#Let’s see Scars tnt minecart trap

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grian loves scar the way patrick bateman loves paul allen btw

[katalyist]

Something I haven't stop thinking about is Grian (and for extension Scar because they live rent free on my brain) it's the fact that Grian has repeat two episodes in a row that "For some reason the only time I'm not his ally he has show that he is quiet of dangerous" (not exactly his words but you got the point) which is... True? But also not true at all?

Because it has to do with their dynamic and the fact that Grian never really let Scar be a full menace when they were allies because he would have die (and in that series the deads matter even more, one false step and Scar would have been out) but more importantly: Grian has never truly trust Scar habilites to do traps and kill.

In third life Grian took the rol of the one making traps (that tend to fail and work later) because Scar was red life almost all the serie, if he didn't put the tnt minecarts right, serie over. But you can see there how much Scar would rather enter the camp of battle without a further plan that traps, we see him trying to convince Grian to go for Ren or Cleo and Bdubs because he just wants.

In last life they weren't 'allies' but they did see eachother in a regular time and Scar was never a threat to Grian or the Southlanders (probably because he didn't wanted to be a threat, he wanted friends and saw every time that Grian went to magical mountain to get him has a friend) so why Grian would consider him dangerous? Meanwhile B.E.S.T. gave him a life because they were terrified of what he could do if he was red for more time.

We all know how double life went. Scar show that he could be dangerous and persistent but Grian just didn't pay attention and didn't care because he was bussy trying to keep both of them alive (ironic seeing that their three deads were his fault) and because part of how dangerous Scar could be was dedicated to annoy him, to look for his attention. And here in double life we can see again their dynamic how proper allies (and the parallels with third life) and how Grian tried to keep Scar under control "You are ban of the Deep Dark" "Scar, don't burn their boat" "Scar don't take the enchanter" because be didn't want both of them get enemies or killed. Again, Scar having ideas of destruction and Grian going "No" most of the time.

And before passing on our current season I want to add the rol that I think Scar plays in this because it just makes their dynamic more interesting. So, if Grian is the trap person, the 'brain' and protector to keep them alive, what is Scar? The scammer, the fighter, the protector and the supportive one. Because Scar is so good at scamming people, intentional or not, in 3rd life he almost got all his armor for scamming people for making they believe they were getting something in return and using his position as a yellow/red life to scare them. He is also a fighter, not in the literal sense but more in the one that he isn't gonna stop until he gets what he wants (If he dies in the process, well, bad luck) he makes them keep fighting. He is also a protector! Intentional or not, because he cares about his allies too much, even when it seems that they aren't a 100% with him (like Grian with his secret soulmate or Bdubs in this season) he would never turn his back to them unless they are the last ones.

And the most important one for me: he is very supportive. Scar leaves Grian be as crazy as he wants, he supports his plans, his traps, his murder attempts, and at difference of Grian he doesn't get that frustrated if a plan doesn't work as they thought. Scar leaves Grian be Grian. Maybe because both of them are chaos or because he feels safe with the decision Grian makes in name of both of them. But that is why they work so well, because even when Scar likes to joke around and cause tension with other teams he is always ready to follow Grian's plan to take them out of that situation.

And now we are in the present, dear Limited Life, and thinks just really change for this one. Because deads are less important now (at least at the beggining) and you can start killing since you are yellow. AND officially both of them started being enemies: The Clockers vs The Bad Boys.

Scar has a family as crazy as him (just look at Cleo burning down the mansion or Bdubs doing the boogey kill the first five seconds of being boogey) and no one is gonna stop him.

And here we see the part of why Grian thinks that Scar just suddenly become dangerous: he was one of the targets. For the first time (i think) Grian saw what it was being the person that Scar wants dead and Scar succeeded, he killed Grian! And also for the first time he didn't had anyone who would stop him so he get more kills.

The second reason that I could find is that Grian hasn't truly seen Scar traps fail as in the past, he just has seen when he gets a kill, even if was an accident, so Grian can just think two things: or Scar become an expert in traps or he is dropping tnt minecarts randomly and seeing who dies. And honestly both of that options are terrifying.

But now that they are formal allies again when they are together you can still see that they are the same silly and goofy couple of always! You can see Scar consulting and looking at Grian when something seems dangerous and Grian inmediatly being like 'back off back off' and raising his shield so Scar does the same (the birthday party) or Scar making a raid just because he can and almost inmediatly regretting it because "Grian! Grian they are too strong! Help!" and "Scar!" with that tone that means 'Im not letting you die but god if you shouldn't have done that in the first place'.

And how at the end of the chapter Grian says "Timmy... It's at three hours and Scar sigh Scar it's at five hours so let's see what happens" like, yeah, we get it, you are stressed because you need to find kills for two of your allies that are probably gonna die because they can't have an episode without dying.

In conclusion: Desert duo and their toxic dependent relationship ruined my life I can't not think about them enough.

Thank you for coming to my talk, i didn't do a extent research and i have probably half of the things wrong but yeah i hope my point is clear.

[minecraftbookshelf]

Life Series Scarring Headcanons: Part 1

I'm going in alphabetical order by player handle, so this one is BDoubleo100, Bigbst4tz2, Ethoslab, and GoodTimesWithScar

The concept at hand is that during each game, every death leaves a scar, after the game, those are gone, replaced with scarring from their final death.

I did take some creative licence with the deaths, mostly in the sense of figuring out ways to handle Fall Damage in a slightly more RL based context, as well as figuring out approximately where final blows would fall based on the respective positioning of the players in question. (I did both a lot of video watching and also pointing at and posing myself figuring this out.)

Related to that Content Warning for general blunt but vague descriptions of varying injuries and ways to die, including but not limited to shattered bones and impaling.

Disclaimer that I did make all these diagrams in paint so they are hardly the pinnacle of artistic reference, but I think it gets the point across. Xs indicate arrow kills and i used the spray paint mode for fire/lava/explosion damage. All scars are color coded by series.

I forgot to mark it on the diagrams themselves, but light green is for scars left from the death of the Double Life soulbond partner. The soulmate who died second has phantom scars from their partners death, fainter and sometimes smaller, but still there.

Pink scars are the ones that, while not final deaths, had a significant impact on the story, the cubito, or both.

This project has also has shown some interesting patterns in how some of them tend to die.

On with the show!

BDubs

Third Life: Scar chased BDubs down and killed him with his sword before heading off with Grian to have Their Moment at the cactus ring. He turned around to fight Scar at the last minute, so the killing blow came from the front.

Last Life: BDubs was shot and killed by Grian as he fled after he betrayed the Red Pack and killed Lizzie so that Etho would give him a life.

Double Life: Pearl chased BDubs down and killed him (I believe with an axe) after Tilly died. Like in Third Life, he turned and fought at the last minute, so the killing blow came from the front.

Limited Life: Bdubs' final death was from a TNT Minecart dropped by Impulse, it landed slightly above and to the right of him, so that is where the damage is localized.

BigB

(You see what I mean about trends in the way that some of them tend to die?)

Third Life: BDubs shot him as BigB, the last surviving member of the Red Army, tried to escape from him and the Desert Duo. I placed that scar a bit lower than the others because BDubs is short.

Last Life: Cleo shot and killed him in a river. He was also poisoned from a potion she threw in the skirmish prior, so his health was very low. Reflecting that, my choice for that arrow was that it skimmed the side of his neck and he probably would have survived it had he been in better health at the time.

Double Life: Grian dropped a dripstone stalactite on Ren's head in Box, killing both Ren and BigB. His scar from this is a bit smaller and fainter than Ren's due to Ren being the one to actually receive the injury.

Limited Life: Smajor shot and killed him while he tried to escape through the woods. From what I can tell Scott came at him from the side, so I put the scar for that one reflecting it.

Etho

Believe it or not this is not the worst that it gets.

Third Life: Etho died to fire damage dealt by Impulse during the Battle of Dogwarts. I chose the location for it based of the direction the attack that initially caught him on fire came from.

Last Life: Joel killed Etho before dying himself when the later-game red lifers banded together to take out him and Grian. Etho struggled with his shield during that confrontation, which let Joel get enough hits in to kill him before being killed immediately after by Scott. I placed that injury as a glancing blow off the top rim of his shield.

Double Life: Etho and Joel died to a lava-trapped nether portal. The scars are from the lava flow. Etho died first, so his scars are a bit more prominent than Joel's.

Limited Life: Etho (like so, so many other people this season) died to fall damage. He was fighting the Mean Gills on the edge of the Bad Boy Manor and fell. The "camera angle" of the ground as he fell is pretty much how i decided where the impact probably was.

Scar

Third Life: I deviated a bit here because for everything else I really just went with "this was the final straw that broke the camels back" when picking scars, but I feel like the narrative and character significance of the Cactus Ring excuses the Death By A Thousand Cuts look. The heaviest concentration of scars from the ring are on his knuckles (from hitting), forearms (from blocking) and back and the side of his face (where he fell into the cacti).These are all small, relatively faint scars, there are just. A lot of them. EDIT: He's going to have some lasting explosion scars from the creeper Grian killed him with as soon as I have the opportunity to update the diagram.

Last Life: He was shot by Ren in a skirmish in the woods, that's genuinely all I have to say about that one, sorry. I decided it was a really good shot on Ren's part that got him right in the eye.

Double Life: So, sonic booms don't really...leave marks. They just liquidize your internal organs. I do think though that he and Grian probably have some faint mark approximating the center of their torsos. Because magic. And Lore.

Limited Life: Grian stabbed him in the back and then chased him down and killed him. The infamous "ultimate betrayal" because someone forgot that they were technically only barely endgame allies this season. Because Grian is incapable both of not killing Scar and not being dramatic about it.

