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Everen is an art and animatic YouTube channel run by a team of three, Bobbi, Crumble, and Katy. While most of their uploads so far are centred around the Minecraft content creation community, they are best known for their Life SMP animatics, drawn by their lead artist, MissKatyrow (Katy).

    Their major Life series animatics are listed as follows and set to the following: 

Note: Due to the death-intensive nature of the source material, all spoilers are off except those pertaining to Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity.

Everen's works contains examples of:

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    A – C 
  • Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The animatics turn the inherently goofy Minecraft setting into much more realistic imagery, resulting in far more detail and by extension, far more angst. "Battle Cry" notably shows Grian and Joel being devasted by Jimmy's final death, whereas their first reactions in canon were practically cackling at how he's somehow first to be Killed Off for Real again. cc!Jimmy's live reaction to the animatic adds commentary lampshading the dissonance, but considering Joel later admits to attempting a Self-Sacrifice Scheme to prevent this in-universe and undergoes a Sanity Slippage in response to it not working, while Grian continues wearing his Bad Boys skin on Day 8 in memory of his late allies, the emotional reaction here is not completely unfounded.
    cc!Jimmy: (reacting to the animatic) Bro, let me– let me tell you just right here, they were not shocked; they were laughing. Just to let you know, don't get it– ay, don't get it twisted: they were not shocked, they were laughing. Do not get twisted by this photo: they were not emotional, they were wetting themselves, thank you very much.
  • Adaptational Badass: While he mostly tries to divert the other Boogeyman curse-inflicted players' attention by refusing to give away Cleo and Grian's locations or otherwise being deliberately evasive in Secret Life, "Eleanor Rigby" shows Etho actively defending the two from Gem and the other cursed players.
  • Adaptational Context Change: While general consensus on the Double Life finale goes that Scott's final act of self-detonation is a self-sacrifice to give Pearl the victory, "Running Up That Hill" posits that he did so out of grief after Cleo's death.
  • Adaptational Modesty: In "Battle Cry", Skizz is still seen with his shirt on at his final death, as opposed to being a Walking Shirtless Scene as in the source material.
    Katy: (responding to a comment) Oh as soon as I saw the skin change I was like "oh heck no Skizz!" XD I draw the line in keeping my designs accurate to the players skins when Skizz goes all Imp and Skizz* on us. Gosh imagine him being topless in that scene? Would've looked really wrong :o
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Due to a lack of dialogue and musical time constraints, Bdubs and Impulse's Malicious Slander and Cleo and Scott's more petty moments (e.g. the daily axe-crit as bonding, the Relationship Ranch) are omitted from "Running Up That Hill".
  • Adaptational Wimp: In Last Life canon, Mumbo shoots Grian with a bow and arrow and tries to blow him up with an End crystal before being taken down himself, though he almost dies in his own explosion. In "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", he draws a sword but doesn't manage to get a hit in when he's stabbed to death.
  • Adaptation Distillation: Due to a lack of dialogue, some of the plot points are streamlined by visuals or condensing plotlines.
    • In "Running Up That Hill", Cleo gifts Martyn a diamond sword named "Don't Die". In canon, she instead gives him two diamonds with the verbal advice to not die.
    • In "Feed the Machine", by invokedWord of God, Bdubs receives his "kill the Ender dragon" task and Pearl receives her Hot Potato task in the same frame. In canon, these take place in two different sessions — Days 4 and 5, respectively; Katy admits to taking this creative liberty for Foreshadowing purposes.
  • Adaptation Species Change: In "Battle Cry", Martyn has Ear Fins, webbed fingers, and gills like Scott does, but looks like a normal human in canon.
  • Adapted Out: Big B and Jimmy's rivalry subplot over Judge Jury And Executioner the frog is condensed to a single shot of Big B surrounded by frogs in "Battle Cry".
  • Anachronic Order:
    • "Running Up That Hill":
      • Ren and Big B's kill on Bdubs and Impulse is followed by the Siege of the Red Velvet Keep in the animatic, when in canon, it's chronologically the other way around.
      • Later, the animatic shows Ren and Big B's death (via Grian's stalactite kill) and then puts Jimmy and Grian's deaths back-to-back in mirrored fashion, when in canon, Jimmy dies first (along with Tango), then Ren and Big B, and then Grian (and Scar). Only the latter pair die on Day 6; the former two pairs die on Day 5.
