#one of these guys lived on a roleplay server and one of them very much did not

[hybbat]

My favourite thing about hermitcraft boat boys is Joel casually inserting the obession bit in every episode (I'd say smoothly but Joel's never done anything smoothly in his life) while Etho very awkwardly inserts trying to poorly act out his side of the same bit now and then like a D&D player who just realized they created a pc out of their comfort zone.

[toki-woki-fnaf]

"As a new Faz-Trainee, you are mandated to be taught by our new and improved Helpi model."

In 3 Lives at Freddy's: Follow The Yellow Rabbit you will have a new buddy throughout it all, say hello to Helpi! He's a great conversationalist and a great source of information for your new job. He'll learn how to best suit your needs as he learns more about you, way better than any in-person job training!

WELCOME BACK TO 3LAF!!! With 3LAF: GOLDEN THREAD ENDING IN SEPTEMBER, ITS TIME TO TEASE THE NEXT!!! If joining a Minecraft Third Life server based fully on fnaf and a unique fnaf mod interests you then I'm happy to announce that Invites are open yet again for 3LAF:FTYR! Before you do ask to join or if you want more information then I do suggest looking at our posts for the first 3LAF (Introduction, Animatronic Reveal) and 3LAF:Golden Thread (Introduction 2, Animatronic Reveal 2, Structure Reveal) to get a good vibe on what its about, although both may have incorrect information as they are older! For FTYR we will be having a fun fnaf twist on the Boogeyman mechanic which will be explained in the next teaser more specifically!!! FTYRs start date is around mid-november to december at its latest and will run every saturday from 1PM to 6PM pst (It is that long so people can join late and or take breaks, you do not have to stay for all 5 hours and you may join late into the time <3) 20 out of the 36 slots are currently full so there is plenty of space to come join in as either a player, spectator or backup player, send me a tumblr message asking to join and bam if slots are up then you're in! A note for any players who are wanting in, you got to have a skin that is at least a little vaguely tied to fnaf and I heavily recommend making a character for when you play in sessions, a lot of players use this opportunity to do a lot of roleplay and make silly guys (I suggest looking at the #3laf #3laf-gt and i think #3laf art tag as there you can see a lot of the players FUCKING BANGER ART AND CHARACTERS I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH!!!!)

Regardless, thank you for reading!!! I am the sole modder that makes this mod so it's very very fun to be able to show my work in these silly little teasers, on a more developer side: Coding Helpi has been such a pleasure and such a nightmare, i've had to rewrite his code twice... the second time I fully coded his main system and as soon as a celebrated it all got corrupted... only Helpi got corrupted which was quite ironic. I'm giving this one an extra month and a half as I don't want to burnout on developing but I've been having a very silly time with what I have been coding, I'm very excited to see people go silly with all the new stuff!!!! <3 <3 <3

[angelxxreaper]

OOC: The future of angelxxreaper (and our other bedrockverse blogs)

Hello everyone, I’m Cam, I’m the one who writes axxr (along with my co-host Phthalo). I just figured I’d write something quick to try to explain what’s happening over here in light of casinoroyale and songbird-sunrise’s announcements.

First off, I would like to say, thank you for sticking with this blog for 2+ years. You guys made this experience very fun for me and I really enjoyed writing this blog for you. We would never have made it if it weren’t for your continued support and questions. For that, genuinely thank you.

I have and will be taking a massive stepback from writing this blog. A lot of things have happened in my personal life that have made it hard for me to continue writing this blog, along with the fact that my interest in the Dream SMP has dwindled significantly. Additionally, writing emerald duo, while very fun, has also been causing us a lot of grief for Techno and has been making it very hard for us to continue.

As of right now, I still feel physically ill any time I go onto Tumblr over the stress and grief I��ve been experiencing lately with school and my family life. I do hope one day that I will be able to feel better enough to continue writing, but maybe not as angelxxreaper.

We may post some of our drafts, maybe not, and I am sad that we never got to do, and probably will never do, a lot of plans that we had for this blog. However, I’m not upset about where we left Phil. Thunder and I may write an official happy ending for subtotechno and axxr, but the idea of an official end is very sad to the both of us so I don’t know if we ever will. In the event that we don’t, please imagine them happily living their lives together, with Techno’s huge zoo and maybe them going out on another adventure to take over the world on another server again.

This isn’t to say that I will never ever write another rp blog again. I still very much adore roleplaying, Philza, hardcore and the colorzas. I may make a comeback in another way soon (I’m very much addicted to roleplaying still). But please don’t expect anything official.

As a final note, if I never come back to this blog again, thank you guys for the unending support and thank you to the other bedrockverse mods (especially Thunder, Holly and Atlas) for allowing me to be apart of your silly little roleplays. I had a lot of fun and these blogs (and you lot) were always the highlight of my day <3 I’m not very good about the thought of things ending, (I’m crying as I write this), but should this be final, think about this not as a loss but as a graduation. We’re off to tackle some other things.

Thank you for being the light of my life for so long. I’ll catch you later <3

- Cam @craftycalico and Phthalo @fillza

[many-faced]

Anyways, on a more serious note:

That superhero setting looks really cool! Mind talking some more about it?

I didn't make the world, I'm just a member of the roleplay server, but I sure can ramble on about my characters!!

For base context, they live in a city called Wintercrest in a country named Beryndel. Wintercrest is the capital. They live by a hero and villain based system, where criminals are villains and heroes are essentially licensed super police.

The Stirlings

A family of heroes, with the oldest known member being William Leander Stirling (deceased) and the current head of household being Catherine Stirling, having recently taken over from Mortis Arachne Stirling.

They're incredibly corrupt and have a whole cycle of violence thing going on.

My primary characters here are Achilles and Catherine. Achilles recently killed Mortis and became a villain, he used to be a hero though.

The Lab Crew

The group name given to the set of characters that have to put up with one of my characters, the main guys here are Catherine (again), Eyes and Cryofreeze.

Eyes is the worst, evil awful scientist lady, he draws from Argus Pantoptes design and power wise, with tons of eyes and a peacock tail.

Cryofreeze is my little guy that needs a break, they've been working under Eyes for 11 years. They're horribly messed up mentally,, poor silly :[

The Cool Villains

My most well known villain characters, Fractal, Phobia and Crackdown.

Fractal is one of the most wanted villains in the city. A high category powerful shapeshifter. They're very silly and balance multiple lives at once.

Crackdown is an ex-hero, formerly well respected until in a fit of rage she took a villain's life. She fell down the ranks and eventually fled, only to later become Crackdown, a hero killer that leads a rebellion group known as the Dainslief.

Phobia is an immortal. He's come to hate the bureau and as such rebels against it. He's notably low category, but he's also older than the city, being 540 years old, soon to be 541.

The miscellaneous

These are silly guys I don't have as much to say about but I could ramble more about any of them if you asked me to :>

Monsieur Microwave (Micheal Wave) - silly guy with a microwave for a head

Porcelain / Systemshock - Equipment Engineer who misses his college bestie

Fran DeVille - member of a crime family and punkrock and metal musician

Pigeon Man / Tinfoil - a teleportating pigeon that makes bread that never goes stale... and is also a conspiracy theorist that things that pigeons are bureau spies

Louse - a specialist based on the tongue eating louse who can erase memories and change speaking patterns

Sentinel - a blind hero who relies on echolocation and has copper based powers

Heart - a hero apprentice who's a bleeding heart and a member of a budding hero group known as The Suits

Feel free to ask for more about any of them in a comment or reblog :>

[nomsfaultau]

Daily ask №16!

