#skulk cub

[convexicalcrow]

come back skulk Cub my beloved come back

[characcoon]

The Cubster the guy ever, in his Chapter 15 fit.

"Living a Red Life" - Chapter 15 - "The Consequences of being a Good Listener"

Idk if I'm ever diving deeper into the Vex lore I cooked up because. I been doing so much shit in this story already LMAO but I do enjoy the idea that the Vex wings are upside down, inspired by Morgana's neck wings.

Why does Scar has pseudo-wings, you might ask. That's the part where idk if I write about or not. Maybe on a separate work, but for now: Cub is a Vex cursed by the Skulk. Scar is an elf cursed by the Vex. It's different vkdkfkdkf

[frozenjokes]

Cubscarian but if they become alter egos...

Sculk!cub would just be those uncles that works in a black Market or something selling sculk and he's like "yuhhh come here and have a bag of sculk.... Yuhh spread th souls and spread the sculk" (worse case scenario it's vex anr just spreading vex magic with scar)

Grian is just WATCHING WATCHING WATCHING

I was going to draw a comic for this but 1) I am having a small wrist flare up and 2) I’m choosing kindness because it would have to be Long and I don’t care so instead you’re getting an elsa approved famous Long Answer 👍

This did make me have ideas. Skulk Cub (and Grian) already happened as skulk sickness is canon to the universe and acts a lot like a very contagious infection. If you’re interested in the specifics you can read Without Thorns where all this is explained, but the jist is this.

however

there have been no vex mentions or anything in any of the fics as it just hasn’t really come up, and given that scar and cub really only met properly when the fics begin, there would be no history. But this could certainly change! You can probably tell by the sheer amount of cubscar on my blog that I Like Convex. Cub and Scar can get a little possessed….. as a treat… me when the bestie and I find funny masks with an odd cryptic engraving above them so the first thing we do is put them on and kiss with tongue and uh oh. we aren’t alone in our bodies anymore! I actually am a huge fan of possession/losing control of your body as an angst thing but none of this would be angst it would be peak Silly because cub and scar are going to walk their asses home with their silly little wings and their silly little masks and their silly little maniacal laughs and scar will say hi Grian! I’ve developed a taste for human flesh! and Grian isn’t going to look up. but then cub and scar are going to start Evil Laughing at fucking nothing and Grian is going to:

wh. hey. wait one fucking second.

Grian had an extremely bad time during the duration of Cub’s skulk sickness. Not only was Cub galavanting across the countryside spreads sickness and generally just disappearing for hours-days at the time, he was super dying, and trying to stop someone who won’t listen to sense who is also super dying from skulk sickness is a bit of a stressful endeavor, really.

he won’t take this well. But as a new man with better coping skills, he is going to march his ass to Mumbo’s apartment and get support from his other friends like a stable and healthy adult 👍 that is. Until Mumbo makes a joke about Grian simply getting back at them by getting possessed himself. Then he gets the brain worms. Then NO ONE can stop him from doing something incredibly stupid! so mycelium, huh? how do we feel about mycelium.

cue two chaos causing maniacs (one of which is a MAJOR problem being that he is hOtgUy) feuding with one incredibly pissy shit stirrer (again, MAJOR ISSUE given that he is a celebrity) duking it out using the city as a playground, and if we’re being honest, probably having the time of their lives.

mumbo probably saves the day somehow. then they all kiss. cumscarian win or whatever.

all of this ends with a mother spore induced gender crisis and Grian starts using she/him pronouns as god fucking intended. happy hermitcrafting!

[aquinnix]

He couldn't breathe. Each desperate inhalation got caught in his throat, forced out, burning, long before it could make it to his lungs. The saliva in his mouth had gone thick, sweet and warm and salty. More, faster. Each step pounded sharply against the ground, ricocheting up into his bones, slightly off beat with his heart. Thump step thump step. Each sound throbbed his ears, pressing against his skull. It echoed and rang, twigs and stone and dirt. 

Pain, suddenly he was on the ground, face scraping against the earth, palms and knees screaming. Up. Again. Feet under. Go. He was seeing spots now, every movement aching and searing. 

