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?
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IDK WHAT TO SAY I AM LITERALLY PSYCHIC AS SOON AS I SAW JOEL DIDNT WIN I WENT STRAIGHT TO SCARS VIDEO
GENUINELY I AM SO SAD JOEL DIDNT WIN BUT SO HAPPY THAT SCAR DIDD
also scar didnt die??? like he just ended the video WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT???
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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?
take a very lonely demon