#no thoughts on watcher grian in general but im down for watcher grian for The Bit for sure

[nebulaeyedfish]

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[definitelynotshouting]

Hi I’m obsesseddddd with your hunger au and after reading the lore doc and the fic I have a couple questions if you don’t mind

Ok first off this isn’t really a question and more like a ��huh wouldn’t that be fucked up” thought but uhhhh. So og grian was pretty much trapped in a box and constantly watched while the larva developed right. Did the watchers ever feed off him? Bc I imagine being trapped and just waiting to die wouldn’t be great for your emotional state. Or would they not since he is hosting the larva and that point so they can’t/wont feed on a host? Oh also you said that he made the deal to become a watcher while under duress. I imagine that duress could easily be heightened by some hungry watchers. And having your brain lightly fried would probably make you more susceptible to agreeing to a fucked up situation

And for my second question I was curious how aware the general populace/the hermits are of watchers?? Like are they a known thing and ppl just aren’t sure how they work or what. Because the rescue group had to puzzle out that grian was benefiting from their suffering in some way, but pearl seemed to have some idea of what grian was with the whole “eating our brains” bit so I’m curious what levels of knowledge they’re operating with here

Anyways thanks for reading my silly little thoughts on your amazing au!! It’s so fun I’m having such a good time with the horrible things happening

Im so glad you like the fic, anon!! :DD im always so touched when people tell me they enjoyed it enough to read the lore behind it-- gods ive gotta update that, there are a sizeable amount of newer asks i havent added to it yet, plus my beloved friend @/corvidaearts made a proper carrd for it on my birthday that i plan on replacing the google doc with!!! Just, uh, as soon as i add aforementioned posts dkcjsjdjfj

That would be super fucked up if they fed on him while he was trapped, OUGHHHH.... id say in canon probably not, because feeding off of one Player is really really dangerous for them, and Grian was now a host for their experiment to see if they could bring their population back up. If anything, nobody touched or interacted with him beyond the bare minimum it took to keep him safe from any potential respawns, and it was likely only the colony elders who even had direct access to him in the first place. THAT BEING SAID..... GODS THATS FUCKED UP I LOVE IT. And, well, i suppose one Watcher did feed on him.. which was Grian himself, as he emerged from his Player cocoon. Player!Grian's final moments of agony and terror were amplified to the max as his Watcher-self's very first meal, and that haunts Grian a lot late at night if he lets himself think about it

The duress he was placed under to become a host in the first place involved a significant amount of heightened emotional leverage though, thats for sure. One of these days i need to map out how exactly that went down, but i know that it involved an offer that was not actually an offer, several lies through omission, intimidation tactics that spanned the entirety of Evo in the first place, and using Grian's own fear-- both of them, and for his friends-- against him. Real fucked up situation all around 😔😔😔😔

General populace does not know much if anything about the Watchers!! The Watchers are, aside from this one colony, pretty much extinct; even before that, they relied quite a lot on camouflage and secrecy to keep their presence from being discovered, both by their prey and by the Seekers that hunted them.

Some very very old Players might know whispers of information-- rumors from the tail end of a game of telephone, as it were. And there are for sure a few individuals here and there who know of them due to personal experience (including the entire Evo crew, which was ofc a special case), but because Player information is not centralized in any capacity in this universe, the vast majority of Players have zero knowledge that Watchers even exist, let alone what they do and how they feed.

Pearl, with her previous knowledge and experience with Watchers and how they operated while involved with the Evo server, made some really good educated guesses about how Grian works and what's going on with him. And ofc everyone on Hermitcraft, plus all the lifers, knows that Grian at the very least can manipulate Player emotions to an extreme degree-- putting those context clues together, you can piece together quite a few connections. She doesn't have the full picture, but at this point in time she's basically figured out a good chunk of it. The rest will have to come from Grian himself >:]

[ethoglrl]

Thinking about a hc/ls powers au where triplets!Grian, Pearl and Jimmy are villains and heroes!Scar, Mumbo and Ren are trying to stop them (while not realizing how corrupt the organization they work for is) (im calling this AU Eyes Ears and Mouths or EEM for short)

Like okok consider, consider:

Civilian Grian and Scar crushing on each other, maybe borderline dating (like they go out for things that are totally dates but if anyone brings it up "nooo we're just friends guyssss how many times do I have to say it!") and then bam, hero and villain fight happens that night, next day they see each other and Scar's limping, brushing it off as "oh I fell" when it was villain!Grian (aka Watcher) who had scratched his leg deep, or Grian having to cancel cause he "feels sick" when really hero!Scar (HotGuy.. duh) had hit him with an arrow and he desperately needed time to heal

Consider as well :

Pearl, Grian and Jimmy as young kids, running around the streets, orphaned, eventually learning about their powers and struggling to control them without their parents teaching them how

Consider:

Jimmy discovering his powers when he went to steal some clothes for winter, having had to try to run from a mall cop (malls were usually easier as they were more crowded. Easier to escape if the doors were close by) but getting tackled to the ground, him immediately panicking and then going full Listener

Jimmy almost killing the cop as he went full Listener (wings and feathers sprouting from the sides of his face by his ears and all down his back and legs, fingers and toes becoming sharp talons, ears floating all around him kind of like a vertical halo if that makes sense) and couldn't stop himself from using his powers (the listeners themselves going into the man's mind, invading his thoughts, taking them and his memories away, paralyzing him while Jimmy scratches him deep, not realizing how strong he is, trying to escape the man's grasp)

