#mianite thoughts

[syndianites]

the temptation to make a mianite s1 au where Tom, instead of getting tank of judgement-ed to stop him from killing everything on sight, gets turned into a cat and treated as the island stray while "Tom hasn't been around in a while. As nice as it is to not get disemboweled constantly I'm kinda worried??"

Except Tom is LOVING being the island stray and when the gods try to get him to go back he throws a fit like "sorry this is MY cat time >:0"

[chiangyorange]

i will not mianitepost in 2023. therefore i am allowed to mianitepost in 2024.

i would leave design notes but im not that person anymore and no one reads them also fuck you

[grailknightmonty]

fabrico [to craft, repair]

thinking about the thauminium aspects again and the relation between being a zombie, a self reborn and recrafted by his god from a state of death, and comprised of parts put together.. also love the headcanon that pre-death as a half human Tom had to sew parts of himself back together again due to the spread of the zombification, and occasionally when he dies and doesnt comes back right (via in-game respawning) he has to quite literally repair himself

bonus silly ship bit: if handstiching doesnt work, also have kisses to make it better

[apollos-boyfriend]

mcyt 2023 predictions

ranboo will have a "meet my boyfriend" clickbait stream where the boyfriend in question is something like a reigen arataka body pillow

youtooz goes bankrupt/otherwise closes

members of the mianite team will begin writing for origins at tubbo's behest, triggering a mianite renaissance

among us will have an mcc crossover where mcyt-related items will be added in the game

lil nas x plays valorant with foolish and karl

tommy will make a youtube video where he goes through the legal process of adopting tubbo

a new life series drops. jimmy is, miraculously, not the first to die, but he is the second.

another mass twitter migration occurs. wilbur admits to having a tumblr, but it isn't @sootings

karl jacobs and captainsparklez kiss, uniting the two generations of menkissers

EDIT: ant and velvet will get engaged

[syn4k]

thinking about tucker and what being a champion of the god of order does to a person

[coolcattime]

A Mianite Superpower AU I've been cooking up where the gang is split between heroes and villains. This little explanation focuses on the “villains” because I came up with the Au based around them so I'm more sure of their backstories. (More of the AU under the read more because as it turns out, I had a lot to say. This focuses on Tom, Sonja, Capsize, and Redbeard).

The universe is one where some people are just born with superpowers. Their strength grows with time, and generally it's accepted that a person with powers will have fully developed them by teenhood. Hence the heroes association has a required test for children to find those with major powers so they can be properly trained to become superheroes.

The test is controversial, and has only been growing more so in recent years. Especially as being caught ‘cheating’ the test has become an arrest-able offence. From this development a small group of villains has been forming from those caught ‘cheating’.

Tom

Powers: Creation and manipulation of explosions, creation and manipulation of fire, mild healing factor, will come back to life after dying

When he had taken the test, Tom only had minor powers. He could create tiny explosions the size of firecrackers and manipulate the flame of a lighter, but his powers weren't anything to write home about and certainly not superhero worthy. The superheroes association agreed, marking him as having minor powers and letting him remain to live his life rather than training him. It seemed that Tom was destined to live a normal life.

Then Tom died. He was hit by a car and died on the scene. Technically nothing out of the ordinary. Except, a day later, Tom woke up.

He woke up confused as hell in a hospital morgue with no idea as to how he was currently alive. What should have been a miracle was quite tainted by him getting arrested mere hours later for “hiding superpowers”. No matter how much he tried to explain that he had no idea had he come back to life, they didn't listen to him. Only made worse by the powers he had already being amplified to the point that he's pretty sure he could blow up the building he was being kept in. He didn't go that far, but he did end up breaking through a good number of walls to escape custody as, for reasons as unknown to him as the rest of his newly upgraded powers, the power-restrictor that was put on him didn't seem to work.

That night Tom was declared a super villain. And if they were going to call him a villain, Tom was going to be the biggest thorn in their side they could possibly imagine. After all, who can cause more trouble than a villain who can't die?

Sonja

Powers: The ability to comprehend all written language, clairvoyance via ink and paper, shape-shifting

Sonja's original power of language comprehension was never going to be the sort of thing that got her put on active hero duty, but it was deemed useful enough to get her recruited for behind the scenes work. She liked it well enough, even if her job seemed to mostly be being told to dispose of anything actually interesting. But it wasn't a hard job, she got training, and above average accommodation, and she was well liked by pretty much everyone in the building.

