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journeysfable · 11 months

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I think ppl should think about Martyn's vtuber lore more

Is there anyone looking for him? Does he ever wonder what the point of finding the LOOT is? Does he miss the outside world or enjoy being in a video game

Like where are the fics where Martyn confronts Scott about being everywhere? Is he an awakened NPC? A player? An agent? Or is he in a similar situation to Martyn?

Also imagine Martyn fucking with a player like Monika does in DDLC lol

#itlw #itlw lore #inthelittlewood

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redwinterroses · 1 year

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so you're telling me that last session, Grian got directly involved, on camera, with steering the game by forcing another boogeyman draw.

And that this session, Mr. "He was only ever meant to Watch" was forced to do just that.

#limited life spoilers #limited life smp #grian #watcher!grian #itlw #itlw lore

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unexpectedly-haunted · 1 year

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ITLW Lore Stream Summary!

Notes taken from Limited Life + Lore Q&A Stream

Notes taken mostly chronologically, with some elements shuffled around to fit under certain sections. Italics used for poem quotes, quotation marks for direct quotes from Martyn. Also, you can find a summary of the Last Life lore stream here and the stream itself here!

Pillar built, another test: Beginning of Watcher’s influence to betray Scott- he is seriously hated by the Watchers, and there are multiple allusions in the first poem to eventually betraying him.

Pillar also refers to the pedestal the Watcher’s have put Martyn on; they are more interested in him because he has an “emotive soul” and is “more fun to torment.” He has a good emotional range they find interesting- he has the capacity to be honourable and stick with his allies as well as turning on anyone as soon as the situation calls for it.

Pause, unpause, we paralyse/A vacant stare for wandering eyes: Referring to the AFK episode, with Grian as a Watcher who has inserted himself into the games. Grian is attempting to taint the game for the Watchers- his goal is to make the games more fun than it is tragic, depriving the Watchers of the pain they want. The Watchers, angry at his continued interference, used their power to paralyse him, leaving him still physically present but unable to do anything but passively watch- this was supposed to make him easier to kill as well as trying to prevent his positive impact.

“This season they could interrupt his channelling and paralyse his avatar, forcing him to only watch, a claustrophobic and frustrating tomb to be encased in.”

Grian has been acting independently of the other Watchers for some time- he’s a rogue agent of sorts, with Watcher abilities but he’s so new to it he doesn’t have a full grasp of them. “He hasn’t had a full awakening, if you will, and he hasn’t met the Council and things like that.”

He’s also unaware of the Listeners and believes he’s fighting a solo battle in trying to resist. The Watchers have also tried in-game assassination to shorten his time and prevent him from revealing the reality of the situation to other players, but it hasn’t worked.

Echoes ring for brief exchange/Disruptions by the ones estranged/Tread careful sound/for if we met/our gaze would bring untimely deaf: Watchers are directly addressing the Listeners, a rival power trying to free the players. The Listeners are being of the same type/existence as the Watchers- they’re exactly the same except that they stepped away/deviated from the Watchers, hence why they’re referred to as “estranged.”

Watchers have dominion over all minecraft places, and they can pull people in to do these death games. For the first time, the Listeners have been able to temporarily disrupt the games.

This is partially due to Grian unknowingly running distraction by being so active this season- all the tnt minecart kills, his quad kill, etc - so the Watchers are focused on countering him, allowing the Listeners to break through.

Body swaps: Listeners swapped in Gem and Lizzie for the sake of Cleo and Pearl’s souls, and Gem and Lizzie were sworn to secrecy. Lizzie was tapped in because Pearl hadn’t quite recovered from the events of Double LIfe. This ties back to the idea that the Watchers will sometimes overindulge and feed too much on the negative feelings, and this time around they didn’t give enough room for recovery.

Martyn showing her Tilly’s ashes then really hurt Pearl, sending her on a bit of a downward spiral, and in recognition of that, the Listeners were able to step in. They were the ones behind the temporary switch.

“Pearl’s aura was still fractured and wasn’t quite whole before the beginning of Limited Life, which meant as the series was going on, there was lots of echoes from the previous season. … Normally the players don’t hold onto those wants and feelings from the previous seasons because these are eaten by the Watchers and each player goes into the next match with neutral feelings about everything. They have those memories, but they don’t hold onto those negative emotions, that sadness, but with Pearl, they kind of messed up with that, which is why Pearl came to me saying ‘Have you got Tilly.’”

On Joel being able to recognise Lizzie when others couldn’t: He was able to recognise her through mannerisms alone, due to the strength of their bond in other worlds.

In response to “no one is a Listener yet” from chat: “Yep, who’s to say, the Watchers were able to bring somebody into the fold. Maybe at some point one of these players would be able to leave. It would be very difficult for them to, the reason it was easy for Grian to become a Watcher was because it was kind of his intent and it was something they wanted to do- the Watchers kind of pulled him out and did it themselves. But here, these players in the Life series and the people that tried to flee from Evo are under such scrutiny and under such close watch it’s hard for the Listeners to really make a dent there and do things like that.”

