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Afterlife SMP is a modded Minecraft server run by Scott Smajor, with its members including LDShadowLady, Joey Graceffa, Shubble, Seapeekay, Katherine Elizabeth, SmallishBeans, Solidarity, fWhip, GeminiTay, and LaurenZSide. It runs on a custom modpack, with the Origins mod front and center.

When starting a new game, each player is randomly assigned an origin out of a pool of thirty. However, players only have ten lives, and after each death, their origin is re-rolled, giving them a brand new set of strengths and weaknesses. Each origin has its own benefits, drawbacks, and quirks attached, and players are encouraged to lean into the storytelling opportunities their origin provides.

Afterlife SMP started on March 4th, 2022. While its end date depends on the perspective, a majority of the creators involved lost all ten of their lives and moved on to Empires SMP Season 2, which started on June 25th, 2022. It officially ended on August 10th, 2022, where TheOrionSound's series finale segues into his first Empires Season 2 episode, and all remaining content creators have remained on indefinite hiatus for the series. Its successor series is the New Life SMP, which launched on May 27th, 2023.

Not to be confused with the vanilla Minecraft server of the same name, Afterlife SMP, that started on December 21st, 2014.

Note: Unless otherwise specified, all tropes pertain to the characters, not the content creators that play them.

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Tropes about the Afterlife SMP include:

• Abnormal Allergy: Multiple origins come with deadly allergies to day-to-day things that heavily impact the experience and gameplay of anyone who rolls them. See also: Kill It with Fire, Kill It with Water, and Weakened by the Light.
  • The Sculkborn origin takes double freezing, fire, lava, and magma damage due to their sensitivity to extreme temperatures.
  • Another origin which doesn't have heat resistance is the Half-Robot origin, as they overheat at high temperatures. Gem also learns this the hard way by travelling to the Nether.
  • The Half-Dragon origin, due to being cold-blooded, is weak to extreme temperatures, and going into the Nether can cause them to get the Nausea, Hunger II, and Slowness effects.
• Aerith and Bob: Not as bad as other SMPs, as most members of Afterlife either go by their real names, or, like Gem, have online aliases that can plausibly be used as actual names... And then there's fWhip and Sausage.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: The Cookieborn origin, held by fWhip on his fifth life and Jimmy on his ninth, is said to be descended from the Cookie Monster, and has their Minecraft skin tinted blue as a result.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: It's not quite clear exactly what the Ender Dragon's gender identity is, and though Oli refers to them as his mother, other characters struggle with addressing them with a universal, consistent set of pronouns.
  Joel: What a stupid idiot this guy– girl is, or woman, or– (stammering)
  Shelby: Um... they?
  Joel: Yeah, all of them... I'm not gonna gender you, Dragon!
• Apparently Human Merfolk: The Merling origin, held by Scott and Meghan in their fourth lives and Katherine in her fifth life. They can swim faster, see and breathe underwater, mine faster underwater, and they don't sink, but they can't breathe on land unless it's raining.
• Artistic License – Biology: The Iceling origin, held by Joel on his third life, can breathe underwater "due to [their] lack of a nose". The ability to breathe underwater technically has nothing to do with that (for humans, they can still breathe with a mouth, you know), more like their lungs can handle the water pressure without drowning, or they can take in oxygen dissolved in water directly. Also see Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying below.
• Attack Reflector: The primary ability of the Thornling origin, held by Jimmy in his first life, Scott in his eighth, and Gem in her ninth.
  You're protected by a strange magical aura. When hit, the attacker will get damaged by one heart, this cannot be blocked by any type of armor or shield. You can toggle this ability with your primary key. You're also immune to thorns based damage.
• Bears Are Bad News: Junior, Joey's pet Panda, is of the aggressive variant and will attack continuously if provoked. This has caused two deaths on the server, thus having a higher Kill Tally than about half of the player population.
• Big Fancy Castle: Seapeekay lives in one... with the emphasis on big, since he held the Giant origin on his first life and was twice as tall as a standard player.
