#where the Skizz one took place at the start of Legacy s2

[leopardmask-ao3]

Day 25 - Impulse

Drabble for @hermitadaymay

Wither skeleton! 

Impulse's sensitive nose instantly picked up the scent that his piglin blood instinctively knew, even outside its context. He bared what small amount of tusk he had and spun, ready to attack-

-Skizz??

Skizz looked sheepish, marred hands raised in a gesture of peace. Impulse just stared. Alarms screeched in his head, warning frantically of danger, danger, but it was just Skizz, a changed Skizz, but just Skizz.

“I-I’m sorry, buddy,” Skizz tried. “I know, I know, it sucks and I’m sorry...”

Impulse took a deep breath. “It’s... fine. I’ll get used to it. What... what happened, anyway??”

[desolationcleo]

some life series related things i think about

-each recording session is 3 hours long which is 9 days minceraft time which is the length of a full moon to full moon minceraft lunar cycle

-what this means about the boogeyman curse

-speaking of translation to minceraft time, that hour and a half left on martyn's timer after his win? that was four and a half days of wandering the ruins of the world completely alone. even if you subtract the hour taken by that /kill that's still more than a day.

-the characters being referred to as players, not because of anything to do with a keyboard and mouse, not because terms like server and admin are relevant here, but because their world is an arena and their lives are a death game. strip the story of its minceraft context and they're still called players.

-what if bigb's usage of the programmer art texture pack (aka the legacy textures from older versions) during s1 and the start of s2 translates in-universe as some form of lingering effect from evo?

-the way joel's house in s1 was haunted by the ghost of an enderman and we never figure out what the deal was with that. this place has history

-the time the crastle team were like "you guys want to move to the nether" "that sounds peaceful" "just put on a jukebox and sing" something about a brief group fantasizing session where they all pretend they'll be able to escape all this and not have to be in a death game or a war and just peacefully vibe to music together and sing songs around a campfire

-speaking of singing around a campfire, martyn mentions being a bard multiple times. i'm just picturing him singing for the team

-given the villagers and the endermen in boats, dogwarts is actually a pretty densely populated kingdom. what was this like for the villagers?

-in a similar vein, imagine being a pillager in the outpost in double life

-cleo keeps dying in or near rivers. season 1 she permadied at a river, season 2 both times she went yellow were in rivers, season 3 she was pushed off the bridge and landed on the riverbank. there might have been one in season 4 i don't know it's impossible to keep track of all the deaths that occurred in that one

-at the end of s1, when scott and jimmy have their afterlife reunion, jimmy says "this is it, this is the end". and then in martyn's last life finale- oh you already know where i'm going with this

-given the appearance of his eyes it is entirely plausible that grian, at least when red, has black sclera

-lizzie, mumbo, and ren are most likely presumed permadead by the others

-additionally, skizz's return would do nothing to disprove this as the others could easily chalk it up to his being left out by virtue of DL needing an even number of players

-the in-universe implications of pearl having been on evo but not joining the life games until season 2

-speaking of pearl and watchers and in-universe implications. considering the timing of the boogeyman reroll in last life, and the player chosen, and everything in relation, whatever happened in-universe that took pearl out of the picture so hard she couldn't get a kill probably wasn't an accident.

-lizzie, who wears a flower crown and filled her first base with flowers and planted several outside her second one, ever surrounded by flower motifs, died in a manner involving a wither rose

-that time in late season 2 when joel, who spent 80% of the series red, said that seeing the 4+ life indicator shade of dark green makes him physically sick now

-ren's final death in last life -and subsequently, scott's victory- involved a zombie and happened at night when the moon was out

-the little jellie that scar carries around in double life, first in a purse and then in a backpack, who outlived him

-bdubs is STILL trapped in his red life appearance because of lingering effects from last life, two full seasons later

-pearl has the whole frog/dog/log thing with ren and martyn in double life, in which she's the frog. come season 4 and she's in the partially frog themed alliance

-the minceraft flower language post applied to the life games. oxeye daisies for love. lily of the valley, worn as a symbol of grief. cornflowers for sudden betrayal, and as an equivalent to a gold medal for those who win tournaments or games. poppies for watching and being watched. azure bluets for a secret alliance. wither roses for murder and intent to kill. pink tulips for codependency. alliums for protection and a wish for someone to stay safe, and for defiance. do you see my vision

-the whole thing with the watchers feeding on the players' emotions. it only stands to reason that grian gets hungry too.