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- One and a Half Birds takes place entirely in a server hub (in the Between dimension). This means it's not on a server. Only one inventory slot is active (the soul slot). Materials are Minecraft-themed, so toothpaste and soap are made from charcoal.

- The server hub is New Star Station. It's built in a perimeter that's covered at the top; everyone is underground. Lots of deepslate and bedrock.

- All characters are mob hybrids. They're hatched from eggs laid by the 100 mob-themed dragons. Grian is a parrot, Mumbo a wandering trader, and Scar is an allay who became a vex (His player file broke and he became a vex after Cub rescued him from the death loop this sent him into). Grian and Scar have wings and can fly. Scar can clip through walls.

- Player files look like end crystals when placed on crying obsidian. Otherwise, they look flat. These are important; it's their life force. They're also kind of like Poké balls.

- This story's Grian swapped places with the Grian who USED to live in the digital universe. This plays into Grian's Watcher lore: he came from a universe where the Life Series was real and scary. It's left him traumatized. The fic will explain this in more detail (as early as Chapter 2).

- Grian, Scar, and Mumbo are close friends (Platonic). They each have apartments in different places around the perimeter. Grian's is on the second floor, Mumbo's is on the ground floor (Next to his llamas). The fic starts in Grian's living room.

- Players are digital. Their bodies are made of code and light. In this story, Mumbo deals with a problem in his code. Players can't easily carry each other because they're made of light, so they can only touch briefly before their bodies fade through each other.

- There's no sex in the digital world. Players were created by developers and they weren't designed with those reproductive parts. However, the forehead is a sensitive zone for them, so tapping foreheads is a sign of affection. Players can breed if they eat a lot of golden carrots, but those are on-server only items (Extinct in the Between dimension). No sex scenes or gore in this story. Fun fact, but they use the bathroom by tapping the side of a composter. It just drains their bathroom needs automatically. That's it.

- Martyn and Mumbo are married because this story takes place right after Last Life SMP (where they were married). Grian and Scar don't know Mumbo is married.

- Martyn is a phantom hybrid: second in command of the local flock, under Bdubs. His job is to chase sleepy players back to their portals. If they don't go, he bites them, which automatically kicks them out of the Between dimension and back to their Overworld beds (on whichever server they've told the game is their AFK).

- Skins are clothing items. They can be taken off, revealing the true player form: glowing blue code. Grian is an exception because he's not blue (but his skin does come off). Since skin is clothing, it doesn't hurt when it comes off.

- Souls come in four temperatures: hot, warm, cool, and chilly. This is rarely important except in medical contexts, and it's important in this fic because of Mumbo's medical issues.

- Mumbo really does eat Grian's soul in Hermitcraft canon, so that's the lore I'm playing with. Impulse and Skizz are interpreted as sharing souls due to their Naked & Scared series' lore, so Impulse gives Grian some advice.

- Martyn is an obligate anivore. He can't eat physical food; he can only eat souls. When an anivore bites a player to log them out, this gives them energy. The player is forced to rest briefly before they can return to Between.

- "Soul teeth" don't make contact with a player skin: just the soul beneath. It doesn't hurt to be logged out, but some people like it (It resets their hunger meter and means they don't have to walk home, cook, or do dishes) and some people don't (Preferring to leave Between by exiting through a portal on their own feet).

- Mumbo has an infection (parallel of an STD) because Martyn chews on him as a form of affection, and Martyn's job is biting other people. Due to Martyn not properly brushing his teeth and Mumbo not properly washing his soul, Mumbo's soul is contaminated with other species data. When the story starts, he's taking medicine to fix this.

- Scar has a glitch that moves to different places of his body over time. Sometimes he can walk and sometimes he can't. In this story, Scar uses a cane.

- Camera accounts are people. In the opening scene of this story, Grian's having a party at his house where he's hanging out with Mumbo and Scar while TwoMuchGrian, MumboDrone, and BadTimeWithScar are hanging out in the back room. There's one scene where Two crawls inside Grian's head, which he can do because he has a special camera person body.

- Etho is a self-taught doctor (a nod to him being a programmer IRL). He and Mumbo talk about Mumbo's health.

- Scar is also an anivore (His official vex lore is that "he eats people"), so he's able to advise and supervise the eating process, but doesn't participate himself.