Pearl and Grian watching this, almost scared of their youngest brother, not knowing if he'll snap at any moment

Less angsty but consider :

Civilian!Scar and Mumbo being friends, not knowing the other is the hero they work with as the organization has a 100% identity hidden rule and if your identity is revealed to anyone you're kicked off the team

Okay now time to explain the powers so it's less confusing LOL

Villains -

Grian : Watcher : when in watcher mode, like Listener and Speaker, feathers and wings sprout out by his ears and on his back to his legs, his being a reddish-orange, and his toes and fingers turn into sharp talons, while purple eyes surround his face, helping him to see more of what's going on around him. Wears a dark purple cloak with some holes for his wings, and a simple metal band with the watcher emblem on it for a mask : is able to send the watchers (aka some little eye things, think like how most people draw eyes around watcher!grian, little 2D purple things) to attack his victim(s), shooting little balls of... well, nobody knows what, at the target(s)

Pearl : Speaker : when in speaker mode, like Listener and Watcher, feathers and wings sprout out by her ears and on her back to her legs, hers being a more bluey-white, fingers and toes turning into sharp talons, while small mouths float around her head, telling her dark secrets of those she wishes. Wears a dark blue cloak and a similar metal band to grian as a mask, but with a different symbol (I'll make the symbols for her and Jimmy eventually) : is able to send the speakers (aka little mouths) to attack her target(s), where they then scream their dark secrets, things that make them feel guilty or hurt or generally bad, at them, in words only they can hear, giving the victim(s) such powerful headaches (not to mention negative feelings) that they crumble to the ground

Jimmy : Listener : when in listener mode, like Speaker and Watcher, feathers and wings sprout out by his ears and on his back to his legs, his being bright yellow, fingers and toes turning into sharp talons, while small ears float around his head, helping him hear everything going on around him. Wears a dark yellow cloak, with a metal band like the other two for a mask but with his own symbol : is able to send the listeners (aka little ears) to infiltrate his target(s), going into their head and thoughts, temporarily sucking out almost every thought and memory, making is nearly impossible for the victim(s) to move as they struggle against the listeners in their mind

Bdubs : Moss ("I don't want a good name, my name's just gonna be my power. What about it?") : wears a blanket (he swearssss it's a costume but idk mannn) that's literally just covered in moss, mushrooms, I think a tree is growing in there, nobody knows but it makes him more powerful, as well as uses some moss to make a mask kinda like the one ethos mc skin has yk : pretty much can control plants and nature, especially good at moss and moss covered objects, even able to conjure up some moss on himself as a protective measure if needed

Etho : Winter (listen he's Canadian let's cut him some slac-) : ... literally just what ethos MC skin looks like, his hair is naturally a blonde but turns white when using his powers : can make it snow and hail, can form snow and ice in his hands as well as is always freezing to the touch, and can literally freeze victims with a touch if wanted

Martyn : Shadow : ... last life shadow alliance Martyn, need I say more? : can jump into and out of shadows (as if they're portals), as well as can use them to completely hide himself (so unless you know he's there, you can't see him) and can also use the shadows to attack you if you're in them or close enough to them

Scott : Heartbreaker : simple teal jumpsuit or whatever heroes always wear with some gold accessories and white and gold accents on the jumpsuit itself, with a very fancily embroidered mask (Hes gay he needs everything to be extra /stereotyping) : is able to drive wedges between teammates or.. well, anyone really. Can be as simple as a distrusting glance between each partner after he uses the power, or as much as them no longer able to work together, or screaming at each other rather than fighting the villains

Heroes -

Scar : HotGuy : ... well we all know typical hotguy attire must I really say : can fly (without wings unlike the triplets) and always hits with his bow without fail, except in extremely specific circumstances

Mumbo : RedStone (listen, he was told to come up with a name himself, he never said he was creative) : kind of looks like that tuxedo guy from sailor moon except he has a mustache that's very prominent : telekinesis, an extremely strong version of it in fact. Is able to rip chunks out of walls and rip concrete up from the street to make a shield easily, as well as throw people around (although he does MUCH better with inanimate objects than with people or living things like Bdubs' moss and trees)

Ren : WereDog, eventually becomes WereKing : originally just simple red t-shirt and overalls with some pockets for what he needs, and when he rebrands to WereKing, wears much more kingly fashion, a red cape with puffy white.. stuff (idk what it is I don't sew) on the lining, a "crown" as his mask with a frilly shirt on under it (probably just jeans for his pants idk I just like his design in my mind so that's why he gets a paragraph of it) : can turn into any kind of canine (a wolf, a dog, a coyote, whatever) (yes I spent more time imagining his costume than his power shhhhh)

More characters and their info to squeeze in -

X : leader of the heroes, though not of the organization : mostly plans out who patrols where (sometimes the upper management gives *suggestions* on where certain heroes should go), what heroes to use in a given situation, disciplining heroes who mess up (no matter how bad), usually is the one who fires and *sometimes* hires heroes (also does other more boring stuff I ain't explaining it all)

Doc : a more minor hero called Monster : when using his power turns giant, green and fuzzy (like a weird hulk) (doesn't wear a mask as he looks almost 100% different when using his powers) : also like the hulk is extremely strong, and can also explode when wanted (this does leave pretty severe burn marks on him, however he will survive)

Those are the only ones I really have done so far LMAO I need time to think. I will update when I have ideas !!!