    • "Battle Cry" shows Skizz's final death first, then shows Jimmy and Joel's back-to-back, as opposed to the source material's death order of Jimmy, then Skizz, then Joel.
  • Arc Symbol: The Watchers' symbol pops up throughout "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" as an Easter Egg: under the "You are The Boogeyman" announcement shot (Day 6), in Martyn's left eye after Grian kills Mumbo (Day 7), on the face of Ren's watch (Day 7), and on the surface of the Moon (Days 8 and 9). It appears again in "Battle Cry" on Martyn's hourglass and throughout "Feed the Machine" and "Eleanor Rigby" as the Secret Keeper's symbol.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The content warnings for "Who Are You, Really?" are listed in the video as "blood, death, creepy Bdubs".
    (an arrow pointing at the last warning) his skin is not normal…
  • Art Shift: There is a noticeable increase in artistic quality between "Who Are You Really" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", and even moreso for later animatics.
  • Ascended Extra:
    • Both Last Life animatics have fairly few scenes or visuals where Impulse plays a prominent role. "Running Up That Hill" shows him as the first character to appear in the animatic, gives him a few more background scenes, and shows more of his deaths in the spotlight. Meanwhile, "Battle Cry" places him to be one of the most recurring characters throughout the animatic. However, "Feed the Machine" has him Demoted to Extra again, only having a handful of scenes.
      Katy: (in response to a comment on his presence) Impulse is one of my faves and I felt really bad for barely including him in the Last Life animatics so I had to correct that error! Thank you!
    • Across the two Last Life animatics, Skizz appears three times in total, even fewer than Impulse. "Battle Cry" gives him far more appearances, and his Affirmations (shown in his perspective) make up a significant segment of the entire animatic. That said, "Feed the Machine" has him Demoted to Extra again, with only three appearances total.
  • Bindle Stick: In the Day 5 segment of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Jimmy is holding on a red bindle on a stick after being exiled from the Southlands.
  • Bolt of Divine Retribution: Implied. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" ends with Scott standing alone as the Sole Survivor, then vanishing after being struck down by lightning. Considering he's last seen looking in the direction of the Moon, on which there's a Watcher symbol, it's easy to guess who likely sent down the lightning bolt.
  • Bookends: "Who Are You, Really?" opens with the silhouettes of each of the cast members sorted by starter alliance, along with a colour-coded heart indicating how many lives they each start with. It ends with the silhouettes of those who have dropped to their final life, along with a red heart and Hit Flashes over the heart to show how they fell to Red, though followed by a shot of all of them on Red Life and being out to kill everyone.
  • Broken Tears:
    • "And Then There Were None": Martyn's Reaction Shot to Ren getting killed in the final battle shows him starting to have a tearful breakdown before also being killed. Later, Grian is also shedding tears by the time he's killed his closest ally and, as per canon, ends the series with a Last Survivor Suicide.
    • In "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Grian is visibly seen crying and holding on to Mumbo while stabbing him. Likewise, the Day 8 segment ends with Scott tearing up before being consumed by murderous Red rage, having refused to kill anyone as the Boogeyman.
    • In "Running Up That Hill", Scott is notably teary just before his self-detonation at the end. Considering his chosen soulmate has just died, it's not hard to put the pieces together to see what's going on.
  • Call-Back: Starting from "Running Up That Hill", each animatic has a couple of shots that flash back to a related event in a previous season.
    • "Running Up That Hill":
      • When Scar finds out his soul-bond to Grian, Grian is not particularly happy about it. Cue flashback to 3rd Life, implicitly to just before the two's Duel to the Death in the cactus ring.
      • Martyn finding Ren dead at the end of Day 3 flashes to 3rd Life, when he beheaded Ren at his own request to unleash "Red Winter" on the server.
      • When Grian uses a fishing rod to hook Joel (Day 4), Etho stares as Joel flashes into Scar from the previous season, reflecting how he pulled off a Boogeyman kill then.
      • Jimmy falling to his death during the Siege of the Red Velvet Keep (Day 4) flashes back to his final death in Last Life, where he also died from fall damage.
