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zabo-writes · 1 year
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Mumbo is a God (He thinks everyone else is also a god, but that they’ve just been really good at pretending to be human)
Mumbo was beginning to suspect he was on the receiving end of a remarkably complex prank.
This put him in a predicament. Should he go along with it? He knew it was more fun if he did. If Mumbo Jumbo knew one thing, it was how to commit to a joke.
However, this had been going on for years now. Mumbo was starting to get one of those feelings in his gut that was the kind of gut feeling people describe when they say they have a “gut feeling” about something.
And being that Mumbo did not have a gut, or any human body parts for that matter, one could see why this was distressing to him.
Mumbo Jumbo was a god. Specifically, the god of redstone. All of the other hermits were gods as well. The crux of the issue here was that all of the other hermits had been pretending to be humans for about 10 years now. And by pretending, Mumbo meant seriously, seriously roleplaying. He’d tested it! There’d been multiple instances where he had tried to convince another hermit to break character and do something godly. And they never cracked!
Truly, Mumbo was impressed. He himself was not quite as unshakeable. There’d been a few moments where his facade had cracked: the time he accidentally made a perfectly circular pumpkin (big problem in a world made of squares), the time where he put too power into the redstone AI for grumbot and gave it an existential crisis, the incident where he may have slightly consumed Grian’s soul…
All that was to say, Mumbo wasn’t the best at pretending to be a human, but he was giving it his best effort. And it seemed like the other hermits, in some sort of years-long prank, were keeping up the joke until Mumbo got it right.
Well if that was the case, he’d finally caught on! Haha! Take that, other hermits! Mumbo finally figured out the prank where everyone else pretended for a very long time that they weren’t actually—
Gods.
Wait.
They were gods, right?
Scar with his magnificent terraining skills, Cleo with her armor stands…
And surely Grian was some sort of trickster god. Right?
All of his friends were so talented, he had simply assumed it was related to some sort of godly domain.
Come to think of it, did he have any confirmation that they ever were gods in the first place?
No, no, no… surely…
Mumbo paused his task of mindlessly mining out a very large area under his base. He blinked. The netherite pickaxe clattered as it hit the floor.
Oh, he was an absolute spoon.
———
Grian grumbled as he shuffled through every chest and shulker he owned for what felt like the billionth time. He could’ve sworn he left the materials to make a beacon somewhere around here. Did it “lag” into someone’s inventory again? He pulled out his communicator to put a message in the chat.
“Grian! Incoming!”
Grian looked up just in time to see Mumbo collide with his face, sending them both sprawling across the floor.
“Ah! Hello Mumbo, fancy seeing you here! Do you happen to know where my beacon is?” Grian laughed as he dusted himself off.
“This is not the time! Grian! Grian I’m having a crisis.” Mumbo lamented,
“Yes, so am I! My beacon is gone!”
Mumbo continued, undeterred, “Grian, I have a very important question for you, and I need you to be completely honest with me.”
“Okay?”
“What does your true form look like?”
“My what?”
“Alright, alright. So you know how I’m a god?”
Grian stated incredulously at the mustachioed man before him. “WHAT?”
Mumbo groaned and put his head in his hands. “No, I really need you to be honest. I’m a god, you’re a god, bdubs is a god… we all are, right?”
Grian was not sure how to respond to this. He was, to his knowledge, as human as they come. “I think this is a sitting down conversation.”
After a long, long chat inside of Grian’s bedroom, Grian felt he was finally understanding the situation. He was taking it pretty well! As well as one can take your best friend explaining to you in the same breath that he is a deity, and oh— by the way, he thought this whole time that you were as well.
“Okay, okay. Let me get this straight. You’ve been pretending to be human this whole time because you thought you had to?”
“I thought it was a game!” Mumbo exclaimed, burying his face in the pillows on Grian’s bed. “I thought it was a game, like an ‘I’m not going to kill anything for a season’ type of game!”
“Right, but in this case the game was ‘pretending to be human for multiple years without mentioning the fact that you’re a god’?”
