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Scar and Grian had been together for a long time. Since 2019 to be exact. Since July 14th 2019 to be extremely exact. That was 4 years, 5 months, and 1 day ago. Not like Scar had been counting or anything. Except he totally had been, and not for the reason you think. He would fight the "simp" allegations to his grave. No. He was counting because he had a plan. See, Hermitcraft Season 9 was set to end tomorrow and Scar really wanted to propose to Grian. So he hatched a plan! Scar would propose after the Hermit's end of season party that was happening in the crastle. One slight issue (over sight actually) with this plan was Scar needed to ask permission from Grian's parents. The issue with that was he had never met Grian's parents. The reason for it was simple, Grian didn't like his parents. He didn't associate with them. So Scar did the next best thing and that is how he ended up in Pearl's house, on her couch, with Martyn and Jimmy sitting in front of him; Pearl was sat in-between them. Scott and Jimmy had started living with Tango after Empires 2 ended and Martyn was married to Ren...so.
"Scar what is this about?" Martyn asked, leaning back in his chair slightly.
"Okay... So... Uh..." Scar was looking anywhere but at the three siblings, they all exchanged glances.
"Scar! Spit it out!" Jimmy exclaimed after a while.
"I want to propose to Grian," He blurted then squeezed his eyes shut. He expected some sort of reaction from the avians, he got none. Silence. Somehow worse Scar decided. He opened his eyes, they were all stuck in some form of shock. Martyn's eyes were blown wide and his eyebrows raised, Pearl's jaw dropped, and Jimmy, well, he was frozen. "Uhh... Are you okay?" Scar questioned, slightly worried for the three.
"Oh my god.." Jimmy was the first to speak, his golden wings fluffed up behind him as he smiled and got excited, "Oh my god! Really?!" He exclaimed, Scar thought he would fall off of his chair he was bouncing so much.
Martyn's expression eased off into a smile and Pearl...well....
"WHAT?!" Everyone jumped, including Scar who wanted to mold into the couch behind him.
Pearl's wings fluffed up, similar to Jimmy's, it tends to show excitement. Her tone was what scared him. She seemed worried.
"Pearl... Is-... Is that okay?" Scar asked softly, swallowing his fear, "That's what I wanted to do, I wanted to ask you guys if I could. It's a huge thing in Vex culture and I just-... You guys don't talk to your parents so I thought I'd ask you?"
Scar might have been downplaying how important this conversation was. He was dealing with both Avian and Vex culture here. Both were different, both were important. In Vex culture you had to ask your partners parents if you could marry them, if they said no you wouldn't be able to propose until they said yes. Vexes were huge on devotion. Avian's were different, they were big on family. In Avian culture you had to ask your partners flock. If they said no it didn't matter, you could do what you wanted but it was severely frowned upon. Like, your partner could be kicked out of the flock for disobeying the opinions of their flock if they said yes. So Scar was killing two bir-.... Ants (yeah ants is good) with one stone, a very important stone. Grian didn't actually have a flock, so his siblings were again the next best thing.
The thing with Pearl, which Scar realized fairly quickly, was that she was over protective of her siblings. Especially Grian, he'd been hurt by multiple people over the years in horrible ways. It made Scar sick just to think about it. Which was why Pearl was on the offense. Scar gave her a worried look.
"Yeah, yeah Scar it's fine," Pearl said, settling down a little.
"Are you sure?" Scar questioned, "You look tense.." Jimmy put a hand on her shoulder.
Pearl looked at him and Jimmy gave her a look too. Then a small head nod towards Scar. Pearl smiled and looked at Scar before her eyes locked on her brother again. They seemed to be having a conversation with their eyes.
In which, Pearl relaxed and chuckled then turned back to Scar, all of the stiffness falling from her stance, "Yeah. Scar, are you sure?" She joked.
Scar's expression hardened, "Very." He said.
Martyn made a soft noise, "Ehhh, I'm not really convinced," He said.
Jimmy gave the parakeet a look, Martyn waved him off and smirked at Scar. He leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees, his bright green wings resting back behind him.
"What- what does he mean by that?" Scar asked Jimmy, the blonde shrugged.
"Prove it," Martyn said.
Scar titled his head slightly, "Huh?"
"Prove that you are sure about wanting to marry our brother, Scar," He responded with a simple shrug.
Scar flashed Jimmy a look for help, the canary put his hands up in defense. Scar then looked to Pearl who gave him a "I can't help you" look. Scar loved them but they were very un-helpful in that moment.
"Uh.. How?" Scar asked, finally meeting Martyn's blue eyes.
