#helmits

[miningroseakira]

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Hi. I'm alive and I'm gonna forego updating my artblog and just post this bc it took. too long, and I'm done having the "my artblog needs to have everything on it chronologically" mindset on here

I've fallen face first back into my mcyt/life series/hc obsession, and specifically my helsmits. The title of this file is "drawing other people's hels as a warmup"...... .....needless to say that warmup escalated and I've been drawing on these for like two or three days-

~~~ 1. The two in the bottom left are my own fallsmits (= helsmits with extra steps, lol) for Bdubs and Tango, Sleepless and SwingTek the beloveds- Swing has an inbetween of his natural and his "I'm totally TangoTek guys" hair colors in this doodle, because I said so.

2. Top left is a Hels!Stress named AnxiousBeast, who belongs to @square-milk. the possum thing is so creative, and I love her grian-esque unhinged vibes, so I just had to draw her 3. Top right is a Hels!Grian concept by @daffodily that I had my eye on when I first got into helsmits a year or two ago, but I don't think I ever ended up drawing him. No name given, as far as I could tell. Super dark with the stitches and everything but I love it. Totally different vibes but he does remind me a tiny bit of my falls!grian, Gregory, and I'm all for that - it's probably mostly the sweater color though jhdfkjgh but still

4. Bottom right is Foxtrot, a Hels!Tango with a very cool name, posted by @neoflames. I love the ice+siren powers this one has, plus the hair is very cool (no pun intended)

5. Central to this doodle page is Iota, a Hels!Grian design I saw and immediately became obsessed with. what the hels. who comes up with this stuff. (the answer is @rhapsoddity. rhapsoddity comes up with this stuff.)

6. And last but most certainly not least! At the center of the top is a figure that people on my art blog will have seen before, and that anyone who's browsed the helsmit tags will recognize - the beloved Limbo Lag by @galaxygermdraws. what a guy. what a little guy. he needs a hug someone hug him NOW this is an order. I'm sure my boy Swing would be glad to hear he's not the only blue tango counterpart giving off sad little guy energy

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I'm gonna post this on this mcyt blog first and then reblog it to my artblog because I feel like it. this took so much more time and effort than I meant for it to fjhgkjf please I'm super tired so let me know if I made any errors with tagging people or names of characters

[Closeups under the cut]

[sock-hops]

We love a supportive friend

[oifaaa]

Look listen usually I don't enjoy jason with face scars or any excessive scaring I've mentioned it before but today I'm thinking about jasons scars all being healed after the pit in a metaphorical sense of him being given a clean slate a fresh start an opportunity to walk away unscathed and him choosing to go back to the fight in the process getting new scars in the end even more then he did before and it's kinda making me sick

[hmshermitcraft]

Grian's pranks are very different for people he likes vs people he does not like.

A hermit might get chickens or paintings, maybe even their chests scrambled!

A helsmit (Ex especially) might get their toothpaste and bodywash replaced with an identical-looking hot sauce or all their furniture moved a few inches one direction, perhaps even have all their chests and belongings stolen and put under ransom!

That last onw got him in trouble. He didn't feel bad in the slightest.

The hermits have learned to appreciate that Grian has... A unique way of showing his love. One that seems to include making their lives harder.

The difference being, of course, that he usually offers to clean up as well! Or at least help. Unless it's the chests. That isn't even a prank half the time, he's just so disorganised it's infectious.

He reserves his worst pranks, of course, for the people he doesn't like. In the same way he shows his love through them, he also shows his hate. Ex finally had to ask Xisuma to tell Grian to stop when the Helsmits found all of their clothes had the seams carefully unstitched so they fell apart during the day.

Once Xisuma finished laughing, he promised he'd tell him. It would never stop him, but he'd at least tell him.

[xalatath]

Saw sarevok on my dash. Day instantly ruined

[vigilant-cleric]

"Is there ever a universal truth, my Lady? Mine - my duty - was to guard. I did this, to the best of my ability. I can hardly be faulted for believing that my duty as a sentinel was to guard."

A smirk sketched itself on the edge of his lips. "I did not slay anyone who wished to pass by me, if that is your concern. They did not try. Not in peacetime, at least."

And wartime was not solely guarding - it was soldiering, the ruthless laws of state-sanctioned slaughter. The thought floated by his mind, then subsided, his gaze once again focused on the goddess' ethereal beauty.

"Why, I did not think you were the jealous kind, my Lady. Should I expect more of your visits in the upcoming days, at my humble temple? If that is your concern, however, my soul is no one's until it is picked up in the Fugue Plane. Hopefully by my Lord, should he decide it."

Mystery and amusement swirl within her eyes, a quirked smile dancing upon the pretty line of her lips. "Always true to what you believed." She hums. The truth of one God could be scorn and lie for another. If only it were simple.

Then her long nailed fingers, dripping strings of iridescent magic flick to her own breast, mock surprise. Thin brows raise upon her statuesque forehead. "Goodness it's not so easy for myself to task you with my weighted asks. If I don't run my requests through your dear vigilant one, he may get a tad upset that I've surpassed my station. Your soul is his after all, I can't go stealing goodies from him."