“…. Yes.”
Grian cackled “Well, Mumbo, I can assure you, if that ever was a game, you’ve certainly won! I would never have suspected you.”
Mumbo nodded sagely. “Yes, it’s the mustache. A classic human disguise.”
“You don’t really have a mustache?!”
Mumbo cocked his head. “Grian, you’ve seen my real form! Or, a depiction of it, I suppose. The redstone god? From the buildswap we did?”
“That was ages ago! And wait, did you just make a self portrait for that prompt, then?!”
“Yes! That’s why I thought you knew!”
“Somehow that feels like cheating. I should go get Pearl and have her re-evaluate the results of that build swap with this new information”
A look of concern crossed Mumbo’s face. “Oh, I didn’t even think that. I’m going to have to explain this to everyone, aren’t I?”
Grian shrugged, “I’m sure it’s fine. Say, could I see your ‘god’ form, O great and powerful Mumbo Jumbo? Now you have me curious.”
“Well I could, but I might destroy your ceiling.” Mumbo looked up at the rafters sheepishly.
“Back outside we go then”
Safely on the grass behind Grian’s base, Mumbo transformed into his full form for the first time in what felt like ages.
The form was that of a large humanoid figure, as tall as Grian’s house, made of red terracotta and loose redstone dust that fell and scattered like sand with every movement Mumbo made. His eyes were two glowing redstone lamps that flickered with emotion, reminiscent of a certain robot they had built before.
It occurred to Mumbo at that moment that if his friends were truly human, this form might be quite scary to them. He knelt down to look at Grian, bracing himself to handle whatever fear was in his friend's eyes.
Instead, Grian was grinning like a madman.
“Oh, we are SO pranking Scar with this.”
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bluiex · 2 years
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Just remember I was gonna ask this and forgot, but like-
Does anyone else have this problem with just- stacking so many references into headcanons: like.. Grian is my muse here because of course he I have issues.
I had a headcanon regarding Grian’s BuildSwap series were he had a red and blue sheep he always kept because they were always there during BuildSwap rounds to determine punishments..
Like.. why must I push so many niche references into him THERE IS NO MORE SPACE. Does this even make any sense? Am I speaking english??
- 🌀 Anon
YES, DUDE- they're my ocs now. They have my problems now- but also add the weirdest things from other series or something to apply references.. God it's amazing though
Love seeing writing or art or whatever with references to other things
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sysig · 4 years
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It was Taurtis’ episode so obviously I drew mostly Grian again
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badlinu-moved · 3 years
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Oh my god I just found an Evolution SMP wiki on fandoms wiki. Half of the members don’t have pages. Or at the very least the pages aren’t linked to the Main Page. for some reason SB737 is listed as a member even though he was just whitelisted as a guest to help Mini with something. The members who do have a page linked to the main page are Grian, Jimmy, Martyn, Salem, Taurtis, and Pearl. Only Grian, Salem, Taurtis, and Pearl have anything on their pages, even then it’s only one small paragraph with barely anything on it.
Further searching by going to all pages shows pages for Mini, Netty, Zee, and Tom. Only Netty and Zee have information on their page, and it’s only a sentence or two long. Notably Big B and SB737 do not have pages even though they are mentioned on the Main Page.
There’s also a page for Domrao, it’s a small paragraph that mentions a theory that he is a watcher. The page also mentions Gareth, although it’s hard to make out if they include Gareth in reference to the theory or in reference to BuildSwap which the page also mentions.
I found this by finding a link on google that lead to Grian McQuack's page on this wiki. Once I start my rewatch of all EVO content (including livestreams) I might try and revamp this wiki, although I might have to make a new one if admin permissions stop me from editing it (I don’t know much about fandom wiki editing).
(go to notes for link to wiki)
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sysig · 4 years
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February? Time to watch Halloween episodes from three years ago
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sysig · 4 years
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I just wanted to rewatch some Buildswaps whyyyyyy
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