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dredgesnails · 2 months

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stardew valley au where joel and skizz are new residents to pelican town (hermit town?). joel just inherited a large farm from his late grandfather and skizz is moving in with his old friend after reconnecting with him and wanting a fresh start. and the townspeople are like, kinda weird.

bdubs is fine enough - he’s a sweet man with a fun personality and he’s the local builder, but it’s almost frightening how fast he constructs new buildings when joel needs them. pearl, their resident postmaster, is also pretty normal other than the fact that skizz never seems to be awake early enough to catch her delivering mail. scar is lovely but he’s never available when joel wants another chicken. the mayor, xisuma, is pleasant too, if a little eccentric at times, but he doesn’t really seem to do much in town.

for the most part, skizz is settling in well. he’s moved in with impulse, who runs the local blacksmith in town, and he gets along well with most of the local townspeople. he’s started spending his evenings at the local saloon listening to ren regale the patrons with fantastical tales while he and stress serve up food and drinks, and he finds himself growing close with cleo, the local sculptor. he even gets a new wardrobe from hypno free of charge, and sometimes helps cub out with his totally scientific studies and creations.

skizz also joins forces with beef (who helps to supply the local general store that xb and keralis run) in terrorising the local manager of the corporate chain grocery store that no one likes. doc is a terrible manager but would make a fun supervillain (according to joe hills, the bookseller who appears once in a blue moon but seems to know doc more than anyone in town).

joel, on the other hand, seems to only be interacting with the strangest residents in town. he discovers the adventurer’s guild after only a couple weeks, and is only somewhat irritated by iskall’s refusal to pronounce his name correctly. false promises to give him prizes if he can kill enough monsters, which is not something joel had expected to be doing when he pictured farm life, but here he is. he stumbles upon a travelling cart one day, and the man inside insists he’s a knight from a faraway land, that he risked his life to make it all the way here to sell his wares. it’s all stuff joel can get cheaper elsewhere.

he’s pretty sure the local doctor has no real medical training, but then he passes out while fighting monsters and he wakes up completely fine, so zedaph probably knows what he’s doing. maybe. when joel isn’t passing out he sometimes makes trips to the library-slash-museum, which is probably almost completely empty because mumbo, who begs joel for anything to display, looks like he’s never fought a duggie in his life. eventually mumbo gives joel a key to the sewers, which are way cooler than they have any right to be, and that’s where he finds jevin’s secret sewer shop. jevin lives in town. he just also has a shop hidden underground. joel has stopped asking questions by now.

and then there are the three who live by the beach. etho spends most of his time tinkering around the fishing hut or hovering around bdubs, but sometimes he drives the bus to the desert. only sometimes. there might be something under his mask. no one knows for sure. gem runs the fish shop most days and she claims she’s a sailor, but joel has never seen a single working boat around despite all the ocean. she can also hold her breath underwater for an uncannily long amount of time, like, scarily so, and will sometimes disappear for a few days and return with an abundance of treasures. joel has never seen her leave by boat. grian fishes a lot and runs the shop when gem can’t, and he sometimes talks as though the sea can speak to him. skizz has caught him staring into space for extended periods of time. one time he waded into the water and just stood there, head down, muttering to himself.

apparently there used to be a lighthouse but “it’s gone now”. gem says if they ask bdubs nicely enough maybe they can build another one, but she and grian are banned from build requests after the last incident with their pet snails (joel has never seen the snails, but scar complains about them enough to convince him they’re real).

there also might be some kind of wizard who lives in the creepy tower in the woods. skizz has heard he’s the one who helps maintain the power in the valley, and joel’s convinced he hallucinated seeing him once until he recieves a letter from the wizard himself, and visits him only to find that the strange fire-creature he saw that one time was, in fact, tango, who is human for the most part, he just sets himself on fire sometimes.

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amethystfairy1 · 2 months

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I’m going to stop saying I have another question, because I just keep thinking of more (my brain has not had this much enrichment since Octonauts as a kid, my first special interest). This one might be a little spoiler-y, so feel free to tell me that you can’t answer.

If Etho and Doc bet on Jimmy and Grian bringing home their boyfriends, and Scar is largely wheelchair bound… what are the logistics of that? I can’t imagine Doc making a bet that he knew he would lose. But the under-city REALLY doesn’t seem all that accessible, even if you have legs that work correctly (wings are really the easiest way).

Did Doc not know? Is there another logistic that I’m not thinking of here? Would Scar wear his Hot Guy stuff under his clothes to be able to walk around? But then that means that Hot Guy identity would be a little easier to see through… especially because the other overcity people know about him being in a wheelchair. And different people interact with him both as Hot Guy and as Scar (secondary question, does Pearl and maybe Scott immediately recognize the voice?).

I’ve been trying to puzzle this one out for a bit now. Mainly the fact that Doc wouldn’t make a losing bet on purpose.

Oooooo, good one! I'm so glad you picked up on this!

It is a little spoilery, so I don't wanna give to much of an answer, not because I don't have one, because I DO but yeah, the topic of accessiblity in terms of Scar's eventual trip to the under-city is planned to be the focus of a piece later down the road!

What I will say is that you're very much correct. Doc is well-aware of Scar's mobility issues, and he most certainly would never take a bet he couldn't win.

Also side note: Pearl knows Scar is Hot Guy! It's never really explicitly told to her or Jimmy, but they puzzle it together after Grian kinda dances around the topic of how Scar figured out he was a hybrid, and it's pretty much just like an open secret at this point with the three of them and Scar. Scar is fine with it, he can see considering how the three of them are hybrids in the over-city that they know how to keep a secret! 😆 Scott doesn't know Scar yet, he's never met him in his civilian identity, but if he were to meet him, maybe he would recognize him by his voice? Only time will tell.

