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I'm sorry, the dynamic between Scar and Jimmy this episode?

Many of Scar's deaths happen because he's trying to protect or help Jimmy (or is given the blame for something jimmy did)

It's a role Scar is deeply unfamiliar with, at least, from this side of things. The desperation to protect, the anxiety when he fails again and again, the frustration and exhaustion when Jimmy is the reason Scar fails. Scar is used to being on the other end of this, but it's still a role he takes on wholeheartedly for his teammate.

It's almost self-objectifying at times. He describes himself on multiple occasions as Jimmy's tool belt, providing him with resources and help and hoping Jimmy will let him.

(compare this to the third axis of their group, lizzie, and how she is so deeply self preserving that she'd abandon scar to die instead of helping him fight in this same episode)

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Drawing a life series member every day(I hope) until the new series comes out

Day 13

Scar in Third life

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Life Series Scar has a victim complex and Life Series Grian has a guilt complex and that makes them just wildly unhealthy.

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boy just wants to live…. 🥀

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Scar has SUCH a victim complex and we really should talk about it more.

In an average Scar pov of the Life Series, two things are basically guaranteed:

a.) Scar never does anything wrong. Any perceived wrongdoing on Scar's part is simply him being silly and goofy which people keep blowing it out of proportion. Or he really didn't mean to do anything wrong and people are just so paranoid and keep misinterpreting his good intentioned actions. Or he did something bad but it wasn't his idea and some outside force made him and it wasn't that big a deal anyways when you think about it.

b.) Everyone's out to get Scar. People wrongfully don't trust him because they're just blind to his inherent trustworthiness. People are always shooting down his brilliant plans because they hate fun or are just mean. People take advantage of him when he's never done anything wrong to them (if you think he has done anything wrong, see point a). People betray him so much, him, the silliest funnest most trustworthy teammate who only wants friendship.

Now, a lot of this is tactical on Scar's part, to give credit where credit is due! Scar is in fact very intelligent, and most of the time he knows what he's doing! A lot of time Scar plays innocent and dumb because playing innocent and dumb keeps working to get him what he wants and to keep him out of trouble. People buy into the facade with shocking ease. And the really clever thing is that even when people don't buy into the facade, there's no argument. Because it doesn't matter if Scar is as dumb and innocent as he pretends to be (he's not), people can't prove he doesn't believe what he says, so they don't waste energy arguing, and he gets away with a shocking amount because of it. Scar is incredible at playing with tactical facades and twisted narratives. So yes, a lot of Scar's "victim complex" is tactic, not necessarily a genuinely held belief on Scar's end.

That being said, I think sometimes Scar gets so caught up in his own false narratives that he starts to believe them, and I think Scar can be painfully, and ironically, blind to his own faults. When he says he felt abandoned and betrayed by everyone in Last Life, I believe he meant it, though I'd argue he actively pushed people away and was the reason nobody trusted him. When he says he treated Grian right and "built him a panda sanctuary" in Double Life, I think Scar actually means that, though it's factually incorrect. When he says he was "forced" to be alone in Secret Life, I'm sure he meant that too, though again I'd argue Scar had a very active role in self isolating.

While I think Scar is a very intelligent person who very much purposefully crafts narratives that benefit him, I also think Scar is a person who likes to live in those narratives, someone who uses his boundless imagination to integrate himself into the realities he builds so seamlessly that they start to feel real. I think this is a very efficient coping mechanism, in a lot of ways, for Scar to blame any genuine suffering he has entirely on outside persecution and minimize his own responsibility. It's comforting, if nothing else.

But this self imposed hand crafted victim complex doesn't actually help with the ways Scar really struggles the most. Scar consistently struggles with isolation, whether through literal distance from other players or simply emotional inability to connect. And unfortunately, most of it is a result of Scar's own behavior. Scar lies, Scar cheats, Scar pushes people away. Scar is the reason nobody trusts him. Scar is the one who consistently refuses to seek out companionship even when he needs it. This is an agonizingly fixable problem, but it's one Scar cannot see the solution to, because ironically his own cunning and creative mind has spun a web so thick it's trapped him inside, and he can't see past it to realize he has the way out!

Anyways sorry for rambling I'm just insane about Scar, he has such a brilliant mind and the tongue to back it up but his fatal flaw has always been in how his creative mind loses itself in its own false narratives until he cannot see the exit door five feet in front of him. He's sooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Happy cactus ring day!🎉🎉🎉

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Yearly redraw of that one sketchbook page i did back in 2022 when the brain rot has just begun(separated version once again will be bellow the cut)

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A one off designs for the broken family in limited life 😔

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I’m busy today so I brought you all one more of my old comics from Secret Life. I made this DURING the Secret Life. Like right after the episode where Scar turned red and his new skin became available on namemc. So it’s very very old 😔

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Some traditional art I never posted here for some reason

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i'm having more life series! scar thoughts. there was an impulse hc stream not that long ago where they were chatting about the upcoming series, and when the topic came to scar in the games... "scar becomes the worst in these series, scar betrays everyone" which...probably would be warranted, if we were fresh off of secret life. but after wild life? scar seemed exhausted with that persona, and more and more desperate and frustrated when any attempt at helping someone would be met with doubt and derision. not like he was a saint that season, but his shadiest acts (the death coaster, the cheap kill on grian) really aren't any worse than the average lifer. i think there is a very...doomed nature to scar's character in the life series. people have a very clear idea of Who He Is - built from a foundation imo, of mostly the first three games. a reputation so entrenched scar can't escape from it anymore. and because he's vindictive as all get out when he thinks he's being treated unfairly or being misjudged, he's only setting himself up to fulfill their expectations. any act of aggression will be seen as Villain Scar, despite the fact that most lifers have done their fair share of shady shit themselves. and all this, coming from skizz - hand to heart, i don't understand folks who say he's the most innocent of the life series. skizz won't let go of the heart foundation, but he's gotten his revenge and then some, and i think in wild life he proved himself more morally aligned with scar than he'd like to believe. skizz, who in wl! hunted scar down for a kill scar didn't do, when there was nothing to be gained from it. skizz, who was eager to destroy lizzie's bamboozler birds before grian dissuaded him. skizz revels in the same chaos scar often does. skizz, i think, is just better at finding a justification. better at spinning the destruction he already wanted to do as Right and Good. and because he's entering the games with the exact opposite reputation of scar, i wouldn't be surprised if they find themselves at odds yet again. scar does a villainous thing, because Of Course He Does. and skizz responds in kind, just as a hero should. (this is all character talk - hopefully that's clear :-) )

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i like that this is framed as a cool event for chat but we all know from blue prince that being stuck in a silent hill style puzzle saw trap is basically cellbits living and breathing dream this has nothing to do w twitch i fear he’d have found a way to do this regardless for the enrichment

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Has anyone else read this Scarian fic??? I just finished it, it was so good, I had to draw smth for it.

(Some doodles & fic link under cut)

Everyone go read it rn!!!!! Racecar scarian!!!!!!

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i've accumulated like a million drawings of my post canon secret life scar since I rewatched the season in late december 2024 + some dl pearl friendship bc I think their dynamic would be interesting

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this been in the files for 7 months

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Twilight moments with you

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WHAT THE HECK! WHY HAS THIS JUST BEEN SITTING IN MY DRAFTS!?!?

Anyways, go read Double Hearted by @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11 right now.