#skulk pix

[convexicalcrow]

the skulk cub hyperfixation is so bad i spent the past three days teaching myself davinci resolve so i could bring this vision to life you're welcome

song: if eternity should fail - iron maiden clips/audio taken from: shubble - new life ep 4 cub - hc9 eps 23, 43, 46, 47, 48, 109, 110 thunder sfx from pixabay

[convexicalcrow]

Oh this is great! :D I never found the space to write Pix getting corrupted into Fog, but I can def see it happening like this. Well done, op! <3

Spread The Darkness

Summary: Pix had hoped that he could save Cub from the skulk, but it seems this corruption is farther than he knew. He didn’t expect to be running from the other, heart racing in his chest… but here he was. The skulk on the ground sticking to his boots with the other hot on his heels. Notes: Cub/Pix… if you squint. I have ideas about this Skulk, might do one for DSMP later if you guys want. Warnings: Corruption, Possession, Mind Control, etc…  Mentions: @convexicalcrow

I low key read your Fog AU idea, and got inspired, so yeah… go read their work guys.

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[floweroflaurelin]

~Chill Minecraft Tunes to Write Your Archaeology Thesis To~

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Thanks so much for your help in populating Pix’s office! This is one of the more involved shots from the animatic I’ve been working on and I wanted to pack it with as many details as possible. Any suggestions that didn’t make it into this shot will probably end up in the one set in the Museum!

I painted most of this in the airport on my way to meet up in person with the other mods of @mcytblrsexymen — spent a weekend touring museums and hanging out with @/theminecraftbee, @/magicalmanhattanproject, and like a dozen more tumblr friends and mutuals 😆 It was my first time in the USA! I got my purse stolen and lost all my IDs and money and my epipen! (My first mistake was being too gay in the Smashburger, it’s a long story. It’s okay though, I’m getting things replaced now that I’m back in Canada ✨🇨🇦)

But yeah, I had a ton of fun on the trip and on this painting! Peek under the cut for a full list of the all the Pixlriffs-related Easter eggs I crammed in :P

Easter eggs:

- His classic striped jumper

- Singing fish that’s a cod

- Neptune the ghost cat

- Candle from the Vigil

- Mezalean urn

- Skulk sample that’s escaped containment

- Winchester figurine

- Toy Sheriff

- Lizzie’s Ocean Orb

- Four blue books in his stripes’ pattern

- Survival Guides vol. 1 through 3 on the shelf

- Currently hidden behind him is a framed selfie of ZloyXP

- History and Law degrees on the wall

- Diamond pickaxe

- The guitar from his stream background

- My Saint Pearl painting ^_^

- Copper lamp

- Mug of tea

- Celery growing on the desk (reference to his partner)

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Also one more bonus for you, I made my own sexyman merch to wear on the trip because, as the designer, I have that power ;)

Photo taken by @/antimony-medusa 📸

[rhapsoddity]

Hi do you have a list of what everyone’s powers are? And whose a villain/hero/vigilant?

I'll list hybrids as well BC sometimes hybrid status can affect powers lol

It's been a hot minute since I last listed these out lol some I've tweaked

HEROES

Stratos - Super strength, flight

Sanctuary - plant growth / manipulation

Cuteguy - Avian hybrid - Energy constructs (weapons), flight (avian)

Hotguy - Vex hybrid - enhanced aim, gliding (vex), minor memory manipulation (vex)

Xisumavoid - pocket dimension (void)

Pyrolisk - Pyrokenisis

Dippledop - Electrokenisis

Skizzleman - Healing

VIGILANTES

The Sheriff - avian hybrid - understands animals / animals understand him

Hex - Levitation / telekinesis

Huntress - moobloom hybrid - Super strength

Apollo - light and darkness manipulation

Orion - power mimicry

Evil x - Powerless

Wormman - Powerless

VILLAINS

Spectrum - Colour manipulation

Owenge - llama hybrid - Colour manipulation (orange only)