Tempted to make this a fic, if you'd read it lmk and I can make one on ao3 or just a shorter one on here, post it as little one shots of certain scenes if you can't read a whole fic

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

ok hi hi. so this started with making an empires blaseball au and then… spiraled from there when i remembered that thing about the first election running three times. my posts about the empires leg of this au is here and the hermitcraft leg is here, the empires one is a lot more detailed and complicated by virtue of empires having a plot that more easily slots into the world of blaseball than hermitcraft, but also as a side effect of the fact that i just know WAY LESS about hermitcraft (outside of s9) than i do about empires. also, i’m currently not thinking WHATSOEVER about how any future seasons of these series (especially season 5 of the life series) could affect this au. tbh unless someone new is added to one of these servers next season or something else Very compelling gets me to reorganize this whole au, i’m just leaving it as is.

so my thought for the life series leg of this are:

for the most part, the plot of blaseball is just Happening as it happened in cannon, but the life series guys are here now. don’t think too hard about the repercussions. other than fall ball, though. that didn’t get an ending so i’m disregarding it we’re just stopping at season 24.

season 1 in this universe, all of the cast members from third life are players, except martyn, and plus pearl. i don’t know where i really want to put anyone except ren is a batter for the tacos and grian is a pitcher for the garages. martyn is not a player because he’s this universe’s parker. (the venn diagram i made about those two has infested my brain). the watchers are the boss stand in cause. look at them. im tempted to make the listeners our stand in for the reader but i can be swayed on that one. every other god stays exactly the same as they are in canon.

grian is our jaylen for this au, cause i mean… yeah… (he’s the only winner who’s death really felt like it slotted well with jaylen’s.) his replacement is mumbo, because i’ve “unremarkable derrick kreuger-ed” his ass. any player who has left the series (mumbo, lizzie, ren) are all gonna get dead at some point.

i don’t know exactly how i want lizzie to show up or when i want to kill her (maybe she’s a victim of instability?) but i know i want to give her precognition, because she was so wildly paranoid during last life that giving her the future seeing mod when her death is ever on the horizon just feels appropriate. i also want her to be a batter for the magic or the flowers.

ren is a batter for the tacos cause he’s our wyatt mason. this is because i think it would be fun and also because imagining the “i need you to wake up” message from parker with martyn and ren makes me insane.

i kinda want to make the other winners plot important characters as well (scott would probably be megan ito) but i cant decide quite what i want to do with pearl if that’s the case. maybe she can be thomas england? and then our sixpack dogwalker could be lizzie (because amnesia cold session), but i guess i just kill her at some point?? yeah idk quite what i want to do with pearl i feel like there’s just so many avenues to go down…

my vague idea for what i wanted to do with skizz was that i wanted him to be a batter for the lovers because it just Feels Right but i’m willing to bend on that. generally for everyone else i want them to just exist in the world and have to deal with everything because i like putting them through hell.

it could also be fun to do something with the vault but it shows up so late into the blaseball timeline (season 17 if im remembering correctly?) that i don’t want to rely on it being too much apart of the story. also, feel free to give anyone whatever mods you want!

Having a tough time irl rn because I’m leaving my home to go back to college four states away. so if anyone can come up with some shenanigans for me to get up to tomorrow on the ride there that would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I’ll write fic or something crazy like that. I’m silly I’m wild and goofy :P blehh

[bluiex]

:D anon totally not procrastinating on writing that fic because of burnout here with some headcanons (mostly Scarian, one Rancher)

The Rancher one first:

Tango was absolutely going to flip the server upside down when Scar burned the ranch. Seething with rage, becoming deaf to the cries of the world. They got there too little too late to put out the flames and had to watch their home crumble. It didn’t help that the others threw out suggestions that they should get their revenge on Scar, but Jimmy knew better. As much as he wanted to get back at Scar, too, going into a blind rage wouldn’t solve anything, but make matters worse. Jimmy tries to keep Tango grounded, calling out to him and pulling him back to earth. He holds onto his soulmate’s arms, suffering searing scorch marks on his palms due to the netherborn’s flames on his body. Despite this Jimmy keeps talking to him, trying to get through to him, calm him down. It works, and Tango is glad to see his soulmate safe and sound other than the burns on his hands. He feels awful, truly, and treats his wounds and builds a good chunk of their new home as an apology. Jimmy can see just how on edge and heartbroken Tango is, and just cuddles in bed with him that night, reminding them that they’re safe, and they’re going to have their revenge with time.

Now for the Scarian ones!!

Vex Scar and Allay Grian time ehehehehhe. The gentle giant predator and the feisty tiny gremlin, a complete reversal on their roles. The Vex consider Scar to be very soft-hearted and the Allay think that Grian is too unrelenting. When they meet it’s more or less an initial shock that the other is not what they’d thought would be. They fit in with each other’s natures. After getting together, it wouldn’t take long before they’re found out, but they have a chance at appealing to their enemy’s family. Scar is very nice and gentle like the Allay, and Grian is not as weak or naïve as the Vex initially thought.

(My headcanon) They don’t think about having kids in the conventional sense. They mostly adopt animals who are injured or need a home. Jellie will obviously be Scar’s lifelong companion, but the others like Pizza, the Allay, and the Jellie Pandas, and any wayward creatures who need a warm place to rest will be welcomed with open arms. Grian admires how nurturing Scar is towards animals, and treats them like his own children. Scar might have once caught a glimpse of Grian tucked away in his nest with a baby animal, and Scar’s heart just melting at the wholesome overload.

