#because he just straight up does not like Grian that much LMAO

[smoozie]

There seems to be some debate over whether or not Scar cared about Grian's "affair" in double life and I think it comes down to the fact that Scar did not care about finding his soulmate nor did he particularly like Grian as his soulmate. However. Scar was very much upset about the secret soulmate shenanigans

[bananasofthorns]

tell me about your worst guy

ok a summary of the campaign and what has happened so far, as quick as I can. the campaign is based on the life series started by Grian Minecraft (the irl guy) - tldr all the PCs plus a handful of NPCs are in a death game (kind of think the hunger games in terms of how much space they have. but add minecraft mechanics) and they each have a limited amount of lives; once they reach their last life (red), they get to/have to start killing people. last person standing is the winner. to make things more silly goofy, there is also the boogeyman mechanic, where at least one person per session is chosen to be the "boogeyman" and they have to kill another player or else lose all but their last life at the end of the session.

there are also these beings called the watchers. if you don't know what they are, think angels who love watching people Go Through It in these life games. Aphim is a watcher, but a disgraced one - this game is his last chance to redeem himself. so he NEEDS to win. additionally, he has been told that he has to kill Beau, an NPC who has been in the games previously, was formerly a watcher (which Aphim. dubiously knows in canon? I don't remember), and is currently trying to stop the games from continuing. also he and Aphim are uh. how do I say this. homosexual. Beau is trying to seduce Aphim away from the watchers and Aphim has no fucking clue how to feel about it because he has never been flirted with before. especially not by a hot man. anyway

something you need to know about Aphim is that his normal form, his watcher form, is nowhere near human. he is towering and winged and has far too many eyes and a few too many joints and when he does not need a contained physical form he does not really have one. imagine a desolate, snowy forest of birch. he is the trees and their eye-like knots and the blanket of snow and the spaces between and the void above and the distant stars. that is Who He Is. but for the game he has to be contained in a human form and he Hates It. there is nothing he loathes more. it's like gender dysphoria but for what kind of thing he is. the only thing he loathes nearly as much is the thought of losing his power and autonomy, which is what will happen if he fails the watchers.

and every time he fails to kill Beau, even though he's not red yet and so by the rules of the watchers' game can't yet kill Beau, the watchers threaten his wings. which he obviously is not a huge fan of. so even though he is very intrigued by Beau and what Beau's trying to tell him, the selfishness will always win out.

cut to the most recent session. boogeyman is rolled. the gang [Aphim, Beau, Orla (NPC), Carwyn (Mura's PC), and Apate (Laurie's PC) wakes up to find Synne (NPC who is someone from the real world isekaied into the game. funny as hell) gone. they go to look for Synne. Synne comes out of the bushes trying to attack Beau; Apate and Aphim (who, by the way, hate each other so bad - Apate has a lot of watcher trauma to work through and Aphim just finds her annoying) notice first. Apate (who has also latched onto Beau as a way out of her Literal Trauma Cycle) goes straight to trying to attack Synne. Aphim disarms Synne.

meanwhile, halfway across the map, Arsené (Ophelia's PC) and Achlys (Chrys's PC) both notice a Very Bad Vibe Shift in, like, the fabric of the universe. something is about to go so horribly wrong.

Synne lunges for Beau's throat but Orla blocks Synne; Beau briefly restrains Synne. the moment they touch, Aphim is hit with a wash of pain so bad his entire body just goes numb. it's the feeling he gets when the watchers summon him from the game to talk to him but far, far worse.

which is the bigger threat right now? Synne or Beau?

who is the subject every time the watchers summon him?

he attacks Beau.

obviously, Orla and Apate do not take kindly to this. in fact, they end up killing him about it LMAO (also, side note. all Beau did was push the axe further in. which was INSANE) (he didn't die; Arsené, Achlys, and their allies showed up and helped him). so he's on his second to last life right now

before he respawned, he had a vision where aforementioned Grian Minecraft (the character, this time) (he is also a former watcher) went hey bud. maybe think about what you really want. the watchers will fuck you up. and Aphim (digging his teeth into his monstrousness so hard it'll hurt) basically went hm. no 💛

and then he was also briefly back in the white space where the watchers summon him to talk. and all he felt was their towering presences and disappointment. and then he respawned. so obviously he is going to be so normal about all of this next session,