Hephaestus - Enhanced hearing, night vision

The Kraken - hydrokenisis

Styx - vex hybrid - minor charmspeak (vex), infected by skulk

Helsknight - Pyrokenisis

CIVILIANS

Mayor Lizzie - cat hybrid - powerless

Ariana Grande - Avian hybrid - Energy constructs (weapons)

Hermes - Electrokenisis

Eddie - Rabbit hybrid

Gem - enhanced hearing

Pix - powerless

Zedaph - powerless

Xornoth - Mind control

[amethystfairy1]

Questions for TTSBC you're up for it :3

What last name does the avian trio use? We know Oli & Sausage use Riffs 'cause Pix is their legal guardian so would they use Doc & Etho's last name(s) assuming they have one?

2. What are all the species-specific traits of hybrids/mutants? We know avians can manipulate weight 'cause of False and blazeborns can manipulate heat to an extent, but what about the rest of the species we've met or seen?

Thank you! :D

Meanwhile at the University Architecture Department

"So, who did you get for Architecture History?"

"Professor Goodtimes! And you're taking Structures right? With who?"

"Professor Slab."

...

Doc never had a surname because he came through the wardship program, so there was really only one option.

Anyway 🤪

SPECIES SPECIFIC TRAITS!

Avians: Manipulating Weight of Objects

Blaze-borns: Manipulating heat/fire

Cat Hybrids: Speed Boosts via channeling glamor through their bodies

Dog Hybrids: Strength Boost via channeling glamor through their bodies

Voidwalkers: Teleporting and walking on walls

Bat Hybrids: Manipulating their own weight

Warden Mutants: Sonic Screams and connection to skulk and skulk-related fauna.

That's everyone I have for now! Check back in if I end up coming up with anyone else!

[cephalopod-truther]

And after all that work Joe put in to remove the catalysts in pix's area!!

walk into the fog shelby, join them >:)

[emissary-of-stuff]

So Shubble put on a glamour to hide her Skulk for the Glimmergrove Tea Party and I just remembered that Pix can see hidden Skulk with his eyes due to the Hermitcraft crossover. Just, Pix seeing through Shubble's glamour, I think that'd be a neat art thing.

[its-shells]

“There’s a joke here somewhere, you know,” fWhip says, behind him. “A goblin and a toy walk through a rift…”

Jimmy has heard the footsteps, but he is startled by his voice nonetheless, snapping to attention in that way that would’ve caused his hat to fall all funny and crooked over his eyes if he were still wearing it. He’s sitting on one of the benches by Scar’s flowerbeds, the ones that have shriekers hidden beneath them, he’d learned that one the hard way, and watching the sun as it sets over the main street of an amusement park his deputy had rambled to him about during late nights in Tumble Town. It’s strange, to see it with his own eyes when he’d half-convinced himself that Scar was making it all up, that he had nowhere to go back to and so no reason to leave. But here it is, and it is beautiful. How Jimmy misses having reasons to fault people for things.

“‘M not a toy,” he says after a pause, lazily. FWhip hops over the bench and settles down next to him, blue hoodie and ginger hair and Jellie ears headband and all. Jimmy really wants to say he looks unfamiliar.

“Well, not here you aren’t,” fWhip shrugs, giving him a once-over. “Wonder why. Seriously, this server has dwarfs, and slimes, and everything… wonder what it’s got against my ears.”

“Is it weird?” Jimmy asks, half to carry on the conversation, half because he’s curious. It stopped being weird for him approximately ten minutes in, but that’s because he’d never really gotten used to the whole – cotton in his lungs, a foot or so away from the ground thing. That wasn’t him, not really, just a joke taken too far in a world that doesn’t understand jokes. But fWhip is a goblin, proudly, he collects gold and lives in caves and stuff. FWhip is a goblin, except when he is a human, apparently. Does this server also not understand jokes? Or does it understand them too well?

FWhip shrugs again. “Not really,” he says, honestly, as far as Jimmy can tell. “I mostly forget when I’m not around mirrors. I mean, I’m a bit taller, and when I raise my arms, they’re not–“ he squints and lifts a hand to cover the setting sun in front of them – “green, but for the most part, it’s alright.” He chuckles. “Maybe that’s weird.”

