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bgech · 2 years

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disclaimer (??) i've only watched sneve's one and like maybe half of leg's one cause gotdamn these are feature length films and i'm Tired.

shout out to ppl who write fanfic in the notes app and then copy paste it over cause that's what i'm doing

anyway. have fun.

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The purge is soon, a few hours away soon, and he is not doing the best.

To be honest he should have kept his expectations lower, he knows himself better than anyone else after all, but he was hoping to go into the whole crime fiasco with more than two damn hearts. Sneve's not a.. competent creature, he does his best but his best is usually just under what's required to survive, and thus he's lost most of his hit points to admittedly avoidable enemies.

Sometimes though he wished he'd just know when to quit. He was sitting pretty at full health not too long ago, then he died. He died once, just once and that's all it took. Once the ball started to roll down the Hill of Dispair it was hard for him to catch a break.

He drowned trying to create a home for himself, something so avoidable that he sucsessfully avoided it once before but the time that it mattered he decided to try and test fate. Fate won. Fate always wins, she's too damn smart.

Then some of the other residents of the world invited him to go with them on a plundering mission to a place of myth. The ancient cities of the deep dark are something Sneve has never personally encountered, and before this invite he would like to keep it that way. But in a foolish attempt to maybe prove himself to them, maybe get some allies or one of those apples that would give him a heart back, he tripped over himself on the way down and died before they even found the city.

Then it was just a long, painful series of unfortunate events where time after tune he was either shot, poison, or detonated apon until he was at half health.

He did actually catch a break here, whatever curse set on him for distracted or something because he was ok for a day or two. Save for a scary instance in the nether where he was only saved by the dark magic of an undying totem he would dare to say that eh was doing well for himself.

He was doing so well, in fact, that he went down in the caves looking for some sweet, sweet blue shiny rocks. He found one, just across the lava lake. After the whole nether fiasco he's gotten good at bridging over the hot stuff. He made it across safely, standing at the edge of the lake, blinking harshly to try and rid his vision from the black spots caused by the bright light, only to die on impact with a hidden creeper.

Another creeper outside his base for him down to 3, and he decided to test his luck with the city again to get a fancy apple or two.

No fancy apple was found, he was killed by a sound wave while blinded by the warden and he wasn't even fast enough to salvage any of his stuff.

Great.

Now it's the day of the purge, he's got two hearts, no armor, and no hope. He's not going to win, he's not going to make it far at all, he knows this, and is doing surprisingly well with the looming knowledge that his life will end in less than 12 hours. He sits outside with his dogs, he was going to try and train them to fight but they're too soft for that. Half of them are still puppies, he cant force puppies to fight, he's got some morals. Instead he sits with them and plays fetch and let's the pups gnaw on his fingers. The sand is warmed by the sun and the waves crashing in the beach not too far away put him in a false sense of security.

It's shattered by the sound of rockets quickly approaching and then the sound of his bamboo cracking under the weight of someone who probably wants to talk. Great, he could really go for some good ol' fashion socialization in times like these, especially with someone who's doing so much better than he is. Sneve has never been great at sarcasm.

"Hello, Sneve" he spreads his wings slightly, both in balance and in intimidation, though he knows it's not needed here. The shadow of the vulture wings adorning his back falls over where sneve is lying in the sand.

"Good afternoon, Legundo" sneve stands with the help of one of his dogs, and turns to look up at where he's perched on the bamboo.

"So, I hear you've had a rough go of it recently,"

"Heh, yeah you could say that again," he laughs though it's humorless, "the uh warden got a taste of my minty goodness, and now I'm back here"

"Mhm," he glides down to stand among the dogs, crouching down in front of one and patting between their ears, "I can see your plan for purge night, y'didn't think to keep these guys hidden?"

"Nah man, I mean look at em," he picks up the nearest dog, "they're too little, you're telling me you'd send him to war?"

"I would if it was my only shot at survival"

Sneve just hums and holds the puppy closer, turning away.

"You are...planning on surviving..right?"

"Legundo you know damn well I can't survive this on two hearts. I mean look at you, you've got wings for gods sake. What can I do about that? My best armor is half broken and made of iron."

