Cub looks a little more 'normal', though it's still obvious that he isn't purely human anymore. He has an immunity to other refracting effects (areas where the atmosphere scrambles human DNA) and can actually see zones of refraction as if they were colourful, shimmering lights in various blocks of the city. This helps him and Scar avoid those areas, as well as find areas where there are likely to be bodies they can harvest from for their experiments. He gets to poke around corpses, as a treat.

So yeah, slightly different, but similar in terms of the core changes. They're simply silly little guys. Cub is actually trying to figure out what caused the apocalypse and how to get rid of it, while Scar is more just there for the ride. He likes to help tho.

[lxrd-ren]

Tbh I find it quite interesting how Red Lives are both treated and seen as throughout the seasons; particularly how past experiences, or lack of, influence that.

3rd Life:

Now this was the first season, so many were unsure of how to treat red players. And so, they likely looked at how Grian treated Scar, the first red name. And because of how Grian promised Scar his own first life, he stayed loyal to Scar despite his red name. I think this made everyone else go: "Oh alright we can still be allied with our red named allies then". Both that and how many of the teams that season were duos, aka, teams of two. If say Scott tried to banish Jimmy, then Scott would be left on his own on account of his team consisting of literally only him and Jimmy. Not to mention, the duo dynamic made everyone more attached to their other half, especially given how a whole war was going on at the same time; keeping your allyship with a red when being threatened by another red seemed wise. Plus it made for some funny 'My red could beat up your red' moments via basicly all the duos (Scott+Jimmy, Cleo+Bdubs, Grian+Scar, Martyn+Ren)

Last Life:

Now, this season took a bit of a turn with most Reds being instantly banished from their alliances, but to be fair, that's likely Joel's fault lol. With Joel as the first red, he didn't exactly set a good impression of red names with countless murder attempts against everyone. Plus, The Wizards Alliance was just that; an alliance. Sadly with Joel being red most of the time, he and Scar hardly got chance to be proper teammates. And so, this likely paved the way for Reds not being apart of teams. We can also see this with Grian and Cleo. Cleo is a no-brainer; she literally set her past teams base alight. With Grian, since he had the wither skull, Scott and some of the Southerners wanted to confiscate it as soon as he turned red. And so, they didn't want Grian around so they could find said wither skull and take it off him. Also bare in mind this is the only season Mumbo has been in apart from Secret Life, keep this in mind.

Double Life:

There was never really a chance for red names to be turned away from their team as the teams only included the soulbounds; aka, when one turned red, the whole team became red. The only exception to this was Scott and Cleo; and when Scott turned red, Cleo turned red soon after so there was no time to even consider kicking Cleo out. And so, this season, turning reds away from their team never crossed most minds.

Limited Life:

What with the time system, this season reds within teams were treated differently. If you go down to red, all you need is another kill within 30 minutes to get back on yellow. Considering how all they needed to get back up a colour was a kill, people were a lot more lenient to their red teammates since yes they were a danger, but it was a danger they could prevent. An example of this is how I've heard the phrase 'We need to get you a kill' throughout multiple povs. And so, reds were never kicked out of teams because being red meant that you were yes a danger, but a danger that could be stopped. This likely set up the viewpoint in the next season.

Secret Life:

This season you never can go up a colour again, but people kept the viewpoint from Limited Life. A main example of this, and actually why I started thinking about this whole thing in the first place, is Mumbo and how his teammates were when he turned red. Now, Mumbo, like Lizzie, only has prior knowledge of Last Life; not the whole red teams of Double Life or the preventable reds in Limited Life, but the mindset of if you turn red, your kicked out of the alliance. This alongside the others mindset was really brought to light when Mumbo began trying to get his former teammates with anvils from Pearl's base. During this, his teammates were saying 'We know your red, we can still be teammates' but Mumbo kept trying regardless.

[arinanightlight]

Profile for c!Grian in the 70s AU

While someone may be waiting for things for the -tobers (I haven't given up on this, everything is being written, it's just that there are so many things to do in my studies that I don't have time to fit writing for tobers in one day), hold the drawing and profile of Grian from the AU of the 70s (AU from the Season Infinity roleplay discord server).

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Nicknames and names: Grian Eyva Xelqua, "Ariana Griande", Charles Valerian Sirin.

Age: n/a

Gender and Pronouns: genderfluid, he/him, she/her (this is mostly due to his stage persona as Ariana Griande, he is simply confused about who he is and prefers not to think about it).

Sexuality: pansexual

Species: A descendant of the sirin, ancient mythical birds, which, according to myths, once existed on the territory of today's Slavic countries.

Abilities: A short flight on feathered wings, often with the help of fireworks. Enchanting people with his voice, singing. Some acting skills. Can hide his wings. Not bad in combat, but not a master.

Personality: Appearing with his performances on stage and disappearing immediately after them, avoiding questions and never coming down from the stage to the patrons of the bar, he maintains a mask of mystery while hiding someone a little more like himself behind the identity of Ariana Griande. With his acquaintances, whom he has confided more, he presents himself as Grian Eyva, a confident and polite person, inclined, however, to a little flirtation, teasing and jokes, if the interlocutor treats it without negativity. To those who have come to know him by chance, at first, he tries to appear dangerous, already realizing that the true nature of many creatures manifests face in face to fear. Those who pass this test of his, he allows a little closer to him. Only few people can recognize what he hides under his masks, especially the last one, that of Grian Eyva. Very few, and even then scarcely, he will allow to know about his past and how it disturbs him. This is a frightened, abandoned, betrayed person, full of pain, fear of trusting at least someone, and emotions that fade away, then rage. It's something that put up barriers from the other two personalities to protect themselves from what they once couldn't resist. This is Charles Valerian Sirin.

Likes: Singing, sewing, drawing drawings and sketches of buildings, getting and giving attention, flirting a bit with someone he finds interesting, when his boundaries are respected, when someone loves his work if it is peaceful, dancing. When he is hyperfixated on something, he tries to end the project before this state lets him go.

