#desert duo

[icry-haha]

Returning to what was lost (1/3)

Welp, Grian doesn't look like he's having a super fun time retiring to the studio after getting a random letter

This is my Hermitcraft x BATIM AU I still think about constantly. I haven't worked on something or drawn in SOOO long

[42batsinatrenchcoat]

Desert

duo

[summerearly]

some doodles

[desertduo-but-everywhere]

[aceoflanterns]

hi hi hello! happy to say that chapter 5 of my watcher!grian + villain!scar fic "all your wings" is out!! ft. moral ambiguity, tender wound dressing, and grian freaking everybody out <3

available here! happy reading!!

[impossible-sauce]

Okay but random song application time

Has anyone heard of the Count of Monte Cristo musical?

If you haven’t, go listen to ‘I Know Those Eyes / This Man Is Dead’ from said musical and tell me your thoughts on it because I’m being so fr when I say it would make possibly the best Secret Life! Scar x Watcher! Grian animatic like holy shit ITS SO FITTING

I’m gonna pull up the lyrics now but I highly recommend walking in blind and experiencing the song on your own/coming to your own conclusions (tell me your thoughts if you do!)

LIKE

I can’t be the only one who can see Secret Life Scar singing this, like yeah maybe the vibes of the song are not very fitting BUT THE LYRICS CHAT

Only Scar would find a way to describe Grian’s creepy void eyes as something mesmerizing, also with how the song talks a lot about the first singer recognizing the second’s gaze/eyes specifically like it would play so well into the Watcher symbolism

I like to believe the “Only Winner’s Remember” so this part means so much more, the realization and betrayal of “how could you be so distant and hurtful, especially when you got to remember what we were to each other?” The resentment from past games and the longing, frustrated because Grian is so close yet also out of reach

Edmond’s part is when we switch to Grian, who is both trying to deny his identity as someone close to Scar but also in general saying “I’m not the same person you were with back in Third Life, these games have changed me”

So basically he’s gaslighting by literally saying “I’m not Grian, I’m a Watcher, you’re crazy bro” while also metaphorically trying to tell Scar to let him go, that he’s not worth standing by because he’s already gone, he’s not even a player, he’s not even Grian as a person but rather as a concept, someone who never meant to play the game but did so anyway

Someone who’s only dragging Scar down

This last part I feel is in the most part self explanatory, the “can either of us really ever be free?” having the double meaning of wanting freedom from both the games but also this weird dance that they keep doing around each other, where neither can decide concretely just how they feel about the other, and then the song ends with Scar suspended, waiting, hopeful maybe, but Grian shuts it down saying they have nothing to discuss, and they move need to let go

Anyway

That’s literally them, like I need someone to animate this, ITS LITERALLY THEM??? Chat the angst potential please

[desertduo-but-everywhere]

[vaguelysilent]

writing is so hard. I don't want to go through all the boring but important bits, I just want to write and post a heartbreaking scene where Scar and Grian's kid asks why Scar is scared of her.

(it's because she's a Watcher, being Grian's kid, and Scar was trapped by the Watchers for several years while she grew up)