Part 2 of 4 of my monochrome Last Life Boogeyman Kill series! This is where I really started to play around with perspective— I actually did the ones with a longer canvas dimension last, and I still have two more total to do overall as of now, but I think this grouping has most of my favorites overall :’]

As per usual, I’ll update the original posts with updated links as I post each part!

Part 1

Part 2 [You Are Here!]

Part 3

Part 4

DTIYS!

I've been meaning to do one of these for a whiiiile, and now I have! Queen of Hearts and lives, and her Red Knight!

Rules under the cut :D

Nothing big nothing special, these rules are actually just to explain how lax this whole thing is:

Doesn't have to be a perfect redraw in any way! Really, so long as you keep it lizzie and ren and the card theme, the card can 1: look however and 2: they can be doing whatever you want! Doesn't have to be exactly like I did it

Pleaaaase tag me in what you do pleaaaase

No end date, if you see this in a year and want to draw it, go ahead

You don't gotta follow me to do this either, tbh. I just like cards and fairydog

Uhhh have fun!

Someone make something poetic about the main reds of the three seasons. A king, a wizard, and a witch

The first Aha and Yeehaw on the Hermitcraft server.

Of the four people who participated in the final battle in last life, only one has not won yet. Scott, Pearl, and Martyn all have won, either because of that fight or in the series after. The only person who has not yet won is Rendog. Now, in this essay, I will explain why Ren will be the winner of the next series...

Stick around because my next essay will be about why Martyn and Ren winning one after another is treebark crumbs!

Doesn’t matter if it’s DoubleLife or Hermitcraft. To Ren, Pearl is a witch ❤️

"i shall give you my sword, my lady, and everything that i have."

knight ren of the fairy fort for day thirty! i was really struggling with the colors here. don't know how happy i am with them.

May Patreon Commission for @nethertrolls !

I thought I'd just be missing Renchanting Duo when I got into Last Life. New season, different alliances, etc. etc. But then Martyn went out of his way to try and form a secret alliance with Ren in Session 2, gave him nether wart, helped him out. And now I'm on Session 4 and Martyn's at it again, stopping by for a secret post-session meeting with Ren, speaking in cryptic sentences and using a Lore Voice and being all sneaky. Like. Here I thought it was a Third-Life-Only thing, but NO, these two rp-ing fools just gravitate back towards each other even though they have other alliances and it's almost hysterical. They're both being absolutely dramatic as all hell together and it's great. Not to mention I saw a post about them being all buddy-buddy again in recent Double Life episodes even though I haven't watched DL yet.

Like - IRL they've become such awesome friends thanks to 3L and it's giving me so much joy, and on camera they can't help but let it shift over to the Traffic series through secret alliances and dramatic team-ups and inevitable loyalty. I can't with these dorks omfg

(This was made back when Last Life ended)

It happens like this: you die, you see the fate that befalls your killer alongside your dead enemies friends? acquaintances and then you fall.

The place you’re in is void of anything but a white light. You’d call it blinding, but you’re not sure it can hurt the eyes of someone who is already dead.

It feels as if you should fall asleep, you’re tired (so tired,) and yet, you hear a voice.

“Disappointing. Who was once a murderous king could not kill him, and died to something so easy to defeat.”

Disappointing. It might’ve been true, that the red king fairy’s knight shadow hound was done in by a zombie after all that fighting, but “hey! I tried my best, dude!”

“But you failed.”

So you are stuck with a rude, unfamiliar voice in the middle of nowhere. Crud. ‘This could be worse,’ you try to reassure yourself, ‘you could be alone in a burning tower.’

“Still, you have served us better than the listener. It is expected that a hand is lesser than a king.”

“My ha—Martyn? Served you…? I don’t—Who are you?!”

“You need not to know. You only need to comply.”

“I don’t understand, my dude—what do I have to do? Why should I comply? I don’t even know you!”

You don’t know what they’re talking about or your Hand, Martyn, got himself into. You don’t know what you’ve gotten yourself into. You are not given an answer.

“It will all be explained in the next time, and then the shadow will flourish.”

The image of your friends traitors hand alliance come to mind. ‘We will flourish…? But how, when we’re already..!’

You ask for an answer. You scream for an answer. You call out for help, and yell at it to return. It does not.

You fall.

And you fall.

And you fall.

And you fall.

And you fall.

And you fall.

And

you

fall.

(You finally, finally land.

It does not hurt.

The memory of a home and a once beloved army, with the exception of your secret-keeping Hand, fade away.

The memory of a burning tower and a failed alliance almost seem like a dream. Almost.

…

You know what you have to do.)

