Theories And Headcannons Pt. 24

Theories and Headcannons Pt. 24

So a week ago we got a little teaser from Martyn about hints for the next Life Series season, around an hour after we got another subtle clue from Cherrifire, a commissioned arist of Martyn and Grian for their thumbnails. Moving onto four days later where in a Phasmo stream with GIGS, Grian althought not explicitly, teased the recording of a certain something. That something most likely being the next installment of the Life Series as he previously stated during the aftermath of the Ender Cup, that the next season was in development. So now four months later, and with the release of that little crumb of information you would think it would be the last. But approximately an hour ago (of the time writing this), Scar drops a bombshell of information as a GIF of traffic lights blinking.

Effectively reinforcing the possibility of the next season arriving extremely soon as traffic lights is a predominant symbol of the Life Series with the three-life system of green, yellow, and red matching with the known pattern of traffic lights. Hence traffiblr also referring to the Life Series.

With the date of the next season of the Life Series been generally confirmed, the twist of this subsequent still remains unknown. But by disecting each post from credible sources (Inthelittlewood, Cherrifire and GoodtimewithScar), it's possible to gain a sliver of understanding about the next gimmick for this upcoming season.

Starting with Martyn's post, his reponse to a question regarding the Life series were a series of rhyming verses otherwise known as a couplet. His reponse goes as:

"Nope. Not a slither, not a slice, not a hint, not a price,

not a right, not a wrong, not a verse, not a song,

not a fork, not a list, not a fog, not a mist,

not a shine, not a spree, not a thing from me"

With lines and words like not a slither, slice, hint, verse, list and not a thing from me commonly used in other media to express a concept that is left unsaid or unexplained to conceal or hide information. Other phrases like not a price, right, wrong, song, fork, fog, mist, shine and not a spree seem unusual and seem only used to act as rhyming words. But since this couplet's rhyming patterns goes like (word) (rhyming word) (word) (rhyming word), words like price, wrong, song, mist and spree can be eliminated only leaving right, fork, fog and shine used for clues.

Words like fog and shine can be connected easily with the concept of revealing something concealed by layers of dense things with the good or "light". Maybe uncovering the lore of the Watcher's to the rest of the participants as the right path taken since the Watcher has a lasting cameo in the previous Life Series. It would be poetic as the fifth installment of the Life Series that the Watchers would return as an antagonist force. The way fork is incoporated into this theory is the mannered and dignified repute it carries where in the eleventh century, it was considered prestigous or vain to use a fork. Similar to the Watchers and the means they present themselves.

Other theories like @strychninesss 's double life 2 utilises the couplet's use of repition and pairs to conlclude the return of the soulmate gimmick with its repeatability and new possibilities with the pairing of new soulmates.

Our second poem arrived from Martyn's accomplice Cherrifire, with her reply to his cryptid poem was to produce another poem herself and that being:

"Oh, well in that case you're not getting a peep, not even a taste of the secrets I keep.

Of course, I could tell you all I know, but it's way more fun to give you a show.

Or perhaps this is all a trick, and Martyn’s just being a— very mean person.

Whatever it may be, you'll just have to wait and see."

With this poem following the rhythmic pattern of (Rhyming) (Rhyming), the couplet mainly focuses on the information Cherri deliberately chooses to withold and the her dilemma to diclose her details to fandom. In the end, she decides to hold the spoilers and express her intrest into the chaos that can produced with limited clues given before the said show begins.

Well the structure and the style of the poem is reminiscient of how the Watchers approach and address the members of Evolution SMP back in 2017. With the Watchers depicted as this all-knowing beings that can see everything and perceive all things, they often speak in this entitled mannerisim due to their privileged abilities. And with the legacy of the Watchers being continued but altered with every iteration or headcannon of them, they have commonly been altered into these beings that revel in the chaos and angst produced by the participants of the Life Series. This message could be a warning to the fans that the Watcher's could play a more major role compared to the Secret Keeper in Secret Life as a tribute to the four seasons and three years of the Life Series.

These statements revealed by Grian, Scar, Martyn and Cherrifire has just almost confirmed the arrival of the season five for the Life Series be very soon. Although there is the possibility Grian could be hyping us up for an entirely different video that collaborates with other mcytbers, evidence piles to point towards the next installment coming hopefully, next week.

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All links and references used are in the post and uh special thanks? regards? to @aethbeans and their twitter account that compiled messages from Scar's discord server regarding clues to the upcoming Life Series.