His body was refusing to go. 

But his mind wouldn’t give up so easily. 

Crawling, dragging, anything, just away. Then he could hear breathing. Breathing that was not his own. It was slow, rugged. It was above him. 

“You didn’t think you would get away that easily did you?"

A hand came and grabbed at his hair, pulling him up off the ground. 

“It needs to spread.” 

The world got colder. And darker. And it pulsed. And it spoke. And it fed.

[rhapsoddity]

Don't resist the skulk and I'm sureee it'll be fine

He just wants to unite everyone after all, once you join the skulk hoards you'll never want to leave <3

[elodee]

HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 13

Cubfan135 x Courage the Cowardly Dog

For Cubfan I picked Courage the Cowardly Dog! Courage has an unusually high mad scientist per capita so I wanted to do either Cub, Doc or Zed in this style. I chose Cub because a scientist creating talking horns that mimic people and end up terrorizing a neighborhood sounds like something that would happen on the show.

To learn more about Courage the Cowardly Dog and see my style references, continue below the cut.

Courage the Cowardly Dog was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid, which probably explains more about me than I'd like to admit. It's a comedy-horror with a lot of genuinely disturbing and surreal moments.

The show is technically safe for everyone, but anyone who watches it will be altered forever by the Return the Slab guy. If you know you know.

The show centers around a little pink dog named Courage who lives with an elderly couple, Muriel and Eustace Bagge, in a farmhouse outside of the town of Nowhere. They are also figuratively in the middle of nowhere. Courage is scared of everything, but constantly thrown into life or death situations where he needs to save his family from often supernatural threats that just show up for some reason.

The visuals of the show are creepy and at times even upsetting, but the stories are nearly always about how Courage overcomes his fear out of love for his family (Muriel specifically). The show has a lot of different visual styles and even uses different kinds of animation, but for Cub I designed him in the style you would typically see in recurring characters. Style references:

The characters in courage usually have large heads and spindly limbs. The settings often look aged and discolored.

For Cubs shape and features I pulled a lot of influence from Freaky Fred, who is a barber with severe serial killer vibes that I think might be a Sweeney Todd reference. I didn't want Cub to be that scary, though, so I gave him a normal smile.

One of the Courage the Cowardly Dog TV logos

[unnamed-atlas]

Not cub inventing the minecraft equivalent of the printing press and immediately deciding to use it with the purpose of creating false scarcity lmao

[idontparticularlyliketoast]

hgcz spoilers

How did you do it. How did you make me gasp in joy at the apperance of a maple leaf?

Seriously though, this zine has so much love put into it. All the side characters clearly had love put into them, and made me want more of this world even though there was so much already! There were so many amazing little hints of other stories happening in Hermitopia between or behind the scenes: Ren's transformation from hero enthusiast to classic dethroned King. Stress and Iskall being very unlucky shopowners who decide to take superheroism into their own hands. Joe Hills Villiany. Reformed Supervillian Tango. Keralis being a small-time theif who has history with Agent V (why is his name Vincent Burger. Vintage Beef= Vincent Burger. amazing.) MAPLE PRINCE ETHO. I WILL NEVER STOP LOSING IT OVER MAPLE PRINCE ETHO.

(Also. I cannot fucking belive Jimmy died first. I'm glad he got better, cause Imma be honest I laughed slightly too hard at that. In every universe he is ratio'd. Glad you got that regeneration mutation buddy youre going to need it. )

[nix-writes-mcyt]

I saw that you opened requests and I just had to send this in!

I've requested this before to someone else but I love seeing others interpretations, feel free to ignore :]]

Can I get something with Sculk! CubFan? Maybe just some fluff with the reader being concerned for his health with all the Sculk over his body. I'm so normal about Sculk Cub I swear.

Honestly.. I'm normal about Cub too. I promise. 100% normal. Yep... Anyway, this was fun. It was really refreshing to write and I hope you enjoy it!

Come Home

Oneshot Contains: Spooky setting, fluff --------------------

Rain pummels the small umbrella you hold over your head. You've somehow managed to not get entirely soaked through, which is what you'd expected. That's the one thing you're grateful for right now.

