#slabtek

no need to ask 'cause it's my darling

In participation of MCYT Battleship 2026 hosted by @mcytbattleship!

[sources & ramblings under cut]

slabtek...

oh that's gore of my comfort character my heart races in a beautiful round paradise an aqua green kiss

Grian couldn’t completely focus on Bdubs’ lesson with Scar’s sudden absence. Grian already missed Scar’s head peeking over his shoulder. Minutes after Scar left, Grian saw Hotguy jumping from roof to roof. Always when Scar’s gone. Grian thought droopy.

// Hotguy / Scar’s POV \\

What is so urgent? Hotguy jumped from another roof. He passed by the park Grian and Bdubs were sitting at. He took a quick glance and then focused back on making his way to the HEP* HQ.

** Pronounced Hip, a government organisation that Hotguy/Scar works at, it’s a secret from the outside world **

// When Hotguy got to HEP HQ | Still his POV \\

“Hi Cub,” Hotguy shut the door quietly behind him.

“Hey Scar,” Cub looked up and took his reading glasses off for his normal ones sitting on the table.

“What’s so urgent, I took the day off today,” Hotguy asked, taking his visor off and sitting himself on the table Cub was working at.

“I’m here to warn you about an upcoming mission X told me about,” Cub walked around the table to stand in front of Scar.

“Why couldn’t you tell me this on the phone?” Scar asked, slightly annoyed. Then I would get to spend more time with Grian.

“It’s very confidential and… sensitive to be held on the phone,” Cub chose his words carefully. “I’ll tell you more about it when X enters,”

“X is coming?!” Scar was stunned, he had never seen Xisuma unless at important meetings with the rest of the admin staff. Him coming for anything unofficial was beyond rare.

// Time Skip One Week | Grian’s POV \\

It’s exam time! I got told something about getting things off your chest to do better, so today is the day that I tell people about my feelings for Scar! Grian thought sarcastically and then optimistically. I’ll trust three people up for the task. Grian thought carefully about his next choices. Mumbo for sure. Then… Joel, Tim’s too close to scar to be trusted and then Cleo, great friend to me, can keep a secret.

As the bell rang, Grian tugged Scar’s sleeve gently to walk with him to Mrs. K’s classroom.

“How do you think you are going to do on the history exam?” Scar questioned.

“Honestly I think this test is going to be really quite simple, I don’t remember most of the history part but I think I get the general gist of what’s happening,” Grian answered, walking backwards to face Scar.

“I feel like I’m going to fail,” Scar thought sorrowly.

Grian chuckled, “I think you’ll be fine,” Scar fell even more in love with Grian’s childish yet adorable smile.

They walked into the classroom with “Sit wherever you like” written big on the board.

Grian, not reading the board, went to his normal seat with Scar catching on to follow after struggling to read the board.

Mrs. K walked the rows of seats and passed out papers face down as their exam.

“Let’s hope all that studying doesn’t go to waste,” Grian whispered to Scar.

“What’s our schedule again?” Scar scratching the back of his neck.

“We have one hour for this class today, right after this is brunch, then we have three more one hour periods and afterwards is lunch,” Grian paused, “oh wait, here,” Grian pulled a little paper card out of his backpack and handed it to Scar. “It’s a copy of the schedule for the next three weeks, ‘cause the schedule changes.”

“Oh thank you,” Scar gratefully took it and folded it into his pocket.

// Scar and Grian’s POV \\

Bling Bling BLIIIIIING!!!!!! The bell rang.kv

The class went quiet and Grian’s full attention went to Mrs. K.

He looks so cute with his whole mind focused on something. Scar thought, a little smile shaping as he stared at Grian.

“Okay your test starts…” She waited for the clock to hit 8:10 on the dot.

“Now!” Everyone flipped their papers over. Grian had his pencil fiddling in his right hand with his other hand as a place for his head to lean and rest on. Scar put his head down into his left arm as a pillow and read the paper sideways.

Ah burnsticks, what era was this in? Grian struggled, and ended up skipping the question.

Scar was having his own issues: Reading the questions and scrapping his brain for an answer.

“What in Queen Elizabeth’s shiny crown is this?” Grian muttered quietly out of sheer habit.

Only Scar could hear him and tried so hard not to laugh, burrowing his face into his elbow to muffle his laughter.

That was so hilariously cute! Like Jellie! Scar was blushing as he thought about Grian. I should probably tell some friends about me liking him.

// Time Skip two hours to Brunch | Everyone’s POV \\

Bling Bling BLIIIIIING!!!!!!

“Tests down! We’ll continue next week!” Mrs. K announced.

“Finally!” Grian stood up and stretched.

“God I was about to fall asleep!” Scar stood up, picked his backpack up from the ground and stretched as well.

“It’s brunch now?” Scar asked following Grian to the cafeteria instead of the art classroom like normal.