“Maybe.”

“Is it weird for you?”

“Nope.”

“Figures.” FWhip shifts slightly on the bench. Jimmy isn’t looking at him, but he catches the sidelong glance thrown his way. “You like it?”

“The server? It’s got pretty builds.”

It wasn’t a question about the server, and they both know it, but fWhip doesn’t deign to correct him. Jimmy inclines his head slightly, inspecting the cobblestone pavement beneath his feet. It reaches just up to the edge of the bench and no further, because Scar built it, and Scar is nothing if not detail-oriented. When terraforming, at least.

FWhip is staying in his hotel, just off of main street. Personal invitation, he hears. Jimmy is… well, he might build his own place.  

Or go live with Grian, but that’s, like, the last resort. The man is living in a giant rock. Jimmy has standards.

“The rift is open, you know,” fWhip says. “Everyone might just decide to go back soon.”

They might. Though they probably won’t – they’ve never been anything less than a curious bunch, to their own detriment, and Jimmy knows for a fact that at least two of their friends are still carrying a grudge about all that skulk under their bases, even if Pix had offered to clean it out (for them, not for him yet.) It’s prime time to plot in retaliation, or maybe to take part in whatever Christmas plans the hermits are whispering to each other about through chat, Pearl and Grian off to build a sleigh that will undoubtedly look as beautiful as anything they’ve ever touched. Jimmy wonders what Christmas is like on here.

“I doubt it,” he says. “I mean, an eye for an eye, right? We have to get revenge for the inconvenience.”

The inconvenience of him getting an entire villager trading hall, or of fWhip getting an entire minecart system between the segments of his base. The inconvenience of farms, more efficient than anything they’ve ever built themselves, and of sorted inventories, and of a colourful hat, and laughter.

The inconvenience of a killer robot, he reminds himself. Stuff’s fair, actually.

“That we do,” fWhip agrees. “But at least it’s open, so we’re not stuck. Think it’ll put us back to how we ought to be?”

Jimmy watches the sun set over the horizon, and says nothing.

[theminecraftbee]

it is so perfect that Pix is the first one having to deal with the scale of Cubs skulk shenanigans. Cause pix is the recap guy. He KNOWS cubs chaotic tendencies and joes way of doing things. BUT NOT IN PERSON. Its one thing to talk about "Joe Hills poured lava over Grians base, leaving poetic threatening signs, while narrating with a xylophone" and another to come to Joe Hills digging up his base and meticolously labeling every finding.

it’s one thing to have covered their civil war shenanigans, right, to have witnessed it in the abstract happen to someone else. haha cub is building drones and instigating further conflict. haha joe is building a parthenon. it’s one thing to have covered their respective demise shenanigans. haha cub is building the most terrifying elaborate traps. haha joe is live-streaming his slow loss of sanity as he escapes death.

it’s one thing to have covered these things.

it is another thing entirely to be suddenly living these things,

[thesoupbird]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN @dont-doubt-dopple! [for @mcyt-halloween gift exchange!]

it's not that creepy but i hope you like it!

have some empires x tma headcannon ramblings, on the house :D (tma spoliers, of course)

e2!pix became an avatar of the eye sometime before the events of the season 2, but not long enough to truly understand his connection to the eye

his knowledge of the world of season 2 is mostly his own, but he knows about previous season because of the eye. both seasons are dimensions the entities traveled to after the events of episode 200

skulk is a manifestation of the corruption. skulk affects great witch shelby in a similar way that the ghost bullet affected melanie. being cured of skulk definitely helped shelby, but it continued to affect her throughout her life. katherine helped shelby through it. also they got married after witchcraft!!! they have a daughter!!!

anyway, hope you enjoyed :]

[convexicalcrow]

Physically, Cub was fine. He wasn't infested with skulk or anything else for that matter. (Wait. You can get infested with skulk? How can you get infested with skulk?) Mostly, he felt… fine? Indeed, they'd decamped from the mansion and gone back to Hermitopia because the priests saw no reason to keep Cub there any longer as he posed no danger to anyone. Well, no more danger than normal, of course.

