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Joe... what?

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My MCYT fanfic worldbuilding!

Both for anyone who's interested in how I imagine the minecraft sphere so to speak works and for linking to my ao3 page, here is my MCYT worldbuilding! Long post ahead! This gets updated regularly as well.

World

Gods and other beings

Jeb and Notch are the Elder Gods. They created the other gods and the prime players. These days they have disappeared, and nobody seems to know where they are. 

Kristin is the goddess of Death, and she’s not a fan of the Watchers. Phil is an ex Watcher, but defected and joined Kristin. They fell in love. 

Most of Kristin's angels were originally mortals. On very rare occasions, when someone died in a certain way which really captures her attention she might decide to ask them to join her ranks. This is how Scott became an angel of hers. A few of her angels are kids of other angels. 

The Watchers were at war with the Voidwalkers for a while. It ended when the Watchers massacred them. Xisuma and EX are considered to be the only survivors. Hoping something to End and Aether is generally a Voidwalker expression, though older immortals have been known to sometimes adopt it as well.

Techno used to be a mortal who was very good at PVP, so an evil god forcefully ascended him to be a demigod and made him work for him. Techno at one point killed him (probably temporarily, though that god hasn’t been nearly as influential since) and became a demigod in his own right. 

Prime players were the first players created by the Elder Gods. It’s unknown how many there are, since they tend to stay in hiding. What sets prime players apart from normal players is that respawns have no effect on their souls and that they don’t age. Meaning they are functionally immortal. There are ways to kill them, but no normal mortal could get them to stay down so to speak. 

Players can become admins through training. Not everybody has the natural aptitudes to become an admin. Everyone can access the code of the world if they learn how to, but utilising it wrong can be the end of someone. 

You can generally respawn infinitely, but it slowly eats away at your soul. And at some point you don’t respawn anymore. This is generally the same as dying of old age, but it’s not uncommon for very heavy pvp players to die younger because their soul is ruined by continuous respawns. 

On ascensions

Any god can ascend a mortal to become a demigod. But it's a violent act and will usually completely kill off the world the former mortal was inhabiting. And it hurts. A lot. The combination of these factors is what made Eret's ascension so bad. Because usually the newly ascended demigod will wake up with their god. But Eret didn't. They woke up alone in a dead realm.

Cults can try to get a gods attention to get them to ascend one of their own to demigod status. Really, no good gods will respond to these rituals. They usually involve mass sacrifice. 

Gods can also just choose to ascend a living mortal, but again, this is not often done and when it is, usually only by evil gods. That's what happened to Techno.

Kristin works in a different way. When mortals die she sometimes (very rarely) offers them to become one of her angels. Her angels are demigods, but due to being in her service they are referred to as angels.

Demons are demigods aligned to Kristin's undefined evil counterpart.

Worlds

Worlds are generally connected to hubworlds. Travelling to other worlds usually happens through these. Hubworlds can vary from simple planes with rows and rows of portals to massive cities where people live, interspersed with portals. It’s not uncommon for kids to get dumped on hubworlds to fend for themselves. They often end up banding together, since hubworlds are pretty often fairly hostile places to live in due to the lack of admin oversight. Kids like this are generally called children of the hub. 

Besides travelling through official portals there are ways to jump to other worlds. This is why you can protect your worlds with whitelists. They take the form of physical barriers in the code surrounding worlds. Think of it like a satellite defence system around a planet. Worldhoppers are players who make a habit of jumping from world to world without portals. Often these are players who grew up in the hub and learned admin magic through other people. They basically break into other worlds and thus aren’t always seen as the best people. Most worldhoppers are friendly though. Hubkids often end up worldhopping, at least during their teenage years until they find a place to settle down or until a mistake tears their soul apart.

Sometimes worlds connect themselves to each other through rifts. Nobody knows how these occur, and they can’t really be controlled. Maybe gods could control them, but nobody below them. 

There is something called being worldlocked. Its generally something the Watchers do to worlds as a punishment. It involves messing with the code of the world and all the people on it. Leaving them unable to leave the world and unable to contact anyone outside of it. A lot of locked worlds eventually devolve into chaos due to the isolation, with people turning on each other.

