#how to be a hermit

[arts-and-drafts]

I decided to start compiling speech patterns and such for the Hermits I watch the most, because being a fic writer is hard sometimes 😭 then I thought “why not share it here?”

so here’s my very rough analysis of my most viewed Hermits, this is just what I’ve managed to gather so please don’t call me out for what I’m missing

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Scar

Rarely stutters in normal speech. Maybe pauses if he’s started a sentence and doesn’t know where it’s going, but he doesn’t tend to trail off unless something interrupts his train of thought

Stutters a LOT when he’s startled. Also makes ‘hoo!’ noises repeatedly before he finds his words

Lays on the charm THICK when he’s trying to convince someone over literally anything; compliments their looks, their handiwork, and then pitches his proposition in smooth segue. Not one to entertain haggling though (however he DOES do a ‘look if you’ll pay full price I’ll throw in xyz’ thing). King of upselling even the most mundane things.

His tone is cheerful most of the time, no matter what he’s saying. He’ll actually often say very disturbing things with a light voice (ex. when discussing how to retaliate ie “what should we do about him?” “we could kill him! :)”)

Builds and locations somehow are always capitalized in his voice?? Like he says them differently. I can’t really explain it (when he talks about Aqua Town or Scarland or The Big Dig)

Literally has an evil laugh when he thinks of a way to prank someone or mess with people

Hums in thought quite often, and uses “huh!” quite often when confused or finding out something new (Mostly with redstone)

His farewell is almost always “Byeeee, have a great time!” even if the conversation he left was not a pleasant one. I’m almost certain he does this in tense situations just to get under other people’s skin and really push how unbothered he is

Doesn’t tend to insult people, the farthest he’ll take it is backhanded compliments

That said he is not afraid to outright threaten (“I will murder them.”)

References media a lot, both for concepts for builds and in speech (ie his greeting “Well hello there!” is from Star Wars)

Number one exclamation is “Sweet Baby Jellie!”

(More under the cut!)

Grian

Cold opens, both in videos and conversations (rarely says “hello, how are you, etc” when encountering someone, but he does say farewells/‘thank you’s)

Likes to sneak up on people and scare them if he realizes they haven’t noticed him yet, usually does so by getting real close and then yelling (“HEY!”/“HI!”/“WHAT’S THAT?”)

Uses the name of whoever he’s talking to pretty often while speaking to them (“Well, Mumbo, you never know”/“So, Scar, as you can see here-“), same goes for often addressing his audience (“you all”/“you lot”/“you guys”)

Usually pretty focused (when he wants to be) but oftentimes takes a minute to laugh at things he notices in the natural environment (An accidental face in a build, a mob in a strange place, etc)

Takes the lead in a conversation if nobody is the clear leader, but generally only speaks when spoken to if someone else has risen to that spot

Clarifies instructions after something is explained, both to his viewers and to anyone he’s grouped up with (most often seen in the Life Series)

Uses “Pardon?!”/“Beg your pardon?!” most often when surprised or startled (he’s very British), also sometimes uses “Sorry??”

Things are way more funny to him when he’s tired

Deadpans a lot in conversation ie “why not do xyz?” “Well because we’ll horrifically die 😑“

This man is allergic to committing to the bit unless he’s the one that initiated it

Not one to sugarcoat (“how is it?” “well to be honest it’s miserable”)

Number one exclamation is “WHAT?!” (though he often uses “oh my GOODNESS” quite a bit)

Mumbo

The start of nearly every episode is almost a pitch, does the same when bringing up an idea to others (“I have this idea”/“I was thinking”/“I noticed” etc)

Often laughs a little at himself when he speaks

Also often brings up how inexperienced/unqualified he thinks he is with literally any task he’s doing

Gets very distracted with the smallest things

Uses similes a lot when trying to describe a concept (“I’m thinking a this-type thing”/“Something like a [xyz]”/“Imagine like a [thing]”)