• Bird People:
  • The Avian origin, held by Lauren in her first life. This origin has permanent Slow Falling and runs faster on land, but can only eat plant-based foods and has to sleep at a high Y-level. Oh, and they lay an egg whenever they wake up in the morning, which Lauren treats as her children.
  • In addition to that, the Birb origin, held by Shelby in her second life, Lizzie and Jimmy in their short-lived fifth lives, Sausage in his sixth, and Scott in his ninth. They can fly, deal twice as much damage flying but do much less on the ground, eat less than the average player, have an echolocation ability, and can ride around on other players. However, they can only eat wheat seeds and wear limited armour, take more fall damage, are unable to use a shield, and deal less damage with bows and crossbows.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Since the people Enigma Lizzie invited to her "boat race" were at fWhip's tavern when she made her invitation, they brought along some buckets of milk^*which can remove any status effects a player has on them, good or bad for the "race", and eventually used the milk to negate the Mining Fatigue induced by the Elder Guardians to escape from the trap that Lizzie led them into.
    fWhip: The tavern. The tavern's gonna save us.
  • As a Lepus in her ninth life, Katherine moves away from her cliffside home to an Arid Highlands biome because it is relatively flat — good for making a carrot farm — and has patches of red sand, which looks orange and reminds her of the orange colour of carrots. At the end of the same episode, Inchling Katherine tries to extend her home to have an Inchling nook, forgetting about the red sand; when she digs upwards to extend the Inchling hole, the red sand that attracted her to the biome a life ago falls on her, being one of the few blocks to be affected by gravity in Minecraft, and suffocates her to her tenth and final death.
• Cliffhanger: In most instances where a character dies, their episode ends on a cliffhanger without showing what new origin they respawn as, only showing the character's reaction to gaining their new origin.
• Close-Range Combatant:
  • The Giant origin is unable to use bows and crossbows because the player is apparently so strong that those ranged weapons break upon attempted usage. Possibly downplayed, since the mod said nothing about being unable to use a trident for combat (just not for transportation)...
  • Similarly, the Sculkborn origin has tendril-like arms due to being a fungus and cannot properly use a shield, bow, crossbow, or throw a trident, and they do much less projectile damage and cannot use a shield.
• Cuteness Proximity:
  • Anyone with an origin that decreases their height can expect to be cooed over, especially the very small ones like Mothling and Inchling. At the start of the server, Scott — the only Mothling, and the only person smaller than a block — was near-constantly faced with high-pitched squealing from anyone he encountered.
  • The Red Panda origin, held by Joey in his fourth life and Jimmy in his seventh, invokes this as an ability, in that they are "able to freeze all mobs within a 30-block radius thanks to how adorable [they] are".
• Cyborg: The Half-Robot origin, held by Gem on her second life.
• Death-Activated Superpower: When a Human character dies, they're rerolled with a new origin and gain the resultant powers and abilities of said origin. Of course, this can also be inverted with a super-powered character dying and coming back as a Human.
• Dragon Hoard: fWhip and Joel develop a love for shiny riches after becoming Wyvernians, and the former builds a cavern-hoard to store his valuables. When Vampire Scott shows up at the cave, trying to steal fWhip's riches while underestimating the Dragons, they collectively obliterate him with swords and poison breath (with fWhip getting the killing blow).
• Dramatic Irony: Played for Laughs. Early in the series, several people try to leave notes out to Lizzie for when she collects their trash (as a Raccoon at the time)... only for Lizzie to be unable to read their messages because of her Raccoon-induced illiteracy. (Occasionally, she'd have Joel to translate those notes for her, but even that doesn't happen very often.)
• Driven by Envy:
  • Shadow Crawler Shelby initially gave Truffle Meghan her blessing to have the "mushroom girl" aesthetic (since Shelby had it during Empires), but Meghan told her about the huge variety of blocks associated with mushrooms in the mod-pack they were using, which caused Shelby to revoke her blessing out of animosity and envy.