Dislikes:

When he's forced to finish an abandoned project; When he's asked about his past and what region/country/town he is from; Hard flirt; Rude+dumb people; Avian hunters; When someone touches his feathers without his permission; When his personal space is violated (and in doing so, he often violates it himself. But at least he apologizes when someone doesn't like it.);

Backstory: don't ask him about it. You definitely will not like the answer, so he will never tell you, maybe even if he will trust you fully and completely. But flashbacks and his dreams will reveal some of that little by little.

Relations: Tbh, with anyone i would like to collab. But what's favorite… It's desert duo (which probably won't be there) and maybeee roommates? Ah, and architechs (Grumbo), that's without questions, thanks Kat.

Looks: As Ariana Griande she hides her wings, wears a black flowing dress with silk elements scarlet and black colour and black ballet flats, also she wears a corsette on her waist and neck protection (it's after one accident on the stage), her fair-flaxen hair are braided and this braid is wrapped around her head one time. As Grian Eyva he wears a carmine coat from smooth blicky textile, white pants, knee pads and (still-) neck protection, and black boots. His braid may be a little messy, because it's a little less necessary to maintain the look.As Charles, when he is alone or thinks he is alone or next to the person closest to him, he takes off his protection, literally and figuratively. Even his hair is not braided into a tight braid, as usual, but loose and falls limply over his shoulders, scattered over a linen shirt slightly yellowed by time with half-erased red embroidery. At such moments, all his anxiety spills out. At such moments, he cannot control himself. He just can't. He is not free, it's just that the pressure that he and his life have placed on him is slightly relieved in moments when he is not being watched by outsiders.

Languages spoken: common (meant English), "Alien", Old Church Slavonic, Enchantic, roughly understands the new languages of the countries from the territories of the Slavs.

Faceclaim: here's the art i drew myself, it's the best way for me to show him visually.

[hybbart]

Can we know the thought process/inspiration behind jimmy and tango design?? I found it really interesting, with their shape and everything. So I wanna know if you don't mind ofc! :D

Sure!

to start with I specifically went in with the intent to animate them. Because of that I wanted to create a style that was simple and quick to draw, a lot of straight lines and such. So I created my mcyt style specifically for that (it's started to bleed back into my regular style between not animating for the last several months and raau which is more detail oriented, but...)

For that I took inspiration from kim possible, heartcatch precure, gatchaman crowds, pokemon, and other art styles with simplified, long lines, and kept the designs super simple and easy to memorize and copy over and over. I'm a very inconsistent artist so it only goes so far but... you know. I also simplified the facial features with the eyes and nose and such, and decided to use solid filled areas where their design utilized black. (Jimmy's talons and Tango's claws)

For Jimmy I knew I wanted to make him very birb. Not as much as some of the more harpy level monster boy designs grian sometimes gets, but a bit more than just wings and a few feathers around the ears. I took inspiration from gatchaman crowds and oofuri's bird mouth design for his smile to give him a beak. I tried out giving him a beak lip like I've done in some other designs but it just didn't look right and was too small a detail.

I gave him long bird legs with bird feet cause I love me some inhuman leggies and I knew I wanted him to hop and hold up his leg like a bird. A lot of his bird features had how I would animate him in mind (often still and a bit jerky and very expressive with his wings and eyes) I am NOT good with wings so I decided to go super simplified with them, I knew I wanted them to sit like a heart on the avians' backs. I started out also with a super simplified version of the elfish feathered ears I often give avian monster boys, and at first in my first animation I treated them like ear wings but it looked too awkward and unappealing so I decided to just make them elven, but animated.

For his eyes... I know there was a lot of people who said it was this or that colour. I wanted them to be a bit more spooky though, so I made them brown but gave him a blue glow for his avian self, which changed colours in his other iterations. I also made them big and round to be more expressive, cute, and like his very cutesy skin.

Buff Jimmy was popular by then but I 1) hate buff characters and 2) had a hard time picturing Jimmy that way cause he's so cutesy and squeaky around tango and his skin is adorable. Plus, buff didn't seem very birdlike to me. I did give him a bit of that dorito shape and wider shoulders than hips though. Actually I very specifically tought myself how to draw small butts to draw jimmy to give him that twig-legged bird appearance and cartoony and so not to have his design as sexualized as my other art tends to be (this was a deliberate choice across all my MCYT art) I didn't give him facial hair again cause I'm not a fan and struggle to draw it, I wanted the ranchers to be well within my comfort zone for easy animation.

I wanted to give him and scott- who have very similar and simple outfits - more distinction from each other, so I decided to make his denim and gave him a collar that was like feathers. I also made the choice to give him a very low waist line in his clothing to make him look longer, and because I just like that look. I made his jeans skinny jeans that faded into his talons because it just worked better, emphasized leggies and looked better. I made the choice to give him visible stitching to make it look a bit more like denim too.

Overall the goal was to get that top-heavy but clearly light enough for it to not matter look that a lot of birds have. Also I gave him a stray hair to make his hair look a bit unkempt and feathery. It's stylish but no kept well. I also wanted to give him freckles but I knew I wouldn't be able to keep them consistent enough without limiting myself in a way I didn't like.

I made him slightly taller than Tango, cause I love tall Jimmy and short Jimmy equally and decided on opposite ends of average, but that gaps been growing since tbh.

For Tango... He had a few major inspirations. Cats (lions specifically), fire, and Dr Drakken. I wanted him to look very mad scientist but like, also Creature. The main goal was that he should look ready to crawl up a wall on all fours at any given moment, and have an extra cartoony silhouette. He should look like he's probably made of playdough, and his actual build should be ambiguous.