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Part 2

(There are five posts in this series in total, each of them will have links to the first one, as well as the one preceding and the one coming after)

[andyling]

Heyyyyy so session 5 sure was a time SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

BOOGEYMAN 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO WITH TANGO OF THE TEK

Team Ties really woke up and chose violence this session

were they even trying to kill anyone? i think they just wanted chaos

TANGO BOOGEY TWICE IN A ROW HELL YEAH LET’S GO

TEAM BEST FLASHBACKS TEAM BEST FLASHBACKS 

soooo Team Bites hmmm, let’s see how long that lasts

Skizz I’m sorry, but Bdubs betrayed y’all before in Last Life and he sure as hell will do it again

EVERYONE STEALS THE MEAN GILLS’ SUGARCANE LMAO

I think the whole reason Team Ties blew up the bread bridge was because they had too much TNT and all of them are obsessed with blowing shit up

Like they didn’t go for anyone’s actual bases, they weren’t trying to destroy resources, and they weren’t trying to kill anyone

motherfuckers just wanted to make things go boom

AND I AM IN FULL SUPPORT OF THAT WOO GO TEAM TIES

Tango’s toaster PSA caught me so off guard WHO GAVE HIM THAT IDEA?!?!? WHY IS HE LIKE THIS?!?!?

the fact that Tango had already accepted that their tower was gonna get destroyed, mans may be insane but he’s fair that’s for sure

awwwwww them chanting MVP to Etho is so sweet

tango’s the server resident professional warden wrangler now

good to know Tango still remembers every person that’s wronged him

TANGO FINALLY GOT REVENGE ON BDUBS FOR LAST LIFE HAHAHAHA WOOOOOOO ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!! >:D

also Tango getting an effective trap out of tnt minecarts is character development, good for him! :D

soooo does Tango have the most time out of everyone on the server now?

team bites did not last long askdghajsghkjadkdsak

Nosy Neighbors and Team Ties becoming allies is not something I expected to happen, but it is very welcomed

Team Ties are actually pretty great to have as allies as long as you don’t spite them, then honey you got a big storm coming

THE SATISFACTION I FELT WHEN TANGO BROUGHT UP LAST LIFE TO BDUBS IS IMMESURABLE HELL YEAH BABY REVENGE IS SWEET

Jimmy “sad boi” Solidarity everyone

Love how Jimmy spends most of Limited Life acting as though he’s in a Let’s Play series

mans is in the middle of a death game and he’s like “Alright gang, today we’re getting sheep!”

gotta love how the title for “most antagonistic team on the server” keeps bouncing between the Bad Bois and Team Ties 

Flower Husbands and their never-ending divorce

bye bye bad bois bread bridge

why is Joel specifically blaming Tango akjfjhdkasghkadjs

it’s hilarious how they’re all questioning why Team Ties blew up the bread bridge when the actual answer is probably “they like blowing things up”

no thoughts, head empty, just boom boom

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT GRIAN’S ALLIANCE WITH SKIZZ THAT SEEMS LIKE IT SHOULD BE IMPORTANT IS IT STILL INTACT???

BRUH JIMMY IS SO EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED TO THAT FROG DO YOU HEAR HIS VOICE GODDAMN

awwww judge judy and executioner jumped to Jimmy that’s cute

PEARL NO

poor judge judy and executioner :(

Grian is so appalled at the carrot cake oh my gosh

GRIAN CALLING THE FROG CONFLICT A SIDE PLOT, THAT’S CANON

dude Grian is so done with everything 

the Bad Bois and the Clockers are family now, this family tree is wack

Scar you can’t call them Boomers when Bdubs was literally on a team called the Boomers on Hermitcraft with Impulse and Tango

AMAZING HOW THE BAD BOIS WENT INTO THE TIES BASE AND JOEL AND JIMMY HAD NO IDEA WHY

this is why we all think Grian’s gonna betray them

GRIAN’S SHEER PANIC WHEN GETTING ATTACKED BY THE ENDERMAN MY MAN WAS LOSING HIS MIND

everyone is so nonchalant about reds this season 

Zombiecleo watches her children make poor decisions for 40 minutes

Cleo packing snacks for Bdubs and Scar and then sending them to be supervised elsewhere is so funny

sending them to Etho was probably not a great idea though considering Team Ties need supervision themselves 

they don’t have any which is why they’re constantly going off the rails

LMAO CLEO OVERHEARD TEAM BITES ENTIRE CONVERSATION

I LOVE THE SUBTITLES THAT CLEO PUTS IN HER VIDEOS THEY’RE SO FUNNY

ooooooooh Bdubs is in troubleeeeee

it really does feel like he’s being scolded by his mother LMAO

Scar really decided to make up a whole ass holiday and not tell anyone else on the server except for his family and only to give them presents

BDUBS WHAT DO YOU MEAN ETHO STARTED SMOKING HELLO???

love how aware Cleo is of whatever the fuck is going on with Bdubs and Etho throughout the life series

THE ENDERMAN ARE REALLY GOING OFF THIS SESSION

honestly i think Cleo dislikes Team Ties because of Etho and Etho specifically, like she seems pretty chill with Tango

“if you’re gonna be an absent father could you at least be absent” GOES SO HARD HOLY SHIT CLEO GO OFF QUEEN

Bdubs is so close to being disowned by his family

CLEO AND SCAR KNOWING FULLY WELL THAT BDUBS IS ABOUT TO BE BOOGEY KILLED AND SAYING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HIM

whelp Team Bites is dead

THE AWKWARD FAMILY DINNER OH MY FUCKING GOD

“Bdubs, how was your day?” Etho asks fully aware that his teammate blew Bdubs up because of Boogey and a two season long grudge

“This episode is weirder than the one with the fever” IT REALLY IS

ETHO DIDN’T EVEN FLINCH WHEN BDUBS PLACED THAT TNT DOWN MANS JUST CARRYING ON AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED

“wth is this dynamic?” YOU TELL ME CLEO YOU’RE THE ONE PLAYING INTO IT DON’T ACT LIKE YOU AREN’T

mom and dad are fighting

WHY ARE THEY PLAYING CATCH WITH A TNT MINECART WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM 

“sometimes children only learn the hard way” THEY NEVER LEARN

i don’t even think Etho was trying to kill them, all of them are just insane

this is the reason that skizzle didn’t go red first, THIS IS THE REASON

Etho is definitely losing the custody battle

CLEO’S PANIC UPON HEARING SCAR’S ABOUT TO GO RED

i’m getting flashbacks with “the red army rises” goddammit

what the fuck is wrong with Skizz

In conclusion, next session is gonna be WILD

[imalazypandaaa]

I've had this scene in my head for so long. (Fanfic under the cut)

Hotguy and Cuteguy are trapped on the top of a building and the only way for them to survive is if one of them to jump down and distract the officers below. Cuteguy insists Hotguy should let him go but since Cuteguy isn't a hybrid like Hotguy is he doesn't want him too. He holds him close. Cuteguy whispers for Hotguy to trust him and let him go. Hotguy finally does. Cuteguy kisses him and then pushes Hotguy back, the force of it causing Cuteguy to plummet to the ground. Everyone freezes. The cops. The news reporters. Hotguy. Other vigilantes. Bystanders. Everyone. Nobody moves. Nobody breathes. Hotguy calls out to Cutguy. His real name. Scar calls out to Grian in the same way Grian called out to him in a different life. When Scar fell down the ravine. When Scar jumped off the Red Velvet Keep. That pain, that fear, that same love and care. Tears streaming down his face as his head causes him to flashback to the desert. To the mountain. To the birthday cake base. To the bread bridge. To the trading stall. To the creeper explosion. To the life transfer by the river. To the tree with drip stone hanging down about to hit him in the head. To the tnt minecart a certain brunette kicked off a bridge. To the exchange of cactus. He doesn't know what to make of all these things. He holds his breath. It isn't Grian calling out to Scar now. Right before Cuteguy hits the ground he unsheathes his wings and bursts up to the sky. Hotguy laughs with tears in his eyes as he watches his previously thought to be human partner soar above the police trying to detain them. Everyone is shocked. Again nobody moves. Until Cuteguy pulls out his gun and begins to shoot at the officers below. Distracting them long enough for Hotguy to climb down and get all of the hybrids to safety. When they see each other again a few hours later Scar is quick to embrace Grian. Grian freezes up but he hugs back. After all, not even death can separate these two. Now can it?

Eeeeeeeeeee!

[bluiex]

*Gives you whatever the heck 1 am me wrote* Have some anxious birb calling Scar a sap bc Scar deserves to be a little silly before the big sad.

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Night appeared quicker than Scar would’ve liked. Grian sighed.

“I’m gonna check the creeper farm, see if there’s more gunpowder.”

Scar watched as Grian almost ran to the UFO in the sky. An ache crawled from shoulder to shoulder, and it was getting harder to place TNT in the holes Grian made. Doing the same movement for a couple of hours tired his shoulders. He groaned internally, realizing Grian would need to help him eat whatever food they had left. The organization in the chests was back into being a mess. Scar couldn’t remember in which chest he saw their last ration of food. 

Grian’s red sweater came closer in the corner of his eye. He rolled his shoulders to ease the ache (he didn’t know why he kept doing that knowing it was useless), and smiled at his partner. Grian had a frown on his face, fingers playing with the hem of the sleeves, wings twitching furiously in the binds. Scar’s smile dropped.

“What’s wrong?” Scar asked, walking closer to bring any sort of comfort.

Grian groaned and ran his hands over his face. “The minecart stopped running, and we barely have enough to cover what I wanted to cover.”

Scar winced, that would spike Grian’s anxiety back.

“That’s so annoying,” Grian grumbled.

Scar tried to give him a reassuring smile. “Well, at least a big chunk of the desert is covered.”

Grian gave him a deadpan look. “What if the Red Army comes from where we didn’t cover the desert? What happens then, Scar?”

