As this is a Moments page, only spoilers involving the series' backstory in Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity will be marked. You Have Been Warned.
For a series with a premise centred around death and destruction, the Life series has many surprisingly wholesome moments.
Season 1: 3rd Life
- Upon returning from the Desert after selling Scar the location of his llama on Day 3, Cleo gives Bdubs a blue orchid she picked for him.
- After becoming the first Red life, the first thing Scar does is pick flowers (specifically, poppies and lilacs) to give to Grian and ask if they can still be friends.
- Doubles as Tear Jerker. After Scott is hunted down and killed by Martyn and Ren, he suddenly falls out of the sky into the lake just outside the Flower Forest's main base. The base is lush with plant-life, the farms replaced by a flower garden with a bench, and Scott notes that it looks exactly how he'd wanted it to; he just didn't have enough time to bring it to fruition on the actual server... and then Jimmy walks out of his house.Jimmy: Oh! You're here!
Scott: Jimmy...?
Jimmy: You're here, dude! This is...
Scott: Wh... where's here?
Jimmy: This is it!
Scott: This is it?
Jimmy: This... This is the end. This is it, dude. I was wondering when you were gonna turn up!
Scott: The after...?
Jimmy: This... this is... The end.
Scott: It's home?
Jimmy: Home.
Season 2: Last Life
- The Boogeyman mechanism has caused multiple instances of betrayal and fractured numerous alliances and friendships as a result of Poor Communication Kills. However, some factions have remained intact due to their members being honest and open about their status, and refusing to kill their own allies, from the Three Gs' honesty policy from the start of the series, to Ren warning other members of the Fairy Fort to avoid his trap.
- During Day 5, Jimmy comes across the burning ruins of the Fairy Fort after Lizzie and Big B were forced to flee. Despite not being part of the faction, he takes the time to rescue their axolotl and bring it to them.
- On Day 6, Scott finds an Enderman in BEST's rock base, and Pearl asks him to lure it outside so they can trap it in a boat. Scott jokingly takes the conversation in a decidedly more serious direction, but the bisexual Cleo offers solidarity.
- When Joel and Lizzie tower up to the world height limit in order to lava-trap the Scottage, they share declarations of love in case either of them dies.
- When it becomes clear that Scott will not be able to get a kill and rid himself of the Boogeyman curse in time on Day 8, he shifts focus instead to ensuring that Pearl and Cleo will be safe. He turns Red at the end of the episode, and walks off peacefully into the woods. He then spends the first half of Day 9 targeting Pearl and Cleo… specifically so they can be reunited on Red.
- Basically everything Scott does becomes Heartwarming in Hindsight once his honorable deeds and loyalty ultimately win him the entire season. Throughout his episodes, Scott has always stayed loyal and honest with his allies, even willingly going down to Red and disclosing his Boogeyman status to the entire server.Scott: I've spent all season being honorable; I'm not about to stop now.
Season 4: Limited Life
- Citing that life is short under the life-time mechanism of the season, Skizz spends much of his time spreading positivity, choosing one or more of his server-mates to compliment every session. This sentimentality even spares him from being Boogeyman-killed by Martyn on Day 1, in spite of Martyn's dedicated commitment to "the bit".
- Amidst the Day 7 chaos, Scar and Skizz find some time to climb Skizz's Affirmation Tower/Station and have a heart-to-heart. Skizzle complements Scar as one of the strongest people he knows, and Scar in turn complements Skizz as the type of person who reminds content creators why they loved their jobs.
- Later on Day 7, Skizz convinces Scott to help him decorate the place and leaves it as a safe space for all.
- About three quarters of the way into Day 8, Big B, Pearl, and Scott are stuck in a PVP stalemate and take a few minutes off for one last mutual complimenting session.
- In Last Life, the Boogeyman mechanism led to many betrayals within alliances, and allies attempting to keep their cursed status a secret was a constant source of conflict. In Limited Life, however, these intra-faction betrayals have not happened at all; not only have several of the alliances made pacts of honesty on their status, but faction-members are actively conspiring to help their cursed teammate get a kill. While this starts with the Bad Boys helping Joel in his murderous plots and Entertainment Mountain planning to do the same on Day 2, other factions are inspired to do the same later in the series.
- A small moment on Day 3; learning that their in-game timers are synchronized at the time, Cleo and Pearl take a minute to look into each other's eyes to watch them turn Yellow together.
- In the first half of Day 4, everything hits the fan with the Green Name hunts, since most of the server has turned Yellow by that point. In spite of this, the remaining Green Names are spread out across four of the five factions, and their Yellow allies demonstrate remarkable loyalty through it all:
- Several of the Yellow Names grow fiercely protective of their Green allies, determined to warn them of incoming traps, defend them from bloodthirsty fellow Yellows, and/or refuse to kill them for extra life-time unless it's at their own request.
- On the flip side, the remaining Green Names are willing to trust their Yellow allies with their lives — not just in the form of "I trust you not to kill me", but also to invoke Kill Steals and arrange for their own deaths at the hands of allied Yellows, trusting that they can make better use of the extra life-time than non-allied Yellows.
- On Day 5, Scar makes custom doormats using item-frames and renamed paper for his allies — "Welcome Home Family" for Entertainment Mountain, "Good Guys At Heart" for the Bad Boys, and "Island Time" for the Mean Gills.
- While it has to be confirmed by Word of God, the reason Joel is able to recognize Lizzie on Day 6 even when her soul is inhabiting another vessel (read: in Pearl's body after being swapped in for her) is because they're soulmates and their love transcends all. One could say this could be love… reel, reel love.
