Cub gives him a quick tour around the building, telling about his progress, and Zedaph can't stop fawning over him.
Cub's so - madly efficient, it blows his mind. Always was. Zedaph isn't, Zedaph never really wanted to be efficient, and couple leftover chains on his wrists are proof of that. He has his challenges, and plans for shenanigans, and Skizz is here so they gotta celebrate it every day he's free, and - was that Joel guy flirting with him? He gotta get back to it later. Anyway, no time for being productive in usual senses.
It still doesn't diminish the awe in his mind. Does Cub always do this? They weren't dating at the start of Nine yet - but he feels like he needs to check it.
(Tango's also being madly efficient, every season, including this one last time he heard - but he's not a literal speedrunner.)
"And then Scar actually got into my trap," Cub continues his recounting of the day. "Man, I actually think I owe him now, he didn't even mean to open that chest."
"Contraptions having minds of their own, as usual," Zedaph nods. "Speaking of! How does it feel being the Reaper?"
"Oh -" Cub opens his mouth to speak, then stops, light frown on his face. "You weren't one?"
"Nope."
"I thought your name was gray already - so you didn't -"
"Yea - I died, I skipped straight to Dead," Zedaph had to ask Grian about the reroute. Brought Tango and Impulse along to convince him, but that's another story.
Cub nods, still looking a bit perplexed. "It's kinda fun, though. Why wouldn't you try?"
Zedaph looks at him.
He can't see his own face, but he knows the way he stares, and he knows for shade of worry appearing on Cub's face, for how his hand reaches for Zedaph's - right now, Cub sees his irises fade out to dark gray.
"Cub, do you think it's a good idea for me to be one."
"No," Cub agrees, no pause before the answer. "No it isn't."
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A longer collection of "WRONG!" Snippets I wrote after being asked for by my discord.
This is the post where I make all your favourite characters and ships suffer :D
"The mad scientists"
wrong
Cub never left that behind. Cub is still a mad scientist ad heart. No matter where he goes, he carries that with him, even in his museum, he turns so many things just a touch too much into science.
Meanwhile, for zedaph, that science stuff had been nothing but a fun past time. Something to keep himself entertained until he could go to a world he knows he could stay in long enough to start the project he is truly invested in.
The main point they bond over is Cubs entire life, but to zedaph its nothing but a way to pass the time
"Pearl will forever be the red witch"
wrong!
It was never about that. It's never been about a role or a character she played. What it's always been about is that Pearl always and forever ends up being abandoned.
Weather that is by her alliance, by her soulmate, or by her friends.
Pearl is kept around only when someone deems her useful.
And when she's not, they leave her behind.
And she so desperately just wants to be heard, listened to, and when noone does, she begins to scream and shout until people have no choice but to listen.
The role Pearl played is nothing but a byproduct of her loneliness.
Pearl won't forever be the red witch. She hasn't been in a long time actually. All she's ever been is abanoned
"Majorwood were so good for each other"
wrong
Majorwood were nothing but a coincidence, they were never anything more then a participation medal to each other.
Martyn never really saw Scott for who he is, all he saw in Scott is a sad projection of Ren, nothing but a bandaid on a wound that needed stiches.
And Scott, Scott never needed martyn, what Scott needed was to be loved, and he saw martyn, who was ready to treat him with so much love but never for who he is, only for what he wanted him to be.
What Scott needed was trust, but ultimately, martyn turned on him without second thought, because martyn was only ever truly loyal to one person.
Majorwood, to each other, were nothing but sad ghosts of what they truly needed, nothing but unfulfilled dreams
(For context, this is about their characters)
"Jizzie are happily married"
wrong
OK let's be real, I don't know where you'd get this from.
Everything about them is exclusively lust (in a non-sexual way) and never about love.
What lizzie seaks in Joel is entirely a kick. What she gets from him is an adrenaline rush, gets yo play with fire a little. And she could get this from everyone, but Joel is right there, so she goes for him.
Joel, on the other hand, is getting companionship from her. Or well, the illusion if it. He is so sunken into the loneliness of his cave and his red life, that the light of lizzie quite literally blinds him from seeing that to her, he's nothing but an adventure.
And after it's over, lizzie will leave, return to her alliances, and Joel will be alone, craving the company and warmth of another person. But lizzie never cared. Not about him.
Only about the kicks
"Scott and Jimmy never moved on from each other"
wrong
Oh honey, they so did.
I thinks it's obvious that when Jimmy met Tango, he started healing and started moving on, he was proven then that someone could love him just as unconditionally and that he doesn't rely on Scott. He was proven then that there's others who also see his worth. Jimmy is well over Scott. Sure, sometimes he thinks back on that time with a fond smile, but he doesn't miss it.
For scott, moving on looked different.
Scott struggled to move on for so long, and it's not that hes over Jimmy, no, but when he realized that Jimmy was over him, he bottled it all up and shoved it down until he couldn't feel it anymore.
In his dreams, scott can still see the flower valley, can still feel the touch of jimmys hand in his. It no longer fills him with joy, instead, it leaves a sour taste on his tounge. To him, they're nothing but a nightmare that haunts him. A memory he can't let go. All because he has been let go
"Mumbo cant go a day without seeing Grian"
wrong
You think Mumbo is the one obsessed?
I mean, I see where you're coming from, I really do.
But get this. Mumbo just sucks at being alone.
For Mumbo, it could be anyone. The reason it's grian isnt because grian is special, but because Grian is easy, non-intimidating.
To Mumbo, grian is just "the easy option"
Grian is outgoing and exitable and he does most of the work for Mumbo.
He does a great job at patching the whole of loneliness in mumbis heart.
But Mumbo doesn't care if its grian. Before grian, it had been iskall and when grian isnt around, its scar, its Ren, its anyone who will listen. Grian isnt special.
Grian on the other hand. To him, Mumbo is everything. Grian is obsessed with him. He needs Mumbos constant validation and his company and his presence. Without him, grian is incomplete.
Grian yearns for him, he needs him.
And Mumbo is there. Because Mumbo thrives under his attention.
Grian loves Mumbo, Mumbo loves attention, and grian just so happens to give him that
"Impulse and Tango are each other safe space"
"Impulse and Tango are always there for each other through the worst of times"
wrong!
On so many levels.
What they are is forced proximity, over and over again. They catch each other because they stand where the other happens to fall, being crushed under the impact of the fall.
Of course they'll listen, of course they trust each other to an extend. Because they're so used to it having to be each other.
But let's be real. Most of that is Tango. Tango so rarely gets people he can truly rely on, there was Jimmy, sure, but jimmy has since moved on and any other time, the ones he trust end up dead or betraying him.
Impulse, on the other hand, he has people. There are many who have his back.
And yet, whenever disaster strikes, its when he's with tango. They safe each other because it saves themselves
And so, in the sense of calamity, they find each other. Because they're used to it. Because it's all they know.
If they had a choice, they would choose anyone else, they would choose those they wouldn't crush, those who can heal them and not just hold them together so they momentarily function.
But fate never gave them a choice. And so they continue to crush each other
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