His voice gets higher when he’s startled or panicking

A very vocal thinker, which makes sense because he’s a MC Youtuber, but he also just. Seems to think out loud regardless

Comments a lot on the feel of things (“Oh this feels menacing”/“This looks like it’d mess you up”/“This makes it feel very intimidating”), often with building

Extremely modest. However will celebrate when he does something right in redstone/building (“YES! Oh my days, that took forever”)

Once and a while will have a rare banter moment with people he’s comfortable with (ie teasing and making fun)

Related to above, he gets very giggly when he’s hanging out with people he’s familiar with (Grian and Scar most often, but also Iskall)

Number one exclamation is “What on earth?!”

Joel

Greets people most often with “How you doing [name]?”/“How are ya [name]?”

He’s very northern. He often leaves out words in his sentences bc that’s just the way his dialect is (“What you doin’?” vs “What are you doing?”)

Says his th’s like f’s (“somefing”/“nofing”/“finking”) ((Stress also does this))

His jokes/teasing are very deadpan (“I made you this extra thing, because you’re trash at this”)

Actually gives gifts of resources very often, and always leaves it with a little note and signs his name

His voice gets higher pitched when he’s defensive/being extremely cheeky but other than that his tone rarely changes

This man. Flirts so much. If any other person initiates even the slightest of flirty banter he takes that and dials it to eleven I cannot believe this is a straight married man sometimes

Joel commits to the bit 100% of the time (slightly related to above), unless of course it’s jokes about his height

Makes a point to compliment himself if he gets the chance (words most often used are “handsome” “strong” and “humble”, as well as comments about his muscles and physique)

Insults his enemies diminutively (“look at you down there, tiny idiot”/“You’re wrong and also weak”) ((seen most often in Empires SMP)

His most often used insult is “idiot”

When he’s flustered/frustrated he uses “bloody” a lot (ie “bloody heck” or “this bloody thing” (loves to toe the PG line), also uses “blooming” (“bloomin’ heck”)

Most often used exclamation is also “WHAT?!”

Bdubs

Opens videos very jovially, talks almost like a radio host

Breaks down his builds down to the block, spends a lot of time discussing his block pallet choices and giving tips while he builds

Uses the affirmation “sure enough” a lot, and often addresses himself as “Ol’ Bdubs”

Talks affectionately about other hermits often (“[name], the absolute sweetheart, left me some materials”, “[name], you angel!”)

Adding to above, “angel” or “sweet angel” seems to be his most often used affectionate terms

Switches on a dime, though, if he gets offended (which of course causes others to poke fun at him even more)

Calls mobs “stupid” a lot when they don’t do what he wants (but takes it back if he says it to one of his horses ex. “Come here, stupid—wonderful, I mean, beautiful”)

THIS MAN IS THE #1 HORSE ENJOYER. He gets a horse first thing every season and rides it everywhere, and they’re always a focal point of his theme or builds in some regard

Pauses whatever he’s doing to sleep as soon as it’s possible, and gets very antsy if he can’t do it for some reason (“One moment, time to shreep!”)

Related to above, EVERYONE messes with him if he’s trying to sleep in their presence ie breaking his bed over and over, and he gets increasingly more frustrated when it happens

Rarely is soft spoken or quiet, he projects his voice and uses a lot of emphasis in his tone

Either straight up screams (and peaks the mic 😭) if he’s startled or scared, or yells “oh my GOODNESS!!”

Number one exclamation is “HEY!”

