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Grian three-ish years ago: hey Ren meet my friend Martyn. he plays fortnite

Ren a couple days ago: Martyn, I cannot bear to think of a universe where our souls are not tied. We're the earth and the moon, pulled into continual and unceasing orbit to one another. In your absence I become a lesser man. I will destroy the fabric of the world to bring you along with me, ignore the rules of the game. You will carry my banner, I will carry your soul.

Grian a couple days ago: hey what the hell

Divorced Quartet, i miss you

Its like you're still here

ib GOOMYLOID // i miss wild life

More double life soulmates in a silly style!! (^_^)

This thingy . I had fun doin this 🫶

Big dogs

Adrenaline was pumping through every bit of Martyn’s body. He was determined to steal the kill from Gem’s crew. They couldn’t stop him. He could even call them out if it was one of their tasks. He was really desperate for a correct guess. The relief that filled him when he guessed Tango’s task was, well, amazing. He grinned as he remembered Tango’s anguished face. It was perfect. He absent-mindedly followed Scott to the portal. He was excited to say the least. Charged with energy, he jumped in. The portal sucked Martyn in, plopping him onto an obsidian platform. Without thinking he walked forward, slipping on the edge. Soon enough he found himself falling. Falling into the endless void. He was in shock. His mind couldn’t process the fact that he fell off the platform. Martyn’s body ached more and more as he fell deeper into the void. Eventually he couldn’t take it anymore. 

Inthelittlewood fell out of the world

Joel fails miserably

Inspired by @your-daily-dose-of-caffeine's fanart

The winds picked up as Joel climbed higher and higher, threatening to push him over the edge any minute. 98….99….100. As he placed the last block, he took a moment to think about what he was about to do. He could hear the muffled yelling from his friends gathering down beneath him, Martyn was slowly climbing up the pole, ready to take a guess at his task. He could almost hear Grian’s protests to ‘be careful’. Joel knew Grian was anxious. Why was he scared again? It wasn’t like Grian’s the one up here. He shook his head, clearing any thoughts that would prevent him from completing his task. Joel needed this. It was almost like someone was watching him, not from below, but from above, egging him to jump. Egging him to fall. Egging him to DIE. Joel jumped. The wind grew stronger and stronger at each minute of his fall, whistling in his ear. He could feel the pressure of the atmosphere getting stronger. He fumbled to get his water bucket out of his inventory. Why didn’t I have it in my hand in the first place?! I’m such a blummin idiot.  I should’ve come prepared. I’m such a- Pain shot through his legs, his consciousness was fading, he could hear Grian’s anguished scream, the audience was in shock, He missed the water! I can’t believe he missed the water!  Someone..someone was laughing, laughing at him. He struggled to look up to find the culprit,  just to see a black figure with looming wings, all his eyes (eyes?) were filled with humour. The figure resembled someone he knew, someone he thought he could trust. “Grian?” Joel muttered. And then he passed out.

The sensory overload of having you're entire past, present, and future dissected in front of your eyes

Snippet Saga 5:

Underworld Saga: No Longer You

Close Ups:

Sketch & Base Lining:

Welcoming in a few of our more prominent members of the Isles.

• Joel Beans, the still so-called temporary head of the Isles for the past 20 years. He's grown cold and distant to most outside of his love for his son. A well hidden paranoia has set in, those around him and trying to dethrone him effective in having him have his guard on high at all times.

• Hermes Mythos-Beans, the loosely-titled prince of the Isles, he's become something of a symbol for the creation of the new-era of the Isles. He's seen more with his artwork or instruments rather than with any sort of political or fighting scenes. He tries hard to uphold padre's name and even harder to keep his father safe as much as he can.

• Eddie Mythos, a loved and respected man of the Isles. He was once a cherished father figure to many of the Kestrals & still so for some pirates outside of the Faction. Since his passing, he still remains a quite positive memory among any pirates who knew him in life.

• Scott Denholm, the last survivor of the grand-standing family name. He's more away from home than not nowadays, tending to be one to keep others at arms length. Since his abrupt return and prolonged stay on the Isles, he's made a face for himself of being a major supporter of the left-behind Mythos family.