The problem was Cub still didn't really remember anything beyond moving into Scar's treehouse, and even then, he couldn't tell anyone how long ago that had been. He vaguely accepted that all the skulk he'd helped clean up was his fault, and he was fine with that, but he just didn't remember doing any of that. He didn't even know why he was on another server, apparently. Everything was just gone from his mind.

His dreams had been… dissonant. Voices he couldn't understand, faces he couldn't see, places he didn't recognise. So he just… stopped sleeping. And he was fine. He busied himself with the skulk cleaning and anything else the Hermits might want from him, and got used to dealing with the amnesia. It's not like he hadn't lost periods of time before when the Vex took him, though it didn't seem to have ever been as long as this.

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It was the stench of skulk that False smelt first, though she easily caught sight of Pixlriffs after that as he seemed to eye her in a dangerous way as she approached the catacombs. She drew her sword, though whether it would help, she didn't know. If skulk infestations were simple enough to cure by murder, Cub wouldn't have needed to go through so many rituals and spells to clear his.

Perhaps coming here at night was unwise, too. It made it harder to see the full extent of the skulk that now spread everywhere around Pix's builds. It was halfway up the side of the statue as well.

"Pix? I-I just want to talk. About the skulk. Is that okay?" False said as she took a couple more steps forward.

"Of course. Come closer, False, we can't speak when we're so far away," Pix said, his voice definitely different enough to send chills down False's spine.

She didn't have time to figure out what had happened before a long skulk vein shot out at her and grabbed her around her torso before dragging her closer to Pix, too close. She could smell the skulk on him, and see how his eyes glowed, possessed by an ancient power.

"Yes, that's better. Don't want to make you shout if you don't need to. I saw the sword. I'm taking precautions," Pix said.

God, his voice sounded awful. That same dark, creepy, half-deluded voice Cub had when he was possessed. False shivered as Pix touched her cheek with a finger, his smile twisted and awful. The veins tightened. False would struggle to escape from this unless she managed to shock him into letting her go.

"Not that a sword will do you any good, of course. We are not so easily killed, as you well know," Pix said.

"I-I mean, I am just good with a sword, that's all, it's just instinct, sorry," False said.

"Lies. You are Vex. I smell it on you. Here to spy on me, hey? Here to administer your poisons? Ha! I think not. You'll stay far away from me if you know what's good for you," Pix said.

Before False could reply, she was flung backwards and up into the air, long enough for her to get over the shock and deploy her wings before she crashed into the ground. The smell of skulk followed her home and she buried herself in the ground near the tower until the fear wore off.

-

"It's not that I don't trust you and your memories, Scar, but you don't always remember things right, that's all I'm saying," Cub said, sitting on top of the Hermitopia tower gazing up at the night sky with Scar.

"I know, I know. I guess I'm just sad you've lost so much this time. You really don't remember anything beyond the basement? You just remember moving in and now this?" Scar said.

Cub thought for a moment. "I remember… Yes. I remember moving in. And building something down there, though all I can see are glowberries and deepslate so I have no idea what I did, just that there's something down there that I built. After that, waking up in the mansion with your face gazing down at me. That's literally it. I don't remember anything else."

"Oh, you've lost so much! Oh no! That skulk ate my best friend! Oh, Cub. I wish I could give all those memories back. We had so much fun together. God, you don't even remember Total Chaos, do you?"

"The name rings a bell, but I dunno, I'm not sure I remember anything specific," Cub said. He shrugged. "It's not like I don't have any other blackouts in my mind, and you do too. I've learned to live with them."

"Yeah, I know, but like, it's so much! It's so much time you've lost! Oh, I think I'm grieving for you, because now all our memories are just mine, and not ones I share with you. Oh, man, Cub. If I knew this skulk thing was gonna eat so much of your brain, I'd have dragged you off to the priests sooner!" Scar said.

Cub lay back, losing himself in the vastness of the stars. "Yeah, maybe. I dunno."