“Yup, make sure to eat a lot. You're gonna need it, if you focus well when you’ve had your tea and snacks,” Grian warned.

“Got it,” Scar nodded.

Scar and Grian both waved to the table of weary friends.

“How did all of your exams go?” Etho asked. As both Grian and Scar walked to the table. Scott was walking back with both their meals. [Yes, you can pick up food for other ppl I wish my school did that]

“I didn’t even get halfway!” Grian whined.

“I want it to be over!” Scar sat down after Grian.

Scott stopped in his tracks before sitting down, glancing between Etho and Tango and the large gap of empty space that has been left untouched by either of the two for days.

“Okay I have to ask, what happened between you and Tango?” Scott brought both into the conversation and everyone else got quiet, wanting to know more too.

// Skip one week | Its one week before mid-season exams start \\

“I HATE EXAMS!” Grian yelled to Scar as they both walked to school.

Scar laughed, “I hate them too!”

“LIKE WHY DO THEY HAVE TO BE MID-SEASON!? WE HALF TO HAVE THEM AGAIN AT THE END OF THE YEAR TOO?!” Grian’s hands were moving back and forth and side to side as he walked sideways to face Scar.

“Yeah I don’t get it either! Just give us one big exam and get it all over with. But

, we have to have one exam per class TWICE!” Scar was feeling the same rage that Grian was.

“And I’m so going to fail all of them,” Grian whined.

“I bet I am too,” Scar bent forward with his arms dangling in front of him in defeat.

“I KNOW!” Grian had his lightbulb clink on, “We should have a study session with everyone in our classes!”

“Oh that would be so much help, get Tango and Etho in the room for math to give us some problems to solve–”

“For project Slabtek I have a better idea,” Grian had his smirk on.

“Oh?” Scar smirked back.

Grian whispered a plan in his ear with him ‘Mhm’-ing in the background.

“Perfect!”

// Time Skip to study session with Tango, Etho, Scar, and Grian | Etho’s POV \\

Etho was waiting in his room with Tango when he arrived. They were texting Scar and Grian when they were getting here as they were already 10 minutes late.

“Grian says that he and Scar are bailing but I’m the only one who knows redstone engineering properly,” Tango moved his arms to show his confusion.

“Scar says that they will just ask Gem and apparently they have a “Redstone with Bdubs” card for free lessons,” Etho replied.

“FOR FREE?! HOW DID THEY GET THAT??” Tango was investing his money to get a session with expert Bdouble100 and somehow they both had a card. Tango was baffled.

“Should we start then if they aren’t coming?” Etho asked, closing his phone.

“Yeah that sounds good,” Tango shuffled himself back to the table and Etho pulled out some packets of snacks from under his bed with a maple leaf rimmed plate. “You’ve thought of everything,” Tango was wide-eyed as he took and opened a packet of pretzels.

“So what do you need help with?” Etho asked.

“Calculus,” Tango answered, popping a pretzel in his mouth.

“Oh that's an easy one, here,” Etho wrote a long problem down in his notebook and explained every step.

// Cut to Scrian til Etho’s done explaining | Grian’s POV \\

“Geeeemmmmm! Why is redstone so hard?!” Grian complained.

“It isn’t that hard, you just don’t get it,” Gem laughed a little.

The door bell rang.

“Is that Scar?” Pearl asked, getting the door.

“Why hello there,” Scar walked in and took his shoes off.

“Welcome,” Grian greeted.

“What do you need help with in your studies?” Gem asked.

“English and math, too bad Mumbo is sick and can’t help with English,” Scar sat down and took out his notebook which had a lot of notes in it.

“For someone who doesn’t like writing notes you sure do have a lot of them,” Grian stared at his bare notebook with a blank page facing him.

“This is why I hate notes,” Scar sulked jokingly.

“Well I’ll be with Pearl studying in her room,” Gem got up and smirked knowing that he will have a good time with Scar and Grian smirked back knowing the same with her and Pearl.

“So do you understand calculus?” Scar asked, knowing the answer after Gem left.

“Absolutely not,” Grian paused but then the two laughed together.

“Should we call Etho?”

“Nah, let him and Tango be together alone for a bit,” Grian smiled, “Though I do need desperate help with redstone engineering from Tango.”

“Just call Bdubs, he is the best redstoner in the city,” Scar offered, pulling a ‘Redstone with Bdubs for free’ card out of his pocket and sliding it to the table.

Didn’t Hotguy get one of these too?

“No way! I have one too,” Grian ran to his room and opened a drawer on his desk.

“Really? That's a coincidence," Scar shrugged it off but was a little suspicious.

“Should we call?” Grian picked up his phone.

“Yeah, let's see what happens,” Scar replied.

didn't wanna bother with the hassle of getting my old non-subscription CSP set up on my new PC, so i'm learning krita now ig. anyway, here's a quick test sketch of my ideal Slabtek dynamic

closeup of eefo below cuz i like how his head came out