#poly ZIT + etho

[hmshermitcraft]

For theme because yay beaches!

It’s been a devastating heatwave on the server for weeks on end even tango is fed up at this point! So Xisuma made the executive decision of declaring a server wide beach day!…problem is the server doesn’t have a beach for em to use

So Gem called in a favor from Fwhip and Sausage bless em both. To let the hermits and her come to the empires server to use the grimmlands famous black sand beaches. And for once the empires were glad the hermits came over especially after they mended the whole emperor grumbot fiasco which mumbo and the rest of the boatem members never let Grian live down.

So when they arrive to the beaches they got some fun in the sun! False and Etho played volleyball, doc and ren made sandcastles, stress and grian finally taught Pearl how to swing just cause you’re an avian hybrid doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know how to swim! While most of the other hermits took a nice cool swim in the ocean and learned that day mumbo and fish don’t get along as he kept being chased by a parrot fish which Grian named pesky fish. Grian stop laughing and save him!

Overall the hermits got a much needed vacation and the empires got some business out of it huge win overall!

It took a lot of work to make it happen! Gem made sure to get supplies from local Grimmlands businesses. It only feels right if they're going to have to listen to the hermits all day long!

By the end of the day, the beach was covered in sandcastles and forts of varying sizes. Ren and Doc's simply continued to grow whilst Iskall decided to simply dig a big hole in the sand. Stress decorated it with shells.

Pearl whined about being covered in sand once she got out the water (it's in her feathers) but was quickly satisfied when Xisuma passed out ice cream for each of the hermits.

ZIT, naturally, showed their love for each other with water guns and chasing each other in circles. They only hit the other hermits a few times.

Gem is just so pleased it all worked out! A few of the other emporers even joined them in the end.

[bluiex]

Gritho time Grian collects stuff like squishmallows and many other plushes. So one day etho comes back to the nest unable to find Grian till he pops his head out of the mound of plushies starin happily at his partner. Also grian + Zit is a cute poly ship not many know of

AKAJFNJS Gri would just love all the plushies esp squishmallows

Omg Grian with ZIT crew- I love it

[epicfranb]

hi ^^ 21 and 38 for the ask game ?

21. Who is/are your favourite character(s) to write?

that's funny cuz i can't actually answer with a hermitcraft character or any adjacent smp's one.... as much as i like etho and bdubs, they're REALLY fucking hard to write and i always go through multiple iterations of everything that involves them cuz they're sooooo tricky..

but to this day. NOTHING beats writing BENCH TRIO for me. tubbo, ranboo and tommy were MY GUYS for a long time, i got their voices down PERFECTLY to the point where i could HEAR them running around and shouting at each other in my head. it really felt like writing bits and pieces of my own personality, separated and a little bit exxagerated, bc THAT'S HOW I FELT ABT THEM IRL KINDA?? it also helps that they're the same age as me. i never wrote abt their dsmp characters, i only made au's of them and to this day their dialogues are THE best things i have ever written and i look back at it with fondness.

38. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had

i think it could work as a crack fic (which i kinda started on but quickly dropped), uhhh it was like a dating reality show, like put popular ships against each other, create some crack ships, have some ppl be the judges and also have their own little storylines.. planned to have poly zit win in the end even tho they weren't really doing anything theywere just chilling as everyone else was at each other's throats. so yeag

ASKS FOR WRRITERS

[give-grian-rights]

could I ask your headcanons and such on Ren or/and Tango? :)

YES YOU MAY!

Ren-

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Pansexual

Shipping: oh man. ok so he's in a Poly Relationship with Stress and Iskall, + he's dating Doc, Grian, and Martyn !!!

Tango-

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them, It/Its, Red/Reds

Sexuality: Queer, doesn't care to find a label

Shipping: Poly ZIT and Tango + Grian and/or Etho is great <33

[darkoaklogs]

how about team zit and tangtho for the ship thing :0?

Team ZIT:

A+++++ OMEGAOTP

poly zit is the best ever. makes me so so happy

Tangtho:

B+, maybe A! I don't hate it for sure, I just never give much thought to etho ships bc I don't watch him much! They're both naruto kinnies so they make a good match!