The pants and sleeves I made puffy inspired by the likes of Magi and Dr. Drakken but sleeker cause the material is thicker and i wanted it to flow into the boots (my first drawing i have clear separation between boots/gloves and coveralls, but i ditched that in the very first frame of animations lol)

I tried really hard to balance out the fire cat features without making him look like a demon. I'm not sure how well I succeeded. If I'm honest the sharp teeth were very much self-indulgence. His tail I made a literal line because anything else looked too thick and I'm terrible at drawing thin tails, and this would be easier for animation. The hair I wanted to look styled but also maybe possible fire but you cant tell quite? I wanted to take advantage of them being cartoons for effect with this art style.

His vest I'm honestly still not sure if it's leather or denim. I just knew I wanted something thick and insulated-looking. I wanted his clothign to be somewhere between engineer and punkish. You know he listens to his music too loud while working on some machine only he understands. And the kerchief was a decision made via a comity of my friends after trying out a few collar styles. His eyes I wanted almost shaped and smaller than jimmy's just like his skin, but still very expressive.

I also gave him a rougher appearance with the wild hair and eyebrows to give him... mmm... ugly isn't the right word, cause he's not. Jimmy is intentionally pretty, while Tango's kinda... feral, unkempt, a tad scary but in a silly way, a bit more goblinoid. Not conventionally attractive, I guess, but that's incredibly vague. I imagine his appearance being described in its movement first and foremost. If any of that makes sense...

But yeah most of his design is defined by sharpness and fluidity. He is liquid but like... a liquid made of knives. I try to make sure his face is a little shorter and sharper-chinned than Jimmy's. I wanted him to have very bombastic movements like he is living motion blur but very pointed. His movements probably come off a bit more masculine than Jimmy's in general, but that's not really something I intended so much as turned out to be an unforseen side-effect of my other design choices.

And, um, well that's it without getting into things I decided later on and other versions of them. the general concept is they're both very animated and cartoony but if very different ways, and take after birds and cats quite a bit. Sorry, this turned out to be A Lot. I really did spend a lot of time thinking about their designs while making them, since I knew I'd be drawing them over and over for animations.

[desolationcleo]

first i cosplayed red life cleo for halloween and answered the door for some trick-or-treaters. at one point i mentioned that i was cleo from last life and someone about my age, maybe a bit younger, no costume, clearly the older sibling of a kid trick-or-treating, went "i've seen that smp"

then i was on a tma discord server and upon getting a red-coloured role went "hell yeah red name" someone replied "read that as a 3rd life reference" to which i responded that it was one (turns out there was enough of us to make a thread that lasted months and then it was no longer in the wild)

then i was at fan expo and found the vendor i got my Watcher's Crown (purple flower crown with eyes and black feathers in it) from, brought it up, casually mentioned that the eyes sealed the deal because of a minecraft roleplay i'm hyperfixating on and they went "wait i think i know what you're talking about" turns out neither of us left the desert

then i fucking ran across somebody in a life series hoodie at the museum and actually didn't register it as unusual at first because i'd seen so many online pics of those hoodies but then i realized wait there's someone in life merch physically next to me and ran up to them and started incoherently rambling about minecraft bloodsports

then i cosplayed scarlet pearl at comicon less than a week later and ran across people cosplaying grian and gem

then there were two different instances, one a while back and one earlier today, of me casually scrolling the pixel cats end forums or cat recruitment board and getting jumpscared by someone who usernamed themself after Grian

i also got crane wives concert tickets partially in order to meet other life series fans (less than 2 weeks from now!) but that doesn't count as "in the wild" and hasn't for a long time those concerts are basically unofficial fan conventions like there's literally been cosplayers

the number of times i've met other life series fans in the wild is getting kind of unbelievable. why does this keep happening

[bluiex]

stares at you

ok so YET ANOTHER 3rd life scarian ask from tnt anon?? who wouldve guessed! /s

its also like 4am where i am so if this is terrible thats why

for the first couple days of becoming a red life, scar started to treat grian as if he were fragile, as if he were an antique that if he were to touch would shatter, scattering its beautifulness into dangerous shards. he was too paranoid of harming the other, too scared that even a singular touch would cause him to break.

during the cold nights of the desert was when he was always the most careful, afraid of what would happen if he were to wake up in the wrong frame of mind, one that was coloured red and inflicted pain.

however, for one night, grian managed to get scar to cuddle with him due to the freezing temperatures. scar barely even holding him, awkwardly lifting his arms above the others body in a way that makes it obvious he's trying to make it secretive, but its very clear to see what he's doing and trying to be as far away as possible. until grian huffs, grabbing onto his hand and dragging him towards into the touch, forcing him closer to the avian than he had been in the last week.

scar freezes up, horrified as he looks down at his partner, waiting for just the moment the instincts for bloodshed and murder that came with the red name he had to appear. but, they didnt. grian was still sleeping softly against his chest, no injury on his figure, obviously, scar hadn't dared move a muscle, he was safe. he finally relaxes and embraces the other willingly into his arms.

though i guess grian still becomes like a piece of shattered ceramic, becoming dangerous due to the clumsy hands of a red life scar,, :)

i wasn't supposed to actually write it out but ok brain jeez (also i may rewrite this in the morning but as an actual fic + writing the lil note bit at the end hmmmm) - 🧨

Poor Scar so scared to accidently hurt Grian.. but little does he know- the red name and all it entails, cares about Grian just as much and if the bloodlust were to come up, it would be out of protecting Grian from harm :3c

Gods that would be such a good fic tho- I would be so happy to read it if you write it out

[goldenwitherphoenix13]

I posted 86 times in 2022

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I tagged 85 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#reblog - 54 posts

#jimmy solidarity - 18 posts

#empires smp - 18 posts

#empires jimmy - 17 posts

#goodtimeswithscar - 13 posts

#hermitcraft - 9 posts

#cursed toy au - 9 posts

#kingdom hearts - 8 posts

#empires smp season 2 - 7 posts

#grian - 7 posts

Longest Tag: 110 characters

#im just imagining the townsfolk are able to feel jimmys sorrow even though they cant see or hear him right now

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Cursed Toy AU Pov: You are Pixlriffs about to be saved.

