#cub_cam

[convexicalcrow]

A Discussion Between A Pharaoh And His Ba

a/n: ba = eternal soul a.k.a cam accounts; ka = the current life/incarnation a.k.a the player; akh = a ka who has passed judgement and become one of the ancestors; the kingly ka = a soulspirit of Horus that each king bears and makes them half-divine.

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The season was coming to a close, and weariness sunk into my bones. The kind of tiredness you can't shake, that eats away at you. My hands refused to build anymore; the very thought of finishing one last room was beyond them. I'd grown very used to feeling like this. The old man had always struggled a little, but this felt … different. Perhaps the Pharaoh's magic had exacerbated things, I don't know. All I know is that the sunset was closing in, and perhaps, there was a different fate waiting for me.

Did I want to know the answers? Well, probably not, but when you have a curious mind, that isn't really something you consider. So, perhaps against my better judgement, I took counsel with my ba, my eternal soul, sitting in the room I would never finish, seeking some resolution.

He looked like me in many ways, except for the much larger wings instead of arms, and the clawed bird feet. He carried scrolls under his wings, and he didn't speak so much as have words emanate and vibrate through the air into my mind. He looked at me with pity, though I would never quite understand why.

You fear death, were his first words. But why fear death when you will simply respawn? You are essentially immortal. Death means nothing but a temporary inconvenience. So why does your heart falter?, my ba said.

He was right, of course. Was it even death anymore? It never really felt like death. Just a large chunk of pain that faded fairly quickly after respawn. There were no penalties for it. You never stayed dead. But I'd come to understand death very differently this season. Perhaps it was the Pharoah's powers, or the presence of the Kingly Ka burning bright in my soul, I don't know. Certainly having all the old Kings on speed dial was a strange experience. I had only become Pharaoh for the theming of the pyramid base. I never expected to get the power and legitimacy that came with it. Those old kings spoke of so many things, and kept saying they'd be waiting for me once it was time for me to go West.

Me? Join the Kingly Ka? Hah! No way. Not me. I'm just some guy, I'm no king. And yet… The idea that the Pharaoh would die, no, the fact that he would whether I liked it or not? Yeah, it scared me. Permanent death is scary! No one ever just… died and never came back. We always come back. Which death would be my last? Would this be the last world I ever played on? Would this be the last time I saw my friends?

The time for this ka is coming to a close. A new ka is soon to be born, my ba said.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

This ka will be judged. This ka will become an akh. The ba will manifest a new ka. The old man's time is over. The fountain of youth is calling, my ba said.

"I'm going to become someone else? Is that what you're saying? I'm not sure I like that idea," I said.

The old man was already someone else. He served you well, but his time is up. There is nothing further he can do for you, my ba said.

"Wait, so I spend all this time building the Great Pyramid and this is how I'm rewarded? I just become someone else? Nah, no way. You have no power to do that to me," I said.

And yet, here I am. I am eternal. Death does not touch me. I will see all the lifetimes you lead whether you are aware of me or not, my ba said. Death beckons to the old man. It's okay. You can stop now. Your weary body can rest, my ba said.

I didn't reply as I took in the scope of his words. I did feel very tired and old, that's for sure. But the idea of just becoming someone else scared me. I didn't like to not be in control of that. I already knew who I was pretty well by now. I didn't want to have to do that all over again in a new body.

You can fight it if you want, but you'll have no choice in the end. The West beckons. It's time. Make your peace and come into the arms of the gods. All Pharaohs die, and you are not an exception, my ba said.

"But where will I go when I die? Into the void? Will I just be trapped there? I don't know if I want to be trapped in the void!" I said.

Your heart will be weighed against the feather of Ma'at, and that will decide your fate. Could be tricky, we both know the evils you've done in the name of greed. Your hands are stained with blood. Let's hope you have done enough good to balance out the bad, my ba said.

The Vex hissed angrily at my ba's accusations, but he was right. If I was brutally honest, getting other Hermits to fight a war for us and then selling them the weapons in which to do so, was definitely not up there with a good thing to have done. The Vex, too, were hardly nice. That's when I realised I might be in some kind of trouble, and in my panic, returned to my consciousess, not wishing to hear my ba's counsel on that particular point.

I shouldn't have asked. I should have just remained ignorant. Let things pan out however they wanted to pan out. But now that I know, I feel helpless. Ba, please, spare me from the Lake of Fire. Heart, speak true and do not betray me! Gods, spare me from the jaws of Ammit!

Oh, I really shouldn't have asked. I have had no sleep for a week, too scared to go to bed in case I never wake up. But the season's winding down fast, there's not much time left. The sun sits just above the western horizon. And yet, I am paralysed with fear. I will put my affairs in order while I still can, but… I didn't build a tomb in this pyramid for nothing. The guardian I left in there may become my executioner. The old man will rest here for all eternity. Who knows who I will become? Only my ba knows that, and I'm not sure I want to know this time.

