#bonus feature would be grian dragging them both out of hiding and shoving them in a room together to sort it out

[happy-hermit]

Okay, you asked for some Scar angst, and I was skimming your blog for some inspo and saw the idea about the summoning circle working and I remembered a throw away line from Mumbo's video that inspired angst.

So Mumbo tears over to Scarland, but just before he arrives:

GOODTIMEWITHSCAR has left the game

Mumbo's a bit bewildered, but okay, it's probably good he collects himself. He needs to clean up and explain at least some of why he manhandled the poor man's elytra off of him. Plus, honestly he needs a friend to talk to now, and Grian's one of his best ones, so he goes back and sets about settling into Hermitcraft, one tiny bit at a time.

Meanwhile, when Mumbo arrives poor Scar sees something he's been both hoping for and dreading in equal measure for a long, long time.

MUMBO has joined the game.

And look, Scar has never been a wise man, and honestly he has been doing his best to pretend this isn't going to happen. Yet now that it has, he finds that he is not ready. He might not ever be ready. He doesn't want to think about that place. Doesn't want to talk about the past. He doesn't want to think about any of it. He wants to dwell on the now, think about the future and leave that hellhole and every memory involved with it -good or bad- in the past.

Luckily for Scar, in his quest to not think about this moment, he got involved with the Create server, so he has a place to go. A place Mumbo can't follow. And without thinking things through too much, he disconnects from Hermitcraft.

So poor Mumbo has help dealing with things, talks about some of the trauma with Grian, begins to start building again, keeps sending private messages to Scar and getting no reply.

Meanwhile Scar's left his communicator on his bedside table in his moving house and he's on a terraforming binge. Look at him, he's catching up on all the work he's neglected. He's so productive.

He's so alone.

He hates being alone.

But he hates thinking about the apocalypse more.

Besides, after he abandoned Mumbo back on Hermitcraft, he probably deserves to be alone anyways.

This post sponsored by Mumbo saying "I keep trying to get a hold of Scar but he keeps saying he's busy." during his last episode. Why can't I be normal about things.

YESSS WAIT THIS IS SO GOOD. SCAR PANICKING AND RUNNING AWAY TO HIDE WHEN MUMBO COMES BACK. And it makes sense too because like. Seeing Mumbo now will be different from the Mumbo that left hermitcraft for a break. The Mumbo that comes back is the Mumbo that Scar remembers from that world, and as much as he loves him he is now associated so wholly with that place. And Scar hasn’t talked about it yet. He hasn’t confronted it, hasn’t healed from it. He’s been pretending it never happened. He’s been keeping that door locked tight for years and Mumbo has just appeared with the key. He doesn’t think he’s ready.

And poor Mumbo worrying that Scar might still be mad that he left him in that world, maybe worrying when he can’t find Scar that he somehow got sent back there, which doesn’t make sense but he’s spiraling— and then the other guys from the create server mention that Scar’s been spending a lot of time there, so like. Now Mumbo knows it’s on purpose. So he gives Scar space as much as he doesn’t want to, and Scar pretends that that’s what he wants.