"Why?" Scar looked confused before Martyn chuckled and reiterated, "Why do you want to marry him?"
"You are making this unnecessarily difficult, Martyn." Scar responded, Martyn motioned for him to go and leaned back in his chair. Scar rolled his eyes, "Because I love him."
"That isn't good enough," Martyn said, causing Scar to groan.
Jimmy and Pearl snickered and Scar stuck his tongue out at them making them laugh.
Scar sighed, Martyn looked at him expectantly, "Grian means a lot to me Martyn, really, he does. I want to marry him because we have been through so much together-" Scar felt his face heat up and a smile come across his lips as he spoke. "-and I really wouldn't be sitting here right now without him. I can't imagine my life without him, so that's why. Does that answer your question, Martyn?" Martyn's smirk turned into a real smile.
"Yeah, it does," He said, "It was already a yes but yeah, you can marry him. Of course you can Scar, I've never seen him as happy as he is with you," Martyn said, Scar smiled at the blonde.
He then turned to Jimmy, as did the other two. Jimmy looked confused for a moment, Scar laughed softly at the fact that he forgot he was apart of the conversation.
The former sheriff raised an eyebrow, "I need your vote Jimmy," Scar said.
"I thought my vote was obvious?" Jimmy asked.
"Maybe," Pearl said, "But he needs verbal confirmation for his Vex thing," She motioned to Scar when she said "vex thing". Jimmy "ohhhh"'d softly.
"Yeah of course!" He smiled, "I trust my deputy!" Jimmy said with a small shrug.
Scar stood up and clapped, "Thank you so much!"
The three also stood and pulled him into a group hug, Grian had an amazing family. Grian was lucky to have them.
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The next day Grian stood in front of the mirror in Scar's bedroom fiddling with the tie he had on. The blonde wore a white button up, ditching his usual red sweater for a red tie. It wasn't a formal event by any means but most people dressed up anyway. Scar sat on his bed and looked up to see Grian still messing with it. He squinted and had his tongue poking out of his mouth a little in concentration. Scar stifled a laugh causing Grian to turn around and glare at him, dropping the tie back around his neck. The "knot" came undone, causing the ties ends to fall loosely and hang down around the collar of his shirt.
"I'm trying okay?" Grian said, widening his eyes for dramatics and shaking his head at Scar.
Scar smiled softly at him and stood waking over to Grian, "Turn around," He did a circle with his finger as he said it and Grian turned back towards the mirror with a sigh; his shoulders relaxed and his stance slackened.
Scar got up behind Grian pressing his chest flush to Grian's back, his wings slackened too. Scar reached around Grian, whispering directions as he tied it properly. Grian blushed heavily as Scar worked; he watched Scar rather than the tie.
"I can't tell if this is hot or highly insulting," Grian remarked as Scar finished off the tie.
He chuckled and pressed a kiss to Grian's neck, resting his head on the shorters shoulder. Their eyes met though the mirror and Scar smiled. Grian smiled back
"Do you know how happy you make me?" Scar asked softly, wrapping his arms around Grian's waist.
"You tell me everyday Scar," Grian responded, leaning back into Scar more and smiling brighter.
Scar could feel the box in his pocket, pressed against his leg. An ever present reminder of what he was attempting to achieve that night. Scar hugged Grian a little tighter and swayed them side to side a bit. Grian laughed and void was it the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.
"I love you Sunshine," Scar said.
Grian hummed, "Love you," He responded, voice relaxed and content.
Scar watched as the stress and tension in his body melted away, it made Scar's heart soar knowing he caused this. Grian had been very stressed over the past couple of weeks due to Secret Life. It had ended the past week and he was still stressing, mainly over Scar. He had to reassure the blonde he was fine way too many times for his liking. Grian was good at that, stressing himself out. It was a sad skill he held.
"Alright," Grian turned to face him, "You ready?" Scar asked, holding his shoulders.
Grian nodded, "Yeah," He smiled.
The two made their way to the crastle where the party was being held. By the way everyone was looking at them Scar could tell that Pearl had spilled. Oh, and how apologetic she looked when she walked up to them.
"Hey guys!" The brunette smiled brightly at the two, "How's it going so far?" Pearl looked directly at Scar for that one.
Scar gulped, "Not yet," He said to her, before Grian turned to him confused.
"What?" He tilted his head to the side slightly in confusion.
The brunette flashed Pearl a glare to which she responded with a small laugh.
Scar turned to Grian, "It's nothing," He said with a smile, waving Pearl off, "Nothing at all!"
