#ikte asks

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Rift: "I love sunflowers! They're my favorite :)"

Scar: "Cub will the hermits notice if I dropkick myself"

Scar is calling up the Watchers begging them to take him back and Cub is tackling him to the ground

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I haven't opened ao3 in a while and I just noticed IKTE got a new chapter. So I read.

And I'm sad... But it's okay make me sadder please

On it boss 🫡

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For some reason, Cub laughs at this; a rough, choked sound. Grian looks at him quizzically, and Cub just shakes his head, a tortured fondness in his eyes. "I'll give him that one,"

I love how Cub gets the joke for Scar making that little loophole lmao ❤️

THIS WAS SUCH A FUN LINE TO WRITE AKSKSHJ especially from Grian’s pov where he’s not in on the full secret so he’s just off to the side like wtf ??

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New way to laugh through the pain of IKTE! Imagining if Scar was actually able to keep up the ruse (and not fizzle out of reality) for an extended period of time. Up until Past Life. Where he feels every Hermit staring at him in the starting circle because he's dressed exactly the same as the day Rift showed up.

OH GOD AJSDDAKJS Scar dripping sweat laughing nervously not making eye contact with anyone. He jokes that him and Rift must have shopped at the same store. Back on hermitcraft Cub suddenly has the strong urge to facepalm

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SCREAMING BABY SCAR IS SO CUTE AUGH

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I find it fascinating how in your fics Scar is always aware he is loved, so that's not where the plot tragedy comes from. The unknowing, the uncertainty. No, he knows damn well and is regularly reminded. The tragedy comes from his self-assurance that he doesn't deserve it, that it doesn't matter, that it ultimately doesn't change his horrible decisions - which he makes mostly BECAUSE he is loved

I think it's a really cool direction since a lot of fics lean more into the (sadly sometimes canon) "Scar doesn't know he's loved at all so a lot of his decisions stem from yearning" route :)

OUGHHH you put it into words perfectly. It's so obvious that Scar is loved, Scar knows that people care about him, he just has so much doubt about how much he deserves it. And in this fic in particular the sudden appearance of his younger self is bringing a lot of things to the surface that he's tried to suppress, and it makes him second-guess how much of himself is just a facade or a mask. How can he be this person that everyone loves if he's not even sure who he is? If there's parts of himself that no one knows about? That's kind of his mindset.

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it's okay guys scar's just going on a little road trip <- girl who is coping

guys he's literally on vacation everything's fineee

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Is there a reason why Jellie seemingly prefers Rift over Scar? Is it because Scar isn't acting like himself or the universe has started deleting him at the lowest levels of consciousness first (animals and mobs)?

Or is it a warped perspective from Scar's pov where Jellie is just curious but not neccesarily prefering one over the other?

It's definitely more of the latter!! Jellie is splitting time pretty equally but Scar feels the loss in a sort of exaggerated way. Basically Jellie met this child and had the horrifying oh-god-there's-two-of-them realization and now she works two jobs. the commute isn't too bad thankfully