#fanfic #ao3 fanfic #through the sky blue cracks #skyblings #goodtimeswithscar #docm77 #scott smajor

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theminecraftbee · 10 months

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okay i know solving counting sheep is an evo fic first and foremost but i'm super curious how the hermits end up dealing with three. it sounds like this is the kind of hermitcraft thats already a sanctuary for weirdos, but i feel like someone whos skin is feathers and wears a mask they can't see out of is a new level of strange. also, would pearl canonically still join the hermits after a few seasons in that universe? sorry to bombard you with questions when you already have a lot queued up LMAO

okay so this is like, a BIG QUESTION, and another one i've talked about with @strifetxt. we've noodled around a lot so off the top of my head, here's a few answers to "things we think three might do on hermitcraft"! (with the note: none of this is CANON. just because i'm saying it, word of god style, doesn't mean that's actually what HAPPENS, you can have your own story and headcanon for this in your head.)

three joins in season seven, not six, in my head. i'm not even going to try to pretend to guess what a season six without grian looks like just know that apparently happens.

three gets like, SUPER into the head games, because its a way to use its combat skills to HELP SOMEONE why wouldn't it get super into that? this is the first real introduction most of the hermits have to three. the hermits are like "okay mumbo where on earth did you find someone this good at murder". mumbo is like "who knows".

we were definitely joking that outside of hermits who know how to recognize a watcher (iskall, probably xisuma, i'd say also maybe like... doc or ren), the hermits just kind of assume three is autistic and roll with it from there because the idea the hermits, on being told three's actual circumstances, go "why would we guess that mumbo you said you met it hiding in a bar from overstimulation with you" is VERY FUNNY TO ME.

we were debating if election still happens; three is less likely to set up events on its own but IS likely to accidentally do something a little overboard.

our hack for if we wanted three to do the election is as follows: mumbo makes a joke with like, scar, about wanting to be mayor, three takes this completely literally, three and false end up in a cold war of "who is the scarier person NOT to vote for as mayor". meanwhile scar is vibing and a sith lord backing stress is very concerned.

grumbot does not happen. i don't think there's a world where three does grumbot.

three DOES befriend etho, at first to learn how to do interiors better, since etho is doing the all-interiors base, but later because etho's brand of tomfoolery actually works well with three. TWO weird dorks in masks now.

i think three would LOVE free glass. it and etho would make the world's Most pranks i think, all of which are technically what they were asked for. three helps work for shade-e-e's.

there's definitely more stuff we've talked about that i've missed and ALSO these aren't necessarily canon! you may have your own COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IDEA of what happens post-scs, which is fine! this was us waffling around about what would be fun to have happen, haha.

as for pearl... i like to think she does eventually still join hermitcraft, after a few years of texting back and forth with three and a bit more healing. she deserves it.

#answered #solving counting sheep talk #solving counting sheep spoilers

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hmshermitcraft · 5 months

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I'm not the anon who sent the "grian and doc are brothers" ask, but your "those pining will have to get through some shovel talk" addition gave me this idea

Doc is not the brother to worry about! Scar and Mumbo were terrified to confess their feelings towards Grian because of what Doc would think of them sorta becoming a part of his family. Once they got over it and were happily snuggled up to each other in Grian's living room, Doc walked in and did a solid one-two double take at the scene. The three of them froze but Doc just told them not to eat his granola. That was it!! The same Doc that is known for breaking the very building blocks of reality over a minor inconvenience had nothing to say!

However, Grian....he sure is something!

Ren has no problem making his feelings known, and when he realized that his growing affection for Doc was indeed romantic, there was no hesitation in confessing. Luckily Doc was asleep when Grian saw them laying together on the couch so he didn't go full Watcher, "Be Not Afraid" on Ren, but it was a near thing. Ren has had a few partners before Doc, and he's had his fair share of shovel talk. Nothing quite compares to having a Watcher decide that You Are Now Listening to what they have to say. Luckily Ren and Doc would continue to love each other and Grian would eventually come around to Ren being a familiar, nonthreatening addition to the flock and not an intruder needing to be dealt with.

Funnily enough, since Grian didn't properly meet Etho until late into season 7, and Etho is one of Doc's bestest buds, Grian did try to intimidate him. Etho was generally unfazed, though he was surprised the first time they ran into each other by the time Grian rolled up to the monstrosity with a Look in his eye, Etho was ready and waiting. Etho is of the void, and even a Watcher can't gaze too deep without getting hurt.

The brothers are fiercely protective of each other, which is why they're on opposite sides so often. They can control the severity of the conflict, make sure they don't get hurt, that nothing goes too far, and in this case, Doc is the one to worry about. But otherwise, Grian is the loose canon to keep an eye on.

Nowadays it's not uncommon to see one or the other taking care of the significant others of their brother. Scar and Mumbo, though banned from the perimeter, are always welcome home on a technicality. Doc takes care of them like he takes care of Grian, which is tough love and lots of gifts. Ren keeps finding things he's lost, items just appear on his desk even though they've been lost for years. He thanks Grian by politely avoiding eye contact and getting at hard to reach pinfeathers behind Grian's ears.

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Scar and Mumbo are very aware the situation may be different if they hurt Grian - something they never intend on doing. It's encouraged them to learn how to resolve conflicts in a healthy way, so they can thank Doc for that!

Doc has a lot of love for his growing family. The two spent so long on their own, Doc adores having people he knows randomly walk in and say hi. To find Mumbo or Scar passed out on his sofa, or cooking in the kitchen. Most of all, he likes seeing Grian happy. They're doing a good job of that.

Grian thinks the same. It's just also his given right to be a nuisance to people Doc cares about at any opportunity. If they can put up with him then they're good enough for Doc!

#hermitshipping #ask #grian tag #docm77 tag #scar tag #mumbo tag #ren tag #etho tag #mumscarian #rendoc #s anon #mod 🎀

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cattimeswithjellie · 4 days

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Liveblogging Scar Stream, 6/8/24, Part 1

I missed the first 15 minutes, I'll backfill it later.

16:00 Visit to the train, Scar explains the change in design of his train. His previous caboose idea wasn’t working, so he came up with the “villains” (hostile mobs) car. We get a look at Frank, who is having about as good a time as the hanging blue bird in the garden car. Scar says that the new design for the caboose will be with the caboose tethered to the train but floating in on balloons.

18:00 Scar finds Tango’s copper farm and “helps” with the redstone. He then goes to visit Tango at his factory. Tango admires the on/off light Scar has added, and they discuss The Emperor’s New Groove and the fact that Scar’s headphones are very broken.

