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#no i didn't come up with this for a hermitcraft au what are you talking about hahaah
puppetmaster13u · 1 year
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Humans are not space orcs
They are feral and terrifying to other species and they shouldn't even be in space wtf- But can also procreate with practically any other sapient species, which is baffling and horrifying because for some, gets another human, some it's another of that species, but for others there's now hybrids between two very dangerous deathworld species runnin about
Humans should not be out in so far in space but some poaching idiots brought some and now there's not getting rid of them  It's like someone's pet rabbits got out and bred with the wild rabbits only way more dangerous and with pack instincts and the intelligence to use weapons to keep you from putting them back in their hutch 
Humans are not space orcs.  Humans are the space equivalent of africanized honeybees
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solargeist · 7 days
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I'm not sure if this has been asked, but what do the other hermits or members from empires think of grian being a watcher in your AU? i know martyn doesn't get on with him, but what are the others' view of it?
I don't know how every one would react, theres only a select few who know, but... !
Xisuma, because he was the first one to find Grian after he crashed into Hermitcraft. Xisuma already knows what Watchers are, so he took pity on Grian's reaction and took him in. He wasn't initially going to let him join HC since he was a stranger, (and a Watcher,) he was just going to help him back on his feet (wings?) and then send him on his way, but well things changed. Grian only told him whats relevant, so Xisuma doesn't know the whole story. Xisuma also comes from the End, he thinks the Watchers are inevitable and also none of his business as long as they don't mess with anything. Xisuma keeps tabs on Grian. Grian feels like he owes Xisuma the world.
Mumbo knows the full story, every little bit of it, Grian literally poured his soul out to him. Mumbo is the first friend he makes there, and Grian's still reeling from the whole experience so he built up a lot of trust in Mumbo and ends up spilling everything to him on a particularly bad day. Mumbo doesn't know what Watchers are, so he doesn't care that Grian was (is?) a Watcher, he just wants his friend safe, and doesn't think of him any differently. Mumbo sits right next to Grian with an arm over his shoulder, and fidgets with one of Grian's hands while he listens to him. Its sad at first, but towards the end of the rants Grian lightens up, a huge weight off his shoulders, and now they're both facing each other and gossiping abt their families. (Grian wins any family gossip bc his watcher aunt tried to throw him off a cliff)
Martyn and Jimmy, both were friends from Evo, and both feel betrayed by Grian leaving, and him being the direct reason their server is shut down. Martyn, while angry, and while he'd still fight him, he does want Grian out of there. Jimmy is more sad than angry, and tells himself he doesn't care, but he does, a lot. They both work with the Listeners, so Grian is a bit more villainized from their point of view.
Pearl also doesn't get the full story, she knows somewhat, and Grian has talked to her a bit about it, thats his sister ! But he can't tell her he left everyone on purpose, or how he was treated by Watchers, theres still a lot of guilt and shame. She doesn't force him to tell her everything, they're still siblings and repairing that relationship after being apart for so long.
Scar... Grian avoids Scar for awhile, after 3rd life he feels scared to face him in Hermitcraft. Though, to his shock, Scar can barely remember him, or the life games, its blurry, but theres a vague sense there, a memory or two, he recognizes Grian as much as you would a stranger you've seen twice in one week. Once they get closer though Grian tells him a bit, mostly abt the life game, and that his family runs it, but he didn't have anything to do with that. He also apologizes a lot. Scar just thinks Grian has a weird family, he doesn't know or understand what Watchers are, he mostly shrugs this off. Scar has a very "That was then, this is now" attitude, he wants to know This current Grian.
Thats everyone relevant that knows abt him, though I think there are a few Hermits that think theres Something up with Grian, but can't place it. Cleo, Etho, and Iskall, come to mind, theres something abt how Grian's eye catches the light...
(Theres also Taurtis.. The one that disappeared in Evo, one of the leading reasons Grian puts up with so much. I don't have much in writing abt Taurtis showing up again, but.. I do imagine his reaction to Grian would be very negative, maybe ? Angry and freaked out by him, I think Grian would collapse to his knees after seeing his reaction. BUT thats not really canon, thats just a thought I think is kinda fun.)
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angeart · 19 days
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can u feed us some hybrid au 🤲
always!! (brb running around in circles, bouncing off the walls etc, excited)
i wish i knew if you want mimic stuff or general hhau (i certainly have both) (reminds me i should go and compile more mimic arc rambles. the next part is the aftermath!! it's been a hectic couple of days sorry kxcjbn)
you can consider this a bonus to the hhau mimic arc rambles part I, as I skipped this bit thinking maybe i'll make a mini post about it later. this is about the mimic learning there are places that aren't as horrible as this world. and that grian and scar are so different, because they're from elsewhere. (~1k words long, below the cut <3)
so here's the thing. the mimic gets attached to scar for various reasons. desperation, safety, right? but it's the kindness. it's the kindness that seals the deal.
touch-starved and never once in his life treated truly kindly, like he matters, the mimic keeps to scar like a lost puppy, trying to understand this. trying to wrangle with this feeling of being treated well? like an actual person that has needs and feelings. it's so wild to him. so strange. it hurts a little bit, but in a good way. in a way that leaves him craving more. (in a way where he doesn't think he can survive without it anymore.)
and it's so hard, and it's so skewed, because scar is threading a fine line of, basically, how to treat the mimic nicely versus trying to not hurt grian too much. since the mimic looks like grian and grian already feels lesser, like a burden, etc. like he could be replaced. like maybe one day the line blurs a bit too much—
and grian doesn't want to be mean to the mimic, either. he's just a hybrid in distress, trying to stay safe by any means necessary. grian recognises that, even though he hates these particular means. it's so hard, to see the mimic constantly around. to have him near not only himself, but near scar. to watch scar be attentive and gentle towards this look-alike.
but, just to be clear, grian isn't treating the mimic badly. he's just distant, and they have more ravines between them than any attempts at bridges. (there's this mix of really complex emotions, in all three of them, that are incredibly hard to navigate.)
anyway, that all being said.
one day, the mimic asks grian. scar is close by, but out of earshot, and the mimic is struggling wtih his feelings and comprehending who scar is and why he acts the way he does. so he asks, quietly. "how does he do that?"
grian is slow to speak to him. still uncomfortable. "do what?"
the mimic watches scar, kind of mesmerised, but there's an edge of confused trouble to his expression. "stay so kind."
and, you know. maybe grian's first thought is that this is about scar being a vex? vexes are meant to be scary and dangerous, after all. but no, no, actually, that's not it.
it's just that nothing in this world is kind.
something about grian and scar being from elsewhere. a much kinder place.
something about them never learning how to be selfish and cruel.
something about them never having to fight for survival like this.
maybe grian tells him then. that they came from somewhere peaceful and kind and silly. that the meanest things that could happen were pranks that were laughed off and cleaned up and made up for, never meant to be malicious. that it didn't matter who is what kind of hybrid. they were all free to do their own things and interact and wander, build and laugh and live, unafraid. (oh how that word now wobbles on grian's lips—)
he tells the mimic that him and scar knew each other before. that they come from the same place.
grian talks quietly, and there's such a stab of aching nostalgia in each of his words. (he can barely say these things.) (the memories of hermitcraft are painful; he doesn't know what happened to his home and to all of his friends. he doesn't think him and scar will ever get any of it back, and it's scary, and it's paralysing.) (but it also feels like warmth, to think about all of that—about him and scar somewhere less complicated, less cruel. a place that doesn't hurt.)
the mimic listens, bewildered, curious, horribly envious. he can't comprehend a world like that, but he can tell this isn't a made up story, an escapism fantasy or what not. he can tell that this is real and true and scar and grian aren't meant to be here, it explains so much about them, actually.
this isn't what the mimic expected of them, originally. based on previous encounters with hybrids. based on their wanted posters. he thought— he thought there's an avian with beautiful feathers (they don't look so beautiful from up close, broken and messed up and muddied), feral and unafraid with a vicious vex guard by his side.
and instead—
instead it's this broken pair, clinging to each other for kindness and life.
(how he wants to be a part of that.) (how he wants to also cling to kindness and life.) (how he wants to also burrow his way to a sliver of hope that existing can be more than just terror and frantic, exhausting survival.)
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grian burrows extra close to scar that night and cries while scar holds him. talking about their home—about hermitcraft, about their friends—takes a toll on his psyche. and he finds the safest place to break down. (he finds scar. scar's arms are the safest place.)
scar doesn't question it. he wraps his arms around him and kisses his hair, happy to provide all the soothing affection he can.
and the mimic's heart hurts, because he'll never get to know what that feels like. to be safely burrowed in someone's arms. to be allowed to be weak and fall apart. to be so irrevocably cherished. (to be loved.)
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and if the mimic ever asks them if they think they'll ever get to go back home? (an uneasy question, as it makes him think of being left alone in this hopeless, dreary world)
well— scar and grian both just go silent. (it's a too heavy question. destabilising. horribly painful.) (it's too much to admit they don't really hold hope. not anymore. not after all this time.) (the only thing they have left of their home is each other, and they'll fight this world tooth and nail to keep that.)
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pacificwaternymph · 11 months
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Still enjoying the actor au ^^
Headcanons- while filming the Wedding scene they planned on Xornoth crashing the reception, so he had his makeup and outfit on. During the exchanging of vows he went and sat in the back of the set to watch up close. He thought he wasn't visible from the cameras, but Joey noticed him and decided to improvise a bit. When Joey started to talk about his one true love, Xornoth realized he was being filmed and immediately got out of sight, and that's how we have the wedding scene XD
Grian is a friend of Jimmy's. He brought Jimmy lunch one time during filming and was, ironically, wearing a purple sweater. Fwhip was vlogging of what the studio is like behind the scenesand caught Grian and Jimmy talking. When he posted it, some of the fans recognized Grian from like Evo and Hermitcraft shows, they went berserk over theories that Watcher Grian would show up in later episodes.
