Secret Life Scar X No Longer You (Epic The Musical)

Heh heh *laughs in desert duo*

Look at my otp dawg I'm going to hell

Always a dance with you.

ddvau / doublehearted by @xmaruu11 and @kitsuneisi

OFFICIAL BAND AU INTRO!

tumblr is full of phrases that we are all so desensitized to that they're just normal, but if you say it to a person in real life its so funny to them its a one-hit insta kill

HE MOVES!!!! WITCH!!!!! /silly

Day 84

April Fools! There is a Grian in here, you just gotta find him :D

Individual pics of all the Hermits I drew under the cut!

Also he gives nickels to Jimmy SPECIFICALLY whenever he shops there

grian but he works retail

BOOST BOOST THIS IS SO COOL

SOULMATES TWO TO TANGO

Pancho and I have spent the last five weeks working on this massive project, and we are incredibly proud to present our illustrated space AU fic! At the time of this posting, the illustrations are not yet embedded in the work; however, we are actively working on it! The updated illustrations will be shared in a separate post, so stay tuned for that! MY WONDERFUL SOULMATE @pancho-pinto for: @mcyt-soulmate-sweepstakes Total Points: 22300 Parx: 20950 Pancho: 1350 Summary + Definitions JEG= Joel, Etho, Gem BMS= Bdubs, Mumbo, Skizz Below is the link for the AO3 fic Pancho has worked so hard on. CLICK CLICK CLICK!

Presented next are the 20+ art pieces Parx has created.

Layouts and Character Sheets

JEG Spaceship Blue Prints:

Character Profiles—JEG and BMS

Order: Etho, Joel, Gem, Skizz, Mumbo, Bdubs

Fish Monster—Scraped:

Pieces in Chronological Order

I often analyze the Life Series through a lens of personal agency because I think it's a broadly applicable theme and it's also a theme that matters to me personally, so it's always stuck with me, maybe more than a lot of the fandom, how little agency Grian had in Third Life.

Scar and Grian's deal was in of itself was wildly unhealthy for Grian, I think. Obviously Scar didn't go out of his way try to make things hard for Grian, in fact, a lot of the things Grian did for him because of their deal were things Grian decided himself were his responsibility. But unconditional servitude is a very limiting and possibly even dehumanizing thing to agree to, and it clearly got to Grian. He frequently spoke about being unhappy, about wanting to leave, about how much he hated having to do what Scar says. And while some of that was for show, I also think there was a lot of very real regret over being caged, over giving away so much personal agency in a moment of guilt and obligation.

The first real choice Grian made was to stay with Scar, despite whatever resentment he'd built earlier, despite how much part of him wanted to leave.

This was punished quickly when Scar betrayed him, and possibly in the worst way possible. He tossed out a piece of paper, said whoever catches it lives. Grian couldn't catch it before Bdubs did, Grian couldn't convince his one ally not to help stab him to death, Grian couldn't fight back when it was two against one. He was helpless, in many ways in that moment. Nothing he did meant anything, nothing he did could have stopped it, Grian's first act of personal agency after so long being caged was to choose to stay with Scar, and Scar stabbed him for it while Grian tried (and failed, because nothing he did would have stopped it) to convince him not to.

Scar tried to make up for it (well, depending on whether you view scar's "you may slay me" as genuine or strategy) in a way I think is pretty meaningful all things considered. Scar kneeled, and he gave Grian the power to do what he would, let Grian choose. Which is possibly the best thing Scar could have done, when I see Grian feeling robbed of personal agency as such a big Thing in his Third Life pov.

But it didn't matter in the end. The spectators wanted a fight, and for one reason or another, Grian felt bound to their wishes. Maybe he would have wanted to kill Scar, or maybe he would have wanted to go home together and keep living, or maybe he would have wanted a fight if he could have chosen it. But Grian couldn't, he didn't have a choice. Grian was forced to kill Scar, and then he threw himself off the cliff, because there was no other option, nothing else to do.

I just feel like Grian is robbed of agency at so many turns in Third Life in a way we don't think about all that much.

I just saw an animatic to this song about desert duo lmao

I want them worse when they’re with each other.

I want them to be negative influences on one another.

I need them to take one look at the other and know in their heart that there is no saving them. They are a doomed, twisted, tragic relationship that will lead to one of them hurting and killing the other. But for now, what they have is so passionate, so intensely intimate, they can’t bare to give it up until it’s forcefully ripped from their cold, perished hands.

I want the survivor to mourn the loss of something putrefyingly terrible because they will never be able to recreate the experience with another. I want the most toxic yaoi love possible.

I want them to look deeply into eachother’s eyes, holding the back of the the others head, as they speak in a tone like a wedding vow, that they promise they will never part, they will never escape, they will never be so happy, they will never be so miserable without the other.

In my favourite line from The Crane Wives song, Tongues & Teeth,

“I will only break your pretty things, I will only wring you dry of everything.”

“I will poison all your happy thoughts, I will love you like the ashes in my cigarette butts”

They are living so closely on the same wavelength that they are inseparable. They are menaces when they work together, one would burn civilizations to the ground for the other if they so desired. They would do anything for the other if only they asked. They annoy each other to no end. The are in love. They are in loathing.

They are so intensely passionate and obsessed, there is no way out but death. And one of them will die, soon, I’m sure. It’s only ever a matter of time. But they have the present, they have this wild inferno of the here and now, and they will not waste it.

WHAT WHAT I LOVE THIS WHAT

[ Alternative final. ]

[To live is to die - Metallica]

[And what if he did slay Scar for the enchanter, how bitter would that have been?]