22:00 Tango shows Scar how the drowned farm works, Scar is unable to escape the water current and dies in the farm while Tango watches in bemused disbelief from two blocks away. He respawns at his chest monster and returns to the farm. Chat asks whether he produced copper. Scar asks if that was on purpose and Tango said he assumed a human would simply walk out of the farm. Cub shows up and presents Scar with a water breathing potion. Tango retrieves and returns Scar’s things. Tango makes a joke about Scar’s ability to escape the water, Scar jokes that he must be losing the ability to walk in Minecraft as well. Tango has no response to that and Scar, triumphant, returns to his train.

26:30 Scar catches up with donos, a chatter makes a donation to “wheelchair fund” and Scar says he has so many wheelchair rants stored up that he is dangerously close to a mega-rant. He takes Chat to the villain car to get critique about whether the dragon actually looks like a dragon. Chat is generally encouraging. Tango (in game chat) says it looks like a dragon who went through a blender.

29:45 Scar wants to put a ravager in the villain car, but eventually turn the car into a mob farm. He says he has been relying on guilt-tripping the Maple Prince (Etho) into giving him gunpowder by sending him requests in the mail, but he can’t do that forever.

30:00 A chatter encourages Scar to leave Ore Mountain in place as a monument to Scar’s dedication. Scar still has not decided whether to keep it. He begins hunting for witches in the dark part of the train tunnel. A chatter suggests asking Doc to catch a dragon for the zoo, Scar is worried about the level of maintenance a captive dragon requires.

#hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #stream liveblogging #tangotek

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mof17 · 1 month

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please more apocalypse au please pretty please

(I almost fell out of my chair and broke my neck from how happy I got seeing this lol)

So so for the Aau, there’s a lot to explain. But I should get the ground rules of before the infection that spreads (this is technically an infection AU but eh, apocalypse seems more fitting)(this AU was in help with one of my friends in the beginning of it)

so- let me just dig deep into my Google doc real quick

Before the apocalypse starts, life is normal. There’s a small town, which has most of the characters mentioned in the entirety of the characters living in it.

scar lives with the clockers (minus etho, he left, BUT he will show up later…)(also his attire is his normal skin, BEFORE the apocalypse begins)

(I will be making a post as to why his outfit changes into what was seen in the drawing I made)

grian lives with Pearl (Who is a college student)

Pearl is very much into arts and crafts, so they tend to have very bizarre stuff around the apartment (like gas masks from when Pearl would spray paint things)

gem works at a diner, with Skizz being a cook and Tango being a waiter (alongside Gem)

the four of them don’t know each other EXCEPT Grian and Scar

(Scar, Grian, Pearl, and Gem are pretty much the main four, although more people join on in later)

who used to be in the same middle school and sat next to each other in math class. They would talk occasionally, mainly just Grian helping Scar read the problems and make sense of them or just lending a pencil to one or the other.

one day, Scar gets bullied heavily (it usually happens, but it’s more of a tease). Why does he usually get teased? Because he brings Jellie to school, who is licensed as his emotional support animal and the school just doesn’t care if Jellie is there or not.

but this time, someone took is too far. We’ll call this guy ‘bully’

bully gets a bit psychical taking a book binder from Scar’s bag and tracing it along his face, saying some things, the cut draws blood (and eventually turns into a scar later on in his life)

but out of nowhere, the bully get shoved into the ground, by who? None other than Grian! Grian is one of the only hybrids in the school, him being an Avian, or more specifically Macaw, he draws a lot of attention. see, the town isn’t exactly fond of Hybrids, it’s more discriminatory than most places. So the chances of the bully getting expelled is lower than Grian getting expelled

Grian continues to fight the bully, and the bully fights back

it’s eventually broken up by a teacher, and they’re sent to the office. Grian gets expelled, and is never seen again by Scar

that is until a faithful day in his senior year, where after school, he goes to Theatre, the only place he’s really accepted in. Ren is the teacher.

As Ren is teaching the Theatre club and gives them just a scenario to get a feel for the play they’ll be doing (a mock of third life)

the people in the theatre club include

Scar (18)

tango (19)

Mumbo (on sound)(18)

Katherine (yes, she’s here, it’s important I have to include Nature wives in here somehow, but that’s all of Empires that will be in this AU probably. Other than that, it’s a mix of the life series and Hermitcraft)(18)(set)

Joel(18) (EYYY IT’S THE ONE WITH THE EGO!)

and more

They all take turns being the “lead” in this script, Joel voltuneers to go first

as they’re performing lines, Joel happened to forget a prop, so he calls out to someone who is sitting by the prop table that’s next to Ren’s desk.

that someone happens to be Grian, Grian panics as he didn’t expect to be called on or spoken to at all during this. He throws the prop (a wooden sword) and accidentally hits Scar in the head (Sound familiar? COUGH first death COUGH lol)

Scar passes out and luckily, he doesn’t get a concussion because author logic. While he passes out, there’s a flashback scene (AKA THE FIGHT FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT WAS STATED EARLIER :D)

Scar wakes up and sees Grian, who is apologising but Scar’s ears are ringing, he points to Grian and just says “You look familiar…” and then closes his eyes again. When he wakes up, Theatre is about over and there’s an ice bag on his head and the mysterious “stranger” (grian) that he saw, is now gone. Scar goes up to Ren, and talks to him about him

Ren mentions that that was a brother of a friend from college (Pearl). He tells Scar that he doesn’t go to school and is technically homeschooled but borrows stuff from here. Ren also let’s Scar know that Grian feels like he owes Scar a favour or anything because he feels bad that he hit him in the head with a wooden sword.

Scar leaves the class with Jellie and his stuff and takes the bus home, on the way home he can’t help but think about what favour he would owe this guy, or if he’d ever see him again?

he goes home and Cleo asks him about his day, he brushes it off as a normal one, but it really wasn’t. Scar lays on his bed, too tired to change and ends up falling asleep.

(Then there’s a time skip, but that should be saved for a whole different post)

that’s basically like a prologue I guess? Idk, I can turn this into a proper Ao3 chapter, and maybe have a whole fic for this

this whole thing was taken out of my doc, from the section labeled “CHAPTER PLANS” lololol

#Aau!#my au #hermitblr #desert duo #grian #gtwscar #geminitay #pearlescentmoon #rendog #apocalypse au #a little tidbit in my mind

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vivianquill · 6 months

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It had been almost a full moon cycle, and there was no sign of Tango anywhere.