THE BARD IS THE PROTAGONIST PEOPLE! EVERYONE DUCK AND COVER! lol

Finally. A cursed toy au drawing that isn't me dumping the angst on Jimmy. Then again the AU seems intent on doing that. Whatever Joel is gonna do, I'm scared but I have a mallet on hand just incase.

So yeah. Oli saves Pix through the power of music... as cliché as it is I love the power of music so SING JOEL INTO OBLIVION OLI! MAKE ME PROUD! Guess I now have a justified reason to have the song of healing from legend of Zelda majora's mask on my cursed toy inspired playlist. But this was fun to draw, using lighter tones to overlay instead of harsh bright colours or dark edges is always a treat. Note to self, lutes aren't that hard to draw, just annoying to get proportions right on.

Honestly I'm excited on where thus AU goes next. I'm guessing Oli is about to find Jimmy in the next part. That's gonna be fun. If Joel turns up, I have a mallet.

... bonus, thing I made on youcut after the previous part came out. I think it's still accurate, but @circesays can be the judge of that.

60 notes - Posted November 9, 2022

#4

I just realised something...

That's a Rat from little nightmares 1

See the full post

65 notes - Posted March 29, 2022

#3

Saw @aquaquadrant posted the new bit of the hels to pay AU and @lunarcrown did some little doodles of Bravo and Timmy.

I couldn't resist it, I had to draw Timmy. I have found a new son and no one can do anything about it. Take this quickly cobbled together drawing and go.

It's a bit rushed, sure, but I just needed to do this. He's too sweet and huggable and I don't care, he's a pathetic lil guy (affectionate) and I will fight for him and die for him.

Um... hope you like it.

77 notes - Posted November 27, 2022

#2

... New au found. Swamp duo au is now on the radar.

@cydanite I said I'd draw it, you said godspeed, I think my hand just speed ran a drawing.

BEST FRIENDS COVERED IN MUD! Now Shelby has help for when the witch police come for her. Hope you like it Cydanite!

Ps:

Do not tag as a ship it is not a ship that is not a poppy its just a generic flower to give the hat some variety. There are other kinds of flowers on the hat.

106 notes - Posted September 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Guys. Guys. Listen! Yesterday I learnt a fact and I don't know why I didn't know before!

A group of rats is called a mischief! Rats smp, in its self, is a mischief!

That is, with no competition, the best thing I've learnt in the past 10 years!

107 notes - Posted October 18, 2022

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[theres-an-impulstor-among-us]

uh, writing rq: spare 3rd life red!ren speculation, maybe martyn and ren both choosing violence? as a treat?

this was fun to write lol i think Ren deserves a little violence as a treat

cw: mentions of suicide (nonpermanent but better safe than sorry)

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  Martyn enters the Renchanting building for the third time that day and finds Ren still pacing around, brow furrowed. He stands in the doorway for a moment, arms folded, and watches him. Finally, he says, “Are you planning on doing anything else today, boss, or should I just go home early?” 

  Ren doesn’t respond. Just as Martyn opens his mouth to say something else, Ren’s head snaps up. “Huh? What? Oh, yeah, yeah, that’s fine.”

  “You didn’t hear what I said, did you?”

  “Something about going home early.”

  Martyn scoffs and shakes his head. “Seriously, you’ve been walking around aimlessly in here all day, thinking way too deeply about something. What’s going on?”

  Ren hesitates, turning fully to face his assistant. “Okay, to tell you the truth… I’ve been thinking about going down to red on purpose.”

  Martyn’s eyes widen in alarm. “What?! Why would you do that?!” 

  “Because I’m sick and tired of people waltzing in here and just taking what they want,” snaps Ren. “I’m tired of being intimidated and walked all over and not taken seriously. If I was on my red life, at least people would be more wary of me and less likely to walk all over me.” 

  “That doesn’t mean you should deliberately die,” Martyn responds urgently. “I cannot stress enough how bad an idea that is.”

  “Well, there doesn’t seem to be any other-.”

  “No, listen.” Martyn grabs Ren’s shoulders. “You don’t have to go down to red in order to cause some chaos.”

  Ren frowns at him. “What do you mean?”

  “Well, Grian killed you, right? What’s HIS colour?”

  “Green…” Ren blinks as realisation dawns on him. “Wait…”

  “And Tango with his lava death trap. He’s on green too but he still killed two people. You don’t need to be on red to cause some chaos.”

  Ren grins at the hushed excitement in Martyn’s voice. “Should you really be condoning this? Isn’t it your job to keep me out of trouble?”

  Martyn shrugs, a slight smirk on his face. “You could argue I’m doing that by not letting you kill yourself.”

  “That’s a very valid point. So do you have any ideas?”

  “I have a few. Would you like some form of revenge or just to cause some random chaos?”

  Ren thinks about this for a moment. “Let’s start with revenge.”

  “Gotcha,” says Martyn. “So even though Grian was the one who actually set the trap, it’s fair to say he was doing it on Scar’s orders. If we bait Scar into striking one of us, we can retaliate and even maybe “accidentally” catch Grian in the crossfire. What do you think?”

  “I like it! Are we allowed to build a trap beforehand or does whatever we do have to be done in that timeframe of a red life being angry at us?” 

  “Um… No clue. But I can find out.” 

  “Hello there!” calls a familiar voice from above.

  “Oh no,” groans Ren. “Not Scar again. It’ll be hours before I can get him outta here again.”

  “Here’s your chance, boss,” says Martyn excitedly. “HE came to YOU. Kick him out! Show him we won’t be bullied or pushed around anymore!”

  Ren considers this. “You know what? Yeah! I’ll do it!”

  He dashes up the stairs and out into Dogwarts. Spotting Scar near the entrance, he charges over to him and jumps to a stop right next to him. “Scar, get the hell outta here!”

  Scar blinks. “What? I just wanted-.”