Scar’s brain scrambled to find a plan, but seeing Grian spiraling made it harder for him to focus on a solution. “Uh,” was the most intelligent thing that left his mouth. Grian raised his arms in frustration and walked away.

“See? We’re screwed, my trap is going to fail once again, and we won’t get any kills at this point.”

Scar picked his nails. Think, c’mon, think!

“What if we get Scott and Jimmy to help us?”

Grian sent him an unpleasant look. Scar sighed.

“Grian, take some deep breaths for me, would you?”

His partner shook his head, his shoulders trembling. “I try so hard to be useful, to win this war, but I’m just doomed to fail.”

Oh, Scar was having none of it. He determinedly walked to Grian and asked: “Can I touch you?”

Grian shook his head, arms pressed against his side, wings ruffling. Scar’s hand clenched and he crouched in front of Grian.

“G, believe me when I say this, you are amazing with traps. You’re just inexperienced. And nobody has died to traps as far as I know. You’re so creative and your plans helped us get out of sticky situations I put us in.” Scar took a deep breath. “You mean so much more to me than serving me until you lose your first life.”

He made sure to look into Grian’s eyes. Grian’s breath stuttered, eyes wide in disbelief.

“You mean that?”

Scar just wanted to hug him right then and there, but he didn’t have permission, so he softened his face.

“Yeah, I meant every word.”

Grian looked ahead, eyes misty and blank. He gestured Scar to follow him, which Scar did with a skip to his step. Getting up from his crouching position made him fall on his butt and he needed Grian’s help to stand up. He shouldn’t crouch every again. They entered the bunker as the groans of zombies, the rattle of bones and the hiss of creepers filled the silent desert. Scar kept glancing at Grian, not really sure if the paranoia took over him or if he was relaxed. He hummed a melody, not really sure where it came from. 

Grian opened one of the chests in the bunker and tossed Scar a golden carrot. He tried to catch it, but missed. He tried to keep his whine in, but at Grian’s look, he knew gears were turning. To Scar’s relief, Grian simply let out a chuckle, small smile on his face. 

“C’mere,” Grian said in a soft voice.

Scar obliged, glad to see a smile on his partner’s face. He couldn’t help himself as Grian fed him to make small content noises, probably closer to moans. He just felt happy to be with Grian, and he learned to appreciate the help when his body couldn’t do certain things. Grian simply giggled.

“What’s got you so happy?”

Scar shrugged. “Your smile,” he answered honestly. 

Grian let out a surprise sound, almost a choke, disbelief written in his face. He shook his head in laughter and brought a golden carrot closer to Scar’s mouth (he made sure to exaggerate his “nom” noise).

“Sap,” he said fondly.

“You know you love it.” Scar smirked.

Grian rolled his eyes in reply. He leaned closer, a grin forming. Scar’s stomach twisted, nervous but intrigued. Grian gave him a peck on the cheek and took a bite out of the golden carrot. 

After they ate, Grian labeled the lever, making sure Scar knew to pull it during the endgame and not before. Scar suggested putting dirt blocks around it, to make sure it was out of sight, but Grian firmly disagreed. Scar had given him a cheeky smirk before walking around it, barely touching it every time. Grian had pulled his hair, squawking and begging Scar to stay put. Scar had laughed and simply grabbed Grian to crash on their temporary bed with him.

Grian squirmed, cheeks red and breath heavy. Scar kept his smirk.

“You’re insufferable,” Grian let out.

“You know you appreciate my company,” Scar replied with a grin.

Grian shook his head, letting out a laugh, and took off the binds of his wings. They puffed up, presenting themselves, and Grian sighed, red dusting his cheeks before he folded his wings. He repositioned himself more comfortably on Scar’s bare chest. 

Scar brought his left hand to the base of Grian’s neck, making the avian shiver and fluff his feathers. He rubbed circles there, earning a rumble from Grian’s throat, vibrations tingling his whole body. Scar first thought Grian was purring, but he eventually learned avians made a resounding sound without the noise. Just the oscillations within their throats. Scar adored it and was fully taking advantage of it. 

Grian eventually lazily mouthed Scar’s neck, making his partner hum in appreciation. Scar played with his feathers in return, creating a loop back feed on both end. They stayed like that for the whole night, ignoring the threats outside their bunker, living in the present moment, enraptured by each other’s presence.

-- Bloop anon, who's been writing this fic for two months and it just keeps growing, I can't stop it guys. Help /hj

THEY'RE SO IN LOVE THEY'RE SO IN LVOE WAAAAH THIS IS THE CUTEST EVER

[secretkittywolf]

High Life

Chapter 8

A backstory book was placed on a coffee table as the owner sighs. "So... We're business partners?" Scar nods. "Yup!" "But we don't want a partnership with Grian & Joel?" "Nope!" "And we have to kill them?" "Yes" "Are those the only answers you're gonna give me?" Scar nods as the moustache businessman sighs. "Very well then" "And I got close to killing Joel earlier-" "What?! Scar! We're supposed to come up with a plan, not kill willy nilly!" "I said nearly kill, Mumbo" Mumbo did wonder how and why he was partnered with Scar. He soon remembers how good he is at persuasion and he won Secret Life so, he can fight well and is an excellent con man. "What shall we do? Cause like they're gonna come with proposals -once Joel is out of the hospital- and beg us to join companies" "Well, simple! We trap our buildings!" "WHAT?! That is the worst idea I've ever heard! Scar, you are the most forgettable person I've ever met! You would set a trap and 5 minutes later activate it because you forgot it was there! No. I will not participate in this plan! I won't"

"How is this even happening?" Mumbo was so confused. Here he was, with Scar, boobytrapping his building. "I specifically said no! But you just had to convince me, didn't you?" "That's the power of manipulation- I mean persuasion" smiles Scar, loading a minecart with tnt. Grian kindly supplied each building with a small chest with tnt, minecarts, redstone ect. Plenty of resources for traps. He slowly backed away and prayed that he and Mumbo wouldn't explode. "Okay.... I think this is set" The two cover the hole and places down a pressure plate. "Right now let's unfold this rug back over so no one will see the pressure plate" Mumbo sighed but did as he was told. This was a really stupid idea. "Now all we have to do is remember that there's a tnt minecart under the rug" "Now into mine" The two carefully sidestep and make their way to Scar's and do the same. "Ridiculous! This is utterly ridiculous and downright bonkers! Why did I agree to this insane idea?" "I only understood half of those words" Mumbo looks at Scar and sighs, helping him boobytrap his building.

In another building, Ren and Bdubs were planning on getting payback on Doc. "So how about this: we launch tnt minecarts at his penthouse, blowing him to pieces!" "And if we miss?" "We won't miss" says Bdubs who was proud of his plan. Ren sighs. "We should at least come up with a backup plan" "Alright alright. Okay... Let's see.... How about we sneak into his building, up to his penthouse and charge in guns blazing and take him out!" Ren sighs again. "How would we even know if it's safe? He might have boobytrapped his building and we blow up mid-sneak" "Well then we sneak in whilst he's setting up traps, hide in his penthouse then when he returns, jump out guns blazing and take him out!" Ren thinks for a while. "You know, that may work" Bdubs cheers. "Yes. I knew my plans were smart" he smirks, filled with confidence and his ego boosted in the process. The two begin to plan out their attack and for their backup plan, they decided to spy on Doc so that way they'll know when to sneak in. They also agree on asking Martyn to make them some invisibility potions.

Joel stirs as he opens his eye. His other was bandaged. He quickly shuts his eye as the froglights were blinding. "Joel! You okay?" He opens his eye again to be greeted by Lizzie and Etho. "I'm fine... What happened?" The two explain what happened at the café and Joel was mad. "I was shot?! For no reason? Oh wait until I see Scar. I'll put a bullet through his eye! See how he likes it!" "There's plenty of time for revenge, Joel. Right now you need to rest" "Rest? Just give me a bloody health potion so I can hunt down Scar!" Lizzie and Etho look at each other, realising how pointless it be to argue with him. "I'll go and look for one" Lizzie exits the room leaving the boat boys alone. "He didn't hurt you, did he?" "Well he was going to but Bdubs interrupted and Doc showed up with a machine gun and began to chase them down" "How did you escape?" "I went the other way" Joel couldn't help but chuckle as Lizzie returns with a healing II potion. "Thanks" Joel drinks it and gets out of the hospital bed. "Now, I'm off to find Scar. And a gun. Gonna need a gun first before going after Scar" he says goodbye to Lizzie and Etho before leaving in search for a gun and Scar.

Racing down the streets, tears blurring his vision, Scott chokes back sobs as he tries to make his way back to his building. He was right. Skizz was cheating on him. Why didn't Skizz just tell him he doesn't love him instead of breaking his heart like this? As he continues to run, he bumps into someone. "Sorry. I- uh..." He wiped his eyes and sees Doc. "You okay there?" "No. Not really" "Do you want to talk about it?" He doesn't know Doc well but decides to tell him anyways. Doc doesn't say anything. He let's Scott vent out his problems. "And it really, really hurts cause I still love him you know?" At this moment in time, Scott was crying again. Doc felt sorry for him and gives Scott a hug. He feels the shorter male stiffen before returning the hug. "I'm so sorry to hear that. I thought Skizz was a nice guy, guess I was wrong" "I did too" sniffs Scott. The two pull away and Doc smiles down at Scott. He was a sad, broken man. Perfect to manipulate. "You know, I am in need of a partner for a project of mine. Would you like to help? It may put your mind at ease" Scott thinks for a moment. Here is a stranger, offering him comfort and sympathy. Why say no to helping him? "Sure. I'll help" Doc smiles. Scott has unknowingly fallen into his trap.

