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rayveewrites · 2 years

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Who is Alice and What is Zloy: An Essay* on the Lore of Zlobert Experience

Aka I did not watch hours of Zloy videos and dig through his Tumblr to keep this information to myself.

*This will not be written in essay format. I have a visceral hatred toward structured writing. Thank you for your understanding.

Zloy is a dimension-jumper/worldhopper, which means he spends most of his time doing whatever he wants wherever he wants. Of course, Zloy was actually alive at one point, and he had trouble surviving in servers he wasn’t native to.

The solution? An exosuit! What exactly this damn thing is is a little unclear, but it is, presumably, pretty good at keeping the man alive, and most likely has an awful lot of robotic functions, or at least can be easily fitted with robotic functions.

So Zloy was doing his thing in some world or another when he ran into the ghost of a witch. Said witch’s ghost then proceeded to steal Zloy’s original body for reasons that are unclear to me but might have come up somewhere maybe? (Zloy for the love of god please tag your lore consistently I’m begging you-)

Zloy, now disembodied and watching a witch run around in his former body, then proceeded to possess the nearest humanoid creature, as one does. Said creature was, of course, a zombie, which was allergic to sunlight, as most zombies are. Being possessed by the ghost of a Player didn’t exactly change that little fact.

Fortunately(?), Zloy knew how to cure zombie villagers! And, consequently, how to look after his new zombie body: golden apples and weakness potions. Of course, those can only manage an actual zombie so much, and also his body was kinda decomposing, and part of Zloy’s brain was being exposed to the open air and the guy was just kinda miserable in general, so he made himself a helmet out of his available materials. (Gold. He made a gold helmet. It got stuck to his head pretty much immediately. Now he’s even more miserable).

So Zloy’s wandering the land, consuming weakness potions and golden apples, a helmet glued to his head that he’s waiting to break but also really doesn’t want to have break on him, and eventually it does, in fact, break, because gold is not a very practical metal to make your helmets out of.

Unfortunately, the helmet breaking does not change the fact that it is still, in fact, very much attached to Zloy’s head. The golden apples, meanwhile, finally start doing something useful, so Zloy is now a ghost possessing a zombie with chunks of gold helmet embedded beneath his skull that conveniently work as sunscreen.

(either the apples or the helmet also turned his eyes yellow at some point)

And things are looking up! Not only has Zloy brute-forced his new body into being a fully functional Player, but his newfound zombie nature means he’s compatible with worlds by default, because zombs are a Minecraft constant. He’s free to travel the universe and cause problems for everyone, including himself!

Eventually Zloy finds his way to a little server called Truly Bedrock, where the moon is in pieces before they even start and the inhabitants are every flavour of unhinged imaginable. Zloy, who has seen weirder things than a broken moon and is also very unhinged, was right at home!

…Until said home got blown up by a chunk of moon.

And then the rest of the moon.

Fortunately, the TBers are frankly impossible to kill, even if they get bits of moon dropped on their heads every season finale. They’re like extremely weird cockroaches (affectionate).

So welcome to Season Two! This is where things get really interesting.

Zloy starts the season off with a shop in their new shopping district called the All Store. The All Store’s function is that people can both sell common resources to it, and buy from it, ideally creating a shop that restocks itself.

Originally it starts out as a fairly traditional chests-and-signs shop, but after a while Zloy gets bored waiting for the server to update to 1.16 I guess, so he revamps the All Store with an awful lot of well-explained redstone.

Realizing he’s kinda created something that could tangentially count as an artificial intelligence, he dubs it Allistore (Alice for short), mostly for the pun.

He then takes a break to reinvent the TNT duper because those don’t work on Bedrock. His solution is ghasts. He also builds a bunch of pirate ships and giant skulls because Zloy. He ignores the current ongoing serverwide problem that is beacons causing nether corruption in the overworld, but so does the rest of the server so.

Eventually going back to the All Store, Zloy gets to work and expands it once again and kinda rants in the general direction of whoever’s been messing with the circuits.