  • The motivation behind Vex Lauren's murder of Fairyborn Katherine is due to her envy over flight abilities (since her Vex levitation/flight didn't look as "cool", and thought There Can Be Only One) and for a victim-specific reason, it was because Katherine was "too cute" and "has too many things going for [her]".
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Given that Minecraft is a game with loads of ways to die, many lives (and the origin-related plot threads attached to them) came to an abrupt end.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As a Vampire, Scott was undoubtedly evil, and killed two people for incredibly minor sleights (Sausage for throwing his bath water at him, and Gem for hitting him after he stole one of her villagers) before collecting their heads as trophies. He did, however, take the time to collect their items and put them in a chest to stop them from despawning, because in his own words, he might be evil but he's not a monster.
• Exact Words: In an exchange in their respective Episode 3s, Joel asks Lizzie to say that he's hot so that he would fulfill her request to get Blaze rods from the Nether for her. Joel quickly amends this when it backfires in point-two seconds.
  Joel: Say I'm hot.
  Lizzie: "I'm hot".
  Joel: Say "Joel is hot".
• Fiendish Fish: Several aquatic animals are added to the game via the Better Animals Plus mod as hostile or neutral mobs, including the Lamprey, the Shark, the Barracuda, and the Eel. This has caused many instances where players were attacked by these creatures after the mod was added, and even several deaths.
• Foreshadowing: Unintentional version, due to the nature of the series. In Episode 6, in a discussion with Jimmy about their origins, Sausage hopes his next life wouldn't be a "weird Wither-demon". Lo and behold, the origin in his second life is precisely that, the Half-Wither origin, which Sausage remarks on in his narration.
• Full-Boar Action: The Better Animals Plus mod, used in the series, adds Boars as hostile mobs, which has resulted in incidences where various players were attacked by Boars while out in the wild.
• Fun with Subtitles: In her third life, Shelby's response to being reborn as a Feline was to remark it was "perfect"... except the subtitles of her episode records it as "purrfect".
• Getting Crap Past the Radar:
  • In her second life, Shelby became a Birb, and decided to model herself after a blue tit. She then proceeds to lay a lot of emphasis on that second word.
  • As a Lepus in his sixth life, Joel builds a mansion and attempts to seek out wild rabbits to, ehm, breed.
• Ghost Town: Oli described the server as this by the time he was three lives down, due to a vast majority of the server having already lost all ten of their lives as their content creators moved on to Empires Season 2.
• God of Thunder: Both characters of the Thunderborn origin has styled themselves after a mythological thunder god — Sausage (in his fifth life) as Zeus, and Joel (also in his fifth life) as Thor.
• Green Thumb:
  • The Floran origin, held by Katherine on her first life and Lizzie on her second, can cause plants to grow faster. Katherine takes advantage of this in her 2nd episode and builds a shop to share her power with the world, while Lizzie moves into the End to grow and sell exotic plants from there. On the sliding scale, this origin would fall under either 4 or 5 (since most Minecraft plants don't have biome/climate limitations on their growth, just where they spawn).
  • Not quite plants and to a smaller extent, but the Truffle origin, held by Meghan on her first life, can turn dirt and grass blocks into mycelium.
• Half-Human Hybrid: A surprisingly large number of origins, especially add-on origins, are referred to as "Half-[X]", indicating this, including the Half-Robot and the Half-Wither. However, the one that takes the cake is the Half-Dragon origin, where the origin description itself says the player was such an origin "be it through a curse or a very brave parent".
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Lizzie's attempts to trick and lure her server-mates into traps have never seemed to end well.
  • In an attempt to conquer the End-dimension, Raccoon Lizzie tricks a bunch of people into jumping into the End-portal with her, by dropping them all down a chute into the portal. However, she didn't take into account the fact that nine people, including one Giant, wouldn't all fit on the tiny 3×3 spawn platform, and she winds up getting pushed into the Void, leading to the server's first death.
  • In an attempt to create an "inescapable" escape room to trap several unsuspecting victims inside, Enigma Lizzie creates a "boat race" for them while pretending to be a pirate captain, and while her trap succeeds briefly, the moment she phases through the walls of the room with her Enigma powers, a shoal of Guardians ambush and kill her.
