Welcome To My Next Au, Boatem In The Apocalypse!

Boatem sleepover doodle

oh too much pull i think

british hermits, most to least normcore, by my own whims (normcore here associated with arranging and participating in social events, often with the lads, and or fitting in at an office dayjob):

grian. he's the most normcore british hermit. they're all strange, but he's the one most likely to be assimilate into the real world. can be imagined going to nandos with the lads (Jimmy, Joel etc.)

falsesymmetry. ok getting weirder. false is a little deranged but she gets things done. you can look at her and assume she's normal and being weird is a hobby for her

stress. stress IS deranged but she does run a fitness channel which decreases her weird points. she's also responsible and prioritizes her children over her minecraft, so I'd trust her with real world responsibilities

rendog. there is something wrong with him (affectionate), but i think he'd get enrichment from being introduced to the lads at spoons

xisuma. he has tried so hard to be normcore that he's fallen out of the other end. this vibe is almost overwhelming in an xisuma stream when you're listening to cleo sigh and go 'oh x'. would perplex the lads at spoons and refuse to eat at nandos

cleo. try and introduce cleo to the lads and they'll dissolve. loner energy. perfectly suited to being online. hermit most likely to understand joe hills. with enough prep will approach the lads like a cat sniffing through the door (and then get involved in a series of death games)

mumbo jumbo. it's quite simple really. redstone whizz who cycled the whole way across europe for fun. mumbo is a special flavour but it's not normcore (idk what it is tho)

zedaph. least normcore. why is he like that? it's wonderful, but why? he perplexes even the gamecode. phenomenal work

“I don’t need weapons to hurt you”

The idea of an evil/moon Gem was just too good not to draw. With all the hermitcraft stuff, sculk lore and spooky vibes happening in Empires rn I wanted to try design a corrupted version of Gem! Perhaps she isn’t as warm and innocent as she seems?

For the design itself I took inspiration from the sculk, soul fire, phantoms and blue butterflies (with a little bit of puppet Zelda thrown in there for good meatier). I tried making the dress look like parts of a butterfly chrysalis as well as giving it the rib cage/insectoid shell vibes.

Overall I had a blast making this piece and it may be my favourite Empires piece I’ve done so far :D

Jimmy was doing just fine, thanks for asking.

It's not like, y'know, the few people who ever actually supported him were leaving.

He couldn't even blame them. Why would they want to hang around with the laughing stock of empires, the toy sheriff? He wouldn't want to hang out with himself either!

He just- it was nice. It was nice when Scar made a villager hall, just for him. When he built a whole train in tumble town, and a nice little village as well.

And Tango? Tango wasn't just nice (although he was very very very nice), Tango was amazing. Tango was wonderful and kind and smart and handsome and funny and creative and compassionate and so many things, and yet he chose to stay with Jimmy. Tango could have gone anywhere, done anything- hell, two other empires were already trying to get Tango to stay with them, and yet Tango chose Jimmy.

But now he wasn't. Now Tango was leaving because why shouldn't he? There's no soulbond to keep him at tumble town, so why would he stay? Everyone else decides he's not worth it, so why wouldn't Tango? What sign does he have that Tango would choose him again?

Except that Tango called the ranch his home. Except that Tango woke up early in the morning to feed the chickens. Except that whenever Jimmy slept past when Tango had to leave for Gobland, he left a note on the counter to say bye. Except that Tango spent what probably took hours getting Sing horns like they had back at the ranch.

Was it too far-fetched to think that Tango would choose to stay at tumble town- to stay with Jimmy? The hermits hadn't left yet, he could still ask him to stay. If Jimmy asked him, he might. But what if he still left? What if Jimmy begged Tango to stay, and he still chose to leave? Would the small chance that Tango might choose to stay be worth the much larger chance that he would reject him? Jimmy... Jimmy couldn't risk it. Everyone else turned on him. Everyone else tossed him aside for something new. And Jimmy didn't think he could handle looking Tango in the eyes when he inevitably turned away.

So he didn't ask. And Tango left.

One must go to many lengths to learn the truth.

