#ig Redstoner didn't HAVE to

[guardbo]

Seeing ppl say parkour civ is better than pvp civ makes me want to vomit

[rhapsoddity]

Who are the confirmed people in your vigilante AU? Doesn't matter whether they're heroes, villains, vigilantes, civilians, or whatever.

I have a lists, some may be subject to change cause I didn't expect the AU to pop off but uh

some have names and some ive yet to develop enough

-Heroes- Stratos - joel - super strength, flight Sanctuary - sausage - nature manipulation, enhanced hearing Pyrolisk -tango - fire manipulation Hotguy - scar - enhanced aim, flight (vex wings) Cuteguy - Grian - flight (bird wings), energy manipulation (can make aura blade shit for close combat)

-Vigilantes- The Sheriff - jimmy - understands animals Shelby - flight, but only hovering. uses potions to fight. Katherine - super strength Orion - Oli (labelled a villain) - power replication (weaker than the OG power bc his body isn't made for his body) Apollo - Bdubs - light manipulation

-Villains- Joey - water manipulation (only bodies of water, cant control stuff like the tiny water in ppls bodys or smth) Styx - Cub - vex magic, infected by skulk, fog is for theatric effect :D Hephaestus - Fwhip - night vision, enhanced hearing. Fights using tech. Spectrum - Scott? - colour manipulation, used for disorientation, disguises and hypnosis Mumbo???? Permhaps??? - redstone manipulation Empires False - idk yet, but I wanted a girl villain, hot woman go brrr

-Civilians- Pearl (ex hero) Eddie (aids Saus) Lizzie (is Joel's wife??? For taxes ig?? Ig either they're poly or besties idk in every universe theyre married ig) - always lands on her feet, cat characteristics Gem (she may change spots I'm not sure yet) - butterfly characteristics Pix (he may change spots I'm not sure yet) Most of the hermits ngl, hermit!False is def a civilain

[gimblegamble]

Ty gim for being one of my favourite Mumbo shippers and Mumbo fans ever. So happy to found u way back when u first started posting storage wars and so happy to see u wlhenevrr u pop up :)

Ur so right literally frfr /pos

Particularly big fan of ur Grumbo n ZIMT takes Grumbo forever has my heart but I see sooo little content for any combination of Mumbo x ZIT that it’s so precious t me!!!!!! I also like ur other Mumbo ships too ofc they’re so!!!!!!!

Uh ig for an ask, do u think ZIT each caught feelings for Mumbo at a diff time or the same time, and how did they react lol?

Bonus points if Mumbo has 0 clue y theyr all being extra affectionate/ flirty/ flustered around him part 3 by the way- /lh

- 🌱 Anon

Oh wow, been a long while eh? Almost four years! I'm honestly surprised my obsession with the man lasted this long lmao, also surprised anyone still remembers storage wars which got us into this whole mess in the first place >.<

Thank you for indulging me in my Mumbo-centric ways, i swear that man deserves more but as far as I've seen he's always just relegated to a love interest or a side character 😔. Been trying to remedy that but I'm also the slowest writer to ever grace this earth so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Grumbo will always be number 1 in my heart, which might surprise some people lmao but ships like ZIMT and the rarepair ones are so fun to think about.

Oh answering the ZIMT prompt under the cut because it got pretty long

Now, regarding the ZIT crew they definitely fell at different times and at different speeds. We're going by the time each of them joined and we all know that Mumbo has had a hand in summoning both Tango and Impulse to the server which got Zed into it in the end.

Tango's summoning was a bit like summoning tech support. Quick and business-like, a little bit impersonal but hey, you don't really get a chance to build rapport with every technician you meet. But then Tango was invited back and it helps that they were already on the right foot.

Tango only started to fall around the civil war. They've been chatting and meeting every now and then, usually about the newest iron farm designs but they really got to talking when Mumbo came back from his short stint as a mole.

