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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.

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) 

I hear Jimmy’s been getting superstitious lately… :)

this can only end well…/sarc

(This drawing is in reference to the video Jimmy posted of him jokingly praying to a piece of cardstock he had drawn the watcher symbol on, that I decided to misinterpret for fun)

Minus background and weird shading below the cut:

and again tumblr fucked the quality..... but heres my finished gtws secert life thing!!! not the best work i've done, but needed to draw him so yeah (alt version below cut)

played around with some effects..... think he turned out pretty cool

OKAY

Im answering everything except the ones that take to long

(answers below the cut.)

Scar or Grian is favorite for sure and so obviously dessert duo (only third life tho because DL made me angry)

I legit can't pick my favorite fanart but all of Cherri Fires crane lives and Rusty Courages Times up AMV are up there

Watcher lore is life. And also the reason for me freaking out half the time

Third life or last life for sure. I just loved the dynamics and the premise

I honestly can't answer this because I would die in the first session, but I like to think I'd be kinda like Lim Life Martyn even though I'm really wet cat Martyn (oh sorry big dog)

RANCHER (hehe im normal about them)

Most cinematic death is so hard, but maybe like the skizz sacrifice in limited life? Idk about this one

I kinda love all the watcher lore in secret life (don't just kinda love it im LIVING FOR THAT) Also there's a headcanon that everyone's wounds don't heal in this season, which I think is absolutely genius and I can't remember whose headcanon that was but I'll find it

I'm manifesting scar. He deserves it

Dunno if this counts, but i would BRING REN BACK bc REN IS GONE

I kinda never watch Big B (except this season and I LOVE IT), and also he ripped apart scar and grian in DL so....

OK HEAR ME OUT

Kind of separate BUT in the home servers is the only place where players remember the games (think scar being traumatized by an explosion in HC after lim life), and when they're in the games all they can remember is they've seen that face before, splattered with blood and streaked with tears, but they can't recall if it was only a dream or not

Also when players die they go back to their home server with trauma.

Most watched pov is grian (scar and martyn are close seconds)

So yeah thats it! Sorry for the long post but I saw this and couldnt unsee it

seen a couple people do this, so here’s my version

traffic series ask game!

🌲 favourite member/character?

🏜️ favourite team or duo?

🎨 favourite piece of fanart? link it!

🌓 opinions on the watcher lore?

🧨 favourite season and why?

🔥 if you were in the life games, how would you play it?

❤️ best double life pairing?

⚡️most cinematic death?

🌿 any favourite interpretations?

🔮 predict the winner of secret life

🌹if you could add one more player, who would it be?

❄️ be honest, which character do you care about the least?

⭐️ do you think of the life series as separate from hc/empires, or connected?

🌌 what happens when the players die?

🎥 who’s your most watched pov?

Day #18!

3rd life Grian being his chaotic def not possessed self

He played the game as intended, but at what cost?