    • "Battle Cry":
      • The T.I.E.S' conflict with the Bad Boys over cows on Day 1 is shown with the soulbond strings from the previous season between Etho and Joel, as well as Tango and Jimmy, fading.
      • Bdubs receiving a clock from Impulse is followed by a flashback to 3rd Life, where Bdubs betrayed Impulse and murdered him for a clock.
      • Jimmy aiming a crossbow at Scott to kill him for life-time, as per a prior agreement, is accompanied with a brief flash to him offering a poppy in the Flower Forest in 3rd Life. Fittingly, the lyrics synced to this sequence are "Feel the years go by".
  • Choke Holds: "Running Up That Hill" depicts Jimmy's final death to be getting picked up and strangled by an Enderman.
  • Cliffhanger: "Feed the Machine" ends at the start of Day 7 of Secret Life, with a shot of Gem receiving a task and her eyes turning purple to signify the beginning of the Boogeyman Apocalypse.
  • Color-Coded Eyes: The animatic series generally follows the popular fan depiction of the number of lives a character is on being reflected by their eye colour — green for three or more, yellow for two, and red for one. It also gives players with the Boogeyman curse glowing purple eyes as a Mark of the Supernatural, which later coincidentally denotes their curse's connection to the Watchers.
  • Color Contrast: In "Feed the Machine", when the Wither and Warden are pit against each other, their colour schemes and attacks are respectively depicted to be red and cyan (greenish blue) for contrast.
  • Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The Red String of Fate connecting soulmate pairs in a visual from "Running Up That Hill" shares the same colour as one's life designation. The sole exceptions to this are the chosen soulmate pairs, who are connected by violet threads instead to draw contrast with the assigned soulmate pairs.
  • Compressed Adaptation: Most the Life series animatics are between 2.5 and 5 minutes long, depending on the length of the song (or in 3rd Life's case, poem) it's set to. Each of the seasons last anywhere between 6 to 9 weeks, spanning over a dozen POVs' worth of content in weekly episodes, though the 9-week seasons are typically split into two animatics. Many details are left as Freeze-Frame Bonus material, while others (including many of the deaths) are left out completely.
  • Content Warnings: Each of their animatics opens with a set of content warnings, primarily relating to blood, death, flashing images, and spoilers.
  • Corrupt the Cutie: Throughout "Feed the Machine", Gem goes from an innocent Naïve Newcomer who doesn't know "what's in store", to leading Bdubs to fight the Ender dragon, to becoming the main antagonist of Day 7 in the end. This culminates into her role as the main antagonist of "Eleanor Rigby" as the Patient Zero of the Boogeyman curse, which the animatic primarily focuses on.
  • Cosmic Motifs:
    • The end of "Battle Cry" depicts all four victors up until that point with their fanon celestial motifs — Grian as the Sun, Scott as the stars, Pearl as the Moon, and Martyn as a comet/meteor.
    • The end of "Eleanor Rigby" follows up with the first three victors and their celestial motifs as above, but swaps out Martyn and Scar in favour of Katy's personal weapon symbolism of a sword and a bow, respectively.

    D – H 
  • Death Montage: Unlike the other adaptations, "And Then There Were None" focuses on all the final deaths of its season and outside of a few shots depicting past events, it simply shows everyone dying.
  • Demoted to Extra: While each of the animatics depict everyone to at least some extent, due to the "plot structure" of each season, some have distinctly fewer scenes than others.
    • In "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Skizz is depicted in only one scene — trying to calm Tango down from his Unstoppable Rage after Bdubs' Boogey-kill on him (Day 6). Everyone else has at least two appearances.
    • Compared with everyone else, Impulse has notably fewer scenes than most of the characters in the two Last Life animatics, having only three scenes (one posthumous) and two silhouette shots across them combined. This is remedied in "Running Up That Hill", where he plays a more central role in the depicted scenes.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: "Who Are You, Really?" shows Pearl and Scott holding each other as the former bleeds out from a Boogeyman attack in the previous shot (Day 3).
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation:
    • Downplayed. In "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Jimmy dies from falling off a cliff after an encounter with the non-Red Southlanders. In canon, he punches Grian with a baked potato, causing Grian to retaliate, chase him down with a sword, and knock him off the roof of Mumbo's bunker in the Southlands. Either way, it's fall damage that does him in, but the location's a bit different from canon.