Impulse's summoning, however, was a lot more personal, and some would say that it all started since then. Freshly summoned but his eyes were already glued to that quiet, suit wearing redstoner whose name he didn't know despite having a tiny piece of the man's soul resting comfortably with his (and vice versa but that's the perils of the type of summoning they did, Tango and Xisuma's been affected as well)

He was pretty unperturbed about the whole thing though, because he's Impulse, the kind of guy with the patience to rebuild his whole base a block higher just because he didn't like the look of it. (Just... no sudden movements following grand discoveries though, that's enough to destabilize Impulse's finely crafted nonchalance)

And funnily enough, I've written the exact moment Mumbo caught Zedaph's eye. Four years ago as well ^^

Thank you thank you thank you for still waiting on Cinnamon challenge even after all these years, you have no idea how happy this makes me.

[ayyyyysexual]

I JUST SAW THIS AND ALSO THAT YOU ASKED FOR RECOMMENDATIONS SO!

off the bat, i watch like... 7? hermit povs? and it's literally just All the hermitgals + skizz/joel bc I'd been wanting to get into them and hey, new season new hermits might as well.

also I have no idea which POVs you watch currently so I'm just gonna go off of the basis that you watch none (which I assume is incorrect JKASHDJK) and recommend my faves regardless of whether I think you already watch them

also these are basically just ranked by the order I usually catch up on their videos when I'm behind, I love all of them very much

My first recommendation has always gotta be Cleo, this season especially she's a lot quicker to catch up on bc I think all of their episodes have been between 10-20 minutes total, with a lot of streams interspersed — I don't catch streams very often but they're always fun. honestly i barely have anything to say cause it's just. watch cleo. do it. you wanna watch cleo sooo bad

Second rec is Gem and Pearl! Pearl was my first pov when I returned to hermitcraft after like. 10 years. bc I started watching her hermitcraft s8 after binging her pov of the life series just after double life ended <3 Pearl is so fun, so goofy, so entertaining, and her content is very charming in a way I wouldn't have expected to resonate so much now that I'm older, but I absolutely adore how she gets silly with it. also her ORGANICS her BUILDS her LANDSCAPING her PLANT LIFE and THIS SEASON SHE'S EVEN STARTING TO LEARN REDSTONE SOLO AND WITH TANGO'S ADVICE ITS SO FUN <3

I didn't start watching Gem until I branched out to more POVs during S9 but I was SO glad that i did bc she is AMAZING, and definitely earns her spot in my top 3 faves, the builds are awesome — especially her statues, like i dont think ive seen anyone else make statues as much as she does and it really shows that she's good at them.

very closely following those three are False and Stress! Both of them feel VERY underrated to me, I looove their videos (and am in the process of catching up on False's rn). False has a very dry humour that I love, and im still never gonna recover from her (mostly subtle) s9/esmp lore like oh my GODD the false twins will never leave my brain ever again. she added so many small touches that made everything so damn interesting and just. grahhh. also her builds are always very cool, I loved her s9 ice mansion (with the secret underground bunker and-) and in s10 she has so much going on with her base already it is SO FUN also her bit with the rivers is ridiculous and very fun. she just carries rivers in her briefcase (NOT a suitcase.) and bestows them upon people like some kind of fae

and stress <3 i feel like she gets mischaracterised a lot in the fandom as the nice cutesy gentle hermit by people who don't watch her (cause she's pink and has a flower crown ig-) but she is an absolute menace (especially to iskall, but she branches out ). like the perry the platypus going around the server? that started with her, and then perry just kept walking around to other places mysteriously, no clue how they got there no siree. also this season she's been tormenting iskall with an endless stream of cats he Really doesn't want. ALSO ALSO HER AND ISKALL ARE PLANNING TO SET UP A MURDER MYSTERY SERVER-WIDE EVENT LATER IN THE SEASON AND IT SOUNDS RLLY FUN, THEY'VE BEEN BUILDING UP A HIGH STREET FOR IT TO TAKE PLACE IN! she's fun, she's dramatic, i originally didnt watch her bc her accent reminded me a little too much of an aunt of mine but im very glad i decided to check her out anyway bc <33 also s10 is her "sentimental stress season" where she's basically bringing back elements from her old bases throughout the seasons, so its a really fun season to start with for her, imo!

