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    The bassbeat drowned out conscious thought, and it took language with it. Grian couldn’t tell what people were saying. He could watch them, watch the colors play across cheeks and irises and the curves of strangers’ ears, their earrings, their weapons, but he couldn’t understand them. He was getting overwhelmed, and that was a bad thing. He’d worked too hard to get overwhelmed at concerts anymore.

    The Watcher was up in the rafters, huddled in a corner above the sweeping lights. Grian could see him if he squinted, a darker speck of shadow in the dazzled-out gray of the venue’s high roof, but no one else would be looking. They’d go about their concert and the rest of their nights like nothing had happened, the side effects safely dispersed over a crowd of three thousand, and the Watcher would come out healthier. His cheeks would fill out a little.

    He’d look more like Grian, and Grian--

    Grian would look more like him.

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    30 Oct 2023

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    “If I curse people with my absence,” Jimmy continued anyway, baring a tooth not nearly as sharp as Grian’s, “then you curse them with your presence.”

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    At the end of Secret Life's first session, two lonesome friends get to talking about their curses. Which is pretty difficult when one of them would rather tear the world apart than admit to having one.

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    30 Oct 2023

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    Pearl knew from the moment she saw him that he wasn't the real Grian. She saw it in his strange purple eyes and cold-to-the-touch skin. She knew he was something else, of a higher power, and that her Grian was long gone, decaying into code somewhere.

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    Five times Grian didn't understand, and one time he did.

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    25 May 2023

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    The sensation of deja vu stuck to Grian like glue. He didn't even want to know what it meant, the visceral reaction to seeing Scar was enough. He'd never met someone that got his heart beating double time before the man had so much as opened his mouth.

    It was weird to experience heart-break at first sight.

     

    or: a hesitant look into shore!grian’s head

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    24 Apr 2023

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    Cleo reappears in the mirror, this time holding a small golden crown. It’s circular, elegant, streamlined. Less of a focus on jewels and more about the curve of the metal. When she places it on his head and starts pinning it into place, it nestles into the strands of his hair like it’s coming home. “The damn treaty, where we send someone off to enemy territory–”

    Cub coughs, unseen. “Not enemies anymore.”

    “–to get married to a man he’s never met!”

    Scar’s stomach twists.

    (or, the scarian arranged marriage fic that blossomed from a "quick one shot guys this is fine" to a 16k monster. You're welcome.)

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    20 Aug 2022