#yeah they're here too

[inkieflame]

what's Jimmy like in your lab au?

Jimmy is injured.

It almost seems like he's been this way forever. He's always been hurt, and he always will be. The Watchers joke and call it a curse. Jimmy is starting to believe them.

He's been in the lab for a long time. He barely remembers life outside the Watcher's grasp. He was captured young, right alongside the rest of The First (Grian, Martyn, Netty, and the other Evo players).

When the Watchers first rented him out, not yet intent on trying to abuse and frighten him, Jimmy was sent to babysit the children of some rich business man who had left on a trip. The children had proven so unruly that he could find no one else to take care of them. The Watchers offered Jimmy, who had been a teacher before his kidnapping, and the business man agreed.

The three children, 7, 10 and 13 year old boys, were ruthless. The kind of boys who make a game out of scaring away their caretakers. Jimmy came back to the lab at the end of his weekend renting covered in bruises and burns. His wings were charred and he smelled like gasoline. No one ever got the full story out of him, but it was obvious what the children had done.

Ever since, none of Jimmy's rentings have ever gone according to plan. The Watchers have even gone as far as to attempt to rent him to Rage Rooms, since they found the "curse" amusing. None of those Rage Rooms ever took them up on that offer (yet) but the Watchers will still use it as a threat to keep Jimmy on line.

In the facility, he mostly hangs out with his sister and brother-in-law, Lizzie and Joel. He also spends a lot of time with Grian, and with his partner Tango.

Tango doesn't really talk to anyone anymore, but Jimmy will still keep him company anyways. The last time Tango did much of anything it was to gift Jimmy one of his blazerods.

[hdra77]

omg guys its pride month you know what that means

[collophora]

Do yourself a favor and go read the entire fanfic work of @fanfoolishness

(In order: Under sun and shade, Blind Side, and Breathless (patching up is one of my fav too, I just had no cool sketch idea for it)

[egophiliac]

OMG EGO HAVE YOU SEEN THE BOOK 7 CATER CARD YET

80s britpunk Cater is such an incredible direction to take. his Sid Vicious jacket! his little british police cap! I wouldn't have anticipated that going full-on Sex Pistols would be his alternate self but it is SO fitting actually. 😭

(also th-the crown symbol?! the gavel?! is housewarden Cater real because I will TRANSCEND --)

[mangotri]

N and Uzi 💛💜

[catocappuccino]

COSWAN ATTACK‼️ 🗣🗣🗣

[thechibilitwick]

[drawnbinary]

THEY'RE SITTING TOGETHER

[inkieflame]

One more! I swear, this is the last one (← lies)

[nitewcat]

What's forgiven for players on lower hearts and what's not for those on higher is so interesting to consider when looking at lifesteal. Everyone's a hypocrite, and there's really nothing wrong with that, but it's so interesting to see the extent to which this hypocrisy spreads and no one seems to notice. I feel like it's always been particularly obvious with Zam, and because I'm mainly a zam watcher, I'll kinda be yapping from his pov.

Off the top of my head is Focus. Betrayed the entire server, blew up spawn, all for material items, hearts. They literally made up an excuse for the betrayal AFTER being asked to betray its hallarious and it's in Manes video so people should know about it yet the only people willing to exact revenge on them for this are low heart players. Kab, bacon, etc. For everyone else, it's looked down on. When the empire killed them, people looked down on them, it's SQUIDDO. After all, killing them is easy. Who cares if they're on twenty hearts or not. Who cares if every single one of their actions during their alliance was cruel and manipulative. Zam refuses to kill FOCUS, sees it as something he simply can't do. Why? Because they're weaker than him.

And zam. When Mane, Flame, and Wemmbu blow up spawn to get their fights, he ends up basically going against his oath. And ironically, mane and flame specifically barely ever fight low heart players after reaching 20 hearts, instead tending to toy with them more than anything. Mane especially. Flame returning an eye for an eye often. Focus betrays Zam and helps the people blowing up spawn, yet he can't bring himself to harm any of them. 4c is an odd case, but Zam isn't fully aware of that fact. Zam only fights back against those stronger than him. The reason is pretty obvious, all gay joker did was terrorise everyone, and because of his skill level, most of his victims were lower heart players. And zam, trying to distance himself from that person, can't bring himself to kill. Can't exert his power over weaker players as he did when he was gay joker because he's trying to move on from that person.

Then Mapicc. Every single action he takes is crtisized, whether it be by the viewers or other players, and it's lowkey insane. This can be attributed to most of the players on the server being relatively new, so they just don't understand him and most of his loudest viewers being mane and flame viewers. But Mapicc constantly fighting to protect his team and often the weaker players on the server and even spawn itself but eveytime, it's because he wants hearts, he wants power, he's being petty and cruel. On Bacon's recent livestreams while rebuilding spawn, he clarifies himself that the whole mawn thing WAS because he cared about spawn and how it looked. Looking back in older videos, he's constantly protecting the more innocent players. When Wemmbu jumped and killed bacon during the building of qdd, Mapicc was already there, circling him before potting up and demanding the heart back, but it's easy enough to assume it was for the heart. That's all. And always sticking those fights out, the amount of honour he holds, taking the death when it would be so easy to run. Even when he loses. He's always bitter about them, and he's a sore loser, but he still takes the losses. Mapicc is mischatachterised a lot, and it's sometimes simply because he's one of the stronger players on the server.

