Archive of Our Own

Notes:

• Inspired by and like an arrow, you broke me down. by mochiwrites

Whats up party people! Tis I, Boo, breaking in a new pseud for my cold reads (its an awful pun and I am VERY proud of it /deeply silly)

For those of you who don't know, when you post a podfic with little to no editing, its called a cold read! But cold reading can *also* mean reading and recording without having read the source material before recording starts, which is NOT what this is! Also to note, you can do both together and its considered an "Ice cold read"! We are learning SO many things :D

Apologies that its been at least a month since my last fully edited podfic, and the next chapter of the HCC podfic will be a bit bc I got Consumed by the void of MDZS podfics and it has had an iron grip on me :). Send help :) /silly. It has been immensely enjoyable for me, but not very conducive to making my own podfics, sooooooo yeah :P

I got introduced to doing cold read through my (ongoing) month long trip to the void, so thank you to the MDZS fandom (especially kisahawklin, I have SO much respect for their massive amount of recordings!) for introducing me to this wonderful new format of chaos podficing :D

Also, sorry for the first ten or so seconds, i forgot to edit them out :/. If it really disrupts the listening experience, ill change it, but for now, consider it a part of the cold ready-ness of this :D

CONTENT WARNINGS:
On a more serious note, this fic, especially the beginning, has some pretty heavy suicide ideation and suicidal thoughts. As well as an actual suicide (attempt? its a bit murky), but with Minecraft respawn mechanics in this chapter, so the character's consciousness doesn't die. There will also be codependency and canon typical violence, etc, so please take that into consideration before you listen/read!

The first scene is the suicide (and a mildly gory description of a corpse), so if you want to skip that, go to 0:11:47. Its still mentioned throughout the first few chapters (at least, its been a while since I read this, so take that with a grain of salt), so again, please take that into consideration before listening, especially if those are triggers for you!

To sum up the first scene, the cactus ring fight ends with Grian as the victor, and he can't take the survivor's guilt of winning instead of Scar, so he jumps off the cliff by the ring. It's canon with a shitload of angst, essentially.

Without further ado, welcome to me trying my best to stay hydrated and restrain my ADHD <3

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