Fridge / Life SMP

By the nature of the series, all spoilers except those relating to the series' backstory are unmarked. You Have Been Warned.

Fridge Brilliance

• While it's likely unintentional due to the unplanned nature of the series, in 3rd Life, the Flower Forest faction and relationship within is represented with gifts of poppies as Flowers of Romance, both in this series and beyond. In retrospect and on a meta level, poppies, especially red poppies, symbolize remembrance in the Commonwealth. The Flower Forest is the first faction to fall in the server-wide war.
• One may argue that some of Pearl's more erratic behaviour throughout the series is because she lives in Australia while everyone else is mostly based in Europe or the Americas, and it's mentioned by the content creators that she records as early as 5 AM for the series. Out-of-universe, Jimmy appears to believe this is the case too.
• In Double Life, when a player dies and loses a life, their soulmate, whom their soul is bound to, also dies... of a broken heart. This applies on three levels:
  • First, because the cause of death is unstated in the chat for the soulmate, i.e. "[X] fell from a high place/blew up/was shot by Skeleton/etc." is followed by "[Y] died";
  • Second, because lives in Minecraft are often represented by hearts;
  • Third, because broken heart syndrome is an actual medical condition in real life (which is usually triggered during stressful emotional moments, like the death of a loved one) which can be as fatal as a heart attack if untreated, and symptoms can show up within a few hours of hearing the news.
• In Limited Life, Scott is assigned the first Boogeyman of the entire series. He suspects that whatever cosmic forces did this because he ended Double Life by choosing to kill himself instead of Pearl, thus making him the first killer of the season for karmic reasons. That much makes sense, but remember: Scott chose to wait out his Boogeyman go at the end of Last Life instead of committing murder, and the Watcher in Martyn's perspective of events was enraged by this. Considering the Watchers were the ones behind the Boogeyman system of Last Life and are possibly behind that of Limited Life as well, there's all the greater credence to Scott's hypothesis that the 'cosmic forces' in question still hold a grudge against him for the events of Last Life as well as Double Life.
• During the choosing of the third Boogeyman on Day 1 of Limited Life, Martyn's ominous Boogeyman jingle can be heard from Grian and Tango's perspectives due to proximity chat. Why did no one realize or do anything about this? Neither Grian nor Tango have been the Boogeyman before, and don't recognize the sound effect, while the ones who have been the Boogeyman before are too far away to hear it.
• Lizzie and especially Mumbo's hostility in Secret Life as Red Lives is easily attributable to the fact that they have only ever officially been in Last Life prior to that season, in which players on Red are forced to leave their alliances behind. This might also explain Mumbo leaving the Mounders for the Big Dogs, since Red Lives could work together.

Fridge Horror

• The players are confirmed to not know Grian is a Watcher, even though, back in Evo, all of them who were on the server (Jimmy, Martyn, Pearl, and Big B) were aware. This along with Martyn not understanding or making the connection when the Listeners are namedropped despite having previously known of them implies that Grian is the only one who remembers Evo. It's quite likely he witnessed his friends get their memories of him erased.
• Just what does it mean in-universe that Pearl doesn't appear in the death games until Last Life even though she was on Evo?

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