Squiddos also mischarachterized often because they are a weaker player. Like give bro some credit they did betray that team for hearts and they would do it again. All of their lifestelal videos but s5 finale have been in relation to mischievous heart stealing activity's on the smp.

Even when looking at Mane, Flame and Wemmbus treatment of Zam. It's let slide because he's strong enough to get back on his feet and fight again. Because maybe after he tries a couple 100 times he'll get a singular kill on them and have a conclusion to his video. But weaker players like Cube? They'd be made fun of for doing anything against him. Even against Zam they face criticism, with Zam constantly taunting them because zam shit talking when he's loosing a fight is his biggest strength. When something is acceptable or not completely depends on the strength of the players.

I feel like an exception to this tends to be baconwaffles. Always on low hearts, but whenever someone kills him, it's simply not looked down upon because it's bacon. He probably deserved it.

But lifesteals about hearts and everyone keeps talking morals and then there's rek. Strong enough to stay alive against the better pvpers but weak enough that a kill on a chungus isn't criticised. Something reks been quoting often is that "it's lifestelal." Nonchalant. That's how it is. You can't be bitter if I kill you, and I can't be bitter if I die. He has the same treatment towards weaker players and strong players. He sees injustice when it's there, but ultimately, "it's lifesteal." He doesn't get involved.

Maybe it's just for stronger players to be criticised for killing weaker players. And weaker players will be praised for succeeding in killing a better player, even if they succeed through dishonorable means. Even if the stronger player is honourable. Maybe being a centrist is better. Lifesteal is lifeateal. There is no place for honour and morals amongst weaker players. Yet with stronger players, it's sometimes just not a good video for them to be constantly beating the weaker players. They need to back off.

Then there's the videos produced. The power imbalances on the server. What makes lifesteal, lifesteal? Every time you kill someone, you steal one of their hearts. So it's pvp. Figthing for what you believe in. What if you can't fight at all? What if you don't want to fight? You can't fight? You trap, you scam, you build for hearts, you leave the server? You don't want to fight? You learn why you have to. There can never be peace on lifesteal. And that means there will always be injustice on lifesteal. Lifesteal isn't fair, and some people crash out about it, and others train and rise to the top, and others try to change it and fail. Content keeps the server fair and gives stronger players an incentive to have morals even simply for the sake of the end of a friends video. In many ways, content keeps lifesteal balanced enough for people to enjoy playing. Maybe hypocrisy in relation to stronger players doesn't matter because they're the winners on this server. They dont need to try to stay rich.

For sake of balance on lifesteal, in a way, the hypocrisy is a key part of keeping the server functional.

[doubledyke]

edd and nazz <3

[hopefulrunaways]

✨MORE ACTORS AU✨

Nico lore edition (Percy's lore is next it just i don't have so much time rn)

[Will Davis, 20yo.

Appered in the PJO series, but never interacted with Nico there.

Percy remembers him.

Recently they're premiered a serie where they're costars. It's a teen romance (heartsttopers type sh't) so it's all over the internet with ships.]

Relationship with Jason, i love these two

[Jason Grace 22yo

They´re coincided in varius proyects after Nico ended PJO, they just short of started hanging out and become friends (Jason was very insistent and Nico found it amusing)

They started to get jobs togetther a lot and kinda become a package deal, in and out of work]

[imaredshirt]

Ok but Jung-bae and In-ho both bringing up the fact that Gi-hun has changed.

Jung-bae's not a fan. His chatty friend that he hasn't seen in years is now this too-grim, too-serious, tortured guy who's taking on the responsibility of trying to saving 500 450+ people (whoops originally posted this with 500.) The guy who used to get soju with him at the drop of a hat while telling him/complaining about every single detail of his day is now someone who hasn't called him in years, didn't even find it in himself to tell him his mother had died.

So he intentionally riles Gi-hun up until he's complaining the way he used to and gets him smiling and laughing, giving him one moment where he can stop being so grim. Gives him a sliver of hope - getting soju after they get out of the Game together, just the way they used to when the most immediate dangers were loan sharks breathing down their necks.

And In-ho takes a completely different route, approving of Gi-hun's change but maybe thinking he can still improve, and going with a more "I can fix him (make him worse)" sort of approach. He even gives Gi-hun the same sliver of hope about getting a drink later when they're free, except he's saying it knowing he's going to betray Gi-hun at some point and have every person of his little group (namely one Park Jung-bae) killed

[deedjre]

i got bored so i drew another ref. here's skep !!

[fauchart]

I wonder how coach Krupt would look in your artstyle. Love your OC btw!

It makes me so happy when people are into more secondary characters like that, genuinely I'm just ♥ Hell yeah!! Here's a coach Krupt for you, I hope I did him justice!!

And thank you so much, I'm really glad you like my silly OC that means the world to me ;; ♥