ino | brainrot after brainrot

imagine garroth actually tried to get laurance back. during those three years. at some point he couldn’t take it so he left without a word and idiotically found some way in, and created some sort of disguise. (this defeats one of my headcannons about sk ‘armor’ but idc) maybe he takes down a weaker shadow knight, steals literally anything off of him that would help him blend in. covers the rest of his regular armor or whatever in the red nether earth, and sets off for laurance.

there’s a key problem. he doesn’t actually look like one of them up close, which is fine, but at first glance it’s believable. so when he finds laurance, and he approaches, something happens.

laurance just. loses it. he knows it’s garroth, there’s no mistaking his face. but for a moment, in his already stressed mind, the disguise fools him. he’s absolutely horrified, thinking that they tried to turn garroth. maybe they succeeded, and he was not there to save him. it’s the most emotion he’s seen from the man since he was freed from the irene dimension, and over all, it’s the most fear. he can’t even get an introduction in, he’s in front of garroth in an instant. mumbling and cursing like a madman as he looks for any wounds.

“who the fuck did this”

“i’m so sorry i wasn’t there”

“i’m gonna kill all of them”

and then he realizes, because none of garroth’s scars are new. there the same ones he’s known. maybe he’s relieved. maybe he’s angry, because the idea of garroth having his same fate had scared him shitless. either way, the panic is resolved, only for more to ensue. the nether is very hectic. they share some words, garroth pleads for him to return. there’s a beat-he almost considers it. but looking at garroth in his disguise reminds him of what could become of all of this—if he were to put himself around them again. he can’t bear it, so he refuses. his heart aches, and so does garroth’s, but there’s no time to wallow.