[eurydia]

my entry for the Zevlor's Sleep Stories project ❤️😴 I've always wanted to draw a lofi loop! I'm happy that my first one is with Zev 🥰

thank you to the wonderful @dark-and-kawaii for the ref! still version and notes

initially I was going to draw two bedrolls, but changed it to just one - now he has to share with Tav and their furry friends c: though I think he'll insist they take his and happily sleep on the dirt or grass for them 🥺❤️

the item under his pillow are Helmite prayer beads, I hc he'd have some along with a prayer book.

I've had sleeping problems for as long as I can remember, ironically I worked on this instead of sleeping 😅 thank you @dark-and-kawaii for keeping me company and enabling inspiring me xD this truly wouldn't be the same without you.

I'm very happy with how this turned out, enjoy 💖 hope you can get some long rests in!

[galahadiant]

Q: I recently adopted a paladin from a shelter. he didn't have a breed label but they said they thought he was Helmite? He seemed pretty happy with guarding the stuff I put in his enclosure for a few days, but recently he's been escaping to herd the neighbor's children around when they get in the street. He also doesn't seem as alert as Helmites are supposed to be? I don't know if he doesn't like something about his enclosure or if the shelter misidentified him. Picture included. A: This actually looks like a paladin of Torm! People unfamiliar with paladin care frequently confuse them because of their similar markings. Like Helmites, Tormtar are a guardian breed, but they tend to be less high-strung and don't form the same attachments to their territory and toys. If your paladin is leaving his enclosure, he's probably bored and looking for more appropriate stimuli. Try taking him on a heroic quest, or giving him more active tasks around the house. Tormtar are also more social, so if you have the resources I would consider adopting another Triadic paladin. (Be careful not to keep him with an actual paladin of Helm. Despite their visual similarities, they have a tendency to fight, and since you picked this guy up from a shelter you don't know whether he's been socialized to get along with Neutral paladins.)

[davi-doo]

Zevlor's Helmite Oath

Zevlor was a Hellrider from Elturel and a paladin of Helm - the god of guardians - as you may already knew from the description of his "Hellrider's Pride" gaunlets. As someone who is not familiar with DnD lore, I did some digging to gain insight about the nature of Zevlor's oath and the circumstance around his oathbreaking. Might as well share what I found :)

Helm is a lawful neutral deity, whose principle can be seen as cold and rigid as he favors one's sense of duty and commitment as a protector, guardian and defender above all else. The dogma of Helm's faithfuls can be sum up as follows:

Guard perfectly, attentively, and with forethought; be ever vigilant. Guard what you are ordered to guard, including that on which your charge depends.

CREED OF THE HELMITE FAITH.

I was not surprised to learn Elturel was home to the strongest Helmite Church in the North. With the famous Hellrider as the citywatch and its strict rulings, Elturel is known to be the most efficient, secured and well-policed city in the region. It's natural for Hellrider to be among Helm's faithful, and I can imagine their paladin's oath is to safe-guard the city and its citizen to their last breath.

I'm not sure in BG3 timeline if the tieflings were forcefully evicted from Elturel, or if they left on their own accord to avoid violence and bigotry against their kind. But either case, Zevlor most likely broke his oath for simply leaving Elturel to lead and protect the tiefling refugees.

In principal, the church of Helm is to welcome whomever come seek their protection, even criminals. However, it's also their duty to turn them in to law enforcement if required, and see their trial to proceed fairly. That means, when the tieflings were deemed as a dangerous minority in the eyes of Elturian, Zevlor and fellow Hellrider must abide to the laws determined for them, or resist and face the repercussion:

All true warriors of Elturel were most likely Hellriders. Those who resigned were stripped of their gear, exiled from the city, and named a heretic in the eyes of Helm for abandoning their post.

Taken that Zevlor still had his gaunlets and his sword, I'm convinced he helped the refugee leave the city in secret. He sentimentally kept the gauntlet out of all the parts from his Hellrider plated armour, because you guess what? A silver gauntlet with eye is Helm's holy symbol. This proved he still held onto the Helmite failth, despite being stripped of the God's divine grace for his moral decision. He owned his choice by leaving the rest behind along with his title, but still took it upon himself to be the guardian of his people. That's why when you came along and protected them from the goblin, which allowed them to travel to Baldur's Gate, the Hellrider's Pride became yours. As for Zevlor, it seems to me he was ready to truly rest, which shows in his conversation with Tilly, too.

In Act 2, we see Zevlor seeking to restore his oath and fell victim to the Absolute; this is not the sign of him wanting to taste the glory again, but simply because the journey through Shadowcurse land has proven to be overwhelmingly dangerous. Zevlor might have viewed himself as a liability, not only due of his old age, but also his lack of dark vision despite being a tiefling. I believe whatever the watchful Helm bestowed on paladin Zevlor back in the day must have compensated nicely for his lacks. And ironically, with the innate darkvision that allows for better guard, the tiefling Hellrider were supposed to be valuable members in their unit. Until Elturian decided those with infernal heritage are somehow a threat to their hypervigilant society.