A mashup of random questions edition!

I've seen screenshots from a discord server with all of the fault characters in your posts. Is it like a private rp server where you roleplay? Do you roleplay with friends? Am confusion

What is each character's and yours favourite weather?

Headcanoning that Evil english would just be slang. From all centuries combined. So like. "Hii, how goes't doing? We sh0ulda sl@y on dis mew1ng rendezvous cuz YOLO n me fam iz gonna bee there. Omg did ya 1nv1te that anti-skibidi loose woman with negative rizz 2?? Damn, ur a real hater." (Hi, how is it going? We should try our best at this gym session because you only live once and my friends are going to be there. Oh my god, did you invite that childish ugly prostitute too? Wow, you are a real asshole.). Like, can you just imagine Wilbur actually speaking like that? Just.. casually? Sounds great to me. (I dare you to try and write a sentence in that style.)

Which any characters from Fault would you want to have as plushies? What types of plushies would they bee, do you think? (Tommy as a weighted plushie because of that drawing on him sleeping on Phil and them both being in denial about his size?)

Are you going to participate in the artfight this year? If yes, then account link maybe?

1.It’s from a small scp server with irl friends. The plot lines were crazy. It’s been dead for over a year, but I’m the funniest guy alive and wanted to share the highlights.

2. I personally like the wtnv weather, and thunderstorms. Tubbo hates rain and wind and cold for bee reasons. Actually I think all of them hate the rain, Tommy gets worried about contamination, The Blade takes forever to dry and smells awful, Wilbur rarely had a roof over his head. Phil’s probably fine since he can just evaporate it and has nice wings for umbrellas. But he personally likes when it’s scorching, since he likes sunning himself like a lil lizard. The Blade likes the wind, how it ruffles through his fur and allows him to smell really far which is good if Foundation goons are coming. Wilbur goes for overcast days, since too bright can sometimes limit the effectiveness of the void. Also a very slight wind, not too much to move its hair from blocking the void but also enough that movements beneath can be handwaved as a breeze. Tommy prefers colder weather, since he wears sleeves a lot.

3. Oh God. Yes I think Wilbur could deffo speak like that, since I think a component is distinguishing between modern and archaic terms since otherwise it would have a very different speech pattern. Wilbur would know what skibidi means even if I don’t. Let’s see.  

“Okay bit of a red flag but an oomfie of mine was rbing from someone who’s moots with the F*und@t10n. Like do they NOT know they’re my opps w straight up ohio level rizz ifkyk. Kinda sus ngl. I’m going to unal1ve them since I’m in my villain era and quirky like that.”

Poor Phil is completely and utterly lost. Tubbo could keep up a little because they have grandkids.

4.I want a The Blade plush sooo much. So incredibly fluffy. I think he’s one of the reversible plushies where the other form is a blood splattered Blood God. Tommy should be a little chibi head with the weight to it so kids can chuck him at each other and get in trouble with their mom. Tubbo too and they have little charms attached, like some bees and little representations for the Hive. Phil is in dragon form, super long, and has a wire so you can position him in loops and what not. Wilbur is frowning in a cute way and the void is a pocket where you can store snacks and whatnot. 

5. I’m not really sure what art fight is! :D

[fluffypotatey]

OK SO. the animations family.

first off i have to explain the QSMP a bit. the QSMP (nobody's really sure what the q stands for afaik) is a multilingual minecraft smp that first started in march 2023. the original server roster was 16 players, half of whom were hispanic and half who were english speakers. (this was bc quackity, the guy who came up with the server and did all the planning and stuff, is bilingual and wanted to unite his two communities). one of these original 16 was jaiden animations (this is important). on the first day of the server, these 16 members were stranded in a place called Quesadilla Island, which is controlled by a mysterious and sinister Federation (run by a weird little guy named Cucurucho)

okay, you know the trope of science projects where you get split up into pairs and have to take care of an egg together? they literally did that. All of the players were split into pairs of one spanish-speaker and one english-speaker, and tasked with taking care of an egg (actually a special NPC played by a server admin). the eggs started out with two lives each, and once those lives were out, the egg's gone for good, and your in-game child is dead. (this is a secret surprise tool that will help us later!)

one of these parenting pairs was jaiden animations and roier, and their egg's name was bobby. bobby was a rambunctious little fella- artistic, brave, very aggressive- and an absolute mama's boy. jaiden, roier, and bobby (aka the animations family) all got along very well, and tbh i need to go rewatch jaiden's vods of them bc they were so sweet together. jaiden changed her minecraft skin to match bobby's so they were both wearing overalls together.

(^ mentally i am here)

jaiden's character (or cubito, a word from the spanish speaking community that essentially means "minecraft roleplay character" that p much the whole community uses now bc its so damn cute) was aroace (just like jaiden in real life!), so she and q!roier were in a qpr co-parenting situation. and it was really sweet and i miss them. can you tell i miss them.

(drawing done by jaiden of roier, bobby, and herself) (the qsmp has an art mod btw)

now, astute readers may have noticed that i use "was" for both jaiden and bobby. on may 17th, 2023, bobby lost his second life to a vindicator and was ruled permanently dead. roier was there at the time, I believe, but was unable to save bobby in time. when jaiden found out, she SCREAMED and it was like. you know in hamilton how when phillip dies eliza screams? it sounded like that. (she also chased after the sunset while saying "wait for me" over and over again, it was really heartbreaking and im still a little bit insane about this).

the next day, the whole server went on a journey to the dungeon bobby died in, to plead with cucurucho for his revival. cucurucho refused to bring bobby back permanently, but allowed jaiden and roier ten minutes to talk with him and say their goodbyes. bobby asked them to remember him every time they saw a sunset.

(^ the last time the whole animations family was together. this was 9.5 months ago).

neither q!jaiden nor q!roier ever really fully recovered from bobby's death (although id say jaiden was hit way harder due to not having a support system outside of roier and cucurucho, who took advantage of her grief to manipulate her). there are some other things that happened here, such as q!roier getting married to a cellbit, a brazilian player working as a double agent of sorts within the federation, and purgatory (all the players were teleported to an island, separated into three groups, and forced to fight one another. in the end the island got blown up by a nuke).

on sunday, cc!jaiden talked about her qsmp character, ultimately stating that she was taking a long break from the server, that she had given the admins permission to do whatever they want with her character's absence, and essentially announced that unless the admins stated otherwise, q!jaiden had died in the nuke explosion in purgatory, firmly destroying the animations family.

(to me, the saddest part is that, recently, new eggs were assigned to groups of childless players, and both jaiden and roier got the chance to raise new eggs, with jaiden being assigned to empanada and roier currently being pepito's sole active parent. and all q!jaiden wanted was to be a mom. she died never knowing she had a second chance to rebuild her family. i am no okay.)

in conclusion:

THE LOVE WAS THERE AND THERE WAS NOTHING THEY CAN DO. I AM CRYING IN REAL LIFE I MISS HER SO BAD. SHE'S WITH BOBBY NOW.

oh

[rhyme-draws-stuff]

Fantrolls introduction + Artdump

I made these guys all the way back in October 2023, when I was a bit less than halfway through the comic. They were originally made for a roleplay server but I got too burnt out from school to actually join, and my anxiety was acting up. They're moirails, and wear each other's colors to show that :D

✨a bunch more art and rambling below cut!✨

Name: Iridia Rimian Pronouns: she/they Gender: demigirl Age: 8 sweeps Height: 5'4 Blood: Teal Classpect: Maid of Heart Derse Dreamer

Iridia's the first fantroll I've ever made, she's not exactly supposed to be a trollsona but she kind of started out that way and I did pour all of the anxieties I had at the time into her when I created her, and also gave her my love of cardigans and drawing, her outfit is modeled after one of mine, and we have the same pronouns. So we have some similarities!

