As someone who barely even knew what vault hunters Is
And started watching through Iskall and Wels' hermitcraft vault hunters in the last few weeks
It's been so fun to watch (and in Wels' case, learn with him)
The Herald fight was SO fun to watch. I do endgame raiding in an mmo, so watching Iskall's pov where he's trying not to say anything to let the new hunters figure it out? My brain was IMMEDIATELY latching onto details and trying to calculate how the different phases worked
Im not Super happy with some of the headcanons I've created for witherpulse, so. I'm updating them! (Plz help me spread my witherpulse propaganda </3 )
-Created by a wither glitching over the course of many months, his coding eventually rewriting itself into a player. Cause of glitch unknown, but likely a result of the server he was originally summoned on being full of hackers and conflicting mods essentially "breaking" his base code.
-As a wither, he has three heads. The extra two are wispy skulls that float over either shoulder. Wither corruption also marks his hands and face to darken the veins there, and there's visible bone on his fingers, ribs, and making up his tail. The corruption gets darker and spreads a bit when he's actively using wither magic.
-Has a large field of vision due to having three sets of eyes. Tends to get clumsy and has very poor depth perception if one or both of his skulls can't see for whatever reason.
-He "breathes" out of habit from watching other players do it. The way his chest and shoulders rise and fall has a very apparent sort of Wrongness to it. Even players who don't know he doesn't actually breathe get an uneasy feeling from it.
-Despite the fact that he's got a mouth full of fangs, his smiles are surprisingly friendly and contagious. And he smiles Often.
-Around new or unfamiliar players, he'll use glamour magic to hide his extra skulls, tail, wings, and wither corruption, often getting him mistaken for a skeleton hybrid instead because of his fingers still being bone. Doesn't seem to like anyone outside of Skizz or the Hermits to know he's a wither, though eventually stops using the glamour for the Life servers, too. When the glamour is up, he can still see through the two skulls, giving the feeling that he's got eyes on the back of his head.
-Can summon a skull into his hand that he can then propel in any direction with surprising force. It explodes on impact, applying wither effect to anyone who survives the blast; those killed by it drop a wither rose.
-Can be summoned like a normal wither mob, but since he's sentient he has the option to turn down the summon; if that happens, a normal mob will be summoned instead. This was how he first met Skizz (didn't yet know he could refuse a summon and was just trying to escape the server he first spawned on), and later the Hermits (were joking about summoning him, knew he was a good redstoner but never met him, he decided to humor them and accept it and has been a Hermit since).
-For Limited Life, the halos on his skulls changed to reflect the time he had remaining, the circles gradually losing "slices" depending on his time. All three sets of eyes will also change color to show his lives for the Life Series in general. Green looks downright odd, yellow looks Slightly Off because it's not his usual warm gold, red just looks downright sinister paired with his existing traits.
-Despite his tail being links of floating bone, it's surprisingly sturdy and can easily swipe someone's feet out from under them.
-Doesn't know why he ended up with wings after becoming a player. Thinks it may be a result of his coding attempting to make sense of his ability to fly, however.
-Reacts...poorly. to being trapped in bedrock. "Pranking" him with such a trap is liable to get the prankster threatened by a very angry Skizz and/or Tango. Bedrock specifically, no other blocks garner such a reaction.
Im not Super happy with some of the headcanons I've created for witherpulse, so. I'm updating them! (Plz help me spread my witherpulse propaganda </3 )
-Created by a wither glitching over the course of many months, his coding eventually rewriting itself into a player. Cause of glitch unknown, but likely a result of the server he was originally summoned on being full of hackers and conflicting mods essentially "breaking" his base code.
-As a wither, he has three heads. The extra two are wispy skulls that float over either shoulder. Wither corruption also marks his hands and face to darken the veins there, and there's visible bone on his fingers, ribs, and making up his tail. The corruption gets darker and spreads a bit when he's actively using wither magic.
-Has a large field of vision due to having three sets of eyes. Tends to get clumsy and has very poor depth perception if one or both of his skulls can't see for whatever reason.
