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a new song for my galaxy duo playlist

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Yes, everything in this world is Shiny Duo to me, deal with it

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green carpet 📸

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That shiny duo post made me think. Pearl always carries the weight of her win and what people think of her. She'll always be scary and crazy and vicious to others, even if she doesn't want to be, even if she was never like that in the first place

And you have Gem. Her first episode in the entire series was titled 'I have a reputation' and she spent the entire season being feared as a fighter and treated as a leader. She never asked to be the leader of an army of death. It's all too much

But Gem learned to lean into these expectations. She threatens people all the time, she has honestly weird views on alliances and control (when she said Scott had to control Pearl because they were teammates??). And she wants to see Pearl do the same. Pearl is supposed to be scary, why isn't she killing anyone? That's not how you survive in this series. If you're red, you have to kill. If there's expectations for you, you have to meet them. That's how you survive.

Gem won't let go of Secret Life because that's what taught her to be like she's expected to be. She has a reputation. Everyone's doing the same, right?

And she expected Pearl to be loyal to her. Why would she betray Gem? That's not fair. That's not the game she learned to play

Gem knows what Pearl should be. Pearl has a reputation. And Pearl can never let go of Double Life for as long as people think Scarlet Pearl is the real her

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IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ANYONE ACTUALLY BEING AFRAID OF OR PARTICULARLY INTIMIDATED BY PEARL IN DOUBLE LIFE IT WAS ABOUT OSTRACIZING HER BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ODD ONE OUT

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@whereispearlescentmoon

your post was actually what inspired me to post this lol you understand her in a way not many people in the fandom do

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ANYONE ACTUALLY BEING AFRAID OF OR PARTICULARLY INTIMIDATED BY PEARL IN DOUBLE LIFE IT WAS ABOUT OSTRACIZING HER BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ODD ONE OUT

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IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ANYONE ACTUALLY BEING AFRAID OF OR PARTICULARLY INTIMIDATED BY PEARL IN DOUBLE LIFE IT WAS ABOUT OSTRACIZING HER BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ODD ONE OUT

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64049479

Rating: Teen And Up

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, Other

Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series

Relationship: Scott Major | Smajor1995 & Pearl | PearlescentMoon

Characters: Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Scott Major | Smajor1995, ZombieCleo (Video Blogging RPF)

Summary:

"Pearl has a tradition.

It’s a little thing, something she does when falling asleep at night is particularly hard for her. That is to say, most nights, but that’s neither here nor there.

Whenever she finds herself tossing and turning in bed on a new, strange server, she goes outside, lays down, and makes up constellations in the stars. Every server’s star pattern is unique, like a fingerprint of the cosmos, in a way that invites creativity and confusion all the same. Navigating by the stars only gets you so far when you have no reference points.

Sometimes she has to work to find them, when the stars blend together in a silvery shimmer, but others, they pop out like she was always meant to find them.

This new server is no exception, despite the fact that she really should be focusing on the death game she may or may not have been forced into. She doesn’t really remember."

Scott and Pearl's relationship has always been written in the stars.

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man emerges from scottage ruins after 4 years later covered in burn marks and coughing out soot and ash (REAL! NOT CLICKBAIT!)

just kidding, i just wrote a qpr sort of character study galaxy duo fic after not touching google docs since 2022 because i'm STILL hopelessly dependent on the ingot. (last life)

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⪼ ezra

⪼ not a minor

⪼ he/him or they/them

⪼ block game and youtuber purgatory

⪼ icon by @thirdtimed

⪼ my AO3 for when i start posting again lol