CHAPTER 18

Impulse and Grian tested the tortilla slap. The tortilla broke

They started dying of laughter immediately after Grian slapped Impulse

*crashes into ur dash three months late*

I hid a few sneaky details in their so I’m excited to see if anyone catches them >:D it was fun going back and watching some of the winner POVs as well.

Procreate — 34hrs (27 for the characters and 7 for the BG/ final layering)

They sure were quiet huh

I remembered I have free will today

watching the harmonica bit and grian's little jumps as he decides who gets shocked are the absolute funniest thing ever

gem and impulse on the gamers outreach stream right now have me CRYING LAUGHING

so grain's desire to win at everything is actually greater than his desire to bully tim

PREYBIRDS LYRIC ANALYSIS - DESERT DUO/WATCHER GRIAN CODED AF

Birds of prey spiral around my head - eyes around grians heads, birds telling him as part of his watcher powers They hiss songs of your birth They caw visions of death I've watched it happen again and again - every new life series grian sees scar die and he remembers Haunted by A thousand kind beginnings - how the start of every life series goes well, how desert duo start of amicable And a thousand bloodied ends - but it all ends it fighting and death, and CACTUS RING GODS I shouldn't play with fate - grian knows he shouldnt fuck around with the watchers But what if once, I could make you safe? - grian :( he just wants his friends to be safe and out of these death games

So while you think you're alone You cast two shadows down the road - man. so watcher coded i dont even need to explain Where you have buried all your past lives' bones - PAST LIVES??? HUH?? dont even need elaboration The two red suns in the sky, blink - red suns in the desert, universes blurring together My pity-filled eyes Hoping the heartlines will change this time - soulbonds, how he hopes that for once he can just let everyone be safe and happy and- If you'd just look up I could be your guide Why can't I catch your eye how you've caught tens of mine - MULTIPLE WATCHER EYES, grian just wants to help scar but boi is oblivious lol Eye in the sun - sun is grians winner symbol lmfao You're all I see - grians so obsessed with scar your honour Why won't you look at me? - scar can't meet his eyes after 3L... 😭😭

I'm the embers bright (Ooh) - man symbolism idk how this is grian coded but it is cant you see Flitting lightning flies Blinks my eye in the sun - sun and eye like what i said earlier In the hints of split sky - more universe blurring crap I'm the dying fire - bro died at the end of 3L In the birthing light - and immediately got transported to LL And I'll break every bind - bro had. secret soulmate, also he's like: THIS IS MY SERIES I CAN CHANGE THE RULES That I'm blighted by - ^^

You're blind to all my warning cries - SCAR NO! When I speak in dust devils, crop circles, flocks of mayflies - eldritch ass shit; moving on So I've no choice but to come down Pardon my steps shaking the ground (ha)

[we alr did this]

So while you think you're alone You cast two shadows down the road Where you have buried all your past lives' bones The two red suns in the sky, blink My pity-filled eyes Hoping the heartlines will change this time But the birds on my shoulders prepare for a feast You can taste it in the air The soon-to-be dead meat Eye in the sun You're all I see Why don't you look at me?

My breath heaves down your nape - cactus ring fight! Wrestlin' you 'way, but I'm too late - grian realises he hit too hard and trying to save scar but noooooo A body rests - damn both of them DEAD at the end of 3L Dagger in chest - shh we just pretend that its a fistfight (cactus ring i love) The heart in your hands drips As its soul crawls from splintered ribs - oo fight die (keep obsessing over cactus ring leave me alone) To eclipse my head - eyes from the dead come to his watcher eyes yesyes (headcanon i came up with on the spot) And beg again For revenge - life series has a lot of themes of vengeance :D

Oh, you may think you're alone if you hide from the shadows - ALWAYS WATCHING You can bury bones but not the souls - life series members will always go back to the void or ressurect if not on red life The two red suns in the sky will be the light to build your pyre They're my blank and pitiless eyes - grian and his eyes. Every death births a bird to this wretched flock - PREV HEADCANON - eyes from the dead join his eyes around him Forever tethered to your life but cursed to only watch - SCAR I THINK WE'RE SOULMATES AND YOU'RE TOO BUSY CHASING FAIRIES Catastrophe - life series is a DISASTER OF DEATH Repeat until - loopppppp of more LIFE SERIES You look at me

[done this already]

So while you think you're alone (Ooh) You cast two shadows down the road Where you have buried all your past lives' bones (Look at me)

See my two sun eyes (Ooh) - grians eyes have small suns bc thats his winner symbol(following @randomapplekey 's designs) Feel my slow-moving thighs - hes walking off hes falling he's DEAD Tumbling dust in a dimming tide - deserts have sandstorms

Hear the squabble angry caws of our wretched flock (Ooh) (One day I'll come reckoning) Forever tethered to your life but cursed to only watch - yeppers Catastrophe (Wearing the feathers of our souls as wings) - hUH?? YEAH

[did this already]

I'm the embers bright (Ooh) Flitting lightning flies Blinks my eye in the sun In the hints of split sky I'm the dying fire In the birthing light And I'll break every bind That I'm blighted by

I'm the embers bright (Ooh) Flitting lightning flies Blinks my eye in the sun In the hints of split sky I'm the dying fire In the birthing light And I'll - cut off bc he DIED HA

BY RABBITOLOGY YOU SHOULD TOTALLY LISTEN TO THEM

okay im going eep now

Toasty Tango Tortilla

Glad to see he's managed to get a hat even when away from home :]