#DON'T THINK ABOUT HER TRYING TO RUN AWAY FROM BDUBS AND JOEL ONLY FOR THEM TO ASSURE HER THEY'RE NOT GONNA BETRAY HER | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ilexdiapason · 1 year

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bard pearl is living in my brain . right now. i. i know you're not even considering the rift right now, and i absolutely don't mean to overwrite your lore, not even METNIONING whether you'd bring hermitcraft members in, but. i cannot stop thinking about.

what if someone remembers her when they come?

..by now pearl would be used to what it looks like when someone doesn't recognise her. hell, she's had more than enough time to (basically) (almost) (kind of) come to terms with it. she's not expecting scar to recognise her, or bdubs, or ren. (she barely holds herself back from attacking them, if she's honest; half muscle memory, half burning hatred. it's a miracle she doesn't see cleo, all things considered.)

and then grian looks over her, and she's SURE she sees his eyes fucking stutter. no, more than sure, she knows he fucking hesitates. knows that that gap before he says his name shouldn't be there. pearl wouldn't claim to know what recognition sounds like, but she knows a liar when she sees one.

and, look, she knows that not everything's quite right in her head anymore. knows that this paranoia and jumpiness isn't something that had been there all her life; knows that, honestly, logically, there is every chance she has made this up. but she can't.. god help her, she can't just sit down and take that! she can't lose the only hint she's had in months! hell, she'd been halfway to convincing herself it was all made up, and he's here and he won't give her any answers, and--

--and he knows! she knows he knows! everyone has glanced right over her and come on, pearl may be angry and careless and a hunter but she knows a liar when she sees one! and not that she even trusted grian, they weren't friends, or anything, but-- but they're not there anymore! they both know, and they're both here, and goddamnit even if they're not safe, pearl thinks by this point she's owed some fucking answers!

...just . okay. just take this as a fanfiction of bard pearl because . g o d wgFJDKS

(i hope this isn't weird to send you ! :"D but she's . MAN)

no its not weird! i appreciate you rotating her she needs the love honestly maybe if enough people say it then it'll finally beat itself into her brain that she DOES deserve affection

if she saw grian and he Knew. well she'd be angry first of all, as is her natural impulse. that she's spent all this time as a certified girlstruggler thinking it was all a fluke, that nobody else could possibly understand, except for maybe scott once he's had things explained to him... to see the same grian from the worst six weeks of her life come back and act like the glint of recognition in his eyes doesn't even exist... she'd be furious. he has no right to just come here and be HAPPY. didn't it MEAN something?

and it's different, okay, it's different with jimmy and joel, because the canary and the red menace are clearly new people now, if the height and the hair length didn't give them away. same with tango and scar and impulse and (she bites back all her screaming) cleo. they're here from the rift, sure, but they aren't the people she laughed at and hid from and ran swords through and swung axes at until they snapped like sticks.

grian CLEARLY is.

he won't approach her, is the worst part, certainly trying not to give up the power he holds over her, the knowledge of what was meant to happen when it ended (the mercy of forgetting kept back from her, because saint oli couldn't just grant her sweet release, he HAD to put her here instead). pearl hates when people hold things over her head.

so pearl will not approach grian either, and either he'll give in or she'll stand resolute in spiteful victory.

but every time their eyes meet while he's running around the empires... well, she'll wonder about it.

#all this to say that if slash when we do implement the rift you're absolutely welcome to play our watcher grian #empires swap au #eswap au

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