#polyhermits+

[hmshermitcraft]

more hurt/comfort, this time polyhermits + a few others and research subject au. i continue my several years long tradition of being The Longpost Anon in whichever fandom i am in.

some of the hermits (zedaph, etho, impulse, xisuma, hypno, keralis, iskall, stress, beef, pixlriffs, lyarrah and TFC) are working at a research lab that has its own server. (there's a bunch of other staff too) the main focus of their research is the new species they're finding through various portals, which is like 33% biology 33% ethology and 33% anthropology because sometimes through the portals is a sapient species.

false and gem are security

cub and scar are high-ranking concorp executives who fund the place.

joe's a member of a poet's club and also a technician who mostly does fixing up arcade machines but occasionally gets called in to fix stuff in the lab

grian, pearl, scott, jimmy, welsknight, bdubs, ren, martyn, tango, jevin, doc, xb, cleo, joel, lizzie, and sloy are various kidnapped or otherwise entrapped nonhumans stuck in a different research facility with terrible conditions.

grian, pearl, and jimmy are the newest ones in - grian and pearl are watchers, and jimmy is a listener.

tango's a blaze-person (a firey techno-organic construct from the nether), joel is a hippogriff, scott's basically a living waystone, ren is a wolfman, xb's a guardian guy, cleo and sloy are obviously zombies, welsknight is a humanoid bird missing part of one wing, martyn is a pufferfish-person, bdubs is just a regular architect who found a plant symbiote, lizzie is a catwoman, doc is a creeper-guy with a little snow creeper in him, and jevin is obviously a slime.

the unethical lab has various ways of preventing escape attempts, mostly regular restraints and stuff but bdubs is kept chronically dehydrated and soil-deprived so he can't spread his plants around and control them to escape, scott isn't fed enough to safely use his energy-draining teleportation powers unless they're needed for the lab (whereupon he's forced to use them), joel jimmy and pearl have their wings clipped (grian is flightless anyways), cleo and sloy have healing potion dispensers set up around their cell, tango's hooked up to a generator and is powering a lot of the lab, and the watchers and jimmy are kept collared and shackled to dampen their powers and keep them from messing with their emotions.

unethical lab isn't sure how to get watchers or listeners to eat in captivity and is pretty sure their claims the collars are interfering are bunk

joe gets called in to fix something in the unethical lab, sees some of the terrible conditions, and goes to tell the hermits lab and also concorp. they manage to get everyone out of the unethical lab and into the hermits' lab.

they figure the rescued people would just stay for a few days or weeks while healing and having some low-pressure research conducted like "sunscreen for zombies: what's the most effective kind" and "what's going on medically with bdubs' plant symbiote, he's a little worried about that let's check" and "watcher and listener feeding behaviour, just, in general" and "since scott is teleporting around cautiously again, how does that work". except then some of them won't leave and the ones that do leave keep coming back.

doc ends up working with iskall (who is Extremely Old in an immortal kind of way) to make a prosthetic eye and arm for himself, cleo hits it off with TFC talking about geology and joe in a sparring match, bdubs doesn't want to go back to renting and starts building a house Immediately Outside the lab and planting a very large amount of plants and mushrooms, grian is actually interested in being studied and is outright offended the unethical lab was so bad at it, scott's trying to teach everyone to cook, tango's determined to learn redstone, etc

this quickly turns into just about all of the rescued people being either live-in research subjects, employees, or both. there is a small amount of very awkward flirting and an increasingly out-of-control prank war, but very little of the flirting is going anywhere. watcher and birdperson flirtatious display looks really similar to threat displays especially when they're really nervous, none of the scientists want to pressure the rescued research subjects, there is cross-species and cross-cultural confusion, lizzie's attempt to flirt with scott in the ancient catperson tradition of cooking them fancy food is foiled by a. everyone is feeding scott anyway and b. scott doesnt swing that way, etc

some of them have gone a little weird - joel spends a month wearing a hippo mask and insisting his name is griff, lizzie keeps wearing a mask of a person's face and claiming to be human to any visitors, grian has become a hoarder, rendog got a paper crown and started calling himself king, and welsknight got extremely into metallurgy and wearing armour all the time

they end up having to hire a new technician, mumbo, because it turns out watchers and listeners can take a humanoid form and grian keeps using this for getting into the walls and making the jankiest redstone ever with jukeboxes in the walls.