Grian looked at Scar, a bit suspicious, but he seemed to let it go. Pearl then turned to Grian with a large, unsettling smile.
"Can we talk for a moment? Twin to twin?" She asked.
Grian smiled back and that could have made Scar absolutely melt if he didn't have self control. And a suspicion with Pearl's behaviour.
"Of course!" Grian responded, he looked up at Scar as if asking for permission.
Scar thought it was cute how his eyes were slightly pleading, even though Grian knew he would never say no anyway. Scar nodded and Grian's wings fluffed up with a smile that brightened the whole ballroom. He took Pearl's hand and the two walked off, Scar shook his head and chuckled. He turned around to go find someone to talk to but his brother beat him to it. Cub appeared in front of Scar and the taller brunette yelped.
"How come you didn't tell me?" He asked, Cub looked mildly upset. Though, Scar couldn't tell. It was hard to tell when Cub was genuinely upset. At least for Scar it was.
"Tell you... what, exactly?" Scar questioned in response.
Cub raised an eyebrow and pointed to Grian, the avian was talking excitedly with his sister, ranting to her as he waved his hands around frantically to get his point across. Scar chuckled then turned back to Cub and immediately face palmed. He forgot to tell Cub. Of course he'd forgotten to tell Cub. He knew he had forgotten something! Scar groaned and Cub laughed.
"You are lucky Pearl can't keep a secret," Cub said continuing to laugh.
"She can when it has to do with her," Scar said, Cub nodded.
"So you forgot?" He teased, Scar nodded bashfully, "Should I take offense to that?" Cub questioned a smirk evident on his face.
Scar was quick to respond, "No no, you shouldn't!"
"Grian, huh?" Cub asked, the smirk remaining on his face.
"Yeah, Grian," Scar said, blushing a bit, "He's just perfect ... and-and I can't think of anyone better to spend my life with, ya'know?" He rambled, Cub chuckled.
"I do, you two are inseparable." He rolled his eyes, "Honestly I'd rather you marry the man you aggressively simp over than anyone else," Scar blushed more.
The brunette smiled and looked down at his feet, "Yeah..." He looked back up at his brother and opened his mouth to speak. Cub put a hand up and Scar shut his mouth.
"I'm not going to say no," Cub said, "You may have forgotten but it's not like you don't do that often. It's okay, and I think that whole "you have to ask family" thing is stupid and outdated anyway."
Scar nodded, "Thank you Cub."
"No problem, just don't forget about me!" Cub joked as he walked away.
"I won't-!" Cub was already gone so Scar just laughed to himself and shook his head.
Grian had appeared at his side again which totally didn't startle Scar, "We both got stolen by our siblings I see," The blonde said, lacing his fingers with Scar's.
"Yeah, it was nothing important though. Just talking about what we're gonna do now that the season is over," Scar replied purportedly; if Grian realized Scar was lying he didn't call him out on it.
"Pearl was actually talking to me about that," Grian said, "She wanted to know where I was going to go tomorrow."
"And where are you going to go?" Scar asked as he tilted his head to the side slightly, showing his confusion.
"Wherever you go!" He said with a bright smiled.
Scar blushed, "Ah-.." He nodded; Scar's flustered face made Grian laugh.
"Where did you think I was going to go?!" The avian asked as his wings fluffed up behind him.
"I don't know, a private server or something?" Scar responded.
"Do- do you want me to do that?" Grian looked a bit disappointed and his wings drooped slightly. His playful nature disappeared in almost an instant.
"No no!" Scar said frantically, "I just didn't expect that at all I-" He grabbed Grian's hands, "Grian... I would love that."
Grian looked up at Scar with a hopeful expression, "Really?"
Scar felt his heart melt in his chest from how adorable he looked, "Really." Scar confirmed.
Grian was quick to cup Scar's face and lean up to kiss him; Scar put an arm around Grian's waist, his other hand on the shorters cheek. When they pulled back Scar kissed Grian's nose which caused it to scrunch up and make Scar laugh.
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The party went on for a few hours, late into the night. It was maybe 11:00 pm at the point it had ended, Scar wasn't really paying attention to the time. He was more focused on the weight in his pocket and the beautiful avian in front of him. As they left Jimmy gave Scar a thumbs up when Grian wasn't looking and Scar smiled nervously back. Scar tried to take deep breaths as they made it outside. Grian was going on and on about build idea he had for the next season and Scar nodded along, trying to be polite. Though, his racing heart wouldn't let him listen. Grian noticed something was up almost instantly.
"Scar?" He questioned softly, the tone made all of Scar's worries melt away.
