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Non Canon Outtakes

Summary:

I write a lot of stuff for this AU that ends up not being added to the main story. Whether that’s because it’s not canon, an alternate universe, or a scene that got rewritten. So here are some of those scenes! I’ll update this periodically, with old or new stuff.

I’ll have context and warnings in the notes for each chapter.

Chapter 1: Bad Ending

Summary:

A possible bad ending for this AU.

No hermits will die in canon, things will end up with them all okay, one way or the other.

Notes:

Context: The HEP has ways to uniquely harm those infected and the mycelium itself. The Source is basically a kill switch, kill it, kill the hivemind.

Warnings: Detailed main character death.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Every step Scar takes sends a jolt of pain through his body, the sanitized cut healing slower than normal. He has a hand pressed to it, but it’s not really his priority. The screaming in his head is, however. How could this happen? How could he let this happen?

Scar’s head pounds as the hivemind continues to scream in pain. He was so busy protecting the front, he never expected people to sneak in from the back. His head is pounding harder as he reaches the source cave.

He’s greeted by slashed apart fungi and plants, completely destroyed. Scar’s breath hitches and he runs inside. He has the advantage of being able to see and knowing this cave system, but it’s not all too big.

Scar reaches the source just as the worst pain jolts through his entire body. He staggers, falling against the wall. Only able to watch in horror as he sees someone with a sword directly through the source. It glows with some kind of enchantment, causing the shrooms to begin withering away.

He starts coughing, breathing suddenly becoming painful. Everything feels foggy all of a sudden as he feels pain everywhere. He can’t think, he can only feel pain. Scar isn’t even aware of the world around him, not even when he falls to the ground.

All of a sudden, his mind clears up, leaving him in complete isolation. It does nothing to end the pain however, which only increases, causing his vision to darken.
Scar can only lay there, in painful isolation, full of guilt, as he withers away.

Notes:

Some more info: When the source is killed/destroyed, it completely destroys the hivemind. This technically reverts everyone infect back to how they were before. But when they got infected, the mycelium changed a lot about them, which makes it impossible for them to live without it. Aka a very painful death as their body basically tries and fails to recover.