[ocho00o]

Hermit’s Camera Accounts: pt 5!!!! It’s been over a year but we’re back baby

Other parts:

ZedCam

Cub_Cam

AriesEva

CamM77

Jevination (here)

[pixiemage]

Yet another Cam Account moment that makes me want to write a the-cams-are-sentient AU lol

[theminecraftbee]

[image ID: in-game chat from hermitcraft season 9.

cubfan135 joined the game <cubfan135> well well well <cubfan135> if it isn’t the usual suspects <joehillssays> if it isn’t cubfan 135 <cubfan135> hahaha <cubfan135> hey joe and scar <GoodTimeWithScar> Uhh I was hopeing for Cub_Cam <joehillssays> do you wanna come make suggestions about y dirt hut? <cubfan135> oh Cub Cam is running late <cubfan135> He comin’ tho

/end ID]

man being back on hermitcraft and seeing interactions like this makes me so happy. this amused me so i’m sharing it. please note that approximately five minutes later scar was slain by a piglin and immediately quit the game.

[gender-void-partially-stars]

Valid hermit camera account skins

Badtimewithscar- demised ripped Scar

ImpulseCam- just a blank skin with a camera head

TangoCam- Tango but with the mustache still

Cub_cam- just vex Cub

Cleophas- kinda hard to describe but it’s like a white to black gradient that’s kinda wonky

ZedCam- Zedaphs skin but with a camera lens for a face

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

hey, not the same anon as the earlier ask, but bouncing off the btwscar and truesym ask from earlier, as a Very new hc fan, do you know any of the other canonical or fanonical names of the hermits’ “opposites,” like EX?

I know a few!

Bdouble0100: WelsBlazes. Cubfan135: Cub_Cam.

Docm77: CamM77.

Ethoslab: IDK.

FalseSymmetry: TrueSymmetry.

Grian: Two_Much_Grian (Previously The_Grifter.)

Goodtimewithscar: Badtimewithscar.

Hypno: HypnotizdCam.

ImpulseSV: ImpulseCam, (Shared HermitCam with Tango until Season 6.)

iJevin: Jevination.

Iskall85: IsGall85 (Previously Iskall69.)

JoeHillsTSD/JoeHillsSays: Joehillssees

Keralis: Kamalis1.

MumboJumbo: Mumbo

RenTheDog: RenTheBob, (Previously RendogTV)

Stressmonster101: Stressmonsterin.

Tangotek: HermitCam.

Tinfoilchef: IDK.

VintageBeef: IDK.

XBCrafted: XBCam.

Xisuma: XisumaVoid

ZedaphPlays: ZedCam.

ZombieCleo: HumanCleo.

As you can see, I don’t know all of em. So, some community help would be great!

-Tom

[limelocked]

I was gonna do a fic with the au but ill just ramble instead cuz i dont have a good idea for a plot or anything

so

a cam account, called a ghost, specter, cam or soul is theorized to be kind of like a living horocrux from harry potter, kind of like splitting your soul in two and they’re the second piece. they can go from opaque to fully transparent and their powers include phasing through the world and limited teleportation, basically, theyre players in spectator mode. Through these entities the players can see from weird angles among others

the theory is that you have to make one yourself, split it off from yourself manually but no one actually remembers doing it, they just have their ghost already

grian has The_Grifter, shortened usually to Grif

joe has joehillssees, shortened to Joesees or Jocie. Jocie is mute but no one really knows if he’s physically unable to or if he chooses not to, he knows sign language tho and has taught it to Grif.

cleo and her ghost Cleophas (called Phas) have a complicated relationship due to me not caring about the account Cleophas’ skin Phas looking like HumanCleo

BadTimeWithScar, called either badtimes or Tim (like with Jocie, his name was said too fast once) has some Tude and Does Not like Scars new outfit and Personality with the whole wizard schtick

Cub_cam looks Weird, like more vex than Cub and acts the part. Where most ghosts will follow orders from several hermits he and Badtimes are among those that are loyal only to their own players (well i say loyal but Badtimes is kinda just stuck with it) Cubvex, Vux or whatever nickname of the day he’s given ONLY FOLLOWS CUB and is in general a piece of gremlin at anyone else. He is very pro Scar using weird magics

Etho claims to not have a ghost and no ones told him how to get one, he also claims to not need one. A lab with mazelike walls behind a sea lantern door might tell a different story tho

Truesymmerty (or Truce) is the most like her player and cooperates with most other hermits if false has given the okay for it aka that theyre not on opposite teams

Rens ghost is RenTheBob, nothing more to say about that. He has a verbal hiccup about needing gas money, this doesn’t translate to if hes writing or signing (which Grif taught him during the A77 arc)

Dont look at ZedCam too long, it’s okay to be scared of ZedCam

ImpulseCam is the only one with the actual name “Cam”. Cam is by far the most “obidient” ghost and will follow anyones commands which hes usually the one in charge of things like Is That Sheep Looking At Me or other such things where you need to look into the camera

DocCamera looks like doc did in survival of the fittest with some accessories, no one who remembers that doc used to look like that says anything about it. Some of the other ghosts call him Amera/Emera like camera without the k sound

[sannahofskva]

Camera accounts? More like Camrows.