He finds a dark oak sign saying ‘hi’ in one of the dispensers, renames it to ‘henlo’, and chucks it into Alice’s water stream (which is set up to never let items despawn, meaning it'll in there forever) as a stupid joke.

Then he goes off to design a vault! It has elder guardians, cobblestone generators, obsidian, the works. His plan is to convince his servermate Dadcraft73 to pay Zloy for the right to put his diamonds in said vault. Dadcraft agrees, so long as a) the diamonds are insured and b) Zloy stores his diamonds in there as well.

…So the diamonds get stolen like a week later.

Zloy’s put on trial, and the court is a kangaroo court, and nothing makes sense and a definitely-not-Foxy-person shows up at one point while Judge Foxy steps out of the room, but he ends up owing Dadcraft hundreds of diamonds he doesn’t have.

Zloy finishes his expansion of the All Store, and checks his accounting chest to find not the results of his test run, but a face saying hi dad. Here’s the sign you lost.

So it turns out Alice is, in fact, sentient. Somehow. Neither they nor Zloy are quite sure why.

(It’s at this point Zloy switches from using she/her to they/them pronouns for Alice. Canonically they’re fine with both. )

Zloy installs a shulker box swapper so Alice can talk more easily than messing with the accounting chest, and then Alice tells him to get his act together and reopen so they can maybe earn Dadcraft’s diamonds before Zloy gets locked in his own vault (which is a very effective prison).

Alice mail-orders a mech from Mr Beardstone, who has a mech shop for some reason, and Zloy realizes Alice can look after themself and doesn’t really need him anymore. He gives them the diamonds he managed to accumulate and goes off to lock himself in his vault-turned-prison for the remainder of the season.

Alice is, quite frankly, having none of this, so they scan the inner workings of the mech and combine that information with a scan of a thing named Chuck that showed up like once and…. Look, I dunno what that thing is either tbh. There's no context as far as I can tell.

Anyway, these scans come in useful when Alice uses them to get Zloy’s old exosuit working and operational and they finally have a player-sized body to work with, so it’s time to bust Zloy out of jail!

Alice basically tells him to get his act together and get mining, because apparently he hasn’t told anyone other than Lyarrah that his shop is a person, and they don’t particularly want to get repossessed.

Zloy does a lot of mining and gives Dadcraft a stupid amount of diamond ore arranged in the most obnoxious tree he can manage and that’s the end of that.

The TBers finally decide to do something about the ongoing beacon corruption, and JessieB comes in with news of an extremely big, extremely ominous nether portal that will spell the end of the server.

Naturally, the TBers go to investigate, and learn that the extremely big, extremely ominous nether portal will not, in fact, turn off. And then a giant magma cube came out and started destroying stuff.

While most of the TBers ran to upgrade and fire FoxyNoTail’s giant laser, Zloy and Beardstone split off to make a giant mech out of shops for Alice to pilot, and Alice fought the giant magma cube… at least until the laser destroyed both the mech and the magma cube.

The problem, as you might imagine, is that giant magma cubes tend to split into many, many, many smaller (large-size) magma cubes that are now swarming the entire server. The things are everywhere. There’s no escape.

Foxy figures that hey, they haven’t had the moon fall on them yet, may as well get it over with. He shoots the moon with the aforementioned laser, and everyone hauls tail into the very secure, apparently moon-proof vault/prison. Zloy doesn’t want to leave Alice to die, but Alice just kinda yells at him to get in the vault, they’ll be fine, they literally can’t die as long as the All Store still stands.

Zloy grabs part of Alice and goes, and then another chunk of moon lands on the TB server because these people really can’t go a season without that happening. It’s a wonder they have any moon left.

Speaking of which, the moon is suspiciously fine for Season 3. Not only is it in one piece, something that has not been the case for the server’s entire history, and also Alice shows up and starts acting really weirdly about halfway through the season (the thing Zloy grabbed turned out to just be a monitor).

Turns out Season 3 is a simulation run by Alice so the TBer’s brains don’t die while they heal from being squashed by the moon again. Unfortunately, Alice had to strip a lot of Zloy’s permissions to make this work, so even if they do pull everyone out, Zloy will be left without a functional body, and- no, stop offering yourself up as sacrifice you stupid zombie.