Iridia is incredibly scared of the future, she's constantly burnt out and all she wants to do is stay home and draw forever. She struggles to make meaningful connections with people, and is pretty sure she won't live longer than 10 sweeps. Luckily she's not completely alone in the world, she has her moirail and her lussus!

Typing quirk example:

Your Trolltag is iridescentMelody, and you … pause a lot because . you can.t always . think of the right words … … and sometimes you trail off and forget …

… what you were going to say . … you don.t have any variety to your . punctuation . so you have a collection of emoticons to . convey expressions with .^. ^.^   .-.   .^.   .0.   .u.   .o.   .v.   ._.   .~.  .'.  .×. … … … and … … … … … … when you.re … overwhelmed … talking gets … even harder … … … … and you may use just ._. emoticons to express .~. your feelings .×. … but at other times you can be . a bit long winded . you want to make sure that you.re understood correctly . and all of your points . get conveyed .

Name: Galani Darmor Pronouns: alright with any, but especially likes he/her (specifically in those tenses), ae/aer, and shine/shines Gender: Hero Age: 8.3 sweeps Height: 4'5 Blood: Violet Classpect: Knight of Hope Prospit Dreamer

I made Galani because I realized that Iridia would simply not survive alone in the world, and then as I fleshed aer out to contrast to her I got really attached. A lot of parts of her are also inspired by parts of myself! But maybe a bit less

her deal is basically that he has a huge hero complex. He carries herself with a lot of confidence, which he mostly feels, but he gets very upset if he doesn't feel he's living up to the standard of being "heroic" that he's set up for herself.

Galani can get pretty in shines head about issues of morality.

Typing quirk example:

Your Trolltag is mechaHero, and ✨you talk with a lot of ENTHUSIASM and EMPHASIS!✨ ✨and you like to let people know when you APPROVE 👍 or DISAPPROVE 👎✨

✨if you-were-to-get DISTRESSED you would-start-to-talk MUCH FASTER which-thankfully-never happens because HEROES DONT GET DISTRESSED 👎👎👎✨

Here's some more art of both of them!

This is one of the first Iridia concept arts I made, ft. her lussus!

Here's some early Galani concepts, and me realizing he should be short actually.

sketches of them together!

Pixels arts of them being adorable and in love :D

Also, here's a little chatlog I wrote for them, in their typing quirks:

MH: ✨ hey IRIDIA! 👍✨

MH: ✨ how was WORK today? ✨

IM: … hello . galani ^.^...

IM: … it was . fine …

IM: … mostly -.-

MH: ✨ something happen? 👎✨

IM: … i mean . not really …

IM: … i don.t know ….

IM: … i don't know how . to explain . it was . pretty normal …

IM: … which . might be part of the problem -.-

IM: … but . i think i.d rather talk about something . else …

MH: ✨OK! 👍✨

MH: ✨ want to hear about MECH FIGHTS? ✨

IM: … okay . sure .^.

[byakurenbreak]

Call Out Post-

Hey, I know this isn’t exactly the type of post you would normally see from me, since I’ve stopped being so active. But if you’re into the Saints Row fandom and you like to RP, there is someone you should absolutely watch out for. On here, they go by Ashrain. On discord, they go by 🍓✨s o f t s t r a w b e r r y✨🍓

I’m part of a roleplay server on discord, and they had joined for a few days. But over the short time they were there, they’ve harassed a lot of members, including the mods in charge. To top it all off, they were acting very immature when they got called out for their behavior.

An example of their harassment - for context, one of the mods, ZJ, was involved in a 1x1 RP with Ashrain. ZJ hadn’t responded in a few days, which to an average role player is disappointing but understandable. People do have lives outside of fandom, y’know? Anyway- ZJ vented about their elderly dog possibly passing away very soon, and what did Ashrain do? Call them awful names over not responding to a stupid chat.

I urge you guys to please NOT harass Ashrain, just try to avoid them as much as possible. Stay safe.

[kitsu-katsu]

Hello there, I have a possibly long question. I have never been apart of the dsmp or the mcyt or anything but have been vaguely aware of the whole server and such bc of tumblr. I thought I saw recently they stopped streaming? But today it's trending again so I'm assuming there's a new season with the qsmp? I've been thinking about starting to watch but I have no idea where to start or what to do for mini history lessons or anything.

If willing, could you explain the difference or have any yt videos so I can learn some backstory or anything. I wanna join but it seems overwhelming yk?

Thank you so much!

Oh for sure!

This is gonna be a long one, bear with me

So, first you must know that DSMP and QSMP are two different SMPs, so two completely different servers, they're not actually connected through lore, so you don't need to know anything about DSMP to start QSMP, you'll only miss some very minor references to the DSMP story, but that's done and the characters are completely different from the ones in the QSMP. Think less of a second season to a same story or even something in the same franchise and more a new series where part of the cast used to act for another series together before and sometimes they'll throw in some cheeky refences

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Some terms you need to know first:

cc!Name = content creator Name (so like, the irl person, not the character)

c!Name = character name (the roleplay character, not the irl person, coined by the DSMP and thus used mostly for DSMP characters specifically)

q!Name = qsmp c!Name (to be more specific about the server)

k!Name = karmaland c!Name (Karmaland is a very famous spanish speaking server with a bunch of season in which Quackity played in season 5, some of the spanish speakers come from there and Quackity's possible romantic tension with Luzu also comes from there)

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The QSMP is Quackity's server, where the main thing is that Quackity as a mexican bilingual guy who for the longest time streamed in english and this past years started streaming in spanish and growing a new spanish community, joins both of his communities, bringing spanish speaking and english speaking streamers together

They all have their own perspectives you can choose to follow and the server is less than a month old, so you're in high time to cath up! Wilbur for example has only 3 streams up to now as he went away for 28 days

The main story is that all the streamers were brought into Quesadilla island on strange trains, none of them knowing why. Once there, they had to solve some puzzles to give the island electric power again. Once done, they were alerted of a button placed high up on a wall separating the island in two, with half of them on one side and half on the other. They were told by a duck who manages the island that they should never press the button

So they press the button and the wall explodes. At this point they're told they can now never leave, so they better make themselves comfortable

A bit later, the duck tells them a massive dragon used to inhabit the island, but due to their noisiness, it flew away leaving behind eggs. So everyone on the island adopted them from an adoption center the duck set up, in pairs chosen randomly with tickets where the only rule was that every spanish speaker was to be paired with an english speaker and vice versa

So they all have kids to take care of until the dragon comes back now, under the threat of each egg having 2 lives, where everyone has tondo daily challenges and tasks to keep them alive, being told that uf the egg dies they'll be punished once the dragon comes back

There's a lot of lore with the eggs in the little time they've been present. The most famous ones are probably Juanaflippa (Charlie Slimecicle and Mariana's trans daugher, who was accidentally killed by Mariana, brought back to life after a trial with Charlie ready to kill the whole server for her, and accidentally getting killed by Mariana again), Tilín (Quackity's enby kid, his other parent was a mystery between Wilbur and Luzu, the two ones not present for the event and constantly away, with Quackity outright declaring Wilbur to be his absent partner now that he came back but Luzu having later on pulled the ticket to Tilín's egg. Tilín died to an accident by Slime's hand. Quackity blames himself a but and wants revenge, he is grieving and suffering and is unloading it onto Wilbur, trying to get him to help in killing the culprit for his kid's death, with Wilbur accepting not knowing it's Charlie, whom he considers his best friend) and more recently, Tallulah (a secret egg Wilbur found on the attic of the adoption center just yesterday, who looks exactly like him and is now his daughter. Quackity, grieving and feeling like Wilbur is mocking him by having a daughter when he wasn't there when Tilín was, almost killed her as soon as Wilbur left, but decided not to at the last second, becoming emotional)

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Here are links to the general QSMP wiki and the members list, from here you can see each character's individual story, get links to their channels and more (and if anything, getting their names from here facilitates a google search):

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I'll give you a very quick (it's a two year thing, this is still long as hell, sorry) rundown of the very basics of the DSMP story that could be referenced (specifically by Wilbur and Quackity):

(I'll add some useful links at the end)

In the DSMP everyone has 3 canon lives.

