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I like to see the final battle with Pearl against the Homewreckers as such: we all know that Impulse's final death message said something along the line of "died whilst trying to escape BDoubleO100", right? And that Pearl got the final hit on Bdubs, which ended the Homewrecker's series, right?

Imagine in the dark forest, Impulse feeling the aches and pains from Bdubs as he fights Pearl, as her dogs tear into both of them and her axe tears through the clocker like Butter. Impulse would be pretty scared and desperate, right? Desperate men do stupid things.

In the heat of battle, Impulse decides that he is going to try and flank Pearl while she's distracted with Bdubs. Meanwhile Bdubs has no idea where his soulmate went. He's so focused on staying alive and fighting off Pearl that he doesn't see Impulse rush at her from behind.

But Pearl does.

As Bdubs lashes out with his sword, attempting one last time to get the final hit on her, Pearl strafes to the side.

His sword still makes contact.

Impulse couldn't react fast enough.

When Bdubs' blade sank into his stomach, Impulse could only stare into the eyes of his partner, the man who had cost him life after life throughout all three seasons of this stupid game.

Pearl took one swing, and they were both dead. Impulse is seathing, but only on the inside. How poetic: betrayed again by the man who was supposed to be his soulmate.

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Ouch, my heart

Here I go, back to my Scar hyperfixation :p When the world is crumbling apart, at least minecraft men are always here to keep me from losing my sanity :^)

So, Jimmy's curse has been broken. And Scott is to blame.

Y'know in the first session, when Scott stops him from teaming up with Scar? What if The Watchers wanted him to team with Scar? And if he did, he would be very likely to die first, as normal. But because Scott stopped it, he ruined The Watchers plan. Scott has continuously done things to make The Watchers mad, and I think The Boogyman task was forced in by The Watchers in hopes to get everyone against Scott to kill him.

And that plan failed as well.

My interpetation of what a watcher/listener looks like!

I imagine that they are very reminiscent of weirdcore/eldrich horror and thus birthed this! The being in the center is what I generally think a watcher looks like, and on the sides are other concepts of them, the left being a watcher and the right being a listener. I've been obsessed with weirdcore recently and this was an excuse to make something weird!

On terms of turning someone else into a watcher, I imagine it's a very painful process. With how I imagine the mechanics working is that you are literally being ripped apart and 'reborn' as a reality-shifting being. You experience hunger pains and have phantom pains all over for seemingly a millennium, which is why it's a forbidden practice.

I imagine that listeners and watchers share a lot of similarities that make them almost indistinguishable from each other, BUT there are distinguishing factors! For example, listeners are more vibrant compared to their greedy and darker counterparts, and they have a more central focus on ears rather than eyes, making them all hearing. Watchers, rather than having ears, are more eye-focused and all-seeing, they have a darker palette and like to garnish themselves in their trophies, a.k.a. the very disturbing wrappings around them, the wrappings are never specified as to what they're made of, but its theorized that it changes based on who is the unfortunate soul to gaze upon these horrific things.

One last thing to point out is the significance of the wings being closed or open when seeing a watcher or listener. Watcher wings are closed, representing their greedy hoarding, and egotistical selves. They are closed-minded just as their wings and eyes only look towards a one-way self-image. Listeners however are said to have open wings, representing their open-mindedness and empathy towards 'lower mortal creatures'. Rather than having a greedy personality, they view themselves as having a monumental debt to repay, forever increasing. For while the watchers view themselves as gifts to reality, listeners view their existence as a burden needing to be solved, which almost gives them more of a self-loathing and pessimistic personality.

I might try to post a comparison of a watcher/listener to your average player, which by the way, i like to utilize the more scrapbook-y look vs the cartoonish look. They are inter reality beings, therefore, shouldnt exactly fit the binary of 'reality'

Again this is my interpretation! I'm not exactly in-depth with the lore of watchers and listeners so there are probably a few plot holes lol

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