They break the server via the medium of maps, because maps in bedrock servers take up obscene amounts of data and completely destroy the file size. That’s not a TB-exclusive thing, that’s just a known problem with bedrock edition.

They get out, but Zloy’s body is, in fact, no longer functional, so Silent chops off his head and they take it with them. Zloy is fine, if rather grumpy from being stuck in Silent’s hotbar and unable to do anything except loudly judge Silent’s actions.

Eventually Silent gives up and gives Zloy to a random zombie he finds in a cliff, and Zloy, once equipped, is once again able to possess the zombie’s body and is capable of making that everyone’s problem, including his own.

Alice shows up eventually, names his overcomplicated autobrewer, and starts chilling in his hotel.

In short: Zloy is a ghost possessing a decapitated zombie head possessing a zombie. Alice is his offspring, an immortal AI/building who is able to use player-sized proxies to interact with people in a more traditional way. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#zloyxp #alice xp #truly bedrock smp #zloy lore #mcyt #rayvee actually writes #YES THIS IS ZLOY PROPAGANDA WHAT OF IT #man does n o t get enough love #go watch him he's really good #he's very much a jack-of-all-trades player #building and redstone and grinding and mob-wrangling #and he explains stuff in a very accessible way!#like with redstone he goes over what components do and how they work and possible alternate designs #or with building he talks about textures and how they work together and block palettes and his thought process and so on #don't let his accent dissuade you because once you get your ear in you too will appreciate the man and what he can do #and because his current main series is Bedrock edition he has to take a different angle to most players you might watch #he is also extremely entertaining #if you like the Recap's jokes #you'll like his #(because let's be real he writes most of those jokes fjvhjh)#anyway WATCH ZLOY #HE'S REALLY GOOD I PROMISE #(he also does little lore recaps of recent goings-on sometimes for newer viewers)#(and they are very fun also)

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hermitcraftheadcanons · 3 years

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The first time EX tried to threaten Cleo, she attacked him before he finished speaking. Frustrated, he asked her if she had any respect for the sanctity of villainous monologues, at which point she replied nope, her best friend was Joe, and if she had any regard for monologues she'd never get a word in edgewise.

Xisuma always lets him finish monologuing! Xisuma wouldn't kick him in the shins when he wasn't looking, either. Well, as Cleo informs him, she is very much not Xisuma. Get used to it. Now, square up - for the sake of the "sanctity" of your hitpoints. >:)

- Mod Shade

(As a side note - I guess this blog is RayveeHeadcanons now, because wow that's a lot of asks in a row...thank you so much for your quality ideas!)

#zombiecleo #hermitcraft #hermitblr #hcraft #mod shade #queue #just casually owning the queue for a good two days dhhfjs #i could have spaced them out a little bit but no #this is the Rayvee Difference :)

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redorich · 3 years

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(Hermit Canyon AU) As Puffy teaches the Hermits more about the history and dynamics of the DSMP, she learns about Hermtcraft's history as and culture as well. The Civil war, the Turf War, both in good fun. The way they can build massive structures without fear of griefing. The way their admin is treated as a player, not as some fickle god. Unlimited lives. It's so totally different from anything Puffy knew as an SMP. She knows it would probably be rude to ask if she could join them permanently, but that doesn't mean she won't close her eyes and imagine for a few moments.

rayvee why do all of your asks end up being straight up canon

#mcyt #hc x dsmp #hermit canyon au #captain puffy #me.cpp

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wixelt · 2 years

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Was going to try drawing up an info-graphic or diagram for the Last Player AU by @rayveewrites but I've kinda hit a wall coming up with a topic to cover.

Originally thought about an overlay map of Earth to show where all the mentioned “worlds” were (Empires, Hermitcraft S7, 2b2t, just naming the ones I recall), but that’d be a very barren map, and Rayvee’s been leaning away from mentioning non-Hermit players too much anyway, so something different might be better.

