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This is incredible.

The Swan Curse

Drew this because I remembered @empressem3rald's post about giving Lizzie something called 'The Swan Curse'

Whilst this isn't from the dying swan dance (although I do plan to do a version of that too) I decided to instead use this photo of the Black Swan from Swan Lake :)

#ldshadowlady mcyt #lizzie ldshadowlady #swancurse #secret life #pls make this canon- #swancurse needs to happen

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Secret Life Ending

Notes: this is my first time making something like this! It’s v short but I wanted to make something about the ending of SL!

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The arrow shoots, and Pearl screams. She jumps back, retreating to the ravine, and Scar looks behind him finally. “Oh, there was a Zombie,” he says absentmindedly.

“Pearl! I’m coming for ya! I’m coming for ya!” He shouts, going closer to the ravine.

“Where’d ya go?!” Scar yells, chasing her into the ravine. He saw her fall down there, he shot her and she fell down there. “Where’d you go?” He asks, quieter.

Silence. He didn’t kill her. He didn’t. He knows he didn’t, he doesn’t feel like he’s killed her. He doesn’t feel like the game is over. He’s still scared, he’s still half deaf with the blood pounding in his ears. He desperately searched the ravine, ignoring the zombie closing in on him.

She’s here. She has to be here. Scar doesn’t win; he doesn’t win. He can’t win. He has no chance at winning, everyone knows this.

“She’s dead, Scar,” he hears, like a whisper. Like it’s inside his own head, like it wasn’t real. It sounds an awful lot like Grian. He’s always felt like there was something there with Grian, like Grian is somehow important to him. Like his soul knows this, but he can’t remember why. It’s always been this way with Grian.

Scar freezes, sword at the ready, inhaling sharply.

“You won,” the not-voice projects again, solidifying the truth.

And Scar does feel it then, feels the overwhelming loneliness all at once. It slams him over, almost makes him fall down. “Oh,” he says softly, letting the zombie get closer. It doesn’t matter if he kills it or not; he’s won. He’s the only person left alive. He’s alone.

He can’t be alone. He can’t have won. That doesn’t-that doesn’t make any sense. “Really?” He asks out loud, hoping Grian the non-voice will respond. The Zombie starts to claw at him, but Scar can’t bring himself to care.

“Oh my god,” he tells the Zombie, looking into its undead eyes. It continues to claw at him, unhearing and unknowing. “How did that happen?” He asks the non-voice, the zombie, his fallen competitors. Anyone that might answer, that might make this make some sense.

“How’d the guy with no friends win?” He asks the zombie, and starts to laugh. Because isn’t that the truth? Here he is, alone, the victor; with no one but a zombie here to keep him company. Even when he had no friends, at least he had people to talk to. People to offer him friendship even if he couldn’t accept. People to keep his secrets, even if he was breaking the rules.

The zombie continues to claw at him, and his laughter turns to broken sobs. “How’d…how’d the guy with no friends win?”

He laughs/sobs into his hands, hearing his sword drop to the ground. The zombie keeps clawing him, and Scar finally starts to hit back. He kills the zombie with his fists, and for a split second, it isn’t a zombie anymore. For a split second he’s in a desert, not a ravine, and he’s facing his only ally/friend/enemy left in the world. He doesn’t know why he sees this.

“GG Scar!” Sounds inside his head, and it snaps him out of it. He finishes the zombie off, and starts to make his way out of the ravine. He realizes he’s on half a heart. He could just jump back in, if he wanted to.

He doesn’t.

“How did this happen?” He asks, going for laughter and ending up with tears. His face gives him away; he can hardly see through the stream of constant tears. “Like, I’m genuinely like in actual shock,” he tells no one. Maybe the voice will come back. Maybe another voice will answer. Maybe Pearl will pop up with a battle cry and put him out of his misery.

“I suppose the only thing left for us to do is literally to succeed the task,” he thinks out loud, hoping for some reassurance. He doesn’t get it; just the eerie feeling coursing through his veins that something is pleased. It’s cold. It feels like the same shock of cold he got every time he succeeded a task.

“The task, of course, this session, was to win the series,” he adds, running towards the secret keeper. He’s getting more excited; surely, when he pressed the button, he’ll die. Surely this is his escape, the fate he deserves.

He starts rambling, not even paying attention to what he’s saying anymore. A performance; that’s what the secret keeper wants. That’s what They want. The beings who made the death games, the gods who control the world. A show. That’s what this is all for, isn’t it? A show. So he performs. He rambles. He doesn’t pay attention.