"Yes my love?" Scar responded.
Grian stopped walking and Scar stopped with him, "Is something wrong?" Grian asked, pouting slightly. Scar took a breath and turned to Grian, taking both Grian's hands in his own. Grian looked scared, "Scar...? You look really serious..."
"I am," Scar said.
"For once," Grian snorted.
"Hey! I can be-" Scar cut off his defenses, he couldn't get distracted, "I have something to say to you and I don't want you to say anything until I'm done, okay?"
Grian looked even more worried, "Okay...?"
Scar looked around and the Hermits were very non secretively watching, they were maybe 10 paces away but it calmed Scar more. He found Pearl in the crowd and Pearl nodded at Scar for him to go on. Scar looked back at Grian who was looking very afraid.
"Before I met you I don't think I had been subjected to so many pranks before, the only person who did stuff like that was Bdubs and honestly he hadn't done it often. Nor on the same scale as you do," Scar said, Grian nodded, "The first day we met I kinda died, and you said you wouldn't prank me which was an obvious lie, looking back." Grian laughed but the fear never left his eyes. "You are so fun and energetic. You care about everyone and everything around you, you are an amazing builder. You have the cutest yet strangest laugh I have ever heard. You are so talented," Scar continued.
He watched as tears began to fill Grian's eyes, he didn't look afraid anymore, "I think the moment that I realized I loved you was in 3rd Life, our relationship was kinda rocky at the start and you explained why. But during 3rd Life you were fully in it, you didn't leave my side. Whether that was because I was an idiot who kept a dying or because you loved me was unclear but it doesn't matter." Scar shook his head, "When I went red you didn't leave me, you stayed put. I think that did it for me because you haven't left me since."
Grian opened his mouth to protest, "Unless it was when you were pretending to cheat on me with Bigb, which was mean," Scar said in a joking tone that made Grian laugh.
"I'm sorry," He whispered.
"Hey! I said no interrupting me!" Scar exclaimed, he was still smiling though. Grian put his hands up in defense, "I'm trying to compliment you Grian!"
"Okay okay! Keep making me cry!" Grian replied with a bright smile evident on his face. He was beginning to actually cry now.
"Don't make it sound bad!" Grian laughed as Scar said that. When the two calmed down Scar continued, "Anyway, Grian you mean the world to me. I can't think of anybody else in the universe I would want to spend my time with.... So...."
Scar slowly dropped to a knee and Grian's eyes widened, he gasped, "Scar-" Grian's voice broke as he watched him drop to the ground.
Scar let Grian's hands go and reached into his pocket, pulling the box out and opening it. Grian's hands shot up to cover his mouth.
"Grian, I love you so much. Will you marry me?" Scar asked, he held his breath.
"I-..... are you serious?" Grian asked, Scar nodded, "Like a hundred percent?"
"Mhm!"
"Like- no second thoughts just- you want to marry me?" Grian's voice trembled slightly as he spoke and it broke Scar's heart that he was crying, even if it was for a good reason.
"I want to marry you," Scar responded.
For a moment neither moved and nobody spoke, well that was until Martyn made the Hermits (and others) presence known once again.
"Grian! Answer the man!" He yelled.
Grian's head shot over to Martyn, then back at Scar, "I thought I did."
Scar shook his head, "You didn't," He responded.
"You know, honestly," He said, "I kinda like that you're down there and I'm up here. It makes me feel important!" Grian said confidently.
"I- Grian seriously?" Scar chuckled in disbelief.
"Yes! It makes me feel like a prince!" He responded.
"GOD, JUST ANSWER HIM GRIAN!" Mumbo yelled.
Grian and Scar both laughed and Grian turned to the group, "Okay okay!" He put up his hands. He then turned back to Scar, "Yes."
Scar felt pure serotonin fill his whole body, "Yeah?" He questioned.
"Yeah- yes! God Scar! Yes of course!" Grian exclaimed as his wings puffed up and opened subconsciously.
Scar slipped the ring onto Grian's finger and stood pulling him into a kiss which caused the whole crowd to burst into cheers and whoops.
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The next morning Scar was gathering stuff up since everyone was leaving today; Grian had stayed over after the party and was still peacefully asleep. There was a smile on his face and his wings were around him like a second blanket. Scar watched him sleep for a little bit then walked over and kissed his forehead before going to get dressed. Grian stirred a little in his sleep but settled down quickly. Scar was happy he hadn't woken Grian up since he seemed very tired when they had gotten back. Just looking at him Scar could tell he had made the right choice and he couldn't wait for what the future held.
Fin