• Holy Burns Evil: Subverted. Angel/Elytrian Sausage assumes that vampires are harmed by holy symbols, so when Scott threatens him, Sausage throws a bottle of Angel Sausage Water on him in an attempt to scare him off. This only serves to make him angry (just because it doesn't hurt him, doesn't mean he enjoys being drenched in someone's bathwater), and he retaliates by murdering Sausage in cold blood.
  • Sausage also assumes that, because Scott is an undead, demonic creature, he's unable to enter the church, and he decides to hide there until Scott has calmed down. Scott promptly proves that he can enter the church, leaving Sausage trapped in a building with no exits other than the one blocked by a bloodthirsty vampire.
• Human Pet: As a Raccoon, Lizzie had an odd fascination with Villagers and has a Villager she named "Humie" (a cured Zombie Villager) who she keeps in her Raccoon-life house. She has also once lured Gem (who has a Villager origin in her first life) to her house to keep as a pet using composters, though Gem quickly escapes while Lizzie's back was turned.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: In her 1st episode, Lauren claimed to have the best origin on her first life, i.e. the Avian origin, but also repeatedly described her powers (or relatively lack thereof) "stupid". It probably doesn't help that Scott made fun of her on arrival by calling her basically a chicken. She seems to have embraced it by her 2nd episode.
• Intangibility: Several origins have the ability to phase through walls as one of their abilities, including the Phantom, Vex, and Enigma origins. The Snow Golem origin also has this ability, but it's limited to snow and ice blocks.
• Invisibility: Several origins feature invisibility as one of their powers:
  • The Enigma origin can turn invisible after placing down a "decoy" of themself that will be destroyed after it is hit.
  • The Fox origin can do so while crouching/sneaking.
  • The Phantom and Illusioner origins can do so as long as they have enough Hunger to sprint (i.e. over 3 Hunger bars).
  • The Raccoon origin can do so for 5 seconds, but will have the Poison and Weakness effects for the 30 seconds following that.
• Kill It with Fire:
  • The Floran origin takes twice as much damage when set on fire.
  • The Iceling origin is also Weak to Fire and take twice as much damage in contact with 'fiery' substances like fire, lava, and magma blocks. Naturally, Joel ends up falling into his lava farm minutes after getting this new origin and burning to his third demise.
  • The Cookieborn origin also takes more fire damage than the average player when their "luscious, fluffy fur", inherited from their ancestor, the Cookie Monster, is set ablaze and burnt.
  • The Atling origin, being based on the amphibious axolotl, takes double damage from fire and can dry up when exposed to the sun in hot biomes.
• Kill It with Water:
  • Enderian and Blazeborn origins are hydroallergenic and can't come in contact with water or rain without taking huge amounts of damage.
  • The Candy origin cannot come into contact with saltwater without taking damage, and apparently that includes rain as well.
  • Ironically, the Thunderborn origin also takes damage in contact with water, which is probably to counter their immunity to fire damage. They are also weak to the night-time, though this can be cancelled out with them having increased buffs during thunderstorms.
  • The Snow Golem origin takes damage when in contact with water. Despite this, they still have the ability to walk on water and breathe underwater, with the latter ability attributed to them being evolved from Icelings, who also have this ability.
• Kill Tally: Ever since the League of Villains, several characters have started to keep track of the number of lives out of 150 that they have ended. The full list is available here:
  • fWhip — 3: Giant CPK, Thornling Jimmy, Vampire Scott
  • Gem — 0 direct, 2 indirect: Illusioner fWhip (by proxy), Shulk Joey (by proxy)
  • Jimmy — 1: Forestborn Joel
  • Joel — 2: Feline Jimmy, Ant/Crawler Sausage
  • Joey — 5: Chameleon Katherine, Wyverian Shelby, Truffle fWhip, Forestborn Gem, Inchling Sausage
  • Lauren — 2: Goolien Lizzie, Fairyborn Katherine
  • Lizzie — 5, possibly 6: Angel Scott, Feline Shelby, Thunderborn Joel (by proxy), Goolien Sausage (by proxy), Candy Jimmy (by proxy), possibly Thornling Oli (by proxy)
  • Oli — 1: Villager fWhip
  • Sausage — 4: Wolf Katherine, Candy Lauren, (Red) Panda Jimmy, Dullahan Joey
  • Scott — 2: Elytrian Sausage, Villager Gem
  • Shelby — 2: Arachnid Gem, Wyverian Joey
• Lethal Harmless Powers: The Vampire origin's ability to swap places with other entities at first seems like a fun gimmick, but by combining that with another ability of the origin, the high jump, Scott set a couple of his fellow players up to fall to their deaths.