• Owen Orange, a charismatic and eerily persuasive character on the Isles. She's not shy to voice her thoughts, clear on how he views Joel as some undeserving intruder on their Isles. Many find it hard to say no to him and she's become rather savvy at rallying people to her side, however he may have that play out.

• Martyn Woods, a snappy and stubborn member. Many have noticed an odd shift in his personality since the first Fall of the Isles. Most attribute it a reaction to such an event or to the rumored rejection & built rivalry of sorts between him & a certain ex-Heron captain.

Important faces seen during the journey through the sirens.

• Siren Joel: an imposter's face plastered on a monster. An uncanny resemblance to the partner of our story's Captain.

• The true face of the lead siren, it's disguise falling off after finding the danger they're in.

• Another captured siren, baring a striking resemblance to their captor's long-passed partner.

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Pt. 1 || Pt. 2 || Pt. 3 || Pt.4 [Here] || Pt. 5

As it now stands, I am done with the character sketch line up. Up next is the pennings which are going great and then I can start exploding with my nonsense <3.

I did rush the out-of-disguise designs of the sirens but I will clean them up in the pennings.

As always, questions and comments are always appreciated and my askbox is wide open for them.

『Beast of Dogwarts,

Survivor of the Land.

War be upon ye

The King and his Hand』

Inktober Day 27: Beast

Full page, flat pen, sketch

I miss them

Where's my fucking dog

Rens got fleas, pass it on

Inktober Day 22 Scratchy

Oh no-

Martyns got fleas, pass it on

Pspsps under the cut the short bit of writing I made for this

It's very much a rough draft and there were changes made in the comic but.

Ya know. The thoughts

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"You called for me?"

"Aye. On your knees, me hand"

And Martyn dropped.

Ren took a step forward.

"I have some questions for you, Hand"

Martyn kept his eyes on his King, holding steadfast.

Ren took out his axe. He saw his reflection in its metal.

"Would you kill for me?"

"Yes, my King"

Ren took another step towards Martyn, holding the axe's blade hovering to his Hand's throat.

"Would you die for me, Hand?"

Martyn did not hesitate. He kept his eyes focused on Ren.

"Yes, my King"

Ren kneeled in front of Martyn, the axe pushing more into him.

Martyn would be lying if he said that he wasn't nervous. He'd be lying if he said he was sure that Ren's axe wouldn't be pushed further into him.

Rens voice became low & suffocating.

"Should I desire it, would ye allow your King to behead ye to display it as a trophy of the Red Army?"

Ren was an odd one, Martyn thought.

But that thought was drowned out immensely by the dozens of others spiraling around that head of his. Ones he wouldn't dare admit to a soul out loud.

The axe felt more as a hand closing around Martyn's neck.

With a shaken breath, Martyn still answered.

"Yes, My King."

Though his were obscured, Ren bore into Martyns eyes, searching for hesitation. Uncertainty. Disloyalty.

But his search was unfruitful. And Martyn was unwavering.

Though it was just a few moments, the silence felt like eternity.

Ren lowered the axe, the faintest line of red being drawn away from it.

While he set the weapon onto the stone beneath them, Ren found himself comfort being set into the crook in martyns neck. That faintest of red emitted the metalic scent of blood and Ren could feel Martyns heart pounding like mad.

Martyn could find no words in the silence. Just the hyperawareness of his Kings weight echoing his racing heart. More thoughts had flooded but they would remain as locked away as the rest.

The King breathed in heavily.

"I am beyond honored to have yer loyalty, Martyn."

The Hand breathed out a shallowed sigh.

"The honor is mine to be by your side, Ren."

.

