Short Stories (Grumbo/Scarian/Mumscarian)

Prompts / Requests

In the "an update" page I did say if anyone wants to give a prompt they can do. And I figured that it might be easiest to have them on a seperate page so I'm going to be using a certain format so you can tell what a story is about and decide if you want to read it.

Layout
Ship: (platonic/qpr will be shown with a + and romantic with / between the names.)
Theme: (Fluff / angst , any key details I think should be specified too.)
Brief summary of prompt: I explain what was given to me and if the person wants I'll @ them here too. Either that I'll write a comment to @ them if they'd prefer.

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Story 1

Ship: Grian / Mumbo
Theme: Angst, Hurt no comfort, Breaking up, Miscommunication / Things said in anger. Mental health issues.
Prompt: Essentially when Grian visits Mumbo he's not there so he goes through his stuff. Finding a vent book and assuming it's about him, he confronts Mumbo. Grian assumes the explanation is a lie.
Additional info: This one will have both a (true ending) and (alt ending) as shown like that. The true ending has no fixing of their relationship but you can read either or both.

CW: Mental Health. Vague but implied to be something like depression. Nothing in depth, talks of being sad and negative self talk.

This fic is about 2340 words long, the endings (counted separate) being about (true) 330 and (alt) 270 words.

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Mumbo joined the game.

The alert had made Grian stop building, it had been a while since he'd visited Mumbo. Lately their schedules had just been so different from each other that they rarely had the time to just hang out. And sure he was glad his boyfriend was off doing things he enjoyed but sometimes you just want to be able to prank your boyfriend and chill out together. It probably didn't help that things had felt odd between them when they did get a chance to talk.

During the first few months of them dating there was a lot of cuddles and kisses, holding hands as they walked around their bases. But as time went on it seemed to slow down. Some kind of spark between them had clearly fizzled out but Mumbo hadn't seemed to say anything about it. Just let it grow between them. Meaning now Mumbo just seemed outright distant, moving out of his touch, avoiding kisses, frowning and coming up with excuses for why he couldn't help Grian do something around the server. Had he done something wrong? He'd tried to be a good partner and not be too clingy or overbearing. They both agreed to still have some space at times and neither of them wanted their dynamic to change that much, more just like an extension of them as a pair, Grian&Mumbo the best friends.

So sure, when he saw him online he wanted to go hang out. Even if their relationship wasn't in the best place right now he just wanted time with his best friend, no awkwardness, no tension, no second guessing what was going wrong in the ever growing space between them. Just fun and light-heartedness like the Mumbo he used to know, his Mumbo. Even the look in his eyes lately seemed distant and far away, nowhere that Grian could reach him despite how much he wanted to. Usually asking if he was ok or what was wrong resulted in being brushed off and met with an indifferent 'I'm fine' or 'don't worry about it' or 'it's whatever.'

Maybe though, he could surprise his boyfriend and break him out of whatever was going on lately. Who didn't like a good wholesome surprise? He could decorate a room nicely and fill it with some of the items he knew Mumbo liked or would probably end up needing. Though he would definitely need to put them in separate boxes after The Great Redstone Poisoning a few years back. In his defence, he didn't know redstone could contaminate food that much if you accidentally dropped the box...Anyways-