He finishes his monologue by pressing the succeed button, ready for it to insta kill him. It doesn’t. Instead, it gives him five heart.

“You have succeeded.” whispers in his ears, louder than the secret keeper’s usual whispering.

Scar’s own heart stops dead in his chest, and he stares up at the secret keeper in horror. “No,” he says, whispers, yells; he doesn’t know. “No, I won,” he says. A new secret appears in his inventory, and his palms start to sweat.

His hands shake, and he opens it carefully. Win Secret Life.

“No!” Scar gasps, dropping the book on the floor. “I already did!” He hits the button again, and he gets another five hearts. He gets another book.

You have succeeded.

Scar stares at his new book in horror, breath accelerating. He hits the button again, and again, until he’s at full hearts and he has yet another new book with the same task.

“I don’t get it,” Scar whispers. “Was I not supposed to win? Because I know that! I know I shouldn’t have won! But I did, it’s over now. There’s no one left!”

A breeze. It feels like a hand on his shoulder. He realizes he’s kneeling in front of the button, realizes tears are streaming down his face. How long has he been here? How many times has he hit the button?

“It’s time to go home, Scar,” is in his head, but not out loud. There’s no one left alive to say it. He’s alone; completely and utterly alone.

“I want to,” he answers anyway, using his free hand to wipe at his face. He looks up at the secret keeper. “Let me go home.”

“Look at me, Scar,” the non-voice says. It sounds sad.

Scar looks behind him, breath hitching. Grian stands there; or something that feels like Grian. It’s more a shadow, but Scar just knows. It’s Grian. It’s offering Scar a hand, looking at him without a face.

Scar looks over Grian’s shoulder, and sees three more forms behind him. Scott. It has to be; it has stars circling its head like a halo, and its arms are hanging loosely by its sides. Pearl. It has a hood, it’s slightly red. It cocks its head to the side, watching him curiously with a hand on its hip. Behind Pearl is Martin. It has its arms crossed over its chest, its chin jutted out in defiance.

None of them have faces, all of them are shadowy, as if they aren’t really here.

“It’s time to go,” Grian says, and it sounds more real this time.

Scar is scared. He knows he has to die to join them; he knows they’re taking him away from the safety of being alive in Secret Life. But he won’t be alone, with them, will he? And it’ll be over. It’ll finally be over.

Grian offers his hand once more, and Scar can almost see his sad smile.

Scar takes it.

#this is incredible #im obsessed #secret life #goodtimeswithscar #desertduo has my heart #i cried

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Life series 🔛🔝

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Small poem I wrote instead of studying for my finals tomorrow :3

//contains spoilers from Secret life

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17 secrets, all accounted for. They all strive to win, except for the past four.

The one who has won.

A villian or a victor?

A watcher or a winner?

The favourite of the keeper.

The loner of the server.

The fifth victor was lost, for the third victor had disappeared. Till he heard the first victor. the second and fourth between.

To be a loner is to be a villian. Tell that to the swan who ended the canary’s burden.

A loner for a loner, the day he had won. He remembered his previous lives, and the punch of the Sun.

Did he deserve it, or did someone else? Did the third victor give him the win? Or his soulmate from the game she won?

Either way, there’s no changing what’s been done. He remains a loner, with the guidance of all who had won.

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This isn’t my proudest work, but I was sick and bored of studying so-

Incase you don’t know who is who:

(The poem is about Scar. I believe his nicknames don’t need clarifications?)

17 secrets all accounted for— all the players

The past four— the previous winners

The swan— Lizzie

Canary— Jimmy

The Sun- Grian

And of course,

First victor— Grian

Second victor— Scott

Third Victor— Pearl

Fourth victor— Martyn

Fifth Victor— Scar

#secret life #life series #mcyt #original poem #scar goodtimeswithscar #goodtimeswithscar #goodtimewithscar

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A Villian or a Victor?

#secret life #life series #mcyt #drawing #hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #scar #secret life smp #winner #scar goodtimeswithscar

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My pleasure to explain it✨

So basically, Swans most common ways of Dying would be Flying accidents which would resemble Lizzie’s death after she fell off, and they also experience loneliness and heartbreak, and can even die from it, which would resemble her being a loner this season and experiencing heartbreaks from her tasks.

Swan’s life spans are long, but in Lizzie’s case she would he called “a swan with a short lifespan” which is kind of what makes it a curse in the first place.