Wilbur made a nation with his little brother figure Tommy, it was called L'manburg and they had to fight a war for its independence. After some treason and losses (everyone lost one life against an ex trusted comrade, Eret, brunging all of L'manburg down to 2 lives), they eventually win it (with Tommy down to 1 life) and Wilbur becomes president because nobody opposed it. Later on, Wilbur tries to make a show election to make his power seem more legitimate and get his people to listen to him, this comes back to bite him in the ass however, when newcomer Quackity says he's gonna run before they can close the ballot, so now there's 2 opposing parties. As the elections approach, Wilbur and Tommy get a drunk old guy called Schlatt whom they knew as an endorsement for their party, but Schlatt says "fuck you actually, I'm announcing I'm gonna run too", so now there's 4 parties (Wilbur's son, Fundy, announces he'll run too, but that doesn't get too far). Wilbur proposes to Quackity to make a coalition only in case Schlatt wins, so they'd join their votes only if Schlatt overtook them, and Quackity, left with a clear disadvantage in that scenario, decides to do a coalition with Schlatt, where joining votes, Schlatt would be president, with Quackity as his vice. Schlatt and Quackity (Schlatt 2020 + SWAG 2020) win against Wilbur and Tommy (POG 2020), and Schlatt exiles them, killing Wilbur as they ran away (leaving Wilbur with 1 life)

(suicide tw for the next part)

Now exiled, Wilbur and Tommy make a home in a ravine called Pogtopia, with Wilbur's paranoia, trauma and self hatred growing by the hour. Lots of stuff happens, Wilbur becomes very suicidal, there's new people, there's treason, Quackity, abused by Schlatt as his now husband, takes one of his lives and joins Pogtopia. Wilbur is now convinced he is the bad guy, the one responsible for everything bad happening and that the only way to make things right is to kill both himself and his creation. He wants to blow up L'manburg and he's not planning to come out of it alive. Everyone else doesn't pay enough attention to notice how awful he's doing so they don't quite see this coming even though they stopped him in a few if his attempts on his own life

Technoblade joins them not long after they're exiled, a good friend of Wilbur's father and an amazing warrior on their side. Technoblade bends against pressure and kills an ally during a festival made to mock them

The final war of Pogtopia vs Manburg happens, Schlatt dies of a hear attack, shocked, Wilbur is declared president, who declares Tommy president in his place, who declares their friend Tubbo presiden in his place. Wilbur disappears saying he'll come back in a bit. He'w going to the button room connected to the TNT he planted under L'manburg

Phil, Wilbur's father, comes, trying to talk to him, asking if he's sure of what he's doing. Wilbur, overcome by sadness, blows up L'manburg and asks for Phil to kill him. Phil stabs him with a fire aspect sword, killing him

(end of suicide tw)

Technoblade unleashes withers, opposing the mere idea of government and betraying the Pogtopians, making the explosion damage even worse

Now without Wilbur, L'manburg rebuilds, with a vital missing piece. Ghostbur, Wilbur's ghost appears and reveals a LOT about just how traumatized, anxious, depressed and paranoid Wilbur was from the beginning, crying on his pillow every night as president. Lots of stuff happens, Tubbo is trying to deal with the pressure of being president while the people who tried to squash their nation from the very beginning (mainly Dream) are trying to manipulate him and drive him into a corner. He exiles Tommy. Tommy gains a fuck ton of trauma and almost tries to commit suicide after a while, deciding not to at the last second

Quackity meanwhile, now as part of the cabinet, wants to take revenge against Techno. He goes to hunt him down, taking him to be executed. Techno saves himself with a totem and has a confrontation with Quackity, where he win by, in his own words, putting a pickaxe through Quackity's teeth. Now Quackity has a massive scar in his face and a blind eye

L'manburg is later destroyed by Phil, Techno and Dream, betraying everyone again and leaving them all hurting and homeless. Ghostbur considers being revived as he believes himself to be useless, as Wilbur was good at rallying people (yes, this is an extension of Wilbur's suicidal ideation). The attempts at revival don't quite work

Quackity makes his own nation surrounding the idea of a casino, Las Nevadas, he's rich and powerful and finally the president

Wilbur gets revived after an incident where trying to kill dream, Tommy gets Ghostbur killed with Dream's revivebook (long story, just accept that that exists)

Quackity meets a slime pretending to be a person and starts to teach him about the world. He calls him Charlie. Charlie ends up making him reflect and teaching him about the futility of the cycle of revenge

Quackity loses Charlie to this very cycle, getting him killed by Purpuled for something Quackity did

Wilbur, fucked up mental health wise as ever and lacking purpose, goes into Las Nevadas, trying to join but getting denied for being "too volatile"

Wilbur decides to set up a rival burger business just outside the Las Nevadas borders out of pettiness, and Quackity, exactly as petty as him, runs with it and spites him even more

Their whole thing at this point is very gay. They flirted since the start of this whole story, but by this point Wilbur's slipping about Quackity being hot, he says he doesn't quite have a crush "yet" definitely. Quackity's staring at him through his windows while he twirls poker chips around his fingers, admitting to himself that he's excited about whatever bullshit Wilbur will try to make up to annoy him this week, preparing himself for Wilbur to enter his office with fully served glasses and a cool pose that leaves Wilbur momentarily speechless. It's gay as hell

Quackity offers Wilbur to be his vice. Wilbur sees it as insulting and refuses. Wilbur attempts to verbally stomp Quackity but gets verbally smited himself

Wilbur decides to kill Quackity's old horse as a symbol of Quackity forgetting his roots. This goes horribly wrong and they both accidentally kill Ranboo, a friend and Wilbur's now coworker

Wilbur blames himself and goes on an apology tour, trying to say his goodbyes for the last time

After apologizing to Tommy, wilbur "goes to Utah, where he comes from" (this can be interpreted in two ways: as him literally going to Utah and getting away, or as a metaphor for death, indicating Wilbur probably took his own life again, as he said in his mind the perfect afterlife was a desert and showed himself to still be very suicidal during all of this. This is referenced cheekily in QSMP with cc!Wilbur saying "Minecraft Uath doesn't exist and is definitely not a metaphor for death /s")

Quackity, having lost Charlie, goes on about it in a very normal way and makes an army of slimes, trained to be exactly like Charlie. Purpuled and Punz (two bounty hunters) get what remais of Slime and prepare him to go against Quackity. There's a fight, Charlie takes Quackity's second life

Now defeated, Quackity rescinds the cycle of revenge, apologizing as well, leaving even a letter at the place where Wilbur was last seen and one st Techno's house, and he finally opens his casino

This is where their particular stories end. Everything after doesn't matter, believe me