  “I don’t care what YOU want; I want you to get out and leave me alone. NOW. I’m only giving you one more chance.”

  He almost hopes Scar doesn’t leave; he’s been waiting for the opportunity to get revenge for killing him. 

  Scar doesn’t move. “Ren, you’re still on our kill list, you know. I don’t think it’s wise for you to-.”

  He breaks off as Ren whacks him with the flat side of his axe. 

  “OW!” he yelps. “GEEZ, what the heck?!” 

  “I told you to leave!” Ren crows. “I gave you two chances!”

  Scar throws his arms up to protect himself as Ren hits him again, on the shoulder this time. 

  “Get out before I start using the sharper side,” Ren warns triumphantly. 

  “W-Wait, don’t! Grian! GRIAAAAAAN!”

  Ren draws his arm back to hit again before he notices Grian crouched atop the wall, aiming a bow and arrow at him. 

  But Martyn appears out of nowhere, running along the top of the wall, and hits him off the wall with a shovel. 

  Grian yelps as he lands heavily on the ground. He half-runs half-limps over to Scar, the two finding themselves with an axe-wielding Ren on one side and Martyn, who has traded his shovel for a sword, on the other. 

  “What’s WRONG with you two?” Grian demands. “You’re not allowed to attack us if Scar doesn’t attack first!”

  “Yeah, see, we implemented a new rule here at Dogwarts,” Martyn responds. “If we tell you to leave twice and you don’t, that counts as an attack. We are allowed to defend ourselves against attacks.”

  Grian’s voice rises to a shrill shriek. “You hit me with a shovel!” 

  Martyn matches his tone. “You were about to shoot my boss!”  

  “Because he was trying to murder my friend!”

  “Because your friend keeps waltzing in here like he owns the place!”

  “Enough, enough!” Ren yells suddenly. “Listen, Grian: I’m done being nice. I’m done trying to get through to you two. I’ve asked nicely and I’ve demanded and I’ve threatened, but you refuse to listen to me. I’ve made it perfectly clear time and time again: you. Are. Not. Welcome. Here. So I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way you two will listen to me is if I kill you both.”

  Scar immediately leaps behind Grian. “No, wait! I’m on red! If you kill me, I’ll die permanently!”

  “Then that’s a great incentive to LISTEN to me!” Ren snaps back. “Now get out, both of you. NOW.”

  Neither of them move.

  Ren heaves a sigh. “Do I need to show you I’m serious?”

  He picks up Martyn’s shovel from where he dropped it earlier and swings it at Grian, smacking him in the stomach. As Grian doubles over and stumbles back, Ren hits him again in the shoulder, then swings it at Scar. 

  “GET OUT!” Ren screeches.

  Scar loses his nerve and bolts for the door. Filled with adrenaline and not really thinking clearly, Ren takes off after him, jabbing him in the back with the shovel. 

  “NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO!” screams Scar. “REN NO! NOOOO!”

  Ren takes one last swing at Scar, but he misses and trips over. By the time he looks up, Scar has all but disappeared over the horizon.

  Panting and now with a sore knee, Ren gets to his feet and half-limps back towards Dogwarts. 

  Hearing a yelp, he glances up and is just in time to witness Martyn shoving Grian off the top of Dogwarts’s wall again. “Stop running around on our walls!” Martyn yells after him as Grian takes off running. “Go away!”

  Ren grins at the sight of Grian and Scar fleeing from him in fear, as he reenters Dogwarts and closes and locks the doors. 

  “That,” he says, as Martyn jumps down from the wall, “was the most fun thing I’ve done in this world.”

  Also grinning, Martyn starts to respond when he happens to glance down. “Oh, boss, you’re bleeding. Come here, let’s get that cleaned up.”

  Ren follows Martyn inside and sits down in his chair, only just noticing blood leaking from a cut in his knee. It must have happened when he fell over outside. 

  Martyn kneels down in front of him and starts cleaning the area around the cut. 

  “Thanks so much, Martyn,” Ren says gratefully. “For, um… For everything. Including talking me out of killing myself. That probably wouldn’t have ended well.”

  “It really wouldn’t have,” chuckles Martyn. “This was a much better option. Honestly, it felt good to kick Grian outta here. With any luck, they’ll spread the word that we’re no longer to be trifled with.” 

  Ren grins. “I think this is the start of a new era for us, Martyn. There’s a lot for us to do before we get to the level of power I know we can achieve.”

  “Well, before you go off and achieve that power, you’re gonna go to bed and rest that knee of yours,” Martyn says. 

  Ren gives a quiet chuckle. “Whatever you say, Martyn. I trust you.”

  Martyn freezes momentarily. It’s been a long time since someone said that to him.

  “What’s up?” says Ren, noticing this. “You okay?”

  “Yeah, I…” Martyn clears his throat. “Sorry, it’s nothing. You get to bed now; I’ll lock up.” 

  Ren watches Martyn head to the door. “Martyn?”

  Martyn pauses and looks back. “Yeah?”

  “Thank you for always taking care of me.”

  After a moment, Martyn smiles. 

  “No problem, boss.”

[yhs-silly]

Hang on there buddy #6

Trigger warnings: suicide mentions, self harm, ghost, character death, murder mention

Rowan had them sat in his office as he typed up a record, he spoke quieter then usual- but clearly more angry. "So let me get this straight: you try and hit Grian- who by the way has been struggling with mental illness for quite some time now- because he got angry at you for embarrassing him?" Lord Xelqua nodded, adjusting his icepack as Rowan scowled deeper. "And now you want to report Sam for losing it when jumping to defend his friend?" He raised an eyebrow and shifted in his seat.

Lord Xelqua nodded. "Yes, this heathen assaulted me withou-"

"I think the fuck not." Rowan glared and when Xelqua tried to speak he chuckled. "Oh you don't get to speak, you think you can come in here and mess with my most troubled students? You think you can simply try and hit one of my students? What the hell is wrong with you?" He continued to type. "I will make a report," He rolled his eyes at the Lord's smirk. "But it will be on you: parking your jet on private property, assault on a minor, aggravation of a mentally ill person, neglect and child abuse." He glanced at Sam and Grian with a smile. "You two will be fine, you did nothing wrong. Now get to class maggots!"