Shelby and Katherine were going to go on a small date in the show, or have a romantic moment, but it didn't make the final cut.
Scott and Sausage wrote fanfics about the show XD
These are all SO funny I adore them.
Xornoth was a little disgruntled that they ended up being cut from the wedding aside from that little improvised bit. It takes HOURS to get them into costume and they didn't even put their part in? They also hate Joey for putting them on the spot like that because they've never been the best at improv.
Ohh I love that. The fans went WILD coming up with theories and writing fanfic. And when Grian was actually a guest star in one of the episodes? You better believe the fandom freaked out.
The writers were still on the fence about putting Katherine and Shelby's characters into a relationship. They knew it was a popular fanon ship but weren't sure if the relationship was strong enough to be made canon. That's why in season two they really went all in.
Oh definitely. And everyone in the cast has read at least one fic of their character.
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marzghost · 1 year
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Red Queen au with everyone from hermitcraft and empires + Martyn, Bigb, and Skizzleman anyone? I know this is such a niche little thing but god do I love this book series and what type of person would I be if I didn't put my little block men into it. 👀
Like imagine it if you will. Scar as Cal ,Grian as Mare, and Cub as Maven (I'm living for the convex drama I also have no clue who would take on the role of Evangeline but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Thinking maybe Cleo but who knows it might change). Might make this into an actual fanfiction with Grian being born a female but identifying and passing off as a male because I can do as I please and who doesn't like the angst that comes from being forced to parade around as something you know you aren't.
if I make this a full on fanfic it'll be called The Red Blood On My Teeth Tastes Sweet On Your Silver Tongue (but our sins turn it bitter like a war over done) on AO3 but for short I'll be referring to it as the Red Blood Silver Tongue AU or RBST Au
Enjoy this snippet so you guys can somewhat see what I'm talking about. If I do make it into a full on fanfic I'll be sure to tag warnings because I know for a fact there will be a lot of misgendering and body dysmorphia since Grian will be forced to parade around as a female despite identifying as a male.
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Grian was alive. Grian was alive that much he knew for a fact from the way his heart raced within his chest and his blood pulsed within his ears. He was alive when he should have been dead. His body should be nothing more than a charred clump upon the electric dome but here he was ,a mess, being watched by every important silver house there is.
He should be dead. Should be nothing more than a red and black stain upon the electric shield but instead he laid upon the ruined ground of the arena with his once beautiful new uniform burnt and smoking from the electricity that had been coursing through his body not too long ago. He should have felt pain when he fell down to what should have been his untimely demise but no. Instead of feeling anything he thought moments like this should entitle he felt more alive than he's ever felt before. It was like a blindfold had been lifted from his eyes and as he stood to his feet dazed and confused, wide dark eyes locked with intense and shocked lime green ones and like a fool he lifted his hand and waved with a nervous smile crossing his thin lips before saying, "Uhh, hi?"
That was all it took for the dam to break. The metal spheres the ginger and been controlling flew out towards him and in some sad attempt to save himself Grian quickly outstretched his hands in front of himself. One moment Grian was yelling wait at the top of his lungs and the next lightning was coming out of his open palms saving him from yet another untimely death. If the silvers hadn't been gasping before they sure as hell were now.
Then, like thunder, the king's voice cut through the air. "Guards! Seize him!" He commanded and like flipping a switch the guards all around snapped into action. Now Grian was no fool. He knew when to leave and as his eyes landed on his ticket out of the arena he took it. Running past the stunted girl he slid down through the lifted platform that had been used to bring up all the other ladies into the now destroyed area and landed down in some brightly lit hall. He could feel the energy powering each lightbulb but just as he focused on one it would explode in a flash of light and glass. Panic pushed his legs forward as lights exploded behind him ringing like alarms wherever he went and it wasn't long before the sounds of armored footsteps accompanied his own.
Taking another left Grian found himself looking out an open window and just as he hoisted himself up onto its frame two strong arms wrapped themselves around his waist and pulled him away from his only chance at freedom. Screaming and kicking Grian turned to snarl at the fool who had captured him but stopped dead silent for when he did he was met with two now familiar forest green eyes and striking scars.
"I'm so sorry Grian but go to sleep."
Scar whispered to him and just like that Grian watched as the world blurred around him and turned black with the last thing he saw being Scar's ,no Prince Rayn's, eyes glowing slightly gold in the light of the now setting sun.
(yeet there ya go btw I know it's very close to his real name but i didn't know what other name to give him and I really liked Rayn (pronounced rain) despite it basically being his real name with only the Y and A swapping places.)
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astronautbeans · 8 months
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Bdubs and eyes >:3
ooooohhh >:3
this turned out a little longer than intended whoops-
tw unreality
Bdubs was sure he was being watched. Something ... Something was just so wrong. He couldn't walk home without feeling like he was being watched. He couldn't sit in his living room without feeling like he was being watched. He couldn't sit in his locked bathroom without feeling like he was being watched. He was losing his damn mind. Sitting alone in his bathtub with the shower curtains closed and no phone around, that thought haunted him. It didn't make sense. He forced a deep sigh out. Deflating in the bathtub, he stared up at the ceiling. None of it made any sense. It made even less sense when he could see the outline of an eye in the patterns of the ceiling. Not quite a human eye, but close to the patterns on a birch tree. He frowned at the sight, his mouth twisting into a distasteful grimace. "What a joke. None of this is even real, I'm just going insane! Stupid ceiling! Stop looking at me!" Then the eye blinked. A scream escaped him. The ceiling just blinked. It had actually blinked at him. It had moved like two eyelids squeezing together to blink. Then the ceiling talked. In a strange voice with a ... British accent? "Bdubs! So you can feel me! Why didn't you say anything?" His mouth hung open. In one quick movement, he pushed his hand up and turned on the shower. Ice cold water washed over him. Teeth gritting together, he forced his head under the cold stream. It was enough to shock his brain into stopping all his panic in one go. But when he returned to look at the ceiling, the eye was still there. And it was frowning at him. "What did you do that for?" "Okay, I'm insane. I'm officially insane." He laughed, rubbing a hand down his face. "The ceiling is talking to me." "Wow, really? It's me, Grian. Stop playing games. Hermitcraft is in trouble." Hermitcraft? Grian? What was his ceiling on about? He stayed quiet and just stared it down in confusion. "You don't- ah, that's just great. Mind wipe. Of course the stupid Hermatrix did that too." A groan, a short pause, then a deep sigh. "Okay, listen. This is going to sound like a bunch of nonsense but this world you're living in? It isn't real. It's a simulation. And here is how you're going to help me destroy it-"
hehehheh of course I came up with a big hermatrix au just by the prompt 'eyes', who would've thought my mind spiralled when coming up with a story?? that surely never happens nooooo not at all /lie
I hope you enjoyed!! thx for the ask <3
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bluiex · 8 months
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This is an AU that came to my mind It's a Hermitcraft x DSMP AU Warning: swearing and bad Grammer
Scar decided to go to Grian's portal area to find Grian as he couldn't find him at his base. when he reached the place he noticed the portal was open but no sign of Grian anywhere. Scar went near the portal and thought about going in but he kept remembering what Grian had told him "Scar, you will never go through this portal! Understood?".
Scar ignored what Grian had told him and jumped into the portal. Scar was getting pretty dizzy because of the bright colors moving round and round and then suddenly it became black.
Scar woke up and was feeling weak with pain in his head. he sat up and put his hand on his head which was bleeding a bit but Scar didn't care about that right now. Scar's eyes widen at the place he had spawned, everything was destroyed like everything. Scar tried to get up slowly and noticed that his legs were a little bit damaged.
Scar slowly got up and again stared at the sight of everything broken into pieces. "I hope people who lived here are okay," Scar said to himself but he doesn't know that it would be much worse than he had ever thought. Scar walked far away from the destroyed area. limping a bit but he knew how to handle the pain. While walking and looking around he saw a small house that looked like it was in a pretty bad state and it was a lot far away from that area.
Scar went towards the house to see if anyone lives there. After a few mins, he reached the house but the house looked like it was about break into different pieces. Scar then heard a noise and he looked from where it was coming. His eyes met a young boy with blonde hair a little bit like Grian's. Scar smiled that there was someone in this place but became sad when he saw the kid.
The kid looked traumatized and had lots of bruises on his face he reminded Scar a lot about himself when he was younger getting beaten up when he won't do the orders or just getting manipulated to do things that he didn't understand.
"W-Who are y-you?! w-what the fuck! y-you want from m-me!" said the kid stuttering while holding a sword to protect himself. "Whoa! Clam down, little lad! I am not here to hurt you I swear" said Scar while putting his hand up. "I ain't believing that shit! you look a bit like Dream but have more Scars…" said The kid.
"I really mean it! I won't hurt you! I hate hurting people mainly kids!" said Scar with sadness in his voice. the kid stayed in the same position for some time before slowly he started putting his weapon down. Scar sighed in relief and smiled at the kid who was just staring at Scar but looked more relaxed than before. "wanna tell me you're name kid?" asked Scar with a smile on his face.
The kid hesitated but soon opened his mouth "It's T-Tommy…", "That's a nice name! My name is Scar it's nice to meet you Tommy" said Scar with a warm smile. "I have never seen you here before…." said Tommy "Yeah about that..I went through a portal and I might have fallen into this world," said Scar with an awkward laugh. Scar noticed Tommy grabbing his stomach and knew that he was hungry. Scar noticed that he had cookies that he had baked earlier with him. Scar grabbed them "Hey! You want these?" asked Scar as he waved the cookies to Tommy. Tommy's eyes widen as he grabbed the cookies before chomping on them.