Her life probably could've just continued this way, working her way up behind the scenes until she became irreplaceable. But one day, Sonja became intrigued by one of the documents she'd be given to investigate. A set of instructions for an apparent ritual written by a newly captured villain. Now those were, at least in her line of work, dime a dozen, but the exact nature of this one was something she couldn't ignore. A ritual for an individual to be gifted new powers. And that was just too interesting for her to either destroy or hand over the document to be sat in an archive for the rest of time. So she tested it on herself.

She had no idea if it would work or how she would get to grips with a brand new power, so she set it up to get herself the ability to gather information via ink and paper. It seemed similar enough to her current power to quickly get to grips with and useful to the heroes association since it would be great for low stakes intel gathering. And it worked. She did the ritual and suddenly just spilling ink on paper could produce maps or lists of information. She was so excited to present the ritual to the higher ups, because she was sure it could help the association.

Sonja was arrested. Officially she was arrested for hiding her powers, but she knew it was really because she did something she didn't like. Her arrest was argued against by a number of heroes and association staff alike. She had always been well-liked, a bullshit arrest wasn't going to change that, but none of their arguments stopped her from being sent towards the same facility that held actual supervillains. What actually stopped her from being locked up was Tom causing the transport truck to crash. He offered her freedom, and if she was going to be deemed a traitor anyway she might as well take the road where she isn't imprisoned.

Since joining Tom, she's managed to gather the resources to perform the ritual again, giving herself the ability to shape-shift. She's also used her clairvoyance to figure out what precisely caused Tom's revival and sudden power spike. An odd heart-shaped artifact apparently sewn into his corpse. Though her powers won't say exactly what it it or who put it inside Tom, leaving them a goal to investigate.

Capsize & Redbeard

Powers: The ability to transfer their powers between each other, water manipulation (Capsize), short distance teleport of themself and others (Capsize), air manipulation (Redbeard), minor charmed speech (Redbeard)

Coming from a small coastal town, Capsize and Redbeard were very used to the idea that their powers meant that one day they would be taken away to never return. The only time heroes ever showed up was when a villain threatened to rise sea levels and honestly even that didn't make them show up sometimes. The only time they saw anything of the heroes association was once a year when a single clerk would come to administrator the power test to the of age kids. Not liking the idea of being forced away from their home, Capsize and Redbeard decided to trick the test.

With the clerk only able to administrator the test to one kid at a time, they knew that they just needed to transfer all their powers into whoever wasn't being tested and hope that they didn't get caught. By some miracle, they didn't. There was some brief questioning as to what exactly their transference power did when they didn't have powers, but seeing that nothing could be proved, they were marked down as having a minor power and left to their own devices. Given the town's less than stellar opinion towards the heroes association and the twins doing their best to help around town, they were more than happy to keep the secret.

Years passed, the two growing up with being able to live their lives and learning their powers at their own pace. As long as they hid their powers one day a year, they could continue to do so. But eventually everyone's luck runs out. It wasn't as if Redbeard wasn't aware of the day, but that thought went out of his mind when he saw a workman falling from some scaffolding. He acted on impulse, slowing the man's fall. Unfortunately the heroes association clerk was walking by and quickly Red was arrested for having hidden powers. He just about managed to transfer his powers to Capsize before the power-restricting handcuffs were put on him, but now the heroes association was aware of his powers, the power transference made sense.

Heroes were summoned to the town for the first in over a decade as a Capsize was marked as a wanted criminal and the mood of the town threatened to turn riotous. The news managed to also catch Tom and Sonja's attention who headed to find Capsize with Sonja's powers, a little surprised to find she hadn't yet left town. They found her already being confronted by a hero who was attempting to talk her into surrendering. Said hero is extremely distracted by two supervillains turning up and turns his attention towards them only to be knocked out by Capsize who frankly isn't in the mood for the heroes associations bullshit. She isn't stupid. She knows that the only thing waiting for her and Redbeard from them is prison. So she asks Tom and Sonja if they'll help her break out Redbeard. Of course, the two agree.

Capsize and Redbeard end up fleeing their home town being officially declared super villains as they join Tom and Sonja. The group counts the whole thing as a victory as the heroes association's reputation has never been lower in Capsize and Redbeard's home And, for their long term goals, Capsize and Redbeard recognise the idea of a heart shaped relic from an old story about the original three heroes giving them at least some kind of a new lead to look into.