Improper coding of a world can lead to the world getting corrupted. What happens to corrupted worlds varies, but generally they completely destroy themselves and everyone on it. EVO got corrupted, less due to Grian making mistakes but more due to being an experimental world surrounded by experimental worlds that were corrupted. The Watchers helped the process along as a punishment for Grian. 

Hardcore worlds are worlds that lock you out when you die. You simply can’t enter them anymore, only view them through your communicator. Dying in them is also way harder on your soul, so players are weary of playing in them too much.

On exorcising players.

Sometimes players can get overtaken by things. Vexes are the most common, though there are other things. Glitched “networks”, like mycelium or more recently, sculk. 

Zooming in more on the Vex. The Vex aren't fully sentient like players or more-than-players are. But they aren’t quite mobs either. They exist in a space between categories, but have a strong desire to achieve… more. The way they try to achieve this is by trying to possess vulnerable players. They don’t often succeed, but when they do they will try to take over servers and hubworlds. They kind of function like a computer virus. Overtaking a player and ‘overlapping’ their code with their own Vex code manipulation. 

Sculk and Mycelium work a little differently. They are more so connected through a hivemind. A sculk block is the same as a warden is the same as a shrieker is the- you get the point. The sculk is not an individual block. And it has one goal. To spread. To overtake more of a world. To overtake more players. Similar to Vex it will latch on to a player and ‘overlap’ their code with its own. 

Exorcising players from any type of possession is possible, but a nasty process. First of all it requires someone with at powers at least akin to a voidwalker or a prime player. Then they basically have to tear the Vex, sculk or mycelium from the player line by line. Piece by piece. And it hurts. Especially when the player regains enough awareness to recognise that they are being hurt by someone they know, but not why or how. Removing sculk can leave scars akin to burn scars. 

Characters backstories (incomplete)

Hermits

Grian: Parrot hybrid. Was a child of the hub at some point with Jimmy, he met Mumbo during this time. Created EVO and was spotted and taken by the Watchers. Escaped them after give or take two years and broke into Hermitcraft during his escape. 

Scar: Human-ish. Was fully human until he got possessed by vexes together with Cub. He had to be exorcised by Xisuma. While the vex are now gone he still has powers related to their possession. The downside is that he’s still haunted by hallucinations(?) of their possession. Disabled besides that and uses a cane on bad days. 

Pearl: Moth hybrid. Grew up together with Grian and later Jimmy. She can’t really remember her early childhood, but her defining moment was Grian’s disappearance and later the corruption of EVO. Right around the time Grian escaped the Watchers she was taken and turned into one. Later she ran into Grian again on Hermitcraft. 

Gem: A young admin who ran small building worlds. She met Pearl through a building competition she was hosting. Gave Pearl shelter after EVO fell. 

False: Child of the hub. Was one of the youngest leaders of the group she was in until she gave herself up to a Hypixel manager to rescue one of the younger kids when she was 12. Fought there until she was 17 and Techno and Phil gave her a chance to escape. 

Etho: Grew up on an anarchy server akin to 2B2T where he’d attack people with his redstone. Got possessed by corrupted mycelium at one point which left it’s scars on him mentally. 

Joe: Prime player. He’s very old (being a prime player makes him immune to dying of old age). Can’t remember where he grew up but he travelled around from server to server until he found Cleo. Then he travelled with her until they joined Hermitcraft. Gets nauseous when travelling though portals.

Cleo: Originally human. From a big city server that fell to a corrupted virus. It turned the server into a zombie apocalypse. She barely escaped with her life and ran into Joe. She later returned to her server after a family member contacted her, but was infected herself. Joe saved her life. 

Xisuma and EX: Voidwalkers. Grew up in the end. EX is the older brother but was always treated as evil due to a misinterpreted prophecy. Which became a self-fulfilling one. The entire population of Voidwalkers was attacked by the Watchers, who’d they’d been at war with. Xisuma and EX were the presumed only survivors. 