Sam grinned and grabbed Gran's hand, trying to drag him but when he realised that the blonde was frozen he simply picked Grian up and ran out. Lady Rustia stared in shock and disgust. "Don't call my son a maggot."

"It's fine, it inspires spite in them- spite is the best motivater." He smiles at her and continues to write up his report. "How are you anyway Mrs? That scream sounded rather panicked and you haven't said a thing yet, something on your mind?"

Prudence sighed. "Well I'm worried about Grian, I know I'm not the best parent, far from it...but I do care, and I know Grian thinks I don't but I just think he'd be happier on his own, you know?" Rowan nodded so Prudence continued. "I'm absolutely appalled that he tried to kill himself and I'm kind of let down that it took me talking down about his uncle for him to confess..."

Rowan raised an eyebrow, not being aware of who Grian was related to. "His uncle?"

"Yes, his uncle Gareth- I believe he used to work in this school?"

Rowan's eyes widened, the little blonde kid that was struggling with depression was the nephew of Gareth. Gareth was Rowan's best friend so the fact that not only had his best friend killed himself but his best friend's nephew had tried to follow hit hard, his breath hitched for a second but he remained professional. "Oh yeah, his grave's out back if you want to pay your respects." He saw Lady Rustia raise an eyebrow and he shrugged. "The kids seem to like it." He realised that this meant that Lady Rustia had been talking down about Gareth but he wasn't going to get angry about that, he was too angry anyway. He stood up as he finished and sent off his report and opened the door. "Now if you'd thank me, I've got work to get on with so if you'd mind..." He nodded to the doorway and the two nobles stood in turn, filing out of the office.

The class was gossiping again, about Grian's parents this time. They'd heard what happened with Sam and were giving Grian sympathetic looks and patting Sam on the back. J had stated how he was surprised that Grian was old money, he didn't act like it at all. Everyone had their own theories on how Grian could be so rich and yet so depressed at the same time.

Grian himself was highly uncomfortable, he didn't want his parents to be here. His father was harsh and judging and his mother could pick up micro emotions like it was obvious, they'd out him to all his friends and make him feel like shit while doing so- and his father would tell him they weren't worth his company anyway. They always disregarded his feelings, treated him like he was just some ornament they could string up whenever they needed someone to see what nice people they were. That was why he'd ran away all those years ago, it'd been to awful when his aunt brought him back to his mother, but of course Grian had forgiven her, she was the only person in this damn family who cared about him. Now there was no one...come to think of it, Gareth had been rather caring towards him, offering to hold his hand on the train because he knew Grian was scared of them, bringing him sweets whenever he visited, staying behind to babysit him when they all went for Grian's mothers birthday. Grian suddenly felt the guilt wash over him again, he wished he hadn't been such a bitter, selfish child- maybe that was why his parents hated him...

After a while, the bell rang for lunch and Grian stumbled downstairs with Taurtis making sure he was ok, Grian wasn't really sure, he'd avoided going to lunch with the rest and had always stayed behind slightly and today he knew why. The smell of all that food, some fresh, sent him reeling, he hadn't eaten proper food in ages, sure he'd had hospital food but he barely touched that- he only ate what he could manage without feeling sick. And now he was being attacked by the scent of fresh food, he couldn't help but feel faint. He was guided to a seat and had to watch as everyone opened their lunch boxes, his stomach growling as he gazed over at all the food.

He hadn't been able to buy anything as they hadn't stopped off at the shop, not that he was going to buy food anyway. He sat down next to Taurtis, pulling at lose threads in his uniform as he tried to ignore how hungry he was. Sam was having none of it, however. He frowned and broke his sandwich in half, putting one half on the table in front of Grian. "Eat, you've been through a lot recently, you need strength."

Grian stared down at the sandwich, guilt rising up in his chest again. "But it's your lunch..?" He didn't want to steal from Sam, the rabbit had been nothing but kind to him. Sam assured him it was fine, that he was giving it to him but one part really stood out to Grian.

"Your my friend and I love you dude, even if you weren't I'd want you to be healthy. Just sallow your pride and understand that we want to help, you're not stealing, you're accepting help."

Grian slowly nodded and bit into the sandwich, the first proper food he'd had in a while. The only hospital food they could get him to eat was mac 'n' cheese for every meal so this soft white bread with salted butter and crisp iceberg lettice made such a difference. Grian would've preferred meat but he wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth, he happily devoured his half of the sandwich, thanking Sam quietly as he sipped on a cup of water from the fountain.

After lunch they went to the changing rooms to get ready for gym and Grian had to face his next big challenge. He was expected to get changed in front of everyone but he didn't want anyone to see his scars when he removed his shirt. He sat on a bench quietly, trying to will himself into getting changed. It was J who finally noticed and went over to him, putting a hand on the blonde's shoulder with a friendly smile. "You know no ones forcing you to take part, I'm sure if you asked Rowan he'd let you sit this one out. Don't worry too much, no one holds it against you."

Grian nodded and let J lead him to Rowan who surprusbgly agreed and let Grian sit this lesson out, handing him a fidget cube to toy with. He did make Grian promise to take part tomorrow, telling him he can change in the toilets. The cube was surprisingly relaxing for Grian, the switch was his favorite, he sat silently clicking it as he watched the rest of the class play volleyball.

Maybe it was sweat, maybe it was Grian's crush or maybe it was the fact they were in Japan but Sam and Taurtis both seemed to sparkle. It was obvious that their team would win, what with Sam inherent advantage when it came to jumping and Taurtis's muscles. Grian would be lying if he said he wasn't enjoying the view, he felt something trickle onto his top lip, he wiped at it and came away with blood. He blushed bright red and felt the guilt wash over him once more, he shouldn't be this stupidly attracted to his friends. He forced himself to focus on his fidget cube, almost instantly calming down- utterly distracted.