and finally, skizz and joel! i've ran out of brain space to talk about them but they are very fun. (i wrote this, and then immediately proved myself wrong) both of their episodes can get a tad unhinged, especially joel's, uh, special segments. skizz has a segment in most (? could be all) of his episodes where tango shows up to teach him server etiquette and remind him to Not Be That Guy (like with leaving floating trees, off the top of my head), he also got meta with it and used it to summon him when he needed an extra person for a stunt, great bit. most of skizz's episodes end with a bloopers segment as well which is great. Skizz is very humble, leaning into self-deprecating at times, and Joel on the other hand is. uh. well he's definitely not humble (/aff)

joel is one of the people who've decided to dive headfirst into armour stands this season (I FORGOT TO MENTION ARMOUR STANDS IN THE CLEO SECTION BUT THEIR ARMOUR STAND WORK!!!! SO FUCKING GOOD I RECOMMEND S9 SO HARD BC SHE DID SO MUCH AWESOME SHIT WITH ARMOUR STANDS, SHE IS SO GOOD AT MAKING PLACES FEEL SO ALIVE, LIKE, SHE DID ATLANTIS (her base), THEY DID SCARLAND, THEY DID THE CRASTLE, SHE DID SO MUCH AWESOME SHIT) and its really cool. he likes to insult his audience, and his friends, and basically anything that moves, but in basically the same way i do so he gets my humour's stamp of approval. he's self-aggrandising in a very entertaining way, and also just acts like a complete freak (complimentary) sometimes, very good. also he's in the middle of the strangest love web atm.

anyway on an unrelated note i am becoming a full-time hermitcraft blog

[mumscarian]

i promised yall that id tell you about my superhero au, so here it is! thanks to all the anons who reminded me abt it, i 100% would not have remembered otherwise. Anyways, take this, and hopefully ill even write it one day lol.

Scar's the hero, Grian's the vigilante, Mumbo's the villain

they are all HORRIBLE at their jobs

You know that one vine by ProZD about the villain who kept accidentally doing good things? that's mumbo. real doofenshmirtz-esque guy.

scar is so clumsy that he practically does mumbo's job for him. he tries to save a cat in a tree and ends up burning the tree down somehow

grian technically can't be bad at his job, seeing as he is a chaotic neutral in his situation. he's charismatic and often gets the better of scar and mumbo, but is very oblivious when it comes to citizen stuff.

there are a few rules to the meta of this au, which are laws of the universe-- unless its really funny or angsty, and in that case: laws were meant to be broken

1. whatever mumbo and scar do, either it is cancelled out by themselves, the other, or grian puts a stop to it. (example situation: the tree scar accidentally sets on fire (mentioned above) is extinguished by mumbo's evil freeze ray, which he was using to try to kill scar. grian was the one who put the cat in the tree in the first place.) 2. Grian, in roadrunner fashion, always gets the upperhand in the end, though there are times when it seems like either the law or mumbo have truly caught him, just for the ✨drama✨ 3. Grian can make anything work, as long as its sticking to the bit. a true looney tunes man. he has the power of the Absurd on his side.

Grian's superpower is his wings, which he can summon at will

Mumbo's is shapeshifting. i dont exactly know what kind of shapeshifting yet, but i did have a cool idea that if he didn't carefully maintain his form, bits of him start flaking away until he's just Void with a mustache tacked on (the mustache never leaves LOL but he does wear a mask as a villain)

Scar desperately hides his superpower, and just uses his outstanding charisma to avoid the question. (he can turn into a cat <3)

As citizens, they are all Very Normal and Not Suspicious At All! Except for grian. lord help that man, he wouldn't know secrecy if it shat on his shoes. It should be an open secret by now, but through a series of comical yet confusing events, his identity is still a secret to the public. for now.

Speaking of Grian, he works at a coffee shop, because I'm in love with cliches. Mumbo is an redstone engineer, and scar is a landscaper. Grian wants to be an architect, but he had to drop out of college for a couple of years. He's taking it online this year tho!

they all know each other, but mumbo's the only one suspicious of anyone's identities

grian and scar, disguised in their hero gear, routinely flirt with each other's and mumbo's civilian identities. mumbo can't because a villain cant exactly flirt with civilians without them throwing a brick at them LOL

the flirting has No Effect on mumbo (besides him being suspicious ig) until he figures out their real identities and the realization that oh my god grian and scar are flirting with me kicks in and he gets incredibly flustered.

i mentioned before that the whole "villain goes to hero's house all broken and battered saying 'i didn't know where else to go'" and that definitely happens. at one point. i dont know where or when but it definitely happens once the story reaches a more serious and less cartoony point. ill make it happen. i dont have much of an actual plot in mind, if you couldnt tell. haha.

thats all i have baiii

[snowchester-nuke]

I blame @give-grian-rights for their Redstoner propaganda while I was having Tubbo brainrot, do take this Redstoner inspired oneshot ig?