And this isn’t just smth that happened in secret life but also in last life. She had a mass amount of lives in last life, but she still ended up dying even with the long lifespan she was granted

There is a ballet dance called “the dying swan” which resembles “the fragility of life - all life - and the passion with which we hold on to it.” And “the everlasting struggle in this life and all that is mortal.”

Which is an insight about both last life and Secret life, and in a way, the one time she subbed in for pearl during limited life.

Another thing is that Swans just, Die. Their deaths just happen. Flying accidents, loneliness, heartbreak, ect ect. It all just happens. Exactly like how Lizzie died. Her death was an accident and that’s sort of how Swans most commonly die, but they also would die of heartbreaks (which can be how she died in last life after she got betrayed.)

You can see my other posts, I have so much about this and need it to happen 😭

I won’t shut up about the Swan Curse, pls if you agree that Lizzie should have a curse called “swan curse” pls help with making it happen😭 i will not shut up until it happens :’)

You can see my other posts that explains it all

#secret life #life series #ldshadowlady #lizzie ldshadowlady #mcyt #swancurse

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I won’t shut up about the Swan Curse, pls if you agree that Lizzie should have a curse called “swan curse” pls help with making it happen😭 i will not shut up until it happens :’)

You can see my other posts that explains it all

#secret life #life series #ldshadowlady #lizzie ldshadowlady #swancurse #mcyt

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Lizzie with the swan curse, had to draw her 😭😭

#secret life #life series #ldshadowlady #lizzie ldshadowlady #drawing #swancurse #swan

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Small thing I wrote in school cuz I was bored :’)

The Canary sings, voice loud and clear. The coalminers hear him, they all happily cheer.

But a coalminer grieves. Grieves for a loss. Amongst all the cheers, he hears the swan . Flying accident? Not. It was of a broken heart. He’s not a coal miner but a grieving swan. He thinks he might follow up with the death of a broken heart.

And not just for his swan, but the canary that was gone. His happiness lasted not for long. The black swan freezes as a coalminer follows. How much more grief can his pure heart handle?

The death of the swan.. oh was he to blame? Was it his, or the second victor’s claim?

The canary and the coalminer’s deaths went to vain. It was the first victor’s fault, and his soulmate from the third game.

The fourth victor’s shadow was nowhere to be found. Could he be hiding in the third victors mound? Either way, he hopes he’s nowhere near. He curses whoever makes these bloody games.

He sees all the previous victors gather to fight. He yells at the fourth victor, to get the bloody hell out. Second victor was getting chased, third victor was hiding away, first victor gets the last hit and then they all celebrate.

He cannot help but feel heavy. How are they all happy? Was it because of the Canary? Or was it of the forgotten coalminer who’s death was a worry.

Or was it that his white swan was out in the void, Death that wasn’t even in the overworld.

Poor little grieving swan, waiting for his happy ending. Could he be the fifth victor? Or will it be his soulmate?

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I have no idea what this is, but Its something.

to clear things up about who is who:

The one whom the poem is about is Joel. He’s the “black swan”, “grieving swan” “grieving coalminer”

Lizzie is the “Swan”

Mumbo was the “coalminer”

Jimmy is the “Canary”

Etho is the “soulmate”

First victor - Grian

Second victor- Scott

Third victor- Pearl

Fourth victor- Martyn

The plural “Coalminers” refers to the whole server, I didn’t know how else to refer to them and that felt fitting, so-

#secret life #life series #ldshadowlady #lizzie ldshadowlady #swancurse #canary curse #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #grian #mumbo jumbo #martyn inthelittlewood #inthelittlewood #pearlescentmoon #scott smajor #ethoslab

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I saw someone say that After Jimmy died in Last life and Secret life, Mumbo dies right after him both times.

Then they proceeded to say that If Jimmy was the Canary, then Mumbo is the coalminer.

I am not okay.

#secret life #life series #mcyt #hermitcraft #mumbo jumbo #solidaritygaming #mumbo #jimmy solidarity

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Mate I meant as in she fell off the cliff in the end. An enderman hit her and she fell into the void.

I’ve come here to say one thing. After the Secret life Session, I say Lizzie should have a Curse called “The Swan Curse”. And here are my reasonings

Swans most common way of dying is ‘Flying accidents’ which can resemble her death after she fell off.

Swan’s can die of Loneliness and Heartbreak, which could resemble her being a loner and her heartbreak from her tasks (Ex. The Slumber party she planned and no one showed up to except Joel)

Swans tend to have a long lifespan, in Lizzie’s case however, it would be the opposite (hence why it’s a curse) and it’s not just in Secret life, but also in Last life. as far as I recall, she did have a mass amount of lives, yet still died

You could say she’s “A Swan with a short lifespan”

That is all. •U•

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“You can get out now..”