Oh COd I was scrambling to finish writing this one

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Theories and Headcannons Pt. 22

So new week, new theory about Doc's new poker game and the hermits decided to be used as the monarchs and joker for each type of deck. Innovated from the French-suited playing cards, Doc's poker deck has four suits, diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades, and each suiting having three court cards, King, Queen and Jack. This results in only twelve available spaces considering one hermit takes one court card each and leaves fifteen hermits unable to be represented by the cards. Nethertheless even with the limited representation of the hermits, each cards has its depth and lore.

Starting with the suit of diamond, has Doc representing its King, Gem representing its Queen and Scar representing its Jack. As diamonds is represented as a valuable material considering its bartering and trading value in Hermitcraft, being the main currency for shops, it's reasonable that Doc would be the face of Kings of Diamonds. Gem's reasoning is also obvious due to her talent considering both PVP and her building skills. Finally Scar, being the Jack of Diamonds is poetic due to his bartering (scamming) skills built from his charisma to trade for "diamond" tiered items with common items.

The court of Hearts is a different story considering its representatives are Rendog for the King, Falsesymmetry for the Queen and Bdubs as its Jack. With the symbol of Hearts often depicted as red and hearts in general epitomising the living flesh of a person, Ren as the King is perfect. As RentheKing in Hermitcraft Season Nine and the Red King back in Third Life, Ren deserves the position of King of Hearts. Second to the King of Hearts, is Falsesymmetry, the winner of Season's 10 demise. With hearts also depicting the life and soul of a person, it's also fitting for the winner to recieve the mantle of Queen of Hearts. The final court of Jacks is Bdubs, who in Season Nine of Hermitcraft was the assistant or right-hand man to RentheKing. Resulting in his title of the rank below the King, Jacks of Hearts.

With the court of Spades, majority of its court was already explained by Doc in his previous Hermitcraft 10 episode, (29) with the Jack of Spades being Mumbo, a spoon, Etho being definitively cool and the suit of Spades being objectively cool (in Doc's perspective), and Pearl fitting the role of Queen of Spades. But the reasonings run deeper than this besides Mumbo's spoon reasoning. Take Pearl, the Queen of Spades. Back in Season Nine, she was the Cleaning Lady, taking on jobs of cleaning chestmonsters and other messes with a price. Spades is often linked with the concept of cleaning so it was natural to pick Pearl. The final court card, Kings of Spades, is given to Etho and rightfully so because of his connections to Shade-E-E. Originally Shade-E-E was a "subscription service" and later evolved to a "gardening service" which entailed him using dirt and other blocks to create pixel artworks for the other hermits in saeson seven. And what else is connected to dirt, spades, hence the King of Spades being Ethoslab.

The final suit, Clubs, consist of King of Clubs being Xisumavoid, Queen of Clubs being ZombieCleo and Jack of Clubs being Grian. Although the listed hermits' connections to the suit of Clubs may be vague, there is a connection hidden between the layers of history the deck of cards retains. With majority depictions of a deck of cards using French-suited playing cards, other versions of the standard 52-card deck is found throughout multiple continents with German depications of the Club being an acorn. Acorns also being a symbol of strength and resilience, a trait Xisuma has constantly demonstrated throughout the decade Hermitcraft has been running. Cleo's connections of the suit of Clubs includes her role as an enforcing monarchy, the Queen, with a royal baton otherwise known as a sceptre being a symbol of royalty. Finally, Grian's relation to the Club are the multiple depictions of the suit of Clubs being of a plant. Plants and weeds like the clover and acorns are all edible to a range of bird species, both domestic and wild and with the fandom's collective decision to represent Grian has a human with avian features, it's his connections to birds that create his relationship with the Jack of Clubs.

These twelve court cards all with their representative hermits all have depth and lore leading their portrayal as the monarchs and Jacks of each suit.

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So this theory is finally here and I hope it made up for the multiple weeks without theories. Still have to cope with exams but soon I will be free from these shackles.

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burdigel

1 month ago

I CAN FINALLY READ FICS WITH THE EPILOGUE IM FREEEE

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burdigel

2 months ago

A digital comics for Omniscient reader's viewpoint done in black, white and yellow. A serene scene of Yoo Joonghyuk and Lee Seolhwa patrolling the city bathed in sun's light. It seems foggy and unstable, as if an illusion or a memory. Lee Seolhwa is glancing at stoic Yoo Joonghyuk, content with just being around.