"These are so good!" said Tommy with a mouth full of cookies. Scar laughed at how Tommy was talking with his mouth full "Glad you liked them" said Scar. "Thanks, Mom!" said Tommy as he shut his mouth when he realized what he said. Scar became shocked when he heard Tommy call him mom. "FUCKING GODDAMIT! I'm so sorry!!" said Tommy as he covered his face. Scar tried his best to ignore what Tommy said but couldn't.
"Tommy…." said a random voice, Scar looked around and then at Tommy who looked more pale than usual. "Tommy! you okay?" asked Scar worryingly. "Who's this Tommy….?" said the voice again this time with a laugh. Tommy got his weapon out before going in front of Scar making sure Scar is nowhere near danger just like how Grian would do.
"Stay the fuck away…" said Tommy to the figure in front of him. Scar saw the figure more clearer it had a smile mask on which had cracks and that person was wearing netherite armor and netherite weapons.
"hahaha! you protect that person!? what a joke" laughed the man. "Shut the fuck up Dream," said Tommy as he positioned himself so that he can launch as soon as that Dream dude decides to attack. "You're just a weak brat! you can't protect even your best friend! you're just a disappointment" said the Dream dude. Scar started to get a bit mad mainly when he called this kid a disappointment.
"DON'T YOU DARE CALL HIM THAT AGAIN…" yelled Scar who was still behind Tommy who was shocked when he heard Scar yell. "Wow! "it" can speak," said Dream but a little bit of scaredness in his voice. "Scar?" asked Tommy concerned. Scar heard a loud noise and saw Dream slash his axe at Tommy. Scar was shocked and mad he wanted the kid to be safe. Dream was going to hurt Tommy again but got stopped as someone grabbed the axe.
Scar was holding the axe with his hands letting out a painful noise as his hands were bleeding from the sharpness. "don't touch him" said Scar as he looked at Dream. Scar was able to push Dream to the ground which made him drop the axe. Scar grabbed the axe with his bloody hands as he pointed it toward Dream. "you leave him and you won't die.." said Scar with a menacing face. "you got lucky this time Brat!" said Dream as he got up before running away. Scar turned to Tommy who was bleeding, Scar tore a bit of his clothes before wrapping it around the cut on Tommy's chest. "w-why?…would you h-help me…" asked Tommy while taking his breath.
"It's always good to help someone who needs it," said Scar with a smile. for the first time, he saw Tommy cry with a smile on his face. Scar hugged Tommy who happily accepted it. "shh it's okay," said Scar like a mother and smiled when he heard it again.
"T-Thanks Mom"
part 1 of 5
Funny scene and a future part:
"Scar! I told you not to go through the portal!" said Grian as he hugged Scar. "G! I missed you!" said Scar as he hugged back Grian kissed Scar but stopped when he heard "EW! MOM!" said a kid. "MOM?!" screamed Grian "Oh yeah, Grian when I was in that world I might have adopted all the kids in that server," said Scar with an awkward smile. "Are you kidding me?…" said Grian before fainting. "Wow dad's really shocked huh," said one of the kids as the others nodded "Grian!?" yelled Scar.
AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA
YOU'VE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS. SCAR BEING A PARENT FIGURE TO TOMMY
I'M SO HAPPY-- I need more
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arcaneglitch · 4 months
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Tagged in 20 questions for fic writers by @baronetcoins <3
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
Currently 52 (feels like it should be more but I tend to write longer stuff)
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
824,622
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Destiny (my main fandom), the Dream SMP, and Hermitcraft/the Life Series
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
don't scream when all the wolves come find you when he comes a-knocking at my door with warmth to stave off the end And A Song when the cold wind rolls in from the north
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
Almost always! I try to respond to as many as I can because I want anyone who comments to know how much I appreciate them :)
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
That might be a tie between Rewrite the Stars and Dig Two Graves, my take on Forsaken. That one ends on a real low note because it's designed to feed right into the next story
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
I'm swiftly realizing how few of my fics have endings that can truly be described as happy. I think I'd have to pic your feet find purchase in shifting sands
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Not really, thankfully. I did get a rather mean-spirited comment on my oldest story (not any of my current fandoms) but it didn't bother me much because I'd written the story while I was in high school and didn't get the comment until years later
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Nope, you won't find sex in any of my stories lmao. I'm both ace and aro and I find writing even just plain romance difficult
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
I May have written stuff in the past for a fandom that shall not be named. Currently, though. the only real crossover is an MCYT/Destiny crossover that @baronetcoins and I worked on
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I know of
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
No, but I welcome anyone that wants to translate my fics as long as they ask and give credit ^-^
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Yes, but not one that's been uploaded
14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?
I'm not big into shipping but if I had to pick I'd probably go with Grian and Scar from the Life Series (I'm a sucker for Desert Duo)
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
There's a DSMP Rise of the Guardians AU sitting in my google drive that I'd love to finish but idk if it's going to happen
16. What are your writing strengths?
Oh it's gotta be dialogue. To the point where I sometimes feel like I write too much of it lol. I can have characters just talking to each other for multiple pages
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Description, I'd say. Mostly because I don't think I take enough time to sit in the scenery of the piece and want to get straight to the action
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
It all comes down to doing your research. But also don't take it the wrong way if people fluent in the language correct you on things
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Why must you dredge up the past. Superwholock. The answer is Superwholock. Happy now?
20. Favourite fic you’ve written?
Requiem for the Departed, hands down. It gave me the opportunity to write a complex plot featuring multiple characters/POVs while also exploring aspects of the Destiny universe that don't necessarily show up much in the game
Tagging @collapsingintojupiter @utlana @petitmortsposts and @houseofmcallister
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snipsnexus · 2 years
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*takes a seat in your inbox and takes a sip of some Gunpowder Green Tea*
HEY CYD NICE TO SEE YOU HERE IN MY ASKBOX!!! OH THE GUNPOWDER GREEN TEA, HMM!!!
Okay, so it starts off like this.
After very careful consideration, I have realized that Charlie Slimecicle(variety youtuber and occasional twitch streamer) and Grian (minecraft youtuber extraordinaire) are actually very incredibly similar. Their love of gunpowder, of puns, their glasses, how both of their names are actually fucking "Charles". I've talked about it before.
Anyways
This revelation of their similarities caused me (an my good friend Cydough/Cyd/Chaggle) to make this VERY FUNNY AU where Charlie Slimecicle and Grian Minecraft are twin brothers, separated at a young age when Grian went to Japan and Charlie stayed in his hometown with his good friend Condi. >:3
This is gonna get longer, so I'm going to put the rest of this au (going through most of the SCU, Epic SMP, Wilbur's Skyblock, MCC, Hermitcraft seasons 6-8 and Evolution SMP) under this readmore!! V V V V V
When either the Elders remember the prophecy or it gets dropped by the local wizard (Scar's Grandfather) like a new diss track, they all immediately assume it's one of the new boys,
They basically spin a baby roulette wheel and choose Grian, so they little guy is shipped out to whatever town in Japan that YHS takes place in and meets Sam and Taurtis, two other English transfers that had been there for longer than he has (I don't really count the kindergarten thing as canon)
Charlie gets along with all the kids before Wilburs father (Yknow, Phil) decides to take both him and his slightly older brother somewhere where they can contact their mother easier (Mumza, Kristen, Goddess of Death)
They continue to do shit together for most of their lives, until they're wisked away by the Chaos God, Schlatt, who only really wanted to fuck around with the prophecy for Some Fun (Charlie), Give him an apple and all, and ended up with the other two as well. So he tried to kill them off with his powers, but they just wouldn't stay dead. Until the God Apple started to take into affect
It didn't really give Charlie anything he didn't already have, it just amplified what he already had. The ability to change. To create. To take the Code of an Old God and rip it to shreds to Save his friends. So he did.
Schlatt, or what remains of him, sticks around in Charlie's mind. Like a hallucination, like a tumor. Whatever, right
MEANWHILE
Grian is going through the time of his fucking LIFE in high school
He dips from Tokyo after he and Taurtis and Sam end up destroying the world with the necronomicon (Which sends everyone else in the world into the Void, i.e. the Soots) and Grian goes on to found Evo
We Know What Happens In Evo
Except before that last portal, the one where they go an kill the dragon, Grian is bloodthirsty, and angry and *hurting*
Because he lost Taurtis
And He's Not Coming Back This time
So, Grian killed the Dragon, is now a Watcher. Charlie killed Schlatt, is now a New Old God. Condi and Grizz both have a taste of power after eating the other two Golden Apples.
Where's Wilbur in all of this??? I'm glad you asked
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My hypothesis? Two different sets of Sky Gods
The Council(Charlie, Condi, and Grizz), who are usually VERY unhelpful, And The Watchers (Grian), who gives resources, and things he would need to survive
And both sets of Gods are trying to give items at the same time which just messes up the code of the item being delivered and Wilbur just gets another pair of boots and NO ACTUAL ANSWER
It's like when two people are fighting over how to fry an egg and end up making pumpkin pie or something. Wilbur is Confused, Grian is getting a bit pissed that his first assignment as a Watcher is going so poorly, and Charlie is having the time of his fucking life
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Grian eventually flees to HCS6, The Council eventually add in Bizly, And Bizly becomes a Minor God, Grizzly becomes a Fallen God and then a Ghost, like Schlatt, and Condi ends up leaving M'olympus after Grizzlys death.