If anyone has ideas, let me know. This AU occupied my mind for a few days at least when I first read it and i’d like to show my appreciation even if Rayvee’s not working on it actively right now. :)

#hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermitcraft au #Last Player au

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pyroweasel · 3 years

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Yknow. It's time for...rec time.

If you find something you like in this list, please consider leaving 'em a little comment. I happen to know that even a little keysmash would brighten their days. :)

@cluemily writes over at the link below - and she's just wonderful. A few different flavors of fics for you to poke through, and so much good fluff in there too. I've adored every fic she's ever posted - as well as the snippets she provides!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/Cluemily

This fic, at the link below, really deserves so much attention. It's very well written, the characters are wonderful, and I'm so hooked by the story. I really cannot recommend it enough. (May edit this to include author's Tumblr if they'd like, but for now the link to the fic will do.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28891509/chapters/70878021

@rayveewrites Over at the link below! She's got her fingers in a lot of pies, and is another excellent author! Definitely check her out!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/Rayvee/pseuds/Rayvee

@feckyeswriting is another incredible author who has such a wide, wide range of Fandoms to choose from. Guaranteed just about anyone will find at least one piece they enjoy!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/firelord65/pseuds/firelord65

@hisheadhertz writes over at the link below. Again, he's an excellent author with a lot to offer to multiple Fandoms. Can't recommend him enough!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/Hertz

As we aren't mutuals, I don't want to tag their Tumblr account - but I also absolutely adore Runawaybean's Among Us fics. They also write for a few other Fandoms, so if you're a part of those, I can guarantee you'll enjoy what they have to offer!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/RunawayBean

I also highly recommend going and giving @ambathy-arts a read/looksie right here on tumblr. They're also such a good author, and I love being able to read bite size pieces that hit hard and leave you feeling. Also, they do art - and they're a hell of an artist, as well. ;)

#Recommendations #Rec post #Fic recs #Fanfiction recs #I feel like there's someone I've forgotten to shout out #If so just please know like #I just forget things ;; really easily #Sticking pretty much with fic for this bit too #May do more in the future though!#Ilu all #Thank you for brightening my life that much more

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rayveewrites · 2 years

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Sorry for the quiet lately! I have been depresssed and then my brain got taken over by Splatoon. Because Splatoon.

Seriously this series is so good you guys-

I love Deep Cut I love the Squid Sisters I love Callie I love the squid parties between matches I love Cap'n Cuttlefish's redesign I love the lockers I love the holo stickers I love Harmony I love Smallfry I love the story mode I love my New Agent 3 (her name is Ada) I love the music-

The only thing I'm sad about is the loss of all the Hero Weapons aside from the Hero Shot but it's still early days so I can cross my fingers and hope that the Hero Roller (My Beloved) will return.

And also Off the Hook. They'd better show up at some point.

(Also, my Switch friend code is SW-2868-5995-5471 if any of yall also have switches. Not neccesarily Sploon, just the switch :3)

#seriously tho HOW IS THE MUSIC THIS GOOD #they seriously went 'hey let's make a Japanese squid equivilent to Simlish'#'and then use it exclusively to create bangers'#and then they DID.#anyway they haven't topped Tidal Rush yet but Wave Goodbye made me feel so many Emotions and that's a different kind of special #I know Cuttlefish technically isn't Cap'n anymore but it feels wrong not to call him that #Psst... Ask me about my Agents...#ask me about Cap and 4 and 8 and New 3 and Smallfry-#(their names are actually Helios Diana/Di Wing and Ada respectively)#(And Smallfry is either called The Bearslaying Secret Agent of the New Squidbeak Splatoon or Blip)#(depending on who asks)#this is not what ppl follow me for but i don't care #Rayvee rambles

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rayveewrites · 2 years

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idea for zloy and pixl channel concept, at one point the channel gets big enough that some big company or whatever like buzzfeed (buzzfeed unsolved collab when /j) ends up offering them a sponsorship so they can do an actual video in hermiton which they end up accepting and now zloy has to find a way to legally ride a plane before the time hits where they have to leave

Pix: Hey Zloy! Fantastic news- we've been sponsored to go to Hermiton! In person!