A sudden explosion interrupts their patrol, and Yoo Joonghyuk in a rush grabs Lee Seolhwa by hand to run away.

It is only after they are safe that he notices and reluctantly lets go, apologizing. Lee Seolhwa is smiling, grabbing his hand herself instead: "Let's keep walking like that". A corner if the page is burned, leaving uneven edge.

A burned page again, but a new scene: Lee Seolhwa is talking to a patient she's treating, telling them that she will accompany them in chinese. Yoo Joonghyuk is intrigued.

He comes over when Lee Seolhwa is done, crouching near her.
Yoo Joonghyuk: "When did you pick up a translator skill?"
Lee Seolhwa: "I just know the language". She is smiling brightly at his curiosity.

Lee Seolhwa continues: "My mother was taiwanese. She always had stories about Taipei. I guess i just wanted to feel closer to her?". Behind her is her own memory, of a mother in a hospital bed smiling at her, petting her head. She keeps talking, and Yoo Joonghyuk watches her with the same loving eyes her mother did.

Lee Seolhwa, filled with emotions, asks him if he has any childhood memories to share, but Yoo Joonghyuk doesn't answer long enough to make her worry. He looks calm, if a bit sad in a bitter sweet way.
Yoo Joonghyuk: "I... Don't remember much about my childhood. Or anything at all, if i'm being honest? But..."

Behind them, night falls, golden stars appear on the sky. Yoo Joonghyuk continues: "I remember Mia. She was so tiny... I wanted to raise her right... So i worked a lot to afford everything she could ever need." Lee Seolhwa carefully asks him, if that's it, and he says, that it is all.But then asks her to tell more of her own stories, to which she obliges. Burned edges of the page almost hide her.

Burned corner leaves Yoo Joonghyuk faceless in the first frame, while Lee Seolhwa is looking at him lovingly. They are laying near the campfire, bathed in it's warm light. Lee Seolhwa is the one to propose: "Let's get married". Yoo Joonghyuk stutters, turning to her, asking if she's serious, to which she replies "Wouldn't joke about something like that".

Yoo Joonghyk kisses smiling Lee Seolhwa, in the background Lee Jihye is seemingly fighting Kim Namwoon for the chance to play some part at their wedding. To the side is Lee Hyunsung, he is smiling brightly. All the edges of the page a burned, almost cutting off Lee Seolhwa's and Yoo Joonghyuk's legs.

Some time passes again, and it seems to be peaceful. There are golden rings on both of their hands. They are attempting felting.
Lee Seolhwa: "Don't worry, i'm sure you'll do great. I learned felting before the scenarios.."
Yoo Joonghyuk looks the most relaxed he has ever being, wearing something other than his usual clothes, with yellow felt in hands and Mia hanging on his shoulder: "Were you good?"
Lee Seolhwa: "...Not really".
He snickers, while Mia is asking them for a duck.

The results are uneven: Lee Seolhwa's could look better, lopsided and flat, while Yoo Joonghyuk's, unsurprisingly, looks great. Lee Seolhwa is somewhat annoyed at grinning Yoo Joonghyuk calling her duck cute. Mia is just excited to have two ducks, she is asking Lee Seolhwa to make them into keychains. The atmosphere is so light and warm. And yet the edges are burned once again.

A shot from the back. They are walking through the city, Mia holding hands with Lee Seolhwa and Yoo Joonghyuk behind them. two ducks are hanging from Mia's backpack. Burned edges conceal Lee Seolhwa's body and parts of Yoo Joonghyuk's head, leaving Mia untouched. The background is unreadable, just a yellow glow.

A front view, now with their faces visible. Yellow light is slowly turning orange. Everyone looks happy, especially Yoo Joonghyuk. Burned edges occupy even more space now.

Lee Seolhwa pasues, looking back at Yoo Joonghyuk: "Too mesmerised to move?". He agrees. She is moving in to caress his cheek, a golden ring visible in the light that is slowly turning more orange. Burned edges still there, eating at the pages.

The page consists of two different, half burned pages. The upper one is Yoo Joonghyuk leaning in the touch, bathed in the warm orange light, as calm as ever. The lower, the pne which edge seems to already burned to ashes, is Yoo Joonghyuk from turn 1863. He is covered in scars, and the hand on his cheek is not Lee Seolhwa's but Kim Dokja's. Behind him, the light is almost red.