[sprinklesharkie]

get bonked

[eydilily]

your pearl is one of my favorite designs for her i’ve ever seen <3 her face shape feels so right, and i love how you draw her hair. by way of a request, have you ever drawn her as an avian?

thank you so much! pearl's design is definitely my favorite to draw :')

ive done a bit of practice with pearl and grian as avians but that was way before i started posting hc publicly! ( these ones are new :D )

also played around with an alternate version! i dont know much about birds but i saw the australian barn owl and took more inspo from them

[mellozheist]

Boat boys obsessed with each other // Hermitcraft Animatic

I'm so happy Joel joined Hermitcraft, I love these silly interactions so much THE SILLIESSSS

Hope you guys enjoy >:D

The reason why I put the disclaimer in, just in case you're wondering

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I have to put the disclaimer in because I'm worried people gonna take the wrong idea and think I publishing shipping content on very much more accessible place that cc might find it aka Youtube

(Which I'm not, This animatic is silly friends doing bits and having fun)

So just in case, some people were about to be a jerk, I have to put it there

I just want to share this animatic with people who also enjoy them and If some people don't like it, just look away and move on, learn a basic internet experience

Have a great day >:D

[tawnysoup]

the fritter (frin critter)

[solardrake]

Delivering mail to the furthest corners of the server ✉✈

[1captainjordan4]

New player at the winners table…

Few months after the final but im cool like that ya know

[genderneutralethogirl]

Hermits logging in for the sole purpose of yelling at other Hermits mid-stream my beloved

[soapyakships]

lying there with youuuuuu crying there with youuuuuuuuuuuu

[art-by-fate]

HUGE congrats to sir Skizzleman for hitting that big shiny 100k!!!!

[appleysauce]

The hermitcraft recap is such a different experience depending on how many hermits you watch

All of them: the recap doesn’t give any new information but you get all the jokes which is super fun

None of them: everything the recap says is new to you but it’s structured in a way that gets you up to date. You really don’t get a lot of jokes tho

Just a few: the jokes about the hermits you watch are funny but the rest of the recap can really be quite surprising (you tend to find out the origins of a lot of pranks)

[applepixls]

tango asked skizz if he wanted to make out in a recent stream

he looks so proud of himself

at 1:35:50~ in tango's vod "New Science! The Flying Pot Smashers!

[taigarrryen]

Satellite hermits AU | Mumbo and Grian

Notes under the cut

Grian [ builder | social administrator ]

Being a marine biologist with additional degree in general planetology, Grian used to work on Europa-Jupiter II; he spent months upon months in its waters, but doesn't like to talk about it. True "satellite hermit" by definition. He's usually the one operating the Central base: coordinating things and events from a distance, keeping comms with Earth and spacecrafts, sending reports for other hermits, etc. (His addition to the group allowed Xisuma to delegate to him half of administrative duties, move out of the Central base and focus on keeping tech aspect of the expedition in check, while not working himself to exhaustion. One simply cannot monitor orbital retranslator, fix water generators and check on radio towers while keeping in mind provisions and operating information exchange between different parts of the known universe)

Mumbo [ engineer ]

Mumbo is an expert in optics and a big fan of vintage tech. He joined the expedition when he had just graduated from Lunar Tech University, and, being the youngest lad on Minecrea for a while, quickly became a local favorite; other hermits did their best to check on him regularly to make sure he's doing well and teach him stuff that you don't read about in the textbooks. He's the only member of the expedition who brought on Minecrea his personal ELYTRa (it's old. People were conquering Mars on those).

[belovedgamers]

It’s okay, Ren, you’ll get him next time o7

Transcript:

Jimmy: Ren—

Ren: Oh, hello!

Jimmy: (drawling) Diggity-dog!

Ren: Hey, baby! What’s happening, baby? What’s happening?

Jimmy: What’s happenin’? Are you good?

Ren: You lookin— You’re looking (sing-song) fiiiine, mm!

Jimmy: (laughing) Oh, stop!

Ren: You got a date for saturday, baby?

[In-game DEAD BODY REPORTED screen comes up]

Ren: Aw.

Jimmy: (laughs)

[geodetojoy]

MUMBOOOOOO YOU CANT DO THIS TO MEEE

THE HEART???? THE HEART?????

i hate them

[wasyago]

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