[hmshermitcraft]

Team ZIT are the city's most notorious graffiti artists, they met in art school fell in love and for some reason decided that their love language would be vandalizing public property together. Although sometimes they'll try to impress each other with stunning full wall paintings for special occasions. Most residents don't mind the paint jobs and some people even consider them to be tourist attractions now. -etho anon

The city is a lot more colorful now, and any regular citizen knows exactly why. It’s a fun story to tell tourists and to get the city’s name out there.

Over time, the graffiti became endearing to the rest of the city, and while essential signs do have to be cleaned now and then, most of the art stays. What a love language.

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I saw the abusive grumbo headcanon and my brain went brrrr so here we go I guess.

Despite being in Sahara with them, Iskall takes a long ass time to notice Mumbo being abusive, and rather than confronting Mumbo directly, he quietly contacts Xusima.

Xusima takes Grian under his wing and shelters him, but the poor boy is just waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak. Mumbo did the same thing with him, and look how that turned out.

It never happens. Xusima never lays so much as a finger on Grian, and apologizes if he accidely brushes/bumps Grian without meaning to. This causes Grian to become really attached, and Xusima tries to set his own feelings aside to help Mumbo become better. He's the admin, he has to look at this objectively and impartially, after all.

When Mumbo appears to change, Xusima stops interfering, until Grian comes to him in a panic and explains that they broke up and Mumbo was simply putting on an act for X. While unspurised, he is upset and hurt by Mumbo's actions. Knowing Mumbo would look there first, and Then with Iskall or Scar, he has to get creative in where to send Grian for his own safety. Enter Doc and Ren, who become the Grian/Etho protection squad. (Because X is also trying to sort out the Beef and Etho situation too, poor guy.)

Whoops, this is also the fox anon, and goes with the one I just sent about abusive Grumbo.

Grian and Etho, having similar histories, eventually turn to one another for comfort. After all, no one quite understands abuse like the abused. They help each other heal, and with time, they do recover.

While they don't end up dating, Etho eventually joins ZIT in their polycule and Grian stays pretty close with Ren. It's an odd group, sure, but ZIT and Ren make sure that Mumbo and Beef are serious about changing and hold them accountable when their boyfriends can't. (Its hard to call your loved ones on shitty behaviour, Etho and Grian both explain. And it's another thing that ZIT and Ren just don't get. But they try. And in the mean time, they do it for their boys until Ehto and Gri are ready. Ren only cries a little when Grian finally stands up to Mumbo without his help. ZIT cause absolute chaos in their celebration of Etho telling Beef to fuck off.)

Man, that must have been a rough introduction to hermitcraft for Grian. Why did he choose to stay?

[hmshermitcraft]

Grian stays because he makes friends.

They don't abandon him, and he needs friends like that. Especially like Etho, who Gets It(tm), Ren, who is a literal beacon of positivity, and Scar, who is like a brother to him.

Ren, obviously, becomes more than a friend in season 7, but it's not until the two have a heart to heart at an ungodly hour at the barge that Gri confesses.

ZIT all hardcore flirt with Etho in their own chaotic ways, and Etho is totally oblivious until Tango says, verbatim. "You do realize we're flirting with you, right?" While the two of them are working on Decked Out. Etho, of course, fears the worst and panics, getting the hell outta dodge for a bit and just... ghosting them all until X has to step in. ("You can't avoid them forever, Etho. Now please get out of my honey farm.")

After that inspiring pep talk, Etho sets up a prank to lure them all together, then sits them down and explains his feelings. (Kinda hard to fear rejection then the ones you're spilling your guts to look RIDICULOUS. They're all covered in glitter and flower petals and it's so fucking hard not to laugh while trying to spill his heart to them.) Of course, they take it well. They're delighted, and that's how ZIT becomes ZIT and Etho. (And really, between them and Grian, the server knows no peace. No one. Not even dadmin Xusima. ((He's their favorite target, but their pranks always aim to make the poor admin confused. Like, blank staring bc mental bluescreen.)) Everyone regrets letting ZIT influence the cryptid that is Etho.)

-🦊

Etho is... scared. He doesn’t want to be “exclusive” with anyone anymore, that just opens up opportunities for someone to control him. But team ZIT are poly, and they’re happy to keep their relationship with him open, which makes Etho feel a bit safer.

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The people at the betting table when Xusima fessed up about liking Grian are Ren, Keralis, and (to everyone's suprise) Zedaph. (Tango and Impulse dared him. He had to. He wasn't about to lose a dare to his boyfriends.)