    • Downplayed. In "Running Up That Hill", Cleo's final death appears to be from being mauled by Pearl's wolves. In canon, they are knocked into a tree by Pearl, dying from fall damage as a result. That said, the death is counted as a "dramatic fall" in Katy's "Feed the Machine" pre-party rewatch stream.
    • "Battle Cry":
      • The opening sequence depicting everyone's deaths in reverse chronological order has a small deviation from canon — it shows Pearl drowning, as indicated by the air bubbles near her, but in canon, Scott gets 30 minutes from her death, suggesting it was a melee hit that killed her. That said, it's downplayed due to a lack of final death messages, so the cause of death appears ambiguous.
      • The animatic also shows Cleo shielding Scar from the blast in the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge Boogey kill, suggesting that she took the brunt of the blow. However, in canon, while both of them died, Scar was ultimately closer to the blast and was the one to lose two hours of life-time. This is likely to showcase Cleo's Team Mom status with the lack of dialogue and time limitations of the song.
    • In "Feed the Machine", Jimmy's death to the Ender dragon is depicted to be by dragon's breath, but in canon, he died from fall damage after being slammed into an obsidian pillar by the dragon. Katy has considered listing it on the "dramatic fall" counter, though, but isn't as that is not what is shown in the animatic.
  • Dreaming of Things to Come: In "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (Day 5), Big B wakes up from a nightmare of Cleo's Unstoppable Rage. The next shot shows Cleo returning to burn down the Fairy Fort. Justified due to his own trauma from killing Cleo in the first place and Cleo's fearsome reputation in general, and with them swearing vengeance at the end of the previous animatic, such an outcome is all but inevitable.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Comparing "Who Are You, Really?" and the later animatics, several characters' designs have since been updated.
    • The heights of the characters weren't standardized in the earliest animatics.
    • Cleo's body used to be held just by her spine, but is later drawn with a full body. Her hair has also been drawn to be curlier.
    • Grian has since been drawn with much scruffier and less neat hair.
  • Enemy Rising Behind: In "Who Are You, Really?", the first Boogeyman kill is depicted as Bdubs sneaking up on Grian behind his back while he's enchanting before going in for the attack, followed by a Hit Flash to indicate a successful kill.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: A Freeze-Frame Bonus for the Last Life animatics is that Cleo's hair is long at the start of the season, but is accidentally cut short by Big B during his Boogeyman kill; they then spend the remainder of the season with short hair, showing how great of an impact the betrayal had on them.
  • Eye Colour Change:
    • Via Color-Coded Eyes, a character's eye colour usually changes depending on how many lives they have, or if they are the Boogeyman.
    • At the end of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Scott's eyes (and light crystals) revert from red to their natural blue, disconnected from the Life series as a whole.
    • At the end of "Battle Cry", Martyn's eyes are seen to glow purple, reflecting how he was influenced, if not outright possessed, by the Watchers to end the season by Combat Pragmatist murder.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Implied. The shot before the final massacre in "Battle Cry" shows Impulse tightening his tie before what should have been a three-way Duel to the Death, with him as the sole member of T.I.E.S. remaining facing off against the long-established Mean Gills.
  • Foreshadowing: In "Feed the Machine", there's a frame of Bdubs and Pearl reading their tasks, with Bdubs being distressed at his extremely short task scroll's contents and Pearl smirking at her long one. While they're canonically tasks on two different sessions, Bdubs' is his Day 4 task to kill the Ender dragon and Pearl's is her Day 5 Hot Potato task, which foreshadow the next two thirds of the animatic — the Ender dragon fight and the Warden vs. Wither fight (with Pearl as an Unwitting Instigator of Doom).
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus:
    • "And Then There Were None": In the first line of each verse ("[number] little Minecrafters"), there's always the same number of a certain background detail. The only exception to this is Martyn's verse, where the detail is in the second line instead (6 arrows).
    • "Who Are You, Really?": The Southlanders' towers shot depicts Mumbo's tower as an antenna, fitting his Gadgeteer Genius reputation.
