Respawn 404

Scar

TW - mentions of suicide

Scar was a mess. He'd just watched his friend commit suicide, followed by the one of the 2 other people getting murdered. A friend. Murdered by someone he'd trusted. Why was he the last one, why him? Why did he have to be the last to survive?

"Why me?" The question wasn't directed at anyone, but Scar wasn't exactly surprised when he got a response.

"It wasn't planned or anything, just ended up being you last. Was planning on it being Grian, but y'know. Wasn't anticipating him to be that anguished." He talked about Grian's death so casually, and it made him feel so- so upset.

"No, stripping an already emotionally torn of all his friends and making them hate him wouldn't drive him to that point," Scar snapped, finally looking at Xisuma. 

"It's not my fault he had a rough past."

"But you didn't exactly help."

"I couldn't exactly say no." Xisuma stepped forward, instantly triggering fear in Scar, gripping his sword tightly.

"Please don't kill me." 

"Aw, but that sucks the fun out of it..." Xisuma complained, clenching his fist and sparking a wave of nausea in Scar. 

"Ow- What the hell-" Xisuma smiled underneath his mask, his fist unclenching as he outstretched his arm so that his hand was hovering just by the side of his face. A stream of pale green magic connected, making Scar jolt. He tried to pull away, but found himself unable to move.

"Can you at least explain to me why?" Xisuma hesitated, letting Scar catch his breath for a moment.

"I... Don't- If you're trying to distract me, it's not going to work." There was a harder tone in his voice in the last part, the two halves of him seemingly contrasting. It gave Scar hope that there was a bit of the original Xisuma in there. Somewhere. 

Scar suddenly just collapsed, only being held up by the feeling of magic connected to his head, his mind finally coming to the realisation of what was happening.

"You saw my player files."

"Mhm," Xisuma nodded, the carelessness back. "Part vex, pretty interesting code to look at."

"You delve into my player code without my permission, part of my soul, and simply call it 'interesting'. That's disgusting-" Scar refused to meet his gaze, only getting a shrug in response and an increase in nausea and exhaustion as the magic started getting pulled even more out of him. "You're taking away part of who I am."

"I know. Similar process to what Grian did to Mumbo."

"And you would know, wouldn't you?" Scar spat, wincing in pain as X clenched his fist again, this time his vision completely disappearing as his head hit the ground.

Scar was killed by Xisumavoid using magic