#codland grian

[prismadog]

I can't draw it or write it right now, but I have a scene in my head for the jimnoth au, or more specifically, for the future after the ending.

y'all remember that one meme thing where the mom bursts into her kid's room and says "you're having sex!" and the kid just looks at their friend and says "why didn't you tell me, I would've put my book down"

that. except with jimmy and xornoth. and it's scott or grian / lizzie bursting into the room.

so like ---

Xornoth and Jimmy are in Xornoth's bedroom together, both sitting on the bed. Xornoth is reading a book and Jimmy is carving something.

scott: *bursts into Xornoth's bedroom* "You two're having sex!

Xornoth: *barely looks up from their book* we are? Jimmy, why didn't you tell me, I would've put my book down.

Jimmy: *confused fish noises*

or ---

Jimmy and Xornoth are sitting together in Jimmy's house, probably on the couch in the front room. Jimmy is looking over documents for the Council and Xornoth is reading.

Grian: *bursts through Jimmy's front door* you two are having sex!

Jimmy: *barely looks up from his papers* really? Xornoth, why didn't you tell me? I would've put these documents away.

Xornoth: *turns a page* sorry, I know how important your council work is and didn't want to distract you

Grian: *disgruntled fish noises*

[tinapaysmp]

You know what? I think I will turn Wilbur into fWhip's boyfriend in my crossover.

[loafabun]

Empires Scarian au where Grian is a cod hybrid from the Codlands and Scar is an elf from Rivendell.

Star crossed lovers except their empires aren’t enemies so it’s just lovers.

[misc-pit-of-things]

INCOMING MESSAGE - COMM RECORDS by writing_and_worrying

The multiverse is in danger. (not sure I can give more without giving spoilers)

The audio script format is very engaging as this story's mysteries unravel. I love how Cubfan is written in this fic.

Redstone and Skulk by Silverskye13

Tanguish, Tango's hels, meets Helsknight.

The imagery is gorgeous and I love how deep interpersonal relationships are really delved into.

War on our Shores by InbetweenHoursGlass

Jimmy washes up on the shore of the Grimlands with no memory.

Doomed relationship that ends just as badly as we can all see it coming, but its done so well all the same.

An Of-fish-ial Guide to Not Being the Cod One Out by ahautism

Jimmy participates in a Codland tradition.

Just a cozy fic about finding a sense of belonging.

The Incandescence of a Dying Light by doctorletmebebrave

Grian gets a Firewatch job to solve the mystery of what happened to his friend Mumbo.

Made me cry. About dealing with grief. But also Grian makes friends with Scar. so its fun and kind too. Really well researched; the author leaves cool links and info in the notes of chapters.

Second Chances by Umbrify

fWhip asks Sausage a question that gives him deja vu.

Excellent rumination on fWhip and Jimmy dynamic between season 1 and 2 of empires. Perfect. No notes.

aitamo: you are not loved by god by soapflowers

Xornoth before, when they were a prince of rivendell.

its got that tasty self fulfilling prophecy sauce in it.

self promo:

Count by TheSparrowWrites

Gem and fWhip backstory! (does use alternative names)

Ancient City by TheSparrowWrites

Pixlriffs proposed that the goblins from season 2 are evolved from the fishfolk from season 1. This is about that.

Second Chance Lives by TheSparrowWrites

Scott is having a great afterlife until suddenly he isn't because cultists have resurrected Xornoth. Still in progress, but hopefully the final chapter should be finished soon!

you know what I haven’t seen going around in a while, and could use some of myself? fic recs! so, consider this both a rec and a self-promo post: recommend some fics to me in the reblogs and I’ll reblog your recs! in general, try to include both a summary and why you’re reccing it (whether it’s a self-promo or someone else’s), and let’s get some eyes on fics!

[hir4]

I case anyone wants to watch Jimmy's vod of Grian touring Empires Smp (100% worth watching), here is the link exactly when Grian joins!

