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{Kiss me, please. Thats all I want.} ✨🌗🖤😭⚠️

Characters Involved: Joel, Etho

TW: Extreme descriptions of gore, death, violence, burning, death by burning, losing a loved one, being abandoned, forgetting a once loved one, romance? kissing? reuniting with a lost one?

Plot: Etho only gets to see Joel one last time after they die before they head off to different SMPs. Months later season 10 begins and Etho finds someone seemingly familiar...

Also this might be cringy af but idk, but i think its cute so just don't read it if you don't like it <3

Btw anytime that Joel is saying stuff I kind of type it as if he says it with his accent, they aren't spelling mistakes if its bovered instead of bothered ect ect

(Quick new headcanon for later on) The health bat shows up as a line of 10 heart tattoos down their left wrist (and during the life series they gain an extra heart of the back of their palm for life colour)

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[Etho POV, 1st person]

As we stepped through the portal I heard his voice screech a call of pure agony, a writhing scream of pain and death so sharp and cruel it made my blood boil and my head ache.

"EEFO GET BACK THROUGH!" He screamed at me, as I came through the portal I stepped directly into the lava flowing from above. I screeched, the searing of my skin and tearing of my flesh making me want to give in, but I had to keep going, if not for me then for him. I knew that I couldn't get back through, so I continued to push. It all burned at my skin, poured hot and thick against me as I felt me body shredding.

The flaming pain doubled as he scrabbled to get back through, having to step out then back into the portal, he began screaming at the burns crawling up his legs. They began corroding through from blistering nether fire, as I fell forward, clawing at the ground. The lava consumed me up to my waist, leaving my torso to scrabble feebly at the netherack in an attempt to pull out. I could hear his cries, making me want to end it, if only to end his pain. I stopped clawing, letting the lava pour up to my shoulders and over my head. The sizzling of burnt flesh no longer heard. The pain of my body becoming charred no longer felt. The though of death embracing like a hug, one final act of kindness to end it quickly.

<Etho tried to swim in lava>

<$^@!!*$#&%@?$ died>

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What a fucking way to die.

Who even trapped that portal?

A coward probably, or a pesky man.

Cowards, the both of them.

Disguised as flowers,

but truly cowardly monsters.

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The void was solid black, no specks of white nor purple glyphs, pure unending black. Like ink spilled over parchment but continuing eternally in all directions. He and I were both stood there, in shock of course, we didn't win, but damn, did we get close.

"I wish it didn't end like that!" He exclaimed in that high pitched tone he does when he's upset over something that just makes me swoon. I couldn't say anything, throat tensed, frozen just barely still.