I’m bored and I have the power to randomly generate pairs and such, soo, making up random interactions with randomized pairs (plus one trio cuz there’s an odd number). Below the cut because it’s gonna be long (there’s a lot of characters!
(Also it’s okay if nobody has anything they want to send in as an ask but if you’re just being shy or worried I want you to know that 99% of the time askblogs would love to receive an ask and you’re not being a bother by doing it. Don’t know if anybody needed to hear that it’s just I personally always get worried that askblogs receive too many asks so I try not to send them but I’ve done ask series in the past so I know that usually they would love to get a single ask and if they DO have too many they would close the ask box or say something about it, so if they haven’t, you should always send something. That’s all, hope this doesn’t sound like I’m begging for asks I’m just trying to give genuine advice for interacting with askblogs lol)
Okay now to the randomized interactions!
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LimL!Pearl: Oh! Hi Lizzie! How are you doing…?
SL!Lizzie: …
3L!Scar: She’s probably come to see her husband again.
LimL!Pearl: Oh right! I thought he usually goes to the cliff to visit her though…?
3L!Scar: Well, some nights she comes to make sure we aren’t all staying up late here in the desert…
*SL!Lizzie glares at 3L!Scar*
3L!Scar: …I’m always asleep at night Lizzie… you don’t need to look at me like that… I only know about you coming here some nights because- uh- UH-
LimL!Pearl: uh oh…
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DL!Scott: hey Ren…
DL!Ren: oh, hello! What’s up?
DL!Scott: you’re a dog hybrid, right?
DL!Ren: yup! What about it?
DL!Scott: well, my Soulbound is one as well, so I was wondering if maybe you could explain why she’s been acting so… weird?
DL!Ren: …what kind of weird?
DL!Scott: you know… the way she’s been acting since we arrived here.
DL!Ren: …I don’t think that has anything to do with her being a wolf, honestly.
DL!Scott: okay, thanks anyway…
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LimL!Jimmy: HALT! I’m stealing that sheep!
3L!Etho: no please! I managed to get it all the way here from the Ranch! I can’t let you double steal it!
LimL!Jimmy: …wait, you stole it?
3L!Etho: well, yeah, they’re the only ones with sheep. Singular. This is the only sheep. How did you not know that?
LimL!Jimmy: …and you stole it from the Ranchers?
3L!Etho: …yes…?
LimL!Jimmy: …you know what? I’ll help.
3L!Etho: :D
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3L!Jimmy: So… you’ve had those crystals since the beginning, you said…
LL!Scott: … I don’t see why you care so much…
3L!Jimmy: Future Big Man Scott… I know what those crystals mean-
LL!Scott: I’m sorry I can’t have a serious and dramatic emotional conversation if you’re gonna call me that.
3L!Jimmy: Sorry!!! I don’t know what to call you!!! Scott’s my husband and you’re… not!
LL!Scott: ….. I don’t feel like talking about this right now. But, for future reference, I suppose you could call me… Stars?
3L!Jimmy: …Okay, Stars.
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LL!Mumbo: So you mean to tell me, your version of me killed Scar?
SL!BigB: yup. And that’s why he’s not here. He swallowed him whole and he can never recover from that.
LL!Mumbo: he WHAT?! Okay, I gotta ask the other me if this is true…
SL!BigB: you can’t.
LL!Mumbo: why…?
SL!BigB: because when he ate Scar, Scar took over his brain, so he doesn’t remember anything.
LL!Mumbo: …I’m terrified.
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LL!Scar: This wouldn’t be the first time you’ve asked me for a love crystal, you know.
DL!Martyn: wait, really? What did the other me want with one?
LL!Scar: no idea! Maybe to help his awful marriage or something. Actually, was Mumbo still alive at that point? Ah, the memories all blur together. Anyways! You’re gonna have to promise me something good in return.
DL!Martyn: But… I don’t have anything!
LL!Scar: Me neither! Thats why you have to promise me something.
DL!Martyn: wait, do you even have any crystals?
LL!Scar: hahaha… nope! Still waiting for Santa to give me that Crystal Making Kit for Christmas.
DL!Martyn: …you mean Symphony? Ugh, whatever, I’ll come back when you actually have crystals, I guess…
LL!Scar: don’t scoff at me when you don’t even have anything to pay with!!