Charlie ends up being the last God on the council after Bizly resigns and returns to his former Kingdom and he ends up drifting alone for a while until he lands in Epic SMP where Charlie is essentially a God In Hiding. He's trying to be carefree about everything that's going on and *How The Fuck Is Schlatt Here??*
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Charlie's pretty sure he killed that goat fuck, and back when Charlie was playing around in lonely worlds after the rest of the Council died or left, he messed around in a few survival worlds to get the hang on being real again. He sees Schlatt in the corner of his eye too often for his liking
So Charlie goes and says HI to Schlatt, and he doesn't quite know if Schlatt is real or not and if anyone else can see him, so he just kinda pretends he isn't there until Swagger addresses Schlatt by name
And when Charlie looks at Schlatt, he looks younger than he last saw him. His horn look shorter, the suit looks a bit more casual, and his voice doesn't echo,
so Charlie is pretty much okay with hanging around Swagger and becomes fast friends with Ted, who reminds Charlie of Condi and he spends a few nights before the internship crying and sobbing and feeling pretty fucking regretful over his longest friend's leave
Right before the internship, Charlie gets an invite, one time holiday special, for Mcc
Charlie sees Wilbur, and immediately recognizes him from the short time he tormented the guy for a couple months with the Council and- yeah fuck, thinking about them still really fucking hurts. He sees a few of the other competitors, meets his team who are two nice almost-adults and possibly the one person who thinks they know everything(:)) and Charlie thinks a few of the other competitors look familiar, he's probably seen that face before,
So also side note: why did Schlatt have the resurrection book in the DreamSMP???? Well, maybe someone was trying ro revive an old God whose powers were already taken by someone else, hmm
So like, maybe Swagger was trying to revive Schlatt in EpicSMP, maybe asked the void pit for assistance or prayed to it idk, and got a funny little book the next morning
What I'm saying is, SwaggerSouls had the resurrection book first, Schlatt took it in his rush to leave EpicSMP after Charlie blew the place to smithereens, and went to DreamSMP
So like, after he blows all that shit up, he grabs Ted and they both run from the explosions as fast as fucking possible and jump into the Void Hole just in the forest of Epic
Going through the Void, everyone knows all of the Void is the same in every world, the Deep Void, that is. So Charlie and Ted are just kinda drifting, but since Ted can't really breathe, Charlie had to knock him the fuck out and is using most of his magic to create oxygen for Ted to breathe
Because he's fucking wired on adrenaline and trying to make sure his friend doesn't suffocate in the Void, he completely misses the Watching eyes
He basically gets straight up YOINKED from where he is in the deep end, and has a fucking DEATH GRIP on Ted to keep him from being ripped away. He Sits, or well, is strewn across the large marble Gallery of The Watchers.
Charlie freaks out, as a fellow God himself, he would be lying to you if he said he knew anything about any other God out there. He didn't really do his reading when he was fucking around with his new powers, kay?
So he just sees what looks like fucking purple tinted biblical angels with talons and eyes literally covering every inch of their form. He's panicking, a little. The Watchers greet him warmly, call him Little Empire, call him Xelqua, pat his head, rub some dirt from his face, check his magic and, oh. Oh it looks like he's missing a bit, oh dear, don't you fret we'll just give you our gift again. Funny life series you're trying out dear, must have masked most of the magic we gave you. Don't you worry, we'll put you and your friend, oh is this one the Mumbo guy you were talking about? No? Taurtis? No matter, we'll send you two right back to your little Hermits, bye, make sure to preen those wings more often.
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He and Ted get basically rocket launched through the Void until they're no longer heading Sideways, they're going Up, And oh, would you look at that, they get tossed up through some bedrock and two people are just standing there, bantering
So I'm gonna put Ted and Charlie's arrival about the same time as the one time Scar got trapped in the bedrock in the botem hole and Grian had to fish him out using ender pearlsI also kinda wanna give him wings because of the Watcher mishap so image, *imagine*
Wings that are almost completely useless because he didn't ever really learn how to shape-shift so now he's just got constantly melting goop wings
Grian just got Scar out of his own mess of being in the fucking bedrock of the botem hole (*really, scar?*) when two people just get flung through the Botem Hole, more importantly, the *void* under the botem hole. So Grian does the first thing he thinks of and just fucking YOINK
Since I'm always riding on the headcanon that avians are shapeshifters and Grian is pretending to be an avian, and totally not a Watcher
Grian catches Ted in his talons while Scar barely manages to catch Charlie from where he's still half-stuck in the bedrock
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You bet when he wakes up, the first thing out of his mouth is "Where's Condi"
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So Charlie goes and find Ted just eating a bowl of milk, and judging by the person on the other side of the table's reaction, he's been doing so for a while.
He goes to meet Ted and gets frame-one hugged the SHIT out of and Ted like "Man, I thought we were goners. Who knew the weird, unexplained, vaugly disturbing pit in the middle of the first would bring us here, right!" And Charlie's just like "Haha, yeah, sure is crazy amiright"
Sitting at the table is a guy who introduces himself as Xisuma, the Admin of the server who is currently trying to find out how the absolute fuck they managed to get into a whilelist server without being whitelisted and Charlie just shrugs because God's do what God's do he guesses, and if a God is gonna mistake him for someone who was supposed to be here, well then he isn't going to look a gift horse in the fucking maw
He doesn't know, and Ted doesn't know, so Xisuma asks too look at their code for a later date, thinking that maybe something in their code let them manage to slip pass the whitelist barrier. And after asking the two newcomers their last memories, the really tall guy who could probably rival Mumbo in Tallness says the last thing he remembers is running for his life as the entire world blew up behind him, with Charlie dragging him along as explosions chased their heels.
Xisuma thinks it might be okay to let the two stay for a little while.
So I want Ted and Charlie to build in the area between Impulse and Scar's Swaggon, and Charlie starts digging another cave when Ted goes "Can't we have an actual house this time?" And Charlie just freezes like "I never actually considered living in a House that is a GREAT IDEA!"
People start confusing Grian and Charlie as eachother, especially people who don't really know Grian, like Beef and Hypno
And at some point they actually start getting to know eachother and Charlie and Grian sit down for a little funny talk where Grian is like "My life's always been shit. I lost my friend-" Charlie flinches. "I was taken from my friends by the Watchers-" Charlie pales. "And I'm pretty sure it all had to do with that stupid prophecy when I was born!" Charlie freezes, "I'm sorry, the *what*?"
Grian starts to recite the prophecy with a sigh and halfway through Charlie jouns in and they both just stare at eachother.
"How do you know-"
"That was the prophecy an old man blabbered about when *I* was born, but they never said it was for me, the same shit happened to me too."
"I lost my best friend Taurtis."
"I lost my longest friend Condi."
"I was taken by the Watchers."
"I was taken by Schlatt."
"I was given abilities akin to a God after I killed the first Ender Dragon."
"I took another Gods powers after I killed him to protect my friends."
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Every hermit think Ted is either a cow hybrid with recessive traits or a Vampire who drinks milk as a replacement for blood. Beef and Zedaph try and figure out what kind of hybrid Ted is but Ted is honestly just drinking more milk and trying to cause general havoc and they hvw no idea what kind of hybrid he is. zed makes a red string corkboard, hypno joins him and xb is in the corner drinking a slurpee watching this go down.
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He stops by the Swaggon like "Excuse me Mr. Goodtimes, do you have any spare vines." And Grian, who is already there, and Scar, who lives there, start laughing their entire asses off
Charlie also makes a really shoddy ramp up into the Swaggon because even though Scar built the thing, it really isn't handicap accessible
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Mumbo is just like: I'm selling end crystals!
Charlie and Ted: What are those???
Botem: * very confused *
Grian: They're- uh, the exploding thing on the top of the obsidian pillars in the end that heal the dragon?
Ted and Charlie: OOOH!!
Charlie: But wait, how do you get those? I thought the only thing you can do is punch them or shoot them???
Mumbo: You can craft them!
Ted and Charlie: YOU CAN WHAT???!!
Ted and Charlie make their own little cottage core house after Grian and Charlie realize they're brothers. Grian gives him flying lessons when he's not working on the Midnight Alley and Ted regularly hangs out with Impulse and Mumbo, until he gets introduced to Zedaph and everything goes absolutely bonkers for a few days
Charlie meets Ren and they both have such Golden Retriever energy and they literally go and play catch outside of Octagon for a while
And then,,,
Grian: Hey Charlie...
Charlie, fiddling with his kazoo tuner: Oh, yeah?
Grian: Is the moon big...?
Mumbo starts the moon cult, Charlie gets thrown on his fucking ass by the changing gravity, Ted pretends to walk on the ceiling of their house. Ted signs up for the Mooners cult for fun and Charlie ends up the only one who doesn't because he has a single self preservation instinct
So like, Charlie feels like he's going insane because everyone else around him is so entirely sleep deprived that they don't even sound real anymore
He takes regular trips outside of Botem to go to wherever Bdubs is so they can have a slumber party, where all they do is sleep. They just sleep. That's it.
It starts with Charlie who can't sleep at his own base because Ted is there, so he goes to the notorious sleeper on the server, Bdubs. As a fun sleepover game, they end up summoning a demon, which turns out to be Impulse so they leave again. They go to Zed's place and after they sign a liability waiver, sleep for about five seconds before Charlie can feel Zed taking his blood samples and he just grabs Bdubs from the bed and books it.
They try to sleep somewhere between Gem and False, but get so intimidated by the giant reindeer and eagle that they keep fuckin walkin
They end up sleeping at Iskall and Ethos place and are very confused by the fact that they don't actually talk to eachother, just pass notes to eachother, but will talk to them just fine
Once they finally sleep through the night and get back to their respective bases, refreshed, ready for the morning, eating breakfast, doing a morning walk around Botem, Charlie sees the other Botem members and how fucking ragged and sleep deprived they are and almost laughs straight in Ted's face
"That was a terrible idea and you know it."
