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Evbo can shape shift. Now that heβs god he can change atoms to be whatever he wants. He started out small, changing his height to whatever was convenient, hiding his wings (albeit, not often, he liked them), hair length, stuff like that. Shortly after he branched out, messing with his form until he felt right and good and himself
He landed on something only vaguely human, monstrous, and definitely way too tall, but it made him happy.
Unfortunately;
His friends couldnβt recognize him, in fact, they were scared of him.
He changed back, and tried to ignore the feeling of being too much for his skin. At some point he even started wearing his headband like a blindfold. Why bother opening your eyes if you canβt open all of them?
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THE ONION MADE ME CRY
These posts are cousins to me.
There is a weight to Skizz that Grian simply doesn't have.
The first time they fly together- he and Skizz, showing the new guy the skies above their ever-changing homeland- Grian can feel it. It's not just in the wings- he'd known well enough to expect the three sets, getting consecutively smaller down Skizz's back. From one angle they're just as white as any other angel Grian has met in the multiverse.
Yet they don't stay that way.
As light and shadow play across Skizz's wings they flash in colors Grian isn't sure even Scar could name, there and gone in less than a breath. It's a display, then it's camouflage, then it's just white feathers.
Then there's the sensation.
It's like- the air itself becomes solid around Skizz, a piece of armor. He doesn't let the wind carry him, rather he drags the wind, creating an updraft that Grian is more than happy to bounce around on with outraged laughter as the angel cackles below him, doing loops to send his smaller companion higher.
When their flight concludes Grian lands gently, with hardly a breath.
Skizz lands like he is the last locking piece the earth was forgetting, and when his feet touch the rock there's the barest little tremor as if something immense has come to rest.
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Grian knows, of course, they all KNOW. Tango had been in those ancient wars, as well, and Etho and Doc- well.
Yet with Skizz it's- hard to remember, in a way it isn't hard to remember with Doc or Tango or even Impulse, cheerful as he is. Occasionally, there's a slip. A Moment. A flash in his eyes that's a bit too red, a word that comes out a touch too rough, a swing of a sword that bites through a post instead of just into it.
Skizz- he doesn't have those reminders. It sometimes surprises whoever might be around when the wings appear, normally just the two great primaries, far larger in span than Grian's and more flexible besides (since he's not, as Grian had taken pains to point out, ACTUALLY an avian, so it's not like his wings need to function scientifically; they're more there because angels fly and angels fly because they have wings, done and dusted.)
There's always a moment. Oh, that's right. Skizz has wings. Skizz is an angel. Skizz once powered the God Beacons in the early server wars, a living battery that kept the Holy on their crusade until the first great Crashes brought about the Dark.
Skizz is older than their server, than redstone, than time.
Skizz knows Impulse's full, true name, and Impulse has seen Skizz with all of his Eyes open.
Oh, that's right.
Skizz is something more.
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Skizz doesn't make it hard to remember on purpose, any more than Impulse or Tango or Doc make it easy to remember on purpose. He just is what he is- goofy, excitable, ready to lend a hand or a suggestion or just be there as a silent warmth on which you can lean and cry.
That's why it's so jarring when the zombie horde happens.
It's a combination of things- the day has just wound down to night, Scar and Grian are near a village, everyone else has gone to bed and Scar just needs one more poppy for the red dye for his new tents. Easy.
Until there's fifteen zombies pouring out of the spaces between the houses, groaning and reaching, mouths open and eyes- where applicable- vacant.
It's a run and gun scenario if Grian ever saw one and that's what he's doing, half-hauling Scar along, his larger companion firing with that frighteningly accurate bow even as he's yelping in alarm.
Still there's too many, and their respawns are so far, and damn it one stupid poppy-
There's a sound that's an absence of sound.
Grian will realize later that it was a concentrated sonic boom, the sound barrier shattering and then coming together again in a single moment as a whitehot streak comes down from the sky.
This time Skizz does not land like a locking piece of earth.
This time Skizz lands like the end of all things, like the cold iron of space that fills the void between stars, like an angel who was once so feared that his name became a prayer and a curse and a plea until he couldn't bear the sound of it and begged his only friend to give him another.
The zombie he landed on is less than ash.
The three who had been closest are bisected laterally, their top halves burning into nothing and their bottom halves becoming moist slag on the ground.
Scar has already covered his eyes but Grian can see the halo, a writhing spike of golden fire that screams as it circles Skizz's head, its points blurred to a single singing line daring anything to come within reach.