I don't know man I tried writing and got possessed by something

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I don't know man I tried writing and got possessed by something

Man the Winter really do be Red huh

I’m imagining big dog martyn wearing this

With dog ears

Gemcyt Rejuvenated jimmy headcanon

First some explanation

The color of a gem can give you a good indication of what their personalities are because of the way gems are made by the diamond putting their essence into their creations resulting in the gem inheriting looks powers and personality traits from their creator 

All the diamonds contribute to gem making process so a single gem usually is a combination of diamond traits it’s just that the mixture is uneven so the diamond that contributes more is the one that they get more from 

 An example of a gem that is a mix of multiple diamonds would be holly blue age she is a light blue with purple hair meaning the diamonds who’s essence was used to create her are pink white and blue

if it is a green gem then they have similar personalities to and even look like blue diamond and yellow diamond just like a red gem would be like pink diamond and yellow diamond 

Powers and roles are also a good way to glean information about a gem

blue gems are elites that can control water and ice they are mellow but they let their emotions stew and spill over 

Yellow gems make up much of the military and are technicians they are rational dutiful but also blunt

Pink gems are immature but empathetic the roles they take are entertainers and artists they seem to have an easier time shape shifting (their is a theory I’ve seen that they have fire powers but pink diamond never demonstrated it despite gems with pink essence having that ability)

White gems are perfectionists and self centered and are very high ranked 

white gems or gems that are lighter shades of the colors have high positions the lighter blue gems are higher than others(aquamarine and sapphire) while the darker shades or  mixed with to many different colors while valuable are not as high on the hierarchy( lapis and holly blue agate) also dark yellow or gems that are a yellow combo with pink and blue are common soldiers but topazes are a lighter shade of yellow than other yellow gems and also have a higher ranking than jasper who is orange

So Color is a good thing to keep in mind when making a gem au 

Using the information we can guess what their factory settings are 

Jimmy is a blue gem but is lighter than the average lapis and a little bit of green so if he was hit with a rejuvenator then I think his base personality would be like the sheriffs from empires season 2 but the negative traits turned up 

From white he has a I can do no wrong attitude 

From yellow he gets his stubbornness 

From blue he gets petty ness and elitism 

It sounds worse than it is he acts like an upper crust gem only sticking around because grian is a higher ranking than him but he ignores the lesser gems and gross organic life surrounding him

In order to get him back they need to jog his memory and for use to figure out what needs to happen to get him back we should make a back story here is my take

As soon as he emerged he was placed in a group of lapis they acted very much like mean lapis and nice lapis from the show very snide with lots of high school mean girl energy 

 but after he majorly screwed up on a terraform project he was sent to reeducation and when he returned they turned on him he became an outcast on the other side of the snide remarks 

and because of that realization once he reformed he made a change to his form by adding a veil he tried to hide his face out of shame but he also had hope that if he tried to get back in to the group he would eventually be excepted back but no matter what he tried he messed it up 

After three major failures the empire had given up on him and he was to be harvested but fortunately that was where he met a captured rebel martyn who he bonded with 

While they were waiting to be harvested they joked around and martyn made a joke about jimmy but to jimmy’s suprice he was not hurt by it because it didn’t feel malicious and like he was excluded 

he found he liked being the butt of the joke and opened up so when other rebels came for martyn Jimmy was offered a place on the team

Cut to current day and he doesn’t have his memories so In order to jog his memory he needs to get a slice of humble pie which won’t be hard to pull off because he is naturally clumsy but it can only be done by grian

Because if he is humiliated by a gem he sees as bellow him then he will pretend he didn’t hear the comments but if it is by an equal or superior then he will move on to the vail stage 

Then he will progress the veil stage and to get back his memories he needs to be put in a situation where he is emotional done and is with a gem lower on the totem pole that makes fun of him and he is ok with it 

Heavily inspired by @marblegroves Gemcyt art

Pjo au Cleo

Cleo is the oracle but not just because she’s a red head artist like Rachel Elizabeth dare 

I just think the idea of her having to have someone fallow her with a mattress or hand to catch her after she’s done with the prophecy is hilarious 

because I’m imagining that it’s a mandatory job that all campers have to do in shifts and Martyn hates it

without fail he is always a no show when it’s his turn and he is downright shameless in his blatant ditching 

on the one and only occasion he did show she actually had a prophecy and he didn’t even try to catch her but he came up with a good excuse to get out of trouble 

after that day Cleo loathed him and petitioned for him to never be allowed to have oracle duty again at this point the counselors were ready to give up trying to get martyn to show and cleos word was the last nail in the coffin and as you can imagine martyn was ok with the erangment

And So martyn won the battle but Cleo would not let him win the war because she may be a mortal oracle but if she was a demigod her mom would totally be nemesis and we know it