Decided to try a new artstyle, and went for this clip where Grian was in the nether and Mumbo died by jumping into the lava

Not my greatest piece of work, but it is my first time trying out this art style :’)

#secret life #life series #mcyt #hermitcraft #drawing #digital art #grian #mumbo jumbo #grian fanart

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Well either way, this whole thing is for Lizzie to have the “Swan Curse”

It’s currently a matter of waiting for the next Session, and the end of the series.

I’m really rooting for Joel to Win. And if he does then I have even more explanations for the Swan curse.

What I’m about to say are all just theories, if Joel happens to win.

If that happens, i’d like to think he had done it for Lizzie. For which he would be seen as a black swan. I’m not saying he has a curse called that, nono. Just sort of a title for him and Lizzie. Lizzie being a white Swan which would symbolise “light, grace, beauty, love, and purity.” Whereas a black Swan (Joel) would symbol “an insight about yourself which changes your position from one of victim to victor.”

Another thing is that Swans Grieve. They Grieve their partner. And they will experience loneliness and suffer through a broken heart. If Joel doesn’t end up winning and still dies, he might just die like Lizzie had.

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It’s currently a matter of waiting for the next Session, and the end of the series.

I’m really rooting for Joel to Win. And if he does then I have even more explanations for the Swan curse.

What I’m about to say are all just theories, if Joel happens to win.

If that happens, i’d like to think he had done it for Lizzie. For which he would be seen as a black swan. I’m not saying he has a curse called that, nono. Just sort of a title for him and Lizzie. Lizzie being a white Swan which would symbolise “light, grace, beauty, love, and purity.” Whereas a black Swan (Joel) would symbol “an insight about yourself which changes your position from one of victim to victor.”

Another thing is that Swans Grieve. They Grieve their partner. And they will experience loneliness and suffer through a broken heart. If Joel doesn’t end up winning and still dies, he might just die like Lizzie had.

#secret life #life series #ldshadowlady #mcyt #lizzie ldshadowlady #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #swancurse #make this happen for the love of god-

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Here to say yet another thing about the Swan curse.

When Swans die, other Swans grieve their death, and their grieve for a long time. Nobody really grieved her, unless you count Joel being highly upset (possibly could be another swan and I have other explanations for that)

Swans just, Die. Their deaths just happen. Flying accidents, loneliness, heartbreak, ect ect. It all just happens. Exactly like how Lizzie died.

#secret life #life series #ldshadowlady #mcyt #swancurse #smallishbeans #lizzie ldshadowlady #joel smallishbeans

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I will not shut up about this until it happens.

Lizzie having a Curse called “The Swan Curse” needs to be done

It just makes so much sense.

Swan’s are Gentle creatures, but when facing threats, they can be very aggressive. (Come on. It’s so Lizzie.)

They are pure creatures with gentle hearts, that they could die of Loneliness and Heartbreak. (Hello??? Is an explanation needed for this one??)

They have long lifespans, but if since we’re talking about Lizzie, She does get long lifespans, but they end up getting cut short. (Ex. Last life) you could say she’s a “Swan with a short lifespan”

There is a Ballet dance called “The Dying Swan” and it represents “the everlasting struggle in this life and all that is mortal.” And “the fragility of life - all life - and the passion with which we hold on to it.”

IT ALL SPEAKS LIZZIE. LIKE COME ON, PLEASE.

#secret life #life series #mcyt #ldshadowlady #lizzie ldshadowlady #please make this happen #it needs to happen #swancurse #I swear i’m not asking for much-

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I genuinely need this to happen. I’ve been going around everywhere trying to make it happen so please :’)

I’ve come here to say one thing. After the Secret life Session, I say Lizzie should have a Curse called “The Swan Curse”. And here are my reasonings

Swans most common way of dying is ‘Flying accidents’ which can resemble her death after she fell off.

Swan’s can die of Loneliness and Heartbreak, which could resemble her being a loner and her heartbreak from her tasks (Ex. The Slumber party she planned and no one showed up to except Joel)

Swans tend to have a long lifespan, in Lizzie’s case however, it would be the opposite (hence why it’s a curse) and it’s not just in Secret life, but also in Last life. as far as I recall, she did have a mass amount of lives, yet still died

You could say she’s “A Swan with a short lifespan”

That is all. •U•

#mcyt #secret life #lizzie ldshadowlady #life series #ldshadowlady #canary curse