Pulsing vignette in lead up to final kills: Representing the built up frustration of the Watchers about the Listener’s messing with their games. They’re also mad at Scott (primarily for not abiding by the Boogeyman mechanic in Last Life) and Impulse (for him giving away his time in the name of a fair fight/he’s accepted his place and found peace with the situation). The planned ending the finalists had was too civil, too familiar, it didn’t have the excitement and pain the Watchers want from these games.

More on Martyn’s betrayal: It was both a deeply embedded existing thought (he has always had the mindset of “I will kill who I need to to win this thing”) and the Watchers really amplifying those negative feelings.

“Mentioning time being delicious was almost like, very slightly, the Watchers slipping in to mild possession towards the end.”

Martyn was left alive in the world until his timer ran out. He went back to the hourglass, moved all the sand to the bottom of the timer, and covered the glass up just as his time runs out. He falls dead into the water, and gets washed up onto the shore. Only the winner’s corpse remains.

There are some who watch/We are those who listen/Not yet free/Still you flee/From a weighted decision: Martyn isn’t aware of this, it is the Listeners semi-addressing the audience.The Listeners have a presence, or part of a presence, in where the players are being held between the death games- they’ve managed to break through the barrier.

Fleeing from a weighted decision: Recognition of the players trying to run away from the Watchers in Evo, and partly Martyn running from the betrayal of having just killed Scott.

Marks/Fragments: The marks are soul fragments that have been lost and it isn’t known if they can be repaired/recovered. The marks visible here are Life series losses, with there being one for each season. The win directly enabled the fragment protection- Martyn does most of the work and the purple being (confirmed to be a Listener) comes in at the end to finish the process/make sure it is properly protected. It does not mean the fragment is safe forever.

There’s a constant battle between the two sides, and this tug of war over the players causes strain and results in smaller fragments, but the Life series marks stand out because they are bigger, more impactful moments.

The marks are shaped like diamonds, with the branching lines being cracks that spread out.

Life series marks: Mark on his face is from Third Life. “I like the idea of that being placed there because it was a tear shed when Ren fell, because that was kind of the moment that broke character Martyn and made him more selfish moving forwards.” Mark on back from Last Life (hidden secrets), mark on his chest from Double Life (over the heart), and mark on his hand from Limited Life (hand wielding the sword).

Void: The world that Martyn is falling/floating through is an unexplained void. The players are left in suspension because of the instinctive fear of falling, so it’s a passive way to generate fear even while they recover between games.

Listener’s appearance: When they first break through the barrier, they are pure white/pure light- they become purple when tainted by the Watcher’s domain, this is not reflective of their true colour.

Assorted Notes:

How much is Martyn aware of? He doesn’t know all this is going on. When he’s in the void he’s completely unconscious. In the games, he doesn’t know that Grian is a Watcher. The only time he’s gotten a glimpse of the truth (and couldn’t comprehend it) was the conversation at the end of Last Life.

Number of games: We don’t know, as the audience, whether there have been different games happening in between each of the Life series. Games like Third Life could have been run multiple times before introducing Last Life.

Wouldn’t people start to question it if they remember all the death games? Probably- he doesn’t think they’d be able to figure out a wider, more ominous picture, but they’d start to ask “Why do we keep doing this?” However, since all the negative emotions are stripped away, it’s likely the players would just view it as a bit of fun sport.

Do the Watchers have any favourites? Martyn is one of their favourites, because he’s shown that he will follow their instructions, but also Skizz and Joel because of how much they lean into the chaotic bloodlust of being Red they find entertaining.

What about other SMPs like Evo or Hermitcraft? Evo is part of the timeline whereas other SMPs are more “I don’t know if dreams is right word, but they’re a different plane.” When the players in in the unconscious state- falling between games- that is when they are “planewalking in a sense.”

Did Martyn lose fragments in Rats SMP because of the multiple lives? No, that was an instance where a fragment was protected.

On the sped up footage during the countdown: It was Limited Life Episode 5, Double Life Episode 4, Last Life Finale, and Third Life Episode 8.

What are the chapters of his Lore? Chapter 1: Memory Lane (indicative of Evo), Chapter 2: Life (beginning of the death games), Chapter 3: Into the Datastream (current), Chapter 4: Fragment Wars.

#ghost post #inthelittlewood #martyn inthelittlewood #itlw lore #limited life smp

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once-and-future-fandoms · 1 year

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in martyn's vtuber debut stream he says that when he gets hit by c.h.e.s.t agents while on missions, 'bits fly off of me' now i'm assuming these are fragments but i don't know too much about martyn's lore so forgive me if i'm wrong

in the limited life lore stream, martyn said that he got a load of fragments throughout the games- so is the life series just another of Doc's missions?

