#codi comments

It could be a moment, an idea, a character trait or piece of lore you think doesn’t get mentioned much, etc.

Hope you are well, have a lovely day.

I took a few days to think of this but I finally remember one.

My first thought was wild life, but then I also feel like that's pretty talked about and cherished in the grumbo community. Which, rightfully so. So then I was trying to think of something else and eventually came up with this:

I need more people to talk about how desperate Grian is for Mumbo's attention. How he seems to do a decent portion of things with "how will Mumbo respond" in mind. He doesn't just want his attention, he wants Mumbo's focus, approval, praise, and time. While doing almost anything for, except say it. He won't tell Mumbo he wants his attention, or 'we should hang out'. He'll go up and do something to get his attention, try to encourage Mumbo to spend more time with him. 'I made a mail system between our bases Mumbo (twice, almost thrice in s8)' 'I've nominated you for mayor Mumbo' 'I got a bunch of our friends to play hide and seek in your base Mumbo' it's always him, he's almost always done something to get Mumbo's attention, like he needs it to live, to function. I have more than one superhero au where Grian becomes CuteGuy mostly because of how much Mumbo loves HotGuy, and he wants to be Mumbo's spotlight.

I also want people to talk about the jealousy that comes with that. I need a slightly sizzling hatred at HotGuy, even though him and Scar are good friends. I need Grian to be slightly more passive aggressive towards skizz on giggs outings cause of the C team. Because how dare they. Mumbo's his, and he deserves to have most of his attention.

And don't think this is one sided, either. While maybe not as intense Mumbo still actively seeks out Grian. Take for example s9. Mumbo, inspiration and motivation at an all time low, verge of burn out, seeks out Grian. Building not only his starter base next to Grian's, but also starting his mega base as close to Grian's as possible. And whiles he's on break he thinks about coming back, about reuniting with Grian.

Not to mention what these two do in the life series! Grian invited a good portion of his friends to the life series, and has actively tried to avoid teaming with Scar because they did that already. Yet teams with Mumbo more than once! 2/3 of the life series Mumbo has been in, Grian and Mumbo team up. I like to imagine the only reason they didn't team up in secret life was because Mumbo thought Grian was too funny, and Grian couldn't complete his task. (Which side note I also think the grumbo community should still be a little more insane about secret life Grumbo, they had some good moments.) 'We can still be friends, Mumbo' 'I'm all the friend you need' I'd be amiss to not mention past life. How Grian searches out Not Tango and Not Joel just for time with Mumbo. Meanwhile Mumbo saying he'll give people diamonds next session as Tango, then giving Grian almost all of Tango's Diamonds at the end, just straight up.

Idk is my heavy preference for yandere aus and stuff showing yet? There may or may not be a reason 'Possessive/Obsessive' made it as a grumbo week prompt. I need people to write more of it, people, I need these men OBSESSED with each other in so many ways. (Not that it wasn't popular when I took the vote, but I knew it was one of like 2 prompts I wanted to make it into the list.)

Also Warden and/or Dragon hybrid Mumbo. I will not elaborate on that one. Its just something we need to be more insane about

I hate them so much 💔

Such a mood I love Wild life so much I rewatch it every couple of months.

"Mumbo's in his head 24/7" Dude, even he's said so. In that one escape room video he did with Joel and Impulse he had a room inside his head AND HIS 2 BRAIN CELLS WAS JUST MUMBO! TWICE!

Not to mention his fucking SCREAM when Mumbo died, he was so distressed. OPUHGOSDUGH

When Mumbo murders him cause Cleo told him to, OUGH heart breaking... and then when he's chasing Mumbo and Impulse teleports him away, his "WHY WOULD YOU TAKE MUMBO AWAY FROM ME" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Something about him actually being angry Mumbo died in general, and that's the 'being taken away from him' he's referring to. Poor impulse just gets brunt of his anger

Also Grian calling Mumbo cute and Mumbo looking down like he's all flustered

-Grian and Mumbo decided to play Hungry Hermits together (Just the 2 of them even)

-They both made episodes where all they do is play Hungry Hermits together (not only that but they're longer than their normal episodes)

-They both posted it in June of all the months???

Something something Parallels

Something something Grumbo

Something something my video editor doesn't export into a file Tumblr likes so pretend it's here

ok. ok. ok

ok

grumbo roommates asmrtist grian au

throws The Characters into an asmr au

mumbo finds a channel with a few hundred subs, maybe 20 videos, goes to listen and WHAM thats his roommate/crush making m4a romantic comfort asmrs

andddddddd and grians a rly small channel so he doesnt have the best mic set up so tldr mumbo can hear himself moving around in the apartment in the background of grians videos

mumbo heard grian talking sometimes but he thought he was just on a voice call or smthn

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and mumbo barely ever hear grian talk irl in the soft, sweet tone he does in his videos and it drives mumbo WILD. oughhghghhghgh

maybe grian accidentally ends a sentence with "ill always be here for you, i love you, mum- honey."

oughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

awesome i love when my aus become Lists

OMG YES!

What if the whole reason Grian started doing the boyfriend ASMRs is because he got to a point where he had to do SOMETHING about his crush or he would have exploded. He just couldn't take it anymore. So instead he starts his channel, not really thinking anyone will watch. He uses scenarios he always fantasizes about him and Mumbo doing as his video ideas, And he's terrified, but yeah he locked his door, but the walls are thin, and he can always hear Mumbo (which is both a perk, and problem)

But he does it, and posts the video, and then he does it again and its helping! Better yet, People are enjoying them! Because he goes off of what he fantasizes about it ends up being exactly what others want/need and he gains a small, dedicated following.

