#cinderstuff

i had a vision also here's a s1 version

allow me to explain:

after scar realizes he won, he just... sits there. processing. a zombie starts hitting him, but his mind is racing- he can’t be bothered to defend himself now. it’s hilarious. he can't help but laugh. the guy with no friends won! he’s laughing and laughing, and the zombie’s hitting him and hitting him, and his hearts are going down by the second.

he’s on 2 hearts now. 1.5 hearts. 1 heart. 0.5 hearts. the zombie is relentless. and scar can't stop laughing.

lightning cracks through the sky. the thunder rumbles in its wake.

and that's how the game ends.

scar dies alone in a ditch, to a zombie of all things, not defending himself because he was too busy laughing over his lonely victory.

what a terrible ending! is this how it always wasiswillbe? the winner falls, the last life snubbed out in the now-wasteland of a server, and the curtains close on their cooling body?

no, it can’t end like this.

someone- something, perhaps- angel or devil, ghost or deity- says no. this game will end properly. the final task will be completed. the story doesn’t end with an insignificant death in a ditch. it ends with a victory, right where it began.

and so scar, with half a heart left, swings his sword and slices the zombie down. and so scar pulls himself out of the ravine and cheerily goes to press the succeed button.

except- the game’s over. the system's already shutting down, because there wasn’t supposed to be anyone left to press the button. there wasn't supposed to be any winning, any final task completed- only the emptying of the server, and the ending of life.

so when scar presses the button, it’s confused. it scrambles for direction, calling up its previous instruction: give the red life another task. it spits out the only task left in the task pool: “win secret life”

and the whole time grian was staring at scar because he thought he looked hot cool lmao

CUTE GUY = GRIAN

GRACS = GRIAN

ROYAL KNIGHT (WITH QUESTIONABLE LOYALTY TO THE KING) = HOT GUY = SCAR

so

au where hotguy, as a royal knight, has his sidekick join him on his royal missions and such

and he gets a mission to hunt down the rebels- the soup crew and GRACS

and cuteguy is trying to deter hotguy away from the rebels cUz hE iS oNe and and anD SECRET IDENTITIES MY BELOVED

and for my scarian heart- hotguy and the mysterious masked GRACS leader have encounters filled with romantic tension but cuteguy and hotguy have more of a puppy love thing going on

BONUS!! IF THERE ARE CIVILIAN IDENTITIES AND NO ONE KNOWS GRIAN IS CUTEGUY AND NO ONE KNOWS SCAR IS HOTGUY

and then grian and scar can have a pinning friendship and this can be a great confusing love pentagon made up of themselves >:D

1. sophie is boring af and basically her name. at least morgana’s code name only uses like 50% of his real name but sophie is literally just a one letter difference

2. her outfit is white and looks very fluffy

3. her walk cycle is very light and bouncy like she’s walking on clouds

4. digital cloud storage exists

5. clouds, lightning, electricity, robot, y’know y’know

6. other than red and white one of sophia’s colors is blue (as you can see in her eyes and her persona’s cannon(???) things) and blue can represent lightning

7. she can be all soft and lovely like clouds on a sunny day or thunderous and powerful like clouds in a storm :D