Hurriedly, you make your way towards the museum. You hadn't wanted to go out today, not in this weather, but an emergency tip had made up your mind.

The tip concerned your partner, who you haven't seen in some time. He's been busy collecting things to go in the museum. You know better than to distract him from projects.

The two of you have still been speaking through your communicators, but from the sounds of things Cub has been hiding from you.

As you reach the bottom steps of the museum thunder cracks nearby. You roll your eyes. Timing.

You climb the stairs and put down your umbrella before pushing open the door. Inside it's as dark as it is outside, only lit by candles.

That makes sense given so much of the power is down, but it's quite the shift from the only other time you've been in the museum.

You're used to the bright lights, the way all the displays are spotlighted. The large windows flooding the rooms with sunlight. Today those are not an option.

You carefully make your way around the museum, not wanting to break anything valuable in the dark. "Cub?" You call into the darkness, hoping he will find you first.

You're slow moving around, every crack of thunder makes you feel more tense. The candles really don't do a good job of lighting your way, but you do notice a small trail of skulk on the floor. It glitters in the darkness, lighting a path for you to follow.

You don't know where it goes, but nothing else is highlighted. It's all you have to go off of.

Through the cracks of thunder you swear you hear footsteps. "Cub?" You call again. Silence. Then thunder.

Every fiber of your being at this point is tense. Every step you take cautious. You move as silently as you can, not wanting to disturb whatever you can hear moving in the dark.

You get the feeling you're not moving quite silently enough. You stop, so do the other set of footsteps. A clap of thunder goes off somewhere nearby, followed shortly by a purple flash.

The extra light doesn't last long, but it illuminates a silhouette near the window. "Cub?" You try again, creeping that way.

As you get closer you see the figure. An armour stand. Your muscles relax, allowing you to let out a breath you didn't realise you were holding.

Your attention turns back to the glittering trail of skulk which leads you further into the museum.

The footsteps continue, you think it must be an echo. When you stop they stop, so that must be it. You wouldn't think with all the items in the museum that it would echo, but hey, what other option is there? Well.. you'd rather not think about that.

The rain seems to somehow be coming down even harder outside, the volume having increased significantly. The thunder is louder too. The storm must be right overhead now.

At this point you're unsure how far into the museum you are, what you've passed. All Your bearings are gone save for the skulk.

There is more of it now, not just one small trail but numerous that keep melting into one another.

You follow them into what seems to be a hallway, there are trails coming from illuminated rooms either side of you. This room also has no windows, and it's too dark to see what's on the walls.

Following the skulk it takes you to a door on the far left. The door is ajar, you can see the room is pitch black. Or rather you know it is because you can't see anything.

In a moment of genius you move into the room across from the dark one and take a lit candle and it's holder as to not burn your hands. Moving back into the hall you see the art now, it's possibly the least spooky thing you can think of. Hot guy merch as far as you can see.

You just shake your head and push into the darkness of the room.

There is skulk everywhere, so much of it that you can see the outline of the desk and the chair that sit in the center. "Cub?" You try once again.

The door closes behind you, the sudden movement in air flow managing to put out your only source of light.

You can feel yourself starting to panic, footsteps that definitely are not yours nor are echos of yours. Your heart races.

You see something come into view. It's skulk, that you're sure of. But you can't make out the shape. You have no idea what it is you're looking at.

"Are you there Cub?" You ask the darkness. "I'm here." He finally replies.

You're relived to know you're here with him. The sound of his voice relaxes you tremendously. You've missed it.

"Can I see you?" "No." His response is instant. "I don't want you to see me like this." You frown, not that he can see it.

"Why not?" "There was an accident. I'm not the same now. I'll scare you away." You can hear the sadness in his voice, you can feel it in yourself as well.

"Cub," your voice is soft, sympathetic almost, but loving, "there is no change that could happen to you that would scare me away. I married you for a reason." "Not for this."

"Show me, please." Cub sighs at your request. He's still soft for you, he always has been.