"C'mon Charles, it's just the first night. It can only get better after-"
"The human body can only go 11 days without sleep, Ted. You don't look like you're going to survive *one*"
Charlie just ends up finding places around Botem where he can sleep in peace. Like an empty car on the Swaggon, on a windowsill outside of Impulses factory, on Pearl's waterfall llamas' back, between the roof and the top of the Midnight alley
When the moon starts falling and Scar puts them all in crash dummy suits into the rocket, there's still only 4 chambers but there's seven of them so Charlie sits on Scars lap and Ted tries to sit on Impulses shoulders when they drop
As soon as they pass through the Botem hole, it's not just Charlie who's trying to keep everyone alive, but now Grian is too
But Grian and Charlie both manage to give everyone an air bubble that they all sit in as they drift through the void until they're yoinked up by the watchers again
And deadass they're like
***TWO OF THEM?????!!!***
The Watchers realize they've made a little bit of an oopsie and are just like "We thought you were our little empire!!! You two have the same taste of magic!!!" (Its shape-shifting magic, they're both natural born shape shifters) They start drilling Charlie on what the fuck he's been doing with his powers and he just goes like "I've just been fucking around with people in the one block void worlds, especially that one guy, Wilbur."
And grian goes
"you fucking *what*"
Charlie realizes he was fucking with his brother and just, the most *shit eating grin* ever"
Milo was a good fish!"
"YOU WERE OVERIDING MY DROPS, YOU-"
"Now now boys, please don't maul eachother on the marble."
I think I'm gonna end the story once the Watchers direct them back towards the Season 9 world
Ted and Charlie respawn in separate worlds. And when Charlie opens his eyes, Condi is there in a shittly little wooden shack
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for the ask game: 🎢 ✨ 🎶 💖 👀 🤩 ✅
I'm gonna put these under a cut, because it's getting.. very long XD
🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?
Um..? Probably my current half published project, because I didn't expect it to.. blow up? and now it has almost 2k hits and im kinda staring at it in fear cuz holy hell thats a lotta people. I also discovered some things about myself while in the process of writing, and realized that I enjoy reading what I have written. So that one :)
✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉
I love reading my dialogue. I think its really funny at times, or just hits very well whenever I get their voices right. I also like the pacing of my writing, because its exactly like what I prefer to read, but it's still attention grabbing.
💖 What made you start writing?
Aru actually. They were talking about a lot of stories I think, and I only liked writing in class because they always got so excited about it. I'm the reason they started writing fic though, which is hilarious to me. I started writing fanfics because I wanted to see more of a specific au, and then a pairing, and then because I wanted to write something without figuring out characters. Its kinda funny thinking back on it XD
👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!
Mkay i've talked enough about "Alone?" so I'm gonna talk about the spectators au! Basically, I'm playing with minecraft mechanics and worldbuilding, and having the viewers or stream chat be in the fic as little floating incorporeal creatures that like to hang around the players. They don't usually venture into single player worlds or hardcore worlds, but they do hang out in hubs, servers, and event hosting worlds. (Ex., hermitcraft, hypixel, and MCC respectively)
This fic focuses on two players (streamers) Oli (TheOrionSound) and Joe Hills ("from nashville tennessee" /ref) and their interactions. Context is, they're both weirdos and I love them and they couldn't "out weird" the other during the massive crossover event a few months ago.
Joe's chat is a bunch of cats (quiet, regal seeming outside, but chaotic little shits on the inside) and Oli's chat is a flock of magpies (loud, chaotic, gift giving, but also friendly and curious, and generally energetic).
I just want them to fall in love and for their chats to hang out together /hj
(there is nothing beyond worldbuilding details written yet XD)
🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?
My favorite right now is probably Scar (GoodTimesWithScar) or Great Witch Shelby (Shubble in s2 of Empires), because they both have such distinct voices that I can mimic easily and they've got very interesting relationships with themselves, their setting, and other people.
✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?
Angst XD (/j) In all honesty, probably self doubt, or some sort of anxiety.
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can we get wells AND hels? a 2-for-1??
Anon you are speaking my language right now
Wels
First impression - Wels is the only other hermit who's single-player series i watched before watching their hermitcraft videos, in fact I didn't even know hermitcraft existed when I was watching wels. His Nature's Beauty series is, no joke, the series that got me into modded minecraft in the first place and what really kickstarted me rediscovering how much I love and adore minecraft, so I really have a special place for his content in my heart khgdjfb. also fun fact he is the first streamer I ever watched on twitch, i watched one of his streams when he was working on his base path in s7 (i have just realized how long ago that was girl help im becoming nostalgic)
Impression now - insane. Ok listen I’ve had this in my drafts for a while and that was the only word under this category thing and honestly? Valid. He is a little insane you don’t come up with his s7 plot line if you’re not at least the tiniest bit insane. I want to study him under a microscope I want to put him in a closed ecosystem jar and see how he fares I want to shake him around and see if he’d make a wobble sound or a rattling sound. I think he’d be crunchy. You think he’s in hiding he’s just biding his time putting pen to paper coming up with rhymes we’re the star studded group got together just to crush you-
Favorite moment - when he went to Beef’s cloning machine and when it didn’t seem to work he’s like “aw that’s a bummer. Oh well!” like my dude. You just went in a cloning machine that got struck by lightning and your reaction is just “lol oh well” ???? Iconic
Idea for a story - ok listen. mdbb server gives me intense brainrot over anything and one of the things it gave me brainrot over is the entity being Patrick’s rock from Grian’s s6 starter base and wanting to follow him to s9 since it didn’t get enough screen time and it somehow became friends with Wels when he got left behind in s6. Idk how I’d write it, but I’m obsessed with this au
Random opinion - I wish he had been able to finish Welsmart. It was a great concept and I loved the building it looked amazing, I wish he had had time to actually open it and make diamonds.
Favorite relationship - him and jevin are just. So good
Favorite headcanon - I haven’t seen much of this but bird wels is just so good. I may be very biased though
Hels
First impression - what. why did the cloning machine make evil wels. why did he put wels in a hole. why are they rapping. what’s going on
Impression now - he’s my poor little meow meow but like. in the opposite direction from Evil Xisuma. I’m a helsknight apologist. I can’t believe he lost a rap battle where he said he was gonna kill everyone wels loved I’m never gonna let him live it down what an idiot (affectionate). He’s a force of chaos and he is unstoppable your puny words mean nothing for defeat is impossible
Favorite moment - I just went back and rewatched the episode where Helsknight first appeared and. He stopped in the middle of building the trap and just. Slept the night away. Sir you’re in the middle of leaving a trap for someone you want to kill what are you doing stop sleeping he’s coming back soon
Idea for a story - this literally just came to me but. Wels came back when hels just woke up and he’s like…. “what” and hels is like “GO AWAY IM BUILDING A TRAP FOR YOU” and wels is just like “…..ok I guess” and then they somehow speedrun an enemies to family arc I wanna write this now help
Random opinion - I want more helsknight. I just think he deserves to be utilized in fics just as much as Evil Xisuma. Give me helsknight redemption arcs give me helsknight tragic backstories give me more helsknight
Favorite relationship - does this man ever talk to anyone other than wels. He’s not even friends with wels. Anyways I like to think they end up being like brothers who rarely speak and when they do they usually end up bickering but the second someone insults the other they’re ready to throw hands
Favorite headcanon - ok I’m still watching the helsknight episode as I’m typing this up and why is helsknight just like standing there and occasionally bobbing his head or punching the air during his verse. Like he doesn’t move as much as wels does so headcanon this man has no sense of rhythm. Oh my god he dances like he’s in the Sims.
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where is grumbot's au happy ending. give it
happily :]
continuation of this!
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"Who knew! Falling into the void, no matter how well you plan, will always kill you!"
Mumbo winced as he sat up, sending a side-glare at Scar. "We all knew."
"Yet you still did it!"
"At least we didn't respawn back in Boatem." Grian said before Mumbo could reply, brushing his sweater off and getting to his feet. "Does raise the question of where we are now, though."
"I don't think I've ever seen this place before." Pearl commented, glancing around the space the group had landed in. It was a largely flat and natural area, but there were buildings in the distance. Their colours were dulled and edges missing from time. "Is it a former hermitcraft server?"
Impulse came to stand beside Pearl, looking at the distant buildings with her. "Technically we can't back-access over servers, the new server takes over the existing space and the old server becomes unreachable... but I bet with world eight destroyed, the server had to revert to an old server to fill the gap! Pearl's right, this is probably world seven."
"Ah, world seven." Scar grinned as he got to his feet. "My township! I was mayor here, once."
"You were mayor of the shopping district." Mumbo corrected as he finally joined the group in standing, straightening his moustache as a light breeze picked up.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I completely forgot. Remind me, Mumbo, what were you in season seven? What were you mayor of?"
Before the season seven mayoral race could begin again, a piece of paper floated through the group, Pearl catching it as it went. Curious gazes turned towards her while she read it, saying after a moment, "What's Grumbot?"
"A mayoral race decision maker!" Grian answered cheerfully. "Me and Mumbo created it when he was running. I didn't realize we had left any his papers back here- we took most of them with us, as memories."
Mumbo frowned. "I thought we had taken all of them... Pearl, can I see the paper?"
Pearl handed it over, allowing Mumbo to read the message as Grian leaned over his shoulder. "'Dads come visit Grumbot'? This isn't one of its original messages."
Now Grian was frowning as well. "It wasn't, no... Could he have sent it after we left?"