    • "Everybody Wants to Rule the World":
      • The Day 6 segment opens with a shot of all six Boogeymen of the session, followed by their victims. All the victims' portraits show what state they were in when each of the Boogeymen killed them, e.g. Impulse has his back to the screen.
      • During the second shot of the Wither fight, Etho is seen fighting the Wither, but Bdubs is nowhere to be seen despite being in the previous shot. A pause gives the answer why: Bdubs' B.E.S.T. shield, mossy cloak, and sword lying in the rubble. In canon, he died from fall damage during the fight.
    • "Running Up That Hill": When Grian uses a fishing rod to hook Joel (Day 4), Etho stares as Joel flashes into Scar from the previous season, reflecting how he pulled off a Boogeyman kill then.
    • "Battle Cry": During Skizz's affirmation sequence, while the shot flashes by quickly, Martyn's eyes are distinctly purplish in his scene. He was the Boogeyman when the scene took place.
    • In the "Fashion" art meme, Jimmy's outfit has subtle references to the Life series, with a flower and flames on his vest (right and left sides, respectively) to represent Scott and Tango, as well as wings on his boots to represent the Canary curse.
    • Throughout "Feed the Machine", while it's never explicitly shown due to artistic restrictions, Joel's Life series merch hoodie is modified to read "Everen" instead of "Life". It's more explicitly shown in "Eleanor Rigby".
  • Gory Discretion Shot:
    • Bdubs and Impulse's final death in "Running Up That Hill" are shown in two shots — first of them in fear of a glowing red silhouette of Pearl, the next, their hands reaching out for each other, bleeding and with a snapped soulmate string.
    • Skizz's final death in "Battle Cry" shows Etho raising the axe Skizz gave him to finish the job and cuts away. Considering fanon generally depicts it as a beheading, the outcome likely wouldn't be pretty.
  • Happily Married:
    • While it is mostly kept offscreen and implied in "And Then There Were None" focusing on the final deaths, Scott's flashback to 3rd Life in "Battle Cry", as well as "No Longer You", show that he was perfectly happy with Jimmy before everything hit the fan — and between deaths and death games, they presumably drifted apart.
    • Reflecting their canonical dynamic in Double Life, Bdubs and Impulse have matching wedding bands in "Running Up That Hill", spend most of their scenes either being happy or dying together, and they're one of the few soulbound pairs who are both linked at the heart in the silhouette sequence halfway through the animatic (and one of two assigned pairs).
  • Hit Flash: Zig-Zagging Trope. Several of the deaths are deliberately obscured with a white flash of violence instead, but others don't shy away from the blood and gore.
    • "Who Are You, Really?": Bdubs' first Boogeyman kill on Grian (Day 1), and the two deaths causing Joel to fall to Red Life play it straight. Big B's Boogeyman kill on Cleo (Day 4) shades the flash purple (for Boogeyman) and red (for blood), and follows it with a shot of Big B trying to clean the blood off his axe, but otherwise also plays it straight. Joel's shot on Grian (Day 4) to bring him down to Red subverts it by first showing an arrow flash, then actually showing the blood spurting from the wound as he falls to his death.
    • "Everybody Wants to Rule the World": Etho's Boogey kill on Scar (Day 5) is shown as a white flash-strike. Grian killing Mumbo (Day 7) is initially a white flash, but then shows the actual kill, albeit keeping it bloodless this time.
  • Holding Hands:
    • In "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Bdubs and Etho are seen holding hands as the Wither is spawned on Day 7. Fittingly, the line from the song set to the scene is "Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down".
    • The silhouette visual halfway through "Running Up That Hill" shows the soulbound pairs who are completely devoted to each other (both linked at the heart) to usually be holding hands or, in Bdubs and Impulse's case, even having Intertwined Fingers. Cleo and Scott have interlocked pinky fingers instead.

    I – Z 
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Multiple deaths are depicted to be characters being flat-out impaled with a weapon:
    • "And Then There Were None" focuses on only the final deaths of the season but still has its fair share: Scott (by Ren), Tango (by Martyn), Ren (by Scar).
    • Likewise, "No Longer You" depicts Bdubs' clock betrayal as him running Impulse through with a sword.
    • "Who Are You, Really?": Lizzie's Boogeyman kill on Pearl (Day 3), Grian being shot off the ghast farm by Joel in the Nether (Day 4).
