#had to actually unfollow a person because their views didnt match mine and it got highly uncomfortable for me

[why-am-i-so-bad-at-being-good]

Yk people are actually being quite hostile towards HG after the most recent DDVAU chapter, and now it's gotten just insufferable to me.

This will be a rant and an expression of my thoughts, so feel free to skip if you're not a fan of HotGuy from DDVAU.

Yes, HG has his flaws, but you can't pretend that Scar is a perfectly goody two shoes otherwise. I've not seen Scar's Hermitcraft videos much so I'm not sure how he carries his character in that SMP, but he sure as heck isn't a cinnamon roll that people are making him out to be.

Like really? Just take their fight in Third Life. You'd say that even after seeing how Scar turned on Grian after he didn't pick up the no kill pass? True loyalty here imo would have been that Scar would go and straight up kill Bdubs. But he didn't. If my memory serves me right, he also appeared all buddy-buddy to Bdubs (till the Nokia watch incident lol) and then killed him too.

His loyalties have forever been himself, and not to mention he is a cunning salesman with a silver tongue and a maxed out charisma stat. This is what makes Scar Scar. He's not helpless, he's not lawfully good. He does what he can to survive and even thrive. And people really need to start accepting that tbh.

Coming to HG now. In the scene, it is definitely him manipulating Grian to get information out of him. But get this. Scar's job is to be THE Emerald Soldier. Many lives depend on him. Heck, the government does too! And he needs this information BADLY. He cannot let Mother Spore harm more people. He's already seen people close to him get hurt.

So what does he do? He imposes his presence onto Grian. Forces the information out of him. From what I know about Grian's character, (not just the DDVAU one, more like in general) he would have probably lied to save his friends. Or maybe take the blame. Or even hide some information. I think Scar knew that. So that's why he resorted to manipulation.

Scar can be ruthless if he wants to, and we just saw that. Whether he had any internal emotional qualms about his actions or not, we'll know in the following chapters. However to me it feels just that he swallowed his morality for a bit, for the greater good. He had to appear intimidating to get his point across, and he did just that. He needed the power dynamic to shift blatantly and give him all the power, and he did that, as he usually does in the Life Series too. It's subtle but it's there for sure.

And yes, I felt bad for Grian and would give him head pats and tell him it's all okay, but I also recognize that Scar just did his duty, albeit in a very unforgiving manner. This can coexist.

This will surely result in a very big emotional segment when Grian realizes the person behind the mask is actually Scar, but oh well. That's the fun of angst.