#the death watcher

[astrowarr]

after watching several povs, there's something so striking about the way mumbo died.

he dies at home, first of all, which is notable in its own right because so much of his time was spent running about, usually in pursuit of kills. he dies with grian, too— to a thing grian created, no less, but it isn't actually grian's fault for once.

mumbo dies in that tall tower and when lightning strikes, from all across the server, everyone looks. their eyes land on that tower, and everyone is watching. even in grian's perspective, you can see everyone at renwood mound, lined up and staring. those at the bamlands looked on too.

they didn't see mumbo die, but they saw grian's grief. grian, who, throughout this season, has seemed cruel and untouchable to those outside of his circle due to his involvement with and knowledge of the wild cards. they watch grian immediately crumble under the weight of mumbo's death; several of them even explicitly comment, "look at grian, he's grieving, he's in mourning."

i like to think that, until that moment, grian was almost god-like in their minds; now, though, he's the quintessential concept of humanity. grief can be religious if you do it right, after all. even beyond the grian aspect though, isn't this just the most despairing omen of what's to come?

i mean, there's something about this image of a man fallen from grace, crying out as he holds the mangled corpse of his friend in the home they made together, high in the sky, on display for all the world to bear witness to. and the world did bear witness, be it with pity, horror, joy... it doesn't matter, because they saw.

the canary curse has been broken, but this was a fittingly foreboding, tone-setting image that did a stunning job filling its shoes

[chloesimaginationthings]

Death looms over Vanny's shoulder in FNAF..

[thirdtimed]

id like to think that the reason why the lifers are stuck in an endless reincarnation loop isnt out of some twisted malintent of the watchers or some mechanism of fate its just bc the winners keep making the exact same wish every single time

[cricket-mound]

please don’t take him away. please don’t.

alt title is pls don’t separate them <33 they (me) cannot handle it </33

[cilibi]

Something something- Grian getting the most questions wrong about his own series.

Something something- Grian being the first winner and exposed to the Watchers the longest.

Something something- the Watchers take more and more from the players each cycle and still, they only get hungrier.

[andstuffsketches]

Maybe not Impulse, But I think she would date Cissie

a glimpse into a possible future....

[failed-inspection]

"Unavoidable disaster, serial overreactor, My head is a nasty place, I'm afraid to get comfortable"

This is a little all over the place but gosh... I feel like this song fits Watcher so well imo!

[t3a-gh0st]

Watcher captions never change

[madameoni]

Avyssal of The Land, Watcher of Caed Nua, tormented by Gods on occasion.

After many tries, I think this piece of Avvy is going to be my fave! Also, I finally got the godlike tints mod to work and she looks just as I wanted ingame.

[lizbot]

pov: you interrupted the king at his bf kissing session.

[galaxygermdraws]

So I may have accidentally made an AU in which Skizz gets yoinked by the Watchers and turned into one of them through a process that basically makes him no longer Skizz. In a bad ending this happens to Impulse too. This was inspired by 3 separate fanfics/AUs which I will list under the cut in case anyone's interested

Ok so the fics this was inspired by (please go read all of them!!)

Solving Counting Sheep by @theminecraftbee

Wax Covered Eyes and Void Filled Mouth by @harley-the-pancake

The Coding Conundrum by Pixelfun20 (idk the tumblr account sorry)

[mebis-rain-world-corner]

On The Prince's awakening, and enlightenment through echoes

While the throne has probably existed for eons, and something was starting to coalesce at its peak, it is pretty openly stated that it is watcher's precense in the throne what acted as catalyst for the birth of the prince's selfhood

Ahh! To move! To breathe free!

Never again... STARVING, pressing, grinding, SQUEEZING

against... us? But now... I? A... SELF And... an OTHER.

Oh the joy! The incomparable JOY!

Ahhh hah... familiar.

There was... such discomfort... and hunger. Endless hunger! And then... a presence!

A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!

A scent. Familiar. So familiar.

The watcher is probably the first living thing to be to the throne proper in an eternity

But I think there's more to this

4 karma "murals", 4 karma upgrades

4 visits, 4 warp points

Watcher's visits brought enlightenment like visiting echoes would do for a slugcat

"The highest enlightenment, achieved by the hardest path. A feat even guardians must respect" This achievement requires the player to raise their maximum karma to the highest level without visiting Five Pebbles. To do this, the player must find 4 out of the 6 Echoes, each of which raise the player's maximum karma by a small amount. All 4 Echoes must be found before visiting Five Pebbles. The achievement is earned as soon as the last Echo raises the player's karma level to the maximum of 10.

And is not as simple as just visiting 4 times either: for this awakening to properly progress you must make it to the top, eat the karma flower, then make it to a previously sealed chamber to open a warp point there

almost as if you're opening new pathways in its brain (tree)

A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!

These paths you weave. Through them I have expanded my kingdom. I have tasted and I have become. It is my true purpose I believe. Perhaps the only purpose!

Enlightenment is gaining knowledge, understanding, insight

Perhaps Echoes don't just give you more karma merely by merit of being extraplanar beings with influence over karma itself, or by the insight behind their anecdotes

Perhaps Echoes give you a glimpse into what lies beyond, a window to the fractal layers of reality

Perhaps what is happening here is something similar, the watcher showing the throne other worlds through the paths

the karma flowers though, thats harder to understand

perhaps the one at the very top represents the little death that is sleep ("like sleep like death")

Echoes always send you back to sleep after all

[iamluminia]

⚠️blood,Dead body!

Celebration for the winner

sooooo…watcher eat negative emotions right?

[shkika]

thoughts on watcher if you've had time to play it?

im so happy you're here we welcome you!- rough wip

rambling in the tags about the dlc!

[darkxsoulzyx]

I LOVE RAINWORLD LETS GOOOO

Drew some OCs as Slugcats :DDD And also drew a cute little Monk hehe

No Name Scug belongs to @carrrrino Hellborn Scug belongs to @moonstardream Shattered Scug belongs to @galacii Radio Scug Belongs to meee :DDDD

You can find this group at @shit-hell-no-radio

(Also don't worry about t he second image its totally not spoilers diogjsiodjiosdgjiosd)

ALSO RAINWORLD WATCHER DLC SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT!!

[crispycreambacon]

we as a society have moved on too quickly from Ryan calling Dr. Sprat a DILF like what on Earth Does That Mean Ryan