[kiwibirdlafayette]

more self indulgent nonsense because why not (aka good omens has taken over my brain and is co-existing with mianite by forcing me to think way too much about this AU /silly)

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

ianite pearl ianite pearl ianite pearl

i made this for me and also me, but hopefully others can enjoy it also hehe

anyway no yeah. ianite pearl. She was loyal and "Good" in last life (a world that was disloyal and felt malicious), and was disloyal and "Bad" in double life (a world that emphasized loyalty and felt like a sitcom). thats all im able to verbalize rn. just *points at* LOOK at her. look at her. she's perfect. she's team ianite. she's a killing machine. she's a wet cat. she's everything

[conwayfamilytree]

what if Spark took Ianite’s name, so his is now Spark Conway-Kikoku?

I didn’t know I could get asks. This is so exciting to me.

I don’t have a direct answer for this yet!! Personally, I love hyphenated last names. But in terms of characterization and stuff I think it comes down to how do divine families work? Do the gods hold last names to the same standard we do? I would have to assume yes because Akemi named her sword kikoku but I don’t know.

Also, how do the gods feel towards their parents (at the point in time that spark and ianite would be married )? Would she want to rid any association she has of her family?

Many things to think about. I will ponder !!

[licantropa]

what if spark had a really good reason for leaving?

we don’t ever meet him, but we do get to meet ianite. we see how she plagued dagrun, and hear how she burned katsir. if she hurts so does everything and everyone around her. their relationship is not exactly a balanced one, they aren’t equals, not truly. she’s says that spark said goodbye, that he left without reason, but what if that’s not entirely true? what if ianite, a goddess who wants to be heard but doesn’t listen, didn’t want to hear it. spark left and it had been a long time coming.

or maybe he’s just selfish and didn’t want every facet of himself to be about her. because who is spark conway outside of his faith for ianite? a father? a husband? a champion? an architect? a king? all of that points back to her, things he did for her, with her.

[syndianites]

I've always wondered what the criteria for being an 'alt' in mianite was.

Like, assuming it was a thought-out thing and not just a fun gimmick of being in an alternate reality, how is it determined who your alt is?

There's a few ways you can look at it:

They are literally you in a different universe- like literally exactly who you are but put in a different situation

They are someone who fills the same *role* as you, being more a metaphorical alternate

They are who, essentially, took your place in the world. It was either you existed OR they existed, not both

They are just the mirror of yourself, so to speak. Someone very similar to you and having the same core features, but having different... aspects? Like, if you were loyal and brave, but generally rather shy, your alternate would /also/ be loyal and brave, but could be easy and outgoing.

The reason I tend to ponder this a lot with Mianite as a series is because it very much feels like it could go any way, /except/ the person being a literal you from a different universe.

And I know that may be an unpopular look at it, but if you compare our most popular alt- Mot, to Tom, aside from the name and being partially mob-fied, what do they have in common as people? Their backgrounds are very different (which is to be expected), their personalities are very different, their choices and decisions can often conflict with each other, and so on and so forth.

In my head, someone literally being a different 'you' would either entail them having the same exact name (both having been "Tom" or "Mot" at some point) or looking nigh identical (though the Tom/Mot example is a little harder considering their different mob afflictions).

I suppose what I'm trying to say, is that when I think of a "traditional" alternative self, I think of the exact same person who was just put in a different situation. Like if Tom, for example, had been put in a situation where his family had all died and he got infected, etc etc. But even when in different situations you find that people tend to look the same, or has similar personality traits, or even have a similar way of thinking. Of course, we don't get to see a lot of alt interactions because Mot, for the majority of the time we see him, is the only "known" alt (since we didn't know Steve was supposed to be a Wag alt).

So how would I, personally, define alts in the Mianite universe? Honestly, I'm not sure. For a while I went on the idea that it was someone who was in "your role" in this other universe. Mot and Tom are both champions of Dianite, Spark and Jordan are both important devotees to Ianite, etc etc, but can we use that to explain Jeriah and Alyssa, or even Wag and Steve?

I think I sit right between the "role" aspect of alts and the "mirror" aspect. They almost beg the same question, "what is this person's defining traits," but in different ways. Tom and Mot are both heavily loyal, Tom to his friends and even the previous Dianite, who he stuck with even when he was THE bad guy, and Mot to Alyssa and Dianite. Spark and Jordan are both very devoted and- crafty? I don't know what word I'd use, but Spark created a whole town, Jordan had the Jerry's tree, how Jordan was very invested in any study he came across and how Spark was very invested in spreading the word of Ianite, etc. From what snippets we get, Sonja and Alyssa are both playful at heart and kind, though we don't get to see too much about Alyssa. I'd make a stab at what Jeriah is like but we basically never see him. Wag and Steve are both rather straightforward and not afraid to cause damage to get what they want done- and also have the same taste in women (lol).