Scar’s Vex side allows him to sense strong sources of magic, see through illusions and mirages, etc. When he meets Grian, he doesn’t exactly see it right away, but he senses a lot of ominous magical energy surrounding him. As he gets to know him more and more, that illusion is chipped away and he recognizes that Grian is a Watcher. (He also notices other Watcher/Listener-aligned Hermits, too.) This happens over the course of their friendship, and he realizes it only after Third Life. He confronts Grian about it, but he’s super understanding about it, which surprises Grian, and he trusts Scar to keep this secret from the others.

Just general fluff. They need to cuddle. Playful banter. Soft kissies. Words of encouragement. Hugs. Something so sickeningly sweet that it gives someone cavities >:’( <333

(its ok im on burnout as well lmfao, take your time! no rush<3)

dslkghsalkgh I love me some soft rancher. Jimmy just calming down a seething Tango, whos just all flamey and shit. Touches and hugs him anyways

LOVE LOVE LOVE! Vex Scar being the soft one, very happy carefree lil guy. And Grian being the unhinged one lmao. So cute i love it

FUR BABIES!! Yeees they have lil fur babies all the time. Jellie being the main one-

Yeees. I personally really love that Scar, being vex, can tell and sense Grian's watcher magic. and Scar is just like hella interested in it and asks SO many questions about it

yesyesyesyes please tons of cuddles and kisses and being so sickingly sweet to one another

[dying-acc-idk-man]

Well now that I have an okay to share my brainworms!! [Tbh they're less theories and more like headcanons at this point but if you're willin' to read 'em]

I haven't gotten all of the watcher/listener lore down [I still need catch up more on the Evo context] but atm I like the concept of him being turned into a watcher/listener except his being turned into a watcher/listener was moreso a means of holding power over his head and to have more range of control over bullying the man with his own death as per his typical recklessness, clumsiness, and overall habit of dying fast. He has always been their canary to sing in their coalmines till the fumes silence him, however proper canary features didn't develop [I like to think of a contrast between he and Grian being that Grian was originally a watcher so his appearance is more properly avian meanwhile Jimmy only gets /clipped or mostly flightless/ wings and extra feathers-- like the difference between an elytrian flight and avian slow falling in the origins mod, a born avian vs a made avian] until when he went red in 3rd life since that was basically when the canary curse of the life series became locked in [He can control whether or not he has those features in other servers, but in the life series or general hardcore servers he can't put them away] His being a turned watcher/listener is what makes his death consequential beyond being the first to die: all the worst chaos beginning directly after his death directly ties into abilities he can't tap into himself as per the other watchers/listeners blocking him from the very power they gave him to turn him into a watcher/listener. I also like watcher/listener Jimmy because then he can go god competent op mode and honestly Jimmy deserves to go god competent op mode and like paired with my hc of him not even being fully aware of his powers or the extent of them, it creates these accidental god mode moments like say if he saw someone falling from to their death he'd just like go Oh Shit I Need To Do Something and then he Does by going god mode and swooping in with massive ass pheonix-esque wings and like once they're both safely on the ground it all dissapears and he was so caught up in the moment he didn't even realize and he was like "Damn how lucky!! I must've broke our fall!!" MEANWHILE THE PERSON THAT JUST WITNESSED GODMODE WATCHER JIMMY JUST IS IN UTTER DISBELIEF THAT HE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE??? THAT HE DID THAT???? Even better, he finds out about his god mode appearance and abilities But He Still Can't Activate It Himself so when something like that situation happens again and someone says something he just goes "hAaah yeah, that just like,,, happens sometimes,,, I don't control it ^v^;;" hrhrhrhrhrjfurj ALSO imagining watchers having like this uniform that includes a boob window for like a chest eye rather than boobs and yes that is an excuse for me to draw Watcher!OP!God Mode!Jimmy in a fancy cloak and gown with a boob window and I will stand by Jimmy boob propaganda till the day I die

But yesyes, these are my brainworms, thank ye for takin' 'em [I may or may not come back with more stuff like this purely because I have too many thoughts in my brain and little to no outlet so it helps to scream it into a void where it may or may not get acknowledged] -- Think of me like a messenger pigeon but instead of bringing messages I just carry brainrot to anyone that is willing to listen :> and may you find an interesting rock sometime soon •🕊

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i missed when tumblr asks had a limit i woke up to this long thing

i mean its not bad but jeez louis this was so much to read for me aachhchfjx

but your idea is vvery interesting, but it seems i will be having my own interp then since im not that into your idea (well to say, im not into working with the same idea) but yours is rly good! i liked that a lot

[atherix]

Its that time of the month where I crack out a word doc to write up the essay bc I am having MANY THOUGHTS. MANY. SO MANY OF THEM. THIS IS GONNA BE INCOHERENT AS SHIT

Let’s start here

UM?????????????? UM?????????????????????????? ATHERIX EXCUSE ME WHAT THE FUCK okay so listen. I haven’t thought at all that the Alley was gonna be old as balls until all the essays started pouring in guessing that the alley was old as dirt. Legitimately my damn brain was like “Oh Grian knows Ancient that’s quirky 😊” BUT NOW. THIS COMBINED W MY THEORY THAT THE WATCHERS ADDED TENETS AFTER GRIANS ESCAPE?????????? I AM FUCKING STARING YOU DOWN

My mumbolio jumbo bless him. He’s so protective of Tubbo and I love that for both of them. He’s really embracing both the ‘Coven Leader’ thing and the ‘Step Dad’ deal. I love how right away he notices something is weird w the shadows around them but it takes him so, so long to click the idea of void fog that’s so funny.