- An incredibly bittersweet case in hindsight, but the fact that Bdubs and Scott both try to help keep Jimmy alive when he was desperately losing time on Day 7, and even his fellow Bad Boys stick by him till the end. Joel even admits he would've sacrificed himself just to prevent Jimmy from being the first out again.
- Grian's gained a reputation of not sticking with his alliances in previous seasons, but here he stays with the Bad Boys until he is the last one. Even when he was beginning to set up his new alliance with the Nosy Neighbours, he isn't particularly sneaky about it. He simply tells Joel he has something set up once Joel inevitably dies, but he sticks with his fellow Bad Boy as much as he can. Even on Day 8, he continues to wear the customary Bad Boys' leather jacket and sunglasses in honour of his late companions.
Season 5: Secret Life
- Skizz gives Gem a heart as a welcoming gift to the season. It's admittedly a bit undercut by the fact he's using it as a ploy to complete his assigned task, but him going back later to apologize for that is still sweet.
- On Day 2, nearly the entire server ends up in Pearl's house, laying on the ground and making bunk beds out of trap doors. The "slumber party" is surprisingly sweet, and shows just how well the server gets along when there's no Reds or Boogeymen stoking paranoia.
- Doubly wholesome in regards to Pearl, who spent the majority of Double Life ostracized and alone, only to now find herself surrounded by nearly everybody on the server.
- At the end of Day 2, Grian gives Lizzie a heart because everyone else on the server was heckling her for failing her secret task.
- In contrast to Last Life, Joel and Lizzie being Happily Married in real life bleeds across much more in this season, with Joel being the first to link paths with her house on Day 4, being the only person to show up to her party on Day 5, and being openly concerned for her life-status in the in-game chat on Days 5 and 6.
- Skizz seeking out Joel after Lizzie's death to give him her gold, iron, diamond, and ancient debris.
- While fighting against the Infected on Day 7, Cleo and an infected Etho end up on opposite sides of the conflict. Cleo threatens Etho that they will kill him regardless of their affiliation, but her inner monologue reveals that even now she refuses to kill her main ally.Cleo: Etho, I will kill you too!
Cleo's subtitles: I won't... - In conjunction with the above, Etho is equally loyal to Cleo and Grian, repeatedly refusing to rat out their locations even after being infected, and defending them even when they're not present. While some of the alliances have already started to fracture, their roommate-alliance has only managed to persist in strength after so many trials and tribulations.
- Similarly but in a darker way, Skizz's chosen target for infection initiation is Tango. His reasoning?Skizz: We want you! I want you back! […] I want to get you back, buddy! Come on!
- On Day 8, the Heart Foundation, despite their losses and the fact that betrayal between everyone on the server is inevitable, vow to not betray one another until the very end, and to defend one another if they ever see each other in danger. After everything they went through, it's clear they're more than just another team on the server.Skizz: To you, my brothers, I pledge… the only way I will take a sword to one of you is if there is literally no one left on the server.
Tango: I pledge as well.
Skizz: If it's the three of us and there's one other person, that one other person doesn't have a chance. - At the start of Day 9, Tango is left on 2.5 hearts from his failed attempts at completing his Red task. Skizz immediately petitions on behalf of the (now Broken) Heart Foundation for everyone else to give Tango a chance… and Cleo, Etho, Scott, and Impulse are quick to respond, altogether boosting Tango's health by 240%. It doesn't help much in the long run, since Tango still ends up as the first to go out that session, but the "bond that can't be broken" amidst the "madness" of the server is still there and present.
- Soon after the above incident, Scar offers Tango a heart and a golden apple in exchange for attacking Skizz on his behalf. Tango initially refuses to betray his "brother"… then after accepting the offer, opens up about the deal and immediately goes back on it to attack Scar, deals be damned.
- By the middle of Day 9, Cleo and Etho have both more or less accepted that they are not going to win the season, realizing that the opposing faction of alliances is very stacked against them. Instead of fighting against the odds, they decide to spend most of the day having fun: Cleo eggs Etho on to steal and burn things down (which Etho does on what remains of Scar's base and BigB's shack), while Etho takes Cleo to the tunnel to the Deep Dark he built and helps her unleash more Wardens on the server. In spite of their imminent deaths, all they really care about is having a bit more time together.Cleo: Etho, you're my favourite, you've always been my favourite, I want you to know that.
- Even on the very last day, Scott still is thinking of Gem's victory. When he drops to low enough hearts that he doesn't stand a chance, he gives Gem all the valuables he has on him and begs her to kill him so she can get the hearts. Gem doesn't win the season in the end, but her alliance is definitely winning the award for Undying Loyalty.
Real Life
- Many of the cast use the VR to hug each other.
- Joel deciding to drop his usual Sitcom Arch-Nemesis dynamic with Scott for the one-shot as a reflection of their real-life friendship.
- Scar was particularly disoriented by the VR, to the point that he accidentally fell out of his wheelchair. The episode ends with a sped-up video of his parents helping him back into his chair with a bit of on-screen text saying "Best parents in the world".
- After Martyn kills Pearl's dog Millie, Gem decides to lie down to comfort her, which leads to everyone still alive having a short-lived moment to lie down and have an impromptu "slumber party" together.
Other
- The creators' continuous enthusiastic reactions to fan art and animatics, not just in the form of YouTube comments but also explicit Shout-Outs to fan creations in videos and livestreams.
