#But he hates this desert

[puppetmaster13u]

So I got dragged back into Marvel fanfics. And might be writing one now. Anyone interested in a paragraph or two of it?

[astrowarr]

i feel like there's this really common misconception that since 3rd life, scar has repeatedly been some helpless victim to grian as he yearns for him but is disregarded at every turn. but honestly, watching and analyzing both their povs especially from LL and DL, this is really untrue

you know, last life DOES have the whole "grian stealing scar's life" thing, but after scar takes yellow snow it's marked as water under the bridge for him. for GRIAN though...

there's this whole conversation early in the series where scar, unprompted, Immediately starts denouncing sand, talking about how annoying and disgusting it is. if i were grian, i would absolutely take that as him denouncing their past together, and everything they stood for in the desert. there's so much vitriol in his voice that it's actually jarring. there's more, too, like scar going back on the soul crystal deal.

throughout the rest of the season, the two of them keep gravitating around each other. it's especially grian though, where you blink and suddenly he's at scar's side. there's this strange scene from scar's pov where they're at the top of magical mountain, and the southerners are on their way out after enchanting as red joel comes in. as joel talks to scar, grian lurks threateningly and protectively in the doorway, sword and crossbow in hand and trained on joel. he wasn't told to. his team has left him as he stands there dutifully. he watches from the background and helps in the subtle ways he feels comfortable, because he's so hurt by scar's casual cruelty and disdain toward 3rd life.

even if you don't think grian particularly cared about scar in last life though, something to consider is that grian is a character highly motivated by guilt. it overwhelms him. it is his tragic flaw in so many scenarios. a character this prone to guilt hearing scar's hatred for what represented the two of them would absolutely take that as "he hates me for what i did to him; he can't forgive me for killing him."

now double life is a BEAST to tackle because there's so much. but the most important stuff happens in episode one, because— and genuinely no one acknowledges this— scar spends the entire thing declaring his hatred for soulmates. all he does is proclaim his unwillingness to participate in it all, to the point where he's not planning to find his soulmate at all, and says, and I quote, "i don't care about my soulmate."

he doesn't just do this when he's by himself, but he says it directly to grian. several times. he even says, after grian's reveal, "do we need to base together?" and ignores grian's heartfelt, sentimental plea of "We don't have to but… i-it might be nice. If I can… look out for you…” to instead run away and take damage on purpose.

he continues throughout the season to be much more devoted to the jellies than anything else. scar is the one who invents soulmate torture! and he thinks this up before grian is even considering the secret soulmate thing, and when he starts doing it, it's when grian is entirely innocent of any wrongdoing. he starts it when grian says the jellies can't stay inside the base, but conveniently in his first episode, he cut out the part where grian outright says "no" to letting them stay. scar brings them anyway, and then villainizes grian for holding firm on the boundary he already blatantly set earlier... he even tells pearl she's lucky she doesn't have to deal with having a soulmate?

idk there's so much to their relationship especially in double life that i didn't cover here that shows that, as much as grian verbally played the role of "unwilling partner" in double life, from the jump he was devoted and loving. you can never go by what grian says, you can only go by his actions!! and his actions said over and over that he loved scar and wanted to be with him even if he was afraid, but scar (albeit unknowingly) denounced their bond at every turn. and his mind didn't change on soulmates, even after he found out his was grian.

this is something i can talk about for a million years and i have so much textual evidence but yeah ANYWAY scarian is mutually so toxic and weird and in love and im obsessed with them

[periwinklemoonlight]

consider: good omens desertduo au

[vaguely-concerned]

'the hissing wastes suck' wow what a way to admit you've never experienced the joy of listening to iron bull wax archaeologic about ancient dwarven building techniques

[sizzlingbananalightpatrol]

GUYS AT THE END OF SKIZZ'S EPISODES THEY SAID THEY NEEDED A THIRD AND SKIZZ SUGGESTED SCAR. AND GRIAN AGREED????? GRIAN WANTS TO TEAM WITH SCAR HE WANTS SCAR ON HIS SIDE.