Etho wouldn't say it out loud, but he was starting to get really worried. He knew better than anyone just how dangerous ocean currents could get in a storm, and how unpredictable they could end up being. Etho himself had been thrown into a crevasse he'd never seen before, which was great luck.

It meant that there wasn't a chance of him getting beached again. Etho made a habit of knowing which direction the shore was at all times, because land meant humans, and humans meant nothing good.

It hadn't taken long for Etho to get back to the valley where Doc's pod was set up, and beyond some minor scrapes and bruising, he'd gotten out of the whole incident pretty well off. Bdubs showed up a few days after him, cut up and missing a few scales, but not much worse for wear either.

And then a quarter-moon went by without Tango showing up. There wer no signs of him, period. Because of their connections through Doc and a few of the other big pods in the area, it was hard for a mer as distinctive looking as Tango to drop completely out of the ocean.

The only way for that to happen was if he'd been hurt bad enough to where he couldn't swim, or he'd been trapped somewhere he couldn't get out of.

That, or he'd been beached.

After a half-moon, Etho suspected that Tango was dead. Or worse.

Hopefully he was dead.

The hivemind had been able to track the storm that had caught Etho's pod off guard.

As it turns out, a large stationary pod in a very distinct location was a very good rendezvous point. The hivemind eventually got their hands on every rumor and scrap of news that made it's way through this part of the ocean.

The storm had swept inland, through a section of sea that was little more than sandbank after sandbank before it ran straight into the shore. It was seeming more and more like Tango had been beached.

Bdubs was insisting that they go looking for him.

Etho couldn't help but be hesitant about what they might find.

In the end, Etho gave in to Bdubs' desires, and they gathered what they needed to go searching. Etho made sure to pack a wide variety of medicines, things to fight an infection, even materials to splint a broken bone. He didn't know how badly Tango might've been hurt-- but it wasn't any question that he was.

And with a series of directions from the hivemind, they were off.

It was a tense quarter-moon for Etho, that was for sure. He hated being this close to land. Etho insisted on giving the human settlements right on the water a wide berth, so it took even longer for them to make any ground.

Etho didn't know what to expect or if they would find any signs of Tango at all.

Bdubs seemed convinced that they would find something.

Etho couldn't decide if finding Tango's scales on that jetty was a good thing or a bad thing.

They'd sheltered in a cove for the day, wanting to get out from under the pounding waves. Bdubs had found a sheltered spot where the waves wouldn't push them right up onto the sand. It was a place that formed a little eddy, where the debris was built up. There was a lot of seaweed and driftwood and human trash caught there.

It had been a flash of sun off some of that human trash that made Etho look closer.

It wasn't human trash at all-- and there were broken scales caught up in the mess. That was mer gear-- pouches and belts made from woven kelp and grasses, even some tools made from shell and flint. After looking closer, Etho's heart dropped out of his chest.

This was Tango's gear, those were Tango's scales, and someone-- or something-- had cut them off. Etho had never heard Bdubs as quiet as he was while they were picking through the mess, and he would probably never hear Bdubs that quiet again.

But the thing that really signed Tango's death sentence was the shredded sections of fishing net tangled in with his gear. And with how clean those cuts were?

Etho dropped what he was holding like it had burnt him. He turned away, squeezing his eyes shut against the dawning horror.

Humans had gotten to Tango. A fate worse than death.

"Etho?" Bdubs drifted closer, "Etho, are you-- are you okay?"

Etho couldn't respond, focused as he was on the water pumping over his gills and the flexing of his spines. The last thing he needed was to stick Bdubs right now. The hivemind had helped him to mix an antidote of sorts for his venom, after he'd accidentally gotten Tango once, but it still wasn't fun to experience.

And this close to a human road? Where they could be spotted if they weren't careful? It would be a death sentence for both of them.

"Hey. Hey-- Etho look at me--" Bdubs took Etho's face carefully in his hands, tipping his face up so their gazes met, "Whatever happened to Tango, we'll find him, alright?"

Etho hugged himself tighter, pressing his spines flat, "The humans got him, Bdubs. That's-- the cuts in his gear? In the netting? It's too clean to be anything but humans. Or another mer, but mer wouldn't cut off another mer's gear and discard it like trash."

"We'll still find him, Etho. Right? We've got to."

Etho puffed out a mouthful of bubbles, trying not to show the despair coating his every thought, "Sure, Bdubs."

"We can comb this place for any clues, I'm sure the humans would have left something." Bdubs gently laced his fingers into Etho's, pulling him away from the rocks, "Let's find a spot to sleep, it's almost noon and we've been up all night. We can come back after dark, all the humans will be asleep and we'll be able to search everything in peace."

Etho nodded, letting Bdubs lead him away. There was nothing they could do. Not right now, when the threat of being seen by humans was so great.

So, they found a sheltered place to hide, and Bdubs left Etho there while he went on a quick hunt. They'd brought food with them, rations that would last for days yet, but they needed to save that for when they found Tango. And right now, Etho was in no state of mind to be hunting.

Bdubs returned maybe an hour later, bringing with him a couple fish and a bundle of edible seaweed, pulled straight from the silt.

Etho ate what he could stomach-- which wasn't much-- and then curled up with Bdubs to hopefully get some rest.

They went back to the beach in the evening.

The tide was low, leaving numerous tidepools along the edges of the jetty where they'd found Tango's gear. Etho and Bdubs combed the beach like a pair of basking sharks, looking for any more signs that Tango had been there. They only came up with more meaningless debris and a few more of Tango's scales.

It was a testament to how distracted Etho was, that the humans had managed to get so close without him noticing. They were practically right in top of him, out on the rocks of the jetty.

"Shhh-- Skizz, you gotta turn off the light or you're gonna scare it away--"

"Ugh, fine. But it's you're own fault if you trip and fall into the water and drown."

Ironically, it'd been the sound of their voices that had alerted Etho to the human's presence, not the dim light they were using to navigate. He immediately took advantage of the light clicking off to dart into the shadows of the rock, whistling a desperate warning to Bdubs.