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LL!Tango: Are the rumors true? Are you actually… washed up?
LimL!Etho: man 😭
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LL!Martyn: so… you won…
LimL!Martyn: yes. What about it?
LL!Martyn: …did they… are they… are you… happy?
LimL!Martyn: ….it was satisfying. What about you? How’s losing feel, loser?
LL!Martyn: …… rude. You’re quite rude for a giant scary… pirate.
LimL!Martyn: isn’t your name Fart or something?
LL!Martyn: listen dude I’m being incredibly vulnerable right now and you are not very nice about it. I’m leaving.
LimL!Martyn: don’t know what you expected. Especially when your name is Fart-
LL!Martyn: BYE!
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Gem: Hey Skizz!
LL!Skizz: oh hey… Gem! Wow, you’re the only one of your kind…
Gem: my kind??
LL!Skizz: Gems! There’s like four Skizzles and only one Gem!
Gem: oh, yeah… honestly, it’s kind of scary, especially since it’s like nobody knows me except Secret Lifers…
LL!Skizz: aw, that’s sad! I’m sure you can fit in with the rest of us soon enough!
Gem: Aw, thanks Skizz!
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3L!Skizz: Hey Impulse… The Impulse I know is up in Lonely Cliff, and I know he betrayed my guys, but I’m still kind of worried about him, you know? So I was wondering if you knew anything that could convince him to talk to us again…?
LL!Impulse: hm… maybe he wants to play some fun British games
3L!Skizz: …never mind…???
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LL!Lizzie: so… you’re saying that your Joel is… a bad boy?
LimL!Grian: ……you can’t have him
LL!Lizzie: DARN!
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SL!Scott: ohhhhh no please don’t do it please don’t-
SL!Jimmy: THE FLORIST SENDS HIS REGARDS!
SL!Scott: NO HE DOESN’T!!! HE HASN’T SPOKEN TO YOU!!! I SAW HIM!!!
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SL!Martyn: *sniffsniff*
LL!Bdubs: WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS SNIFF??
SL!Martyn: I can smell it… you have… relationship issues
LL!Bdubs: NO I DO NOT!!! ETHO AND I ARE VERY HAPPY!!! GET OUTTA HERE YOU MUTT!!!
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3L!BigB: Dang it’s crazy that Dog Martyn can sniff out relationship issues
LL!Etho: huh? Where’d you hear that from?
3L!BigB: oh well he just did it to- uhh… UHHH…
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SL!Skizz: ……. So you’re… with Top?
DL!Jimmy: …excuse me?
SL!Skizz: you know, Tango Top?
DL!Jimmy: …I think that’s between me and Tango-
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LimL!Joel: WHY ARE YOU HUMAN?!
SL!Cleo: Why aren’t you?
LimL!Joel: …
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LL!Pearl: So, if you had to choose between Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss which one would you be?
LimL!Scott: I’m thinking Girlboss. But I’d be… Gillboss.
LL!Pearl: … you’re nothing like the Scott I know…
LimL!Scott: ???? Well yeah, he’s not a fish…
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3L!Ren: That ship you live in seems dangerous… wouldn’t you rather live in a castle in the Kingdom?
DL!Etho: You don’t even know the half of it, Ren… But also, I don’t think you want all the Shipwreckers in your Kingdom.
3L!Ren: …Yeah, okay, I admit I’m a little afraid of you Double Lifers.
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SL!Mumbo: so we’re best friends for real now, since Secret Life is over right?
SL!Etho: ?? no
SL!Mumbo: 🥺😭
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LL!BigB: you know, if your scary wife is too scary for you, you could always change your identity a little…
SL!Joel: nothing is too scary for me, especially not my scary wife.
LL!BigB: okay, but I’m just saying, she would never be looking for anyone named Jerry.
SL!Joel: …?
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LimL!BigB: So… anything interesting going on in your life?
SL!Impulse: if I hit things with sticks it kind of works like drums
LimL!BigB: …so a no, then
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LimL!Scar: Mom, how many divorces do you have to go through?!
DL!Cleo: wtf
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LL!Cleo: So who in Lonely Cliff is Gaslight, who is Gatekeep, who is Girlboss?
DL!Grian: …I’d be Gatekeep, Impulse would be Gaslight, and Lizzie would be Girlboss. Now go away.