Gem sees Scott walking down the streets with Doc. An unusual sight but then again, this is a life game so allies make sense even if the sight is weird. "I didn't expect you to show" Gem looks away and sees Cleo. She was dressed up nice in a dark green dress. Their hair was styled beautifully and the faun couldn't help but swoon over the zombie. "Well I'm not turning down a free dinner" Cleo chuckles and sits opposite to Gem. The two order food and chat the night away. Gem really wishes that her backstory didn't assign her to be with Pearl. She feels so comfortable with Cleo and felt happy. Why was these games so cruel? Why couldn't she just be happy? "Hey... you okay?" Gem looks up at Cleo. "I'm fine, why?" "Because you're crying" Gem touched her cheek and it was damp with tears. She didn't notice. "I'm okay. Really! I was just thinking on how unfair this whole situation is. How we just can't be together and happy" "That's what these games do, Gem. They break us and hurt us in more ways than one" Gem sighs, stating at her lap. This just isn't right. It isn't fair! The faun takes a deep breath, raises her hand and...

BANG!

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Sorry this took a while! Had a bit of a writer's block. Gem has shot someone, but who? Doc is going to manipulate Scott. Ren and Bdubs are planning to take out Doc. Joel wants revenge and Mumbo and Scar and boobytrapping their buildings.

For Skizz/Scott ship name we have Snowangel suggested by @crystaleevee4 love to hear suggestions for Gem/Pearl, Skizz/Jimmy/Tango and Gem/Cleo!

[panda-wearing-pants]

Best Life Series episode #4

S1E4: Jimmy invites people to play chick chance, and ends up giving Joel, Martyn and BigB access to the cows, Joel and Jimmy die attempting Dare to Flare, Grian sets a trap at Renchanting and kills Jimmy, Ren and Skizz, Joel helps Etho fire a TNT missile at the Crastle, but Bdubs stops it, Scar gives BigB a no-kill pass, Bdubs uses a golden apple and fire-protection pants to beat Dare to Flare, and Martyn uses ender pearls to do it

Solidarity: I DIED TWICE!?

S2E4: Bdubs buys the enchanter back from Scar, Ren tells the Shadow alliance that he is a boogeyman, Martyn, Jimmy, Mumbo and Impulse try to steal Scott's wither skull, Lizzie and BigB talk loudly about a villager at the top of Ren's tower in an attempt for someone to activate Ren's trap, Mumbo builds a sugarcane farms and "conceals" it with dirt, Ren kills Skizz, and BigB kills Cleo while they are at Ren's tower afterwards, causing Cleo to leave the alliance, Mumbo builds a ghast farm, which Grian is shot off of by Joel, Grian and Joel discover Pearl and Scott building the Green Life Club under spawn, Joel's trap blows up Cleo seconds after he finishes hiding it, Grian tries to get Mumbo to join him as a red,

Smallishbeans: MY TRAP WORKED!!

S3E4: Joel, Etho, Grian and Martyn use fishing rods to throw the warden into the air, eventually killing it, Grian, Pearl, Joel, Etho and Impulse try to make a fishing rod chain, but Joel dies from fall damage, Pearl steals some of Joel and Etho's gear, and Joel kills her, Joel and Etho go to the Red Velvet Keep to kill Jimmy and Tango, who are on a platform above with Scar, Grian, and an enchanter, Etho and Joel begin burning Pandas, so Scar jumps down and does a water bucket clutch, Jimmy is shot off by Etho and dies, Bdubs and Impulse throw a pool party, but the pool has a zombie bubblevator, which puts a few zombies into the pool, the zombies don't do much, but Ren kills Bdubs

Ethoslab: Hitmen Revenge

S4E4: Joel is chased by Martyn, Etho and Tango, and Etho eventually kills him, Martyn attempts to kill Etho, who turned green from killing Joel, but is killed by TNT from boogeyman Tango and ender pearl damage, Martyn accidentally kills Scar with a stalactite, Grian blows up Martyn, Scar and Impulse with a TNT minecart, BigB steals Judge Judy and Executioner from Jimmy, the yellows hunt Scott, but Scott lets Martyn kill him, Tango is the last green and allows Skizz to kill him, Jimmy takes BigB prisoner in an obsidian cage, but Pearl frees him, Joel and Grian build a submarine and bread bakery above the mansion

Solidarity: I KIDNAPPED SOMEONE FOR THE BAD BOYS!!

S5E4: Bdubs is forced to reroll, and gets the task to kill the ender dragon, Grian tries to trick people into thinking his task is to sing everything he says, Cleo gets people to read her task, which is how she completes it, Etho makes aha puns, Scar kills all of Lizzie's cows, punches Skizz twice, and crafts a diamond helmet, causing Joel and others to chase him around, telling him to take the helmet off, which he cannot do because he has to do the opposite of what people say, Impulse and Pearl try to get people to donate hearts to Skizz, Gem recruits Bdubs, Impulse and Pearl to fight the dragon, Lizzie sees Jimmy and Skizz in a strange position on love island, Martyn walks off the End platform and dies, Bdubs kills the dragon

Goodtimeswithscar: My Task Made Me a VILLAIN!

[bloop-im-a-frog-now]

If The Gods Were Kind — tnt

The 6th and last part of this fic! It was a rough journey, but I’m glad I still wrote this. I would just like to thank Jupiter again for giving me this prompt and throwing me into this wild journey. And maybe, I’ll write a second part to this (second part being the finale and what happens in Hermitcraft), but no promises.

Anyways, enjoy!

Master Post

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Content warnings: Description of gore and mutilation, violent intrusive thoughts

There was tension in the air when Scar came back from his bath. Or, well, as close of a bath as you could get in the desert. He simply had washed himself in the stream on the other side of the mountain, to refresh himself. Their castle was in ruins (he tried to kill Martyn, but he just wouldn’t die!), and he hoped Grian had some sort of plan to get at least one kill on Dogwarts and a roof over their heads. 

He approached Mr. Bubbles (who wasn’t dead, Dogwarts only cut his leash), and put a leash on the giant bee, gesturing to follow him. The rays of the sun reflected his diamond armor, making him sweat profusely and wondering why he decided to set base at a desert, while also ignoring the heavy weight and strain it brought to his shoulder. He rounded the mountain only to see holes, a bunch of holes close to the bunker Grian had built a week ago, before Scar exploded their tower. He made sure he had his crutches and cane in his inventory before joining Grian who was walking around the bunker and the holes. 

Grian kept muttering to himself, wings twitching and so greasy. Scar knew immediately Grian was anxious, probably about whatever plan he had cooked up in that stubborn brain of his. A wooden sign came into view and Scar stopped, trying to read what sort of message Grian could’ve put on it. In big capital letters, the sign read “KEEP OUT ”. 

A pit grew in his stomach at the warning, whether it was out of fear or excitement, Scar couldn’t decipher. The craving he often felt hummed in his skin, wanting to push Grian in one of the holes, desperate to understand the warning. He was so used to it that he let those thoughts fly away into the back of his mind. He turned to look at Grian, who was still muttering to himself, digging sand.

“What do I do, Grian?” Scar called out, fake worry in his voice.

Grian’s head snapped to him, like a bird checking for predators, and his shoulders slumped at the sight of Scar holding Mr. Bubbles on a leash. He looked at the hole beside him and gestured Scar to get closer.

“So, I haven’t started setting everything up, but,” he pulled out stacks of TNT from his inventory, showing them to Scar with pride, “this is the real endgame.”

Scar gasped at the amount of TNT Grian was holding and grinned. His skin buzzed, and his fingers itched to light up the stacks of TNT. He clenched his hands and slightly jumped up and down in excitement.

“That’s amay—” he interrupted himself, “—do we have enough TNT to cover the whole desert?”

Grian counted underneath his breath how many stacks of TNT he had, and nodded.

“We have enough to cause them a scare and maybe finally getting some people.”

Scar’s grin widened. His thoughts were of body parts being torn from their bodies, blood splashing everywhere, and he knew the pit in his stomach was from excitement. He could never pass up the opportunity to explode something. He tried not to think how it was his fault they didn’t have a base anymore. 

Grian gestured him to follow him and pointed at a larger hole with some redstone alimented rails. 

“This is the trigger mechanism,” he explained. 

Scar hummed. “How does it work?” He walked to the other side to see Grian’s second attempt at redstone traps. 

“Well, basically, I’m gonna put two TNT minecarts—” Mr. Bubbles entered the hole where the trap was.

“No!” Scar accidentally cut Grian off. “Bubbles, come back up!”

Surprisingly, the giant bee listened, and went closer to Scar’s side as Grian chuckled fondly.

“As I was saying, this time it will work, and it’s tied to a doomsday lever inside the bunker.” He pointed at it. 

Scar nodded, half distracted by Mr. Bubbles flying around him and half distracted by the TNT Grian had in his hand. He did not see the way Grian’s wings kept twitching, how his hand played with the hem of his sweater, how he kept looking back and forth between the trigger mechanism and the bunker. 

“So, Scar, here’s my plan.” Scar hummed, taken out of his daze. “You’re a red name,” he pointed at the top of Scar’s head, where his name tag probably was, “your life is extremely valuable. I still owe you my first life.”

Scar tried not to think of the horrible thought of Grian abandoning him. He really hoped his partner would stay by his side until the end. He realized quite early on that he wouldn’t be able to kill Grian, even if it was a life or death situation. Even if he imagined the avian covered in blood, eyes wide in terror and blank. He would rather die than kill the man that spent months by his side. 

“While I drag them to the danger zone and try to keep them there, you’ll be in charge of pulling the doomsday lever and, hopefully, we take a couple of them down.”

There was something to the way Grian said “lever ” that Scar couldn’t quite pinpoint. He tried to picture the word in his mind, to find what was bugging him. 

“Okay, but when I pull the lever, can I please say ‘Welcome to the danger zone! ’ ?”

Grian laughed at the little singsong in Scar’s voice. The wings ruffled, threatening to stretch, but immediately got glued to Grian’s back. “You can say any one-liner you want, just not this one.”