Also ironically, Bdubs didn't take the warning as a sign to hide. In fact, he popped his head above the water to get a better look.

Etho made a split-second decision, tackling Bdubs back down into the shadows where they could both stay safe and hidden, but it was too late. They'd surely been seen. Both of them.

"Why did you do that? Those might be the humans that took Tango!" Bdubs protested, squirming against Etho's grip.

"That's exactly why, Bdubs." Etho hissed, his eyes peeled for any sort of movement from the humans, "They might try to take us too--"

"Alright, fine. But we should still see if they have anything of Tango's."

"We are not attacking a group of humans. There's only two of us."

"There's only two of them too! We could take them. Especially if I can get them into the water."

"They aren't going to be lured in like fish, Bdubs, and there might be more of them." Etho frowned, letting go of his pod-mate, "But I might be able to get them into the water. But you've gotta stay right here. And stay hidden. Got that?"

Bdubs nodded. Etho could tell he wanted to ask more questions, but as long as he would stay put, Etho would answer all of them. Later.

Etho carefully poked his head above the water to listen, trying to gather more information on what was going on.

"I wasn't seeing things, right? There's two merpeople down there."

"Yeah, I saw them too. They know we're here though. I didn't see where they went. Can you?"

"No dude, they've completely disappeared!"

Good. They were hidden well enough.

"I've got a recording of tango on my phone from before he started talking. Maybe we can get them to come up?"

"That might work. Just be careful."

Etho had been preparing to call back to the humans in their own language, hoping to mimic the sound of one in trouble to get them close enough to pull into the sea with them, when he heard it.

That was Tango's voice. Calling out for him and Bdubs.

Etho choked on air, unable to help his own answering cry before he bit down on his hand to stop himself. No. It was a trick. Etho knew what a recording was. He'd seen them before, heard them before.

The voice was slurred and in pain, and flat in a way that only recordings could be, but it was unmistakably Tango.

The humans were trying to catch him and Bdubs too. That was the only reason they'd do this.

And the worst part was, it might actually work.

Their reaction to his call was immediate, the scuffling of human feet on rock coming closer to them. Etho couldn't focus, not with Tango's voice in his ears. He couldn't bring himself to duck away, to avoid being seen.

Bdubs popped up beside him a moment later, his fellow mer scanning the rocks for any sign of their missing podmate, "Etho-- What? Do they have Tango with them? I can hear him--"

Etho shook his head, fangs still buried in his hand to prevent himself from calling Tango's name, paralyzed as the pair of humans slid down the rocks down to where the tidal pools were, mere feet away from him and Bdubs.

Etho couldn't do anything but watch as he brought a fate worse than death down on the head of his last remaining podmate.

#ethoslab #bdubs #impulsesv #skizzleman #angst #minor self harm #panic attack #aka Etho has a trauma response #viviwrites #emberfish au #dont mind me #yall get a treat #it was time for a different perspective methinks #and I enjoy writing for Etho #we're totally not procrastinating my original story that i should be writing #its fiiiiiiiiiiiine #hermitfic

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ty-bayonet-betteridge · 18 days

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vagye plan for geminitay ace attorney

case 1: Fwhip is the victim, Joel is the suspect. Gem takes the case to find out who killed her brother. haven't decided who the killer is - the way things shake out with how i assign other characters it kind of has to be scar or mumbo but that doesnt feel very satisfying? idk. grian is the prosecutor.

case 2: Lizzie is the defendant. Ren and BigB are the witnesses, BigB is also the real killer. havent decided who the victim is yet. BigB killed them bc he found out they were planning to murder Lizzie and he wanted to defend her. Cleo is the prosecutor.

case 3: BDubs is the defendant, Etho is the murderer. Skizz and Tango are witnesses, and the murder took place in team BEST headquarters. havent worked out a motive, i think Doc or Beef makes sense as a victim. BDubs confesses in order to protect Etho when you get close to proving he did it; however this reminds Etho of his own loyalty to BDubs, and he confesses to the crime as well, leaving Gem and Impulse to... either prove which of the two did it or convince BDubs to recant his confession, im not sure which is more satisfying. Cleo prosecutes again.

case 4: Martyn, whos been one of the detectives through the game, is killed. Jimmy is the defendant, and Cleo is initially the prosecutor. however, Cleo is killed during a recess in the trial, and Jimmy is accused of this crime as well. Pearl becomes the prosecutor for the second half of the trial at Scott's urging, but Gem, Impulse, and eventually Pearl work together to prove Scott is the real killer. not sure how the case shakes out yet but i think it would be fun if as a last-ditch effort Scott claims Cleo was the killer and then committed suicide when she worried Gem would reveal their crimes. also, the case X years ago that this one must by obligation tie into involves Scott and Pearl covering up their own wrongdoing somehow, and its eventually revealed that Scott committed THIS pair of murders for Pearl's sake instead of his own

#gtaaau #life series au #trafficblr #life series

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amethystfairy1 · 6 months

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hi! i’ve been following ttsbc and traveling thieves for a while, and was wondering about the similarities between Scar and Doc in ttsbc

Doc, an orphan, was “adopted” by The Labs as a child and experimented on with biotech and stuff until he escaped with the help of Etho and a murderous pallet

Scar, an orphan, was “adopted” by the Biotech Institute and got biotech in his legs and eyes and still uses biotech legs to HotGuy. escaped Institute control with a lot of Cub’s help

i was just thinking they’d relate to each other a lot, maybe?

thank you! <3

Hello hello!

I'm so happy to hear you've enjoyed both my current WIP AUs!

You're right they do parallel each other quite a lot, don't they? It's no secret that we will one day be getting a Scar shovel talk fic, and maybe after Doc has his fill of terrifying the poor guy into treating his pesky bird right, they'll have a little heart-to-heart?

I will say that while we know about Doc's tragic backstory, that's actually a pretty taboo subject amongst the oddball family. Neither Etho nor Doc ever discuss their childhood, and they don't ever tell their full story of how they met/lost limbs and eyes/got together/accidentally started a coup, not to their kids or to anyone, really. It's not something they like discussing. Grian, Pearl, and Jimmy are well aware of that, so I dunno if that sort of thing would even come up with Scar...considering he's yet again quite similar.