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

Hels Grian is a watcher thar keeps watching Grian, even when the other helmits keep trying to destroy hermitcraft he has to keep watching and reporting anything that his counterpart does, he has to fulfill the deal that he have with the watchers so he can gain even more power

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[silverskye13]

Related to the “what happens to hermits vs helmits overcoming their problem” in the beginning arc of RnS, tango was dying(?) because tanguish was enabling his problems. If tanguish had decided to not do something about that, then what would have happened to them both?

Tango would have been taken by the universe, leaving a very confused and a very alone Tanguish as the last man standing.

[dappersautismcreature]

literally i will defend tubbo on this, dude fought a 2v1, made cellbit basically combat log, broke roiers helmit, almost died, and then paused for roier when he KNEW he was lagging, didnt know roier was lagging at the end, and took the win

bro, come at me in the ask box i will fuck ur mom

[yourfavoritetiefling]

@grief-worn sent

" does that obnoxious thing you call a smile really get the job done? i'm sure you were quite the little heart throb back at home. " <- sarcasm.

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      Ah, there she was again,     coming back like they always did. Well, differently. Most came back with an injunctive relief they shoved in his face.

     ❝ Wouldn't wear it, if it didn't get the job done, darling. Lords  &  ladies alike were smitten back in Elturel, trust me. ❞     Do not trust him. Why would he point out the incredible number of slaps he earned himself because of those efforts. Bernard wanted to make himself look desirable, not like some loser. A little . . . exaggeration did the trick most of the time.

Like a master of his craft, the tiefling ignored the obvious sarcasm in Shadowheart's words. Must be flirting with him. Ah yes, the helmite won again.     ❝ Hearts weren't the only things I made throb, little lady. ❞

[hmshermitcraft]

smalltown: the town's secret is that they fished an illegal experimental person-copying machine out of another town's trash and falsified some records after some people poked at it to see if they could get it to work.

it doesn't work perfectly, so copied welsknight is more aggressive, copied tango is blue instead of yellow, copied false has memory problems, copied beef has chronic pain, copied gem doesn't have antlers, there's like 5 grians for some reason because it wouldn't stop, its attempt at copying mumbo was slightly messed up by it still trying to copy grian (the resulting man is fine but is...arguably somehow their accidental cross-species adult child), and copied scar has white hair.

there's also 5 slightly different zedaphs but that's because zedaph kept pushing the button.

the already complicated web of relationships in this town got even more complicated now that suddenly a lot of the people have at least one duplicate who shares at least some of their memories. and also the grumbo man, who has BOTH their crushes on iskall and very confused feelings for both his accidental gene donors. (family??? self??? crush???)

They've ended up adopting a fairly 'open door' policy when it comes to relationships nowadays. When some of the clones are hard to identify at a quick glance, they kind of had to! At first jealousy was an issue, but the worst of that has been worked out.

Though they've expanded the town to create more space for the new members, most of the copies seem to bunk up with people they care about. Tango and Impulse frequently end up under a pile of Zedaphs.

Doc's attempts to study the machine are also often thwarted by the fact he has even more partners now. How's he supposed to focus when there's two Beefs looking all sad at him, man?

They try to keep the machine itself under lock and key, before the town gets even more crowded. They've got enough problems to figure out already!

[rayonago]

wanted to mak a render of grit and brite making out freaky style but then i remember he has no face under the helmit

☹️☹️no making out freaky style... Best i can make myself is a little peck on the helmet from bruite

[bloodyarn]

𝙽𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚜

Let's be real, I can very much see my silly guys and gals travelling together (for better or worse) so I decided to brainstorm what they would call each other :)

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BABETTE:

Esteri: Ester, Estie Bernard: Benny (classic) Cricket: Bug-guy, alternatively just points at him

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ESTERI:

Babette: Hexblood, Tailor Bernard: Cleric, Devilspawn, Helmite Cricket: Exposition therapy (for Babette, you know?), Fly

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BERNARD:

Babette: Babs, Little Lady Esteri: Eye-Candy (will cost him a limb probably), Boss ♥ ;) Cricket: Exposition therapy, Crick

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CRICKET:

(Thri-Kreen names at the end because by god it's just clicking sounds. But he most likely uses them when talking to himself in his mother tongue)

Babette: Needle girl, Bette (he likes the 't' sounds) Esteri: Just calls her Esteri out of respect to the leader, naturally so Bernard: Four-horns, Ben

Babette (Thri-Kreen): Rrtiktiktik chirrr rrtiktiktik tk rr tk Esteri: (Thri-Kreen): Tk tiktiktik rr tk tkrrk ks Bernard (Thri-Kreen): Rrtiktiktik tk tkrrk rk chirrr tkrrk rrktk