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So I heard of the tag dead dove: do not eat and I came up with this whole mess. I also had a random idea to name the chapter titles after dove species like bleeding-heart dove, mourning dove, peaceful dove, etc.
Basically Scar is a vex hybrid and Grian's his parrot hybrid best friend, but then Sam the killer rabbit hybrid comes and brutally kills Grian right in front of Scar and Scar's got PTSD now. After waking up from a nightmare about it, Scar decides to use his vex magic to bring Grian back from the dead, even though the books keep saying that it's a bad idea.
So Scar digs up Grian's corpse and does magic and Grian's back, even if he's got white hair and pale skin and white wings like a dove, he's still Grian!
Right?
Right...?
Turns out Grian still rots like a dead body and he needs to borrow fresh organic material from other stuff.
Living stuff.
Scar reluctantly has Grian eat some animals, and at one point there's a paper bag with a dead dove inside it labelled dead dove: do not eat just for the pun.
Scar more or less thinks everything's fine, even if Grian seems more manic now, and Scar is a reformed cannibal himself so he thinks he can fix Grian back to normal. He may or not be in denial.
And then Scar finds out that Grian's been eating humans behind his back.
Grian's been acting yandere towards Scar, and everyone who even looks at Scar are liable to be killed and eaten by him.
There's a lot of gore involved.
Sam may or may not have been turned into rabbit stew. A very bloody rabbit stew.
Everything just goes downhill from there as Scar realizes he can't fix Grian or stop him. And the revival spell doesn't come with a reverse button and Grian can't exactly die again.
He can be hacked into a lot of tiny pieces, but he'd still be conscious for the whole thing.
Forever.
Basically downer hurt no comfort ending where Scar makes sure Grian can't come back from whatever state of death he is in now and crying over his defiled grave whispering that he should've just let him rest in peace.
Like I said, dead dove: do not eat. Unless you really like the taste of rotting avians for some reason.