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Holy shit.
and btw, grian's last stand against gem and the scotts? Insane. I cant help but replay the scene where he tells Cleo to get away over and over again, "You need to move out of the way, there's no trigger. I'm manually triggering it." because like. there's no way he really thought he was gonna get out of this. He had to be there in order for the trap to go off, the escape hatch was a pipe dream. What he was really saying to Cleo was, "Save yourself, I'll hold them back." He knows he's not going to get away from Gem and the Scotts, but he just wants to give Cleo a fighting chance.
And then I cant help but remember Grian's last words in Last Life, "Not like this! Not like this!". Ever since Last Life, his deaths have been... a little sad. Stabbed in the back while running away from Scott, killed by a warden through a wall, falling onto the very corner of a cobblestone block after falling off his tower -- right next to the water, too.
I think, in this season, grian wanted to die for a reason. he didn't want it to be an accident, a preventable goof, and more importantly he wanted it to mean something. He wanted to die protecting someone else. Outlive his teammates for a change.
Cleo still dies before he does, but he doesn't have any confirmation of that, just the distant sound of thunder, and he's too busy fighting to really process it. When he dies, he doesn't have any complaints. No 'I don't feel good"s, no "Not like this"s, no "I'm so sorry, Scar"s, no "Don't tell Tim"s. This time all he says is, "I did a lot of damage." He's satisfied with his death, proud of it, even.
And I think, even if he died, even if his sacrifice didn't mean too much, he felt his death was a lot more honorable than his other ones. He died on his own terms, he died protecting someone, he died fighting, and, just like Grian always aims to go, he went out with a bang.
So, uh, that new scar skin huh?
Mr. GoodTimes is the only man known to absolutely slay in a ‘🌻cowboy trader🌻’ fit
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You can wait, but no one will cheer
You are all alone in this victory
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Actual footage of the aftermath from the final episode!!
*distant Grian screaming in the background*
SCAR DIGGING UP LIZZIES SPINE AND TRADING IT TO HER HUSBAND??? WHAT???? HUH????
Since Scar ended his last Secret Life episode without dying, while all the other winners died at the end of their episodes, I have two headcanons as to what could have happened to him.
Either he was stuck on the server, all alone, getting the 'Win Secret Life' Task over and over again, gaining more hearts each time he hit success. Until he got so lonely and frustrated that instead of saying he succeeded, he hits the fail button until he finally dies.
Or he became the secret keeper, stuck in an endless loop of giving his past self villain tasks and watching him win over and over again, always merging into one with his winner self and repeating everything again