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on episode 1 and scarian already riding a camel and giggling to each other about monopoly and running away together…

OH IM SICK. THEY MAKE ME SICK.

grian was soooo soft and lenient with scar when he failed his task… giving him another chance to get another task… grian so down bad omfg..

he laughed so hard too when scar failed LMFAOOO

don’t get me started with scar’s harder task..

i haven’t watched scar’s pov but the way he targeted GRIAN??? LIKE U HAVE TANGO, MUMBO, SKIZZ, JIMMY, AND EVERYBODY ELSE THERE AND HE GOES FOR GRIAN??

calling grian “taskmaster” and “light of the server”… and then when he won

SCAR STARES AT GRIAN AND SAYS “Light of my life” OH. OH. ????? grian was so silent.. i don’t think he heard it but.. GOSH

on episode 1 and scarian already riding a camel and giggling to each other about monopoly and running away together…

OH IM SICK. THEY MAKE ME SICK.

First off, Grian right off the bat making it clear he owes Scar nothing, he takes Scar’s first life and this time he doesn’t give Scar anything. He’s specifically dodging ending up in any kind of alliance with him again (he literally made sure the world didn’t have a desert, mans was sick of it), yet he keeps going back to Scar. He does not go a single session without seeking him out. Gonna swindle a life? He first thinks of Scar. Need to ransom someone? Scar! When Grian hits red the first time, he doesn’t even mention Bdubs (The first person on his list since episode one) ONLY Scar. And it goes both ways, i mean tell me Scar didn’t deliberately not kill Grian when he had the Boogymen curse in episode 2. He’s so used to Grian on his side even when they’re not technically on the same team. So no, Grian is not trying to avoid Scar, Grian is trying to avoid being in Scar’s debt again. And you know what? He fails at that.

The turn tables. THE TURNED TABLES, GUYS. Grian is having to rely on Scar so much in this season. The life he took from Scar, for “safe keeping”, he immediately lost it, he got to red before Scar even lost one life (TURNED TABLES), he had to sign himself into being in Scar’s debt again in exchange for another life which he looses while Scar is gone. In episode 8, Joel and Grian are standing in front of Scar, all three of them reds, but they’re only standing there because of Scar. In the same episode, Grian has to keep taking and taking from Scar; his diamonds for a chest plate, his sand for TNT, his enchanter for enchantments. Unlike last season, where it ended with a “i owe you my first life, i owe you my third life” relationship between the two, this season was Grian trying to avoid being in his debt at all, avoid owing him anything, but instead he digs himself deeper into the same hole and pretends he didn’t. He relies on Scar as much as or arguably more than Scar did in the last season. And he has nothing to give back, never lets himself fall back into being on the same team. “Scar, don’t start a fight you can’t win”. Even when he only still has his Last Life because of Scar, he’s refusing any real loyalty to him. He even outlives him again.

The entire series, Grian has not been able or willing to give anything back to Scar. Not in resources, in lives, or even in friendship and loyalty.

On the other hand, Last Life is really important Desert Duo content for setting up why Double Life happens the way that it does. If they were fresh out of Third Life, imagine how much more eager Scar would be to find his soulmate! Having a partner worked out great for him once (and then he spent an entire game looking for allies and stuck in a dysfunctional not-partnership). Scar looking to animals and allays for companionship makes perfect sense after Last Life, as does his cheerful passive-aggression against basing with Grian or helping him build the cake fortress. He is very tired at this point of the unequal partnership where Grian takes whatever he pleases and gives only exactly what he chooses. It’s really only after the fall of the Red Velvet Keep, when they’re on the run together and Scar’s had a chance to prove that he’s at least Grian’s equal in survival skill and preparedness that their dynamic starts to change. The final shift though, comes when Grian does his “prank” and instead of just taking it with a quip like he did the ugly spawn trapping of Last Life, Scar walked into the cactus and proved he was willing to let both of them die rather than be pushed around anymore.

drawing mumbo jumbo on anything but an art app part 1

first: an oomf’s strawpage!

animal crossing on my nintendo switch now…