But when he made eye contact with Taurtis as the taller went to change into regular clothes, the guilt returns and Grian groaned, buying his face in his hands. He looked up to see both Yuki and Chan looking at him, his anxiety rising in his chest. Chan aproached him quietly, muttering that Ellen had told her to tell Grian he was single now, Ellen was going back to pie. Grian nodded slowly, understanding. He did like Ellen but he knew the timing was off and it wasn't fair on them, Grian was surprisingly fine with this.

He sat there for a while, while the others all got dressed, just staring into space. Taurtis would have to dip out if the house viewing early as he had a date with Chan planned for tonight, so Grian wanted to see the most expensive houses first so his friend could see the best of what there was. They'd have to take picyuree to show him but Grian could manage that, he took mean photos. His attention turned back to his figet cube as he saw Okami and Rowan talking out of the corner of his eye. It took about five minutes before Rowan called over. "Hey maggot! You can keep that if you want!"

Grian thanked him as the class began to leave the changing rooms and head home, Sam can over and beamed at the smaller. "Hey G, how you feeling?"

"My parents want to take us on a house viewing." He answered as Taurtis bounced over, he stood up and started towards the exit. He could see his parents waiting just off grounds, his mother had changed into a pale salmon coloured dress and the pearls that adorned her neck were from harods, anyone would think she were going to a dinner party and not a house viewing in the suburbs.

[rphosphor]

Reblogging this again for the next MCC with stuff I forgot:

The builders and micromanager get one build each.

Prioritise completing the golden builds as quickly as possible.

The builders shouldn’t say the amount of the item they need until the micromanager decides that someone else will get it to minimise the amount of talking in the call.

Spread out what you’re smelting across different furnaces to get it smelted quicker.

Use the ability to fly in the building area, it saves time from building up and mining the blocks after.

Try to make use of the captions as much as possible since the textures have been changed.

The micromanager shouldn’t treat colours as one area because some colours are very far away from each other, instead they should think about which colours are close together and consider whether it’d be more efficient if two people went out to get the colours needed instead of one.

Chat can help in remembering the blocks to get in some cases (ex: the colours of concrete/glass), but it’s generally better to rely on the people in the build area (primarily the micromanager) since they can give feedback faster and more accurately.

Extra things not included in Grian’s strategy

Fix mistakes in the build immediately after you see them, it’s really bad if you forget about it and then have to rebuild the entire thing.

If there’s very little time left, no one should go out of the building area anymore because they likely wouldn’t be able to bring the materials back quick enough, instead everyone should focus on getting as many of the blocks down as possible even if they’re floating (for completion points).

Try to examine the map in preparation so that you know where to fly to get materials.

Practise navigating the menus quickly.

Make sure everyone’s on the same page with what’s cobble, stone, and smooth stone (I’ve seen a lot of players mixing them up, please)

Grian's current strategy to winning build mart (MCC 17):

3 roles:

Floater - In charge of collecting materials, initially grabs ~20 of each wood type and then takes all requests through the micromanager.

Micromanager - In charge of funneling requests to the floater & helping them remember what to get. They decide who's collecting what, and are primarily the one to set aside their build to focus on others (usually if it's a golden build). They basically give all the orders.

Builders - Primarily focused on building. Initially gets non-wood materials needed for their first build. Only goes out to collect items that aren't being collected by the floater or micromanager.

Other

If a member (usually the micromanager) is waiting on materials while the other members are collecting, then they should try to place all the blocks they have that are needed for the builds, even if it's left floating in the air until the member collecting comes back.

Members shouldn't collect things in the same area, if someone's already in stone, don't send someone else to get granite.

Builders should let the micromanager know exactly what they need so that they delegate someone to get it.

Pickblock (default keybind middle click) saves time navigating your inventory to get blocks you need to place.

Use the recipe book to save time crafting certain things (fences, fence gates, campfires, etc.)

Collect a bit more than you think you need.

Only the central fan can launch you up.

Don't mine the orange jump pads.

[shadeswift99]

This post is getting long but I don't care, have just a little more, as a treat <3

(also scroll through the #hermempires tag on my blog to see extra ideas in asks!)

- It's been a while since False really leaned into her PvP skills, but Empires Pearl really wants to fight her! False agrees to spar, and Pearl gets a good entertaining fight out of it and really appreciates False's smooth acrobatic maneuvers and great sportsmanship. False in turn appreciates the practice! It's a great low-stress way to try some new stuff out, when she's not fighting to do serious harm or for an important competition. (MCC exists in this giant crack crossover because of course it does but I'm using a non-Empires version of whoever I can for that)

- With all the crazy property disputes and all the new variables tossed together, Sausage's assassin's guild is in business full swing. Etho (seeing a chance to make a buck for his shopping addiction) and Iskall (needing an opportunity to test those new weapons fWhip made them) come out of retirement as hitmen and join up. Each of them can be terrifyingly effective alone, but something about working together just drains every last braincell out of their little operation and they keep giving themselves away long before they can get a hit on their target

- Possibly the most unexpected new friendship: Jimmy and Doc. They find each other through rambling about the many virtues of cod and goats respectively, and then they hit it off bonding over 'that one red themed guy with wings who likes TnT only slightly less than he likes bothering me for no reason -' They decide to team up the next time either fWhip or Grian goes on a pranking spree, and I don't think either of those two are ready for whatever terrifyingly overblown and ridiculously fish-themed vengeance will rain down upon them >:)

(Sausage's iron farm is enabling Etho's love of anvil PvP, which was never the most accurate thing to begin with, Iskall keeps giving themself away by bursting out laughing before he can sneak up on somebody and/or misfiring the Grimlands crossbows and setting off colourful firework explosions, and, well, Sausage's haycarts don't exactly fit in subtly with the majority of the landscape around here. They're an absolute trainwreck but they somehow nearly always get the kill anyway, I'd hire them for sure)

- Mumbo adds the rubber pool floaties from season 7 Sahara to the Cod Empire. Jimmy is overjoyed. Lizzie is insanely jealous and keeps stealing them for the Ocean Empire, but Mumbo replaces them so Jimmy doesn't mind that much

- Grian, whose beautiful alley is now full of slimy ponds and Jimmy builds from the recent reality intersection incident, DOES mind. How is he supposed to concentrate when he keeps putting one foot in a slime patch and the other on a squeaky pool flamingo! How is he supposed to get anything done around here?? The answer is of course He Isn't. At least the alley was almost finished when this madness started...