You could argue that this is because they fill the same "roles" as each other, but you could also argue that it's because the characters share the same "base traits." It's like the chicken and the egg argument- does the role require the traits, or do the traits lead to the role? If two people are alts of each other, who came first? Who is the "original," discounting the fact that we enter the world of Mianite through Tiem Reester and are biased into believing they are the originals.

The people who throw this most into question are the gods themselves. They literally fill the same roles, have the same names, have very similar characteristics, and are basically the poster-children to the "traditional" idea of alternate versions of yourself. But if you stripped away everything- the godhood, the names, the aspects of life they embody- what do they have in common? The gods present that "what-if" scenario that happens when you look into alternate realities far better than the "human" people we see. Are both Dianite's stubborn and confident? Are both Mianite's self-assured and believe themselves to always be in the right? Are both Ianite's dedicated to walking the line between aspects, trying to keep a grip on the happenings of their universe and the fluctuations of the Void?

Mianite, as a series, gives us /so many things/ to think about but never a solid resolution to these ideas because it was never meant to. It was a story made up on the fly, a bridge being built as we walked along it. And I think that's why it sticks in my mind so much compared to other series that broach similar ideas. There are so many open-ended questions that /we/ get to solve, to debate, to consider, that it just sticks with you because it is so, so hard to leave something "unfinished."

Anyway, rant over, please go back to your regularly scheduled activities

[grailknightmonty]

"and i seriously hope that one day, when all of this is over and death and destruction aren't lurking around every corner- that we can go down to the docks and fish without a care in the world. to sit by each other's side from sunset to sunrise without a single fear. it would be amazing just to have that, even just once."

funky lil bday gift for my homie Mars from the RPG! :D I debated about redrawing a moment from the SMP but i settled on this idea of that in the middle of what's been a huge period of uncertainty and constant fear of losing it all for them, that I imagine all they could want could be found in something so mundane, so peaceful as just sitting by a lake, as the sun rises

[caissymax]

You know, I’m not very far in on my path to catch up with Phil’s qsmp series (only his third stream) but I’m already a big fan of him squaring up with the binary code dude and hope that that keeps up lmao

Also I don’t know if any mianite fans are still out there (or in this fandom!) but like why is this just giving me straight up nvidia vibes?? Like nvidia wasn’t even like an actual npc on mianite but oh boy! I also personally think that binary guy should also get a sword that crashes peoples games when he hits them, you know, as a treat ;)

[syn4k]

im out here doing ap level analysis on this series of events trying to figure out how and why a thing happened in a decade old minecraft series

[unnamed-atlas]

Having brain worms. What if uhhhhhh SOS Mianite au

[coolcattime]

Hi all!! I've once again had a Mianite AU idea at like 2am and have decided to make that everyone's problem!! So welcome to my little thoughts on a mortality swap au (gods become mortals, mortals become gods)!

Here's a little rundown of my Season 1 thought (might do Season 2 layout later):

The three champions have directly swapped with their gods so

Tucker is the god of the overworld (with Mianite as his champion) Tom is the god of the nether (with Dianite as his champion) Jordan is the god of the end (with Ianite as his champion)

They also mostly find the alignments of the gods they've swapped with but they're also still Tucker, Tom, and Jordan so like Tom is more of a trickster than straight up evil and Tucker and Jordan can get into decade long grudges out of spite and misunderstandings.

Sonja is a self-made goddess in the way that the wizards are. Killed a god, absorbed their powers, became a goddess. You know typical stuff. I'm not sure if she has a champion, if she does, it's probably Wag. She's heavily associated with secrets (and maybe the deep dark...?)

Capsize and Redbeard are deities of fortune. Capsize controls good luck and Redbeard controls bad luck. Or rather they used to do that. They've been missing for as long as anyone can remember and everyone's fortunes have kinda got to shit. The two have mostly been forgotten by the time that the current champions discover the gods.

The plot gets kickstarted by the champions discovering the evidence of Capsize and Redbeard... then very quickly discover more evidence that points to Redbeard being dead and Capsize being imprisoned.

As far as they can all tell, someone plotted to and successfully abducted Capsize with the want to have complete control over good fortune (and likely keep it entirely for themselves). Redbeard caught wind of the plan but was killed before he could stop it, which is why bad luck has been out of control for generations.

Unfortunately when they bring this news to the gods at large, all of them immediately start blaming each other and very quickly end up on the verge of war. So the champions are left having to investigate their own gods to hopefully stop a war in the heavens and restore the balance of fortune.