-He "breathes" out of habit from watching other players do it. The way his chest and shoulders rise and fall has a very apparent sort of Wrongness to it. Even players who don't know he doesn't actually breathe get an uneasy feeling from it.
-Despite the fact that he's got a mouth full of fangs, his smiles are surprisingly friendly and contagious. And he smiles Often.
-Around new or unfamiliar players, he'll use glamour magic to hide his extra skulls, tail, wings, and wither corruption, often getting him mistaken for a skeleton hybrid instead because of his fingers still being bone. Doesn't seem to like anyone outside of Skizz or the Hermits to know he's a wither, though eventually stops using the glamour for the Life servers, too. When the glamour is up, he can still see through the two skulls, giving the feeling that he's got eyes on the back of his head.
-Can summon a skull into his hand that he can then propel in any direction with surprising force. It explodes on impact, applying wither effect to anyone who survives the blast; those killed by it drop a wither rose.
-Can be summoned like a normal wither mob, but since he's sentient he has the option to turn down the summon; if that happens, a normal mob will be summoned instead. This was how he first met Skizz (didn't yet know he could refuse a summon and was just trying to escape the server he first spawned on), and later the Hermits (were joking about summoning him, knew he was a good redstoner but never met him, he decided to humor them and accept it and has been a Hermit since).
-For Limited Life, the halos on his skulls changed to reflect the time he had remaining, the circles gradually losing "slices" depending on his time. All three sets of eyes will also change color to show his lives for the Life Series in general. Green looks downright odd, yellow looks Slightly Off because it's not his usual warm gold, red just looks downright sinister paired with his existing traits.
-Despite his tail being links of floating bone, it's surprisingly sturdy and can easily swipe someone's feet out from under them.
-Doesn't know why he ended up with wings after becoming a player. Thinks it may be a result of his coding attempting to make sense of his ability to fly, however.
-Reacts...poorly. to being trapped in bedrock. "Pranking" him with such a trap is liable to get the prankster threatened by a very angry Skizz and/or Tango. Bedrock specifically, no other blocks garner such a reaction.
Will be asking ypu on the account of proving you wrong that ur not gonna get send any and also ur art is amazing and also on the account of spreading moss etho and arctic fox bdubs propaganda :>
aaaa thank you so much 😭 I honestly wasn't expecting to get any asks, made my day when I saw some <3333
[hermit fanon swap requests open]
I have
no. idea.
how to draw either of them but I Tried™️
I was trying for that like. white moss you can find on trees/rocks sometimes for Etho's scars?? but I don't think I pulled it off rip
bc I think it'll be fun, I'll put my personal headcanons for any of these I get under a cut, so folks can get an idea of how different these might be from my own vision! (or how close, depending on how an ask lines up with what I actually think for them)
Etho: Normal Human™️
Bdubs: glare? human really leaning in to The Bit™️? no one knows for sure, he'll neither confirm nor deny
Will be asking ypu on the account of proving you wrong that ur not gonna get send any and also ur art is amazing and also on the account of spreading moss etho and arctic fox bdubs propaganda :>
aaaa thank you so much 😭 I honestly wasn't expecting to get any asks, made my day when I saw some <3333
[hermit fanon swap requests open]
I have
no. idea.
how to draw either of them but I Tried™️
I was trying for that like. white moss you can find on trees/rocks sometimes for Etho's scars?? but I don't think I pulled it off rip
bc I think it'll be fun, I'll put my personal headcanons for any of these I get under a cut, so folks can get an idea of how different these might be from my own vision! (or how close, depending on how an ask lines up with what I actually think for them)
Etho: Normal Human™️
Bdubs: glare? human really leaning in to The Bit™️? no one knows for sure, he'll neither confirm nor deny
my take on an Impulse design; I adore the idea of him being a wither so yeet! both his base look when he has a glamour up, and when he's using his magic/real appearance
didn't have space to draw his tail without crowding the image, but just imagine it like his wings: links of bone that float together