[ace-of-arthropods]

My interpretation of Grian showing up in the codlands suddenly is that he's a secret agent sent by the cod council to check on Jimmy. He's not very good at keeping the secret (blatantly still having the face of a cod) but Jimmy's too oblivious to suspect anything anyway.

[lunarblazes]

Hi Luna, excuse me if this is a repeat ask, because I think tunglr may have eaten my first: but i am out here thinking about hostile stars, because it lives in my brain rent free, and i am curious about any info youre willing to share about the other gods in hs!

IT DIDN’T GET EATEN I SAW IT JUST BEFORE I WENT TO SLEEP WHEN YOU SENT IT AND I COMPLETELY WENT HEAD EMPTY AND FORGOT. SO SORRY ABOUT THAT,

ahem! ANYWAY yes there are a lot of other gods in this au! none of them are related to mcyt except scar and grian of course, but i love them all the same. here’s a list of each god in aeor’s pantheon and their host empire (excepting exor, he’s not in the pantheon for obvious reasons lol, and grian, who is also not in the pantheon for slightly less obvious reasons):

[unnamed]: invention, caves, and electricity (grimlands)

matral: life, growth, and resilience (mezalea)

[unnamed]: memory (pixandria)

anthea: mystery, flowers, the wilderness (the overgrown)

nari: shrub and katherine probably share a patron, i think their patron is a dual-sided entity— katherine gets the mystery, shrub gets the wilderness (undergrove)

aeor: light, clouds, snow, purity (rivendell)

exor: darkness, ash, lava, corruption (mythlands, lost empire)

naia: the ocean, rainwater, thunderstorms, swamps (codlands, ocean empire)

ametri: magic, crystals, knowledge, learning (crystal cliffs)

grian: rainbows, embers, flame (gilded helianthia)

i have a lot more planned to talk about the gods and their fights in the sequel i’m planning, but i can tell you now that aeor’s pantheon is not all the gods there are. for instance, grian and scar are not included in his pantheon, and neither is exor, a very prominent god. i wanted to do something with aeor that was skirting the line of like how embodying perfection and expecting others to do the same is stifling and eventually leads to a sort of tyranny. aeor is basically one of those toxic parents who wants you to get all a’s on a report card forever and if you ever slip there are consequences. exor is not a dark conquerer god, really, he’s honestly more chill than aeor and focuses on the renewal of volcanic areas and the cycle of life. he’s the closest thing to a sort of death god they have. his cult are the ones who started the riders of exor, which caused huge damages to the world, but that wasn’t really his fault. they did that on their own. the pantheon is basically a way aeor uses to flex his influence over exor; a sort of cool kid’s club of all the most powerful or useful gods deemed by aeor. the grimlands deity, in particular, does not like being a part of the pantheon.

and yes, anthea and nari are the same goddess! two names for the same person, just to clear that up, and a quick disclaimer that two people sharing a patron doesn’t give them any intrinsic relationship. sausage and joey share a patron and just kind of… hang out sometimes, jimmy and lizzie share a patron and decide they’re siblings now, and katherine and shrub are, well, nature wives! so yeah. that’s some stuff about the gods!

[kora-kat]

So far on my Empires mcyt citizens:

Codlands- Grian, Tommyinnit, Slimecicle, Jevin, Petezahutt, and Dream (Jimmy is suffering)

Gilded Heilantha- Techno, Mumbo, and Ranboo (None of them is any match for Pearl)

Grimlands- Doc, Isakall, Tubbo, Tango and Sally Salmon (Sally is the only sensible one in this whole empire)

Mythlands- Rendog, Badboyhalo, Skeppy, Sapnap, Awesomedude ( fuckers about to get possessed)

Ocean empire- Niki, Xisuma, and Xb (these are mostly based off aquatic hybrid hc, but I think niki and lizzie would be good friends)

Pixandria- Phil and Foolish (Death themes and building)

Crystal Cliffs- Fundy, Eret, and Aimsey (idk i think they deserve magic)

Still thinking up more and would love to discuss

[shadeswift99]

Thinking about this again so here's a rough roundup of which places got smushed into each other so far! It makes no geographical sense because of course it doesn't do I look like some kinda nerd to you (I am I very much am I'm trying so hard not to focus too much on accuracy here it Hurts)

But yeah, on vibes alone we have!