LL!Cleo: Okay… but I really think all you Loners should hang out more. Could be good for you.
DL!Grian: I said go away.
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LL!Ren: Second place…?
LimL!Impulse: Second place.
LL!Ren: …congrats.
LimL!Impulse: …you too.
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3L!Tango: …
LimL!Tango: …
3L!Tango: …what is up with the Jimmys
LimL!Tango: I know right?! They’re so obsessed with that other Tango!
3L!Tango: I just think it’s weird, are you jealous?
LimL!Tango: NO
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3L!Bdubs: CAN YOU STOP FLYING UP TO MY WINDOW?!
DL!Scar: what’s the point in all these tall towers if nobody’s meant to fly up them?
3L!Bdubs: you’re the ONLY ONE WHO FLIES
DL!Scar: ahh, I see, jealous that I’m the only one who has figured it out.
3L!Bdubs: NO!!! Ugh, maybe it’s a Double Lifer thing…
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LimL!Skizz: yup! He died first!
3L!Scott: wow… that’s four times in a row… I don’t know if I should tell him or not, honestly… I’m also not sure if it makes me feel better…?
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LL!Jimmy: okay, I’ve caved. I’m here.
DL!Tango: oh hi! …what do you mean
LL!Jimmy: I’m here to see what all the fuss is about! Why do Jimmys keep coming here?!
DL!Tango: well, I guess they’re just curious about their soulmate…?
LL!Jimmy: okay but nobody is crowding that one Scott.
DL!Tango: because… Ranchers for Life.
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SL!Pearl: maybe you can fill the Cleo shaped hole in my heart…
3L!Cleo: …I’m married
SL!Pearl: …that’s… not what I meant…
3L!Cleo: then PLEASE work on your wording. Also, TERRIBLE way to start a conversation.
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DL!Bdubs: have you SEEN my version of you??
3L!Grian: well… yeah… he talked to me.
DL!Bdubs: REALLY? He’s been avoiding everyone though!
3L!Grian: he wanted to know what happened with me and Scar… it’s pretty sad to hear how things went for them in your world.
DL!Bdubs: oh yeah they died badly.
3L!Grian: …. in my world we killed you
DL!Bdubs: OUCH!
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SL!Bdubs: you should change your wizard tower into a slide
LL!Joel: …what
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DL!BigB: heyyy…
LL!Grian: hmm?
DL!BigB: you’re a Grian… I was wondering if you could explain anything about my Grian…
LL!Grian: probably not.
DL!BigB: dang, not even gonna try?
LL!Grian: nah, I have nothing to do with THAT drama.
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SL!Tango: the Bdubs in my world calls Etho daddy too
LimL!Bdubs: ☹️
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DL!Pearl: HEY!
3L!Impulse: AH.. oh.. you scared me!!
DL!Pearl: Hehee… anyways… I’m just worried about you Loners! If I hadn’t made up with my Soulmate, I’d be here too! I know how much it sucks. So, is there any way I can help?
3L!Impulse: …no. I don’t really fit in anywhere…
DL!Pearl: oh come on! I’m sure everyone else at The Nose would love to have you!
3L!Impulse: hh… I feel like I’d be shot double dead if I was spotted at the Nose.
DL!Pearl: hm.. there’s surely someone who would like to welcome you! What about your soulmate?
3L!Impulse: who…?
DL!Pearl: Bdubs! You two loved each other so much…!
*3L!Impulse has clock flashbacks*
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LimL!Cleo: Are you treating my son well?
DL!Impulse: uhh… well yeah, but… he’s not your son?
LimL!Cleo: well my actual son doesn’t have any partners so I’m just checking on the other versions of my son. Especially yours. Since in my world you killed him.
DL!Impulse: Oh, well, none of that here! Bdubs and I would never kill each other! …Well, he accidentally killed me technically, but that doesn’t matter! Also… I don’t know how I feel about pretending you’re my mother in law….
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SL!Grian: hey emo boy did you know we’re soulmates in Secret Life
3L!Joel: don’t call me- wasn’t the soulmate season Double Life?
SL!Grian: Yeah but we were soulmates anyways isn’t that crazy 🥰
3L!Joel: … go away
SL!Grian: all you Joels are the same 😭
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3L!Martyn: Ren is the best
DL!Joel: no, ETHO is the best!!!