• Lilliputians: Origins like Raccoon and Thornling are about 1.5 blocks tall, while origins like Mothling, Crawler and Inchling are smaller than a single block. Thornling Jimmy, realizing his small stature made him quite vulnerable, started the Small Club Gang, and built a clubhouse for anyone under 2 blocks tall.
• Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Worm/Crawler Lizzie moved in with Forestborn Joel, and the two are married in real life. Sadly, this neighbor status was quite short-lived as Lizzie was unable to move out of range from a Creeper explosion in time, killing her.
• Living Shadow: The Shadow Crawler origin, held by Shelby on her first life.
• Lucky Seven: The Lepus origin holds 7 as their lucky number, so several aspects of the origin is related to the number — they have 7 hearts of health, have a 1/7 chance of dealing double damage in a melee attack, have a speed boost as long as they're above 7 hunger bars.
• Lucky Rabbit's Foot: Implied for the Lepus origin, since other than having Lucky Seven-related abilities, they also have higher chances of finding good loot via generated chests or fishing.
• Lured into a Trap: Enigma Lizzie disguised herself as a Pirate Girl hosting a "boat race" to lure several (relatively) unsuspecting members of the server into a sealed chamber under an Ocean Monument, which they would be unable to break out of due to the Mining Fatigue that the Elder Guardians in the Monument would induce. Unfortunately, this plan ends up backfiring twofold as not only did the 'victims' bring along buckets of milk that allowed them to negate the effect and break out of the trap, but Lizzie also immediately gets killed by Guardians after leaving the boys to their fate.
• Loads and Loads of Races: There are over thirty origins total, with a wide range of abilities and drawbacks.
• Made of Magic: The Thornling origin, held by Jimmy in his first life, Scott in his eighth, and Gem in her ninth, reportedly "needs magic to live", implying that this is the case. However, this means Thornlings are only allowed to wear gold armour or variations thereof, likely because gold is a better 'conductor of magic' than other materials.^note Gold armour and tools can be more easily enchanted to give better enchantments.
• Mighty Glacier: The Half-Robot origin has 50% more health than a standard player, but perpetually have the Slowness effect, due to being made of metal.
• A Molten Date with Death: Falling into lava appears to be one of the more frequent ways to lose one's life on the server:
  • First life: Katherine, Lauren, Meghan.
  • Third life: CPK, Lizzie, Joel, Lauren (again), Oli.
  • Seventh life: fWhip.
  • Eighth life: Jimmy.
  • Tenth life: Joel.
• Muggle: Downplayed, as several origins have abilities that are much more insignificant in the face of other origins with more powerful abilities.
  • Avians can float (and thus not take fall damage) and have a slight speed boost, but those can be easily out-competed by many other origins through teleportation, flight, speed boosts, reduced or immunity to fall damage, etc. The one unique ability of Avians is that they can pop out an egg every time they wake up in the morning.
  • Villagers have relatively few abilities, one of them being the ability to evade dangerous mobs, which can just as easily be done by teleportation (e.g. Enderians and Shadow Crawlers) and flight (Elytrians and Mothlings). However, they can summon Iron Golems, which causes this trope to be more downplayed in comparison to Avians.
  • Played fully straight with Humans, however, as they are pretty much default Minecraft players with neither the special abilities nor the drawbacks of any origin.