[bluiex]

OH SIREN SCAR?? My favorite. Other anon I love you for this so much, kisses you /p. Eldritch horror of the ocean type. Everyone just coming to the conclusion that Scar is just either Like That or that he’s some kind of fae, but nobody seems to even bat an eye that the man entirely avoids water unless it’s near a really large body of it, like the ocean. In which case he just straight up vanishes for hours at a time. Everyone chalks it up to ‘he’s just Like That’ or the fae conclusion (and also that he’s extremely pale and always cold to the touch, and his skin has a strange texture to it). And it’s not like anyone could actually remember what he truly sounds like, because a siren’s call isn’t meant to be ingrained in the memories of prey (or else non-sirens would start learning to catch on and avoid it before succumbing to the call that’s dragging their mind and body down into darkness like the dead cold depths of the sea). I love sirens and siren lore so much I could literally talk about it all day lmao. But yass anyways nobody actually knows he’s a siren because they never see what he looks like in the water (I’d like to think it’s because maybe he thinks it would either scare people, since sirens are a little horrifying to look at, or that he might unintentionally fall into baser instincts and start trying to drown and eat his friends lol), and nobody knows what his song sounds like either because, memory, and also he only ever does it on purpose just to mess with people or to get something he wants lol. (On land of course). Only X actually knows but that’s just because he can see Player code. He doesn’t actually know what Scar really looks or sounds like, Scar’s very good at keeping secrets when he wants to lol.

☕️ anon

YES YES YES I really want Grian to finally see Scar as he really is in Siren form-- like ever since the other ask its been in the back of my mind. Scar is absolutely terrified that someone actually saw him, hell he even thought about using his song on Grian to get him to forget and go away- But Grian was staring at him with such amazment and whats that? adoration? aw? love? what

[sparxwrites]

[Part 1]It's been about 2 or so days since I've read “heaven help the ones who fly away” and I am suffering. It is haunting me. 10/10 you've sent me straight to scarian hell. I don't know how I got here but I'm both having the worst and best time. 10/10 head canons. You got their voices so perfect that you managed to make my internal voice mimic theirs the entire time I was reading.

[Part 2]Such an interesting idea it's killing me that there isn't more. I can just imagine the tension that would be there now that Scar and Grian have to stay in such close proximity with all that has happened between them. Sweet though, that the second Grian was no longer hindered by that little voice in his head he went straight to Scar to strike up a partnership he has no way of refusing. Guess he missed those old times dearly :>

so, so happy i have sent someone else to scarian hell, because i've been squatting here since the first episode of third life and it's eating me up lmao. always nice to have company when you're suffering!! welcome to hell, we have smores, please tell me all your thoughts immediately.

but yeah, grian immediately going to scar when he turned red in that fic was very much like... my read was both of them have this kind of emotion-hangover from third life where they desperately want to close to/working with the other, and don't really want to talk about it because that requires Discussing Emotions and also facing a lot of trauma re: the way third life ended. so it takes grian losing his inhibitions to act on that "i wanna be clingy at you" impulse, even if he does it in a, uh... typically murderous red-life way.

in terms of where it goes from there, with them working together, i think it's extremely like. nervous and awkward on both sides, scar because "please don't kill me, also i miss you and never told you and now i can't because you wouldn't care" and grian because "i miss you, but also my brain is fucked right now so that's just coming across as want want want possess want, but the underlying i care for you thread is making me uncomfortable because i can't really process tender emotions properly as a red". unclear whether they eventually manage to confront and rectify that somehow as a red/green pair and become the scam-and-murder server power-couple they deserve to be, or whether scar manages to shove a life into grian without getting immediately slaughtered in return and they then process that as two non-reds coming out of a fraught and lightly traumatic partnership that's just compounded all the third life shit stewing in their brains.