Scar hasn't told anyone aside from Cub about his 'adoption' or the hero program. Even then, he's been vague on the details, and Cub is his best friend of over fifteen years by this point...his boyfriend is still in the dark about a lot of this stuff...but you know what that makes for, right?

✨GREAT ANGST POTENTIAL✨

So we'll get there. Y'know. Eventually.

Thanks for coming by! 💖

#fanfic #ao3 fanfic #through the sky blue cracks #hermitcraft #traffic smp #hermitshipping #trafficshipping #life series #worldbuilding #docm77 #goodtimeswithscar #grian #scarian #desertduo #etho #ethoslab #doctho

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stellaricwriting · 6 months

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deep dark challenge thoughts:

cub would set up a viewing platform. zedaph uses it the most.

bdubs did it to prove he was better than etho. it didn't work.

eventually someone sets up a scoreboard to track all the different attempts, who won, who lost, and who made someone else lose the most. the one with the most losses is scar, because he keeps trying again. the one with the most wins is cleo. the one who made someone else lose the most is xb, mostly against keralis, but hypno and xisuma a few times each as well.

tango really doesn't want anyone to know he lost, but he gives it away when he blushes at impulse who asks about the limp.

ren brings doc down there with him "just in case." doc almost loses just from watching, but manages to keep it together

!!!

im not behind all of these but i love ur brain

zed would watch at every chance possible, you know he's making notes about everyone's limits

i honestly think tango would thrive in losing, love it so much, but doesn't want to just give in and fail. he wants to try and fail anyway

#stellaric.exe

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hmshermitcraft · 11 months

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Grian and Doc hate being roommates, eventually their next door neighbors Etho and Beef get fed up with the constant complaints and try to make the duo get along. -🐊

Honestly, this could all be solved a lot easier if one of them just moved out. But no, they're both too stubborn because to move out would be to 'lose'.

Neither Etho nor Beef know what they consider winning. And neither of them want to put up with this long enough to find out.

Which means, drastic action (for Etho, who hates interacting with new people.) They've got to find a way for these two to get along so they can actually get a good night sleep.

Except... It doesn't take long to realise that the pair may not just be harbouring hatred for each other. It's like pre-school all over again. But this time the 'bullying you because he likes you' is real.

It's time to change their gameplan.

#hermitshipping #ask #grian tag #docm77 tag #etho tag #vintagebeef tag #gridoc #🐊 anon #mod 🎀#weekly theme: roommates

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mizumech · 1 year

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My Deaf Ethoslab Headcanons 2: Electric Boogaloo

I like to think Etho has a ‘mute icon’ tattooed just behind his right ear and and ‘low volume icon’ behind his left ear. Depending on what kind of mask he’s wearing, you might be able to see them.

When he drinks things like coffee, water, potions leisurely, he has a reusable bendy straw on his person so he can keep his hands free to sign while drinking, which has definitely seen better days since Bdubs’ mud/coffee shop opened.

Since the first open mic night, he’s attempted some ASL poetry with beta reading and suggestions from Joe. It’s difficult and a little unnatural to him, so used to either providing information plainly or concealing it, but he’s slowly getting it.

He writes about the jungle often, writes about dancing and music that flow like vines and footfall like rain.

Doc gave him his original sign name (mainly E-Fox), which started mutating from person to person like a nickname.

While Etho would rather only deaf friends give him sign nicknames, there are exceptions. For example, Bdubs isn’t deaf/hard-of-hearing, but is still allowed to give Etho a sign nickname. (Also allowed to call him ‘Ladder-fox’ the same way Pause and Beef do sometimes when they’re not using their Team Canada ones like ‘Canada-mother’, ‘Canada-bean’, ‘Canada-friend’ etc.)

When he absolutely has to go to Xisuma (He normally defers to Tango/Joe first if he can’t speak.) for server-side issues regarding his cybernetics (voicebox, eye, etc.), they used to use pen-and-paper because Xisuma took up BSL to complement his Admin Studies while Etho uses ASL. Nowadays, while they still do that, the server does have standardised ways to sign important things like ‘cybernetic’, ‘player data’, ‘malfunction’, ‘lag’, ‘glitch’, ‘chunk load’, ‘danger’, ‘it’s just redstone, don’t worry’ etc.

Between the redstoners of Hermitcraft, they started to fear a rift in communication between Deaf/HoH BSL and similar-using redstoners, Deaf/HoH ASL and similar-using redstoners, and redstoners of other nationalities like Doc during season 7. Even for hearing redstoners, redstone is loud. Pistons pushing, redstone and explosives fizzing, and occasionally exploding. This made verbal communication unviable at times, eventually prompting them to create server-standard terms for hoppers, dispensers, tripwires, and other redstone components and terms.

This may or may not also have been because Etho kept using the sign for ‘vagina/pussy’ to sign about hoppers (most sign schools do not provide signs for redstone terms as they can be quite regional) and forgetting to update his cybernetics (He keeps thinking he saved the sign and forgets to fingerspell it too) causing many accidental swears.

(Example dialogue between Xisuma and Etho [his hearing aids are still really crappy at this point and they met in the shopping district without paper on hand. His cybernetics are working. [They also thought they would be able to make it through this interaction without text.]

Etho: Hey, X! Do you have pussy I can borrow? (He means hoppers. He wants hoppers.)

Xisuma: *visibly confused, mentally rifling through possibilities*

Etho: Did I sign something wrong?

Tango, just casually passing by: *starts to sim-com while getting some hoppers out of his redstone box* I mean, I have had both…(I headcanon him as transmasc and proud about it)

Etho: *look of realisation* Oh! I meant H-O-P-P-E-R! Sorry, X! Anyways, never mind, I think Tango’s got what I need!)

Etho once asked Impulse why he used the sign name ‘Watch-G’ (Hermitcraft players have many nicknames, even in sign, and Etho thinks its fun to find out how nicknames correspond) to refer to Grian.

(‘Watch’ as in the verb, as signed by Liz Harris (also how I sign it; with an x-hand on the cheekbone) when talking about watching movies, because I’ve seen different people sign it differently).