The others ended up confessing too. Keralis dosen't have a crush on anyone at the moment. (At the time, he believes this to be true. A few weeks later.... a certain BDubs has caught his eye, but Keralis has no idea what's going on with him romantically.) Ren admits his is Etho, and asks the others to let him figure out how to tell Etho. Zedaph lies out the ass and spins a whole story about ZIT dating. (Yes, Tango and Impulse find out. And they're so fucking proud of Zed for creating that much chaos. ((This does lead to ZIT actually dating, much to the server's confusion.)) Doc, in the most causal, even keel says: "the goat." And everyone knows he means goat mountain. He isn't serious, but the others take it as so, and he gets called a furry. (Which is rich coming from a werewolf, but hey. Doc will get revenge on them later. Now he has dirt on everyone at the table.)

Keralis won't tell because he loves Shiswammy. Ren appreciates Xusima's admin work too much to embarrass him like that. Zedaph does tell Tango, then panics and convinces him not to tell Impulse. This fails, but luckily, Impulse makes Tango shut up. (Not by kissing him. What gave you that idea?) Then the server becomes absolute chaos when Grian finds out about Xusima's crush.

He does confront Xusima, but in the most off the wall, prankster way possible. And Xusima still likes him after, even if Grian teases him relentlessly afterwards.

Do Grian and Xisuma try to help the rest of the hopeless lovers at the table?

[hmshermitcraft]

Glitter Showers

Tango checked the chest in his base. Inside was a book, and much to his chagrin, free glass. Tango collected the glass and set the stack in his item sorter, then opened the book. It was unsigned, he noticed, and 30 pages. He flipped through it, finding the first twenty nine to be nonsensical gibberish. The last page had a set of coordinates. 

Tango entered the coordinates in his comm, then set off to the coordinates, uncertain of what awaited him. Without even a guess as to who sent the book, he really had no idea what he was getting himself into. Whatever it was, at least Impulse and Zedaph would be beside him, because they touched down at almost the same time he did. 

“So you guys got glass and coords too?” Impulse asked softly, checking his comm. “These are the coordinates.“

“So, what exactly is meant to be here?” Tango asked, scanning the jungle around them. 

Zed pulled both of his oblivious lovers over to the entrance of Etho’s bridge. “This, ya dum dums.” He replied. The bridge was an amalgamation of blocks sporadically tossed together. If anyone else had built it, it’d be hideous, but Etho had an eye for making mishmash look tasteful. 

It was absolutely no surprise to any of them that they missed a pressure plate in the mess of other clicky blocks.Tango barely had enough time to try to shelter the other two from… glitter?Where in the hell had Etho gotten his hands on glitter, of all things? 

The flower petals were probably pilfered from Xusima’s flower farm, as Etho had pretty much been glued to their admin’s side since Tango began building Decked Out. Anything to avoid the trio, really.  It kind of hurt, but Tango had correctly assumed their cryptid needed time to process Tango’s confession. Impulse and Zedaph thought it’d scared him off. 

Off in the distance, Etho’s laughter rang through the trees. A firework popped, then the white haired boy landed in front of them gracefully, wiping mirthful tears from his eyes. “Oh man, you guys look ridiculous,” He chuckled, looking away to catch his breath. He glanced back to them and the giggle fit started again. Tango surveyed his lovers, and yeah, they looked stupid. Well, The flowers sort of suited Zed, but Impulse just looked… annoyed, mostly, because the petals and glitter were soaked in something to make them sticky. 

Despite the absolute mess Etho made of them, each of them found it easy to laugh along with Etho, congratulating the prankster on a job well done. Then, as if struck by lightning, Etho straightened and sobered up. 

He cleared his throat. “Okay, I’m sorry. But this was a necessary part of this plan working. Xu has officially given me the boot, and told me to talk to you guys, but you all know I can’t take anything that seriously.” He began softly. “So I stole some petals from him. Sorry in advance, Xu. They went to a good cause,” Then he bit his lip, presumably to contain more giggles. 

“I’m sorry I avoided all of you and went ghost.” He began seriously, an odd demeanor for Etho to take. Tango was kinda into it, though. “So naturally, Tango dropped a major bombshell on me, and I needed some time to wrap my brain around that. Tango confessed, so Zed, Impulse, were you all actually flirting with me?” he asked. 