either way, it's kind of awkward and messy and stilted on both sides, because i love scarian as like. two people doing very steady pining one-sided slowburn for like a billion years, slowly developing all this history and soft heavy unresolved hurting and wanting, without realising they are both doing this because they're idiots and bad at talking.

the dream is that they have both been fucking for like a year and have like... toothbrushes and a pair of clothes at each other's bases and regularly spend the night and make breakfast and timeshare whose base they go to and stuff, before one of them accidentally lets slip that they like the other and the other is like. oh my god you like me?? and then they both panic about it. despite, i repeat, having been sleeping together and cohabiting for a year. literally everyone else on the server has been assuming they are together. grian goes to mumbo in a panic like oh my god scar likes me. like he Likes Me likes me. and mumbo feels like someone's dropped an anvil on him because wait why are you freaking out that your boyfriend likes you? and grian's like what the do you mean my boyfriend. i don't have a boyfriend??? and they both just sort of do ???? at each other in increasingly loud and high-pitched, panicked bemusement for a solid half an hour. it would just be so so funny. peak comedy. best dynamic.

(sidenote: what is up with people mentioning that my dialogue makes them hear the characters' voices in their head? i'm very flattered, but it's also a really specific bit of feedback and i've gotten it a lot since i've started on my newest mcyt fic rampage, and never really gotten it before... if you've followed me for a while, is this a new thing i've started being able to do, or is it just a 'higher concentration of beginner writers in mcyt' thing, or a 'higher concentration of new-to-fandom in mcyt' or what? genuinely curious whether this is something i've suddenly improved on/gained the ability to do, or whether people just aren't used to it here.)

[theres-an-impulstor-among-us]

Want more Among us fics? How about evil hermits among us? Either them all playing together or them playing with regular hermits, being actual crewmates, but people don't believe them at easily? Or them being forced to cooperate with their counterpart? Listen, I am back in loving evil hermits hours. :D

Writing murder people actually committing murder was surprisingly hard lmao

Also added cw for swearing just in case cuz there’s one swear word.

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  Playing a game about murder with a bunch of evil hermits is among the riskier ideas Xisuma has ever had. Either this will satisfy their desire to kill forever or it will only increase it. But the Hermits have agreed to play with their evil counterparts to keep an eye on them. It is a trial more than anything else, but perhaps they will have fun too.

  Grian doesn’t know how to react when he gets imposter and sees who his partner is. On the one hand, he could have been partnered with someone like Helsknight, who was infamously volatile, even more unpredictable as Scar playing this game.

  But on the other, he thinks he knows who EX will kill first. And if he can work it out, so can the others.

  But Grian can’t afford to follow EX around for no reason, so he reluctantly splits off from his partner and follows Scar and Bad into admin for the swipe card task. He waits until Bad leaves before killing Scar and jumping into the vent. 

  When a body is reported and everyone is teleported to the meeting table, Grian is stunned. 

  Xisuma is still alive. 

  EX ignores Grian staring at them and calmly says, “I found Welsknight’s body outside the room with the security cameras in it.”

  “Okay, I’m 100% sure EX is innocent,” Xisuma says immediately.

  Bad blinks. “Whoa, wait, what? How are you so sure?”

  “Because I know them. If they were the imposter, they would have killed me first with no hesitation. I’m alive, so it can’t be them.”

  “Oh come on, I like to think I’d be smarter than that,” EX says wryly.

  Xisuma raises an eyebrow back. “I’m vouching for you, Exy.” 

  “I don’t need you to vouch for me. True saw me leave reactor just before the body was called.”

  “Did you, True?” False demands.

  Her mirror image sighs and rolls her eyes. “Yeah, sure.”

  “To be fair, self-reporting is a really big brain move,” says Grian. “This is EX’s first round with us; are they capable of doing it right off the bat?”

