The Breaking Point of a God

Fanfiction
Title:	The Breaking Point of a God
Author(s):	grey_cat_crozzing
Date(s):	2022-11-14 to 2022-12-23
Length:	29,679 words
Genre(s):	Gen Slash
Fandom(s):	MCYT, Last Life SMP, Hermitcraft, Evolution SMP
Relationship(s):
External Links:	AO3Archived 2023-12-25 at the Wayback Machine
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The Breaking Point of a God is a Minecraft YouTube fanfiction by grey_cat_crozzing. It is a secret identity fic about Grian being a Watcher with characters from Hermitcraft, Last Life SMP and Evolution SMP. It includes the Grian/GoodTimesWithScar ship. It is not a RPF, the characters are based on the Minecraft characters they play. The story was posted to Archive of Our Own between November 2022 and December 2022. As of July 12, 2024 it is currently the most popular Last Life SMP and Evolution SMP fic by kudos count on AO3.

It has a podfic made by 72_Blue here: The Breaking Point of a God [Podfic]

Summary

Watchers were supposed to be worshipped. It’s their source of powers as minor deities, after all.

Grian, who wanted nothing more than to forget his Watcher past, was quite happy not to be worshipped at all. So when the Hermits collectively started praying to Xelqua and Grian started to gain a lot of Watcher magic, it put a real damper on his mood, health, self-perception and his relationships. With Mumbo gone off-world, it was now up to Scar, Pearl and Xisuma to worry about him – if Grian would let them. But Grian was nothing if not stubborn. He’d get through this alone, right?

..Right?

Author's Notes

The author says of the inspiration for the fic:

Basically I read Worship[1] by Miss_Purr a couple dozen times and still I couldn’t get it out of my head for days. The idea to make Purr’s one shot into a multi-chaptered, more angsty story had so much potential and grew in my head to become this monster and so I just had to write it down.

Reception

On Archive of Our Own it is the most popular Last Life SMP and Evolution SMP fanwork by kudos count. As of July 12, 2024 the work has over 56,800 hits, 5,350 kudos, 800 comments, 870 bookmarks, and has been added to 6 different collections.

Reactions and Reviews

lol I ended up speed reading till the end, definitely work the late night and little sleep. But what can’t I say, staying up to late to read fanfic is in our blood. Love the story and I really enjoy pearl and grain sibling dynamic. Happy holiday season! This fic was definitely a highlight for mine!

Cookiesthegreat on Chapter 15 (23 Dec 2023)