aaaand then grian comes up with the idea to defuse the prank war into "we larp a war on the weekends". disstracks are made. welsknight, pearl, grian, and jimmy are all subconsciously reading "friendly disstrack" as "flirting?" and somehow this is what causes the actual communication about relationship status etc to occur. the larp war. not bdubs growing flowers and struggling to conceal when they bloom (a lot harder to conceal than some other signs of arousal), not wels or the watchers displaying their wing patterning at people, not scott's insistence on making sure everyone knows how to cook, not scar showing up shirtless for no reason or doc deciding to wear 3/4s of a labcoat and no other shirt when his job doesn't actually need a labcoat at all, the larp war.

(bonus worldbuilding notes: bdubs' plants can link into the fungal-and-plant-root network to communicate with and control regular plants, as well as providing him a supply of sugars, vitamins, and oxygen in exchange for water, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen compounds his body wants to dispose of anyways; watcher and listener humanoid form is actually a feeding adaptation to make it easier to stir up strong emotions; doc's snow-creeper ancestry means he can't explode; listeners have venomous spikes like pufferfish-people and he and martyn are immune to each others venom)

It's not the outcome they expected when they planned to shut down the lab. They went about it the legal route, eventually, but they may have been a little illegal about how they rescued the subjects.

There wasn't much to shut down in the end.

Some of the subjects were already dating each other upon being rescued. Being in close captivity can do that, so the freedom to explore their relationships was nice.

Initially, all the staff that dealt directly with the subjects got trauma response training. It was an important part of rehabilitation, making sure the subjects were comfortable returning to their normal lives. Then they refused to only interact with the staff they were supposed, so now all of them are hands on staff. The amount of times Scott nearly caused an accident by watching people from dark corners or high ledges fills several pages.

A lot of the non-humans and hybrids are happy to help with the research once they're further along their recovery. Many of them didn't have a community to grow up in, so there's a lot they don't know about themselves. Sometimes they're even the ones who propose hypotheses to explore.

They're also a great asset in introducing new people to the lab. People are often scared and unsure coming in. Seeing people like them, being reassured and being able to ask questions helps a lot. Jimmy is particularly good at it, xB as well, but he's less of a people person. He's calmed his far share of rampages regardless.

They make sure their relationships don't interfere with their work as best as they can. After all, funding is still sort of important. With the variety of species here (many not even documented anywhere else) and amount of results they can produce, they're sitting pretty, though. They can mess around and have fun. Hey, dating even lets them document some new things!

[doodlelesbians]

woe! polycule be upon ye!

[a-tear-in-space]

I firmly believe polyamory can save them.

[captain-blue027]

Polyamory week 2025!

I have put together a list of poly ships for the Hermitcraft/Life series smp into a 7 day (1 week) writing or art thing.

This will start on June 1st 2025 and end on June 7th 2025.

1: Flower ranchers (Scott/Tango/Jimmy) [my favorite poly ship]

2: Mumscarian (Mumbo/Scar/Grian)

3: Xbsumaralis (Xb/Xisuma/Keralis)

4: Flower quartet (Scott/Tango/Jimmy/Martyn)

5: ZITS (Zed/Impulse/Tango/Skizz)

6: Smallethdubs (Joel/Etho/Bdubs)

7: Rendocwood (Ren/Doc/Martyn)

I'll reblog this when it gets closer to the actual week, but until then, plan what you are going to do if you chose to be involved! :D

[regulus-leonis]

etho bringing joel home to bdubs one day like “i picked him up on the side of the road can we keep him”

[mcytshipsandmore]

more polyhermits stuff: the poe poe exiling the no poe specifically because they don’t get to have time alone with them much due to different projects. clearly the best solution is making a grand scene of sending them hundreds of miles away so they can all get to know each other better without other nosy hermits interrupting their snuggle pile!