#it's late i hope this makes sense #free feel to correct any mistakes because i'm new to the vtuber lore #martyn littlewood #martyn inthelittlewood #limited life #inthelittlewood #inthelittlewood vtuber lore #vtuber lore #itlw #itlw lore #eyesandears

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collourcrow99 · 7 months

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Oke normy i dont do this but i got a theary about secret live and the live siries (also whit the inthelittlewoods watcher stuf

ALSO SPOILERS FOR SECRET LIVE

Also srry for the typos i got dislexia and am sleep deprived at the same time (dont worry i wil sleep now)

So the secret chaimber has a EVO smp sign in it

And it also looks like a phase

Witch woud mean that it is a watcher

Now i think that the watchers want to make grian feel uncomfortable becous he is the only "good" watcher

I also think that it whas wierd that grians first secret task is to make poeple not leaf at his jokes

This is important becous grian is the only watcher that doesnt want to feed from poeple feeling stressed/scared (maybe the watchers are trying to force grian to hafe no other choices)

#secret life #live siries #watcher lore #itlw lore #inthelittlewood #inthelittewood lore #itlw

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marsmarbles · 5 months

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Listener!Martyn - The Heart Acoustic

“See how it hurts when the sound

begins to ring

And you feel it start to rot

And you beg for it to stop

But you’ve already dug your lot

In the ground”

#chained life au #listener!martyn #watcher!grian #speaker!scott #trafficblr #traffic life #mcyt #mcyt fanart #traffic smp #martyn itlw #itlwart #evo lore #chonny jash #chonnys charming chaos compendium #the heart acoustic #mars art

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itsame-ariana · 1 year

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Idk if someone has done this already but enjoy this homemade meme I did

And I wouldn’t have it any other way

This also works with curses/watcher lore

#limited life #grian #jimmy solidarity #desert duo #life smp #flower husbands #last life #third life #double life #gtws propaganda #joel smallishbeans #martyn itlw #watcher lore

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ven-of-oath · 1 year

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I think what makes me feral about the ending is that I think martyn was going for the ' the watchers want a poetic final battle so I'm not going to give it to them' which is true in a 'we the audience are the watchers' but in the whole fanon 'watchers are the higher powers that control the games' he technically did exactly what they wanted him to do in last life but in lim life this time, in last life the watchers wanted him to kill ren then Scott and claim the victory but he failed to betray ren last minute getting himself killed, in lim life same situation except this time he succeeded in killing his ally then finishing the other person left taking the win.

Idk I just really like the 'the watchers finally got to him angle'

#but thats just a theory a-#limited life spoilers #im a bit eh about whatever the hell martyn is doing with soul fragments so im just putting that on the 'lore im ignoring' list #thats the benefit of making fanworks #you can just ignore the bits of canon you dont like #limited life smp #trafficblr #limited life #life series #life smp #traffic smp #last life smp #martyn inthelittlewood #inthelittlewood #itlw #scott smajor #smajor1995 #impulsesv

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funkily · 10 months

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sometimes you see a post and inspiration hits so hard you need to make something immediately

#babbleeng #3rd life #treebark #itlw #wh #what if i put this in his watcher/listener lore tag (JOKE)#guys as posts

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proboblynotstriaght · 5 months

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there is something about to former winners this session. They dance and fight and kill and try to stay alive but in the end..

“You can get rid of the book if you don’t plan to win” “yeah I got rid of my book ages ago” He never planes to win. Scott gives his life to Gem, and Pearl offers the same to Scar.

They never planned to win Secret life they only planned to put one of their teammates on the pedestal.

But Martyn who had no one left. Martyn who was the first red. Martyn who died in every dimension. Did he plan to win? Or did he plan to throw his last fight?

#secret life smp #life series #lore #grian #pearlescentmoon #martyn itlw #he probably wouldn’t have throw. The fight #But I like the Idea that the Winners don’t want to win again #scott smajor #goodtimeswithscar #whoooo #he won!!!!

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journeysfable · 5 months

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NOPE 🤝 Generation Loss 🤝 Eyes and Ears AU 🤝

"I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a spectacle."

#trafficblr #generation loss #nope (2022)#eyesandears #eyes and ears #itlw lore #inthelittlewood

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activate-shadow-of-the-window · 4 months

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I did end up inking these guys and the need to worldbuild hasn’t left and I’d better get it all out right now so here’s some more Saints of Eyes and Ears (name pending) stuff and close ups under the cut

- All are considered to be the highest of Saints, standing only below the Watcher/Listener Angels (this is a highly debated topic that caused the Great Divide between the Church of Watchers and the Church of Listeners) and the Creators themselves

- Each Saint got their distinctive ‘halo’ and title from a series of ancient paintings depicting their martyrdom that have been attributed to the writers of the Books of Lives (the central texts of Livolution faith which recount the events of the Life Series)

- For example, the Saint Grian was originally depicted clutching the dying body of Scar of the Desert with the sun around his head, leading to his designation as the Saint of the Desert Sun

- Saints are usually depicted with eyes before their martyrdom and either without eyes or with eyes closed or otherwise covered after their martyrdom by the Church of Watchers

- The reverse is true for the Church of Listeners: eyes hidden before death, and revealed after

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