Would you take a job as a professional hermit (also known as a garden hermit or ornamental hermit)?
Yes, believe it or not, this was a real job in the Victorian era. In 18th and 19th century England, Scotland and Ireland, aristocrats placed ads like this in papers: "Wanted - Ornamental Garden Hermit". The profession required you to become a human ornamental folly on the grounds of a wealthy family estate whilst living in a cave or cottage, turret or hole, contemplating the human condition and enchanting the occasional passerby with your presence at the behest of the landowner. The less like a young English aristocrat you looked, the better. So they were often elderly men with long beards and loose clothes, resembling garden gnomes.
Talk about a dream job! Who WOULDN'T want a gig like this? It's the Victorian equivalent of a Walmart greeter.
The poll on my main blog decided overwhelmingly to keep the hermits color palettes, so as a trade off I decided to tint their wings to match their talents instead!
(I’m also debating on whether or not to keep the swirl details in their wings, it looks cool but it’s a pain in the ass to do 🤷♀️)
Hmmmm is there anything in particular you folks would want to see as stickers from me??
I’m trying to think of stuff bc I do like sending those out for patreon and whatnot, but I am just entirely drawing blanks these days, aaaaa
Relatedly: is there any other sort of blorbo posting y’all would throw dimes and peanuts at me for on patreon? I’m half tempted to have a “Pay me to draw my own characters” tier as a joke, but also it’s not a joke, they’re the main things I wanna draw 80%-98% of the time anyway, or things related to them so Why Not right
I actually have Cub as a dust fairy, specifically with the alchemy sub-talent!
I mean, just look at this skin and tell me it doesn’t give the same energy as the pirate fairy fuckin around and finding out at the beginning of her movie
(I also desperately needed a reason to slim down the number of tinker!hermits I had, it’s a bit too easy to just shove all the redstoners and like half the builders into the tinker category so I had to get creative with it lol)
But yeah, look it him! Funky lil alchemist almost blowing up Hermit Hollow with pixie dust!!
If you still want to leave suggestions for hermit’s talents, here’s the list of ones I have (kinda)figured out so far!
Also thanks to @desnayy for their suggestions on this post
Also for the sake of this AU, all the fairy societal development (for lack of a better term) has already happened (ie: tinkers can go to the mainland, alchemy is a known sub-talent, cold and warm fairies can visit each other, etc etc)