#gem and the scotts killing the mounders and vice versa

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secret life finale was so good it couldn’t have been better scripted.

first tango dies, as per tradition. everyone is making tentative last minute alliances, setting traps, strengthening defences.

skizz, betrayed by impulse, goes down, killed by what seems the lurking power of mounders + gem n scotts. etho is killed by an increasingly unhinged scar.

the pace quickens. martyn goes out, invisible and defenceless, the last big dog. bigb’s silver tongue goes still, and the heart foundation is lost.

cleo dies at her son’s hands, and so does grian at gem’s, but not before he leaves gem and co. crippled, ensuring that they can’t win. and that’s the last of the roomies.

it’s the mounders, gem and the scotts, and scar. 3v3v1. joel’s firework sets off the chaos, and scar finds himself, confusingly, with the mounders.

impulse sinks, the anchor to their band, leaving gem and scott hurting and confused. they kill off the other two mounders, leaving pearl, who doesn’t want to win, and scar, who needs to.

and then scott gives up his life for gem, and now it’s just the leaders of the two strongest alliances on the server… and scar.

gem’s angry and sad and grieving (she doesn’t know how this works, cleo said, she doesn’t know about loyalty), and as she swipes her sword uncertainly pearl junps in and scar deals the final blow.

and now it’s just scar and pearl, retracing seasons past, a battle both sides know who wins.

a cactus ring in the desert, a stack of tnt on a hill…

and the fifth winner stands, laughing and scarred.

the villain won.