Scar gasped, exaggerating his offended look. “Why not?!”

“It sounds weird,” Grian shrugged.

“You just have no taste.”

Grian rolled his eyes and looked back at the contraption. He squinted his eyes and gestured Scar to come closer.

“Do you see anything wrong with this?” He asked genuinely, pointing at the rails.

Scar hummed, looking at the trap. He did not understand this redstone stuff, thus, he wouldn’t know if Grian made a mistake or not. In order to reassure his partner, he patted Grian on the back, making the avian jump in surprise.

“Looks fine to me.”

Grian stood up. “Can you go into the bunker and un-flick the lever? I need to check if the thing still works properly.”

Scar sent him a two finger salute with a “yessir ”. 

He went behind the bunker, making sure Mr. Bubbles was still following him, and found the tunnel to go in it. There were chests and furnaces with an iron door, one button and one lever. He looked back and forth between the button and the lever.

“Grian?” He called out. Grian turned around to face the bunker. “Is it the button or the lever?”

“It’s the lever!”

As Scar was rummaging in the chests to find a way to attach Mr. Bubbles, he heard Grian mumble something about labeling something, but he paid no mind. He was on a mission. 

“Scar!” Grian yelled.

Scar jumped as he was tying Mr. Bubbles’ leash against a wooden fence. He faced Grian when Mr. Bubbles was secure.

“You didn’t un-flick the lever!” 

Grian sounded like he was on his last nerve. Scar blinked and remembered why he was in the bunker.

“Oh, right! Sorry.” He smiled sheepishly.

He switched the lever and looked closely at Grian fretting over his trap. His wings kept twitching, as if they wanted to express themselves but couldn’t. Or maybe they were bothering Grian. Scar tried to think of the last time Grian preened his wings, but his mind was blank. He realized the avian might be more anxious than he first thought. 

Grian disappeared in the hole of the trigger mechanism, his mutters getting louder. Scar couldn’t comprehend them, he was only able to hear Grian’s voice, who was more accented the more frustrated he became. He waited for Grian to give him any signal as he tended to Mr. Bubbles, making sure the giant bee was comfortable in their new base, or so Scar guessed the bunker was. 

“Pull the lever!” 

Scar glanced at him, and placed the lever back where it was. This time, Grian said “lever ” as it sounded in his head. It must be his accent messing with Scar’s brain. Grian sent him a thumbs up and walked closer to the bunker. 

He gestured to the lever and moved his thumb upwards. Scar placed the lever in its original place, and leaned against one of the chest, facing his partner.

“It seems to be working. Hopefully it won’t fail like many of my traps.”

Grian looked to the side with a frown. Scar hummed in thought. 

“Should we put obsidian around the bunker?” He suggested.

Grian squinted at him, probably looking for his eyes, and his expression relaxed. “Oh, that would be a good idea.” He glanced back to the holed desert. “You do that while I place the TNT.”

Scar nodded, grabbing what little obsidian they had left. He put it in the furnace to melt it in order to coat the sandstone structure with it. He made sure to put some fire-resistant gloves before manipulating the hot melt obsidian and started applying it all over the sandstone. He had the strong urge to throw the obsidian to Grian’s face, but he knew better and concentrated on covering every inch of sandstone with the melted obsidian. He heard Grian’s little song of “TNT sand, TNT sand ” and smiled to himself, knowing his partner was distracting himself to calm his nerves. 

When he finished, he joined Grian with placing the TNT. The desert was almost covered in it.

“This might destroy the whole desert,” Grian laughed nervously. 

Scar grinned. “You mean there’s gonna be a big boom-boom?”

“With how much TNT we’re placing, it wouldn’t surprise me.” Grian paused. “I’m hoping we’re at least gonna kill 4 of them with this trap.”

“Can we please get Martyn,” Scar whined. “He’s still on his green life!”

“So am I,” Grian pointed out.

Scar stopped and looked back at Grian. “That’s true, but can we keep you on green as long as possible? I need your assistance.”

His stomach churned at the thought of Grian leaving him when he turned yellow. Grian laughed.

“After this, I doubt I’ll still be alive.” He placed TNT with sand on top. He snickered. “This, Scar,” Scar quirked his eyebrow, “is what we call in the business ‘overkill’.”

Scar laughed. “Yeah, this is gonna be quite the boom-boom.”

Grian hummed in agreement, a grin on his face. It took some tension off of Scar’s shoulders to see Grian being a bit more relaxed. 

Night appeared quicker than Scar would’ve liked. Grian sighed.

“I’m gonna check the creeper farm, see if there’s more gunpowder.”

Scar watched as Grian almost ran to the UFO in the sky. An ache crawled from shoulder to shoulder, and it was getting harder to place TNT in the holes Grian made. Doing the same movement for a couple of hours tired his shoulders. He groaned internally, realizing Grian would need to help him eat whatever food they had left. The organization in the chests was back into being a mess. Scar couldn’t remember in which chest he saw their last ration of food. 

Grian’s red sweater came closer in the corner of his eye. He rolled his shoulders to ease the ache (he didn’t know why he kept doing that, it was futile), and smiled at his partner. Grian had a frown on his face, fingers playing with the hem of the sleeves, wings ruffling almost violently behind his back. Grian almost tore some feathers out with how frustrated he seemed over the reaction of his wings. Scar’s smile dropped.

“What’s wrong?” Scar asked, walking closer to bring any sort of comfort.

Grian groaned and ran his hands over his face. “The minecart stopped running, and we barely have enough to cover what I wanted to cover.”

Scar winced; that would spike Grian’s anxiety back.

“That’s so annoying,” Grian grumbled.

Scar tried to give him a reassuring smile. “Well, at least a big chunk of the desert is covered.”

Grian gave him a deadpan look. “What if the Red Army comes from where we didn’t cover the desert? What happens then, Scar?”

Scar’s brain scrambled to find a plan, but seeing Grian spiraling made it harder for him to focus on a solution. “Uh,” was the most intelligent thing that left his mouth. Grian raised his arms in frustration and walked away, wings flapping slightly.

“See? We’re screwed, my trap is going to fail once again, and we won’t get any kills at this point.”

Scar picked his nails. Think, c’mon, think!

“What if we get Scott and Jimmy to help us?”

Grian sent him an unpleasant look. Scar sighed.

“Grian, take some deep breaths for me, would you?”

His partner shook his head, his shoulders trembling. “I try so hard to be useful, to win this war, but I’m just doomed to fail.”

Oh, Scar was having none of it. He determinedly walked to Grian and asked: “Can I touch you?”

Grian shook his head, arms pressed against his side, wings ruffling. Scar’s hand clenched and he crouched in front of Grian.

“G, believe me when I say this, you are amazing with traps. You’re just inexperienced. And nobody has died to traps that weren’t made by you, as far as I know. You’re so creative and your plans helped us get out of sticky situations I put us in.” Scar took a deep breath. “You mean so much more to me than serving me until you lose your first life.”

He made sure to look into Grian’s eyes. Grian’s breath stuttered, eyes wide in disbelief.

“You mean that?”

Scar just wanted to hug him right then and there, but he didn’t have permission, so he softened his face.

“Yeah, I meant every word.”

Grian looked ahead, eyes misty and blank. He gestured Scar to follow him, which Scar did with a skip to his step. Getting up from his crouching position made him fall on his butt and he needed Grian’s help to stand up. He should not crouch ever again. 

They entered the bunker as the groans of zombies, the rattle of bones and the hiss of creepers filled the silent desert. Scar kept glancing at Grian, not really sure if the paranoia took over him or if he was relaxed. He hummed a melody, not really sure where it came from. 

Grian opened one of the chests in the bunker and tossed Scar a golden carrot. He tried to catch it, but missed. He tried to keep his whine in, but at Grian’s look, he knew gears were turning. To Scar’s relief, Grian simply let out a chuckle, small smile on his face. 

“C’mere,” Grian said in a soft voice.

Scar obliged, glad to see a smile on his partner’s face. He couldn’t help himself as Grian fed him to make small content noises, probably closer to moans. He just felt happy to be with Grian, and he learned to appreciate the help when his body couldn’t do certain things. Grian simply giggled.

“What’s got you so happy?”

Scar shrugged. “Your smile,” he answered honestly. 

Grian let out a surprise sound, almost a choke, disbelief written in his face. He shook his head in laughter and brought a golden carrot closer to Scar’s mouth—he made sure to exaggerate his “nom ” noise.

“Sap,” he said fondly.

“You know it,” Scar smirked.

Grian rolled his eyes in reply. He leaned closer, a grin forming. Scar’s stomach twisted, nervous but intrigued. Grian gave him a peck on the cheek and took a bite out of the golden carrot. 

After they ate, Grian labeled the lever, making sure Scar knew to pull it during the endgame and not before. Scar suggested putting dirt around it, to make sure it was out of sight, but Grian firmly disagreed. Scar had given him a cheeky smirk before walking around it, barely touching it every time. Grian had pulled his hair, squawking and begging Scar to stay put. Scar had laughed and simply gestured Grian to crash on their temporary bed with him.

Grian obliged, cheeks red and breath heavy. Scar kept his smirk. He opened his arms as wide as his shoulders let him and let Grian lay on top of him.

“You’re insufferable,” Grian let out.

“You know you enjoy my company,” Scar replied with a grin.

Grian shook his head, letting out a laugh, and gave his wings a little flap. They puffed up, presenting themselves, and Grian sighed, red dusting his cheeks before he folded his wings. He repositioned himself more comfortably on Scar’s bare chest. 

Scar brought his left hand to the base of Grian’s neck, making the avian shiver and fluff his feathers. He rubbed circles there, earning a rumble from Grian’s throat, vibrations tingling his whole body. Scar first thought Grian was purring, but he eventually learned avians made a resounding sound without the noise. Just the oscillations within their throats. Scar adored it and was fully taking advantage of it. 