Impulse said he got it from Mumbo, who accidentally signed up for ASL classes in school instead of BSL and also refused to elaborate on the reasons behind the nickname.

Impulse also recounted how Scar tried to reproduce the sign, instead signing it too high up and then trying to cancel it, wiping his hands on his pants.

“That’s like the sign for desert,’ Impulse had told him, showing him the right way to sign ‘desert’. Scar had let out a huff at the explanation.

Etho never really thought about it until Double Life. Only then did it really hit him.

He spectated that fight with his own two (?) eyes. And yet, while he had almost forgotten it, the two fighting in question had never quite left the desert.

In Limited Life, when he accepts Grian’s sword, he can feel Grian’s stare boring into his back. Maybe that’s why Mumbo nicknamed him so.

It feels like such a contrast to his and Doc’s practice conversations in ASL when conversation roulette inevitably comes back to how he will mess with Grian and the achievements of the hivemind. Doc’s nickname for Grian is ‘Boy-Bird’, ‘Bird-Boy’, and sometimes ‘Boba’ because the mouthing is similar in Doc’s opinion. Etho uses ‘Boba’ a lot more, especially when around Doc, because he thinks its funny. Ariana Griande is sometimes nicknamed ‘Strawberry Boba’ by them both.

Doc’s sign-nickname for Ren is the sign for ‘Spiderman’ followed by the sign for ‘Dog’. Etho reasons it’s not really referring to the superhero part, but instead to the handshape and Season 8. Because of this, it feels a little wrong to copy the sign-nickname, at least to Etho. He uses ‘Story-Dog’ instead.

Etho has jokingly nicknamed Iskall ‘Money-Tree’ and ‘Sugar-Darling’, the latter of which never fails to make Bdubs sputter.

“At least you didn’t use ‘Sugar-Omega,” Bdubs had muttered sourly once, which Etho had to pretend not to hear.

Xisuma’s one of the only Hermits to have an agreed on nickname, which is ‘Mother-X’, the same way most Deaf/HoH hermits agree Hermitcraft’s sign name is ‘Crab-Craft-X’.

That’s some of the only things Deaf/HoH hermits agree on when it comes to sign names. Even season names, other than the numbers can differ from hermit to hermit (Season 8 is still similar among most though, due to the main event being the only real big event. There is an exception for those who sign about defying gravity).

Some sign ‘Vex-Food-Season’. (My headcanoned ASL Minecraft sign for vexes is the sign for ‘spirit’ but the top hand is a ‘V’ instead of an ‘F’). Etho signs ‘Jungle-Found-Season’.

Some sign ‘Colour-Button-Season’. Etho signs ‘Mushroom-Game-Season’.

Some sign ‘E-fox’. Etho; when he’s alone and on the rare occasions he wants to refer to himself when talking to himself, says ‘Love’, the same way the Universe does to him in the faintest tinges of his memory.

After all, what’s in a name?

Part 1

#ethoslab #sign language #hermitcraft #deaf

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stressed-sock · 1 year

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consider: a silly au where, through a really weird glitch, etho and kakashi somehow end up switching places!

i'm gonna make it specifically fox etho because i think naruto would go nuts at that but anywho - etho is suddenly stuck with three kids who are just pestering him about who he is, where he's from, and one of them would probably ask to touch his fox ears lol.

meanwhile, kakashi just kinda. awkwardly stares at the hermits - etho was probably at some shop or event when they swapped - before one of them just lets out the most tired sigh ever (this is x. poor x) and another really big, really green creature/beast lookin thing (doc) stares at him with a growing grin that he does not like thank you very much (bc doc just got some new world-breaking ideas lmao)

x eventually figures it out and switches them back through like some portal or smth but i think they would occasionally switch again just for the fun of it - bonus if they pretend to be the other heh

#hermitcraft #ethoslab #etho #ideas #has this been done before?#<- i have an awful memory lmao #if it has i would love to see it btw!!

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solariized · 8 months

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Doc has to continue to pause in his building to roll his shoulders back and forth. Every time, the mechanical right one clicks. It’s aching where metal meets bone, and he knows eventually it is going to turn into a sharp pain. Hurtful enough that he won’t be able to move it much.

Between all the Decked Out runs, Doc tries to slip into some building as well. He needs to work on the village and water pipe system he is interpreting into the perimeter, after all. But this does mean that he doesn’t spend a lot of time resting, which causes more pain than he would prefer. The thing is, he knows how to deal with it. Mostly with ice, rest, and pain killers. He’s just been so busy lately that he hasn’t had the time to properly care for it. Sometimes it seems like he is in pain more often than not, it’s exhausting.

“You can rest,” A voice chimes in his head, but Doc just ignores it and keeps going with placing his blocks. He wants to finish this build soon and that immediately triumphs over anything else that needs to be done. Doc has always been like that, finish what he needs too and then he can rest.

The village he is building is almost completely wrapped around the base of the perimeter. Doc needs to finish closing it in, and then he has to do a few Decked Out runs in order to better his deck if he wants to even be close to Etho or Hypno’s level. Plus he likes running Decked Out. Tango did an amazing job, paired with the competitiveness in him, and the means to admire a friend's build, Doc enjoys playing D.O.

His arm clicks and hisses near the beginning of his shoulder and Doc sighs. He steps back from his build, taking a moment to think of what to do before he fires off a rocket and heads to his normal resting area. He lands swiftly and marches in, mumbling to himself the whole time. Doc stops to sit down somewhere and turns his attention to the metal arm.

His shoulder really does ache, it’s turning into that sharp pain now. But he refuses to take a genuine break, if he can help it. So Doc gets to work on clicking what needs to be clicked in order to take the arm off of himself. It’s helpful to have, for sure. He’s not left handed, it’s easier to build with both hands, but Doc needs to get it off so the aching stops. He can put it back on when he does his Decked Out runs later.

The metal ticks and pops as it detaches. Doc’s reflexes are a little behind so he doesn’t catch the arm before it falls onto the bench he is sitting on with a loud clunk. He rolls his shoulders back again, enjoying the fact it doesn’t make annoying metal sounds.

“Tired. We should rest.” The voice from earlier sounds again in his head.

“We have things to do,” Doc replies because he knows even if he ignores them, they aren’t going to go away. He’s tried.

