fucking eechur-ficates him. +guest appearance from phantom etho <3

[ID: A pencil drawing of Ethoslab. He is drawn wearing a sleeveless jacket with a big hood, long black sleeves, black fingerless gloves, and a mail bag with a "PET" sign on it.

He has phantom wings with stars on them, pointed ears, long and boney fingers, wavy hair partially covering the left side of his face, and dark sclerae. His right eye has a light colored iris with a slit pupil, and his left eye has a darker colored iris with no pupil.

He is standing in a relaxed position, with his right hand in his pocket and his left hand resting on his mail bag. /End ID]

Carol of the Bells - Lindsey Stirling: Last Life Ethubs; snowy sounding, dramatic

Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes: Rancher duo; Ranch-eque and lovey-dovey

Hard Times - Paramore: Elf Scar; this is a “I discovered both of these at the same time so I associate them with one another” kind of thing, however the vibes fit kinda??

Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac: Desert Duo; desert vibes, fitting lyrics

Roll The Bones - Shakey Graves: Desert Duo; desert vibes

Fire in Cairo - The Cure: Desert duo; desert vibes, fitting lyrics

Insomnia - Faithless, Rollo Armstrong, Sister Bliss, Goetz: Phantom!Etho; has the vibes. It’s called insomnia for fuck’s sake. Phantoms. (Accurate lyrics, not so much)

Without Me - Eminem: Hotguy; cannot listen to the chorus without thinking about his smug little face

Goodness How’d it Get so Late?

“So, like, we can all agree that Etho is… strange, right?”

“Mumbo, you’re gonna have to be more specific than that,’ Grian rolled his eyes and stifled a yawn. “Strange is like, Etho's middle name or something.” 

“Well yeah, I know, it’s just-” Mumbo tried (and failed) to stifle his own yawn, “he’s just been a lot stranger lately. Like, I keep seeing him at night, and he just stares at me, he almost seems angry or annoyed.”

“Mate, I don’t think ‘staring at you’ counts as particularly strange, I mean, this is Etho we’re talking about, he’s done a lot stranger things than that. When did this start happening anyway?” 

“Uh, I think I first saw him a couple days after we started this whole Mooner thing, but it was weird, it was like he was trying to stay right at the edge of my vision. Oh- oh and he, like,  had wings? I think? And he was all bony, like a skeleton, but… not a skeleton?”

“Mhm, and you’re sure this isn’t, like, some sleep deprivation hallucination then?” Grian asked, raising his eyebrows. 

“Uh, I’m not- I don’t…think so?”

“Wow, you sound very sure of yourself there.”

“Well you- you’ve sown the seeds of doubt now, you have!” Mumbo cried with mock indignation. “Y’know what, yeah, I am one-hundred and twenty percent sure of myself actually, and there’s nothing you can say to make me doubt myself again, you hear?”

“Sure, sure, and y’know what? I’ll believe you on this one.”

“Wait, really?”

“Yeah, I believe, that you believe, that you keep seeing a vaguely menacing Etho with wings out of the corner of your eye.”

“Gosh, that means a lot G,” it was Mumbo’s turn to roll his eyes now.

“Anyway, speaking of sleep deprivation,” Grian continued, unphased, “have you heard the phantoms recently?”

“Wait, do you mean the laughing?”

“Yeah, exactly, glad it’s not just me hearing that,”  Grian shook his head and sighed, “Honestly it’s getting kind of annoying, like first you try to kill me for not sleeping, and now you’re distracting me with this creepy laugh? It seems a bit counterintuitive honestly, I mean, who’s gonna be able to sleep with all that noise?”

“Wait a sec, mate,” Mumbo’s eyes went wide, and he practically jumped out of his seat. 

“What?”

“Y’know who’s laughing the phantoms sound like?”

“Who’s?”

Mumbo paused, for dramatic effect, before he whispered, “Etho’s.”

Grian stared at him for a moment, blinked, and the two men burst out laughing. 

Above Boatem, Etho chuckled to himself as he circled Treesa. He swooped lower, and gently landed atop the van, so as not to alert the two exhausted men below him. Not yet, at least. Spying on the sleep deprived dorks over in Boatem had recently become one of his favorite pastimes. It was just too easy, y’know? Etho waited for a lull in the conversation, before leaping into the air and cackling shrilly. As he swooped back around he heard a loud thud against the roof of the van and a yelp, followed by a very disgruntled Mumbo shouting.

Flying back toward his base, Etho pulled out his comm.

<Etho>  mumbo and grian haven’t slept in over a week and they’re convinced I’m a hallucination

<Etho> #neverwinning ;-)

(context: the princess bride scene in question)

so for phantom etho, he wasn't a phantom until 1.13 dropped. and folks, i have done the research. the first time he plays non-singleplayer 1.13, and therefore realizes he's a phantom, is the team canada diversity 3 series. which is. the funniest thing in the whole world to me