    • "Everybody Wants to Rule the World": Grian killing Mumbo (Day 7).
    • "Running Up That Hill": Ren's revenge kill on Bdubs (Day 4).
    • "Battle Cry": Grian back-stabbing Scar (Day 8) and Scott shotting Big B (Day 8).
  • In the Back: Multiple characters are depicted to be stabbed or shot from behind, commonly coupling with Impaled with Extreme Prejudice. Notably, the opening death sequence of "Battle Cry" shows Big B being shot from the back (by Scott) and like canon, Scar being stabbed in the back (by Grian).
  • Introductory Opening Credits: A variant. Most of the cast members are not directly named in any of the animatics, including in the introductory sequence (should the animatic have one at all); being a derivative work, it's expected for viewers to know who each of the depicted characters are for each scene.
    • "And Then There Were None": The first shot consists of the silhouettes of the 14 cast members standing in two rows facing each other, though only a few standout features are highlighted to identify each of them. This is also one of the only animatics, being set to a poem, that identifies anyone by name (Big B) or title (the King and the Hand).note 
      14 little Minecrafters, like you've never seen
    • "Who Are You, Really?" opens with the faceless silhouettes of each of the cast members sorted by starter alliance (in order: the Southlands, Magical Mountain, neutral/Ren, the Scottage, B.E.S.T, and the Fairy Fort), along with a colour-coded heart indicating how many lives they each start with.
    • "Battle Cry" opens with the faceless silhouettes of the cast members in reverse chronological order of death, alongside a visual for how they were Killed Off for Real.
  • Irony:
    • In "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", the line "Help me make the most of freedom" is set to two scenes — Tango forcibly giving a life to Scar (depicted as an arrow), bringing him up from Red to Yellow… followed by Scar drowning in Scott's water elevator later the same day.
    • In "Feed the Machine", the line "Nothing's going on, no need to fear" is synced to Scar wearing his diamond helmet and hiding from Joel and Martyn, clearly terrified out of his mind that his Opposite Day task is going to be guessed easily.
  • Killed Offscreen: The animatic, being a Compressed Adaptation, omits many of the deaths in the series.
    • "Everybody Wants to Rule the World":
      • On Day 8, Impulse is seen among the hallucinated ghosts of the Southlands haunting Martyn, but is not shown to die in the animatic; in canon, he was shot by Scott during the Wither fight, as the corresponding scene focuses on Etho (and Bdubs) instead.
      • Meanwhile, the Day 9 segment shows Grian and Joel being surrounded by weapons pointed at them, but never actually shows them being killed.
    • "Battle Cry" depicts the Clockers' Ghost Reunion Ending as opposed to their final deaths. That said, it's downplayed as the Introductory Opening Credits shows their respective final deaths, just not the circumstances in which they occurred.
  • Last Survivor Suicide: Given the Death Montage nature of "And Then There Were None", the poem drives home the "Everybody Dies" Ending with the victor, having just killed his closest friend to win the death game, being Driven to Suicide. "No Longer You" similarly redraws the scene with a bloodied Grian stepping away from the cactus ring and subsequently falling to his death.
    One little Minecrafter, the day he has won,
    He fell from the grief, and then there were none.
  • Mama Bear: In "Battle Cry", Cleo, the Team Mom of the Clockers, is seen shielding Scar from the TNT minecart dropped from the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge on Day 2.
  • Man on Fire: In "Who Are You, Really?", Mumbo's first death of being shoved into lava by a Piglin Brute is shown as him being engulfed in flames.
  • Mickey Mousing: Inverted. The changing of scenes in the animatic follow the beats of the song it is set to, usually using the song's lyrics to indirectly narrate the animatic itself.
  • Nasty Party: Martyn's birthday party in "Battle Cry" is a cross-section showing that the location is rigged with TNT, hinting that the reason he's holding the party at all is to get some extra life-time back. This is quickly interrupted by someone (the Bad Boys, not shown in the animatic) dropping a TNT minecart from above.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Outside of Color-Coded Eyes, Pearl is consistently depicted with red eyes in "Running Up That Hill" as "the Scarlet Pearl". It highlights her status as an "honorary" Red Name and Sanity Slippage.