Zloy, rather nervous: Okay, so, small problem: I don't have a passport.

Pix: Well, time to apply for on I guess?

Zloy, panicking: I can't.

Pix: Why not? I can help you with the paperwork.

Zloy, panicking even more: I'm legally dead.

Pix:

#I mean #technically he's not *wrong*?#he is dead in like #*several* different ways #i'm cackling so much this is amazing #ask #last player au au #anonymous #rayvee rambles

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rayveewrites · 3 years

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Here's a little snippet from a few hundred years before the Last Player AU takes place!

You’re trying not to panic, but it’s difficult. Your heart’s thudding in your chest, and you can’t think straight. Your husband is beside you, calling your son’s name.

He ran into the forest hours ago, and neither of you have seen him since.

Stupid- it was stupid, what you said. What you all said. Things have been hard lately, stressful- but that’s no excuse. That’s never an excuse.

Now your son is missing, and it’s all your fault.

You call his name, again and again, saying that you’re sorry, you didn’t mean it. Of course you didn’t mean it- you’re his mother. You love your son. You care for him, even if he drives you nuts sometimes.

But he’s run off, into the forest. And god knows what’s roaming around in there.

You keep calling.

“Hello?” You turn, startled. A woman is standing there, holding your son by the wrist. You call his name, and the strange woman lets go. Her eyes are the brightest shade of green you’ve ever seen, and her long red hair cascades down her back in waves. But her eyes are sunken, her cheeks are hollow, and her pale skin is green and rotting. She’s wearing a shirt, and pants- men’s clothes, although on these the sleeves have been cut off, above the knees, above the elbows.

You’ve heard stories about monsters, creatures that have lurked for centuries in the forgotten corners of the world. You didn’t realize one was hiding so close.

On one hand, you should tell someone. This being is dangerous, monstrous, a demon walking the Earth.

But… she found your son. He’s unharmed, unscathed.

“Who are you?” Your husband asks, and although he’s big, and strong from working the farm, you can hear the tremble in his voice.

“Cleo,” the woman said simply. “Son lucky I find before dingo.” Her voice sounds strange, like English is an unfamiliar language to her.

“No harm you no harm me,” she adds, perhaps in response to the glances you and your husband share.

“You… won’t hurt us if we don’t hurt you?” you ask, trying to keep control of your voice.

“Yes.”

“Does that go for everyone?”

“Yes.”

“Cleo,” your husband says hesitantly. “Why- why are you here? Do you live in the forest?”

“No live anymore,” she replies. “Stay in forest. Wait.”

“Wait for what?”

“Family.” She turns away.

“You’re waiting for your family? Are they monsters too?”

“Not blood-family. Home-family.” Cleo pauses, glancing back. “Will return. One day.”

“How do you know that?” you ask, because she sounds so convinced.

“Because the Universe said I love you,” she replies. She takes off, darting through the trees, a shadow among the foliage.

And then she’s gone.

#it's in second person so i don't have to name them #this is supposed to be like. pesants.#or something #but also I've decided this AU is set in Australia #so the timeline's very funky #but it was always gonna be really weird anyway #what with the whole Players dying out thing #history's probably taken a fairly different path #at least ancient history #but maybe Australia was colonized early or something idk #WHO KNOWS #Last player au #hermitcraft au #zombiecleo #Rayvee actually Writes

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rayveewrites · 3 years

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Holy hell, Joe Hills is here, resuscitated and reunited with Cleo here in 2021 A.D! Or, you know, F.U, what with the Final Update and all. Does that kind of world-shaking event have an effect on date formats? Hmmm

I've fallen in love with this AU, your world building is absolutely gorgeous & Cleo-centric anything is a joy to see... And now that Joe's here some real chaos is about to happen! Left to her own devices Cleo will happily live up to the name of her server, but Joe? Man's got the gift of the gab, and you bet he's going to use it to cause problems On Purpose >:)

Very interested in knowing if Cleo's recovered any of Joe's possessions from museums, or perhaps the duo will celebrate their reunion with a heist?