And Mumbo, well he's not going to tell Grian he found his channel. Both of them have been friends for so long, and they're far too scared to say anything because what if it ruins their friendship!? But Mumbo loves the videos and he ends up watching them, not only at night but also whenever he's just feeling low. Some of these things he also fantasizes about, and others give me ideas. He finds it a little bit hard to separate the reality from the videos, and he has to catch himself a few times before saying something. But the videos are really helping with, what he thinks, unrequited feelings for his best friend!

There's a few times where he's watching a video, and he'll be caught off guard because Grian will throw in things that happened to them, or off offhandedly reference something they talk about. and he doesn't know how to react.

Maybe Mumbo even saves up so he can buy a mic for Grian, in secret of course, through an anonymous fan account. And Grian get all flustered about it because this was just meant to be a way to cope with his crush, but people like it so much that someone bought him better equipment???

And time goes on, neither of them say anything to the other, but then Grian has to go out of town for a few days for work, or family or something, and Mumbo misses him, He always does, way more than he should, but the videos help because he can still listen to Grian's voice. And then when Grian gets back he uploads a video titled "Boyfriend calls you to tell you how much he misses you" and Mumbo lets himself pretend that it's real, that Grian made it because he missed him, cause gosh does he want it to be. (It is, Grian made it and recorded it before going to bed one of the nights to stop himself from calling Mumbo and confessing how much he loves and misses him.)

Eventually Mumbo walks into Grian's bedroom while he's recording and Grian goes bright red. Mumbo ends up confesses he's known about the videos for awhile and listens to them. Which makes Grian even more embarrassed, he may or may hide his face in a pillow. But anyways then they confess their feelings for each other and kiss, and its super gay.

Mumbo still watches Grian's videos, and sometimes after watching them he'll walks up behind him, kisses Grian on the cheek, and compliments the newest video. This, of course doesn't fail to make Grian all flustered. Mumbo takes notes on some of the things Grian makes videos about, and keeps a list for date night ideas. On the other hand Grian will still reference weird/funny moments that happened between them and put them in his videos. But now it's also little things that come up on the romantic side of their relationship. He adds them as a little message to Mumbo, enjoying that there's a little secret in his videos that only the two of them understand. These never fail to make Mumbo smile, and remember the moment.

Grian keeps making asmr videos because he enjoys it, and Mumbo fully supports him. They end up moving into a quieter apartment, still with 2 rooms, but this time one of them gets turned into an office for Grian. And maybe even eventually Grian ask Mumbo if he wants to be in a video, and so they make a video, and even though Grian never says that Mumbo his partner, and cuts out all the parts that they break character to kiss or be gay and whatnot, he still gets comments about how close the too clearly are.

A grumbo fan

Who likes grumbo fics!!!!

Hi I’m your fellow grumbo eater

I feed off of any scraps of grumbo I can get

Do you have some to spare for the poor hungry grumbo eater?

Meant to answer this sooner, but I'm not too good at remembering oops...

But yes I do infact love both Grumbo and Grumbo fanfics they are my main source of dopamine.

I've posted most of my grumbo aus and ideas, except like the really long ones I've written out on paper, and that's a lot of typing so unfortunately they've been banished. But the ones that I haven't posted basically boil down to:

-Harpy Grian, and Mermaid Mumbo (Boots loves mermaids so they loved talking about that one)

-Mycelium resistance comes back in season 10 but also heavy Grumbo plotline

-A really long apocalypse au that I've spent many hours thinking about and spent like 7-8 hours writing in Boots dms, and I've not posted it cause I'm a coward

-A Zenless Zone Zero au because my other best friend got me lowkey obsessed

-A LONG au that starts with Grumbo being childhood friends and like dude I turn this in my head every night and its my default au I think about, and its so long and detailed idk where I'd start

-a red dead au that has very little with the actual game and is more inspired by me playing the game and my brain went "mmmm Grimbo cowboy au"

These are some of the aus I don't currently have any plans to post and most likely won't unless someone ask me about them, so feel free to do with them what you'd like.

Please and thank you🫶

-💣

Yeah sure I've got some more, here's some various other ideas:

-Grum has Mumbo in his phone as "Dabo" and Grian as "Dadrian" and he thinks it's hilarious -Prime has them in his phone as "Dad 1" and "Dad 2" and periodically switches them to mess with said dads. That being said this has tripped him up more than once and he's texted the wrong dad. -Jrum puts them in his phone as simply a bird and a mustache emoji, the latter of which he refuses to tell Grian where or how he got (Grian wants it so bad, Mumbo thinks it's funny but is also very aware he'd be the one constantly receiving said emoji from Grian) -Trivia is too young to have a phone in all my aus, but when he does get one he keeps all his contacts as their Trivia score. (#correct/#wrong) This does NOT confuse him as he always remembers.

-the main way to tell Grum and Prime apart is how they style their hair. They both have Grians fringe but Grum keeps his wild and lose, while Prime tries to mimic Mumbo's gel-ed style. (Mumbo started to gel his hair because Prime kept getting upset when it got in his eyes but didn't want to cut it shorter. Eventually it's just something that he'd ask him to do every morning.)

-Grum and Prime take after Mumbo the most, which means they're human(?) (Don't ask Mumbo he still doesn't wish to acknowledge it) -Jrum and Trivia are avians like Grian. The 3 of them have 'flock time' where they all lay in Grian's nest and preen and whatnot.