Oh, Grian thinks to himself, not all of the scars are scars.
Some of them are Eyes.
Then he closes his own eyes, behind which he sees nothing but spots as he hears the sound of zombies dying a second time, though presumably it is their first death by holy fire.
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"So that was. Overkill."
"You think?" Scar wheezes. Skizz laughs awkwardly as he helps the other man up, offering a regen potion. "Sorry, buddy. I was coming back from the mangrove farm and I looked down and- well. Some habits die hard."
Grian could say something. Could gently goad Skizz into talking more, do that thing he is so very good at doing.
Only Grian, despite what some might say, does know when to let the sleeping dog lie. So he only says, "How did you not break your face?" and laugh at the appropriate time when Skizz says with that lopsided grin, his eyes still shining a little too brightly, "Practice, G. Practice!"
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No one on the Hermitcraft server is a clueless innocent. There are skeletons in every closet and that's part and parcel of belonging- there is no perfection here.
Like Cleo's state of perpetual paused decay, like Gem's refusal to be far from water long, like Doc's long hours and Etho's red stained fingers, Mumbo's sudden quick jerks towards a voice only he can hear and Cub's careful symmetry, they are all of them followed by stories and ghosts.
If Skizz's ghosts howl like lost souls, well.
Grian figures his friend has come to the right place, like Impulse all those years ago.
There's plenty of sky for them and their demons- the kind that don't wait for them patiently to roost.
(*it was this or everyone having 8 hours and this was the most interesting of the options: Everyone still has 24 hours but dying loses 3 Instead of 1... Killing rewards are also tripled)
Everyone starts with 24 hours, with all the previous series having only one life (Or two) so the green yellow red life system is implemented for the first time ever.
Scott still kills Skizz, so does Bdubs. Scott and Bdubs both gain 3 hours and Skizz loses 12 hours bringing him to yellow almost immediately.
Jimmy and Joel still die to lava, Scar still falls down a hill and dies and Cleo still gets exploded by a creeper. They all lose 3 hours.
Impulse and Skizz still die to the creeper losing 3 hours each.
Martyn still boogey kills BigB gaining 3 hours and making Bigb lose 6... He also still dies soon after voiding the gain.
At the end of the first session: Scott and Bdubs are at 24:30. Scar, Impulse, Cleo, Jimmy and Joel are at 18:30. BigB is at 15:30 putting him in yellow. Skizz is at 6:30 putting him in red. Everyone else is at 21:30 much like in our timeline.
Joel, Jimmy and Grian still die to vex while raiding the mansion. They lose 3 hours each.
Joel still boogey kills Scar and Cleo though only Scars death counts as a boogey kill. Scar loses 6 hours, Cleo loses 3 and Joel gains 4 hours and 30 minutes.
Skizz still gets revenge on Bdubs so he gains 1:30 while Bdubs loses 3 hours.
At the end of session 2: Scott is at 22:30. Bdubs, Etho, Tango, Pearl and Martyn are at 19:30. Impulse and Grian are at 16:30. Joel is at 16:00. Cleo, BigB and Jimmy are at 13:30. Scar is at 10:30. Skizz is at 5:00.
Skizz still falls to his death in the skynet losing 3 hours.
Since both Jimmy and Scar are between 8 and 16 hours Scar can't kill Jimmy.
Scar can still kill Pearl which means Joel illegaly killing him immediately after still happens... Which of course means joel still fails his water bucket clutch.
Martyn still gets creepered costing him two lives and Impulse still boogey kills Pearl.
Early in the session Grian turns yellow which means Scar is robbed of the opportunity to do his triple kill. L.
Joel killing Martyn also can't happen with them both being yellow by that point of the session which means Martyn also never places the pufferfish that kills Grian.
Etho still gets destroyed by a creeper.
Without any kills Skizz runs out of time before the end of the session and is the first player out of the game.
By the end of session 3: Scott is at 20:00. Bdubs, Impulse and Tango are at 17:00. Martyn, Grian and Etho are at 14:00. Cleo, BigB and Jimmy are at 11:00. Joel is at 10:30. Pearl is at 8:00. Scar is at 5:00. Skizz is out.
Joel still accidentally kills Cleo and later purposely killing Tango.
Scott still lets Cleo kill him.
In this timeline Etho never kills Joel as he has more time then him, boat boys divorce never happens.
Tango still boogey kills Martyn to get rid of the curse and Grian still falls to his death.
By the time Martyn would have killed Bdubs they both would be yellow making that kill unlikely to happen.