3L!Martyn: BLASPHEMY! Lord Ren the Red King is the greatest!!!
DL!Joel: well, I don’t see his face on your shirt! But look at MINE!
*they argue*
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Grian stares at his task. He had to reroll; he lied last time about completing. Of all the tasks, committing to the Bit is the most in-character one he could’ve gotten, but committing to every Bit is so much harder than he originally thought.
But this one. This task is going to kill him.
It’s… interesting, to say the least. Getting a wither isn’t that hard, but getting it to fight a warden is a whole other story. There are so many variables, so many things that could go wrong, and what if Etho died? What if Grian died? And now Mumbo is involved--
Someone is going to die. Lots of people are going to die. And it’s going to be Grian’s fault.
He stares at his task, and tries not to think about Last time. There was a wither, Last time. It didn’t do as much damage as he wanted it to. He wanted server-wide destruction. Now, all he wants to do is hide in BigB’s backrooms and never come out.
He can’t fail this. He can’t afford to fail this. He needs the hearts.
Grian is dreading the aftermath. Whatever comes after he places the final skull is out of his control, but he started it. Whatever happens will be his fault.
He stares at his task. Of course Mumbo has to be his… butler? Whatever Mumbo is. But he does know it’s making his life one hundred times harder.
Grian doesn’t want Mumbo to die. Not like… like Last time. He can’t cause Mumbo’s permadeath again. Not when he’s finally back and here and maybe not allies with Grian but still there to talk to and hang out and laugh with.
Grian killed Jimmy and Mumbo, Last time. His sword plunged through their chests and he justified it as retaliation in his head but he knows it wasn’t. He knows it was the red coursing through him and flooding his brain, turning his vision the color of red, red blood, even on yellow. He can’t kill them again.
But he does. He tries, so hard, not to. But they die anyway, and it’s his fault. They’re gone, just like Last time.
Jimmy had been celebrating. He wasn’t first out anymore, his Curse was broken. He was finally happy.
Now he’s gone again.
Mumbo had just come back. He had just died, just turned Red. But he was back. Two Games without him, but he was finally back.
Now he’s gone again.
Grian laughs with everyone else, a silly little Game with no long-term consequences. They’ll be respawned back home, waiting for them. Lizzie, waiting for her husband; Jimmy, waiting for his friends; Mumbo, waiting for Grian.
He logs out with everyone, momentarily in whatever Limbo they’re put in between sessions.
But he soon rejoins the world, and looks out over the utter destruction he’s caused. He looks to the hastily-made graves for the three final lives lost, signs crooked and words misspelled so poorly they’re barely legible. He looks at the homes around him, three of which their owners will never come back to. He looks to the Secret Keeper, the puppet master of their lives for the past month. He can feel his pulse move past the twenty-eight hearts on his arm, mocking. He’s alive, but they aren’t. Something he doesn’t deserve.
Grian screams. Gut-wrenching, painfully raw, full of emotion. It echoes through the world, empty of all other life.
This must be how they feel, trapped and utterly alone.
At least there’s no one to see them cry.
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I hope it's still okay to talk about traffic!Mumbo
A lot of the times,it's either Grian or Scar or Martyn that's popular within the life series fandom,but Mumbo's my favourite character so I'm glad that you like him a lot as well!
I just love that Last Life kind of started so good for him,with the Southlands,the aha jokes,the base and farms,but then he and Grian had that moment on the bridge and would only be red with Grian,who wanted him to join him SO BADLY,if he killed Mumbo fair and square.
Then Mumbo turned red and went INSANE with the end crystals.He was forced out of the Southlands (I think),he was trying to attack so many people,and didn't hesitate to push Impulse off of the SAME bridge that Grian tried to kill him on.He still joined up with fellow reds but he kept moving through different people,until he met up with Jimmy,a fellow Southlander,and died in his home,by the hands of one of his closest allies.
He's just kind of a tragic character that's different to the usual angst of the life series,somebody who wanted friends but lost them all and went insane and bloodthirsty because of it.
This might not make sense,or just feel like a basic explanation of Mumbo's Last life journey,but still,it was nice to talk about him and I love your art of Mumbo!
Yes yes yes YES!