• Mysterious Past: On the Thornling origin, held by Jimmy in his first life, Scott in his eighth, and Gem in her ninth:
  You're a small arcane creature, protected by a strange arcane spell. You don't know where you came from, you just know you exist.
• Mythology Gag:
  • When Meghan rerolled to the Truffle origin, several members of the server joked that she was stealing Shelby's brand, since she was the one with the mushroom aesthetic in the last server they were on. And as it turns out later on, Shelby wasn't a fan that the mod-pack they were using had lots of mushroom-based blocks to build and craft with... but Shelby also gets the Truffle origin later in the series, and she embraces that whole-heartedly.
  • Scott's jokes of Lauren being a chicken upon her arrival (which the rest of the server embraced) probably stem from the fact that he's Genre Savvy of the Origins Mod and is familiar with how certain origins work. At the tail end of the series, Shelby's first reaction to respawning as a Phantom in her ninth life is that it felt familiar.
  • The church that Sausage built on his 3rd episode is based on a previous design by him and PearlescentMoon, and the place was named the Church of Saint Pearl in her honour. It's also decorated with sunflowers... wait, Pearl and sunflowers?
    • It's later revealed to be a Continuity Nod as AL!Sausage and the Sausage of Empires SMP Season 1 are actually the same character.
• Never Learned to Read: On her first life, Lizzie claimed that she was illiterate due to being a Raccoon. However, she can be seen writing signs instructing her server-mates on trash collection, making this zig-zagged or an Informed Flaw.
• Nothing Left to Do but Die: After regaining her status as the Hero of the Village and ensuring her Villagers' safety, building a memorial for her lives, and touring her builds in flight, Half-Dragon Gem launches herself into a wheat field with nothing left to do with her tenth and final life.
• Our Angels Are Different:
  • Sausage held the Elytrian origin — which gives him a permanent set of wings and a boost that can launch him up into the air every once in a while — in his first life, which caused him to dub himself "Angel Sausage". However, his main strengths and weakness correlate back to the Elytrian origin.
  • The Angel origin itself — held by Scott in his third life and Sausage in his tenth — allows players to walk on water, be protected from debuffs, set undead mobs on fire while hitting them, and both levitate and fly with Elytra wings. However, they can't hold Totems of Undying and being in non-Overworld realms has an adverse effect on them. Scott himself derides Sausage for not being a real Angel as a result of this. When Sausage himself gets the Angel origin in his tenth and final life, he concedes that Angel Scott was correct in that his past self as an Elytrian had a 'god complex', albeit one that worked hard to become a true Angel.
• Our Dragons Are Different: There are two dragon-affiliated origins in the server modpack:
  • The Half-Dragon origin, held by Jimmy in his third life and Gem in her tenth and final life, can breathe fire, fly (though fall damage and kinetic damage still apply), see entities even through walls, and have less knockback. However, they are cold-blooded and are weakened in extreme temperatures, drown faster, and can only eat meats and gilded foods (i.e. variants of golden apples and carrots).
  • The Wyverian origin, held by Joel in his fourth life, fWhip in his third, and Shelby in her fifth, can breathe large clouds of venom, fly with a pair of wings, deal more damage to enemies with powerful claws, and have poison immunity as a Required Secondary Power and night vision. However, they can only eat meats, are weakened and slowed in water (due to their wings being feathered and would thus weigh them down when wet), and cannot hold a shield. And they're three blocks tall, to Jimmy's dismay when the first two start to make fun of him for being "small".
• Our Fairies Are Different: The Fairyborn origin, held by Katherine on her second life. They have wings and can levitate and fly, don't take fall damage, can break blocks in air, get more saturation from honey, can make a circle of healing around them to regenerate, and can glow. However, they have 50% less health than the average player, are unable to handle the cold, and can't wear armour which is too heavy. Oh, and they're 3/4 the size of a normal block, i.e. their height is 75 centimetres, or about 2 feet and 5.5 inches.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: The Giant origin, held by Seapeekay on his first and sixth lives, Joel in his second, and Sausage in his eighth, causes players to be twice as tall and sturdy, and significantly stronger than a standard player, as well as having twice the amount of health. However, this enormous strength causes those players to have slower attack speed, the inability to use bows and crossbows, the inability to swim or ride animals/vehicles, having to take thrice as much damage from arthropod mobs, and having to sleep in a 2×2 bed because they're too big to use a normal one.