- zWhidaph's Laforgeboratorylands (Zedaph's lab and the Grimlands)

- The Crystal Octacliffs (Crystal Cliffs and Octagon area)

- Codnight Alley (the Codlands and Grian's area of Boatem)

- The Rivenswamp (Rivendell merged with the swamp between False, Stress, and HC Gem)

- The Ocean Kingdom and xB's area (no name yet)

- Katherine's empire (name escapes me) is tentatively near Mumbo's mountains

- Pixandria may be somewhere near Cubs' ravine

- Mesalia is also partially in Cubs' ravine so they may be on opposite sides of it

- Shubble's empire is in Stress's ravine

- I hesitantly nominate Mythland to be in and around Iskall and Etho's base

So that's about the lay of the land right now!

Hey yo so what if I made the most crack-filled crossover fix-it AU for both Hermitcraft and Empires at once. I bet there's a way I can smash em together so all of their individual problems literally just cancel each other out and all we're left with is ridiculous amounts of fluff and chaos, one draft no edits let's gooooooo -

- Instead of each of the server's individual endings happening the combination of dumbass science and magical nonsense just breaks reality completely and the two worlds hurtle into each other at interdimensional warp speed. Everyone's Hermitcraft bases are now on top of/beside/inside/under everyone's empires, it's pure aesthetic chaos incarnate

- Hermatrix Octa Beats Exor's Ass because I say so. Aeor fights the Moon and wins. (Please ignore the fact that I know next to nothing about 3/4 of these entities just let the gods fight it out I don't care about the details)

- Alternatively: fWhip and Jimmy still do the salmon/cod reactor thing but it happens in just the right place so the explosion pushes the two worlds away from the Moon by pure coincidence

- It takes exactly 1.37 seconds for Sausage to start sacrificing stuff to the Boatem hole

- Pix is there and Pixandria isn't actually splorked onto any other bases, but he shows up to meet with the others Exactly Once and then they basically don't see him again for months because he's booked solid making Vigil candles for Scar

- Eventually Joe finds him (tried to use that desert to mine sand for new green hotbar glass) and they have a conversation about philosophy, death, and epic pranks that I would absolutely pay to see while Joe helps him craft all those candles

- Cleo tries to sell them Hive-dr8 for the Vigil but Pix doesn't think that would be very respectful of the dead (he will take several for himself though because that desert is approximately Dry As Fuck and also this high fantasy rp man probably hasn't had an energy drink in his life)

(lots more under the cut, also very interested in extra ideas!)

- Whenever there's two of anybody they have to fight each other. That's the rules. Wizard Gem assumes she'll win the fight easily but HC Gem is a Canadian moose hybrid and absolutely runs her over a la "counterspell THIS, casual" so that's that decided (Gem respawns just fine with nothing harmed but her dignity)

- Pearl v Pearl ends up with Empires Pearl winning, of course, but it's a good fight and they agree to spar lots more afterwards for practice

- Scott and X talk and decide to just swap evil brothers and have done with this already. Scott takes Evil X aside to gently talk about his crippling abandonment issues and EX just decides to quit bothering people before the gay elf man makes him cry in front of two whole servers

- Xisuma lays eyes on our favourite demon Xornoth for 1 (one) millisecond and immediately remembers why he's wearing all that Doomguy armour. Rip and tear. (Whether he gets some kind of a redemption ending or not is really up to people who know and care more about that lore than I do)

- After EX Forcible Therapy Arc he runs across Evil Sausage and they try to go in together as business partners. It's an absolute disaster. Dark!Sausage keeps gleefully murdering all their customers and the place goes bankrupt days after opening. At least they're having fun though!