Doc’s balance is a little off when he flies off again but he knows how to make up for it at this point. He doesn’t normally take his arm off if he is still working, knowing when to take breaks, things are just busy lately. At least the chilly wind on his face is enough to suppress Doc’s fatigue a little more.

“You’re crazy,” A different voice than last time chimes in.

Doc chuckles as he lands again. He turns to his shulkers, easily grabbing what blocks he needs to place.

A few hours later and he’s just a little closer to finish wrapping the build around. It’s taking longer now that he is an arm down, and the fatigue is getting to him enough that Doc keeps misplacing blocks and not catching it until he steps back to look. Then he has to break them and place them in the correct place. It’s getting tiring at this point.

But, it’s getting near the time where other hermits start doing their runs. And Doc wants to be able to do a few in a row without interruption, so he should finish this first and do a few runs. Then, and only then, can he actually rest.

“Hey dude!” Someone says behind him and Doc feels like he jumps a foot in the air. It’s just Ren though, smiling at him a bit worriedly after Doc’s reaction. “You good?”

Doc’s beating heart calms slightly and he sighs. He turns around completely to have his full attention on his friend. “Yeah, I’m good. What’s up?”

Ren smiles and nods. He clicks his tongue and looks around, eyeing the village he’s currently building. “Just wanted to say hi. The building is coming along nicely!”

“Thanks man. It’s killing me a bit though.” As Doc speaks he stretches out his back. A bit of relief comes from the few pops he hears.

“Yeah, ‘cause we need rest.” He ignores whoever is speaking in his head, so Ren doesn’t witness him talking to himself.

“Why’s that?”

“Well,” Doc starts and he turns back around to look at his build so far. There’s another block to the left that’s out of place that he had missed before. “Only got one hand at the moment. Needa to Decked Out runs after this too.”

Ren hums, “When’s the last time you slept?”

Doc shrugs. He hasn’t been keeping track, but he does know that if he did check his phantom kill count it would be up a few numbers.

“And the last time you took a break?” Ren questions, raising an eyebrow as he crosses his arms.

Again, Doc just shrugs. It’s easy to lose track of time, especially when building.

“Dude,” Ren says, an exasperated laugh tilting his words. “You gotta rest. Not good for you to be working so hard continuously.”

Doc knows this, obviously. Still, he huffs and rolls his eyes as a response.

“I know that shoulder of yours is killin ‘ya.”

Curse Ren for knowing him a little too well. The voices in Doc’s mind begin to agree with Ren, somehow it turns into a chant of sorts to try and get him to go and rest. Doc isn’t the kind to fall into peer pressure, but, well. He’s tired, sue him.

“Fine, fine. I’ll go and rest. But I’m coming back in an hour!”

Ren laughs at him, “Sure dude. See ‘ya soon!”

Ren takes off in a blast of fireworks. He disappears over the edge of the perimeter and Doc watches until he’s gone. Definitely not to procrastinate having to go back and rest. No, no.

After a minute or so of just standing around, Doc unloads his blocks back into the shulkers and flies back over to his home. He unclips his elytra from his back and shrugs it off, hanging it on the wall near the entrance. As soon as his eyes fall onto his bed, Doc’s fatigue hits him a little harder. He decides to not put it off any longer and goes to lay down.

It doesn’t take long before he falls asleep. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on who you are, he does not get up and back to work after an hour. Doc ends up sleeping through the whole night and wakes up feeling more refreshed than he has in awhile.

hopefully i did okay! this is my first time writing doc, and i don’t watch much of his content so i hope i wrote him well enough :3 it was rlly fun to write tho!

#writing #docm77 #rendog #asks

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oceans-swim · 2 months

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I HEARD ALIEN ETHO 👀👀👀👀👀🦅

HELLOO this is probably my most finished wip. tbh

i rotted about his design at some point that i should probably digitize eventually ,, shoutout to kiwi @kiwinatorwaffles who was an awesome beta and i can never thank him enough !! heres some paragraphs bc theres nearly 7k words in this doc

Even if his 'experimental conditions' weren't 'sterile,' he wasn't exactly afraid of being taken to galactic court. It wasn't like he was within any real jurisdiction, being an exoplanet from the main central hub any real authority originated from. He was on an outer band of the galaxy- it would take a while to get to him, if they even knew he was there. Which wasn't likely. By the sound of the blaring alarms in the station when his pod departed with haste- the researchers of the nHo weren't long for the universe. He figured they would have come calling long ago if they had somehow survived.

When he first poked at that fallen meteorite, the glowing hyphae stained his hands bright blue. The mineral casing was almost like a containment, of sorts, and he smashed it apart with hardly a second thought. Warped vines, limp with neglect, looked out of place in the crater of its own making. Rich loam had been overturned by the crash, deep green interrupted by a charred splash of black. The cyan starburst, branching out already from its own nylium, Etho couldn't help but feel for it. Surviving when he first arrived was far from easy, and he could've used a helping hand. So he helped the fungi spread. He carried hyphae to where it could thrive, the nearest rotted tree trunks a perfect host. The drifting particles he thought were ash was spores already drifting on the breeze. Within days under his watchful eye, mycelia had taken permanent root around the crater. The blue tinge to his fingertips that wouldn't come off when scrubbed was hardly a pressing concern.

As time passed, he had mostly settled with a comfortable form. On his crown sat an array of prismarine, and he grew antennae reminiscent of the bamboo from his home planet. He liked the feel of a tail while it was useful swimming, and kept it even when he returned to land-dwelling. Smaller and thinner, though, with a tuft at the end. It was another reminder of one of the researchers he used to spend time with on the nHo.

He carved a staff off one of the massive mushrooms once his joints started getting achy. It was taller than him, but the base flared out and there was a nice handhold at about his middle. The dark cyan of the fungal wood matched his long-since stained shirt, and sometimes he could swear he saw symbols dancing off the tip during the foggiest nights. That was when the fungi were truly in their element, beacons through the mist looming up out of nowhere. Crushed hyphae beneath his sandals left a trail of glowing footprints.

i got SOO silly with it and went a little worldbuild craz

#and lost the plot LMAO #it was rly fun though #oceans writing

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