He couldn’t keep his arm up for long, so when Grian eventually lazily mouthed Scar’s neck, making his partner hum in appreciation, he dropped his hand. Scar played with his secondaries in return (Grian made it clear his primaries were off-limits), since they were the closest thing he had permission to touch within a reasonable distance for his arms. He created a positive feedback loop on both ends, Grian’s rumbles getting louder and Scar’s stomach turning in excitement and contentment. They stayed like that for the whole night, ignoring the threats outside their bunker, living in the present moment, enraptured by each other’s presence.

--

Scott and Jimmy left to get their weapons for the oncoming war. Grian, however, was anxious.

“Are you sure we can trust them?” He asked for the millionth time.

Scar let out a small smile. “Yes Grian, we can trust them. Did you not hear what new information Scott gave us? That’s very valuable and a genuine sign of trust.”

Scar sometimes wished Grian would have a bit more faith in him. He was glad following Grian’s plans and orders, he seemed to understand more what’s going on, but when he got paranoid and anxious like this? Scar just wanted him to believe in him. 

Grian looked at the horizon, grip tightening on his netherite sword. He bit his lower lip, wings twitching. The sunset highlighted his red wings and gave a glow to his usually dark and faded blond hair. Scar put a hand on his partner’s shoulder and squeezed it.

“Come.”

Grian placed his hand on top of Scar’s, rubbing his knuckles.

“I’m just nervous,” he murmured.

“I know.”

“I want this to work,” his voice quivered.

Scar pressed his lips on top of Grian’s hair. “I know.”

Grian squeezed his hand and went into the secret tunnel leading to the bunker. Scar led the way, grabbing his partner’s hand on the way and interlacing their fingers. Scar looked around to find where the entrance of the bunker was. He made many decoy tunnels in case the Red Army found the tunnel, and he dug his memory where the real tunnel was. 

Something pulled his arm, making him look back. Grian’s head faced the floor, worrying his lip. Scar squeezed his hand, waiting.

“Do you think Mumbo would be proud?”

Scar had no idea who Mumbo was. But, he had an itch that this Mumbo guy would be so proud of Grian, had an itch that Mumbo would appreciate a good boom-boom. He gave Grian a smile.

“Oh, he would be crying tears of joy.”

Grian chuckled, and took a deep breath. He gave Scar a nod, and Scar went back to searching. They would get kills, even if Scar had to endanger himself. He would do anything for him, and the thought didn’t scare him as much as he thought it would.

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[pixelfun20]

A List of MCC Concepts Because We’re Bored of the Current MCC

Me and my discord server were discussing yesterday’s MCC, only a little salty that Grian and his team didn’t win. These alternate concepts for MCC were somehow the result. Things turn from actual suggestions to... well... this.

Bolded Bullets are my favorites.

The person who picks up the arrow can't drop it (Dodgebolt)

Clumsy cooking: dodgebolt edition

Hide and seek but you're building the map as you go

It's dodgebolt but each round has an outrageous rule to follow. Like you can only play on F5

There’s like 10 slots for each team and then there’s this one tiny tiny tiny tiny slot where it says the last place team wins (this is how rtgame can still win)

unsurvival games. you have to die as fast as you can. the map is infuriatingly safe (goodtimeswithscar would win)

Another idea: there is a bingo card for each team. Only the MCC admins knows what's on it. Nobody knows what happens if u complete a line

Ace Race but you have to do it backwards

parkour tag but its 3 people hunting the one person. wait that’s just manhunt.

Battle box but you have to make sure the other team survives

buildmart but its just domestic terrorism

Buildmart but it's american black friday (Buildmart with 4000 fans also on the server)

parkour tag but it’s just larping/roleplay

hole in the wall but its hole in the floor

You can just throw hermit raiders in there for a laugh

Sands of times except it makes annoying alarm clock noises when it gets low

grid runners but each room the teams are randomised

Vault Hunters. Just throw a vault in there.

mcc but in every discord call there’s a dude backseat gaming (said dude is ideally Skizzleman)

similarly: MCC but they're in a call with people from different teams

A series of short randomized mini games  but the teams get teleported out of the game each time they make good progress

MCC but all the teams are made by vibes alone. And not good vibes

Add hide and seek but the hermits build it

mcc but after each game, one random player in each team is swapped

MCC blasé ball

mcc but its demise

MCC but it’s 3rd life, including the role playing

MCC but one of the minigames is just who can drain a sea temple fastest

MCC but it's speedbuilding basic redstone circuits (One of the missions is “build an etho hopper clock set to three ticks”) (Grian has to make a functional tnt minecart trap)

MCC but everybody is assigned either a simmer or Yogscast member they have to keep alive

MCC but there’s a karaoke round

mcc but the fans vote on who should be in dodgebolt except noxcrew doesn't tell them that the least voted teams are the ones playing

mcc but the games are decided truly through rng so the teams can feel primal fear as build mart comes in last

MCC but you just let XisumaVoid organise one of the games to see what happens 

mcc but the entire event start to end is an improv storyline rp (You must have an in character reason for each kill)

Teams where one player has blindness, one is deaf (deafened in discord), one is muted, and one is ehhhhhh idk

mcc but its old people (25+) (Plus Fruit because we like him) (But only if he wears a fake mustache)

MCC but it's Total Drama Island

mcc but its four teams and its like warrior cats (Antfrost wins)

Mcc but it’s only the hermits

Mcc with random old adventure map parts

mcc but its held at a decent fucking time instead of THREE IN THE GODDAMN MORNING (from our dear friend in Asia)

MCC but they travel back in time to 2015

MCC but it's like that one puzzle map made specifically for Zed n Tango, but for all of them

MCC buts it’s 8 games of Decked Out

MCC but it’s played like Minecraft Story Mode

mcc but its a court trial

MCC but Etho’s there for no apparent reason. No one knows what team he’s on.

mcc but only the anime kinnies can compete (Etho vs Phil 1v1)

MCC but the team announcement comes in through an ARG

MCC but we just let Scar in.  He just goes to whichever team he feels like and causes problems. Martyn can join him.

mcc but theres a team solely dedicated to being a hinderence to literally everyone else

MCCs but Reddit and Twt don’t exist and there’s just Tumblr

MCC but the teams just make increasingly obscure 3rd Life & HC references

MCC but everyone’s invisible except Fruit

MCC but the fire alarms in the server go off and they all have to evacuate and stand outside

mcc but wilbur doesnt glitch

MCC but the wrong songs play for each event

mcc but grian and the captain are given a 1000 coin headstart each. and they are on the same team

MCC but it's a musical

MCC but one player on each team was secretly told to sabotage their team without the rest of the team knowing. But instead of one player, it's all four players, and they're all trying to sabotage thinking they're the only one (haha amongus)

Ready As I'll Ever Be plays for Purple Pandas and then when the song ends "And then they lost" appears at the end

[riacte]

Let’s appreciate the recent HEP/ Mycelium Heist

I don’t know if this was planned, but they (Etho, Impulse, Grian) entered the HEP factory through the chimneys, and I find this so funny because last time the HEP did a heist, Tango “hacked” in the vault, but this time they legit saw behind-the-scenes architecture and was like “hey, this is probably hollow right” AND IT’S JUST SO THEM TO GET IN THROUGH SOMETHING THAT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE SHOWN ON CAMERA MWJXJAK

I honestly had zero idea how they were going to get in— they didn’t have a key, the windows were all sealed, there wasn’t an obvious “trapped” entrance. So it was really nice to see them enter in a creative way

I think moments like these are when Scar’s detailed builds truly shine. Scar’s builds always have character and a story behind them, and he briefly explains it to us in his episodes, but there’s nothing like the hermits exploring Scar’s builds in the middle of a storyline. You can see they’re genuinely so confused yet impressed by... well, everything. They don’t have any what MooPop is, but they’re FASCINATED

And it’s not just some tour of the factory, or a casual fly-by, they’re legit exploring the factory and trying their best to uncover its secrets. Seeing Scar explain how he built a factory ladder is very different from seeing Grian actually go down said ladder. It’s just so... beautifully immersive. And Scar’s wonderful builds go perfectly well with the storyline.

THE MINECARTS. Oh man. They’re hilarious. When I saw them in Scar’s video, I was really impressed by his creativity but thought “oh well, that’s just for the aesthetic. As fun as it is, no one’s gonna ride it.” WELL. Seeing the MR gang on the railway/pipe thing that connected the chimney to the main room and actually using the minecart to go down was so fun. Like the minecarts were a Chekhov’s gun. It’s just so satisfying to see Scar’s “aesthetic” details have practical use.

Not only the building’s fantastic, the redstone was also spectacular. I don’t have time to watch all the hermits (mainly watching Scar and Grian rn) but I could instantly recognise Tango and Cub’s redstone. The redstone was so cleverly created. Like, they could’ve used TNT and boom boom the place up ala Resistance style. But no. A skeleton that shoots flaming arrows, the freakin vibe check (hilarious), the clouds of potion particles, the multiple levers in different rooms that all result in traps— it gave me very Season 6 Team STAR traps vibes. Cheeky, but not always deadly.

AND OF COURSE THE RAVAGER! The slow descent of it when Etho activated the trap... everyone immediately getting Decked Out flashbacks... experiencing the “oh damn we didn’t think this through moment”... and the resulting PURE PANIC.

They tried to put the Ravager in a minecart, which again is a nice touch. They’re actively trying to use their surroundings to help them instead of immediately cheesing it

TANGO’S NONCHALANCE IN THE CHAT... casually watching HEP security slay the Resistance...

Grian respawning and quickly dying was also hilarious because it reminded me of the prank he pulled on Scar at the Upside Down, so is this karma?? Maybe?? XD

Dude was so desperate lol. He ran, he flew, he enderpearled— and still died. Tango’s probably crying tears of laughter seeing the death messages.

