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A lot of the hermits knew Grian as the avian who didn't swear no matter the situation, two season it had gone on like that, the most anyone ever hearing was a damn from him. Now there had been a few almost that the hermits had heard most of them were during when Grian was hosting the 3rd Life server.
Scar during the midst of the game a break had some how ended up with Scott and Jimmy doing something to prepare for the activity approaching war. Scott was if Scar was rembering from the intros everyone had given at the beginning was someone who Grian had apparently known since admin School and Jimmy was Grian's older brother. So they were probably some of the best people to ask this question to.
"So have either of you ever heard Grian curse? He's been on hermitcraft nearly two seasons and I don't think anyone has heard him swear more then a damn, and hermits well we aren't particularly sweary, but every one curses every so often, besides well Grian."
"You don't through admin school without hearing some of the most sane people you know curse out a bit of coding." Scott said looking at his comm before adding "So technically yes, but he's not really particularity fond of it."
"Also heard him curse before but that mostly comes from frustration, or if you talk about one particular topic."
Scott seemed to need to think for a moment before it seemed cross his mind and he went "Ah yes that topic."
"What topic?" Scar asked
"Telling you takes out all the fun from the situation, you'll have to figure it out."
"Where's the fun in that." Jimmy said
"Trust us, you'll know when you've hit the topic."
"Okay?"
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That conversation stayed in Scar's head even when the series was over till when they hermits world hopped from season 7 to season 8 where they were greeted by the two new players who they elected to invite, one of them was a recommendation through the grape vine of admins X knew GeminiTay, the other was Grian's twin sister PearlescentMoon.
Walking thought the portal hand-hand with his partners Grian was greated by his sister who he tackled to the ground. After introductions, most hermits made a quick assumption about Pearl, she most likely wouldn't swear a lot like Grian. How wrong they were.
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Pearl settled down in the village that Grian, his partners Mumbo and Scar, as well as Impulse had founded. She was working on her starter base, almost done with it before she stepped back to take a look at it along with the bases around it before just going "Ah shit, the base is the wrong fucking way round."
At that Pearl heard a noise from near by to her turning around she saw Impulse standing there
"Yes?"
"Sorry didn't expect you to swear that easily, known Grian for two seasons, never heard him swear, thought you'd be similar."
"Oh no, I'm pretty sweary, Grian isn't unless you can hit the one annoying thing that causes him to swear."
"Ah, now whats the issue that's causing you to swear."
"My base isn't facing the right way."
"Well it's not like you can do much about that."
"We yes, but you all of you have your doors facing towards the boatem pole, and I'm facing towards the ocean ignoring all the problems of the world."
'I mean again it's not like you can do much, it's not like your going to tear it down and rotate the base."
"…"
"Right?"
"…"
"Pearl right?"
"I mean it'd be fun."
"Tearing down an entire base, then putting it back up isn't fun."
"Well clearly you haven't met me, I'm as my eldest brother would say 'A degree of incredibly fucking crazy that no one else reaches easily' but that's just Martyn, I'm lovely other wise."
"Wait Martyn's your brother?"
"Yes, I did Martyn not mention that he was related to Grian and Jim."
"No."
"Coward, now I need to tear down and then reconstruct my base before calling my others brothers, because someone decided to go to the End alone." Pearl said looking over towards where Grian's half constructed base was.
"Well if you'd like I can help with half of that."
"Sure as long you don't mind me complaining about my idiot brother."
"What he'd do?"
"Went to the End alone, which for years, he's always said to never go to the end alone, always go with a buddy, and he didn't follow that."
"That is an idiot move."
"Don't I know that, my idiot brother."
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"Shit." Pearl screamed as she missed the edge of door of the van.
Building up the prank of Treesa with Grian to prank Mumbo was incredibly fun, pranking Mumbo with Grian was always fun, the issue right now currently was the Bat hybrid and her brother had easily flew up into the cramped bus that matched a camper van Mumbo had back in their home world.
But she hadn't properly flewn in weeks due to Grian, Mumbo and the other wing hybrids on the servers agreement to not start flying until most other players got elytra so she was out of practice with her wings leading for the near close calls with clipping the edge of the van.
She had been so close to making it hence the well use of an expletive.
"Pearl no swearing." Grian cackled out
"Who gives a hell Grian, I've heard you swear worse before."
"Mumbo don't take her side."
"No I think I'll take her side, because I think she can make it."