  Xisuma glances at EX, who scowls back. “Careful what you say here, brother.”

  “Okay, honestly, I’m not sure,” says Xisuma fairly. “They’re deviously smart so I can see them using this move later, but maybe not on the first go.”

  “Then we can rule out EX for now,” False says. “Who else was around the area?” 

  As everyone discusses their alibis, Grian sneaks another look at EX, who pointedly doesn’t make eye contact with him. He’s both impressed by and scared of how well the evil hermit seems to be settling into their new role as imposter. Something tells him EX is more cunning than he gave them credit for. 

  The meeting concludes with nobody being ejected. Now they’re down to eight players. 

  This time, Grian does follow EX down through storage and into electrical. He chats to False about the tasks they have in electrical but he notices that EX is silent. 

  The two wait in electrical until Hels comes into the room. EX immediately kills him. 

  Grian swiftly takes out False and watches EX jump into the vent. He quickly follows them into security and shuts the door before they can leave. 

  “Hold on, wait,” he says. “You’re behaving really suspiciously.”

  EX gives him a look. “You do know we’re both the imposters, right?”

  Grian rolls his eyes. “Uh huh, I HAD managed to get that far. Dude, if you walk around saying absolutely nothing, people aren’t going to know what you’re doing. You need to talk to yourself about what tasks you’ve got and how much you don’t wanna get murdered.”

  “What? I don’t have any tasks and I’m not gonna get murdered.”

  “I know, but the others don’t know that, see? It makes you look more innocent if you walk into a room and mutter to yourself about the task you’re about to fake.”

  “Oh.” EX pauses as Grian’s advice sinks in. “I guess that makes sense. I’ll try that. Thanks.”

  Grian watches them leave security before hopping back in the vent and coming up in medbay. He quickly kills True while she’s trying to figure out the scanner and attempts to leave but, to his dismay, he runs straight into Bad.

  The two stare at each other for a moment, before Bad lets out a shriek and dashes out of the room. 

  Wincing, Grian takes off after him, hoping his cooldown will expire before Bad gets to the button. 

  No such luck. 

  “True is dead and I saw Grian running away and when he saw me see him he chased me and oh my god I thought I was gonna die,” Bad gasps out immediately. 

  “No way!” Grian snaps back. “I wasn’t in medbay, I was in navigation!” 

  “Bad never said where the body was, Grian,” Xisuma says pointedly.

  A pause.

  “...fuck.”

  Bad bursts out laughing. “You got busted! By yourself!”

  Grian curses again under his breath. “Argh… Stupid, stupid mistake.” 

  “No kidding,” EX responds coolly.

  Grian sighs. “Alright, alright. I just think you should look at EX too, cuz they’re the second imposter.”

  EX’s eyes widen but Xisuma just scoffs. “Uh huh, sure. You really think we’d believe anything you say now?”

  Grian shoots the briefest of pointed looks at EX, who realises and shuts their mouth. They may not understand all the strategies for this game but even they get basic “shut up” looks. 

  After Grian is unanimously voted off, the first thing he does is wait until the remaining crewmates go towards the right side of the ship before he sets off reactor. 

  EX and Xisuma, who have just bumped into each other outside admin, head towards it immediately. 

  Xisuma reaches reactor first and runs up to place his hand on the scanner. But as he turns to check on the lower one, he finds EX advancing on him with a knife and groans quietly. “Ah, I should’ve known, shouldn’t I?”

  “I was trying to be more unpredictable so I could win,” states EX, twirling the knife in their hand. “That’s why I didn’t kill you straight away. But now I can do exactly that.”

  With that, they lash out and stab Xisuma in the chest. 

  “Yes!” Grian cheers. “One more kill, EX! Just one more!”

  But the game doesn’t even get that far. With Bad and NPG still making their way here from the other side of the ship, there is nobody to activate the hand scanners and save their lives. 

  A satisfied grin spreads over EX’s face as the victory screen appears in front of their vision. 

  They could get used to this.