I absolutely love traffic!Mumbo because the more you rewatch his povs, the more tragic he seems to become.
Like you said, it started out great! He got a group of friends, he got 4 lives, jokes - everything was perfect! But then the Bastion happened, and he lost his first life. Okay, that's scary! He hadn't died on hardcore before, so it's weird and was definitely a lot more terrifying than if he died on Hermitcraft.
He calls for help in chat, asking if someone, anyone, can come help him get home and protect him. He buries himself underground, waiting for Martyn and Jimmy to come back for him. No one comes, though, leaving him to wait. He's completely alone for the night, terrified to go out in case a mob hurts him and kills him again.
Mumbo's rightfully upset at them, commenting how the "aha" is traumatic to him now and how he can't do it due to not having a spyglass anymore. Meeting up with Grian, Mumbo makes a jab at himself about burning and dying, clearly still upset.
Then he dies again at the hands of, again, lava, but this time it was because Scar poured it on him. His friend from another world, killing him just like that, not really caring. He respawns, but he stays burning. Mumbo tries to jump into the water, trying to distinguish the weirdly non damage taking flames, but they don't disappear no matter what he does. The others don't comment on it, as if they can't see it. He's still burning. It's still warm.
and THEN THE GHAST BRIDGE?? INCIDENT HAPPENS??? Mumbo only heard talks about red names and how they can't team with non reds, only seeing Joel act that way. He's never experienced this. So it's incredibly distressing when he watches his best friend die in front of him, going down to red. He leaves a sign at the bottom, saving Grian's stuff and pleading for him not to hurt him, because hey! I saved your stuff! I'm your pal!
The whole conversation makes me sick, because Grian clearly isn't fully trying to kill Mumbo off. He wants to be friends with him, of course, but he can't kill him. Grian resorts to making pathetic attempts to drop him, but of course it doesn't work. He backs off the moment Mumbo tells him that he will join him if he kills him fair and square. Mumbo wants to join him, he wants to stay friends, but only if Grian does it fairly. Grian doesn't. He can't.
I'm skipping through everything to when Mumbo turns red because MUMBO ON HIS RED LIFE IS CONSTANTLY ON MY MIND BECAUSE OH MY GOD. This man is not used to this amount of bloodthirst. He's a killer, of course he is. His middle name is Killsalot god damn it! But he's not used to it being this much. He immediately goes insane, not hesitating to hurt, to explode, to push the limits. Seeing how Ren and BigB were scared of him if he even went NEAR them with something explosive, it filled him with power. "I like having this power!" he says, absolutely ecstatic of how he can do what he wants.
All this power comes with a cost, of course. Mumbo coming back to the place he called home, meeting face to face with Grian and Impulse. He shouldn't be here. They tell him that in the face. Mumbo tries to protest, to talk about about how he somewhat already was exiled already, but his voice gets quiet as the realisations hit him. He cant come home. Grian exiles him right in front of him, telling him that he should leave. He does, but not without doing what red names were meant to do. Destroy. Scare.
Back on the ghast bridge, Impulse and Grian are there. Mumbo doesn't hesitate to push Impulse off, laughing. Grian's upset, yelling at him while Mumbk tries to explain himself. Mumbk tries to do Grian's old tricks of breaking the floor beneath him, but he can't. Grian can now, though, not afraid to protect himself as he starts scaring Mumbo. All Mumbo fan do in turn is to apologise repeatedly, saying "sorry" over and over as if he didn't mean to do ehat he did, running away.
He keeps burning the flame. He keeps making the flame larger and larger and larger until its too much, until he burns himself down to ashes. He flies too close to the sun as he watches Jimmy die in front of him, realisations crashing over him after hitting his best friend of what he's done now, running away before turning back, hoping that he didn't follow. Grian did, though. He always does.
It ends with Mumbo getting stabbed in the chest as he feels himself dying. Not dying in the way that is on Hermitcraft, the way that it is back home. No. He's dying.
Mumbo has a constant theme with burning in LastLife. His first deaths relating to burning in lava, coming back permanently burning due to a glitch after his second one, his third happening right after exploding an end crystal right in front of him, his love for end crystals in the first place...
I like to associate him with a burning candle flame that just got too big, slowly burning himself down until nothing but a puddle of what once was remained.
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