Tango: Blaze hybrid. From the nether, was taken to a lab which he later escaped from together with Doc. 

Iskall: Former human, now a human with cybernetic parts. Was in an accident which, due to fucked up respawn mechanics on his homeworld, left him needing the cybernetic parts. 

Doc: creeper/human/cyborg hybrid. Created in a lab. Escaped from the lab together with Tango.

Emperors/related to them

Jimmy: Canary hybrid. Child of the hub. Watched EVO get destroyed and barely escaped with his life. 

Martyn: Human, was on EVO with the other EVO people and got separated from them during the escape. His shoulder has never quite been the same since he had to reset it himself. 

Scott: An Angel of Death. Under the command of Philza and in turn, under the goddess of death. Which means he worked together with Eret, Foolish and Techno.

Oli: Human who dropped out of admin school. 

Fwhip: Human admin. 

Pixel: Prime player. 

Owen: Human(?) worldhopper. Child of the hub who at one point met Eloise and Bek. They travel together. He has admin powers (like all worldhoppers) but never trained officially. Gets nauseous when travelling though portals which also applies to worldhopping.

Bekyamon: Human worldhopper. 

Eloise: Human worldhopper.

DSMP/QSMP

Philza: Angel of death, Kristin's husband. Used to be a watcher (it's unknown wether he was a player before this), but defected and joined Kristin. They slowly fell in love after his he joined her. Says he was born mortal as a cover story (may partially be true)

Technoblade: Blood God. Demigod who used to be a mortal until he was forecefully ascended by a higher evil god. Techno destroyed his vessel in revenge and the evil god hasn't been seen since. Works together with Phil and Kristin.

Eret: Demigod who used to be a mortal wither hybrid. Worked with Phil, Techno and Kristin and was/is platonic partners with Foolish. Gets nauseous when travelling though portals.

Foolish: Shark/totem hybrid demigod. It's unknown if he was born mortal or not.

Wilbur: Kristin's and Phil's mortal son. We all know how his story ends.

[oldflyingraven]

Throwback to Ethan’s skillet struggle. Dropping the whole transcript I made just after UA ended. 

Ethan: You put it in a weird sock and you cook it up on a skriddle- Skittle- Sk-

Mark: Yeah, you’re right, skriddle.

Ethan: Hold on, that’s not it.

Mark: Keep going.

Ethan: Griddle! Wait, what’s the one that starts with an S?

Mark: You’re gonna get there. You can do this.

Ethan: A skittle, A skidder, scratch, sk- sk-

Mark: No this isn’t a hint!

Ethan: Oh! (Laughter) SKITTLE! Wait… (Laughter again) Ski..? Skid- skir- skurdle. Skriddle!

Mark: No!

Ethan: Oh my god (laughing), I’m getting there.

Mark: You’re not! What happens if you level up and you need to put your points into your…

Ethan: Skiltree! Skid- Skilturl! Skil- (laughing)

Mark: You can’t be for real right now!

Ethan: (Laughing) I’m a 100% O h my god! I’m a 100, Oh my god. Skiltree- Skil… SKILLET! OH MY GOD!

[oldflyingraven]

It’s weird grieving someone you've never met. It's an empty ache in your chest you can't quite get rid of. It feels like I've lost a friend but I  know it's parasocial. It's not that I feel guilty about it. I'm just confused. I've never grieved over someone who I didn't know in real life personally. And at the same time it's bringing up old grief from earlier this year. But this feels rawer? With the person who I lost in real life I saw it coming, I was prepared. With this I woke up one morning to see a push notification of Eret tweeting about it. And it aches and aches and it's confusing me. I didn't know him but it feels like I lost a friend. And I don't feel guilty but I'm confused.

I hope other people feel seen by this. I just needed to get it off of my chest.

[flyingraven]

Critical Role incorrect quotes but it's real things my friends and I have said part 4

Vex: there is safety in numbers

Grog: I can't count

Vex: do not put the baby in the bag of holding!

Vax: well there isnt a corpse in there so *shrugs*

Veth: if I ever have another baby I will let you socially experiment on them

FCG: Bread has religions?