“I thought we were being pretty bloody obvious,” Zed joked, sheepishly scratching the back of his neck. “But yeah. We were,”

Impulse nodded. “We tried, anyways. Clearly, it didn’t land if we have to clarify.” he replied. 

Etho shook his head. “No, it didn’t. But I’m just.. trying to learn your love languages,” he explained with a casual wave of his hand. A breeze blew some petals from the ground, sticking to Etho’s wrist. Tango picked them off, sticking the stray petals to Impulse. 

“But how does all of this.” Impulse gestured to the trio of ridiculousness, “ connect to that?” he questioned. 

Etho blushed. “You see, It’s hard to feel stupid when the people you’re looking stupid in front of look worse,” He laughed. “Not that it worked. I still feel kinda dumb saying this..” Etho trailed off, looking down at the mishmash of blocks under their feet. “I really like you guys too,” he mumbled, and if Tango didn’t have sharp hearing, he’d have missed it. 

“We didn’t catch that, E,” Zed said softly, touching his shoulder. Etho looked up at him, lips pursed in an uneasy smile.Even with the mask, Tango knew. “Hey, we aren’t gonna judge you, ya know,” And there was the Zed that won him over. Soft, easy going, and always reassuring. Always caring for others. 

Etho nodded. “I said: “I really like you guys too,” he clarified, louder.

Impulse and Zedaph were stunned into silence, and Etho looked ready to bolt. Now was the chance, and Tango gently caught his wrist before the firework lit up.  “Don’t run. Give those idiots a second. They did it to me, too,” Tango smiled, aiming for reassuring, but probably failing. Etho still tensed, poised for.. Something. A hit, Tango realized, jarring him a little. 

Instead, Tango pulled the taller boy closer, locking him in a tight yet gentle hug. Etho blinked in surprise, but melted into the contact, barely jumping when Impulse joined in. He didn’t jump at all when Zed pressed close, resting his cheek on Etho’s shoulder blade. Right in the center of them, where he belonged. 

“I think this goes without saying, but the feeling is mutual,” Impulse commented softly. The quartet laughed, then Etho wiggled out of their grasp.

“Sorry. Four way hugs in the jungle are not a great idea,” he chuckled. “Especially with a half imp and a satyr, No offence,”

Zed laughed. “No worries. I just didn’t want to be the first to let go,” he confessed. “But yeah, hugging Tango and I at the same time is a slippery slope to sweating.” He admitted. 

“This is why we chose cooler climates, E,” Impulse explained. “But with our redstone brians, we can make a solution,” 

“Yeah, I’m sure we can, too,” Etho replied, looking down at himself. The glitter and petals now clung to him as well. “Well, that was a bad call, but at least we match,” he giggled, nose wrinkling as Zedaph pressed a glittery kiss to his cheek. “Stop it. Gri will never quit giving me shit for this,” he mumbled half heartedly. 

“He’s not even here?” Tango reasoned, more of a question than a statement. 

Etho smiled, saying nothing. The smile itself, even hidden behind his mask, said everything.

[hmshermitcraft]

how do you think team ZIT first reacted to seeing ethos face? also i love how far one of my asks went when i just wanted some angst! :D

When Etho first takes off his mask around team ZIT, it’s long after the bruises have healed, and almost unconscious. He stuffs it in his pocket, not realizing that Zed, Impulse, and Tango are staring. Luckily, Tango regains his senses before Zed can blurt something our or Impulse can get really awkward, and casually changes the topic to redstone. None of them mention how pretty Etho is- it’s not the time.

[hmshermitcraft]

got anything for etho having a nightmare and a member of team ZIT calming him down?

Etho wakes up shaking. He knows, logically, that the server hasn’t crumbled to dust around him, but his heart is still racing. He tries to breathe deeply, calm himself down. 

Suddenly, there’s a knock at the door. “Etho?” Zed calls, just loud enough for him to hear through the door. “You alright?”

“Yeah,” Etho said, his attempt to calm himself down foiled. His muscles tense. Why was Zed awake? Why was he all the way over here in the middle of the night?

“Okay,” Zed calls. “I just heard you whimpering and calling our names and stuff.” He pauses. “Can I come in?”

SHIT. “Sure,” Etho says, because there’s no way to stop Zed anyway. They’re sleeping in his base tonight, and even if Etho claims his own corner he’s still in another domain. The door creaks open, and Etho instinctively braces to be berated.