- Oh, and. The Cod Empire being in-around-on-through Midnight Alley also means that the giant Joel statue is front and center in the intersection. Grian is just about in tears. Joel is downright gleeful

Hey yo so what if I made the most crack-filled crossover fix-it AU for both Hermitcraft and Empires at once. I bet there's a way I can smash em together so all of their individual problems literally just cancel each other out and all we're left with is ridiculous amounts of fluff and chaos, one draft no edits let's gooooooo -

- Instead of each of the server's individual endings happening the combination of dumbass science and magical nonsense just breaks reality completely and the two worlds hurtle into each other at interdimensional warp speed. Everyone's Hermitcraft bases are now on top of/beside/inside/under everyone's empires, it's pure aesthetic chaos incarnate

- Hermatrix Octa Beats Exor's Ass because I say so. Aeor fights the Moon and wins. (Please ignore the fact that I know next to nothing about 3/4 of these entities just let the gods fight it out I don't care about the details)

- Alternatively: fWhip and Jimmy still do the salmon/cod reactor thing but it happens in just the right place so the explosion pushes the two worlds away from the Moon by pure coincidence

- It takes exactly 1.37 seconds for Sausage to start sacrificing stuff to the Boatem hole

- Pix is there and Pixandria isn't actually splorked onto any other bases, but he shows up to meet with the others Exactly Once and then they basically don't see him again for months because he's booked solid making Vigil candles for Scar

- Eventually Joe finds him (tried to use that desert to mine sand for new green hotbar glass) and they have a conversation about philosophy, death, and epic pranks that I would absolutely pay to see while Joe helps him craft all those candles

- Cleo tries to sell them Hive-dr8 for the Vigil but Pix doesn't think that would be very respectful of the dead (he will take several for himself though because that desert is approximately Dry As Fuck and also this high fantasy rp man probably hasn't had an energy drink in his life)

(lots more under the cut, also very interested in extra ideas!)

- Whenever there's two of anybody they have to fight each other. That's the rules. Wizard Gem assumes she'll win the fight easily but HC Gem is a Canadian moose hybrid and absolutely runs her over a la "counterspell THIS, casual" so that's that decided (Gem respawns just fine with nothing harmed but her dignity)

- Pearl v Pearl ends up with Empires Pearl winning, of course, but it's a good fight and they agree to spar lots more afterwards for practice

- Scott and X talk and decide to just swap evil brothers and have done with this already. Scott takes Evil X aside to gently talk about his crippling abandonment issues and EX just decides to quit bothering people before the gay elf man makes him cry in front of two whole servers

- Xisuma lays eyes on our favourite demon Xornoth for 1 (one) millisecond and immediately remembers why he's wearing all that Doomguy armour. Rip and tear. (Whether he gets some kind of a redemption ending or not is really up to people who know and care more about that lore than I do)

- After EX Forcible Therapy Arc he runs across Evil Sausage and they try to go in together as business partners. It's an absolute disaster. Dark!Sausage keeps gleefully murdering all their customers and the place goes bankrupt days after opening. At least they're having fun though!

- Optional: after X uppercuts the corruption directly out of Xornoth he joins the Evil Business Trio and actually makes it halfway make sense (he is now the least evil person there and also the proud owner of at least one braincell which I find hilarious under the circumstances)

- Joel figures out that he's exactly 0.5 inches taller than Bdubs when they stand perfectly level with each other. His complete refusal to let Bdubs forget it has started 17 wars already. (In reality they get along great still though, because Bdubs does things with terracotta that would make any builder weep tears of joy and also he's wearing moss -)

- Zed's mountain is now home to zWhidaph's Laforgeboratorylands and he is NOT happy about it, this is not in keeping with his antisocial habits at all, there's this guy with wings running around unionizing all his villagers and there's weird deepslate redstone spikes everywhere and - OOOO wait he can study that stuff! Everything is perfectly okay now. Zed is in science heaven

- Gem's dragons make friends with False's giant eagle

- Grian keeps challenging Scott to increasingly risky flying challenges and Scott keeps ending up head-first in a tree in a very un-kingly way

- The number of deaths in Boatem meetings + the number of deaths in WRA meetings...they have a combined meeting Exactly One Time before Pix says that if they ever die that many times at once again he's holding candle making classes at swordpoint for the whole group

- Wormman and Poultryman get brought back just so they can be a superhero trio with the Codfather

- Lizzie and Cub become the next villain duo through sheer force of pun alone (they try to teach the axolotls to dig through the mole tunnels but they don't seem to want to cooperate)

- Ren and Sausage hit it off immediately because of course they do (also Bubbles loves the big friendly dog man, he smells like sticks and gives good scritches)

- Most importantly of all, Joel, Sausage, and Zedaph come together to host the greatest game show Hermempirecrafts has ever seen: Is That Blood Sheep Looking At Me!

That's all the ideas I have for now! I lied about no edits, I'm actually probably going to quarantine this in drafts for a couple days after the finale so the irreverent tone doesn't get me Seven Million Unhappy Replies for posting during the grieving period, but I'm personally really liking the break from all the seriousness to just fling wild ideas at the wall and see what makes the most good brain juice. :] I'll probably come up with more later!