Part One this is part two.

More old comics, this one is from May 5th 2022, back when I started drawing Tango with a tail. Also E is there, don't ask, I just made a bet with letter,,,

And a transcript below!

Zedaph: I may be regretting some parts of this plan,,, Zedaph: all good for plan ‘T’ of ‘see under X’s helmet? Tango: I’m just curious about why we’re on the roof specifically? Zedaph: the great element of surprise! The guy never sleeps, so all those plans fail. They somehow have eyes on the back of their head, can’t sneak up on him. And trying to fight for the helmet ends up bad for the both of us,,, Zedaph: and so, a sneak attack via the roof! A fool proof pla- *thump* Xisuma: have you not considered just, Asking me to take off the helmet?? Zedaph: well now, where’s the fun in that Xisuma?

☀️The Sun God☀️

The homies are bonding

This Is an old comic! was posed originally on January 20th 2022. still very fun!

As always a transcript below.

*BONK*

/distant/ Zedaph: Guys? help? Impulse: Why is this just a thing that they do? Ren: bonding probably,,,

Tango: I just want to know how they always manage to get stuck... /distant/ Impulse: I'll get it this time.

my excitement for the create series is immeasurable

Will you bless us please with more headcanons?

(It can be about anything!)

You’ve unlocked me talking about tattoos on the hermits (:

Keep in mind that a lot of my ideas are loose as is, and I’ve yet to fully draw out a lot of my proper designs for these ideas. We just existing on vibes here.

But yes yes hermits with tattoos and markings, some magical, some with special meanings, and most importantly, the stupid ones that came from late nights. [Feel free to use the ideas if you like em! just credit me please!!]

Let’s start with Ren's because he’s got the most thought put in to his tattoos,

He has the two main tattoos he had done around s8, a band around his upper arm, then the piece on his lower side that goes down to half his thigh, both of them being clusters of Dogwood flowers!

He got the pieces done as a way to give himself back control with how his body gets changed. Having all the events of 3rd life happen to him, only to then come back to hermitcraft s7 and deal with all of That and then right away be shipped off to s8, doesn’t give a guy a lot of time to cope healthily.

Ren also has a very faded tattoo in his ear, it’s very hard to see if you aren’t actually looking for it. He completely hates that it’s there. Makes him feel like a marked dog, it’s why it’s there after all.

[this one was inspiresd from this post!] Tango! Bit of a more useful tattoo for him, matching script of "WaterProtection" written down both his arms, it helps him as a nether runt be able to actually touch water to a safer degree. A lot of enderians tend to get the same tattoo and sigils. [this one I need to clean up the design for]

in a similar vein, Etho also has a winding tattoo of galactic on their arm, it is enchanted, but they haven't really told anyone what it does. The wording and the structure of the galactic script used is also very old, so not many others have been able to properly translate it anyway,,, They also have a beautiful back piece done of what looks like an artic fox with multiple tails, surrounded by different floral arrangements, leaves, or ice crystals. They honestly enjoy changing the tattoo depending on the season, they will also change the tattoo to mess with Bdubs' head, just a lil.

This ones not really a tattoo? but it keeps Impulses mind at ease to just say it Is a tattoo that he cant really remember getting, cause that happens to a person right? it isn't super visible most of the time anyway, its lately gotten all cool and golden so that's a plus! Really they are the markings from a withers curse, rather rare for those boss curse's to still happen, yet here Impulse is. he doesn't really know he has the curse, and that is to be said about his knowledge of Any of the curses or blessings he somehow has,,,

He also got roped into a matching tattoo with Skizz when they were both out,,, "drinking Sodas". it was done around his hip, not really the best quality, but it was built off memory's

Gem and pearl have also been trying to get him to be apart of their matching tattoo as well.

and I'm pretty sure those were all the ones I've drawn before, so now its just test!

As said, Pearl and Gem have matching tattoos! they are both clusters of Sunflowers and Moon daisy's. both the tattoos are done in different designs to match both the girls styles. Gems is along her hip to lowerback, and Pearl has his around her thigh mainly.

