Note: Uh still behind, yup! Very behind!
this is also on ao3!
warning: No blood but there is dehumanizing now.
June 4: Scar!
“Fail” The little player is tossed cruelly onto the trash pile that had built up on the table, Ex stares at the pile, giving it a questioning look. Not that it could answer why it existed. “It’s not evil enough,” Dehumanizing isn’t it?
“Try making another one!” Another scientist yells.
What was this strange feeling Ex was feeling? Unfairiness? Sympathy? Strange. He climbs up the table and looks at the player who was on it. They had small blue wings and blue eyes, “Hello!” they greeted him, “I’m an allay!” They seemed cheerful about what was going on.
“Hello, Allay..” The scientists continued to work, annoyed sounds coming from them. What were they making? “Do you want to get down from this desk?” Ex has never been good at being kind and nice. Allay nods, a sparkle in their eyes. “Robo!” Ex shouts, going to the edge of the desk, “Come over here!”
Robo Grian looks up from where he was talking to Copper. He was the only one talking as Copper didn’t talk. “Yes.” He approaches the desk, looking at Ex.
“Catch him!” Maybe Ex could have done this a different way, a very different way but the outcome was still good. He picks up Allay and tosses him off the desk, hoping he gave Robo a good enough warning. Robo’s eyes go wide, who knew a robot’s eyes could go wide, aren’t they metal? But he acts quickly catching Allay, whose wings are falling frantically.
It worked, so Ex shrugged and then climbed back down the desk. Copper looks at Allay, tilting his head. “Hello! I’m Allay!” Allay says, well guess he did take his name. “Who are you?”
Robo Grian answers for Copper, “I Robo Grian, he Copper, and he Ex.” Hey, where was Rencat? Ex quickly looks around, hoping he didn’t get into too much trouble. Rencat was digging in the trash, like a dog.
“No Rencat no!” Ex yells, Rencat looks up from where he was looking, hissing at him. Despite looking like a cat, he still acts like a dog.
Allay giggles at him, “Hello Rencat! Ren?” Rencat flinches from the names and shakes his head. “Sorry..” Allay apologies, looking down at the floor.
Another scientist approaches this time, gently placing a player down. “Here, an unfailed version.” They state, making Allay, shuffling his feet. The new player looked similar to Allay however they had gray wings. He had a brown hat on and red eyes.
“Why am I a failure..?” Allay asks quietly, not looking at the scientists.
“You're just more of a failure, than the others,” The scientist is harsh as they say this. Maybe Ex should start calling them and it too, just as they do to him and the others. “A fail is not needed in the lab, we would rather get rid of you. But it,” he gestures to Ex, “Wants to keep you it seems.” The scientist rolls his eyes and shakes his head. Before standing back up.
The group leaves, going off to do something. Didn’t she say they should catch those hermits?
“Hello!” Allay yells, listening to the echo of their voice, “That's so weird…” They state.
The group pauses as another group of tiny players approaches. Hermits?
“Hello!” One of them greets, Scar? “We have seen you around! You're the one who has been trying to catch us!” He gestures to Ex.
“Uh-yeah..”
The one with a suit next to Scar nods, “I keep offering this to you, but why don’t you join us? You’ll be safer then with the watchers,” Right Ex had been outside a couple times with Hels’ to catch these players. And Xisuma? Yeah, his name was Xisuma. He kept offering to let them join.
Which of course he wouldn’t listen to. “No,” Ex replies. “We are perfectly happy not being traitors,"
‘Suit yours, 'another person mutters.
Xisuma shakes his head, “Well the offers are still there,”
Why couldn’t Ex get these guys out of his head? He didn’t want this. He was perfectly happy with the Watchers. "You silly players," A voice says, Lizzie. She's back. "Shouldn't you hermits go bother your own Watcher?"
"You mean Grian?" Scar asks.
Lizzie nods, "Go bother him, leave my players alone." Her players? Ex and the others were not hers. "You know they won't join you. The scientist made them loyal unlike you guys," They... Lizzie wasn't calling them it.
The hermits whisper to each other, "Fine," Scar says.
"the offer still stands," Xisuma says as he turns away. The hermits leave down a different hallway.
Lizzie gasps as she looks down, "There's more of you guys now," She coos at the little players. She was surprisingly in a good mood. "Look how cute you are," She picks up Allay. "Oh, I just want to squeeze you until you pop!"
Lizzie wasn't that bad.
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Yup Hels Lizzie is kinda like Grian in the sense of protecting the players but maybe meaner and ruder… hmmm!
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