"Possibly, but how would it have... escaped his... cube..." Mumbo's sentence fell apart as the wind picked up, the stronger blows not only ruffling hair but bringing with it more papers.
A lot more papers.
They couldn't catch them all, but Mumbo and Grian were fairly sure they read most of the ones that flew past them, the moments almost feeling slow-mo as they processed them.
Grumbot had realized it was in a virtual reality cube and had, since then, been calling for them, ceaselessly. Asking about Mumbo being mayor, if it was true. Talking of rain and loneliness. Hoping they'd visit. Begging for them to visit.
Grian managed to snag one piece of paper for himself, barely glancing at its text- "Are you even there, dads?"- before looking towards Mumbo. They both looked horrified.
"Mumbo? Grian?"
Without a reply, messages clutched tight in hand, Mumbo and Grian sprinted off in the direction of their abandoned son.
It was a long run, but they did their best to maintain it, racing past familiar decaying builds and old streets now littered with hundreds of repeating messages. Grumbot's virtual reality cube started coming up in the distance.
Much like with the buildings, it was tarnished by time, large holes going through it and letting in the wind that had delivered his messages. They only slowed as they get right up on it, Grian covering his mouth with his hand and pointlessly running a hand through his hair.
"I didn't think... I didn't think it would break." Grian said after a moment.
Mumbo looked at the message in his hand once more. "I didn't think he'd miss us."
They shared a look before lapsing into silence, finishing their approach to Grumbot's box. Enough of its front had remained that they hadn't seen it directly, the window that once let them look in at it clouded over with weather and grime, but as they stepped through the broken down holes in the build they were finally face-to-face with it once more.
While he desperately needed a good polishing, Mumbo and Grian were relieved to find Grumbot as put together as the day they first turned him on. Its expression, much too downtrodden for a robot, suddenly lifted at seeing them. The sound of empty dispensers firing repeated and echoed in the destroyed box.
Mumbo looked at the ground before Grumbot, littered with crushed and sodden papers along with full books. "Paper, he's- he's out of paper."
Grian nodded, already starting to step back. "I'll get more- stay with it."
"I will." Mumbo promised as Grian left, turning back towards Grumbot. His expression now remained in contentment. Mumbo stepped up closer to it, running a hand along its base console. "Oh, Grumbot. We've not been very good dads, have we?"
He glanced up. Grumbot's expression shifted back into the frown, more dispensers going off with still no items appearing. Mumbo patted the console.
"We'll make it up to you, I promise." Mumbo said quietly. "We thought you'd be happy here but- well, that was rather wrong, wasn't it? All your messages... I'm sorry Grumbot. We should have come sooner. But we'll fix this. I'll reconfigure your redstone, get you into a more mobile form. That is if- if Grian will build it, anyhow-"
"Of course I will." Grian was breathing a bit heavily as he quickly re-entered the box with Grumbot, several full stacks of paper practically falling out of his hands. "Then you can come with us this time! No more box or rain or... or waiting."
Grumbot's expression shifted back into a smile as Grian loaded the paper into his dispensers. There was a moment of silence as Grumbot created its reply, two papers shooting out right after.
Thank you for visiting, dads.
I look forward to joining you in your exploits :]
With Grian coming back to stand next to Mumbo, the two of them both smiled up at Grumbot.
"Us too, buddy."
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sushirens · 2 years
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Nightmare
Slightly inspired by a scene from The Hunger Games, also slightly inspired because I need to put more tangpulse into the world.
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Fandom: Hermitcraft
Characters: Impulse / Tango
THIS IS A SHIP FIC ! TW: Medication, Trauma, Angst, Fear, Unreality*.
*Author's note at the end
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He'd been running for hours it seemed. The walls of the factory his own hands crafted shrinking around him. A deep familar laugh echoed through the halls. His legs hurt. His chest hurt. He needed air. Needed to keep running. He's going to get caught.
He has to run.
"There's no escape. You're stuck here, with me. Forver."
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Impulse screamed as he woke up, sweat matting his hair down. His heart was racing and his breath was staggered as he frantically searched in the dark for his water bottle. He began counting, trying anything to calm himself down.
His hand finally grasped the water bottle, the brunette chugging it down almost immediately. Impulse took a deep breath, looking towards the hallway. He hadn't woken up Tango—good.
After he'd calmed down, he willed himself back to sleep, only to find himself back in the nightmare.
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He was running again, but this time he could hear the familiar click of boots following slowly behind. No matter how hard he ran, the sound of steps grew closer, until they stopped just behind him.
A threatening yellow and purple figure stood calmly behind him.
"Now, now," it spoke. "Did I not tell you there was no escape?"
The figure was upon him in an instant.
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He sat up again with a scream, covering his face as his body shook. He couldn't form a single coherent thought—his subconscious was overflown with fear.
He hadn't heard Tango come in the room, hadn't felt the bed shift under his weight. Impulse was paralyzed with terror. It wouldn't be easy to ground himself after this.
Tango didn't speak as he moved next to Impulse. They'd based together this season for this exact reason. He knew Impulse was shaken up after the factory incident, and knew he'd had sleeping issues in the past. He'd rather be there immediately than thousands of miles away while his best friend and boyfriend was having a breakdown, especially one this bad.
Tango rubbed circles into Impulse's back, trying to coax him out of whatever fear-induced trance he was locked in right now. He could feel Impulse shake against his hands, and it hurt to see his beau suffering so much.
"Tango...?" Impulse's voice came weakly.
"I got you, I got you. It's okay. You're in bed, in our starter base. Talk me through it."
Impulse gathered the strength to moves his hands from his tear-stained face.
"I was in–in the factory. He— He caught up with me, I don't know how. He—"
Impulse's voice wavered as he began crying again. Tango’s hand moved to Impulse's hair, smoothing it down as his other hand rested on the brunette's thigh.
"It's okay. He's not here. I am, I'm here."
The pair sat in silence, their breathing the only audible sound in the room. Tango noticed the mostly full potion bottle on Impulse's dresser, swiftly standing to retrieve it.
"You gotta take the potion Scar made. It'll help, I promise."
Impulse nodded wordlessly, pouring his dosage into the cap and downing it. His breathing had begun to even out and his heart rate slowed, bringing him back down into reality next to his boyfriend.
"Thanks," he whispered.
"Of course," Tango smiled. "Want me to stay?"
"Please?"
"Alright, I'll stay."
Impulse cozied in next to Tango, the pair sliding beneath the covers. Impulse laid his head in Tango's chest, the rhythm of his heartbeat calming the brunette.
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The nightmare didn't come back that night, or any night after.
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*I'm not sure if this is considered unreality or not, but I'm going to tag it just in case. Also, I haven't seen all of Impulse’s season 8, but I do have my own mini headcannon/au about the factory if anyone's interested in it. (You can probably tell what it's along the lines of just by reading this, haha.)
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nach0 · 2 years
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dear mx. nacho,
i am here with more Prey No More brainrot
ren & gem wake up and they are in the forest away from civilization, as far as they can tell. because of this they don’t think they hurt anyone. they walk and end up in the cod empire. i feel like jimmy is stupid enough to see another gem and not think to call her (affectionate).
also. ren would 100% cling onto fwhip later on in the au. master inventor? check. makes world breaking fun? check. capitalist? well, ren can work on that one.
from anon
Dear beloved anon,
Welcome to the brainrot, you're now the third confirmed brainrotter after me and a friend on discord.
I am going to shuffle around the order in which I answer because I have a plan for when they wake up and brainrot so strong I'm writing another 'short' thing for it. (short in quotes because every time I say I'm going to write something short it ends up being very long) (coming back post writing... yeah)
REN AND FWHIP DUO YES
Hermitcraft is quite a bit more technologically advanced than Empires which provides a bit of a challenge for Ren when it comes to tinkering, but he figures it out soon enough. (he does this by taking apart so many of Fwhip's inventions. But don't worry he puts them back together again almost the same as he found them)
Ren is responsible for so many modern day appliances being reinvented, and if many of them are geared towards explosives? Well that's just the side effects of being around and encouraged by Fwhip. (That's what he tells H!Gem at least, he most likely would have made the explosives anyway.)
Ok so time for more writing, this time of Gem and Ren waking up, brought to you by the Count Of Monte Cristo soundtrack:
When Gem and Ren woke up it was to throbbing pain. Waking up at least somewhat sore wasn’t unusual, their wolves were pretty rough when playing, but this was more intense than it had ever been.
Sitting up had been painful and a quick check of their sides had revealed nasty bruises, leaving them with one question. What had happened to them?
They were still in the forest, so they luckily hadn't found their way to the nearby town they had seen, but they had clearly been in some kind of serious fight. Maybe someone had been camping or passing through? They just had to hope whoever they had encountered had made it away safely.
"Ugh, the most painful transformation since the first and it comes when we don't have any healing potions nearby, just our luck," Gem groaned, using a tree to support herself as she staggered to her feet. "I don't want to risk going near that base we saw just yet, if I hunt for some mushrooms and daisies for stew will you be ok here?"
Ren just nodded, not facing her, and Gem felt her heart sink as she stumbled away. She didn't know when, or even if, he would forgive her for dragging him away from Doc, but she knew she would do it again in a heartbeat. She didn't know what their plan for escaping the moon had been, but she had known she needed to keep her pack safe, even if it meant pulling him through a portal to who knows where.
She pushed the thoughts from her mind and focused on her task. They would have to talk about it at some point, but first they needed to heal.
She found the mushrooms fairly quickly, and after a bit more searching she spotted some oxide daises growing in a plains beyond the treeline. She wouldn't have any trees to lean on but she braced herself and stepped forward-
-only to slam into a barrier that shimmered purple briefly before fading back out of visibility.
