#mostly mumbo

[shreddies-scribbles]

winter strolls through the hermitcraft server 🫡🫡🫡

[dredgesnails]

so... wild life, huh?

[w1f1n1ghtm4r3]

got absolutely possessed over the past few days, finished planning out the remaining last life designs i had yet to do, and then drew all of them again to make one big lineup with everyone. no one could stop me from making last life a fantasy monster au and so i did it. i love drawing creatures

version with species labeled below the cut

please note that this follows my own monster au species and rules! some things are things i simply made up (the bug/animal/birdfolk stuff. if youre curious why theyre the way they are, bugfolk are fae relatives, animalfolk are lycanthrope relatives, and. well birdfolk isnt something ive used before. idk what theyre an offshoot of yet) and some are my own (sometimes slightly strange) approach to designing various creatures.

if you have questions about my reasoning behind any of these choices or about my monster or last life worldbuilding in general my askbox is always open and im happy to answer questions :D i love to talk about creatures

[theminecraftbee]

Mumbo, still trembling, closes his eyes and ignores everything he can see despite them being closed. He ignores the uncountable sensations against his skin, the mix of burning-cooling-itching that all blends together into something that is simultaneously so painful it’s numb and so indescribable it hurts. He ignores the howling, tending, tearing at his ears, and he most certainly ignores the scent of pure memories that pull him in and out of the moment every time he fails to.

He mustn’t think. He can only bear to think in the brief gaps between the noise. If he lets himself think too long, he will realize that he doesn’t have to have his eyes open to see, because the thing he’s trying to look away from doesn’t exist on that sort of plane of existence. He will realize he can hear the endless fractal shapes of wings and eyes around him. He can taste it. He can feel it. He does not need eyes.

He keeps them shut. Grian had told him, once, that if he ever got confronted with his true form, he must keep his eyes shut. Mumbo is doing that now.

“It’s okay,” he mumbles. “It’s okay."

He gets the scent of someone saying 'Mumbo', a shout, panic, pain, not pain. He screws his eyes shut tighter. An overwhelming sensation that he should flee courses through him for a moment and he nearly runs into one the walls of their cell. Unfortunately, those walls are designed to hold in Grian, so Mumbo just bruises his nose.

"We can't leave. They drugged you and locked us both in, remember?"

The sensation is overpowering for a moment. For a moment, Mumbo loses hold of whatever sanity he's holding on to and every part of his body screams fear. He needs to leave, he needs to leave, he needs to leave, he can't leave, he doesn't know what to do, it's a deep and true sensation of doom and panic and then--

Acceptance. Mumbo finds himself curled on the ground.

Something apologizes.

"You were drugged," Mumbo mumbles. "You can't help it."

Mumbo hears the sound that happens when he's dying, he thinks. Then he hears sadness.

"I won't. You told me what to do. All, all I've got to do is hang on until, until either whatever they gave you gets out of your system, or, or someone rescues us. I mean, the other hermits, they'd certainly be rescuing us, right? I imagine they're already tearing, um, wherever we are? They're already tearing it to pieces. Skizz and Impulse are nearly as frightening as you, and, um, we both know what Doc is like angry, and it's okay, it's okay."

Mumbo does not want to have to be the reasonable one. He keeps his eyes shut and lets the feeling like hundreds of sharp feathers cross his skin as Grian tries harder to simultaneously surround and not surround Mumbo, tries to figure out how not to hurt him.

There is not a way for Grian not to hurt Mumbo. Mumbo has known this since they were first shoved in the same cell and Grian lost control.

He can't say that, though, because the moment Grian panics, he will actually kill him. He won't mean to. That's the truly terrible part. Grian will not mean to. He will not try to. He will try not to, in fact.

It's just. A god and a mortal should not be held in the same cage.

So Mumbo has to be the reasonable one. Just a little longer. Or Grian will never forgive himself.

Mumbo breathes. It makes his lungs feel like they're full of blue and purple and syrup and needles. It makes him feel like crying again. It also makes him feel like curling up and feeling nothing, which is the particularly dangerous bit.

"We'll figure this out. It's okay," he lies in his most soothing tone of voice. Somehow, he doesn't think Grian believes him.

They've just got to both pretend a little longer.

[smoozie]

Hate hate hate that Scar has this rep of being bad at the life series or being one of the quickest out. It is one of the most infuriating myths I am clawing at my hair. The worst he's done is 9th place. The quickest he's been out is 6th. Skizz and Tango have never placed better than Scar. Bigb, Bdubs, and Ren have only placed better than him once. None of these guys are treated as though they are in any way incapable. Stop infantalizing and belittling Scar

[wizzskizz]

other doodle backlog

[grailknightmonty]

canary of the iron mine

thinkin about what or who could be lurking in the depths of that mine under the iron shop..

[fudgecake-charlie]

shh i'm posting no one tell my professors or the projects im involved in

[solarockk]

buttercups but they are in dungeon meshi

[dredgesnails]

everyone keeps going wow i can't believe mumbo is so suspicious of the two most loyal life series members but you also have to remember his life series experience so far has been grian threatening and then succeeding to kill him while the southlanders fall apart and then dying to lava while butlering for grian and falling off a cliff because he was upset about a tower building contest that grian had a hand in and then dying to the warden that grian and etho brought to the surface. so like. he's not had the best track record

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

since I can't rb the 'who would throw the first punch in a fight: mumbo or grian?' poll, I must add my two cents here for instead and say that while Mumbo yearns for violence, Grian yearns for the bit.

If the fight starts in a silly funny way, it's Grian who starts it, maybe he doesn't throw the first punch, but he starts it. He's an antagonistic little shit and loves bothering Mumbo! Mumbo on hermitcraft can be a snarky bitch but is also more passive aggressive about it than outwardly aggressive, Grian would have to throw the first punch for them to really fight in this silly setting.

(OR Mumbo would have to be driven to it - like S8 soul juicing machine, which needed like 3 layers of hidden trickery for Mumbo to feel right about it. Even though he yearns so much for violence he had to restrict himself).

If the fight starts in a malicious way I feel it can go either side. Grian has 'theres a way we can still be friends' and Mumbo has the previously mentioned soul juicer. They're both completely insane and they will trick and fool each other to death, as enrichment. This isn't quite play fighting, and it can cause some feelings of anger, but it's also not something that hurts, really. I wouldn't call it betrayal, even. HOWEVER. Grian's tricks tend to be non-lethal, only hinting at how dangerous he can be. I don't think he feels great about actually dealing the first blow. It feels cheap to do that to Mumbo, his best friend.

If the fight starts in a more straight-up unfriendly way, and it hurts, well, I think Mumbo starts it more often than not. Mumbo is chaotic. He's a messy bitch. In the life series he tends to go down to red and immediately just start Attacking, regardless of allies. He doesn't trust easily. He shoots first and regrets it later. This never works out for him because as soon as Grian has permission to escalate, he absolutely takes it. And Mumbo is not good under pressure. There's like one morbillion examples of this idk.

[shepscapades]

how’s dbhc mumbo in last life

bad actually, on most fronts really

[kiwibirdlafayette]

end of the week sketch dump, honestly mostly secret life modern au fanart + mumbo burning an old gift and a lil BigB design

[banditblvd]

Magical mountain 1/7

[wizzskizz]

this session was awesome i missed my little guys so bad. enjoyed all the shenanigans <3

[dillbugg]

Grumbo Week 2024 - Day 3: Sleep

Fisherman Grian gets well deserved rest with his boyfriend watching over him <3

for @grumboweek !!