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Here's the wiki in case you wanna see a more in depth thing of this hot mess, a link to a youtube channel called bluberry TV that has edited down into episode formal ALL of season one (from the beginning up to Wilbur's death) and a bit of season two with most important bits all in and a combination of all perspectives, a link to SAD-ist, a youtuber who did some of the most famous DSMP animatics at different points in the story, helping it get catapulted into popularity, and a link to a few more notable animatic youtubers:

[barbiegirldream]

I think as well is that (not at all to diminish dreams writing or contributions) but I think cdream doesn't really have much motives beyond doing evil shit cause like.... Most people weren't willing to step into the role, and dream was one of like four people who were willing to be a villain who's character didn't die immediately (and the only one willing to be the bbeg). Like, cdream kinda turned into blank slate bad guy so others could write their own stories off of. I kinda think that's what made the newer guys so upset as well when dream specifically wouldnt rp with them. They want the fame of dream of course but like... Everybody hinged their character off of one dude, cause no one else wanted to be an evil little bastard.

like i think c!techno was a really excellent chaotic neutral villain. he said he stood for things but in practice often just didn't. his own personal amusement took precedence as often would in a roleplay server. c!Tommy was very chaotic too flipping from good to evil depending on that characters pov of him.

c!Wilbur was a very good villain but the redemption arc flopped. The ending was my personal victory showing c!Wilbur is still scum and still and was ruining the lives of everyone around him and had to leave.

I also think c!Dream's motives changed because playing the antagonist who wanted to own the whole server could only work well with everyone online all the time. Las Nevadas was an empty shell with like three people in it. Kinoko had c!Karl forgetting everyone, c!George asleep in some random forest 99% of the time, and Sapnap is completely uninterested in doing anything character and CC wise. Cause the fans sucked. I don't even blame the streamers I blame the fans. They made people not want to log in and that's why the server died

It's why c!Dream's motives legit did change never understood the argument they were the same from the start cause they never were. And he had to make do with the revive book which again no point in killing and reviving people who won't log on. And then everyone proved to be a clout seeking leech and Dream was so much better off letting the final scene of the dsmp be disc duo happy ending.

[sirserpentine]

knowing your partner can potentially make writing together a lot easier !

– 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒.

♡ NAME: Lune / Luna

♡ PRONOUNS: She/Her

♡  SEXUALITY: Bisexual (Preference for ladies. Maybe I'm actually a lesbian... but then some fictional man always gets me so bad... needs further studies....)

♡  TAKEN OR SINGLE: Single and kinda sad about it. =(

– 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒

♡ My professional degree is a "Sign Language/Communication Instructor."

♡ My favourite hobby is theatre and I do everything related to it!!! Acting, writing, costuming, makeup, props, directing, it's my PASSION

♡ I have ranidaphobia, which means the fear of frogs. I know it sounds silly, but I was surprised by a huge toad when I was like 3 and never got over it. xD Pictures and videos don't trigger me though, I just can't stand seeing them irl!

– 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄.

♡   HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): Over ten, I'd say.

♡   PLATFORMS YOU’VE USED: deviantart when I was like,,, 12, facebook, windows live messenger, SKYPE (LMAOO), Kik, discord, tumblr. NOW I FEEL VERY OLD.

♡   BEST EXPERIENCE: Two instances come to mind, the first was an amazing world and lore me and my friends created after escaping the most boring and limited roleplay server, we were just bursting with ideas. I drew pics for it every day and we had audio dramas and everything. It's been many years by now and I don't even talk much with most of those friends anymore, but that story was just one of the greatest things I've had a hand in creating. The other instance would be what's going on right here on this dash. This has been the warmest welcome to any rpc ever, and I feel like nobody is looking down on my portrayal for embracing the silliness. I really like it here, you guys are great!! Thank you for being so nice. ;;

– 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒

♡   FEMALE OR MALE: I'd say male probably on the account that most of the muses I remember interacting with are males. I wonder why that is, honestly???

tagged by . @spiderslvts thank you so much!!

tagging As I actually deleted a lot of questions I have recently answered to, I think this might be a bit wonky to tag with... but if you want to fill this, absolutely do so!

[cl0wn-republic]

You're the fnaf mutual so I'm going to overthink in your inbox for two seconds. The company in game and books is aware of the terrible past, and is using old code to speed up programming things (the mimic joke here) but what if they are using more of the old technology from the old fnaf pizza places? Wouldn't giving their main attractions actual souls make them more life like and relatable to the public? You can literally talk with Freddy Fazbear, he has a personality and everything, isn't that amazing kids give us your parents money. They certainly used certain parts of the funtime designs for the glamrocks, that ice-cream cake and pinata chest cavity wasn't originally designed for that purpose. The scooper apparently still exists, if it's the original one how much soul juice does it still have/had in it?

I like the idea of greedy corrupt company going into an area and not realizing the consequences because they are too busy looking at the money. Not knowing all of the fine details about everything, not realizing how dire the consequences could get, with money-making in the way to blind them further. I don't know if they're getting this detailed with the story though, I'm just throwing stuff at a wall

I'm very tired so if possible I'll try to add on in the morning but this is pretty tricky to answer bc we got a lot from HW2 but not the main answers we were looking for.

I'm pretty confident rn that none of the animatronics are haunted, just super advanced AI (as was suppose to be the case in Sl before Pizzeria Sim happened(?)) otherwise the mimic virus wouldn't have corrupted them, Freddy not being affected may just have been bad writing or safe mode just wiped it out of him somehow idk. Also they make it quite clear almost all the souls have moved on besides a few.

The only thing we don't know about is all the Nightmarionne imagery, possibly/most likely a ghost that just refused to move on bc they knew what the company was doing and wants them to suffer. Dying on your birthday at Freddy's is one thing, but fianlly killing your murderer only for the company to profit off your death is another. And than to top it off a random endoskeleton LEARNS about William and decided to become him? What a fucking nightma(ionne)!

"Listen guys you all rest I'll go take care of the shit fest that's happening over there, alright? I'll call you if we need to trap someone in the nightmare dimension again"

From how I look at it SL was the branching off point for the advanced AI. Baby was a very advanced AI and the literal ringleader of the operation, she would use Ballora and FT Foxy as lures/distractions while she killed the kids and got FT Freddy to help hide the mess. She was also keen on manipulation "faking" being Elizabeth to earn the nightguard's trust and sympathy so she can scoop out his insides and live inside of him till the body rotten so much they had to stop their collaborative roleplay server for being outdated and jump ship. With this ultimately leading to Baby being kicked out for abusing admin.

Also about the Glamrocks using the Funtime's design, I think this was done so the company could cover the fact their animatroncis were literally designed to kill kids. Like oh no no the Freddy hatch was just for cake! See??? Just a simple reuse of the design to deflect instead of actually being the same design itself. Baby's was easier to defend bc she also literally did use it to produce ice cream, I'm guessing the claw was turned into a hand in HW2 because Scott looked at that and went "okay thats a bit too obvious lemme tweak it a bit" or someone at SW suggested the changed and Scott said yes bc it makes more sense. Chica's voicebox may have also been a reuse of FT Foxy's and Ballora's lures but thats more of a stretch.

Pizzeria Sim is,,,something. Baby's characterization basically goes out the window and she fully claims to be Elizabeth. Now a lot of people just accepted Baby really is Elizbaeth (which is the canon answer but idc). While in SL that was ambiguous (bc she was a manipulative genius!) All that gets pushed aside in Pizzeria Sim. What I like to think is that after being kicked out of Ennard and being apart of it for so long she just kinda lost herself, who was she? She wasn't Baby anymore she lost herself, her look, the hold she had on those around, she was like a lost child in that moment...maybe she was a lost child? Maybe she really was Elizabeth this whole time? And in that moment of weakness she fully convinced herself that she WAS Elizabeth, she was William's daughter, his creation.