My headcanons fallowing jimmy’s last episode

The entire time jimmy has been 15 and hit puberty very late just at the end that is why he jumped at the chance to have a mentor

also explains his rivalry with Joel in Greek myths gods are rather immature something about having enough power to do what ever you want with no consequences makes gods act like hormonal teens 

I think this jimmy is evo Jimmy

Jimmy was a 14 year old freshman and grian was 19 a senior that was held back a year 

It has been a year since evo ended so grian is 20 and Jimmy is 15 which makes his later bullying of Jimmy hilarious because he’s a young adult picking on a teenager 

He is the old sheriffs son I know the time is off because the old sheriffs said he was down there for thirty years but the only reason he knew that that was because he added 10 years for each chicken that died but chickens live 5-10 years so what if all the three chickens only lived 5 years each that would put him in there for 15 years

Just after his youngest son was born 

I think the sheriff might have suspected it due to his repeated statements that Jimmy is tiny and has wings like a fairy because jimmy’s mom is a fae 

The sheriff and jimmy’s mom met in the town because that area was always a hotspot for fae activity

The reason the sheriff didn’t leave his wife even though he didn’t want to be married is because she was a fae and was scared he would be cursed if he angered her and that is also why he started drinking 

My Headcanons for watcher lore

So there are watchers listeners and speakers and the three have the same power level so the watchers are not stronger than the others they have the same abilities the difference is how they respond and how they apply their power 

Watchers abuse their powers for selfish purposes they will not restrain themselves and because they don’t feel the need to care about consequences they show their ludicrous strength more freely and do to that are seen as more powerful by everyone that knows about them 

Listeners try to do something to stop the games and free the players that is what they use their powers for but they tread carefully they will be hesitant to do something to drastic they wait and listen for the right moment to act unlike the other two they put effort into being Subtle 

Speakers are what happens when a listener gets to invested and it becomes personal they lose patience and they get desperate they can’t hold their tongues anymore so instead of listening to reason they get reckless 

The watchers are apathetic and selfish only caring about their own entertainment and survival not giving a thought to the players wellbeing unless it messes with them

The listeners are realist and sympathetic when they saw the suffering they wanted to help but they don’t let it get to personal they help because it’s the right thing to do 

The speakers are emotional and empathetic they are listeners that grew attached to the players they feel responsible for and when the players they love are hurt one to many times they lash out throwing caution out the window which is why there’s so few 

They aren’t different creatures they are the same just at different stages of processing the fact that they are no longer human and have god like power 

Power corrupts and combined with peer pressure from already existing watchers it’s no wonder the watchers have larger numbers 

The color changes based on their temperament 

The watchers are purple 

The listeners are green 

The speakers are orange 

There’s not an immediate chance in color it works like a mood ring 

Take Grian he is more watcher than listener and speaker but because he has attachments and empathy and only keeps his watcher title because he uses his powers for entertaining pranks his color is magenta just leaning a tad bit more purple though he is steadily been moving towards red (his two colors that he is associated with are red and purple) 

hands you martyn. hands you martyn. hands you martyn. hands you cleo. hands you martyn.

i know they are Barely allies but i think... i think they can be besties. as a treat to me whos two faves are mart and cleo. anything w them like... existing 2gether would b brill

is handed is handed is handed

[ID: 2 images. The first image has text that reads: Double Life, strings, knots, etc. Idea: all players start with a loose piece of string tied to a finger- it’s short and color corresponds to life status. Once “soulmates” meet and team up, it becomes a knot. Partners share the same knot, and it’s different for each group. The first image shows off the hands for pearl and martyn. Both have strings that are still green and untied. Pearls has begun to fray, while Martyn’s is singed at the end. Notes beside their respective hands describe this, saying martyn’s was singed in the nether. — Image two shows Scott and Cleo’s, drawn each with palms facing the viewer. Skin has fallen away on cleo’s wrist and ring finger, showing bone. Both have a green string tied in a simple bow, with Cleo’s being blackened at the ends . Text written on it says “Smajor & Cleo: simple bow. Entirely decorative, come apart easily, less restrictive and finite. Cleo’s happens to be singed at the ends...” End ID]

The original was obnoxiously long so I’m splitting it up into several posts I think for ease... had some ideas about design and started learning about knot tying... more to come soon :]

Welcome home, Cheaters.