Poly hermits my beloved -⭐️

[cosmicmenacee]

Hahahaha im so normal about this plo-

False losing her mind when she hears that Ren and Cleo were exiled. (TW feelings of failure)

The two people she'd give her life for in a heartbeat are gone forever. She had just seen them... now they're gone...

Plus, her younger brother's behind it. At least, it SEEMS like her younger brother's behind it. Something in his eyes, his voice, his presence, doesn't seem like him.

She was supposed to protect him.

She was supposed to protect him the day he was first killed, and she failed.

She was supposed to protect him when he escaped the Watchers and came back to life, and she failed.

She was supposed to protect her beloved Cleo, and Ren, and Jevin, and she failed.

She had failed.

Maybe exile was right for her.

She breaks her bed in a fit of pained rage. She knows that once she's outside of Hermiton walls, she won't be able to come back. She doesn't want to come back. Maybe out there she would find Cleo, Ren, and Jevin. Maybe they wouldn't hate her for failing them.

But if they did, she deserved it. She had lived on her own before she joined the hermits; she could do it again.

She's well outside the territory now, her wings aching with every beat, and tears streaming down her face. In one night, she lost everything. A fitting punishment for someone who couldn't protect what she had.

And then she hears a voice call her name. A voice that makes her heart trip over itself. A voice she knows all too well. It calls her name with a longing, a desperation that could only stem from love. She pauses in midair, her eyes widening in disbelief.

Cleo...

I found them...

[welstektho]

hello chat ^u^ here i have drawn a new banner for the blog! (it was just a default one before, a very unpleasant grey... did not fit the vibe) but here we are! the wels, tek, and tho.. aha

[hmshermitcraft]

thinking about that lab rescue polyhermits + AU. i think a lot of the research theyd end up doing would be stuff on the various species senses. even bdubs perceives the world a lot different from a baseline human (the change felt weird and he's still getting used to it) and also they all perceive the world differently from each other; cleo and zloy are actually the most similar to each other. eg most of them have lower-than-human-baseline visual acuity because human eyes are WEIRD

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They get to research the things that they want to. For a lot of them, it's things that improve their quality of life and help them understand themselves.

In the old lab, they were simply used. They'd study the toxicity of spines for use in weapons, how they could be used for power, or make humans lives easier.

Now, Bdubs gets to (get Etho to) write full papers on his symbiote! He's looked into how it enhances his senses - what he can feel, smell or taste through it - what it likes to eat, even how it likes sleeping at night (which works for him!)

Scott is working with Joe to understand how his teleportation actually works. Martyn is having great fun learning about his poison (as well as how his senses differ when underwater.)

Grian similarly has a list of things he wants to test and refuses to hear otherwise. It's not traditional procedure to be led by their subject, but they're getting good information out of it. Though, uh, they're not sure 'how different species react to his mating displays' is going to get published.

[doodlelesbians]

the false/cleo/martyn/ren/doc polycule is the cutest drawing ive seen ever. your style is literaly so cool

Thank you!! Cuddles are literally my favorite thing to draw!

[omegaverse-georg]

I was thinking of what to make J.oel for the polyhermits omegaverse au and…

As far as betas go, Joel is pretty sensitive to hormonal changes. Though unusual for his rank, an omega in a particularly strong heat or an alpha completely lost in their rut can trigger a sympathetic reaction in him.

The hermits love triggering those mating hormones in him.