"Thank you Mumbo." Pearl said as she swooped into the van.
"You are very welcome."
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Pearl knew it wasn't well her smartest move to keep dinnerbone-ed creepers by her base, but she severally underestimated the curiosity that Scar held.
"Blumming hell Scar my poor base."
"I'm sorry, it's just I was curious I've never actually seen the creeper toes."
"But my base Scar."
"I'm sorry."
"It's a bastard move to destroy someones base."
"I said I'm sorry."
"I know you are and I am at fault for keeping a creeper that close to my base, come on get your little Scar but over here, your going to help me fix this."
"Okay."
"Look at least your getting off better then Grian, when he destroyed something when we were young like a dick."
"I- wait you swear."
"Yeah it's easy."
"But your related to Jimmy and Grian."
"Yeah, Jim's older then me, I'm older then Griba."
"And you swear."
"Yeah whats your point?"
"Are you sure you're related to them."
"Very sure."
"But you swear."
"You've never had a casual conversation with Martyn, have you."
"No one where he wasn't trying to kill me, or I wasn't trying to kill him."
"Ah, yeah no I'm very sure I'm related to all three of my brothers."
"Three?"
"Yeah, Martyn, Jimmy, and Grian, they're all my brothers."
"Oh, oh dear."
"Yeah, didn't you murder one of them in the death games."
"Well yes."
"Good luck, Martyn doesn't at all hold grudges."
"Wonderful, that's wonderful to know."
"Thought you might appreciate that knowledge, now come on get your little nugget butt over here, and help me."
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Pearl is honestly surprised that it took her this long to swear around Keralis, considering that they had been pulling clock heists on Bdubs for like months of the season at this point, but here deconstruction the castle they had built for it this was when she'd first sworn at least in front of him.
She'd slammed her finger into a block while they were rebuilding the castle, which well she knew wasn't the best move, mostly because if you placed a block over your hand or finger over another block it was hard to remove it yourself, so in a way her screaming out what she did helped.
"OW FUCKING HELL, WHY MUST SMASHING FINGERS IN BLOCKS HURT LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER!!"
"Pearl are you okay?"
"NO!"
"What happened?"
"Smashed my finger in a between blocks."
"Oh one moment." The most likely incomprehensible eldritch horror in player form said before running over to remove the block from over Pearl's finger.
While putting a splint on Pearls finger, Keralis said "Now while I know that is a valid reaction to smashing your finger in between two blocks, I will say we do need to talk about the extensive use of swears there."
"I used two."
"You still used swears."
"Am I not allowed to swear on hermitcraft, because the last time I hung out in the code room, I think Xiusma, dropped about 15 in the span of a minute."
"Why were you in the code room?"
"Memories, it's nice to hang out in them, also Griba was there helping."
"Mmmm."
"You good?"
"Yeah fine now, ready to get back to building."
"No you should still take a break."
"Fine, I'll take a fucking break."
"Pearl…."
"What are you against swearing."
"Not really, just think their are nicer words people can use."
"Fair enough."
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Placing down 'graffiti' signs with Gem was fun, going around to the homes of the big eye crew was fun, but hanging out with Gem always fun.
Walking around the area laughing was fun, till they came up to Tangos base, it was late at this point and they were slightly running out of signs, the other problem was that Tango unlike the rest of the Big Eyes Crew, was at his base, making the getting in and out of the base without being caught incredibly difficult. Which well Pearl got caught bolting off from placing her wholesome sign prank for Tango, because he without a doubt caught a glimpse of her midnight raven wings that wasn't doing much for her, with the sun still being the slightest bit up.
Almost like being back in her teens playing a prank on her oldest brother with a twin that got them caught, she let the "Oh shit." slip out. It wasn't like their was anything against swearing.
She made it back to Gem before they both started to giggle which considering Tango had seen Pearl, was not their smartest move, most likely drawling attention to where the two of them were hiding. That was proven when Tango walked up to where they were and greeted them with a "Hey girls, so what are you two doing?"
Even if Pearl knew he was going to come up to them, Tangos sudden appearance still ended up startling the living hell out of her leading her to go "Dear fucking void Tango, give more warning then that."
"Well you two were pranking me, I would expect you'd know I was nearby."
"Well yeah, doesn't mean you startle someone like that, it's an asshole move or well more of a dick one but still."
"Nether, how much do you swearifcate?"
"Well apparently a lot compared to Grian, who you've all decided is the best reference for how much I swear."