From Martyn’s stream on 6/9/22

I think there are so many amazing bases you could draw in season 9 and this current season.

Grian's, Gem's, False's and Pearl's season 9 bases were iconic imo, and there's also the Decked Out castle. You could also go for the Post Office this season or Bdubs' frankly Ghibli style home, Keralis' vacation spot, or Joel's Japanese steampunk city.

These are such good ideas!! I'm gonna try and do one per season, maybe from season five onwards, so I have five artworks. I would love to do the decked out castle, I'll have to think over some of the other seasons. Although mumbo's base in season 7 was so so good.

I also did wonder if maybe I did five artworks of hermitcraft or maybe six/seven artworks of the life series. One representing each winner. Example:

- Grian/season 1: monopoly Mountain castle, sun motifs

-Scott/season 2: the cottage he and his allies based in, star motifs

-Pearl/season 3: her tower, moon motifs

-Martyn/season 4: The mean gills base (I cannot remember the name pls don't hate me), a mars motif? It'll be hard to include the planet in this one. But I can work it out.

-Scar/season 5: trader scars with the sun flower field, earth mofti

-Joel/season 6: Car

They won't be portraits but think of landscaping paintings. Like a mix of Claude Monet mixed with Van Gogh. It would be the same style for the hermitcraft artworks aswell.

Lemme know what you think would work best :DD

Look at them goo

you go girl they're here for the vibes

Limited Life - Out of Context bc of course [FINALE SPOILERS]

no i will not defend myself, nor will i be taking questions. uhh if this gets reacted to: sorry (but only a little)anyway please take the product of my speed...

I really love this out of context LiL video! Stalary did such a great job!

I was thinking about this while on a drive since I was already thinking about red Scar in limited life. Since I know in the cannon of Hermitcraft, Scar has cannibalized some of his fellow hermits in a past season and a few times has mentions eating friends in other season and 3rd life I believe.

So what if blood thirsty Scar while chasing someone talks about how hungry he is and that he needs to feast.

I’m going to honest the scene that went down in my head was Red Scar visiting Martyn who is yellow just having a little chat while Martyn is nervous and is carefully moving around his and Scotts area. Until Martyn finally lets his guard down thinking the other isn’t going to do anything which leads to Scar talking about hungry and even asking Martyn if he has ever been so hunger for something that only that thing can quench their hunger. Then Martyn answers the question as he moves to use the crafting table and he then asks Scar what he is hungry for and there is a bit of silence until right behind Martyn, Scar says “You” With a big sharp teeth grin and then takes a chunk out Martyn's neck. And it goes black.

And that all I was thinking about during the drive.

InTheLittleWood - Scar is force to be reckoned with.

Watch InTheLittleWood's clip titled "Scar is force to be reckoned with."

I really want Scar and Martyn to team up again in MCC or in the life series I love their friendship.

I loved the watcher lore that Martyn did during last life and there could be a possibility that he’ll do it during Double life, but image if he didn’t do watcher lore, but did something with Scar.

Like image Martyn in the void waiting for the Watchers to talk to him or something, but instead of them its Scar who is talking to him. And of course Martyn would be confused on why Scar was the talking to him and I feel like Martyn would ask questions like “Are you a watcher?” “If not then what are you?” And Scar could either give him answers or answers beating around the bush, but are not technically lies, Scar could possibility mess around with Martyn until the other get upset since Martyn doesn’t know what's going on and all he wants is answers.  And I also kinda want Landscaping your mind apart of it, like maybe towards the end. Like maybe Scar says something along the lines of “Now listen little listener, I have a story to share, Landscaping Your Mind Chapter Four.” And he’ll continue the chapter and image it slowly fades as Martyn starts to fall unconscious but not without trying to take in all of Chapter Four because maybe there is something more to that book.  Now maybe the Landscaping your mind is a little scratch and I know this is not going to happen, but its just an interesting idea I thought about last night. 

For the next 3rd life/Last Life series can we get a Scar and Martyn or Scar and Ren team up. or at least allies. I love the interactions between these guys.