My thoughts on Martyn’s Limited Life lore so far

“Every grain that passes

Comes to rest

A pillar built

Another test

These fickle feuds

Unguided hand

Forever moulding

In the sand

The thrill to kill

The fleeting gill

All washed ashore

To settle still

A single day

And then it’s gone

Doomed to repeat

Our will be done”

That’s what flashes on screen in Martyn’s episode 4 at 12 hours, 39 minutes and 2 seconds, right after the timer flashes 11:33:09 (the three numbers are divisible by either 1, 3, 11, or itself, does that mean anything?)

This implies that something big happened off-camera and Martyn is hiding something, because that’s a whole one hour not shown. Even weirder is how no one seems to have any footage of that.

I’ve only really watched Etho and Martyn PoVs so far, and I’ve been unable to find evidence if Martyn doing anything suspicious at that timing with Martyn roughly two hours behind Etho. (boogey victim+triple tnt victim+scott and bdubs kill)

As far as I’m aware, Jimmy is the only one of Martyn’s previous allies who have reached that timing (Cleo’s POV is currently unavailable, so I am unaware of anything going on at that time. Scar, although not an ally, skipped over that timing in his timer). At that timing, his plans to extort something from the Nosy Neighbours are interrupted by Pearl. In my memory, joined the shadow clan in Last Life, which could be an interesting fanfic thing as Jimmy is heavily related to Scott.

The first four lines don’t mean much to me, it could just be a way to emphasise that time is only running out and it is permanent. I’m not sure about what the ‘pillar built’ refers to. This could be a DLSMP fishing rod reference, an LLSMP end crystal reference and perhaps much more. My main theory is that this pillar refers to Scott’s MLG, as he was tested in LLSMP via end crystal. Once again, it seems he has failed this test, because, hear me out: He was not willing. Their will was not done.

After all, the Shadow liked Ren because he was willing. The Shadow would’ve preferred Ren winning over Scott. Scott’s test of the end crystal was a test of will. His unwillingness to kill and boogey-kill caused the Shadow to target Scott. And yet again, Scott defies. Scott refuses to die. Scott evades and Scott lives.

The first two lines could also be a reference to LLSMP thing about the Shadow consuming the souls of the dead or how every day passes eventually and becomes the next using the (grain=grian meme). Maybe it even refers to how many places the bread bridge passes suffer destruction.

Now, in video time, at 11:33 (I know that this doesn’t matter when it comes to other POVs as lore is Martyn-specific, but it is fun) Martyn, Jimmy (LLSMP ally), Etho (3rdLSMP & LLSMP ally) and Scott (current ally) respectively are saying ‘I want my time back’ agitatedly, trying to kill Martyn on the Bad Boys Manor (or just defend Joel), watching the chat announce Martyn’s death to fall/ender damage while fighting Tango and watching the chat announce Martyn’s death to the triple tnt kill.

In response to Martyn at video time 11:33, I want to talk about ‘These fickle feuds, unguided hand’. I know this could be a reference to the absence of Ren, who Martyn has had a track record of allying with, and I don’t deny that theory. In fact, I agree with it. The Shadow has been shown to rather like Ren. However, I wish to point out that Martyn explained he had only wanted to stress Joel out, and that he hadn’t wanted to kill him, but only decided he wanted to do so because everyone else was doing it and well, Martyn really is that kind of guy. Fickle basically means to switch loyalties or motives fast, which could apply to his sudden change in motive when feuding with Joel. Unguided Hand could refer to how the Listeners did not tell him what to do, and it was not their Will being done. ‘Forever moulding in the sand’ could refer to how all of these fights have to do with the want and need for time and perhaps how Martyn became the Hand in response to the Sand People.

Which brings us to the next part! We can also assume the verse is meant to be ‘Forever moulding/In the sand/The thrill to kill/The fleeting gill/All washed ashore/To settle still’ instead of ‘Fickle feuds/Unguided hand/Forever moulding/In the sand’. This could refer to how the passing of limited time moulds the need and the thrill of killing and also to how Scott was the last green among many yellows. Although I am unsure as to what ‘The fleeting gill’ may mean, fleeting means something lasting for a very short period of time. Did he mean ‘The fleeing gill’? Does this refer to Scott the merman dying underwater? Does this refer to Scott’s skin being ‘corrupted’ by coral? Speaking of which, the Shadow is opposed to Scott (if I remember rightly), and the coral is the symbol of the partnership between the H2Bros, which is…interesting to say the least because Scott told Martyn to kill him, mimicking 3rdLSMP. Is this an example of Scott being willing? ‘All washed ashore, to settle still’ could refer to Scott respawning on land, and how the beef between the Shadow and Scott is not done. This could also however mean that Scott’s willingness to die has caused the Shadow to reconsider but not completely. The Shadow can Hear the similarities between Dogwarts and the H2Bros. but is not totally trusting of Scott because Scott is hated. By literally everyone. The Watchers hate him, Pearl hates him, the server is after him, the Listeners hate him, and by extension, the Shadow hates him. But that’s why the Shadow could be reconsidering. There is drama to be had. However, the words ‘washed ashore’ invoke the imagery of shifting, washed sand, which could refer once again to Scott’s death, or imply that something big happened at 11:33:09 on the timer (e.g. killing someone, someone dying, someone going red). This could also imply that arguments and disagreements from previous games are not yet settled and that Martyn may attempt to kill Grian, Scar, etc.