Scar lay down beside him and reached for his hand. "I'm gonna destroy all the skulk on this server for taking so much of you away from me. Oh, if it thinks the Vex were angry before, ohoho, it hasn't met my anger yet. I will burn it all in the pits of hell and desecrate every ancient city until no trace of skulk remains. That is a promise."

-

"Hey, have either of you seen Pix anywhere? I feel like I haven't seen him for days," False said as she found Scar and Cub cleaning up yet more skulk that had appeared around the base of the tower, though at least they were sure this wasn't Cub's fault this time.

"Oh, he was meant to be skulkified, right? And he's gone? Maybe the skulk ate him instead," Scar said, less than helpfully.

"No, I've seen him log in and off, but I haven't seen him. And there's been more skulk around. He's definitely been doing something. He has appeared to be afk a lot though. Maybe he's at that nether farm of his?" Cub said. "Someone told me he had a farm there."

"Oh, it's for froglights, I think. Hmm. Maybe I'll go check there. Do let me know if you see him, though. I did… look, I might have run into him a few days ago and he nearly killed me when I tried to confront him about the skulk so I've stayed away. I think we need to cure him. Then maybe all this will be over," False said.

"Time to mobilise the Vex, hey?" Scar said.

"It might be time, yes. They're still on board, right? With the cures?" False said.

"As far as I know, yes. They're still angry, False. That infestation desecrated a Holy Vessel. This cannot go unpunished and you know it," Scar said.

"Angry enough to cure something from causing more harm to the players here, that says a lot, hey?" Cub mused.

"Oh you don't know the half of it. Do you want us to come help you look for Pixl? He does seem to be online, but I don't know where he is," Scar said.

"Why don't you two check the nether farm and I'll check the capital? If he's not there, we'll have to look further," False said.

"Sure, sounds good to me, right Cub?" Scar said.

"Sure, sure. I'm up for it," Cub said.

"Let me know if you find anything. I'll check back in later," False said. She had turned and flown off before Cub and Scar could reply.

-

Cub and Scar were lost. In the nether proper. They'd gone through the wrong portal somehow and now they were in a warped forest somewhere with no signs of life anywhere around them.

"You know, we really should have just gone back into the portal once we saw it was the wrong one," Cub said. "Maybe ask for coords?"

Scar frowned at the tree in front of him. "I know, I know! Look! I thought I knew where to go from here, but apparently not!" He sighed. "And of course you have no idea where to go either, so I guess we're stuck."

"'Scar and I lost in the nether. Anyone around to help?'" Cub said, as he typed the message into chat. "Didn't want to give away what we were doing in case Pix sees it."

"Ahh yes, of course. Very good. At least that part of your brain still works!" Scar said, unsure he'd have thought of that.

"Oh, Impulse saw it already. Wants to know our coords." Cub checked. "Man, how did we get 3000 blocks away? We are really off course now, aren't we? Man. I'll send them to Impulse and see what he says."

"Look, we took a wrong turn and then we clearly flew around in circles for too long, that's all," Scar said. "I'm sure Impulse will be able to find us. He's good at this kind of thing!"

Cub laughed. "Yeah, yeah, he is. Hang on, he says he's on it. Not sure if he's coming to find us, or has something else in mind, but I guess we just stay here until told otherwise, yeah?"

"I guess so! Oh-oh, no, piggies! The big meanie ones! Run!" Scar said as a hoglin caught sight of them and started charging at them.

"You go, I got this!" Cub said, grabbing some blocks as he pulled out a giant axe he didn't remember getting.

Scar dug himself into the wall while Cub did the fighting. He felt he went into autopilot mode, his instincts kicking in as he towered up a few blocks to get out of the way and swiped at the beast until it was dead.

"It's safe now, Scar, come on out!" Cub said as he jumped off the small tower. "Maybe we should build a small shelter to keep the pigs away."

Scar stuck his head out of the one block hole he'd dug. "Or you can come in here with me! Still safe!"

"Yeah, but how's Impulse gonna find us if we're stuck in a wall?" Cub said as he walked over to join him anyway.

"He's a smart boy, he'll find us!" Scar said cheerfully as he blocked up the entrance and started digging out a slightly bigger space as Cub placed a torch on the wall. "And now we wait!"