• Plant Person: The Floran origin, held by Katherine in her first life and Lizzie in her second, can photosynthesize and remain satiated while exposed to sunlight, in addition to having a Green Thumb.
• Put on a Bus: Several content creators have gone on hiatus throughout the duration of the series, mainly due to real-life factors or inconsistent personal uploading schedules. This is a double-edged sword, since their relative lack of participation spares them from death via various means, and allows them to keep their origins for longer.
• Rascally Raccoon: The Raccoon origin, held by Lizzie on her first life, gives players the ability to turn temporarily invisible, as well as a toggleable speed boost. Lizzie herself proves herself to be very cunning, and sets up garbage cans in everyone's bases so she can raid their trash.
• Shock and Awe: The Thunderborn origin, held by Joel and Sausage on their respective fifth lives, is able to summon "Plasma Bolts" from the skies to strike down their opponents, or anything they want, really.
• Shout-Out:
  • As a Shulk origin on his first life, Joey refers to himself as Shulk with a matching Minecraft skin styled after The Incredible Hulk.
  • As an Inchling origin on his second life, fWhip has blue skin and builds a mushroom village as a place of residence in tribute to The Smurfs.
  • According to her 3rd episode, one of Lauren's chicken children is named Tommy.
  • Meghan's axolotls are named after various Pokémon.
  • Joey's house in his fourth life is based on the one from Turning Red, as recommended by his comments section.
  • One of the first things Scott builds as a Merling is a pineapple in the lake on his property.^note Meghan's notes indicates that she intends to do the same as a Merling herself, but she dies before being able to do so.
    Scott: I don't think I need to give you the reference... and if I do, I can't help you.
    • He also — randomly, according to him — names two of the fish he collected for the lake "Azula" and "Katara" in the same episode.
  • As a Birb/Owl, Sausage opens a post office and assigns Hogwarts Houses to other players.
  • While Wolf Katherine and Fox Gem were playing Hide and Seek together, Sausage remarks that they were "a fox and a hound, playing together". Gem reveals after the bit that this was intentional.
  • Goolien Sausage styles himself after a red Crewmate from Among Us.
  • As a Red Panda origin in his seventh life, Jimmy wears a onesie of Po from Kung Fu Panda. He becomes an Inchling in his eighth life and styles himself after a Green Army Man from Toy Story.
  • Upon respawning as an Atling in her seventh life, one of Katherine's first comments is "See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me."
  • Rejoicing in "winning Afterlife", Oli exclaims that "Nobody expects the Oli Inquisition!" while terrorizing Villagers in his finale.
• Sizeshifter: The Goolien origin has this as one of their abilities.
• The Sleepless: There are several origins which have their powers enhanced during the night and are debuffed in the day, often meaning they can sleep through the day rather than the night if they're alone on the server.
  • The Raccoon origin is described to be "nocturnal", and is unable to sleep at night. In contrast, they receive Slowness and Weakness effects during the day.
  • The Shadow Crawler origin is naturally more powerful in the shadows and thus at night (e.g. having extra hearts, enhanced strength, and teleportation abilities), and are blinded and weakened in the light.
  • The Vampire origin has very enhanced speed and jump boost in the night, but are slow and sluggish in the day... and later, Scott, at least, started to burn in the day. The latter is justified by apparently, the gods being mad at him for killing "Angel"/Elytrian Sausage.
• Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying: The Mothling origin, held by Scott on his first life and Gem on her third, can only eat leather and rabbit hide, in reference to the idea of moths chewing holes in clothing. While there is a grain of truth in this, it's only the larvae of the carpet moth that eat fabric, while fully grown carpet moths and moths of other species typically eat nectar or tree sap. In addition, both Scott and Gem decided to model themselves after moths in the family Saturniidae (as a luna moth and a rosy maple moth, respectively), which do not eat anything as adults.