Camrows (or Camrow, for singular) are these rather small creatures, and no one really knows where they come from. They’re drawn towards players for some reason and bind themselves to them, morphing from the unclaimed version (check drawing above) to a version that represents the player that the Camrow has bonded themselves to.

Not much else is known about these creatures. The only other thing known is that unclaimed ones like to hang out around places that are either populated by players or are constantly visited by players. Designs are subject to change.

Camrow Intros (sorta): The_Grifter, xisumavoid, TangoCam, isGall85, Jevination, joehilssees, PythonCam, CamM77, Mumbo, Tiny Etho, WFRTNews, BadTimeWithScar, ImpulseCam, ZedCam, Cub_Cam, truesymmetry, WelsCam, Kamalis1, Renthebob,

Redone: xisumavoid,

Multi Camrows: language barrier, Team ZIT, Camrows of the Missing Five, The Jevins, Grian calls IsGall a cat,

[wormman]

What's Cub's cam account like in your au? 0: Scar?

Cub_Cam and Badtimeswithscar are probably the two cameras that look the least like their users. 

Cub_Cam, or Coxcomb, is the smallest of all of the camera accounts belonging to the hermits and is designed to be a trickster vex! Obviously, he has none of the vex’s powers, but visually he is very similar.

Badtimeswithscar, or Baddie, is in an eternal youthful state because Scar thought it’d be real fun(ny). he’s programmed to be edgy, stubborn, and to make all of the wrong decisions that middle schoolers make. 

Whenever possible, he tries not to be associated with Scar, but of course, the programming to obey Scar’s every command will always have priority. Scar likes build on his own, however, when Baddie isn’t filming Scar, he’s helping him in non-wheelchair accessible areas.

(speaking of, if anyone has multiple pics of scar’s wheelchair i’d much appreciate having them! i cannot find them anywhere :( )

[pixiemage]

BdoubleO100 => WellsGlazes

Cubfan135 => Cub_Cam

Docm77 => CamM77

FalseSymmetry => TrueSymmetry

GeminiTay => AriesEva

GoodTimesWithScar => BadTimeWithScar

Grian => TwoMuchGrian, The_Grifter

Hypnotizd => HypnotizdCam

iJevin => Jevination

ImpulseSV => ImpulseCam

Iskall85 => IsGall85

JoeHills => JoeHillsSees

Keralis => Kamalis1

MumboJumbo => Mumbo

PearlescentMoon => PearlescentMoo

Rendog => renthebob

StressMonster101 => StressMonsterin

TangoTek=> TangoCam

TinFoilChef => WFRTNews

VintageBeef => VintageB_Roll

Welsknight => WelsCam

xBCrafted => XbCam

Xisuma => Xisumavoid (which apparently isn’t his Minecraft main name, weird)

ZombieCleo => HumanCleo

ZedaphPlays => ZedCam

Ones in bold I knew off the top of my head, and the ones that aren’t I had to search the Hermitcraft wiki for. But I think that’s everyone! ^^ Many of them just have the word “cam” snuck in but I like the clever ones that play on their original name, like HumanCleo and TrueSymmetry and even VintageB_Roll. Hope this helps!

does anyone have a list of all the camera accounts in hermitcraft?

[ocho00o]

Hermit’s Camera Accounts: pt 2 !!

(tap for better quality)

Other parts:

ZedCam

Cub_Cam (here!)

AriesEva

CamM77

Jevination

[ocho00o]

Hermit’s Camera Accounts: pt 1!

Other parts:

ZedCam (here!!)

Cub_Cam

AriesEva

CamM77

Jevination

[ocho00o]

Hermit’s Camera Accounts: pt 3!!

Other parts:

ZedCam

Cub_Cam

AriesEva (here)

CamM77

Jevination

close up bc I’m really happy with how this part turned out lol

[ocho00o]

Hermit’s Camera Accounts: pt 4 !!

(open for better quality)

Other parts:

ZedCam

Cub_Cam

AriesEva

CamM77 (here)

Jevination

[ocho00o]

what am I doing with my time

[wip] cub_cam has a very .. interesting skin

[theminecraftbee]

update:

[image ID: in-game chat from hermitcraft season 9.

Cub_Cam joined the game <Cub_Cam> heard you were talking smack about me Cub <cubfan135> you're late <Cub_Cam> i'm never late u early bro

/end ID]

[image ID: in-game chat from hermitcraft season 9.

cubfan135 joined the game <cubfan135> well well well <cubfan135> if it isn’t the usual suspects <joehillssays> if it isn’t cubfan 135 <cubfan135> hahaha <cubfan135> hey joe and scar <GoodTimeWithScar> Uhh I was hopeing for Cub_Cam <joehillssays> do you wanna come make suggestions about y dirt hut? <cubfan135> oh Cub Cam is running late <cubfan135> He comin’ tho

/end ID]

man being back on hermitcraft and seeing interactions like this makes me so happy. this amused me so i’m sharing it. please note that approximately five minutes later scar was slain by a piglin and immediately quit the game.