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The Watchers Side Stories

I did it. I did the thing. I wrote a little short story. And I’ll keep all of them in one place.

They will be under a work titled “The Watchers Side Stories”, and each chapter will be labeled with what series it’s from. I am not going to keep up the chapter titles are lyrics thing with the side stories, because that would just be way too much.

The first chapter, Cinnamon and Cooked Apples, has already been posted! (It’s a Flower Husbands one)

A lot of people hc that the redstoners eat redstone like goofy lil guys

I like to think that because Mumbo, Tango or doc ect. Have eaten so much redstone that it lingers in their systems and they emit a low redstone frequency like a 2-5. This was discovered when mumbo leaned against some tnt and it lit, fortunately he has changed all his tnt to respond to the highest output of redstone. Tango stepef on a line of redstone with his bare feet and triggered a machine to start too early.

Not only that, but their fingertips are also stained red and random strangers, sometimes, think they murdered someone.

Eating redstone I would imagine tastes like a button battery but with a sweet raspberry copper after-taste. Which is why it's so often than not what mumbo or doc may eat redstone when they haven't had any actual food in awhile.

Doc also found out the hard way that you should not snort it, he never goes into detail about it, but apparently, it's like a nightmare in a red tinted filter. Tango ended up snorting it a week after finding this out and further reinforced doc's point.

Xisuma is obviously concerned about the redstone hermits, considering how much they know about the effects of redstone. He's also concerned at how many of them know what button batteries taste like.

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I need someone to share their stash of etho chat screenshots. Or even any hermit/life series member

I really wanna send them as reaction images 🐌👍🏼

Here's my current collection so far but it's very sad

Sometimes I like to imagine an alternate universe where the dsmp members weren't...yk...and they eventually did a collab w the hermits and stuff

Esp lookin forward to grian dreamslayer angst and possibly jschlatt and grian shenanigans (idk why but they'd just seem like such a chaotic power duo lmao) also the sleepybois Inc simping over grian n mumbo like whdhwjajsb

Not to mention Tommy (and also prob tubbo) being lizzie and Joel's child lmao

Also imagine C!ranboo and c!grian???? Watcher and enderman hybrid hello????

Philza, Jimmy and grian???? The bird bois hello???? Add the fact that there is a headcannon where mumza is a watcher?????? Imagine the lore!!! The headcannons!!!! The fanart!!!!! ANIMATIONS!!!!!

But alas, such fantasies shall always remain as fantasies

Such a shame truly

*sighs dramatically*

I just saw an animatic to this song about desert duo lmao

I want them worse when they’re with each other.

I want them to be negative influences on one another.

I need them to take one look at the other and know in their heart that there is no saving them. They are a doomed, twisted, tragic relationship that will lead to one of them hurting and killing the other. But for now, what they have is so passionate, so intensely intimate, they can’t bare to give it up until it’s forcefully ripped from their cold, perished hands.

I want the survivor to mourn the loss of something putrefyingly terrible because they will never be able to recreate the experience with another. I want the most toxic yaoi love possible.

I want them to look deeply into eachother’s eyes, holding the back of the the others head, as they speak in a tone like a wedding vow, that they promise they will never part, they will never escape, they will never be so happy, they will never be so miserable without the other.

In my favourite line from The Crane Wives song, Tongues & Teeth,

“I will only break your pretty things, I will only wring you dry of everything.”

“I will poison all your happy thoughts, I will love you like the ashes in my cigarette butts”

They are living so closely on the same wavelength that they are inseparable. They are menaces when they work together, one would burn civilizations to the ground for the other if they so desired. They would do anything for the other if only they asked. They annoy each other to no end. The are in love. They are in loathing.

They are so intensely passionate and obsessed, there is no way out but death. And one of them will die, soon, I’m sure. It’s only ever a matter of time. But they have the present, they have this wild inferno of the here and now, and they will not waste it.