The page is burned to crisp. On the bright red background, Yoo Joonghyuk is standing motionlessly, endlessly tired and covered in scars. In front of him Kim Dokja is arguing with older Lee Jihye, he is holding his shoulder, while Lee Jihye is pointing at him.

The burned edges on the bright red background are eating at Yoo Joonghyuk, his lower body already burned. Kim Dokja is holding him by the shoulders. "Think of happy memories". Yoo Joonghyuk is slumped forwards, his face hidden.

Two tiny figures on a red background. It's Kim Dokja huggin motionless, unresponsive Yoo Joonghyuk.

I never meant to feel so dark and cold

@leejihye is back to sponsoring my alive time by commissioning me!!

the outline that makes the heart ache is by @leeseolhwa and the headcanons are from @directorofthefalselastact ! team effort indeed :3

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burdigel

1 month ago

Hellooo! I hope you aren't dead but I was just rereading your Scott and Grian watcher au and I just wanted to let you know that I think it's neat and I was thinking about it again today!!!

Not dead!!!

Suffering through uni exam revision (pictured) right now and otherwise. Absolutely losing it, one might say. Brain damaged enough that the only module I seem to understand is quantum mechanics.

Hellooo! I Hope You Aren't Dead But I Was Just Rereading Your Scott And Grian Watcher Au And I Just Wanted

But I’ve gotten a few messages like this and I just wanted to give some general updates about life things because I am still alive (especially as my Life Series hyperfixation feels like it might make yet another comeback this summer. Just have to push it down and lock in for exams first) and I really appreciate the messages :)). I really liked working on it and am thinking of maybe rebooting it and like actually thinking out a proper full story for it instead of just doing whatever came to mind. I’d love to fully develop this and have some ideas saved from last year.

I have an unfinished animation from last year too which I might post here at some point if I can find it and it isn’t too terrible. If I do manage to lose it over the life series again I’ll definitely do more stuff with that AU and hopefully some more animating :))

Will have a lot of time on my hand not long after exams as I’ll be recovering from top surgery. Been trying to get my life together this year and am currently also 6 months on T and have a referral for an ADHD diagnosis so lot of things going on. Obviously will let the ADHD do whatever it wants over summer but I’m hoping if I get medicated I can actually lock in properly during uni and still allow myself time to draw instead of feeling guilty about not working but then still not working :))

Anyway the more I’m thinking about it the more I want to do stuff for that AU so I fear I’m going to have to stop here lest I ruin my chances at revision as for some strange reason I am very easily distracted. Will hopefully be back on my nonsense in a month or so (if I live through my exams that is)

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burdigel

5 months ago

Headcannons and Theories Pt. 31

So the finale of Wild Life finished around a week ago and essentially Joel pummeled through the final five remaining contestants and ultimately taking the crown as the victor for the sixth (seventh) season of the Life Series and with the final wild card being a culmination of all the previous wildcards except the randomized hunger, it's a safe assumption that the Watchers considered this season a delicious successor to Secret Life.

With 18 members participating that garnered over 180 deaths (186), those dieties who watch over each and every season of the Life Series called the Watchers feast upon the chaos and grief emanating from the pain originating from the players and the multitude escapades caused by the series of wildcards and the improptu angst and interactions between alliances and allies. Although the Watcher's prescence isn't as prominent as Secret Life, (cough cough Taskmaster) there's still details and other aspects of the Watchers incorporated into Wild Life.

Some of these aspects could include the wildcards. As Grian the creator or constructor of the Life Series in general, as control and power over the orchestrated aspects of the Life Series. Like the wildcards, tasks and twists similar to the power of the Watchers. As watchers, the Watchers are able to probe and instigate but not directly influence the players like Scar and his tasks in Secret Life.

Take the immortal snails. Beings of incapable power able to break the player constraints and move in unncanny ways all in the conquest to murder the linked player taken in the form of a snail. An animal nortorious for its slowness and naivete commonly portrayed by popular media has the highest kill count throughout the whole season. Inspired by the theory from the Rooster Teeth Podcast in 2014 that was later popularised by a Reddit post in 2016, the whole premise is that you gain immortality and one million dollars in exchange for an immortal snail that indefinately hunts after you as it itself is also immortal. Tying in with greed and the gain of money all in trade for the eternal worry of death that lurks all around you. Threatening your legacy built from one step of carelessness.