GOD THE FACT THAT NOT KNOWING WHERE SCAR AND GRIAN ARE IS DRIVING THEM BOTH UP THE WALL DLFGKSDFG I AM FEELING EMOTIONS ABOUT IT. Mumbo cant find his mates. Tubbo cant find his dads. The fact that Scar’s magic is so fucked up and the connection w the glyph is so bad I am lkshfh. The way you wrote that was incredible. Magical backlash is terrifying to me in this context, however, that’s SCAR. THE CORE TALK. I AM. WITHERING.

AUGH AND THEN THE WAY THE MIMICS PLAY WITH THEM BY LOOKING LIKE SCAR AND GRIAN!!!! I AM WACKING U W A ROLLED UP NEWSPAPER!!!! The fact that Tubbo used the fact that they can’t know his real name bc Mumbo doesn’t know it against them is fucking genius I love the smart lamb very much. I am, however, trying to figure out why during the encounter, all mumbo can smell is the musky water. Is it to point out that they aren’t scar and grian bc they don’t smell like his mates?? Is it a general ‘this scent is so cloying and crushing’ bc of the whole reference to still water later on w the Ancient City what is going on here.

G O D Mumbo you’re so cool but blindly shadow walking into a divot on the side of a pillar is. Sir. MUMBO. He’s so cool. He’s so cringefail. This is somehow true simultaneously.

And then this place is so huge im almost mildly terrified that there’s no way they ever find each other and they die down here and the rest of midnight takes place in like. The afterlife. TBH theres a small part of me that thinks all of midnight is just grian’s afterlife. Terrified of you.

AND THEN THE WAY MUMBO CRUSHES THE TUNNEL WITH HIS SHADOWS OH MY GOD HE’S SO COOL I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. Even if a mimic got in bc they became spiders. He’s still cool. BUT GOD THE MIMIC BEING SCAR AND FUCKING W HIM AND PLAYING ON HIS INSECURITIES I AM SHAKING IT!!!! I love how smart Tubbo is to use fae magic against it, im so grateful scar and tubbo are there even if I wish none of them were in the alley bc like. Fae magic. AND THEN TUBBO AND MUMBO HAVING A MOMENT OF REASSURANCE BC OF WHAT THE MIMIC SAID IM AAAAAAAAAAA. DAD CODED. CHILD CODED BEHAVIOR FROM TUBBO. HE IS SO CHILD BUT ALSO SO ADULT AND MATURE AND AAAAAAAAAAAAA given that you tormented Mumbo with his DEAD DAUGHTER the fact that tubbo is very Coven Child in this is magnificent tbh. Mumbo needs a kid.

‘Everytime dad sees me he smiles’ MY HEART, GOODBYE, I CAN WALK INTO THE VOID NOW A VERY HAPPY PERSON INDEED.

Oh my god and then the warden lullaby coming back up. The way the void fog fights them tooth and nail. And for them to realize because tubbos l;ike ‘haha isn’t this weirdly familiar………..Wait a minute-“ and then ICARIA. I C A R I A. I do not get brownie points bc you and I already knew that I knew that you knew. But. I C A R I A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait hold on. A midnight sun. an eclipsed moon. The fae realm is in this fucking lullaby. THE FAE REALM IS IN THE LULLABY. I REPEAT!!!! I AM NOW PANICKED WHAT THE FUCK IF THE FAE AND THE MIMICS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE BUT THE MIMICS ARE IN A CVAVE WHERE THE WARDEN IN AND THE FAE REALM IS IN THE WARDEN LULLABY EXCUSE ME HOLD ON

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

And then I told you this already but the WAY Icaria is revealed is insane because you go from ‘oh this seems kinda bad, they’re getting really close to deep dark stuff, uh oh’ to just this INTENSE fear perpetuated by dramatic irony because we as readers know what Sculk is [which, apparently, the ‘c’ is the official spelling] but Mumbo and Tubbo aren’t so sure. And its just. Oh my god they are in so much danger.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD writing this essay was like pulling the teeth of my executive dysfunction btw but I DID it hello readers this is the only thing I managed to do today. Im gonna go get ice cream now.

Let me just say I thoroughly enjoyed giving you a crisis in the DMs <3

LMAOOO "oh he knows this old dead language that only historians know, quirky!" Oh I love that lmaooo Here y'all have the whole exchange + Stitch's immediate reaction as a treat <3 LMAO

ANYWAY. HAS NO ONE NOTICED. THAT THERE HAS BEEN LITERALLY. NOT. A. SIGN. OF GRIAN BEING CHASED, OR FOLLOWED, OR SOMEONE LOOKING FOR HIM? MANS IS LITERALLY ON THE RUN BUT NO ONE IS SHOWING UP.

