#double life smp spoilers

[thefirexeo]

Gift for @bidoofenergy , made for the @mcytblrholidayexchange

Crowned Myself A Winner (Oh, Look At Me Now) - A PearlescentMoon Canon Compliant and Not, Double Life and After Character Study

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770235

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Scott Major | Smajor1995 & Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Pearl | PearlescentMoon & Tilly the Dog (Double Life SMP), John Booko | BdoubleO100 & Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Pearl | PearlescentMoon & Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar, John B. | BdoubleO100 & Oliver B. | Mumbo Jumbo & Joel | SmallishBeans & Pearl | PearlescentMoon

Characters: Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Scott Major | Smajor1995, Tilly the Dog (Double Life SMP), Mailbox the Dog (Secret Life SMP)

Additional Tags: Character Study, Secret Life SMP Spoilers, Pearl | PearlescentMoon-centric, Moth Hybrid Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Compliant, Minor Violence, Blood and Violence, Angst, Bittersweet Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Traumatized Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Scarlet Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Hurt Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Mentioned Oliver Brotherhood | Mumbo Jumbo, Mentioned Anthony Viviano | Bigbst4tz2, Mentioned Joel | SmallishBeans, Red Life Pearl | PearlescentMoon (3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series), Pearl | PearlescentMoon Angst, Mentioned Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar, Winged Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Protective Pearl | PearlescentMoon, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Touch-Starved, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Post-Double Life SMP, Post-Limited Life SMP, Double Life SMP Spoilers, pearlescentmoon kills scott smajor (double life smp), minor blood and violence, y'know. like she deserves to., reunions between a girl and her beloved dog., scott and his deal of wanting to kill himself for his allies., Golden Apples (Minecraft), and them finally being used., themes of derealization?, Themes of Dehumanization, especially in terms of enemies being turned into prey and thinking they're better off dead, just a brief mention of it but bdubs and his inherent need to die for his allies, Mentioned John Booko | BdoubleO100, anyway i def have more i can write about pearl, but this is good for now, may do more another time, some lines extrapolated from cocoabat's secret life finale art, and mishapen-dear's double life scott art, theyre really good lines i couldn't help but add them., Canonical Character Death, canonical character deaths, mild romanticism of bloodlust

Series: Part 1 of exchanges i'm in.

Summary:

Pearl is determined to fight back in Double Life, forcing fate to bend to her will. Reality shifts around her as several possibilities and timelines unfold, both canon and not, exploring the before and the after, and Pearl's deep desire to be loved and to protect her allies at all costs.

Made for bidoofenergy / whatcaniwritethis for the MCYTBLR Holiday Exchange 2023

[throwingintothevoid]

Part 1 - This Is The End

(There may be a part 2 if i ever finish it)

[citrusbunnies]

its so incoherent but DL!pearl!!!! i went absolutely insane at the way it ended lol

Uh so I made a character bingo if anyone wants to try it (:

[braxiatel]

Pearl, Scott, and a Cleo: *constantly bringing up Double Life and how very normal and not traumatised they were by those events and how their relationship is definitely unaltered after being torn apart that way*

Impulse, who spent double life being happily married with a house in the suburbs from which he and his husband routinely tried to tear apart every other relationship on the server, including Pearl, Scott, and Cleo’s, standing next to them and suddenly being Incredibly Quiet: 👀

[beinghuman11235]

Your reward is a world made barren by your own hand

[d0not-disturb]

Winners murals or something

[morirryan]

the sun, the stars, the moon, mars, earth

[astrowarr]

i haven't watched pearl's episode yet. but there's something to be said about the fact that she knew scar well enough to know that, when it was the two of them, he would have too much pride to accept a sacrifice.

she doesn't want to win, and she tells him at first before she quietly tucks that secret back into its shell after scar's indignant reaction to her first attempt at self-sacrifice. she lets scar forget about it as they kill gem, and then as scar kills pearl. at no point does she try to say here, let me give this to you. she knows scar, but she also knows the pain of an ending like that.

but she misses a few swings, doesn't she? her legs don't move as quickly to duck away from his arrows. and isn't that familiar? isn't that something like a cactus ring, with two unrelenting fists and two half-hearted ones: a fight with two unwilling participants, a fight that was over before it ever really began at the insistence of one of its patrons

pearl is all too familiar with the sting of sacrifice, but then on the other side of things... scar knows all too well the tragedy of gifted victory, doesn't he?

[teapot-of-tyrahn]

hey. hey... chat,

i think we need to discuss an incredibly plausible probability right now:

we've figured out how the life system works. if a red or yellow kills a player of a higher colour than them, then they get their life.

pearl “has died at least 1 time per session so far” pearlescentmoon is on her yellow life. she has two lives left.

scott "always sacrificing himself for his allies" smajor is on six.

the likelihood of scott killing himself for pearl again is statistically high.

[lugwen]

i love what double life did to them all. some of them will never be normal about each other ever again

[lorebird]

Sacrifices and parallels

[mimefish]

And the fact that it was Scar and Pearl as the final two.

Scar, who spent the whole of Secret Life alone, trying desperately to make allies but thwarted by the larger narrative. Who was over and over assigned the role as the villain and eventually gave in to the title. Who, throughout the whole series, was having to consciously put effort into not becoming completely unhinged. Who won despite the entirety of the server targeting at one point or another managed to pull through and claim the win.

Pearl, whose entire Double Life series was spent completely alone after Scott rejected her, with only Tilly for company. Who caused fear in her server mates for being "crazy" and "villainous" and "unhinged" when all she wanted was to make friends. Who tried time and time again to get close to people, only to learn she was better off being alone in a series dedicated to teaming up with your soulmate, and winning because of his sacrifice.

Do you think Pearl remembered it, when she told Scar to kill her for her hearts? Do you think it hurt her to hear him refuse her sacrifice, or do you think she was proud that at least this time, no one would be sacrificed for the victor's sake?

Do you think when they fought, in the fairest possible fight there could have been, Scar remembered another fair duel between the final two players? Do you think that when his old soulmate told him Pearl was dead, and that he'd won, he remembered a supposed double victory, and how quickly it had crumbled? Do you think he was happy to finally be on the other side of it?

[isjasz]

Once An Accident, Twice A Coincidence, Three Times A Pattern

[mel---ancholy]

TIL 3rd life is already 3 years old

[braxiatel]

Double life soulbond: What if you were linked by fate to another person? What would it mean for you, for the world, for every other relationship you have, do know that this was your fated other half? Would you love them more? Less? Would you dare to leave them? Dare to stay? When dying for them is given, how far would you go to live for them? What if the universe wove the essence of you and them together until your hearts beat as one?

Wild life soulbonds: here is a snail that wants to kill you soooooo badly. It has a parachute.

[beinghuman11235]

And to the victor go the spoils