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drachis917 · 2 years

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Brainrot has hit me real hard for @shepscapades Detroit Become Hermitcraft story, so I thought I’d write a little something for it! I love dbh worldbuilding, and putting the hermits in there only adds to my interest. Anyway, this is partially based on Gem’s Season 8 episode 3, since it lives rent-free in my heart, and I thought it’d be fun to try to translate Gem and Impulse’s interaction into this au. Story’s under the cut!

“Impulse! Hi!”

GeminiTay trotted excitedly towards the android, waving enthusiastically. Impulse smiled, walking slightly quicker to meet her in front of her porch.

[Objective: Meet with GeminiTay] [Complete]

“Hello Gem,” Impulse said, “How are you?”

“Fantastic, thank you,” Gem said, “How’re you?”

“I am well,” Impulse responded. All of his systems were in order, and he hadn’t encountered any warning messages for twelve days. “Am I interrupting anything?”

“No, no,” Gem said, looking a little sheepish, “I was just in the process of, uh, mischief. You’re fine, don’t worry.”

Instead of pointing out that worrying was not in his programming, Impulse simply nodded and got back to their business deal, “Pearl told me that you had some gold that you’d be willing to give us.”

“I sure do!” Gem nodded, rifling through her inventory, “I’ve got two stacks, is that enough?”

“Yes,” he nodded.

[Objective: Collect gold] [Complete]

Taking payment from the pockets of his new suit, he continued, “Pearl didn’t specify a what I should trade with you, will this suffice?”

Gem gasped at the diamonds the android handed to her. “Ten diamonds?” she counted, “Are you sure?”

“Should I have chosen a better price?” Impulse asked, tilting his head curiously. He had done a bit of research beforehand, but he wasn’t programmed with economics in mind. Maybe he should look into some of the wider databases in order to expand his usefulness.

“No, this is fine, I just wasn’t expecting this!” Gem said, “You’re so nice, thank you so much!”

Impulse nodded, watching her turn to presumably walk back to her house. However, instead of going inside, Gem placed down an orange shucker box and dug something out of it.

“Here,” she said, spinning back to face him, “I gave you a spore blossom earlier, and you deserve the real thing too!” She took his hand in hers and gently pressed an item into it, dripleaf if Impulse was correct.

“I don’t have to do your parkour course for this?” Impulse asked, taking a brief moment to analyze the plant. Yep, that was some authentic dripleaf right there.

“Nope! I mean, you can if you want to,” Gem said, “It’s a gift!”

Impulse frowned, the light on the side of his forehead blinking yellow. This was a business transaction, right? He couldn’t simply receive this without giving her anything in return. He rapidly checked his inventory, looking to see if he had anything that could be of use, and decided on the stack of slimeballs he had harvested from the work-in-progress farm.

“I can’t take this for free,” he stated, holding the items out to her, “Please, take this in exchange.”

“Slime?” Gem said, taking the stack carefully, “Oh, I didn’t have any slime yet, this is great!”

Smiling politely, Impulse nodded, expecting that to be the end of the interaction. Gem seemed to have other ideas, though. Hopping closer, she wrapped her arms around his midsection and squeezed gently, leaning into his chest with a soft hum.

“I didn’t expect you to be so huggable,” Gem observed, “I kinda figured you’d be plastic-y and cold, but you’re really soft!”

[Software instability]

Impulse didn’t know how to respond to that.

“Well, thank you so much!” Gem said, lightly tapping her forehead against the android’s arm, “I’ll see you later, Impulse!” And with that, she released him from her grasp and skipped back to her house.

Well, that was interesting.

#hermitcraft dbh au #impulsesv #geminitay #Ashe does writing #not intended as shipping I just think they're cute #yes I am projecting onto Gem with the forehead bonk to show affection

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