Anyway :) Hehehehe-

Look, be fair to Mumbo, he has never been in Void-fog before <3 and also. He's not nearly as well versed in the mythos as Scar and Tubbo are hehe-

GOD YEAH SAME I love them so much. They just want to find them and go hooommeee they have so many regrets about coming here I am so jkfdkjfk AND YEAH Scar's magic. I am going to have so much fun with the magic backlash thing :) Hehehe. IT'LL BE FIIIINE HE'LL BE FIIIINE I'M SURE THE BACKLASH WILL BE FIIIIINE IT'S NOT LIKE THE NEXT FIC IS ABOUT [REDACTED] :)

Look. I love the Mimics. I love creatures where you don't know if you're looking at a person or a monster wearing their face I just hjfdjkfkd. THE ROLLED UP NEWSPAPER WON'T STOP ME HEHEHEHE. Tubbo is a smart boy <3 And Scar and Tubbo are so protective of their true names, Tubbo was confident Scar wouldn't have told even Mumbo his name without Tubbo's consent <3 I love them. Oh. A little bit of both. All he can smell is sculky moldy stale water :) And nothing else really. Can't even trust his own nose :)

Mumbo, blindly shadow walking and IMMEDIATELY showing why blind shadow walking is such a bad idea. If they had landed from the shadow wrong they would have fallen into the lake below :) If they had fallen forwards instead of backwards...... lmaoo :) I love him, he's a wet cat who has fangs every now and then <3

This place is SO huge. SO VERY huge. You would almost think there's no way it could have actually been dug out, right? Oh wait... :) The Ancients knew magic, too :) Look. You know how I feel about the end of Little Hope 😤

LOOK I KNEW FROM THE MOMENT I ESTABLISHED MUMBO'S SHADOWS COULD PHYSICALLY AFFECT THINGS I KNEW I HAD TO HAVE A SCENE OF HIM COLLAPSING A CAVE AND WHEN BETTER THAN IN A TUNNEL WHILE THEY'RE BEING CHASED. He's a smart man <3 Could have crushed himself in the effort but ya know <3 THAT SCENE. It was an epiphany at like 5 am the day before, and I just KNEW it would hit so much harder if the Mimic looked like Scar while saying it hrhjgfdkjgfjk haha <3 OKAY BUT HIM USING THE FAIRY LIGHTS, REALIZING SINCE FAIRY LIGHTS AREN'T ATTACHED TO HIM IT PROBABLY WON'T BACKLASH ONTO HIM JUST ONTO THE MIMIC- he's such a smart kid, if he'd actually thrown a spell at it it probably would have thrown magic back into his staff hhhh :) Tubbo is such a good child. Absolutely nothing can go wrong by Mumbo emotionally adopting this wild and independent child LMAO

Their relationship is so SOFT god I love them I am just. So very <3 I love Midnight!Scar and Tubbo's relationship and I absolutely want more soft moments <3

From the very moment I conceived of this plot, I knew- I wanted Tubbo to sing the lullaby, and I wanted them to slowly realize. Yeah. Yeah, this is. Worrying. Hehe I C A R I A. For those of you curious, Icaria is referencing the Yogscast's Shadow of Israphel, with Icaria being the destination Simon and Lewis were going when the series stopped (discontinued, rip). So yeah <3 I LITERALLY WOKE UP IN A FRENZY AT 4 AM to frantically message Stitch, who was SLEEPING at this time, "OH MY GOD IC A RI A-" and then some other stuff I can't share lmao

SOMEONE FINALLY MENTIONS IT HAHAHAHA I was so hoping someone would notice if I put the chapters with the memory Eclipse and the lullaby next to each other <3 I wrote that entire chapter like "I wonder if anyone will notice" JKFHSKFHSJK Gods I can't wait to get to talking about that :)

[I hate that but I will accept it, once the characters learn its name I shall begin to spell it correctly] So fun fact I did not realize I apparently wrote the Ancient City reveal scene in one of the most horrifying ways I could have, I sent Stitch a message like "someone just said Icaria is terrifying/gonna keep them up tonight" and Stitch just went "UH YEAH BECAUSE IT IS" LMAO But I definitely wanted that "things are slowly getting worse though the characters don't realize it yet" and shift into the slow dawning realization of what's happening and then WHAM ANCIENT CITY and just. <3 I'm so glad it hit right <3 ... Not as much danger as Scar :) (Spoiler alert, you will strangle me for One Specific Scene in the next chapter)

GOD THAT'S A MOOD. Executive Dysfunction my beloathed, it's what's keeping me from answering my old asks jkfdksjkfds <3 But it was a delightful essay thank you <3

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Chapter 1- New World

Grian first came too to the sound of an explosion overhead. He slowly pushed himself up, looking down at the sandy beach he was now on. “What the- Where am I?” He asked, standing up and brushing sand off his clothes and shaking out his wings. He looked around the small island, and saw crafting tables and saplings galore. His eyes caught onto a sign in the center of the little island.

“Welcome to Hermitcraft Season 6!

- Scar”

“No way.” Grian covered his mouth as he looked at the sign. “I’m in a new world! Oh my god. The watchers let me go?? No they couldn’t have.” He mumbled, and jolted as the communicator on his wrist started to buzz.

Grian has joined the game

Falsesymmetry: Grian?? Who the heck is Grian??

Ijevin : I have… no idea.

Stressmonster : I can go find out!! Im really close to spawn!!