• Soul Eating:
  • One of the abilities of the Half-Wither origin is that they feed on the souls of those they kill.
  • Dullahan origins are horsemen which must absorb the souls from soul lanterns to provide them with nutrients.
• Spiritual Successor: To X Life SMP, another modded SMP with a ten-life limit, with many of the same players on the whitelist. invoked
• Starter Equipment: To accommodate for players with certain starter origins with limited diets, the world spawn has barrels of bread, steak, and carrots as food supply options.
• Super-Senses: Several origins are known for having this. For example, the Birb origin has echolocation abilities that can let them detect entities near them with just a "tweet", and the Half-Dragon origin has a Dragon Sense that allows them to see entities through walls.
• Sweet Tooth: The Candy origin, held by Mika in her first life, can only eat sweet foods (pumpkin pie, honey, sweet berries, cookies, and cake). Thankfully, people of this origin can also craft various pastries like cookies and cakes with just sugar, and eating cookies gives them more saturation than normal. The Cookieborn origin that fWhip and Jimmy had could only eat cookies.
• Terraform: Inverted. Goolien Lizzie turns half of a Yellowstone biome into a blue, gooey land reminiscent of "her home planet" of Zorgensploosh 12. This confused Lauren as she lives in the other half of the biome that wasn't Zorgensploosh-formed.
• Threatening Shark: The Better Animals Plus mod, used in the series, adds Sharks as hostile mobs, which has resulted in incidences where various players were attacked by Sharks while out in the wild. Joey and Katherine even lose their respective fifth and seventh lives as Atlings to Sharks.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Every character who has held the Lepus origin loved carrots, and have extended their carrot farms (or even built one from scratch) during that lifetime to satiate their hunger.
• Underground Monkey: Some origins are a variation of another. Icelings are said to be an evolved version of the Inchling origin, having adapted to the cold, while Forestborns are Blazeborns that fell in love with nature. The Snow Golem origin descends from Icelings thanks to natural selection.
• Weakened by the Light: Multiple origins receive heavy debuffs when in contact with light.
  • The Phantom origin can't be in contact with sunlight for more than a couple of seconds without burning if they're not in Phantom mode.
  • Similarly, the Shadow Crawler origin is blinded and debuffed in contact with light due to being unable to "merge with the shadows around [them]".
  • While the Vampire origin initially just has their powers severely weakened in daylight, meaning they could feasibly be a Daywalking Vampire, it was later updated such that being out in sunlight sets Vampires on fire, first draining their Blood bar, then their Health bar.
  • The Sculkborn origin is used to darkness and cannot see clearly with direct sunlight, so they either have to be under a roof or wearing a leather helmet to negate this.
• Weaksauce Weakness: The Vampire origin is noted to be exceptionally weak against wooden weapons. Several people have considered using wooden swords to kill Vampire Scott in this way, but no one has managed to actually go through with it.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Lauren, being of Avian origin in her first life, was scared of Lizzie because raccoons (Lizzie's first origin) kill chickens but don't eat them. This caused her to leave several of her egg "children" to Lizzie in an attempt at self-preservation and appeasement.
• Winged Humanoid: The Elytrian origin, held by Sausage in his first life and Seapeekay in his second, has a permanent set of wings, and a boost that can launch them up into the air. The Mothling has a similar ability — permanent wings and a "flutter" ability — but is less humanoid, due to only being about half the size of a normal player. There are later added origins that also have flight abilities like the Fairyborn, the Birb, and the Dragon-affiliated origins.
• Yet Another Stupid Death: Many of the players' deaths are caused by not thinking things through, but those take up their lives just as much as more meaningful deaths do. For example, CPK's second death was caused by him accidentally launching himself into the air after deciding to reroll from his Elytrian origin, and falling to his death because 1) Elytrians take more fall damage than normal players, and 2) he didn't activate his pre-equipped Elytra wings to actually fly. Jimmy's third death is even stupider — his death via falling was caused by server lag and was completely out of his control, but nope, that counts as a life down too.

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