An AI that convinces itself they are someone they aren't (sound familiar?)

In HW2 I just want to note, as other have, how Baby feels different. Shes her old self back from good old SL. Now you might say well yes of course she is, she doesnt get like that till Pizzeria Sim. But it should also be noted on how emphasize was placed on her and her alone, not the other Funtimes, and not certainly not Scrapbaby. They wanted to emphasize SL's Baby, the "advanced AI". What I'm hoping this is that its a roll back on the character, not necessarily a retcon but trying to fix her character a bit with how it was fucked in Pizzeria Sim.

Now a lot of people just accepted Baby really is Elizbaeth. While in SL that was ambiguous (bc she was a manipulative genius!) All that gets pushed aside in Pizzeria Sim. What I like to think is that after being kicked out of Ennard and being apart of it for so long she just kinda lost herself, who was she? She wans't Baby anymore she lost herself, her look, the hold she had on those around, she was like a lost child in that moment...maybe she was a lost child? Maybe she really was Elizabeth this whole time? And in that moment of weakness she fully convinced herself that she WAS Elizabeth, she was William's daughter, his creation.

An AI that convinces itself they are someone they aren't (sound familiar?)

So basically SL was the introduction of the advanced AI era, Pizzeria Sim got rid of most of the spirits (and helped trapped William in hell in UCN) and made the companies ads literally help fuck you over on nights which is pretty on the nose looking back, and SB was our formal introduction to the new era of Fazbear Ent and its consequences with HW2 tying them all into one game/one era (HW going up to SL and HW2 having SL and after in it)

Or maybe I just pulled most of that out of my ass bc when it boils down Baby ACTUALLY being Elizabeth and being such a "daddy's girl" instead of the manipulative genius she was in SL literally ruined her character in general idk (like yeah shes a traumatized child but the way it just happens still kinda sucks) . And also again I'm tired as hell!

I need to stop going on tangents lol

Edit: I was thinking of mentioning the fact that the megaplex is built over the pizzeria sim than I remembered Gregory just made that shit up lol (In RUIN I honestly can't tell what that area is under the megaplex, I think it's mentioned in the books?) Also sorry if this is kinda jumbled I just wanted to quickly fix a few things before posting bc I keep forgetting about this post and making it sit in my drafts sorrryyyy

[festivepuppetryy]

OC ASK TIME!! 1, 11, and 27

"1. Your first OC ever?"

I don't think I could remember my very first, but I could definitely describe an early one. When I was younger I used to play a sh#t-ton of Animal Jam, like I hardcore loved that game to shreds, one of my favorite things to do in-game besides relaxing in an empty server was roleplaying in Sarepia Forest- But I didn't do Warrior Cats or wolves or whatever, I roleplayed as weird sh#t like ghosts/shadow people, mutated abominations, creatures that disguised themselves as normal animals, steampunk men, robots, etc. (Funny how I haven't changed, huh?) Anyways, one of these characters was an arctic wolf that was pitch black and had red eyes, and had a tuxedo and a fancy top hat..of course he was a wolf, visually, but I liked to imagine him as a very tall (maybe 10 feet?) scary Victorian ghostguy with sharp teeth, he would hide in obscured areas like under bushes and would watch and wait for other peoples characters to come by to snatch them and drag them into the shadows to be killed and even eaten. I think I remember him even being able to shapeshift and using that ability to lure others to their deaths. One of his forms was a rabbit. Over the years he was slowly forgotten, but now he is back in my mind and now I am FLABBERGASTED at how similar to how many of my current OCs he is. Especially Butler Guy. holy sh#t. me in like 2014 - 2015: tall creepy shapeshifting Victorian shadow ghost man with red eyes who wears a tuxedo and lurks in the dark and lures people in to kill and perhaps eat them me in 2023: tall creepy shapeshifting Victorian shadow ghost man with red eyes who wears a tuxedo and lurks in the dark and lures people in to kill and perhaps eat them

"11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”?"

Pretty much every circus OC I have lmao, with maybe like…3 exceptions. But we aren't here to focus on those guys we're here to focus on a happy lil guy…and todays happy lil guy is….drum roll……..Victor! So unpredictable right. Just look at my pfp. Look at that stupid face. Excited kitten vibes. He used to be quite shy and reserved but he had a moment in his life where he realized it was okay to be himself as long as it wasn't hurting himself or anyone. He started getting into entertainment business in the 1800's and it went from there, he loves people and loves when people are having fun!!! He loves his wife!! And kids!! He is so full of love!!!!!!!!!

"27. Any OCs that were inspired by a certain song?"

Parts of stories inspired by songs? A couple. But conjured up entirely from a song? Just one. Funnily enough it was Isaac lmao, this was sometime during 2019 and I was vibing to music and Had An Idea. And of all songs it was this lol: https://youtu.be/e2qG5uwDCW4

His story was originally a love story (so glad this changed), but I couldn't draw him and forgot about him over the course of like..2 years until his concept randomly came back to me in late 2021-something during the early days of Modernparanormal. Back then he still had the prisoner backstory, but it wasn't nearly as fleshed out as it is now. Thunderbird wasn't even involved with Isaac in any way, he was just Katt's sh#tty incubus (iirc, at the time. He's a different thing now) landlord XD (also glad this changed). Isaac lived in a mansion with Gabriel and Vincent (who also had a love story background at the time, blegh), Vincent was a melancholic hopeless romantic, Gabriel was..very very sad, and Isaac was the chaotic one. Over time their stories became separated and changed, and now Isaac is calm, Gabriel is happy, and Vincent is chaotic as f#ck. Isaac went through many design changes over the years, and I may cover them eventually since they've all got their weird little ups and downs, and it'd be interesting to focus on how it evolved, what traits I kept or changed or completely removed and whatnot. Nowadays this is the song I think fits Isaac's backstory the most: https://youtu.be/1HUqreTtn-A

"Well, that is that, and this is this You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get You get away from me, you get away from me Collected my belongings and I left the jail Well, thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell I had to think awhile, I had to think awhile"

[these-secondhand-wings]

Lineup of the same guy over four years (excluding the actual full-blown amalgamate period in between middle and right)

I love my fucked up guy. I love him so much you have no idea. 6+ years of having this little fella in my "Jetfield" Undertale AU, can you believe that!!

Individual graphics with further information below — content warnings for medical abuse, injustice/legal abuse, implied harm/attempts, experimentation, etc.

River - 15 y/o

After a long and hard couple of years living with their father leading up to his disappearance, River and Jay take over the house and River gets himself a small job working at Torch's metaphysical shop in the city. Jay starts volunteering and doing odd jobs around town, which it turns out he's very good at! They both want to move out of Jetfield when they can, but the city does a very good job of getting monsters stuck in its hold.

In this design, River's claws are finally starting to grow in, albeit late. His features are rounder and less defined, and his sockets still have a less distinctive shape. River wears lots of blues, purples, and greys to match his love of space. He gets scolded more than once for buying space-themed objects that he absolutely does not need.