It is really easy, too. When an alpha triggers a heat in him, he becomes all pliant–neck bared and dripping slick. It is particularly easy to get him to beg for a knot in that state, bitched into an omega as he is.

The omegas also like to play with him like that. Studding him into an alpha and sending him into the frenzied state that demands he breeds his omegas as much as they need it–to knot them so that his seed will take.

And Joel… well, he’d be pressed to admit it, but he loves it. Loves the feeling of losing control to his instincts and getting used by his partners to satisfy their needs. Loves coming down from that high a wreck and getting taken care of after. He’s too stubborn to tell them, but it’s a good thing they know it well.

[manyminded]

I love Polyhermits because every ship can be true at once

[hermitshippingbigbang]

T-Minus 3 Days!

Posting for the Hermitshipping Big Bang begins in 3 days!

Our amazing artists have been working so hard to bring our wonderful writer's works to life with their pieces!

Follow #HSBB 2023 to keep up with all the pieces as they get posted! Or you can just follow us here where we will be promoting each team's effort!

All works will be in the Hermitshipping Big Bang 2023 collection on AO3.

We are beyond excited for the world to finally see what we've been working on! Stay tuned!

[mcytshipsandmore]

i’m a polyhermits truther and one of my fav dynamics is all the hermits simping like hell over false who acts like she’s so fucking done with them but they all know they’re vibing w/ each other behind the act

this girl gets so many flowers and pieces of jewelry on valentine’s day because these simps empty their wallets over her

I love false glaze so much this is amazing anon

Wonderful

Marvelous

Extraordinary

EPIC

-⭐️

[skele-was-hired-2x]

Xisuma sometimes forgets that even with being a server admin, he doesn't need to constantly busy himself.

He feels like if he's not busy being productive, he's not doing anything good. Though, sometimes he does really just want to get out and have some fun.

More than once during a random hour of day or night, X has shown up at Keralis', Grian's, or really anyone else's doorstep asking if they can hang out.

Usually it ends in a late night chat over a cup of tea, getting keralled into someone else's bed, or a prank that ends in a not so bad punishment.

All three of these options end up with X having a good night along with typically being in someone else's bed, so what is X to complain about.

[redstone-archivist]

— What are you... — Ren exhales noisily, turning his blue eyes from Doc to Martyn. He found them both talking in... German? And judging by Martyn's smile and Doc's grin, he caught these two metamours in the middle of flirting. Even without knowing German, I suspected something similar.

No, you shouldn’t think that he was against it... It was rather pure surprise. He didn't expect this from the two of them.

— Oh, Ren, we were just talking about you. — Doc grins, pulling his boyfriend towards him by the waist, enjoying the way Ren blushes, also not expecting such an “attack”. The ears on the canine hybrid's head are flattened against his hair, and his cheeks are flushed red due to embarrassment.

— D-Doc,— the dog hybrid involuntarily groans intermittently, briefly looking shyly at Martyn standing next to him. He didn't mind his other boyfriend watching them, but it was still very awkward when he paid attention to one of the metamours in front of the other.

— We discussed here that you should also learn German. — Martyn says in a drawn out and languid voice, standing behind Ren, pinching the good boy behind, — You know, positive reinforcement of the material helps you learn better.

— What?— Ren doesn’t have time to realize what’s happening before Doc leans over and kisses him with a slightly insistent kiss, sensibly squeezing his waist in his hands.

Ren feels like all the air instantly disappears from his lungs, and his legs give way. If it weren't for his boys holding him, he would definitely have fallen from such an unexpected attack.

— By the way, — through his melting brain and kiss with Doc, Ren hears Martyn’s mocking and languid voice next to his neck. A horde of goosebumps run across his skin, and he wants to whimper into the kiss, but he doesn’t want to give up so quickly. Doc presses Ren even closer to him, not allowing the guy to escape from the trap of his guys, in which he himself did not mind falling into the abyss. — In German “kiss” is kuss~