#watcher!ren

[spiderdramaqueen]

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finished (redrawed even, i guess) a sketch with my watcher!ren au i made a few months ago. more info about au under the cut!

in this au, Ren isn't particapating in LimLife, 'cause the Watchers took him from the void and made him one of them. they've definetely noticed how much comfort he brings to Martyn (and how this makes him stray away from their will), so they decided that making Ren a Watcher would be a fun way to mess with Martyn.

Martyn probably didn't believe that it was Ren at first. maybe his mind is playing tricks on him or something? so, it took a lot of convincing, which was kinda difficult, 'cause in my vision watcher!Ren is mute. he's only supposed to watch, after all. he communicates either through projecting words in galactic language or he can literally get into the mind of the other and speak in their thoughts (Martyn hates this. it's too overwhelming to hear Ren's voice in his head like that)

though after Martyn eventually recognizes this... being as Ren, they're unstopabble. they're both such a menaces. Ren's powers are restricted by other Watchers, but he can totally encourage Martyn to do insane shit

the way I see Ren in this au, is that... he's different from who he was before. he's like. ":D" in a menacing way. he's now detached from other players, he doesn't understand them as well as he did when he was one of them, and he doesn't realize that what's fun for him can be dangerous for the others. basically, he gained immortal power so suddenly that it messed up his brain.

he's going to be fine eventually, though. in the end of LimLife Martyn will tell Grian about the situation. no, Martyn doesn't know that Grian is a watcher. but: 1) Grian is the one who's making the games; 2) he and Ren are from the same server; 3) Martyn at least knows that the watchers are 'set on Grian' (based on Martyn's conversation with the watchers in Last Life) for some reason. soo, Grian will probably help Ren to escape the Watchers' grasp and teach him how to live with his newfound powers.

[theotherash]

i like this one :)

[floweroflaurelin]

“Luck be with ye…. Hand.”

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Thinking about that post Martyn made about what if he and Ren made it to the end in 3rd Life together AUGH

Just. The two of them alone in the silence, everyone else fallen around them… Accepting that this is what has to be done… Rotating it so much

[1-marigold-1]

@treebarkweek : Day 4 infernal / divine

something something Ren meant the stereotypical angel with you know one pair of wings and a halo and stuff, meanwhile Martyn imagined a biblically accurate one and became terrified of the thought that he reminds Ren of a watcher

that moment when your liege compares you to your worst enemy-

[solargeist]

How did you feel about the secret soulmate crumbs we got from todays session

my thoughts were: SECRET SOULMATES ??! and then i thought abt how tragically romantic it could be

(i know it was leaves, not vines, but hey, artistic liberty)

[hollowwish]

You guys do realize a lot of watcher fans complaining about the six dollars don't just need to "cancel their disney+ or hulu subscriptions." They're the people who ALREADY can't afford streaming services. It's not that they should be supporting independent creators over big corporations, it's that they literally cannot afford to do either.

[mbohjeezart]

Hermit a Day May: Day 31, Re- ...Rendog. It was supposed to be REN. Who are you. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY G-

And here's ??? full portrait without the text and background:

[taiistired]

Draw a moss or watcher ren maybe?

came back wrong?

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Martyn: --of really boring, slow, decision making on what we were going to do. I literally had Grian, like, dm'ing me on discord, being like--he literally said the words "for a good story, now is the time to turn on Scott." And that was a couple minutes after I already tried to initiate one, by dumping lava on Scott for the first time. Um, and then I said, "I've already tried to do that, I think everyone's already a bit too exhausted / focused on what's going on," and Grian was like, "it's painful." And I was like, "no, I know," (laughter).

Martyn: but then, like, it played out the way that it did, um, and as soon as it was all done and dusted and everything finished, Grian just messaged me and was like, "that was the right move." So, like, its the thing where, I think I'm in this really weird position within the Limited Life, or the Life Series in general, where all the Empires lot have got their die hard fans, all the Hermitcraft lot have got their die hard fans, um, whereas me--I do have an audience, don't get me wrong, but, I think my audience is rational, and calm, and they understand that entertainment comes first versus--you know, mechanics, and things like that.

Martyn: um--and I think that if I were to ever do something wrong or something to hinder one of the other players, I knew for a fact that I would get a ton of flack for it. But also--I don't care (laughs). You know what I mean? It's like--I know for a fact that the people I collaborate with, they don't care, they were doing it for entertainment purposes as well, we're all on the same wavelength, and like we've said many a time before, if it makes it to the episode, its seen by the public, then everybody that was in the session agreed with it. Everybody that, y'know, took part in it agreed that was the decision, the right thing, whatever.

[hermitcraftx]

The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up

leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue

[redwinterroses]

The implications of the Watchers literally being the viewers get really meta and strange really fast if you actually follow through to some of the logical conclusions and then put them in lore-speak.

For example: the fact is that the Hermits spend a long time, sometimes years, creating a world for the entertainment of faceless beings whose names are incomprehensible strings of letters, numbers, and random words. These faceless beings leave messages that range from exclamations of delight and approval to unhinged demands, judging and consuming the hermits' work as fast as they can produce it.

And then, at the end of a season, Xisuma and co. package up the world and gift it to the Watchers to entertain them until the hermits can travel to a new realm and begin their work anew.

When you take the traits of viewers and paint them over the lore of Watchers, you create a creature (species? monster? being?) that's far more fay and uncanny than pretty much any of the usual interpretations. I've said it before and I'll probably say it again: embrace the Watcher within you. Become the unsettling eldritch being you want to see in the world.

[spiderdramaqueen]

hi hello! I was wondering if you had a full-color doodle (or anything really) of your Watcher Ren? I want to cosplay him one day and a breakdown of his outfit would be good to have, no worries though! thank you for your time!

~ @aethermod

hello! here you go:

feel free to change some details if you want to! but i'd like to ask that if you post pictures of your cosplay somewhere, please credit me (and also tag me or send them to me!! i'd love to see it! /nf) sorry i didn't answer earlier, i needed some time to draw this thing, because the two scribbles of au i posted before were like. the only ones i had anndmxkcnsksjhjf also, i really appreciate the interest for my au. it makes me really happy to see people being invested in it. so, thanks! <3

[ollyolyoxenfree]

horse part 2 part one || part three

[smoozie]

Au where the Watchers actually made the life series as a scheme to make all the members kiss, but it went spectaculary wrong and they don't know how to fix it

[zaanesshaardz]

WATCHER REN

CW/TW for ommetaphobia & slight blood !!

Did this fanon swap art game for Hermitcraft !! it was super fun to do and im glad to be back for some time being !! (apologies for not being active, had sum personal stuff going on😵‍💫)

Hope you all like this !!!!♥️

[as-de-spadas]

An small essay on what I think the hermits audiences look like in game:

Grian: Intrusive thoughts that look like purple eyes. Only he can see them and only when he closes his eyes. Staring. Watching.

Mumbo: redstone particles that give him ideas and light up a small redstone lamp that hovers above him every time he comes up with something particularly stupid.

Scar: Normally, its mouses that Jellie hunts down and eat, burping their messages out after. But when he's HotGuy, he can hear whispers as he flies through the air or draws an arrow.

Bdubs: The little soot guys from Spirited Away but they're made of moss.

Doc: Messages that appear in his cyborg eye and manifest as holographic wasps around him, forming the, you know, HIVEmind.

Rendog: A giant pack of different breeds of dogs that follow him everywhere. They are VERY loud.

(may do more of these on the future)