The bed dips gently, and a gentle, calloused hand strokes Etho’s sweaty hair. “You were crying,” Zed says, and Etho realizes it’s true. He hastily wipes away his mostly dried tears.

“It’s no big deal,” he says quickly. “I’m sorry if I woke you, I just had a bad dream-”

“There’s nothing to be sorry for,” Zed chuckled.

“Sorry,” Etho says again.

“You really are Canadian,” Zed jokes. “But seriously, I’m not mad. Do you want to tell me about it?”

Etho sighed. He wasn’t getting out of this, it seemed. “I dreamed the server started, like, falling apart. Into the void. I was looking for you and Tango and Impulse, but I couldn’t find you and the world was breaking behind me. I... that’s probably why you heard me calling your names.”

“Sounds scary,” Zed says quietly. Etho leans on his shoulder, his breathing already calmed.

“Yeah. I guess it was.”

Zed’s thumb strokes over his hand. “You know, you can always come sleep with Impulse and Tango and me if you want.”

Etho knows. He knows they love him, and would never hurt him. Beef said he’d never hurt you, either. But if he stays away, there’s less of a chance of them getting mad. They can’t claim he belongs to them if he keeps his distance. “No thanks,” he says. “But, uh, thanks.”

“No problem. Tell us if you change your mind.” Zed kisses Etho on the head, loosely tucks him in, and leaves. The light outside clicks off, and for some reason, Etho wants to cry again.

[hmshermitcraft]

(beef abuse saga :) ) etho struggled with a lot, even when he joined the polycule of team ZIT, he panicked the first time he messed something up and had ran upstairs to hide in his room, curled up into himself and guarding his head as if he was afraid of being hit, zed is the first one to find etho and rushes to help him calm down

Etho is shocked to hear Zed isn’t mad. He’s even more shocked when he realizes, eventually, that even if he was, he wouldn’t stop loving him.

[hmshermitcraft]

i do want another one- if its okay with you (the nightmare ask)

Eventually, Etho starts sleeping in the same bed as team ZIT. Instead of feeling trapped by their bodies, he feels protected. But one night, he wakes up blearily. It’s midnight, and in the dark his half-asleep mind confuses Impulse’s chest for Beef’s.

The others are pretty shocked, to say the least, when they wake up to Etho frantically struggling to get out of their arms. They let him go, of course, and Etho nearly bolts out of the room before his mind catches up with his body. He still at the door, blinks, then turns back around. He looks almost embarrassed.

“Sorry, guys,” he says, obviously more awake than they are. “I... I guess I had a bad dream or something.

Tango, who had gotten himself tangled in the covers in his confusion, sits up. “There’s no murderer?” he jokes, before realizing what the dream must have been about. “Come back to bed, dude. It’s late. You need your rest.”

“Yeah,” Impulse says behind him. He knows better than to put his hand on Etho’s shoulder, though it’s his first instinct. 

“Do you want me to set you up on the couch?” Zedaph asks, but Etho shakes his head. 

“Nah, I’m better now.” It’s half lie, half truth. His heart is still pounding, the most primitive part of his brain still telling him to run before his mates hurt him again. But he also recognizes how far he’s come as he asks his boyfriends to get back into bed with them. 

Zedaph’s arms wrap around him as Etho lies down, and he buries his face in Impulse’s chest again because he isn’t Beef. Tango slings his hand carelessly over Impulse’s waist, and it falls on Etho’s hip, much smaller than the hands that hurt him. He’s safe here. He’s safe. He will always be safe here, he tries to convince himself, and although he doesn’t quite believe it, it’s enough to lull him back to sleep.

[hmshermitcraft]

etho.. isnt to big on touch, so the day after he lets team ZIT see his face, he hugs impulse, holds zed's hand, and kisses tangos cheek. it kinda breaks team zit, and the moment after tangos cheek is kissed, he has to hold himself back from bear-hug tackling etho with his love

When Tango, Zed, or Impulse want to hug Etho, they hold their arms wide open. At first, he’d only give them a quick squeeze or pat their arms, but eventually he started running into their arms like they were home.

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etho after a year or two of dating team ZIT, becomes very clingy. he normally latches to impulses back, holds zed's hand and walks everywhere with him, just... hangs off of tangos arm

Tango has built a mechanical arm to supplement his compromised one, because like hell he’s gonna make Etho leave.