Speaking of Grian, what a coincidence that he lost his Bdubs head and had to kill Bdubs, only to get massacred by the HEP in like the exact same day.

THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE BDUBS HEAD. Truly the face of the Resistance and Hermitcraft (see: Lime Liches in Minecraft Championship)

Seeing Cub log on and log off was making me nervous HAHA. I half-expected him to show up in the middle of the heist kinda like how Doc did when False gave Grian and Ren the Area 77 tour.

I feel the one (1) block of mycelium was a callback to the one (1) diamond in the fake vault... and naturally the Resistance thought they had been bamboolzed, because they pulled the same trick on HEP. Then they realised the mycelium was there all along and they were bamboolzed AGAIN.

There were so many mycelium blocks on the floor... so many shulker boxes. Hilarious how the MR spent so much time pulling off (and failing) the heist only to leave the majority of their treasures behind...

The heist was a hilariously epic failure. HEP put in so much effort and hard work. It felt like everything was meticulously crafted

Kudos to everyone involved in this heist!! Everything about it is excellent— the lore, the story, the architecture, the redstone, the humour, the panic— everything. This is one of those Hermitcraft episodes that I’ll rewatch tens of times and still never get bored. Thank you hermits for the serotonin <33 can’t wait to see what happens next!

Feel free to reblog and add more!

[theres-an-impulstor-among-us]

(Spoilers for 3rd life) Possibly a request if you will take it as one but if not just words :D (apologies for it being many words, I am not good a crushing down sentences shxhf)

I am, so intrigued with how scar setting off the trap in monopoly mountain went- Martyn was literally in the storage room, but he heard the tnt ingnite and moved into the corner slightly behind a wall on reaction and was pretty much fine, mostly just rattled, standing safely on the one bit of floor that didn't get explodificated- Meanwhile when Scar set it off Tango was actively walking behinds him Towards the door and got absolutley launched when the explosion went off, and no one even looked to him freaking out for the most part after the fact aside from Scar apologizing- Everyone was caught up in literally everything else with the you know, war- And to be fair you couldn't really see him he ended up like?? halfway down the first flight of stairs??? But tango angst, is what I'm suggesting here basically sGsjcjhj- You cannot tell me being launched a bit down a mountain from directly in front of the blast point of multiple tnt minecarts did not hurt

exactly!! you can make the argument that Martyn was far enough away AND had his shield up for the explosion to not damage him that badly (it only did HALF A HEART of damage omg) but in Tango’s own words, he was RIGHT THERE. he was RIGHT next to it. there’s no way c!Tango wasn’t injured being flung halfway down a mountain.

but i have decided to take this as a prompt anyway :) bc i am a sucker for a) Tango, b) hurting characters, and c) hurting Tango /j

...

“TANGO, NO!”

Tango scrambles backwards as he hears Scar’s yell and the quiet hissing of TNT. The force of the explosion sends him flying to the side, right off the top of the mountain. He lets out a loud yelp of pain as he lands heavily on the very edge of the first flight of stairs down, dangerously close to slipping off the rest of the way down the mountain.

“Martyn!” he hears Skizz yell.

“I was inside, you fools!” Martyn’s voice yells back. “Who set that off?!”

Groaning, Tango pushes himself into a sitting position and assesses his situation. His left leg is bent at an awkward angle but even though it hurts a lot, he doesn’t think it’s broken. Pain is emanating from his back and his neck, which isn’t surprising considering the force of the explosions, which have left a strange ringing in his ears.

“Tango!” comes Scar’s voice.

Tango glances up to find Scar rushing towards him. “I tried to warn you, Tango!”

“You gave me like a second’s warning!” Tango yells back, the pain making his anger worse. “I was RIGHT there! What the hell were you thinking?!”

“I-!” Scar breaks off with a yelp as an arrow whizzes over his head. “Sorry, I gotta go!”

He takes off running down the stairs.

“Wait, Scar!” Tango shouts after him. “I can’t walk! SCAR!”

But Scar keeps going, pursued by what seems to be the entire Red Army. Soon, all of them disappear into the forest.

Tears pricking behind his eyelids, Tango attempts to use the side of the staircase above him to pull himself to his feet but the instant he tries to put weight on his leg, the agony becomes too much and he sinks back down. His attempt to get up has only made things worse and now he can hardly move without fiery pain shooting down his entire body. He lies propped up against the cliff, unable to stop the tears from flowing. Not only is he in horrible pain but he’s been abandoned by everyone who might have been able to help him.

“Tango?”

Apparently not everyone.

Tango opens his eyes. His vision is blurry but he can just see the outline of a person coming up the stairs towards him. But he doesn’t need to see them; he recognises their voice. “Grian… I-I need help.”

“I can see that. Geez, what happened?”

“Scar set off some kind of T-TNT trap in your house. I got l-launched off the cliff.”

“Oh no…” Grian groans and shakes his head. “I didn’t see any death messages in chat so I guess it didn’t get anyone.”

“IT GOT ME!” Tango roars suddenly, causing Grian to leap back with fright. “GRIAN, I’M IN A LOT OF PAIN RIGHT NOW! I NEED A BIT OF HELP HERE!”

“Oh! Right, right, right!”

Grian moves closer and reaches down to help lift Tango to his feet but freezes when Tango lets out a cry of pain. “Are you okay?!”

Tango shoots him a scathing look but bites back his scathing retort. “I c-can’t move without my neck and back REALLY hurting.”

“Okay, okay, um…” Grian steps back, trying to think quickly about what else he can do. “Okay, I think I have one healing potion left. It’s a weak one but it should ease the pain enough for you to be able to move.”

“G-Go get it, then!” Tango cries, as he accidentally shifts his back and more pain shoots up his spine.

Grian hurriedly dashes up the stairs towards his house, but as he gets to the top, he sees the giant crater in the bottom of his house and realises with a jerk that the explosion has destroyed all his chests. All his and Scar’s stuff is gone.

“Oh no…”

Picking his way over the singular blocks left from the floor, he happens to check his brewing stand and finds two healing potions left over, to his relief. He grabs them and rushes back down to Tango, who’s gone worryingly still.

“Tango?” Grian kneels beside his friend. “Are you dead?”

“I wish,” Tango mutters. “Do you have something?”

“Yeah. Drink this.”

Tango takes the offered healing potion and shakily drinks it. It tastes as weird as usual but he can already feel the pain in his back and neck easing up. He lets out an involuntary sigh of relief.

“Is that better?” Grian asks, watching him carefully.

“A lot better, yeah. Thanks.” Tango drains the rest of the potion. “Sorry for yelling at you back there.”

“Don’t worry about it. Do you need help getting anywhere, or…?”

Tango shakes his head. “I’ll be fine from here, thanks. How long ‘til sunset?”

Grian checks the position of the sun. “About an hour and a half. Can you make it home in time?”

“Yeah, should be fine. Thanks again for helping, G.”

Grian nods. “No problem.”

[memryse]

I'm afraid for all the alliances for the next session consdering that now Scar is a red name.

Man already tried to convince Jimmy to break the southland alliance for power.

Since Scar probably won't want to trap and kill immediatly, i feel like he is just gonna basically create distrust and poison every relationship on this server.

There are the contracts which he will 100 pourcent try to enforce, man can literally threaten people for info and he already is known for getting people to do what he wants.

Scar was already a manipulative fuckbag (affectionate) as a green life but now he is obviously gonna pull out the big guns for his red life endeavors. He is gonna full manipulation bitch on the server.

Also it would be really funny as a contrast to Joel who just failed at being red for the first few episodes and just getting really cranky because of it. Virgin red life Joel VS Chad red life Scar

see, i do think scar might attempt to blow someone up (probably etho). but i don't think he'll be setting any traps (at least not any tnt minecart ones), he does not have lives to spare and it is far far far riskier for him to set them and it was for joel. purely and simply because he is scar and these sorts of things are liable to go incredibly wrong around him. he'd just light tnt in front of people instead lol

his contracts are going to be a big part of next session, i think, and i cannot wait to see how that plays out. grian obviously intends to honour it, and he was also able to recover joel and bdubs' contracts. etho and cleo are the two most likely to betray the contract anyway, let's be honest. but even three people hired is going to go a long way - it's not an "alliance" per se if it's adhering to the contract, especially if scar is threatening them into doing so. which is very possible, all three are on yellow and owe scar a life debt really.

that being said, i fully expect that the first thing scar will do will be arson. mark my words he will go after etho's tree again and he will not stop until it is burnt to the ground

[lechairpourriedegrianri]

Untitled Shulker Box Fic!

I said that I’d tag you in this so @redwinterrises

Words: 1728

Description: Seven scenes of Grian contemplating his partnership with Scar

Warnings: Descriptions of blood, injuries, and violence

Though Grian hoped his partnership with Scar would end well, deep down he knew that things could only turn out badly. Case in point, the tree issue. “If we made an iron farm, do you think we could get enough iron shovels to dig up the desert,” Scar deliberated, deep in whatever constituted thought for him as they moved towards the desert.

“I keep telling you, trying to dig up the desert is a waste of time. If we get the dark oak forest then we’ll have a monopoly. How are we even going to make an iron farm? There’s like three villagers and Impulse has them all.”

“We're smart guys! We can think of some-OH! There’s a bee over there.” Scar bounded off on a detour and Grian gritted his teeth. Scar was great, but when he was taking such a lackadaisical approach to things. having to follow his orders was unbearable. He couldn’t wait to die the first time so he could get away. Scar ran back up, “Had to kill the bee; so you think we could just steal everyone’s iron and diamonds and stuff to make shovels?”

Feeling something in him tense, Grian turned to Scar and did his best to feign calmness and control, “Scar, where on the server can you find sand?”