River - 16-17 y/o

River is taken to the hospital after humans kill his brother, and try to do the same to him. Starts showing signs of intense paranoia that lead to delusions and hallucinations. Late 15 when this happens, spends his 16th and 17th birthdays both within the walls of the hospital. Stress is triggering previous DT usage in his body, causing his right socket to start to warp. Bandaids have become a coping mechanism, given to him sometimes by a kinder doctor — Delta Yarrow (@quizlythenerd 's OC in the server). His right leg starts deteriorating, and doctors break it further for use in his assigned experiment (DT usage in fusion of lost limbs). His memory gets worse and worse with each passing day.

In this design, his claws have developed and he uses them frequently on himself. Sometimes staff members catch a stray scratch or two during outbursts. River's bones are greying from physical and mental stress, and have become more brittle. The scar across his neck is from a random roleplay a few years ago (that clearly didn't end well). Notice some of his bandaids are brown instead of colorful — these are from other, more reluctant staff members that just needed to cover scratches. He doesn't like those ones as much, and typically replaces them with Delta's after wounds have healed.

Evermore - 18-19 y/o

No current graphic for this fella, but I have some info!

After a particularly bad outburst that ends with the hospitalization (and later death) of an important figure in the hospital, River is punished severely for this accident. He is restrained while doctors cut off the right leg completely (about mid-femur), forced to stay awake for the procedure, and then injected with a normally lethal dose of Determination and thrown in a room with a raven monster to melt. The resulting amalgamate is dubbed "Evermore", because staff members would try to get it to repeat the word "nevermore" and laugh when it couldn't get the whole pronunciation down.

The figure's death leads to public outrage, so the hospital erases public records of River and claims he was "punished for his actions", implying he was killed through the justice system. Previous patient friends lose sight of him, his room ID is changed. Nobody knows where he went, so to patients, he's assumed to have succumbed to the hospital. Meanwhile Evermore is locked in his room for weeks on end.

Silver - 20+ y/o

After the hospitals near-success in putting Evermore out of its misery, he's taken to a new hospital out of the country to treat his conditions. He spends a little over 18 months here, in and out of new treatments while they try to figure out how the hell to fix this guy. Samuel Smith and Zef Merrado (@intriheart 's characters in previous RPs) devise a plan to stabilize his body and remove the excess determination, and from there it's a group effort to get Evermore Silver back on his feet. Talons? Foot and talon? Whatever. When he's well enough to get on the right medications and live on his own, Silver is given the financial and mental support to go out into the world. He finds a roommate in the city of Darten who turns out to also be from Jetfield, but he has no solid recollection of the previous hospital — let alone memories of the two meeting and becoming friends.

In this design, his bones are a little brighter with color increase to indicate recovery. His claws have grown longer, and curve in more from his time with the raven. The bone surrounding his right socket is more fragile, and has become easily damaged after a few close calls with the sidewalk. He's very ashamed of the feather-like markings across his skull, and the leg that regularly gets him odd stares. They serve as a stark reminder of where he's from. He opts for regular bandaids now, and keeps his sleeves loose to prevent him thinking too much about restraints on his arms. Not pictured is the faint quill knobs left on his arms from his feathers as Evermore.

[fountainpenguin]

@bookworm-2692 - Very minor #ridspoilers - Pixels Imperfect

Wheeze... I am unfortunately obsessed with Grian's Snail, but the reasons why are extremely specific to my lore and would not make sense to ramble about in liveblog posts.

You get me... The existence of a sentient build that Grian adores in Season 10 is a metaphor for him embracing the beauty of the digital world he accidentally fell into and can never leave... It's about growing from being the person he was in early Dog's Life (who implied to Joel's face that he could break Hermes to prove he's "just an armor stand") to someone who has found his own sparked thing to love.

The origin of the snails is a Whole Thing. And probably something that will never come up in-story because even though I think it's fun to talk about The Implications, I feel like it would be confusing for readers looking for Hermitcraft 'fics to find one-shots that are dedicated to very specific snail-spawning lore. It's about Respect and Character Arcs...

Grian happens to be neighbors with someone who is known for spawning way too many sparks when his firefly traits go from 0 to 100 on full moon nights, much to the eternal annoyance of the "totally not obsessed" soulmate who actually wants to spawn a spark with him.

Joel takes no responsibility because he handles his full moon behaviors by asking chat if anyone needs anything sparked and if they say yes, he'll donate his spark. If he trusts a person not to get romantically involved, he'll make a silly bit of it. Otherwise he'll just show up, bonk them on the forehead, and leave. Never speak of it again.

-> I like to think Sausage specifically came to Joel pre-Empires 2 and asked permission to roleplay the Hermes plot with him, and Joel agreed because Sausage is his friend and it dovetailed nicely into Joel's own plans for roleplaying as a Zeus-like god. If you ask Joel directly, though, he'll insist it was a one-night stand because that's the roleplay. He's not going to break the immersion... that's weird.

Anyway, that brings us back around to Joel's body issues (drawing from the "self-conscious of my Minecraft body" canon we saw in Double Life) and why he chooses to run around as a modded player to tamp down his firefly behaviors. We know from Dog's Life, that worked well until he lost his mods, and from that point on, he just has to redirect his energy into other things.

He's usually found near Lizzie on full moon nights because it's a lot easier to switch from "flirt with everybody" to "flirt with my wife" (compared to resource gathering or building).

Joel coming onto Hermitcraft and spawning Tiny Tom really messes with Etho's head- in the Pixels canon, Tom was running around for the rest of Season 9 and would just show up in their bases, so sometimes Etho had the little guy hanging out with him, leaving him to wonder how Joel is okay just casually sparking things and not committing to them. How can he just show up on a server that's not his own, spark something, and leave forever?

Etho wants to spawn a spark because he's never done it before and thinks it would be fun... He feels obligated to maintain this image of "being a hero who never asks for anything" and it is very much falling apart during the general timeframe we see in Pixels Imperfect. He has this idealized version of Joel in his mind- Joel gets to do anything he wants and no one ever judges him and he gets to live a happy life with his wife and all these wonderful things. 

Etho, who feels like he carries the weight of the server hub on his shoulders, has never had the mental stamina for taking care of sparked things because he might need that brainpower to help "real people." He wouldn't mind making his own choice to care for something. Not necessarily a child, but even a sentient flower that can crawl and wrap around his arm like some kind of pet.

The issue is, Etho thinks sparks are this nice connection between two people and doesn't just want someone to spark one with him if they don't want to commit. In the past, he's asked Joel if he needs any ferrymen for Stratos, or any sparked birds who could carry a message between the high and low areas. Joel always shuts him down.

Joel just wants to help his friends get a spark they can use for roleplay without it being awkward. I mean, it IS kinda awkward to ask someone to go under love hearts and spawn a spark with you. Why not do something that helps both parties?

Joel would rather go offline during the full moon (and often does), but he likes to help his friends. At heart, he's a builder and an artist who wants to help them add life and charm to their fun. Joel's pretty sure that if he donates a spark to Etho, Etho will "take it too seriously" so he refuses to. Very confusing and/or heartbreaking for Etho, who doesn't understand why Joel will do this for everyone else, but not for him.

Joel just wants his sparks to be platonically spawned. They're fun toys for his friends that have the added benefit of satisfying his currently unrestrained firefly urges, which are very overwhelming now that he's off his mods for the first time in several centuries. You definitely won't see him around on a full moon night if the local vibes are flirty. It'd be too much for him, so he just leaves.

What I'm saying is that you could argue Grian's snail is half-brothers with Hermes. But if you said that in front of Joel, he wouldn't like it. You are breaking roleplay immersion by implying he helped with the snail. This is Grian's snail. Do not acknowledge any connection to Joel. That's weird.