- Optional: after X uppercuts the corruption directly out of Xornoth he joins the Evil Business Trio and actually makes it halfway make sense (he is now the least evil person there and also the proud owner of at least one braincell which I find hilarious under the circumstances)

- Joel figures out that he's exactly 0.5 inches taller than Bdubs when they stand perfectly level with each other. His complete refusal to let Bdubs forget it has started 17 wars already. (In reality they get along great still though, because Bdubs does things with terracotta that would make any builder weep tears of joy and also he's wearing moss -)

- Zed's mountain is now home to zWhidaph's Laforgeboratorylands and he is NOT happy about it, this is not in keeping with his antisocial habits at all, there's this guy with wings running around unionizing all his villagers and there's weird deepslate redstone spikes everywhere and - OOOO wait he can study that stuff! Everything is perfectly okay now. Zed is in science heaven

- Gem's dragons make friends with False's giant eagle

- Grian keeps challenging Scott to increasingly risky flying challenges and Scott keeps ending up head-first in a tree in a very un-kingly way

- The number of deaths in Boatem meetings + the number of deaths in WRA meetings...they have a combined meeting Exactly One Time before Pix says that if they ever die that many times at once again he's holding candle making classes at swordpoint for the whole group

- Wormman and Poultryman get brought back just so they can be a superhero trio with the Codfather

- Lizzie and Cub become the next villain duo through sheer force of pun alone (they try to teach the axolotls to dig through the mole tunnels but they don't seem to want to cooperate)

- Ren and Sausage hit it off immediately because of course they do (also Bubbles loves the big friendly dog man, he smells like sticks and gives good scritches)

- Most importantly of all, Joel, Sausage, and Zedaph come together to host the greatest game show Hermempirecrafts has ever seen: Is That Blood Sheep Looking At Me!

That's all the ideas I have for now! I lied about no edits, I'm actually probably going to quarantine this in drafts for a couple days after the finale so the irreverent tone doesn't get me Seven Million Unhappy Replies for posting during the grieving period, but I'm personally really liking the break from all the seriousness to just fling wild ideas at the wall and see what makes the most good brain juice. :] I'll probably come up with more later!

[prismadog]

my mind is a jumbled mess right now cause I have far too many thoughts and aus bouncing around in my brainspace like the dvd symbol on a tv screen. at this point, I can't get any progress done on any of my aus so I'm gonna make a post here to sort out the aus and my thoughts.

AUs that NEED to be worked on 1. the Creed of Gods and Men [empires s1] - - Xornoth adopts child!Shubble au 2. Crowns of Orchids and Fields of Poppies [empires s1] - - Jimnoth au, Jimmy x Xornoth au [slow burn enemies to lovers] 3. Dragon Mom Grian au (hermitcraft s8) - - Grian gets possessive/motherly over the Tegg (dragon egg)

AUs that I'm actively thinking about 1. Among Us Empires au (empires s1 x among us) - - Empires season 1 are crewmates on the Skeld, Jimmy and Lizzie are Imposters 2. the Harbinger [double life] - - Team Rancher takes Revenge for their son's (the Warden) death 3. Evo Server Prison au [evo smp] - - the Evo players are trapped in their server, more players are added, life series stuff also happens

AUs that I'm semi-thinking about 1. Watcher!Grian meets Hermitcraft au [hermitcraft 5 or 6] - - Grian is a Watcher who's caretakers sent him to Hermitcraft to escape danger, he spies on the Hermits from a distance 2. prisoner Jimmy au [empires s1 / pre-empires] - - young Jimmy is a prisoner of Mythland who's given to the Elfking of Rivendell as a "gift", includes child Scott and Conner (Xornoth) 3. Mythland x Codlands Arranged Marriage au [empires s1] - - Jimmy reluctantly marriages Sausage in order to stop the war with Mythland [slow burn enemies to husbands to friends to lovers, non-con / dub-con elements]

I think I need a little input here on what to work on cause honestly, I'm at a standstill with all these thoughts and aus. I know the Jimnoth au is (or was?) a semi-popular one here, and I wanna work on that, but I need something else to work on too otherwise I'll get burned out.

so anyone got any thoughts on these aus?