Noooooo

i imagine the reveal goes something like

jinshi: “maomao im actually the…. im the emperor’s—“

maomao: “son. yeah i know”

jinshi: “-brother”

maomao:

jinshi: “im the WHAT”

Stray Concepts By Us Crazies LOL

Hi-hey-hello, my Lumenfolk! (thats what im calling you sillies now) (PLEASE DONT JUDGE ME FOR THAT,,)

So just for any missing context of any sort, I copy pasted some scraps of notes about LUMEN :D idk I just felt like it. Warning it might be a lot of scrolling so umm beware!!

If I remember to do so, this MIGHT be updated!!!!!

CHAPTER NAMES:

CH 0: The Watchers' Apprentice

CH I: Curse Of The Desert

CH II: A Tale Of The Honorable

CH III: Wicked Witch Of The Moon

CH IV: Ticking Whispers

CH V: A Rather Lonely Sunflower

THE LOST PAGES: April Is For Apocalypse

CH VII: Of Cards and Cars

CHAPTER ∞: Our Will Be Done

Chapter 0 is an introduction to the main plot, as WC is really excited to see how the Life Series goes. Chapter ∞ is the very end.

Both take place in the Watcher Realm

Throughout all of Chapter 1 (AKA Third Life), the player solely plays as Grian. At the rare times in which he sleeps/is alone, the Watcher Child visits Grian, only confusing him further ("Get out of my head, please!")

After Grian jumps from the cliffside at the end of Third Life, the WC joins the Watchers again. At first, it seems like they're cheering that Grian won and that the Life Series were a success. But at the end of Chapter 1, after the celebrations, it is revealed that the WC doesn't approve of the Life Series as much as before Third Life.

The WC vowed to make sure the player they chose from their tarot cards would win. They plucked another card from the pile… "THE STAR".

Chapter 5, Secret Life, has the most Watchers moderating and controlling it because of what happened in April (The Lost Pages---Real Life's Malfunction)

Chapter 6, Wild Life, will be the LEAST controlled by the Watchers. This will be because of one of the two undecided reasons:

Option A: The Lifers (aka mainly Grian) broke the system and caused the Watcher Realm to malfunction

Option B: Same as Option A, but it was the Watcher Child who did it.

You can change the background plot as Watcher Child; for example, in Double Life, maybe Watcher Child causes Scar to realize that he's literally being cheated on and he goes to join the Broken Hearts Club!

The Watchers have many forms, but two that stand out are specifically:

Creature Form:

The Watcher takes up the form of a humanish creature, but it still looks alien. It has no face. The watchers' talking sprites will be represented via Eyes.

They will be differentiated by the shape/form of those eyes.

Pure Form:

Lovecraftian Cryptid. Never goes well for mortal eyes.

If you see it, you will probably go blind.

REAL LIFE'S PROMINENCE EXPLAINED:

Real Life would be a "failed experiment" of the watchers, hidden to the world and erased from all the memories of the lifers---all except Cleo.

See, while you're playing through the game, it'll be a free roam world whenever you're in the middle of a quest which requires you to go somewhere. Hidden (but also more out in the open) around the Secret Life map will be these torn out papers from an unnamed Watcher's journal, who was documenting how Real Life went. So the player is aware that these papers exist, the first one will be given to you, and you'll have a side quest to find the rest.

Once you collect all the papers, you go on to complete Secret Life (as Scar, since the Watcher Child is watching from his perspective, like how they do with all the other winners). When Secret Life is over, you'll be notified of an option in the MENU to play Real Life, aka The Lost Chapter. Real Life will have an old timey, brown worn down filter to it, as you will be playing through Cleo's Memory---the only other live proof that Real Life exists.

The reason that A. these papers are torn out from a journal and B. only Cleo remembers Real Life is because remember, Real Life was a failed experiment. (Remember how Real Life really only lasted one episode? That's why it was failed---it wasn't prolonged, and to the Watchers, it wasn't very entertaining, either)

The Watchers thought that the failure of Real Life was a clear weakness to their everlasting power, so they simply got all of the Lifers and removed their memories... but before they could end the series, Cleo had already won. The main and number one rule in The Life Series of Experiments (I literally just made that name up on the spot) is that all winners, no matter what, will remember the series they won. So they forgot that they couldn't erase Cleo's memory.

So, Cleo is not bound to the Watchers like the other Lifers are. And thus, she remembers.

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