A visit to Logstershire was the thing that broke Tubbo. Even after he left the ruins of the camp and returned to L'manberg, every time he close his eyes, trying to fall asleep, he could see the images of wrecked, crater-dilled ground with a few surviving structures, of broken chests and burned my explosion logs, of a tall dirt pillar, so high that if you jumped from it, you would probably -...

Tubbo preferred not to sleep.

Suddenly the boy had a luxury of spending several extra hours on his ocean base, before far too neglected for his liking because of all the presidential duties.

It soon became a habit. Every evening he would grab a boat and travel a familiar route - through the portal to the Nether and then up on the roof to glide along the thin ice path, then sail across the Overworld waters, and every morning he would repeat the way backwards, normally returning before anyone who would look for him woke up. There were also days when he didn't notice the sun rising above the horizon and slowly moving across the sky and kept working for a couple of days straight, drowning himself in new projects, just to push out any thoughts of Tommy, of Logstershire and L'manberg out of his head. Those days were more and more common.

Tubbo finished the Guardian grinder in a day, then spent another one on rigging an automatic sorting system to it. Sam, the only person who visited the drained Monument, was impressed, but his amazement quickly turned into worry when on the third day the boy started working on another mob farm. He had to reassure the creeper hybrid that he would soon head back to L'manberg. When Sam returned the next day, Tubbo was still there and there was a villager trading hall next to a newly constructed slime farm. He didn't even bother decorating them all - as soon as one project was finished, connected to the sorting system, to the new storage under the floor, to other farms if needed, Tubbo would start a new one.

Tubbo was not even tired - exhausted. His eyes were red and hurt from looking into small details of redstone machinery just as much as from the lack of sleep. The bags under his eyes also got a reddish shade from rubbing them too often. Tubbo's own imagination, which lovingly created images of Tommy falling down from the sky, like Icarus he flew to close to the syn and melted his wings, kept him awake, and so did the bright light of numerous redstone torches, placed down to light up the area and keep the mobs from spawning where they weren't supposed to. Normal torches required coal and doing something so mindless and mechanical as mining meant the brain didn't have to be involved into monotonous tasks and was free for all sorts of thinking on separate topics. For some reason, those topics always revolved around Tommy.

Eventually, Tubbo started running out of ideas. He had everything he could possibly need: infinite amounts of xp, tons of various materials, some trash and some were useful for redstone work, a storage with redstone lamps to indicate the amounts of stuff he had now, contraptions with rails hoppers and minecarts to deliver whatever he needed from chests underground to one place. He couldn't even ask Sam for concepts of possible redstone machines - he left some time ago, saying something about Dream and the task he had to concentrate on. Not like Tubbo was really listening, he was too much concentrated on whatever he was working at the time. Plus, it's just another person who was going to leave him.

Bored out of his mind but desperate for more work, Tubbo started making ridiculous things, elevators rising up to nowhere and piston doors protecting nothing, inefficient supersmelters and crop farms that were harvested with explosives, note blocks that constantly played some hellish music lacking any rhythm and only serving to keep Tubbo awake. Sometimes he could make out in sound sequences familiar melodies or voices. He was probably hallucinating, but hearing faint mellohi instead of a random ringing, beeping and bumping noises still made his irritated dry eyes water.

Tubbo stopped caring for anything outside of the oval perimeter with even centre in the middle of the ocean, which on the inside looked more like an elaborate factory than a base. He didn't care where the materials cane from. He didn't care why noone was visiting him - and even if they did, he was too concentrated on his own inventions to notice them and was content with explaining the inner workings of each contraption to the silence. He didn't care that from looking so much at lines of redstone, at redstone blocks, at glowing red torches, even the sun got a faint red shade.