“The desert, obviously, the bottom of lakes and the river, and the beaches too I guess.”

“And where can you find dark oak?”

“Just the one forest but-” he trailed off when he saw the piercing stare Grian was giving him, “Okay. Forest it is.”

——

Grian stood on the edge of the sand dune, sun beating down on him as he watched Scar and Etho haggle over shoes. “Those are awfully nice shoes, Etho. Surely they’re worth some good reputation.”

Grian sighed, sick of watching Scar scam people for worthless garbage, “Don’t take him up, Etho. He’s cheating you.”

“No I’m not. You’ll get fifty whole reputation points, Etho.”

“What even are reputation points?”

“I’ll take it,” Etho kicked his shoes off and took the scrap of paper from Scar, making Grian groan in frustration.

After happily waving Etho off, Scar turned to Grian. The way the sun glinted off his scar from the creeper explosion still made it look like it was fresh and bleeding red. “Don’t interrupt my dealings,” he muttered, the shadows turning his skin a twisted grey. Grian nodded, having no intentions of doing what he was told.

——

“How do you make a tnt trap?” Back home the question would have been completely innocuous, but here, with his torn pants exposing the deep gashes on his legs from the fall, highlighted on his dead-looking skin, Scar’s words gave Grian cause for concern.

“Where are you going to use it?”

His eyes glowing with malice, Scar clenched his fist, “Dogwarts is going to pay. I’ll use the enchanter as bait and wipe them out in one quick blast.”

Immediately, images of Scar blowing himself to pieces rolled through Grian’s head. As nice as that would have been earlier, now….it was too dangerous. He had no idea which one of the others he could trust, and which could trust him. Love him or hate him, at least Scar was loyal to him. As much as he didn’t want to, Grian placed down a chest, “Give me the tnt you got.”

“Um, sure.” Scar tentatively dumped the tnt in the chest, as well as a spattering of minecart, observers, and pistons. “Are you building the trap or are you just taking this away from me?”

“I’ll….I’ll build it,” Grian shook his head, “It’s preferable to having you build it.”

“Good,” Scar placed a hand on Grian’s shoulder. It was rough, less a friendly gesture and more holding his lackey in place. “I’m glad you’re finally listening to me for once.”

——

Smoke billowed from the gates of Dogwarts, and Grian laughed. Jimmy had been stupid enough to nudge the tnt while the were disarming Grian’s trap, and and he, Skizz, and Ren himself had been turned into an ashy crater. Just the thought of it made Grian turn from giggled to unrestrained, ridiculous laughter. Scar and Ren grappled on the edge of the hill, and with a sickly crack Scar slugged Ren in the face, sending him toppling over the edge and letting him hit the ground with a thud.

Blood trickling from his forehead and a nasty scrape across his arm, Ren bellowed furiously, “You’ll pay for this, desert fiend!” before limping back to Dogwarts. Scar scampered away as well, likely to recoup in the desert. Feeling giddy, Grian turned to follow him, but Martyn grabbed him by the wrist.

“Grian, wait. I need to ask you something.”

“What is it?” Grian glanced back at Martyn, who was a mix of worried and hopeful.

“Big B and I were talking and…as the Blue Sword Boys we think we should try to rescue you from Scar. We’re going to ask Skizz to kill you so that you can get out of your deal without suspicion.”

Something in Grian churned, and a frown curled over his face, “What makes you think I want out of my deal?”

Martyn tightened his grip, “What are you talking about?”

“Right now Scar trusts me completely, and I’d rather have the most powerful wild card on the server in my palm than at my throat. So,” he broke free of Martyn’s grasp and drew his sword, “That’s,” he slashed his sword across his opponent’s knuckles, leaving a thin trail of blood, “A no.” A boot to the stomach sent Martyn tumbling backwards, and Grian ran.

——

Grian and Scar sat on a hill at a safe distance from the Crastle, deep in thought as they watched Bdubs and Cleo move about inside of their stronghold. “There has to be a way to get to them,” Scar pondered aloud, “A full attack isn’t an option, and I’d doubt they’d fall for the tnt trap again.”

“What if we trap their bubble elevator,” Grian proposed, trying to avoid eye contact with his partner.

“They don’t have a bubble elevator.”

“Then we build them a bubble elevator, act like it’s a big gift from us, and trap it to kill them when they actually use it.”

“That’s…actually pretty smart,” surprised, Scar glanced at Grian, who was looking at the tower with a calm intensity. “Let me grab the materials for it and-“

“No.”

“Excuse me?”

“No, I’m building this. You keep them busy while I get the job done.”

“You actually want to help me kill them?”

“Of course,” Grian flashed him a teethy, soulless smile.

——

Screams of pain and anger wafted in through the window of the bunker and blood stained the desert sands red. Grian sat huddled against the wall of their bunker, hand hovering over the lever to the kill switch. Almost the entire server was out there, playing capture the flag on the largest death trap the server had ever seen. A body thudded against the bunker’s iron door, and blood trickled through the crack beneath it. Blood………

Blind to Scott’s tearful screams of “Jimmy!” Grian pulled the lever.

The sound burst one of his eardrums almost immediately, and the blast caved in the wall he was leaning against, sending him flying across the room and slamming into the opposite wall, fracturing his skull and shattering the bones in his left arm. Ignoring the mind-breaking pain, Grian rolled over onto his back, listening to the sounds of panic as the final small explosions fired.

“Grian.” Ren shouted as he stumbled in through the collapsed wall. His right arm seemed to have been torn open, and his mane of hair was matted with blood and sand. An ugly crack ran through his crown. “You did this. You have to pay.”

“And he will.” Before Ren could comprehend, Martyn leapt into the bunker, driving his sword between Grian’s ribs and twisting it to double the pain. Grian’s vision blurred, taking on a yellow tint as it faded.

——

“Where are you, Scar?” Grian called softly as he stalked through the charred ruins of Dogwarts. He carried the sword of the Red King and was coated in the blood of the King’s Hand. He stopped in front of where the Renchanting building once stood and eyed it whimsically, “We did it, Scar. We made it to the end. Final two, bud.”

“I’d count that as a win-win.” Scar’s voice was weary, and Grian caught sight of him entering through the main entrance, one of the few remaining pieces of wall. An explosion had clearly taken a chunk out of his leg, and deep gashes painted his skin. Barely able to walk, he slid to the ground, leaning against an undetonated pile of tnt. “Is this the end?” He said something else that Grian couldn’t hear as he crossed the way and sat down next to his partner.

“I guess it is. We….we killed them all.”

Something in Scar chilled at the way he said it. With a trembling turn to look at Grian, he quietly asked, “So who wins?”

Grian stood up slowly, blood rushing through his head so loudly he couldn’t hear anything Scar said or what was happening around him. He held Ren’s sword carefully in his hands, admiring the etchings on them. In a slow, contemplative movement, he took the hilt and gripped it tightly. Whirling around in a single heartless move, he ran the Red King’s sword through Scar’s neck, killing him. “Me.”

Blinded by fierce, undeniable red, Grian scanned Scar’s battered corpse as it crumbled to dust. He noticed that Scar had been holding something behind his back as he died, something that he hadn’t wanted Grian to see.

As the rushing in his head faded, Grian’s hearing returned and he froze at the quiet, but all too familiar hissing he heard. Scar had had a flint and steel in his hand. He had figured out what was going to happen and set one last fire, a fatal insurance policy.

Grian laughed as the tnt detonated, obliterating him and finishing off the last life on the server. At one point, Grian had hoped that his partnership with Scar would end well, but he had known deep down that it could only end badly for them.

[skitter-kitter]

HI i'm back with another au so,, 5+ hc's for an au where grian became red before scar did

God, this is actually kind of hard to find ways Grian would die first since scar goes down to red so early lmao

1. This is an AU where Grian actually has a brain while lighting up Monopoly Mountain lmao. He puts up fences around the lava pools and around the ravines. Scar runs straight into the fence and loses his breathe for a few seconds, but does not die. Scar thanks Grian for putting up the fences, and they continue with their plans.

2. Scar still taunts Dogwarts, and winds up convincing Grian (“it’s not by our hands!”) to put the tnt minecart trap in front of Dogwarts. In this universe, Scar is not red yet, so they do not go to talk to them up on the hill.

3. Grian comes down the hill to the trap to inspect what went wrong, and he is caught in his own trap.

4. He wakes up alone in monopoly mountain. His hands shake and he can’t breathe. There is a faint scent of gunpowder on his skin. He wonders, was this what it felt like? Did I make Scar feel this?

5. Scar comes back home and checks to make sure he’s alright. He holds Grian as he shakes and ignores his friend’s tears. Scar asks him, “You’re on your yellow life… are you going to join Ren? Or Scott? Or—“

Grian cuts him off. “I’m staying with you, idiot.” And that’s that.

6. Grian loses his second life just a few days later, when Scar reveals he may or may not have stolen one of Dogwarts’ flags. They want it back, and Scar is a very stubborn person. They shoot up at Monopoly Mountain— up at Pizza. Grian frantically feeds Pizza food, and is shot in the back once, twice, three times. He collapses to the ground with arrows sticking out of him. He wakes up in their home again, and comes out with bloodlust roaring in his ears.

7. He chases Dogwarts off of Monopoly Mountain, and Scar catches up to him. He sees red, angry eyes and dark grey skin. He sees violence and bloodlust in Grian’s eyes, until his friend turns to him with concern and happiness in his eyes.

“Did they hurt you?” Grian asks, and scar shakes his head.

“No, no. Are you… alright?”

And Grian looks down at himself, at his fists clenched around an iron sword. At his armorless body. He thinks about the fact that Dogwarts ran from him while he was armorless— all because he could kill them.

And Grian turns to Scar, his best friend— someone he would sacrifice everything for— and smiles.

“Let’s kill them all.”