[yippee-optimistically]

i love enjoying Bad Media bc theres so much for me to fix and play around with . mutant apocalypse is sooo stupid. fascinating tho. heres a little mikey adjustment. still rolling around the timeline and his relationship to meerkats in my brain

more mutant apocalypse rant below bc . ough. my gosh. incoherent but whateva

i think mutant apocalypse is REALLY INTERESTING IDEA!!!! a fun what-if. it obv cant actually happen bc Renet exists and she is from The Future a Human. and who with mutagen is gonna do that ????? but alas.

i also dont hate how little was explained !!! like mikey and the meerkats or what happened to casey and april. we didnt really need exact history for it to make sense in the moment. but i dont think raph got enough explanation on his amnesia ?? its mentioned like. 2 or 3 times. did i miss something

i wish leo got a better design bc maximus kong is FUGLYYYYYY and easily tops mikey on Unpleasant Design. but mikey still makes me so sad. why can i count his teeth. why is he wearing underpants. get outtt man!!!!!!! and their designs dont need to be cute or pretty. leo is literally double mutated. i just wish she didnt LOOK LIKE THAT.

been playing around with the idea of mikey still being left alone in the beginning (obv with a much smaller chompy and ice cream kitty) and then finding some early meerkat village. they help him out maybe in contrast to previous groups being hostile and thats why they specifically get the map. they only way i can think of him getting the location and road markings is some form of astral projection?? like projecting to the oasis and making his way back to himself. but i dont think thats how it works. but who cares

i think bc of that mikey would also be a lot more familiar with meerkat culture and him n mira bond over it. anyway. yap over

[bergerhandcuffs]

Got a boring ah lecture and drew my wife

[dawntainbobbynash]

Idk who needs to hear this but Amir is not going to burn down Buck’s loft

[0yorixu]

Desert duo carrying each other, it def looks off but ehhhh

So I did not die while I was on my trip and I got stung by a FUCKING JELLYFISH ON MY RIGHT KNEE WHILE I WAS COLLECTING SEASHELLS

[origamihoshi]

FUCK YOU SOLAS

[bberry005]

made a random little au where the jedi order doesn't find anakin until he's like 20 and thought i'd share the little doodles i made from it, drawn very quickly on the back of an essay outline and in the margins of my economics notes

the basic premise is they miss him by coincidence that first time on tatooine and when they end up back there during the clone wars they're like "hey why the hell is the force so powerful here" and find some random podracer who has a greater force presence than any living jedi and managed to avoid detection by sheer luck for 20 years.

[text from the first image: when 2 random weirdos want you to join their cult because you have a lot of weird little particles you've never heard of until now (you're literally 20 and already have a life) (one of them is like 12)]

(he kind of doesn't look like anakin in the first one but in my defense i was rushed)

[grimbeak]

basically the end half of the episode comes down to "They would not fucking do/say that"

[dizzovskey]

didnt have the time or the energy to finish but i still like it sooo.. THERE ARE MONSTERS NEARBY FANART WOOHOO!

[ trmn is an ao3 fanfic made by @uhohbestie ! go check it out its very good! ]

[mrmeepsmadmind]

WHY IS HE FLAILING LIKE THAT ???? HE DIDNT EVEN KNOW HE WAS GETTING CHASED YET??

[danidoesathing]

For the ship bingo what about Buck Vernon and Johnnie Redmayne??

AH THOSE FREAKS i love them and whatever the fuck they have going on. is their bond is born from a deep sense of loneliness that can only be remedy by seeking the other out? are you chasing something the other has and you don't, hoping to fill that empty void in your chest? is it the desire to feel alive, when you're both dead in different ways? is it fascination with a life and existence that's always been on the edge of your vision but you've never thought to look at it until now? is it romantic? platonic? some secret third thing? i dont know and i dont care. im obsessed with them and their fucked up probably unhealthy dynamic. i need to study them like bugs

[the-blossica-fan]

Body swap!

The Uluru Games crew, Spathodea with Ezra and Desert Flannel with Ulu.

Spathodea in Ezra's body: Huh? I'm... I'm a boy now? No, nononono, NO, NOOOOOOO

That quite reminded me of that scene in 1.5 where Spathodea learned Ezra is a boy. I could imagine her vividly In a corner, horrified.

Now she is a boy, or, well, Ezra, and she's back on that corner. Holding her knees to her chest, muttering "no, nono this is a lie, I'm NOT a boy." While Ezra is there by her side, in her body, failing to comfort her.

"Don't worry, Miss Spathodea, this is just a body swap accident, it'll wear out in 24 hours and you'll be back into your body."

"24 HOURS BEING A BOY?!"

"Uh, it's not that bad!"

"...You're a boy."

Meanwhile, Desert Flannel stares straight at Ulu, both in opposite bodies, standing there not knowing how to use the other's body.

"Ugh, I'm so glad I was born an arcanist! This body is so hot, and it's not even a body! Now I know why you're always so tired all the time, grandma."

"Watch your wording, young girl. You young people are always speaking ill of one another, my body is perfectly comfortable, I was born in it after all!"

"Yeah, I can't take you seriously when you look like me."