Martyn still accidentally kills Scar (which is why certain kills still happen even if both parties are yellow.
Grian never does his triple kill as his target (Impulse) is already yellow at this point.
BigB still dies to the trap at his base.
Scott doesn't have to die as he naturally goes to yellow, same for Tango.
Pearl still dies to a creeper and Joel still falls from a ladder.
Scar runs out of time, he's the second player out.
At the end of session 4: Scott, Tango, Impulse and Bdubs are at 15:00. Etho is at 12:00. Jimmy and Grian are at 9:00. Cleo is at 7:30. Joel is at 7:00. Martyn and BigB are at 6:00. Pearl is at 3:00. Scar and Skizz are out.
Now this the story starts deviating more, in our timeline session 5 was a peaceful one with everyone being yellow... however with the changes made Cleo, Joel, Martyn, BigB and Pearl are all red lives so I doubt It's as peaceful.
Firstly Tango still kills Bdubs as a boogeyman and Joel still dies to a creeper. Bdubs also still dies to Etho's tnt catch game.
Skizz never gets to push Martyn to his death as Skizz is out of the game.
With Pearl and BigB so close to death It's unlikely they do nothing, I can see them trying to targeting Jimmy or Bdubs. With Bdubs dying so much earlier he goes to red meaning Jimmy is the victim, possibly when isolated. I doubt Jimmy can defeat Pearl so Pearl ends up killing Jimmy.
Session 5 ends with: Tango at 16:00. Scott and Impulse at 13:00. Etho is at 10:00. Grian is at 7:00. Cleo at 5:30. Bdubs, Martyn, BigB and Jimmy are at 4:00. Pearl at 2:30. Joel at 2:00. Scar and Skizz are out.
Joel and Jimmy still fail their bucket clutch, Joel is out of the game and Jimmy and Grian are the last bad boys left.
Pearl can't be the boogieman as she's red so It's *rolls random generator* Etho.
Grian also still pushes the button killing permanently both Jimmy and Pearl (Lizzie). The fandom makes it much more tragic then it is. (He also gets time as he's red)
Many death related to the bad boys never happen as only Grian is left.
Scar never kills Etho but Etho still dies to his own trap so.
Pearl never boogie kills Grian.
Cleo (Gem) still kills Etho but I doubt she does so twice like in canon. Martyn still drops tnt on Impulse.
Tango still dies when escaping from Grian (which was counted as a kill) and is later still killed by Martyn twice only to get killed by a skeleton.
Etho doesn't get a boogey kill but he also doesn't need to as he goes red during the session.
By the end of session 6: Scott is at 11:00. Grian is at 9:30. Impulse is at 8:00. Cleo and Martyn are at 5:00. Tango, Bdubs, BigB and Etho are at 2:00. Jimmy, Pearl, Joel, Scar and Skizz are out.
I can see Cleo and the mean gills working together. I can see Grian and BigB doing the same.
When it comes to the boogieman... Joel can't be boogeyman and since there can't be scaling...*rolls random generator* Scott.
Since The Bad Boys are gone Grian never climbs and then fall from the ladders.
Scott can't ask Scar to kill him to remove the target on his back so I think he just asks Etho directly... He doesn't have to ask anyone else since this puts him on red.
Even without the bad boys Grian gets desperate and kills Etho getting killed by Scott in the process. Unlike our timeline this is a boogie kill.
Grian still drops tnt on Impulse, Scott, Tango and Etho. Tango and Etho are out of the game.
Impulse still dies to the enderpearl and later later killed by Scott who doesn't particularly want to risk being a target again and likely has someone else kill him... likely Martyn. Impulse is out of the game.
Cleo and Bdubs are then killed by tnt dropped by Grian and run out of time.
BigB runs out of time.
Session 7 ends with: Grian at 8:30. Scott at 7:30. Martyn at 4:30. BigB, Bdubs, Cleo, Impulse, Etho, Tango, Jimmy, Pearl, Joel, Scar and Skizz are out.
With 3 players left Martyn surprises everyone and takes the others out, Scott lets himself be killed and Grian is not good at dealing with unexpected danger. Scott is third, Grian is second.
And Limited Life will always be won by Mars.
(Third Life)
(Last Life)
(Double Life)
(Secret Life)
I know Canary in a Coal Mine is a song people associate with Jimmy a lot, but like, putting aside the canary symbolism for a second, that song is also super Scott coded, right?
Thought I should make a pinned post because from here on out it may be necessary.
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