She pounded against it, rammed into it with her shoulder, even tried digging under it, but it wouldn't budge no matter what. Suddenly it all clicked in her mind, the injuries no normal person should have been able to inflict on their wolf forms, the lack of damage in the area despite there clearly having been a fight, the barrier surrounding them.
She turned and ran back to Ren, ignoring the way her injuries ached in protest, with one thought echoing through her mind.
Hunters.
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Ren leaned against a tree while he waited for her to come back, wincing as each breath sent a stab of pain through him. He was incredibly mad at her for dragging him through a random portal, but he understood her thinking and they had to stick together. There was no telling what the dangers of this world were, and they would just have to try and find a way back to the other hermits.
"Hello? Is anyone here?"
Ren's ears flicked to Gem's voice and he frowned, she knew exactly where he was. And the more he thought about it the more things he noticed were off. The words lacked the slight gruffness that she had gotten after being turned and they were much more refined than Gem had ever been, each carefully pronounced.
He hesitantly sniffed and instantly recoiled, there were a million little differences to Gem's while still smelling like her somehow, but there was one overpowering smell that he could only describe as wrong.
It reminded him of the nether, though he couldn't place exactly what in it, and it made him instantly worried. She had barely been gone five minutes, what happened to her?
"Gem, over here! You ok dude?"
But the person who came out from the trees wasn't Gem. She looked like her, sure, but there were so many differences and it set Ren on edge. Her antlers were smaller, and a dark brown instead of a lighter shade, she was wearing a long green dress and purple cloak that Gem would never wear, far too impractical for living in nature, and she was missing any traces of wolf.
But the most startling feature, the one that had Ren dragging himself to his feet and growling, was her eyes. Instead of Gem's regular soft green, they were a bright glowing red, and everything about them screamed malice, no matter how gentle her expression was.
"How did you know my name?" she questioned, and Ren's head tilted slightly in confusion. He opened his mouth to respond only for Gem, his Gem, to burst through the trees. She rammed into the other person and knocked her to the ground, keeping her pinned.
"Hunter," she growled out by way of explanation, glaring at Not-Gem. "I thought you hunters were above magic, are you so bad at your job that you had to use it or are you just a hypocrite?"
"I'm not a hunter!" Not-Gem protested, and Gem just glared harder.
"For some strange reason that's definitely not at all related to the barrier keeping us in the forest I don't believe you."
Her voice was heavy with sarcasm and Ren briefly wondered where she had gotten such personal disdain for hunters seeing as she hadn't gone anywhere she would have encountered them since being turned, but then his eyes drifted to her antlers and he understood.
"I swear I'm not, I'm the Grand Wizard of the Crystal Cliffs, the empire just beyond those mountains! I only sealed you in here because you were attacking my people and when I drove you out I needed to make sure you wouldn't come back!"
Gem reeled back and Ren let out a low whine. They had attacked people? She pushed herself up off the wizard and walked back over to him, leaning on him as the adrenaline left and made her lose what little energy she had left. The wizard stood up but made no move to attack, which they took as a small victory.
"I can see you're exhausted and clearly in need of some healing potions, so why don't you come back to my empire and we can talk about everything. Something is clearly going on, there must be a reason why you share my name and look so extremely similar to me, but we can work it out once you two have gotten some rest."
Neither of them made a move to follow her and after a beat she waved what looked to be some kind of magic staff in the air. They tensed in preparation for a fight, but paused when nothing seemed to happen.
"I just changed the ward, you'll now be able to leave the forest through the mountains at my kingdom. I promise I'm not a hunter, this isn't a trap. I just want to help and figure out what's going on."
Gem and Ren looked at each other, having an entire conversation in subtle gestures and facial expressions, before Ren turned back to the wizard.
"We'll go with you, but you heal Gem before we start answering questions." At a wack on his shoulder he amended. "You heal both of us before we answer questions."
She nodded before turning away and they followed her through the forest, hanging back enough to have a whispered conversation.
"I don't trust her," Gem hissed, glaring at the wizard's back. "I don't care that she's some version of me, something is wrong with her and I don't trust it."
Ren nodded, he'd noticed the same thing. Even without her scent being so off anyone would be able to look at those eyes and see something wrong.
"We need to follow her out of the forest at least, but after that we can run. Your choice on direction dude, I just want to get away."
"We go west," Gem said instantly. "I don't know what it is but nature is strong there. Stronger even than my base back home. It'll help us, I know it."
Gem had always been in tune with nature, even more so after getting turned, and Ren deferred to her judgement. The wizard turned back to them, probably to check they were still following, and he had to nudge Gem so she'd stop scowling.
They both felt it when they had passed the barrier, a feeling of being trapped they hadn't fully realised was there being suddenly removed. The wizard hadn't said anything, still walking ahead, and they took the opportunity to quietly slip off. A shout soon came from behind them and they picked up speed into a run. They heard the sounds of rockets firing overhead but an elytra wasn't much use in a dense forest. Suddenly Gem pulled him into a cave, and just in time too, as the wizard walked past, calling out for them. They held their breaths until she passed and her mutterings about someone named Xornoth were well out of their enhanced earshot.
Ren pulled a barely conscious Gem to her feet and supported her as they started walking again. He only hoped that whatever was west would be able to help them as much as she thought it would.
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1544 WORDS!!! SO MANY WORDS!!! THIS WAS NOT MEANT TO BE THAT LONG LMAO
The place they're going is the Overgrown, the forest they're in is the one behind the southern empires (I always have a map of both empires and hermitcraft up in another window for writing reasons lol)
I had a plan, they were going to go with E!Gem and stay with her and I'd sprinkle in a bit of unreliable narrator with them getting told Xornoth was only there to help end the cursed winter but then SOMEONE *cough cough Vee* started talking about the Shrub interactions with the two and then somehow I got to them going to Katherine's. There will be lots of Shrub though by virute of nature wives <3
Anyway hope you enjoyed it!
Lots of love,
Nach0
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A comprehensive list of all my Ghost au's
this post will be talking about all of the ghost au's ive created or co-created including talking about ghost au's from old fandom's that i am no longer in. if you want to ask about any of my au's my ask box and dm's are always open this includes the hermitcraft au but keep it to a minimum please also if any of the creator's of the characters have said that they arent comfortable with what im making ( with proof ofc) i will edit or delete what is needed to fit in the boundaries also another thing this is a long post if you just want the art go under the cut! this post will discuss how each au works and basic plot stuff about them the fandoms in this post are hermitcraft, epithet erased, and dsmp okay first things first-
my hermitcraft au (what a pity)-
On my old tumblr account I made a few posts about it along with a fanfic which never got finished due to me not wanting to interact with the fandom any more due to personal reasons and also I'm not very good at writing imo but I think I'm ready to talk about it again. Just keep in mind i will most likely not talk about this fandom ever again at least not on here again for personal preference : -) it was about season 6 Grian since he was who i was hyperfixating on at the time, being haunted by the ghosts of Sam and Taurtis, both of them from the old roleplay series' Yandere High School, and Tokyo Soul, and taurtis from Grians old-ish smp Evo. Since I never finished the fanfiction nobody but me and close friends ever got to hear the full story i had planned but now you will i guess. It was mainly just grian stressing about Sam and Taurtis being ghosts and him worrying about being crazy, though he would still join the hippies during the area 77 war he would be significantly more stressed especially when finding out that Sam and Taurtis have been possessing his body during the night, he’s more worried about Sam though because of his track record back in the other servers( yhs and ts) it was going to be that Sam (although death isn't permanent) would go on a killing spree in Grians body which would cause the area 77 guys to put him in the facility to see what's going on with him, and it didn't get further then that. My favorite part of this au much like all of my au’s were the design elements i had for it which i'll have under the cut with the other designs. Now for a rundown of how the ghost physics work in this world, in typical ghost fashion Sam and Taurtis were not able to touch or move anything, but they were able to interact with Grian, him being the only person who could see/hear/or touch them. Their only super natural abilities is being able to possess Grian.