Grian looked around, and just quickly took off. His red and black wings quickly lifting him into the air as he zoomed off into a random direction. Usually he wouldn’t be so… shy. But he didn’t want to be thrown into conversations with people he really didn’t know, especially with his wings. They had been gifted to him from the Watchers, and he wasn’t sure how people outside of Evo would react to that. He felt his wrist buzz again.

Stressmonster: No one’s here. Hey Grian!! Come back to spawn! We wanna meet you!

We?? Grian turned off his communicator, flying to the top of a mountain and looking over the ocean. His eyes widened as he actually looked into it. What were those things in it? The oceans weren’t supposed to have life in them besides just blue fish. And those you couldn’t even see! He checked his inventory, only to see a piece of paper and his recording equipment.  He pulled out the paper and read over it, his eyes widening.

‘Welcome to your new home, Grian.’ The paper read, and it gave a quick run down on some of the things he had never seen before. There was new mobs now, Drowned, Dolphins, Fish, and even temples and ruins! He hadn’t ever heard of the watchers being this generous. Not to him at least. They hated him. Grian yelped as he heard an explosion, looking around and seeing three people flying. He saw the wings on their back, and his eyes widened, but for some stupid reason he quickly flew underwater. He looked around this underwater landscape, and he grinned as he saw what the paper had called a shipwreck. He swam over to it to investigate.

Grian quickly swam into the ship, cautious of his air. He found a chest and pulled it open, grinning at the iron and lapis it held. He quickly swam back up, putting the valuables in his inventory before suddenly taking damage. He yelped, looking around and seeing the Drowned mob the paper warned him about, quickly swimming to shore. He scrambled up the mountain, watching tridents being hurled at him. He laughed excitedly.

“Oh my god. I can’t believe this! This. This is going to be awesome!!” He looked around the world, at the block generation. “Okay. Okay. Don’t get too over your head here.” Grian ran a hand through his hair, but he couldn’t stop the excited smile that pulled over his face. “Grian. You need to collect resources. Wool, wood, and weapons. You have to start mining.”

“Ah i see. Another guy who talks to himself.” Grian screamed and fell back into the ocean, gagging as salty water filled his mouth. “Oh heavens-!” He heard, before he was being pulled out of the ocean by a man with a glorious mustache. Grian quickly took in the mans appearance. Black hair and pale skin, wearing a suit, with gorgeous iridescent wings keeping them in the air. “Seems like the drowned are proper after you mate.” He flew them back on top of the small mountain. “So, You must be Grian then right?” He asked. Grian let out the breath he didn’t know he was holding.

“Yea! That's me, Grian!” He smiled, holding out a hand to him. The man in front of him chuckled.

“I’m Mumbo, nice to meet you. False and Stress and real curious about you mate.” He smiled still, the expression nothing but warm and welcoming, “We should message the rest of the Hermits, tell them about you.” He said, more to himself than anything as he pulled up his communicator screen.

Mumbo: Found him, He’s one of us.

Docm77: One of us!

Falsesymmetry: One of us!

Stressmonster: One of us!

“Oh dear.” He sighed, looking up at Grian who was just curiously looking at everything. “Your… not used to this stuff aren’t you?” He asked. Grian nodded.

“Yea, the world i was in is still in 1.7.” He said, Mumbo’s eyes widened.

“This is 1.14!” He said, and Grian laughed.

“No.”

“Yea.” Mumbo grinned, and looked him over. “We need to call a Hermit meeting. You comfortable with that? All the hermits are just like us. I promise.” Mumbo smiled again, and Grian couldn’t help but say yes to him. He shook out his wings, drying them off as the two took flight. Mumbo started typing again as they flew. “We just started this world, your in luck! Hermitcraft is a thing we came up with. Its essentially a group of misfits, we all make videos of our travels and post them. A lot of people really like what we do.” Mumbo said, his voice oozing with pride.

“Oh really? I do videos too! This seems like fun!” He said, listening as Mumbo described the sections this world was in, explaining that they’d be different building styles and whatnot. Grian couldn’t help the surge of excitement that flowed through his finger tips. He was a builder at heart after all, and he was over the moon in learning all this. They were just flying to the shopping district. A few buildings were already in the works, and Grian felt a surge of energy he just hadn’t had in Evo. This was all new, exciting. And he was going to have so much fun.

Grian watched as others quickly flew towards them, each and every one of them having wings. It filled his heart with relief. He wasn’t an odd one out anymore. Of course, there was someone carrying another person. Grian frowned in concern, seeing her wings were rotting and thus unable to fly.

“So Mumbo! This is the new guy?” He turned at hearing a heavily accented voice, seeing a larger man with a beard, and a visor over his eye. His wings were large and a darker brown, and yet seemed incredibly fluffy.

“Hey! I’m Grian.” He introduced.

“I’m Iskall! Nice to meet you! Your wings are amazing by the way.” He said, and Grian couldn’t help the flush that came onto his face. He wasn’t quite used to being complimented.

“You too!” He beamed. He turned as the others gathered, seeing many faces and many wings.

“How did you even get here?” A women asked. Grian looked at her. She was the one with the rotting wings. Her skin was a blue-ish gray, patched together. She looked like a zombie, the only thing bright about her was her bright orange hair.

“Uhh nice to meet you too?” Grian’s smile turned nervous as he looked the women up and down.

“Oh! My bad! I’m Cleo, Zombie Cleo!” She smiled, and Grian nodded a bit. The others introduced themselves, Grian trying to memorize names to faces. But he knew it was a fruitless endeavor.