[insomniaruler]

Making my hyperfixations intersect bc I can!

Soooo….. some of the emperors and the Fear I think they’d serve

Scott

S1: The Lonely

- based mostly on aesthetic

- the cold

- died alone

- all his relationships failed kinda-

- rich (was a king)

S2: The Spiral

- once again based on aesthetics alone

- shifting colours

- two tone eyes

- just ✨appears✨

- kinda tragic if you want him to be (like Micheal:()

- gay

Shubble

S1: The Corruption (maybe the End)

- mushrooms and assorted fungi

- once again fucking tragic :(

- spread Xornoth’s corruption

S2: The Hunt (maybe the dark)

- Skulk-by Skulk-by Skulk-by

- easily angered

- seems normal at first

- took her shirt off <3

- lesbians

- in love with their gf / would kill for their partner

Jimmy:

S1: The Vast (or the Lonely)

- the ocean = the vast

- left everything and everyone behind = the lonely

- skrunkly little shit

- weird

- gets killed easily

S2: the End (maybe the Web)

- hnnngggg deaths canary goes brrrrrrr

- get’s killed a lot

- uh- mostly chose bc of the Canary Curse

- The Web because of the Watchers :P

Joel

S1: The Spiral

- colours <3

- was called the mad king

- lost everything because of a couple of decisions outside of his control :(

S2: the web (the stranger has a toe in the door

- mostly because of ‘Fear of change’ because of the fan theory that S1 = S2 joel

- the web because yknow, God

- also puppet Jimmy with Joel at the strings

Pix

S1: The Eye (or the end tbh)

- saw deaths come and go

- smart

- curious

- not much physical strength

- sarcastic

- Seemed to know things he shouldn’t have

- has the capacity for lots of violence (Phantom Assassin)

S2: The Web

- the lore man™️

- Seems to always have a hand in everything

- lots of spiders in the catacombs?



Lizzie

S1: The Vast (maybe the Lonely)

- the ocean

- ate a bit of the ocean = the sky ate my son ?

- alone out there on the ocean

- lots of boats

- almost scary?

S2: The Flesh (maybe not 100 on this one)

- animal

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Fwhip (right off the bat The Eye because Admin)

S1: the Desolation

- haha funny explody man

- explosions are his jam

- burned his life to the ground

S2: The Buried

- lives underground

- uhhh- affiliated w death bc of Jimmy?

- funky

- can be ignored by sheer force of will alone (Joshua Gillespie my beloved)

[confusion-doodle]

obsessed with, dimension hopping, high tech archeologst, pix going to each empire and explaining his hologram skulk sensing tech in a way each empire can handle, magical eyes, magical glasses, magical music, godly gifts, so they are comfortable with his high tech in their medival fantasy land

[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

[legally-allowed-to-slime]

can you imagine the emperors in hermitcraft.

The moment they arrive, they’re confronted by a giant grumbot, and the hermits have to lend them elytra so they can fly out. The hermit False was extra careful to come through the rift earlier, and has already frantically flown off.

The enperors are used to colourful buildings and large palaces in the sky, and one of the best builders on hermitcraft explaining that his base is a bunch of rocks puzzles them. Seeing the skulk-covered rock, Pix, Shelby, and e!False exchange glances.

Flying over to spawn, they see various remnants of pranks that have both Jimmy and Joel’s minds turning.

XB and Beef welcome them with various resources spilling out of their pockets, not stolen and rightfully theirs, they assure the sceptical hermits and bemused emperors.

Imagine them looking at the Perimeter. The Soup Group’s team base. Scar’s theme park.

The Ren statue is introduced by Ren very slowly and sheepishly explaining to the others the story behind it.