I lean towards Gem sparking hers with Pearl since iirc, her snail came from outer space, which fits the alien vibes of Season 9 Pearl. No body image issues or mob traits there- just general "Hey, I want a snail like Grian's and I trust you'll keep this platonic- Do you mind?" / "Not at all" vibes. The Soup Group are buddies and Pearl doesn't associate with Gem's snail either.

tl;dr - The snails live with single parents, or at least they do when they're not eating builds and causing problems. Grian had help from a surrogate who is not acknowledged as a parent. Gem found a snail in her backyard (alien baby style) and it's her special little guy.

It's not likely to come up in 'fic because the amount of set-up required to convey "so Joel, who is a firefly hybrid who just got 70% of his body ripped out, asked in chat if anyone wanted anything and Grian said 'Yeah come over' and then Joel gave him a headbonk that gave sentience to a block and trapdoor and some candles, and everyone is cool about it except Etho, who is still standing on the sidelines with upturned hands because Joel never bonks HIS head" is kind of a lot, but. there ya go.

Your fic "Shut Up and Fish" got me thinking... are you implying that Grian's snail is a spark?

"Shut Up and Fish"

"That's hard," Grian concedes, not looking up. The pink snail's watching, its tail patting the dirt. Grian cradles the turquoise snail's limp eyestalk in his hand. Snails are tricky creatures… They don't signal their injuries with the crook of their tails like dogs do, and they're not immune to fall damage like cats. Gingerly, easily, he brings the snail's neck to his chest and gives it a little hug. He makes a little noise. This world is beautiful if you know where to look. "Please," begs the voice in the wrinkles of his damp and dripping clothes. "You'd be a better dad to Tim. You'd be a better husband- I want what YOU have… That's MY life. Give me back my body!" Grian ignores this, peppering sloppy kisses on the snail's sweet head. It nudges into him, cuddly and sloppy and alive. Beautiful, sparked son of a thing. He'll tell Grumbot sometime, but Grumbot might not love to know he's got a snail for a younger brother now. And he laughs again, because it's stupid. It's just… It's really stupid. But he nuzzles the snail and the snail nuzzles back, and the voice in his head wails and scratches at him in the strain of Gem's boat anchor against the pebbles and sand.

In the Pixels Imperfect canon, a creature or build that is portrayed as having sentience beyond that of its basic mob AI (if applicable) needs an AI spark. Grumbot and Jrumbot are perfect examples of "portrayed as sentient" vs. "offhand joke about the build being a child, but not followed through with." Jrumbot is a non-sentient build and Grumbot is a sentient one.

Grian's snail is played as sentient - Grian even makes a huge deal about Scar "not playing the game right and making the snails do things they wouldn't do" - so in the Pixels canon, the snail is a sparked build.

Sparks don't have to be perceived as offspring- they simply embody whatever the intended roleplay was. Grumbot initially referred to Grian and Mumbo as Creator 1 and Creator 2 in Hermitcraft canon, then swapped to addressing them as dads after a certain point (to their surprise), which underscores the idea that in-universe, he is sentient and making his own decisions.

That said, Grian considers the snail his biological son, yes. His baby boy who does crime.

I have some news about Box from Double Life, wheeze...... BigB made it VERY clear in canon that Box is sentient enough to "say its first word," and Ren jumped up and down all giddy exclaiming that he was "such a proud papa," confirming that he sees it as his child.

When they're in couple's therapy, BigB explains that he "knew Ren would like it if Box had a hand so it could reach out and give him a hug." Also, special spotlight on BigB bragging about how "Box is going to need to find a soulmate" because that's so funny. I like how after BigB goes red, he invites Martyn to Box, he says "We look forward to seeing you. That's 'we' as in me and Box."

Shout-out to Martyn and Cleo getting "We will take care of Box in your absence" signed and agreed by Ren and BigB "by law and by will." Sorry you two are horribly broken up, but congrats on ur giant son. They will not nurture it, but they will definitely look at it and go "... Huh."

Guess who has one thumb, canonically wears a monocle and walks around looking like it's been "punched in the face," is technically in the Clocker family tree via Martyn, rocks he/it pronouns, and is heir apparent to Dogwarts in the Neighborhood Watch AU.

[fluffypotatey]

SO. mythical j. sausage infodump time.

(note: i will only be talking about his empires smp s1 lore here bc that’s what im most familiar with, but just know that he’s one of the most lore-heavy CCs i watch, and it shows in his empires smp lore, which spans across like 3 different servers lol) (also btw: empires smp is a minecraft series in which 12-13 players each rule their own biome, or “empire,” and each has their own main item that they export, and have a monopoly on)

lord mythical j. sausage of mythland started out as a generally friendly and peaceful guy, but conflict quickly broke out between him and codfather jimmy, ruler of the neighboring swamp, over a series of escalating thefts and pranks. in this conflict, sausage teamed up with Wizard Gem of the crystal cliffs and Count fWhip of the grimlands, forming the Wither Rose Alliance. (note: these guys were so heavily sibling coded. it was fantastic)

within this alliance, sausage was often the odd one out. gem and fwhip’s empires were right next to each other, while mythland was a lot farther away, and it was also kind of their bit that gem and fwhip would mess with sausage a bit. also, there was the fact that gem had magic, and fwhip had cool tech, and sausage had neither of those things, instead dabbling in blood sacrifices and dark magic (both of which gem very much disapproved of).

this came to a head when xornoth, the demon menacing the server, trapped the wither rose alliance in the nether, and fwhip and gem decided to sacrifice sausage to reopen their portal and let them out. xornoth had been tempting sausage for some time at this point, so at this betrayal, he lashed out and eventually became fully corrupted, leaving the wither rose alliance.

oh shit this got long so i’ll sparknotes the rest:

after being corrupted, sausage would often black out, and during this time “dark sausage” (aka evil him with no morals or anything, fully corrupted) would start wreaking havoc

after leaving the WRA, his main allies were Farmer Queen Pearl (a later addition to the WRA, liked the demon bc he kept trying to kill her and it was like enrichment in her enclosure) and Joey of the Lost Empire (known monsterfucker, also corrupted by the demon)

many crimes later, he was eventually cleansed of his corruption when gem killed him with her magical staff. he was dead For Real for a while after that, and came back to life jesus style after taking a walk with his dog (actually a magical interdimensional being) through 5 of his past lives. since coming back he started getting prophetic dreams, and also rejoined the wither rose alliance

at the apocalyptic end of empires smp season 1 (which happened when count fwhip and codfather jimmy put salmon and cod into a power reactor together, causing a huge explosion that fractured the whole continent), sausage had to watch pearl, his best friend and the person who stayed by his side while he was at his worst, wither away in front of him as her empire burned (her life force was connected to her land, so when it died she did too) (it’s okay she canonically ascended to godhood lol) and then went home to find mythland overrun with the same (evil and magical btw) sheep that he used to sacrifice for his blood magic, and they were completely trashing the place.

and then he blew up in a magical explosion trying to get rid of all of the sheep and also his evil double, dark sausage (which you may remember from earlier- he split off from sausage when gem cleansed him of the corruption)

(also btw, empires smp is a vanilla server- all of the magic and cool tech and stuff were done through a combination of roleplay and a custom textures mod they added for immersion stuff)

this is barely touching on most of the roleplay and shenanigans that went on in empires smp season 1 btw. these are the important beats of sausage’s story but like. i haven’t even told you about the fishfuckers man. there’s so much. there were 12 players on this server and all of them had some absolutely wild shit happening. i didn’t even tell you about the human sacrifices sausage did

this is a vanilla server?????