"Well, no, no, ok here I have a secret to tell you." Sneve turns around and sets the puppy down cocking his head to the left a little in silent question. "I went down to the ancient city, and I found more of those apples,"

"More?"

"Yeah, yeah anyway, I told everyone that I only found two because I was gonna use this one in like a, sneak attack, surprise, last resort sorta way," he pulls out the third god apple, holding it out to Sneve as an offering, "and I think we're gonna be fighting to kill eachother in a few hours but it...wouldn't be much sport if you were boneless."

Sneve considers him for a long time, so long that legundo actually starts to hope that he'll take us and have more of a shot at survival, but then sneve laughs and turns away.

"Honestly? at this point, I say keep it"

"No, Sneve, c'mon,"

"What's the difference between two and three, legundo?"

"Drastic!!" He's desperate now, just take the damned apple Sneve, it's for your own good, "if- if someone attacks you and-"

"No," he's interrupted, sneve just shaking his head at him, "Legs you can't honestly expect me to believe that an extra heart is going to help me here. It'd be a waste, you keep it."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeh, like I said, what's the difference between two and three."

It's a tired sort of acceptance, the look in his eyes, something of quiet peace he's found somehow, all the odds being against him. It's something that legundo can almost respect, even if he himself were in the same situation he'd still be trying to claw his way back to a more respectable health.

"So, if you're not going to try and get your health up, and you're not going to use the dogs, what is the plan for you?" Legs reluctantly tucks the apple back to a safe spot in his inventory as he talks.

Sneve does a lazy spin before sitting back on the sand, "I was gonna make a contraption at the bottom of the ladder, make a whole big deal of it to try and get someone down there, then I'd just light it up and explode or something."

"Go out with a bang?"

"That's the idea"

"That's uh..hm. you have an enderchest? I can hook ya up with some tnt if you'd like."

"Do I look like a man who owns an enderchest?"

He really didn't. Sat in the sand, absentmindedly scratching behind a dog's ear, he looked like he was just starting out, not like he'd been in the world as long as Legs had.

After some time of talking about purge plans sneve invited him inside, promptly handing him potions and a crossbow that he definitely would have take if he didn't already have a bow of his own. He probably should have stayed longer, maybe to try and give him the apple again, but legs had preparations if his own to make. Plus the dull look that had long since settled in Sneve's eyes was starting to freak him out a bit.

In all his surviving he'd never met someone so prepared to die. Maybe he just surrounded himself with people who are more like himself, people who would rather fight to the end and do anything to live another day than give up. Sneve isn't one of those people, apparently. Because instead of eagerly taking the apple or making preparations to defend his life he's laying back on his bed throwing a pebble around while making idle chatter.

Sneve isn't planning on surviving, he's not even planning on fighting. This world had drained him of all want of life and left him udderly hopeless in his base. So Legs leaves him be, flies away from the house on the river.

Well he would have if he didn't forget to ask for a diamond, he felt horrible for asking to take anything more from Sneve as he had so little but he really wants that diamond.

Sneve doesn't even really try and bargain for it, just throws the diamond sword on the ground and turns back to whatever he started in the time Legs was gone. Legs asks if he's sure, if he can really take the sword and Sneve just waves him off.

He takes it and returns to his base for the final traps and preparations. Purge night comes and not even an hour in the gets a notification on his com that says Sneve was slain by a zombie of all things. He has the decency to feel bad, to feel sorry for the one who gave up.

But pruge night is purge night and people die all the time, so he can't do much more than that.

Legundo dies to fall damage not long after and slowly the others filter out and join them spectating. Now that the game is over sneve is looking a lot less hopeless, something he thinks everyone is grateful for. In the end Shadow is the one to win, ending it with no kills and only a few hearts to spare. A bit of an anticlimactic end to such an event but it's fine. He's just glad that everyone's ok afterwards, he's the admin of a few of these people and now that he's got his memories back after it's over he'd hate for one of them to be genuinely hurt due to the game.

It's always in good fun, just a game or a challenge or whatever, but Legundo won't forget the look in his friends eyes, the knowledge of death yet the unwillingness to do something g about it. And maybe Legs will stick a little closer to Sneve's side for a few days, just to make sure it doesn't come back.

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