The emperors find out that no one cares about emeralds here. Pix is subsequently wailing at the copious amounts of emerald ore in their mines.

tldr I love crossovers let’s do more of it

[spacetrashpile]

ok for a moment would you all please indulge my deranged empires ramblings.

so in sausage’s 3/13 stream, there was a moment where he was in the mirror dimension looking at what was left behind when blood sausage pulled the tower into the empires s2 world. the blood pit was still there, and slowly being covered in skulk. while sausage was looking at it, there was an invisible creature in it who’s particles he noticed and who he demanded show themselves. he was then attacked by phantoms and ran off.

when i first watched the stream, i had shitty headphones on, so i didn’t hear the later very obvious wandering trader noises. so while it definitely was a wandering trader, i didn’t notice it at first, and it seems like sausage didn’t either?

so while rotating that whole stream in my head, i was rotating who or what the invisible person could’ve been. obviously it wasn’t INTENDED to be a person, but i’m considering: what if it becomes a person?

and if it were to end up being a person, who could it be?

while it could be an npc, i want to toss in the idea of there still being an emperor left behind in the mirror dimension.

as we learned from later in the stream, when blood sausage sent sausage to a very small mirror dimension of sanctuary, prison/mirror dimensions only extend so far, leaving a flat and featureless expanse of land where the spell doesn’t cover. the mirror dimension gem made for sausage is clearly much larger than the one blood sausage made, as we know from the end of s1 it extends to at least rivendell. this would also explain why blood sausage had so much more trouble escaping, but the dimension has to stop at some point.

we also learned from that later portion of the stream that these mirror dimensions can have copies of the people who were in the real dimension. this was already heavily implied from the end of s1 and blood sausage mentioning that he had killed “everyone” in his dimension, but now it’s clearly confirmed. so this, at least to me, leaves the possibility that mirrors of the emperors existed here.

so, indulge me. imagine that sausage makes that trader into a person, or even just imagine a situation in which they were a person all along. which emperor could it be?

there are two requirements here, for me. 1. it would have to be someone who could’ve slipped blood sausage’s mind for quite a while, at least until he successfully got distracted by the knowledge that sausage was again alive and dimension hopping. 2. the person couldn’t live too close to mythland, or anywhere else, really, because that runs the risk of blood sausage walking into their empire one day and realizing he never killed the guy in charge.

this easily takes most of the server off the table. the twins are gone, because we know blood sausage hates them the most. there's no way they escape him for this long. scott is also a no go, because if xornoth is, as is so heavily implied, dead, then so is scott. everyone close by is also off the table (jimmy, shrub, joey, and katherine). pearl is a complicated one, because there’s no reason he wouldn’t have killed her, but he also outright said they’d never dueled. perhaps he killed her in some other way, or he just meant they didn’t duel on this specific server? idk, this is all hypothetical anyways.

so this leaves the three furthest empires: the ocean kingdom, mezalea, and pixandria. i doubt blood sausage could’ve ever forgotten the ocean queen, what with her being jimmy’s brother, and how magnificent her kingdom was. and if he ever went there, mezalea is literally right there too, and joel would be unable to escape his notice either.

and that leaves just pixandria. the gap between pixandria and the ocean isn’t huge, i’ll be honest, but i think it could’ve been enough to successfully dissuade blood sausage from going looking, especially because he didn’t seem to care much as much about pix as some of the other emperors.

if anyone could’ve escaped his notice for the last 1,000 years, it would be king of life and death himself, pix. pix and sausage never had a good relationship, even outside of the evil thing, so sausage demanding he show himself, if strange enough already, especially when pix has no way to prove that’s not the man who’s been haunting down every living thing he finds for the last millennium.

to tie it into what’s actually happening in cannon, pix has ties to both wandering traders and the phantoms that drove sausage away. and going further, the thing that finally allowed blood sausage to break through was a ritual that sausage performed with candles taken from the vigil, pix’s life work. (what the hell is up with that, by the way??)

look this is just me ranting, i know, but please just imagine it all for a moment. imagine pix, so closely tied to death for his entire series, being the last man alive, with the ever present knowledge that he’s one wrong step away from death. imagine the last candles he ever placed in the vigil for each of his friends. imagine him, huddled up against the wall in a pit full of blood and skulk, praying the invisibility holds, as a man with the face of someone he thought he might’ve known, once upon a time, demands he show himself. imagine it with me.