Okay! Time for my Epithet Erased au!: Unlike what a pity this one doesn't have a name or a fanfic to go with it as said before i'm not exactly a writer but i have talked about it a bit before on this account along with posting the designs and general concept but i'll go more in depth here! As said in my original post this au was a co-creation with my best friend and sibling @brocolibean so go check bun out ^^ Unlike ‘What a Pity’ it was more lighthearted and comedy centric because it dealt with a bit more and also the original show is a comedy. This au didn't include the character’s epithets so they are all humans. This will also include talking about house each ghost died so if your uncomfortable hearing about that you might want to skip the ghosts portion Just like the original post I'll separate the story summary into 3 parts with intervals in between to talk about the ghosts. First we have the Banzai boys part of the story. Giovanni, Spike, Dark Star, Crusher, Flame Thrower, Car Crash, and Ben all decide to move into a house together so they could all easily split the rent since its close to their collage, the house, which they get for cheap, is aa very old house with sketchy history. But it's a huge house for cheap so they don't complain they encounter the ghosts very early on living in the house and they swear to figure out how they died so they can get their memory back! The ghosts, Molly, Sylvie, Trixie, and Pheonica have no memory! All they know is that there are ghosts! They are connected to the property of this house but if you where to get something- like perhaps a stone from the property the ghost is still technically attached to it therefore the ghost can go with you anywhere Speaking of- -Phoenicia Fleecity is one of the last ghosts to show herself, her body is found in the overgrown garden flowers growing over her skeleton, she is from the victorian era making her the oldest out of the ghosts though he death is the most mysterious -Molly Blindeff is the first ghost the group meets her decomposed body is found buried in the floorboards of the living room, found when gio decided that the house needed renovation and taking matters into his own hands, she died via blunt force trauma i will not be going into detail here because i'm still thinking of doing something with this au she died in the early 2000’s -Sylvester Ashling is the second ghost to show himself though he didn't want to, his body was found in the bottom of the pond in the backyard of the house in the garden. His body while it was decomposing and falling apart was still intact, bloated from drowning. Again i wont go into detail but this wasn't an accident time of death is unknown -Trixie Roughhouse is the third person to show themselves to the Banzai Blasters she is found in the bushes in the backyard her face disfigured from some sort of explosion unlike the others it seems like it was purely an accident, like sylvie their time of death is unknown Mera Salamin is the collages part time librarian nicknamed “the library witch” she started seeing her ghost after obtaining a neck bow with a blue pendant from a pawnshop she got it cause it was pretty and didn't expect a himbo to come along with it -Indus Tarbella is a ghost who is attached to the pendant and bow Mera wear it used to be his own until he was decapitated wearing it through he was properly buried he has no troublesome memories about what happened even after seeing his body he’s just happy to be with Mera Percival King is a security guard at the college and one of the best at that, she wields a story she got from a pawn shop as its her preferred weapon she takes her job very seriously -Ramsey and Zora both died by the same sword while fighting neither remember who wielded the sword, even after death they hate each other and hate being bound together even more Everyone ends up meeting and finding out they all have ghost hijinks ensue. The way ghosts work in this world is a bit strange I'll admit but it's one of my favorites. The ghosts can interact with the human world(menma style) but
they can only talk to the others who can see them (the Banzai Blasters, mera and percy) and the ghosts can interact with each other ghosts in this au attach themselves to an item or property that has someway to do with their death, the kids in the property, Indus it's the bow, and the sword duo is well, the sword Percy carries. As alluded to from before Gio and the rest of the boys end up carrying a bit of the property with them in the form of friendship bracelets four for each of them which makes 28 different bracelets so the kids can decide who to follow around for the day.i talked about how percy and Mera’s items work enough but i would like to mention that Indus does most of the heavy lifting around the library but becaus enoone else can see indus they assume she’s magical, the glowing pendant doesn't help.
The last two au’s i want to talk about are both dream smp au’s
though i've never talked about them online until now, again thanks to @brocolibean for letting me brain vomit my way through these au’s and helping me out with things i love them please check him out I'll be honest i'm so scared of this fandom so i'm afraid to talk about my au’s please be nice to me Also this is all roleplay and fiction!<3 The first one i'll talking about is the dsmp ghost hunters au Sam runs a company where groups of people hunt ghosts for money! Those groups being Phil, Technoblade, Wilbur,Tommy, Tubbo, and Ranboo Dream, George, Sapnap, Quackity, Karl Bad, ant, Skeppy, and Puffy There’s most likely more but there the only people i can think of at this moment The only canonical ghost being Schlatt This au doesn't have a proper story perse it's more about gags and stuff about the different character fighting over ghosts for money but the story stuff i do have- Sbi family dynamic is real here you can rejoice, Phil adopts Tubbo after his dad (Schlatt) kicks the bucket and fucking dies , Tubbo befriend’s Ranboo some mysterious teen who just desperately needs a job so he- and the rest of the Minecraft family help him get one- though they find out Ranboo isnt as human as he was made out to be and he finds out he’s this worlds version of angels called ender’s and he’s there to protect Tubbo and Tommy which explains why the more violent ghosts start being less violent at the arrival of Ranboo joining their team. Bad isn't human either being a demon his entire group know’s plus quackity. Quackity found out but squirting him with holy water through a water gun but don't worry he promised not to tell anyone; -) Bad and Ranboo know about each other because they see each other as their true forms The minecraft fam found out about Schlatt being a ghost through Tommy- despite Tubbo telling him not to- telling them from calling up and paying for them to investigate their own house saying “technically i didn't tell them” they ended up not getting rid of Schlatt though I'm not going to talk about how the ghosts here work because it's not super important to the plot
The second au is another ghost au where the main characters are ghosts themselves,
like the others its mainly lighthearted and comedic with dark attributes The plot surrounds the sbi family moving into a new house and Tommy finding out it's being haunted by two ghost’s. Those ghosts being Tubbo and Ranboo This au isn't fully figured out but I know that he found out he was haunted by sending a selfie to someone(possibly Drista and Purpled? Since there are only other minors who were part of the dsmp lore? But ultimately idk) and them being like “yo i didn't know you had friends” and him being like “?????” Tubbo died from a boiler exploding and Ranboo died from drowning (which are apparently my two favorite deaths) this also doesn't have an official story? It was just an excuse to make ghost designs with a bit of a story without the commitment As said before it's a sbi au but also a Dadschlatt au cuz I like Dadschlatt au’s. The main story bits i have are background stuff for Tubbo and Ranboo which ill elaborate now The house was originally meant to be just a summer home because it had a large lake in the backyard Ranboo’s family would go there often but that doesn't mean his family liked him very much because of his heterochromia, Vitiligo, and his height his family thought he was strayed from god and drowned him Tubbo died during sleep while Schlatt wasn't home either out drinking or just at work he came home to the house being partially blown up and his son nowhere to be seen he calls Puffy out of fear and she calls the cops. He moves away and most likely starts drinking a bit more. The house gets rebuilt and now the sbi live there hijinks ensue! The ghosts in this au work in a simpler manor only Tommy can see them unless a photo is taken but even then they are blurred, they can float and go through walls and their ability to touch things is limited Ranboo’s memory is worse then Tubbo’s but Tubbo’s isn’t much better.
below the cut will be designs and stuff be safe pal's- there will be minor/cartoony blood-
rip me exposing my old art on this account also i'm ripping these from my fucking amino account that i don't use but still have the password too
gonna do the original what a pity drawins first them ill show a more recent rendition because i hate the old drawings
these are the old drawins i hate them
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then,,, i just drew them,,,,, fuck these guys/j
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thses are the old sprite edits of these four! trixies design is the only one that really changed
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the ded;-; i couldnt fit him on the page
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there he is! ft indus and very much alive mera(who i cant figure out how to FUCKING DRAW-)
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gay's get wilbur'd/j
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they lookin for ghosts
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the whole fmaily is here but its quality is shit
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these bitches dead! good for them,,, good for them,,,,,,/j/rp
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So, uh, I guess I should do one of those intro pinned post thingies? Well, here it is.
Who am I?
Hi! I'm Respectable Username. You can call me Res for short. I mostly post about Hermitcraft and Hermitcraft-adjacent things, but will also reblog other funnies or interesting things.
What do I do?
IRL, I'm a software engineer. In the fan-o-sphere though, I mostly enjoy writing and character analysing stuff. Writing I've done on Tumblr is tagged with `#res writes`.
Asks open
Ask me about anything really. Or alternatively, give me a prompt and I might just get inspired to throw out a scene/one-shot from it!
Latest bit of writing
The Weirdest Reflection - Etho and Bdubs swap outfits. That's it. Fluffy Last Life one-shot.
It Glows in the Dark - A mysterious item appears in the world. What is it, and why is it there? Multichapter mystery/action/angst?/I don't know how genres work starring 18 Hermits.
Here There Be Monsters - Grian is a completely normal human, living in a completely normal, human world. Or at least, that's what he thought before the creature attacked him. Multichapter, Urban Fantasy AU, MCYT crossover (but mostly Hermitcraft focused).
Streaming
I've started streaming some modded Minecraft over on Twitch. At the time of writing, I mostly play TechnodeFirmaCraft, a survival-based modpack. If you wanna come along and say hi, my channel is respectable_username.
Important Tags
If I'm talking about IRL stuff or about a project I'm working on that's not released, I'll tag as `#res rambles`.
If I'm writing a scene or some character analysis on Tumblr (as opposed to just linking to AO3), I'll use `#res writes`.
If I post/reblog anything shippy (rarely, but it does happen occasionally), I will tag as `#hermitshipping`.
Uh, so do you Hermitship?
Yeah I know I'm complete trash but I try to keep it off the main blog. Look, I can't help which characters my brain decides to lock on to and right now yes it is a pair of Hermits. But only their characters, not the real-life people. And again, if I do feel the need to post, it will be tagged so you can avoid it.
You keep mentioning a big writing project?
This writing project is "It Glows in the Dark" and I'm slowly releasing it now! All posts related to it post-release are tagged with "#IGITD fic". My Word doc is at almost 30,000 words now and I still have a way to go, making this by _far_ the most writing I've done on any singular project for any reason ever. I'm really proud of it please go read it and I'll love you forever.
Other fandoms?
The other big, long-running fandom participations from the past have been Doctor Who and the MCU. I've also fallen through other fandoms over time, including in the last few years She-Ra (2018), Good Omens, and Attack on Titan.
And of course I was historically part of the Sherlock (BBC) and Merlin fandoms back in the day, although never got into Supernatural.
So, what's up with the username?
Uh, well, I'd been trying for a few years to move away from my old username that I used everywhere. I'd come up with that name in 2006, and very little created in 2006 is fit for purpose in 2021! I'd been struggling to come up with something new though, so I mostly just used the old username or my "professional" username.
But then came the time when I wanted to update my username on Twitch so I could try catching some of the Hermits' livestreams and join the chat and I didn't want the embarrassing old username. So I changed it, trying a few different options, none of which were available, and eventually in my frustration just put in respectable_username and saved. I almost immediately regretted it, but Twitch wouldn't let me change back for 60 days, so got stuck with it for the time being.
But then I actually caught a Hermit's stream live (one of Tango's Among Us sessions with the Friday Night Crew) and chatted in the chat and about 3 separate people complimented the username! So I decided to keep it and make it my new username that I used around the place. Still haven't updated most websites yet though.
As I think of more things, I'll add them.
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