been thinking about this post a loott more recently…listen to me yap?
-he was in a band with cub where he was lead singer and plays guitar. cub’s drummer and sometimes singer
-he has snakebites, lots of earrings. he wears funky rings. hes got a tattoo but shhh thats secret..🤫
-he was in a band with cleo and etho. he’s the drummer, etho the guitarist, and cleo is guitarist and singer
-hes got longish hair (long for how a lot of ppl draw him w) with brown roots🤤 also i give him ellie from tlou pt 2/trinty santos from the pitt s2 hair style
they first meet at a like some small indie band show convention thing and they meet at one of the hotels bar, hang out all night in the city, then hook up. in the morning after they leave and they never see each other again cuz they didnt get each others info
-scar is in the car driving to cub when the outbreak starts. there are some like warnings on the radio like “STAY INDOORS” or some cool zombie shit :3 (i plan on making an opening comic of this) scar is definitely aware of everything thats been happening. him and cub were like reading all about it when the first case of “zombie like creatures” appeared. he’s READY. he has a gun in his car. multiple guns.
-grian is well aware of the outbreak happening but in the like “this is totally fake” (etho messages him like “hey bro so this is real and we need to escape in like 30 minutes😍 meet u up north👍” so grian is like cool cool okay wtf. hes throws as much shit into a bag as he can drives on a road up north.
hes a smart guy and looks up the least known routes to drive on because everybody is trying to leave town.
they meet when grians car is broken down on the side of the same road scar is driving on. grian is waving and scar debates whether or not to hit grian but he sees a bag w grian and is like “hm probably not a zombie.” so he invites him to join him while not realizing its GRIAN bc this is a few years after they originally met.
however “nice” and “friendly” scar is to grian at first, he is right there to say “if i feel that you are slowing me down from finding cub i will shoot you.” scar puts on a persona of “hehe so silly haha” but he does make sure that grian is aware that that is a front. that he is very serious about this apocalypse.
grian not so much. he is skeptical about the whole thing, he doesnt fully believe it. he believed itll be over quickly or something. scar is like “zombies are real????” and grian is like “have u seen one?” and scar is like “well not exaaactllyy” (then when they first interact with a zombie, scar is like “you believe it now? :D”)
grian’s attitude will change the longer they go through this, he will be skeptical and not very serious about this into being extremely serious about it the longer the zombies go on. he’ll start losing faith and hope that their world will go back to normal. the longer he spends time with scar, however, the more grian puts all of his faith and hope into scar.
at first, grian lwk thinks scar is a crazy paranoid weirdo lmao. but as they spend more time together, hes like “this guys is acc hot.” and then it clicks like “oh my gosh i SLEPT with this guy.” there will be a scene where they are sitting around a campfire, and grian tells scar that hey. so um. we slept together. haha. and then they will kiss and share a more intimate moment. but i love toxic yaoi so in the morning they will never mention it again!! and for a while, they will have this on off dynamic where they will hook up or kiss and then wont mention it.
scar thinks its perfect because he gets to be with grian while still not getting close (ofc ofc). grian on the other hand… his first thoughts are like that, better not to get attached to someone, but also.. i wanna make grian very codependent in this story. how his mindset is “i need him” not in just a “omg hes so hot!” but in a “i will kill myself if it means he’ll stay” type of way.. i love toxic yaoi
i saw a tumblr post talking about how in the life series, grian always needs people around him and how scar is completely fine being alone (take secret life for example: scar won having no friends and grian basically begged cleo and etho if he could join them)
in the beginning, scar stays at very arms length towards grian, keeping his mission only focused on finding cub. he doesn’t want to get so attached to grian because he is still so serious about leaving grian for dead if he feels necessary. however, if youve ever watched/played the last of us, i want his mindset to be kind of like joels in part 1. how joel was very focused on js delivering ellie to the fireflies to becoming attached to her and then focusing on keeping her safe and alive.
this will be similar to scar. im thinking something big happens like either scar and grian get split up or one of them almost dies.! or something. which is what causes scar to be like “okay i actually need grian.” and to fall very hard for him. also slightly becoming dependent on grian. more of the sacrificey aspect of it.
having the “i will kill myself if it means he’ll stay” guy with the “i would sacrifice myself if it means he wont die” guy. scar also has the “i will betray anyone for him.” thoughts but shhh i havent thought about that arc in the story too much yet
i want to make it clear that their dynamic is not like scar being quiet and moody and grian being like “oo!! big strong man!” thats not at all it. grian is still sarcastic, and scar still is loud and talks a lot (what do you think they did in his car). the first idea i had for this au was scar being like “isnt this just lovely?” “how. we are sitting in the rain eating cold beans out of a can.” “we are basically in a movie yknow.”
they are still silly and fun snd bickery and insane!! i just want to bring out different sides of grian and scars character that i dont see very often.