  • Red String of Fate:
    • A silhouette visual in "Running Up That Hill" shows the soulmate bonds between each pair (both assigned and chosen), with the string connected to a player's heart symbolizing an amicable relationship, connection to one's pinky finger as a neutral relationship, and being wrapped around one's neck like a noose for a strained, "I don't want to be bonded to this person" type of relationship.
    • In "Feed the Machine", due to the soulmate synchronization mechanism returning in the form of Grian's Day 3 task, there's a brief shot of him and Joel being linked with this bond.
  • Rule of Symbolism:
    • In "And Then There Were None", Bdubs' clock symbolizes his loyalty to the Desert. He's given the clock by them to betray Impulse, complete with a Reaction Shot of Impulse's shock at the betrayal, but when Scar decides to kill Bdubs for Grian, a shot shows the clock's face to be cracked.
      A clock spells betrayal, and then there were four.
      […]
      Old loyalties prevail, so then there were two.
    • In the soulbound silhouette visual of "Running Up That Hill", how each soulbound pair are connected indicates their relationship with the other: being bound at the heart is loyalty and devotion, being bound at the pinky is a neutral-positive relationship, and being bound at the neck evokes noose imagery, showing they really don't wish to be bound to their assigned partner.
  • Scrubbing Off the Trauma: After Boogey-killing Cleo in "Who Are You, Really?" (Day 4), Big B tries to clean off the blood on his axe in the river.
  • Seriously Scruffy: In the Day 6 segment of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Mumbo, now a Red Name, has several chunks torn out of his suit jacket and his tie has become loosened a bit. His moustache and hair also become frayed and untidy.
  • Start of Darkness: By Word of God, Gem begins her journey from Naïve Newcomer to major antagonist in "Feed the Machine" with her opening the End portal.invoked
  • Switching P.O.V.: "Battle Cry" mostly follows the animatic convention of showing scenes from a third-person perspective, but Skizz's affirmations are all in his POV (complete with ticking life-timer), while Scott gets a brief moment while enacting his life-time Mercy Kill Arrangement with Jimmy.
  • Teeth Flying: Bdubs and Skizz's duel in "Battle Cry" ends with one of Bdubs' teeth being knocked out in a punch.
  • This Is My Side: As with canon, in "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (Day 5), Etho divides their shared castle between himself and Bdubs after Bdubs turns Red. The line of cobblestone in-game is here depicted as a large crack, splitting not just the castle but the entire frame in two.
  • Titled After the Song: Like most animatics, Everen's Life series animatics are titled after the songs to which they are set.
  • Together in Death:
    • "And Then There Were None":
      • Both the poem and the artwork allude to Scott's reunion in the afterlife with Jimmy in canon, with the artwork showing them Holding Hands as an Afterlife Welcome.
        Killed twice, reunited, and then there were nine.
      • After Martyn's Sound-Only Death, he and Ren are seen lying next to each other, dead.
        Six little Minecrafters, the Hand still alive;
        He follows his King, and then there were five.
    • In "Running Up That Hill", it's implied with Scott holding on to Cleo's dead body as he dies from self-detonation.
    • In "Battle Cry", the ghosts of the Clockers are seen having a Ghost Reunion Ending watching over the battle on Day 8.
  • Undignified Death: "Battle Cry" depicts Jimmy's final death by fall damage in Limited Life as him tripping over his own shoelaces on Skynet. It's hard to get more undignified than that.
  • "Wanted!" Poster: In "Feed the Machine", Joel's assassination attempt task on Scott is represented as a "Wanted" poster that he hands to Lizzie, with a moustache, glasses, and demon horns doodled over the portrait's face, along with the word "Stupid" being scribbled in a corner.
  • Winged Humanoid:
    • Katy's Hermitcraft animatics depict Grian with wings, as does the ending silhouette of him in "No Longer You". In "It's the End of the World As We Know It", when Mumbo steals Grian's soul, he also sprouts wings.
    • A few silhouettes and visuals of Jimmy throughout "Battle Cry" depict him with wings to symbolize how the "Canary curse" looms over him and his fate.
    • Crumble's short animatic "Icarus" similarly shows both Grian and Jimmy with wings.

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