He could even kill Scott again.

The last four lines are pretty standard lore stuff talking about the nature if the games and of course, the last line.

Our Will be Done.

Their will be done indeed.

Finally, part 4! Sorry this took so long; these have been sitting in my folder for while because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to re-do or tweak some of them, but I think it’s better I just share them before they inevitably never get touched again hehe

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 [You are here!]

@frogsquire i actually was talking about the ren and joel connections yesterday with the help of our good friend vampireautism but basically

so obviously we can make the easy connection of dogboys. ren rendog [his name, his skin, how he refers to himself ect ect] vs joel smallishbeans [its generally the army of dogs and how important they were to his 3rd life character as the lone wolf who was loyal to no one but himself]

but loyalty between the two of them is SO good. because ren is known for his loyalty. he has it in all of his seasons - martyn and how it was the two of them to the end. lizzie and how she was his queen and he didn't harm her even after they went separate ways. bigb and how he trusted him and they were a team no matter what was going on on the side.

but joel is different. joel is more well known for his being alone - in 3rd life, he was, like i said before, a lone wolf. he put up his flag for the red army, but it was convenience, not loyalty. and maybe that's where this loyalty thing seems to break apart, but it doesn't. because ren gives his loyalty early. immediately, even. he needs someone else to be there with him. he works best with a partner.

but joel doesn't need a partner. not like ren does. so we go to last life.

in last life, joel and scar were set up to be partnered. and i think joel was ready to give his loyalty to scar. but he hadn't yet. <- actually i haven't watched that episode in a hot min but he might have actually. i don't remember if joel was or wasn't going to try to kill scar but im p sure scar was going to kill him. if joel wasn't going to kill him then like. bangs on the walls are you listening to me. that was the beginning of his loyalty.] but the thing is that joel then turns red and they can't be partners because it's not allowed and-

joel was turned away. he was going to give his loyalty- maybe he already had - and was turned away. in fact . do you even know how fairydog that could have been. scar had lives. joel only had the one. lizzie had lives. ren had two. he could have given one. she DID give one. scar and joel's partnership could have continued on. lizzie and ren's partnership did continue on.

whatever. who even cares. whatever. anyway

here's where stuff gets really fun. double life. loyalty is coded into the game. they give you partners - hand them to you on a silver platter. joel didn't need a partner in 3rd life. he had dogs. in last life, the person he wanted to be his partner pushed him away. in double life? he has etho. and he's loyal. the ship, the shirt, the amount of care he shows in his way. he isn't like ren in the way that he'll bow and promise his life and his love and his everything. joel his rough around the edges, and so his his loyalty. but its there and it's REAL.

when the ship burns, everything burns, because that was the image of his loyalty, and you can't get rid of that without paying for it.

[mars mentioned "it's you and me to the death" versus "if the ship burns everything burns" and like. you get it. you get it.]

and then - and this is the big one - limited life. his loyalty is so... here for this one. and unfortunately, ren isn't. anyway.

he teams up with jimmy immediately. he teams up with grian so soon afterwards. they're the bad boys and the bad boys bread bridge and - and the team, like i said, is rough around the edges. joel's loyalty isn't kindness. it's friendship and more. it's "i'll kill for you" and he does. it's "i'll die for you" and him TRYING.

because that's the thing. his loyalty can be giving up everything. because when he's loyal to someone, they're everything to him.

sound familiar?

had a theory i came up with at like 3 am which essentially goes: dlsmp!ren is being posessed by llsmp!ren who was posessed by 3lsmp!ren who was possesed by hc!ren (who may have been posessed by the emperor dude at the time 3lsmp aired?? i'm not sure it's been a while)

i have reasons for this but it's currently 5 am and it doesn't really make any sense whatsoever, i'm just putting it out there cause the idea of a tri-posessed ren is a funny image in my head

I’m now officially all alone.

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And with this fifth and final piece, the saga of the Shadow Queen and her loyal Knight comes to its tragic end.

scene redraw from @chrisrin 's incredible last life amv!

click for better quality <3