life series curses
another thing I find so interesting about the life series is the idea that every character in the games are cursed in some way. I know there are the obvious ones, canary curse, black widow curse, etc, but I feel like the idea of the watchers locking them in the games with their own curses to be so interesting. It really adds to the feel that a) they are all extremely unique characters with their own things going on and b) they are all in their own way doomed by the narrative as I really like thinking about the fact that the life series is inherantly a tragedy.
as for what curses I think everybody has, the obvious/well known canonical ones are of course:
- Jimmy - Canary curse: probably the most famous curse in the life series, Jimmy is cursed to always be the first to die
- Grian - Black Widow curse: grian always ends up betraying his teamates or being the cause of their deaths (killed scar in TL, jimmy & mumbo in LL, Scar again in DL, Jimmy in LimL)
- Mumbo - Miners curse: always is the next to die after the canary, within a minute of jimmys death.
- Scott: Sacrifice Blessing - only one to not exactly be a curse, his teamates will always make it top 3 but he will sacrifice his lives to do so.
- Skizzleman: Bad Angel - always tries to help his friends but has legendarily bad luck and loses a lot of lives
- Tango: Ash Curse - will always die by himself in a pathetic and underwhelming way (I call it the ash curse because I like the idea of him not dying in a blaze of glory but instead burning out, leaving nothing but a small pile of ashes)
- Joel: Insanity Curse - will always end the series by going insane and trying to kill everybody
And then there are the curses I dont think Ive heard many people talk about:
- Scar: Villain curse - Scar is cursed to always become enemies with almost everybody, usualy being isolated in a small corner of the map by himself
- Cleo: Retribution Curse - will be betrayed by a teamate leading to them swearing vengeance and lashing out in anger (BigB, Martyn)
- Ren: Last Stand Curse - dies alone in his own home trying to defend it
- Etho: Loyalty Curse - will make a teamate at the very begining and stick with them the whole way through, though in the end his loyalty to them will lead to his death
- Martyn: Betrayal Curse - will always plan or attempt to kill his teamate
- Bdubs: Wierdly enough also the Betrayal Curse. just the exact same curse Martyn has. I dont know what this means
- BigB: Isolation Curse - will always end up living on his own or seperate from the rest of the server
- Pearl: Duel Curse: always dies (or wins) in an orginazed duel or battle, usualy including or orginized by Scott
- Gem: hasnt been in the series long enough to have a recognizable curse, though she does have the boogeyman curse from secret life.
- Lizzie: Failed Avenger Curse: when turning red will try to take revenge on the people who she believed wronged her, but will fail misserably and die trying
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