A spark, then a flame as he lights a single candle before you. In the low light you can still see him as he is. You realise quickly that the skulk shape that you saw moving in the dark is actually a part of Cub, where the substance has taken over his body.

"It started some time ago, just a small patch I could cover, but it grew. Xisuma and I worked on a cure as it got worse and it worked. Unfortunately we haven't found a way to reverse it." He doesn't look at you, not even near you.

You study him, other than the skulk on his skin he still looks like your Cub, sounds like him. "This is why you've not come home." You say quietly. He nods. "I didn't know if you'd still love me like this. I didn't want to return until we found a way to return me to normal."

"And if that had never happened?" You ask. He shakes his head. "That wasn't an option." Losing you, to him, was not an option. It never was. He'd have come back eventually, although you wish he hadn't gone in the first place.

The silence between the two of you is comforting, just being in each others presence enough to keep you both relaxed as thunder rumbles through the building. You know what you want, the same thing you have wanted for ages now.

"I miss having the man I married in my life. Will you come home?" You ask Cub quietly. He doesn't answer you straight away, he doesn't even look entirely sure he should be considering it.

You know you'll respect his answer regardless. If he chooses to stay here then you'll just have to come see him often, no matter how much you don't want that to happen, it's possible it will.

He sighs deeply, finally bringing himself to look you in the eye. "I'll come home."

[puppetmaster13u]

So thinkin about my Monster Hunter & Hermitcraft crossover Au.

Y'know, going through old docs and such. Adding the new mobs and all that and.

Hear me out: Sculk, right? Grows when something dies, spreads, all that?

Sculk-infested monsters.

Kulve Taroth with broken horns that bloom with shimmering stems and leaves like a horrific alien flower. Glavenus whose tail pulses with sculk like dying stars before engulfing in soulfire flame. Girros who have lost their sight, heads entwined with skulk growth as though replaced with shriekers. Brachydios with skulk that bubbles and pulses across their limbs as they stumble about.

Do you see my vision yet?

[pokewatcher20]

Local cryptid sighting

[convexicalcrow]

just a guy with... sculk on his head?

look he just had a lil accident cleaning out the firework testing chamber. it's nothing to worry about. he's Fine.

[characcoon]

"Color Theory" Chapter 8 - "The Skulk, the Night, and Water in the Dark"

There's SKULK CUB, pining, eepy cat, somft RenDoc and Subtle Character Development in this one. I love it. especially the SKULK CUB

[petrichormeraki]

Do you still have any skulk grian thoughts (that'd you like to share) or has that fixation hopped onto The Mirage (/ref)

I do! I've thought a bit more about it since the King Ren arc; basically Grian channeled ALL of his energy into messing around with skulk in order to hold strong against joining/making a resistance, and he actually got very sick because of it. Nobody really knew the extent of what skulk could do to a Player since it was relatively new and nobody was in a hurry to die and lose all their things in an ancient city, so it was absolutely on accident.

The hermits started to take note that Grian wasn't okay, so they started interacting with him more to pull him out of his cave, ie the Soup Group calling upon his help and Ren asking him to make a room for the Gauntlet. Once Ren was overthrown and Grian had been away from the skulk for a while he started to get better, and didn't regress back into it. A few deaths of leaving skulk behind and all of it was out of his system entirely, although it took a good few days (and baths) to get his wings in proper shape again.

The server for the most part now knew that skulk was dangerous, and shouldn't be tampered with long-term....until a certain mustached man who'd missed the whole thing finally got back from vacation :)c

[teslapenguini]

I am totally 100% normal about Shelby’s latest empires episode, why do you ask?

...ok they’re gone HOLY SHIT

The interaction with Joey? Shelby being terrified of what she’s just done and is doing? The stuff with Jimmy? THE SKULK????? this episode was a fucking masterpiece i love it so much but also SOMEONE GIVE THIS WITCH A FUCKING BREAK PLEASE SHE NEEDS A HUG AND SOME TIME WHERE SHE ISN’T CONSTANTLY FIGHTING FOR HER FUCKING LIFE

[rhapsoddity]

Cub... Cub isn't having a good time.

Ariana is worried about him...