Pearl also has a good few little jammer type tattoos on her legs. its manly those doodle type cats, there's one in a clown hat with a balloon, he's named it stru. there's also a bee in a cowboy hat. She's just a fun little colouring page with all her tattoos! a fact proven during all the boatem sleepovers, when Scar and Grian just started to (With permission, mostly,,, maybe not at first) colour all his little tattoos in.

Cub is fairly simple, he's just got a piece done on his shoulder/ upper arm. its a wonderful geometric pattern that surrounds a map of planets and stars. Him and Scar have worked together to enchant it a little so the stars actually glow a little! there is a scar forming through some of it due to the skulk corruption though, he's trying to ignore it for now,,, and its not really a tattoo, Cub does have faint markings of webbed wings on his back. they will glow a bit if he's messing around with magics, and disappear whenever he's actuality using the Vex's wings

Scar, much like Pearl, also has a shoty little tattoo of a cat. it has a little hat on it as well.

Scar does have a fair amount of tattoos though! most of them are done in special inks, so they are largely invisible to most players unless he's been using magic. most of the tattoos are a lot like Tangos and Ethos ones, there they are meant to be enchantments that'll help him out however he needs, but most of the enchantments either failed, or simply did not work how he wanted them to. Cub helped Scar with one of them, and like the true friend Cub is, he may, or may not, have put said tattoo on that one spot on Scars lower back,,,

Grian, similar to Cub, has markings that mimic his wings whenever he is not using them, as rare as it is. And then there are all those invisible markings along their skin that are rarely seen, many of them looking like,,, broken eyes,,, to have the closed description.

Doc has a back piece that he's been just been slowly adding to. it started out on their left shoulder ands spread along their back and upper arm. its a really unique piece of work, having random bits of circuitry, gears and bits, flowers, and just random bits of memory's all woven together into a map along his skin. They are proud of how it had been built really.

They also may have almost He did punched the tattoo artist when the poor soul started going over the scar tissue by their prosthetics. He was very sorry and wouldn't stop apologizing for the rest of the session.

EvilX has a tattoo. its like that one that Ren has. They absolutely hate it and its covered in old scars at this point. Just a simple [0258] marked on him, the ever praised clone that finally lived past the first five days! the first mostly successful clone of the *******Commands army's lab! Xisuma hates what it means, he's been trying to find a way to ask if Ex ever wants to get a coverup on it, neither of the two really want to talk about it though.

Bit of a quick round here, I'd like to say that Xisuma himself has some kind of dragon tattoo. Hypno probably has something, has the vibes, but i've got no ideas. Wels has an old sword, around it is the script to an old poem that no one else can really read. Cleo has random bits of old skin that do have tattoos on them! some of them are cut off, but they have no intentions of making the designs complete.

and now for my favorite headcanon! the smiley face tattoos.

it started as a bet between False and Stress during s5, they both said they could get a random hermit to get a silly pricing with little convincing or knowledge of what was happening, faster then the other. That is what caused both Zedaph and Iskall to own their own bellybutton pricings, complete with a little butterfly charm! the knowable of who actually won the bet is unclear, what Is clear however is how Zed and Iskall choose to seek revenge by having False get a smiley face tattooed on her ass. She agreed on the terms that the both of them also have to get one as well.

and that is what started a game between the hermits to get everyone else to get a silly little smiley face tattooed somewhere around their ass. [its not always actualy right on the ass, sometimes its just below the belt kinda thing. like hip area. some of them 100% got it right on the cheeks though.]

so far Xiuma, keralis and Pearl have gotten one because of False. Iskall got Mumbo to agree to one, and almost had Cub agree too, They also bet that Beef wouldn't. Beef in fact Did get a smiley face tattooed on his ass, and Etho has yet to stop laughing at him for it. Zeds managed to get Ren, Tango, and Bdubs to agree to getting one, he's almost convinced Impulse to get one as well, just needs a few more "sodas" for that to actually happen. They also asked EvilX if he would want to get one tattooed, and Ex may or may not have one too, it also may or may not be their most favorite tattoo.