"Howdy, y'all! Joe Hills here, Respawning as I always do, now in 2021 PFU! For those of you whom are unaware, PFU stands for Post Final Update, a method of timekeeping that Cleo and I completely made up."

Cleo has been living alone for so long that having another Player- even if it's someone she's as intrinsically familiar with as Joe- around and living with her is honestly strange. She doesn't mind though- gods know she's missed having him around! He keeps her mentally stimulated at the very least.

Of course, Joe may be older than Cleo, but she's been on Earth for the last two thousand years while he hasn't. She's been scarred by loss, he hasn't. And Joe has always been a lot more social than she is.

Joe, to his credit, is mostly keeping in and near her base, and not really venturing outside the forest too much. Not that she's banned him or anything (and it wouldn't work if she had), but he's been keeping close, and for that she's grateful. Even if she suspects it's for a completely unrelated reason.

See, Joe has always been difficult to understand. He's weird and has a habit of using obscure phrases and bizarre terminology.

But the thing is, language changes over two thousand years. It changes a lot. Cleo is the only person who even has the slightest inkling as to what Joe is even saying.

Nobody else knows what he's going on about. Cleo used to 'translate' for Joe, back when Hermitcraft was still ongoing, but now her translating is a lot more literal.

(Joe's learning, of course. Eventually he'll figure out the modern English language and then all bets are off. But for now, he has to rely on Cleo.)

#Go look up beowulf if you want an example of how language has drifted #because believe it or not it's written in English #Old English; which is different from modern English #and it's about 1300 years old and utterly incomprehensible to us now #So you can see Joe's problem #his knowledge of language is vast and complex and 2000 years out of date #Cleo probably drags Joe along on a museum heist #and forces him to wear a silverfish head as they do #hilarity ensues #Last Player AU #Rayvee actually Writes #Joe hills #zombiecleo #ask #emeraldlapin

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rayveewrites · 3 years

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Jellie POV is my new favourite thing XD

Jellie sasses Impulse for allegedly not knowing her name and then proceeds to not use anyone's actual name (except Scar).

#the difference is that she's a cat and therefore doesn't care #last player au #ask #anonymous #rayvee rambles

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rayveewrites · 3 years

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Honestly shout out to Tetris Effect for having literally the only song I can find about love that isn't romantic.

#connected is a song about familial love #and i just...YES!#more of this!#there are so many different types of love!#familial...platonic...#why are all love songs about romance?#and sometimes sex #more songs to show love of the family!#more songs to show love of your friends that aren't by children's singers!#but no #it's just Song About Being Cheated On number 46864 #sigh...#rayvee rambles #tetris effect

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rayveewrites · 3 years

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So @clueative commented on my Last Player AU post with a request for a vaguely-defined 'more', so I guess here you go?

Today we're talking about the relationship between Cleo and the citizens of Hermiton, because why not.

So the thing is, the citizens in general don't really know what Cleo's deal is. They're aware that she exists, that she lives in the forest, that pissing her off is a bad idea but she might help you out if you manage to get lost (the forest is actually officially considered a state park, because nobody can really do anything else with it without Cleo interceding, and Cleo herself doesn't really exist from a legal standpoint). So it's typically believed she's some sort of fae-esque being, or something. It's not really clear.

Cleo herself doesn't really talk much, not to Humans, anyway. She sort of subconsciously chooses to distance herself, because she's Undying and Humans, well, aren't. She's lost plenty of people over the years, and it hurts her every time. It's better to not get attached at all, even if it does mean she does get lonely.

It's worth mentioning that Cleo can and does leave the forest! The forest is where she... dwells (can't exactly say lives, can I? And it's not her home, not really, because her home was never a place, it was a people), but she's free to exit it. She goes into the city sometimes, usually at night, covered up so the unnatural hue of her skin isn't as obvious (the orange colour of the streetlights also tend to throw the colour off). She pays for things legitimately, usually by selling off gold nuggets that she got from mining, because what else is she going to do with gold? Besides, it's the currency here. Even though it's practically useless. Eh, maybe Humans have discovered some use that she isn't aware of. Who knows.