Yet other aspects of the Watchers continue to persist into the subsequent sessions of Wild Life. Like the Trivia Bot. A gameshow-like bot that is most likely inspired by Mettaton from Undertale, suits with the Watchers' polar behaviour of sparking fun, distrust and a precursor to the chaos to the finale. Yet all this fun cluminates to the finale where the chaos continues to rise to the pinnicle of the season where all but one wild card are mushed together for one minute and 45 sec where it stops. And a message of "The ending is yours... Make it WILD" would be the second season in a row of the Watchers or some other external force signifying the beginning of the end.

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so ye here my summary of the watchers influence over wild life

(write side tangent about spider grian later )

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burdigel

3 months ago

"Huh? You Got A Weird Email From Me Yesterday? U-um, Yeah, About That... My Account Was Hacked, So You

"Huh? You got a weird email from me yesterday? U-um, yeah, about that... My account was hacked, so you can just ignore it."

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burdigel

1 month ago

Scenes from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, shown in eight horizontal panels. The first four are as follows:
1. Jung Heewon and Han Sooyoung rush to attack Kim Dokja after he has become the 73rd demon king. Lee Hyunsung and Yoo Joonghyuk stand closer to the screen, and the latter is holding the sword that will negate Dokja's multiple lives.
2. Kim Dokja facing off against the executioner inside the pub during the demon world revolutionary game scenario.
3. Kim Dokja and Jang Hayoung watch Yoo Joonghyuk spar with Breaking the Sky Sword Master in Murim.
4. Lee Hyunsung is supporting Kim Dokja while Yoo Joonghyuk and Yoo Sangah fight against Oedipus, Manu, and Surya during the Demon King Selection. Shin Yoosung's chimera dragon flies above them.

The second four are as follows:
5. Kim Dokja meeting Han Sooyoung from the 1863rd turn inside a dim room, lit only by Sooyoung's silver Unbroken Faith.
6. Yoo Joonghyuk fighting with Kim Dokja during the Proof of the Stars scenario. Dokja has activated both his demon king transformation and electrification, and the star rests on a pedestal behind them.
7. Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk hold up Heracles' spear together to throw at Ares, who is getting out of Heracles' cockpit. Next to them, Lee Jihye is fighting against the ship Argo.
8. Kim Dokja and the wanderers putting together Lee Sookyung's story as she lies on a hospital cot. Han Sooyoung takes hold of Dokja's wrist to help him write the parts he doesn't know.

the story i managed to create with all of you [2/4] [1]

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burdigel

4 months ago

Au where obito got a crush on the new guy (sukea) and is just a guy failure abt it.

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burdigel

11 months ago

BRO GUYS I JUST WATCHED DOC's NEW EPISODE and it seems like this theory is standing up. Framing Scar seems like Joel. Joel putting the sign claiming it wasn't him seems like Joel. Etho tinkering with the alarm seems like Etho. IT'S THE BOAT BOYS

Theoreisiosous and Headcannonous Pt. 13

So before Doc or the other hermits reveal who the ore snatcher was, I want to explain my theory that Etho and Joel or the Boatboys were the real culprits when stealing Doc's deepslate diamond ore.

My reasoning is that Etho being the technical or redstone genius he is, just wants to have some fun poking the goat as he's rarely seen online or posts anymore. And why Joel is also included, is his ability to imitate or emulate the styles and characteristics of other hermits. Take example of him posing as Etho when creating the simplistic statues of different hermits and keeping that facade for a few weeks.

So with this duo, it's possible for both of them to be capable of being the ore snatcher. With Etho's technical genius of swapping the ore with empty deepslate WITHOUT breaking the machinery and Joel's imitative techniques by framing hermits such as Scar as the ore stealer.

But there are some holes or intricacies in this theory that contradict what is considered to be cannon information in Hermitcraft. Some of these being that Etho would be careful or downright avoiding intricate redstone technology and he's being spending less time on Hermitcraft, and that the sneaky or stealthy style of the oresnatcher doesn't match Joel's style of messing with other hermits.

But it's still a theory.

Thank you to at_sage and Swiftflame15 documents on reddit.

(r/HermitCraft)

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermitCraft/comments/1dnealn/second_draft_of_ore_snatcher_thing_thoughts/ - at_sage

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermitCraft/comments/1dmx7zj/the_master_document_pun_lol/#lightbox - Swiftflame15

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burdigel

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