“So mate, how did you get here?” Mumbo asked, sitting down on a rock as the others just sat on the ground.

“Yea!! Story time!!” Scar grinned as he plopped down next to Cub. Grian chuckled.

“Well. I was in my old world, we called it Evolution, or Evo for short. I was building my little town of farms and whatnot, and i heard a void. I saw this obsidian piller and thought if was the Watchers, who kind of overlook our world and make sure we’re ‘playing nice’ or whatever. I followed the pillars and the voice, when i got to this boarder wall or whatever. Sooo I… Blew it up. And walked through. Next thing I know, I wake up on your spawn island.” Grian explained calmly. He looked at the others, some who already had diamond armor. But why was it glowing like that?

“You said your world was stuck in 1.7 right?” Mumbo asked and Grian nodded, earning a few gasps from the others.

“Oh lord I’d hate being stuck in that! No beacons? No efficacy five? Awful.” Iskall sighed, and Grian stared at him.

“Wait wait what?” He asked, and a few of the Hermits jumped up, eager to brag about their loot. Grian was shown tridents, told what enchantments were, beacons, everything. His eyes were wide as he listened to everything, Doc even handing him a trident and saying to try and throw it.

Grian quickly took that opportunity, aiming high and throwing hard. Doc whistled lowly as he watched it fly. “Damn, good arm Grian.” He said, his lips pulling into an amused smile. He took off to go find it, and Grian watched the mechanical wing the man had seemingly built himself. Grian yelled a thanks at him as he flew off, and the other hermits were kind of dispersing. But a blonde women- he had learned that was Falsesymmetry-walked up to him, smiling.

“So Grian! It’s nice to finally have a new guy on the server! If you ever want a healthy match of PVP, feel free to message the queen of hearts and body parts.” He grinned with a laugh, taking off. Her wings were sleek, and yet seemed robust. The others said their goodbyes, a few giving Grian some basic starter materials of food, and some iron gear.

Grian looked over at Mumbo and Iskall, that last two standing there with him. The two smiled. “And if you want some redstone help, just give us a call! And feel free to drop by anytime. Okay?” Mumbo said, and Grian nodded.

“Yea man! Thanks!” He smiled, and the two took off. Grian quickly rushed to get resources, having already formulated a plan in his mind.

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Grian’s plan… lead him to die many times by Drowned, thankfully he had built a little platform over the water with a bed to respawn in, but it was done. He had made a shipwreck in a bottle! And frankly, he was quite proud of himself. Grian had recorded the whole thing, even going back to the spawn so he could explain in a video what was going on. He swam into his starterbase, already planning on a megabase for this futuristic district.

He had dumped resources into his many chests, trying half hazardly to be organized with everything. But deep down he knew it would end up just like Evo; with chest monsters everywhere. He glanced down to his communicator, starting to type. He needed to figure out what the hell a conduit actually did, and had a plan to build one, but he needed a little bit of help. And one of the only people who were online were Xisuma. He sent him a quick message, going down to his farms and just collecting more food and eggs (those he was saving for Mumbo later).

Xisumavoid: Yea sure i can help you out! Just come on over.

Grian had quickly learned who his neighbors were. Mumbo, Biffa, Scar, and Xisuma. He rushed over to Mumbo’s base via the strip mine, that being the easiest way to get onto land to fly. As he ran, his mind briefly went to Taurtis. To Netty and the others. Did they miss him? Did they even realize he was gone?

“Probably not.”  Grian thought to himself, climbing up the stairs and shaking off his wings before taking off. He’d be the first to admit he was happy to be here. He could fly around without feeling like he was cheating, or that others were mad at him. The people in this world were so nice and accepting, they loved talking to one another and cracking jokes. This was the kind of environment his personality type thrived in. Fun, fast, and chaotic situations that one needed to adapt too quickly. In fact, that gave him an idea for a game they could all play.

He landed at Xisuma’s base, looking around at how organized everything seemed. Especially in comparison to his own base. But it didn’t really matter to him. He was having fun again, meeting new people and starting on new adventures. Surely the Evo gang wouldn’t mind him being gone if it meant he was having the time of his life. Right?

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Grian finished recording, sighing as he just uploaded the footage onto his communicator to edit later. For now, Mumbo invited him over to relax for a bit (and probably to gloat about his base) and he wasn’t about to say no to something like that. He took off from his small cobblestone platform and flew the few hundred yards over to Mumbos base. He saw the raven haired man sitting on top of the structure, and he quickly landed next to him.

“Hey Mumbo!” Grian smiled, plopping down and rubbing his neck. His throat was starting to hurt again, and he had been thinking that he might have been too loud in his recording. His throat was murdering him.

“Hey Grian, you doin alright?”

“Oh yea! My throats just been a little sore for the past few days.” Grian smiled, leaning back and looking over the ocean. “But what’s up?”

“Nothing really.” Mumbo said, his voice trailing off and into a bit of an awkward silence, before the redstoner exploded, “Whatarethewatchers-?” He asked quickly, and Grian was slightly taken aback.

“What?” He laughed a bit, coughing into his arm.

“When you first came here a couple of weeks ago, you said you thought this was the fault of ‘the Watchers’. What exactly are they?” Mumbo asked, reaching into his inventory and pulling out a bottle of water, handing it to the other.

“Well… It’s a little bit of a long story.”

“We’ve got all the time in the world, mate.”