#secret life spoiler

[vesperionnox]

[ Day 171 ]

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[lugwen]

how bdubs and etho giggled in the end like high school girls who just talked to the popular hot bad boy

[salemoleander]

Limited Life Cleo's arc was about the joy and safety of being stuck in a loop. Knowing you'll get to live again, and again, and again, a thousand lifetimes with these people by your side. Death is a momentary blip. Nothing to lose.

Secret Life Cleo's arc was about the futility and devotion of being stuck in a loop and knowing this isn't one where you win. Sure, you'll come back, but you wanted this one. You wanted these partners. You wanted this life. (Even if you won, of course, the result would be the same. An ending. No way to win.)

[stiffyck]

I was rereading this lovely fic and thinking about how Pearl told Scar to kill her-

and I thought. what if pearl was on his back during that conversation

[goodtimeswithiona]

UM. WHAT THE FUCK.

[quo-posts]

"The rules in this series are suggestions. Who cares?" Grian defying the other Watchers again?!?!

[hermitsandcrafts]

Anyone else think about how Etho casually mentions the group as a foursome, or am I just missing something

[redliferiot]

mumbo and grian... grian and mumbo... turning red in the nether and leaving the other alive

[ggmom]

Tango and Skizz. They see you across the bar, they love your vibe. they want you to come to Love Island.

[lifesecretkeeper]

Etho is having his hot girl fall, he is Bdubs boyfriend, he managed to get his ex wife back, he was rizzing up Joel, he is bedding people, he was invited to love island. Washed up in the streets but wanted in the sheets

[vesperionnox]

Hit and Repeat

[lugwen]

cleo sounded so dark when she begged for the carrot

honorable mention: etho saying "that sounds like a trade opportunity" and cleo going "etho you're on my side >:("

[salemoleander]

His thumb shakes, resting over the send chat button.

"Grian?" Martyn asks, floating nearby. "Everything alright with the server?"

Blunt as ever, Lizzie chimes in, "Why haven't you killed him yet? C'mon, we need to get going. Some of us have already been waiting ages for this one to wrap up." She punctuates her statement by sweeping an arm towards Mumbo and Jimmy, loudly talking with Bdubs a few dozen blocks away.

Could ghosts sweat? It didn't seem like ghosts should sweat. Grian feels stress prickling over his skin anyways.

"I'm- I can't," he admits, voice small. "Not like this."

Grian would happily kill Scar in PVP, in jest, in competition. But the idea of just striking him down is... uncomfortable. No chance of survival, no fairness, no fighting back at all. He's already done that once to Scar, at the end of the start. Grian won't do it again.

THIS IS WHY HE IS THE WINNER thrums through his mind. From the winces around him, everyone else can hear the Secret Keeper's message too.

"Why? Because he was willing to kill?" Grian snaps to its stone face, mouth twisted down. "That's sort of the point."

NO, INSOLENT ONE the Secret Keeper rumbles. HE WON BECAUSE HE OBEYED MY INSTRUCTIONS BEST. NO MATTER. I AM EQUALLY CAPABLE OF ENDING THIS GAME.

Cowardice sits like blood in his throat. Grian screws his eyes shut a moment before lightning strikes and thunder peals out below.

[melissa-s23]

repost here cuz it don't show up un the TAGS

Sun going down swinging.

[goodtimeswithiona]

Jimmy's last words before he died to the warden were actually heartbreaking like "dont you dare" HE SOUNDED SO SCARED IM GONNA CRY

[quo-posts]

I'm having thoughts about Grian being the wither rose again.

(I don't know Mumbo's task yet, keep that in mind but) Mumbo died while accompanying Grian and the died again to the Wither that Grian spawned. A wither, mind you, that was obsessed with Scar for a while. A wither that plunged the server into chaos and caused a lot of casualties.

Grian had to follow his task, simply loosing 10 hearts hadn't been an option and failing would've consequently failed Etho as well - he couldn't do that to him. So he unleashed a Wither and was the cause of so, so many deaths again.

(I feel like you could also cook a great narrative with the wither effect lasting through the respawn bc of the death/success overlap and all that having to be fixed via ✨️Watcher magic✨️)