And yes, the gold nuggets do, in fact, reinforce the faerie theory.

Now, here's the odd thing: Cleo doesn't talk much, but she does talk. But the citizens still refer to her as just 'the Green Lady'. Why is that?

Basically? Nobody thinks to ask. The thing is... Cleo's a zombie. Not only that, she's the only zombie left. And Humans fear zombies instinctually. Even though zombies- true zombies- haven't existed for thousands of years, there's an ancestral memory that fears the monsters of the night. And Cleo tends to activate it.

So often during encounters, people tend to freeze up, and stumble over their words- they're not really in the headspace to ask for her name until they start to relax, and by that point the encounter's usually over. And Cleo just... doesn't think to mention. She's used to instinctively knowing someone's name when she looks at them [the equivalent of Players being able to read Player tags/ nametags], and keeps forgetting that Humans can't do that.

She does have a degree of respect for them, though! While it's difficult for her to wrap her head around the fact they don't see the world in blocks and chunks, she's aware they don't have things like inventories or much strength, and can't help but feel impressed that they manage to build things in spite of this (once she tried to go a week without using her inventory. It was a pain in the ass. Using it is just second nature to her).

#Maybe I'll write something at some point about what she actually does in the forest #and maybe a bit about what happens when the other hermits actually return. and how.#Cleo is a fae/cryptid as far as anyone's aware #Players and Humans see the world differently; they also *exist* on different layers of reality's fabric #slightly different; but different enough #Players see the world as blocks painstakingly placed together on a three-dimensional grid #Humans see the world the same way we do irl #it's kinda weird and I haven't quite hashed out exactly how it works yet #Maybe I'll also make a post about what happened last time someone tried to clear Cleo's forest for development #Hint: it did not go well. For him.#For Cleo it went very well :)#Hermitcraft AU #Last Player AU #ZombieCleo #Rayvee actually Writes

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rayveewrites · 3 years

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Okay I lied, it looks like we're getting Pokehermit story now.

In my defence, the inner machinations of my brain are thoroughly unpredictable.

The corridor is quiet, save for the clack of your foreclaws on the floor and the ever-present hum of machinery. The hall is empty, just you and the white surroundings, interspersed with lights or doors. You still don’t like this place much, but the bad memories have faded somewhat, dulled by your Trainer’s compassion.

Besides, you’ve been still too long, and you need to move.

You almost miss the soft sound, barely at the edge of your hearing. A human would never have picked up on it; it takes you several heartbeats to pick it out. Once you do, you strain to pinpoint it. The sound is unmistakable.

Crying.

You spend a while trying to pinpoint its direction, hampered by the fact it’s so soft and by the way it seems to fade at some points. Eventually, though, you manage to track down the sound, and come to a door. No matter; your foreclaws are nimble enough to manipulate the doorknob.

It’s locked. It’s locked. What bloody god decided this would be funny? You could tear the door down, but you doubt it’ll exactly be comforting to whoever’s inside. Which means you’ll have to find a Human with the keys.

You don’t find a human. You do find a stray Klefki, though, and you manage to convince her to help you. Fortunately, she has the right key, and you thank her politely and promise to look out for her (she has some keys you’re pretty sure she shouldn’t).

It takes you a bit to recognize the lab behind the door. The enormous cages lining the walls, the places where machinery have been torn out, the claw marks on the floor. It’s the place where you and your Trainer found the fused humans.

The room has been abandoned, now. Most of the light bulbs seem to have failed, the cages are showing signs of rust, and a layer of dust covers every surface. You pad forwards, scanning everything. The sound of the crying had stopped before you’d gotten back.

You hear the slightest movement, something shifting minutely, and you turn. There, huddled in the darkest corner, two large red eyes gaze back at you.

#:3 #is this a storyline that's been mentioned?#is it something completely different?#guess you'll have to wait and see!#Anyway. Have.#pokehermits au #rayvee actually writes

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