"Well I don't think anyone has heard him do so, so him being the reference is assumed, now want to tell what you were doing."
Pearl put on her best impression of her twin before going "Nothing." and grabbing Gem, before flying away leaving Tango in confusion.
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Pearl is honestly surprised that it took this long for Grian to have not made it on time to a meeting while she was on Hermitcraft. It made sense considering that all of Boatem would leave together last season, so Grian was with them, and without a big group, his chronic tartness due to being sucked into a project had deiced to activate. But it was only the start of Season 9, her second season, and Grian's fourth. Which had meant that Grian had gone 3 full seasons without swearing more then a damn in front of the other hermits, even as the Moon started to crash onto the server.
He at this point was running very late, like over an hour late, so everyone was there and currently waiting on Grian so they could start the monthly meeting. There were small conversations happening around and across the round table they had this season. And well Pearl had an idea.
"So by a show of hands who here have heard Grian swear before?"
At that most the conversations faded out, before everyone turned towards Pearl, must have been louder then she thought. Impulse was the one who asked Pearl to say it again to which she said "By a show of hands, how many of you have heard Grian swear?"
there wasn't long for consideration before Pearl, Mumbo and for some reason X raised their hands.
Looking around at all the down hands Pearl smiled wickedly before going "Would you all like to hear Grian swear like a lot."
The faces of the other hermits gave Pearl her answer
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Grian knew that being late to the hermitcraft meetings was a bad idea, mostly because X wouldn't start the meeting until everyone was there unless the person missing had a pass for being absent. Which means for the past hour and a half the rest of the hermits had been sitting in the meeting hall waiting on him.
Bursting into the hall, he quickly started to apologize for being late before moving to sit in the backless chair in between Scar and Mumbo. X hadn't started to called roll, yet which was strange, he normally did a few minutes after everyone was there, and only him was missing.
Grian had a suspicion that something that something was happening, then he looked over to where Pearl was sitting, and with the grin on her face, he could tell he wasn't going to like what was about to happen.
"Hey Griba?"
"Yes Pearl?"
"While we were waiting for you we all got on a topic, and I wanted to ask what are your feelings on square burgers."
At that he felt his face scrunch up, she knows his feelings on them which means well he might as well give his true reaction.
"Do you mean the fucking stupid abomination of nature, they are deeply insane, deeply fucking insane, almost as insane as the cube rule of food identification, I know we live in like a world of cube but no, burgers should be round."
"Burgers are allowed to be square, burgers are allowed to be square Grian."
"X no, X no, we're not having this conversation again, because you can't put corners on a burger."
"No their allowed to be what ever shape they want to be Grian." Pearl piped up
"No!
"Freedom of shape Grian, it's still a burger, it doesn't have to be round
"No, that's not a burger then, it's just a fucking, a square burger is just a fucking protein slab. You order like hi I'd like to order a double protein slab, like don't get me wrong I'll eat a protein slab but also no."
"The requirement of a burger is that it's meat between buns, Grian."
"I DON'T CARE PEARL, THAT'S NOT A VOID DAMN FUCKING BURGER, IT HAS TO BE FUCKING ROUND FOR VOIDS SAKE, BURGERS CAN'T HAVE CORNERS, END OF DISCUSSION."
"But it can thought."
"No it can't I'm extremely serious, end of discussion, burgers can't have corners, it's not a burger then it's just a protein slab between buns, fucking hell, this is still not okay, deeply not okay."
There was a moment of silence in the hall after Grian finished before Bdubs piped up going "Has anyone ever found a Wendy's for Grian?"
"Yes many time, he will never believe that a burger is allowed to be square." Pearl said
"I think all of us in admin school did once, that was a fun thing to hear at way to early in the morning."
"There where many trips to Wendy's that just didn't end well because of that well crash out."
"Look burgers aren't meant to be fucking squares, and they didn't end well in some ways I still got chicken nuggets."
"See why this is so funny, Grian doesn't even like burgers, he likes chicken nuggets." Pearl said to the group.
"I might not like burgers, but I know they aren't meant to be fucking squares."
"And I think that's the best place to stop this, I guess I'll take roll now."
"Okay, well then I'm sorry for my outburst and tardiness X."
"Well I expected the outburst, and well everyone is tarty once in a while, will say, if you have to have that rant again, use other more colorful words then just fuck, there are a lot of more fun swear words."