Scanlan: they say "don't do drugs, kids" they don't say "don't do drugs, adults"

Vax: who are we slut shaming?

Vex: skeletons

Vax *shaking head*: whores

Imogen: All I want to do is be gay do crime but instead all I'm doing is being gay and crying

Percy: stay hydrated, release a demon

Keyleth: You've mosqd your last uito

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Critical Role incorrect quotes but it's real things my friends and I have said part 3

Veth: I used to be a great alcoholic!

Veth: denial gains me treasure

Luke: You're being very loud and I'm trying to have an emotional conflict

Essek: her superior temporal gyrus is wickety wack yo

Essek: ... it's okay I hate myself too sometimes

Taryon: When in doubt: cry

Percy: stay hydrated, release a demon

Vax: what is it with dads?

Scanlan: they be dadding and causing trauma

Jester: don't trust fish

Fjord (overhearing): why?

Jester: its the look in their eyes

Kingsley: generational trauma aside every single part of this is objectively hilarious

[oldflyingraven]

Compared to a player Grian is an extremely powerful coder. But compared to his old fellow Watchers he's one of the weakest Watchers in terms of control over his power. He escaped the Watchers before his control could be improved. Until Pearl (a fellow player turned Watcher) joined Hermitcraft and helped him improve his control over his powers he couldn't use his wings to fly. Opening them would show him so many visions he would at best feel sick and at worst completely pass out and shut down.

[oldflyingraven]

There's a game going on on Hermitcraft. Most of the hermits have a tendency to fall asleep in the weirdest places. So a game started where they try to take pictures of each other sleeping in those weird places. Some of the best ones to date are:

Scar asleep on top of the boatem pole, Grian asleep on top of the Entity, Tango asleep meters away from a Ravager, False asleep just floating in the sea and Bdubs sleeping curled up on his moon.

Allegedly theres a picture of Evil X asleep cuddled up against his brother, but both EX and Xisuma vehemently deny this.

[flyingraven]

Finally sitting down and properly working on worldbuilding my interpretation of the mcyt (Hermitcraft, Empires and Dsmp mostly).

[oldflyingraven]

The fact that Joe's daughter is a Grian fan is hilarious to me. Like she's ranting about how cool he is and ooh dad what was his motivation for this and that and Joe is just sitting there like

Dude if I knew I would tell you but that man is an enigma to everyone including me

[flyingraven]

Does ANYONE remember Wilbur in Phil's TTS saying something about how he just sometimes just forgets to eat for three days, and then Phil said that when he goes to Brighton he will force feed Wilbur in a lighthearted way? It was before the first SBI meetup because Phil was working on Nethervoid. I vividly remember this but I can't find the clip anywhere? Did I just make this up?

[oldflyingraven]

PHAT BIRD

Also Xisuma’s laugh here is very cute to me 

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Reminder that there’s a whole generation of Philza viewers who never saw Philza purge the weak

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Hermitcraft headcanons!

Ex swears a lot. It’s his way of rebelling against Xisuma after he’s redeemed himself. 

He’s also horrible at expressing his emotions with anything besides anger. He’s trying though, and getting better at not defaulting to yelling at someone. 

Ex and Xisuma can’t breath overworld air for more then a couple minutes before dying. It’s lead to some painful death loops in the past. 

All the hermits who met Mumbo back when he joined in season 2 call him kid as a nickname. He acts like he doesn’t like it but he does. 

Joe is really bothered by using nether portals. He feels sick every time he goes through one. 

Joe has met his Hellsmit and they get along suprisingly well. 

Joe met Cleo before she became a zombie. He saved her life by preventing a zombie virus from taking her mind. 

Scar is an extrememly touchy person. If you’re talking to him there’s a good chance he’ll touch you. 

Bdubs is autistic.

Zedaph is the definition of ‘book smart street dumb’. This man lacks all common sense. 

[oldflyingraven]

I want to put Grian, Joe Hills, Wilbur, RtGame and ZombieCleo in a room and see what happens. All of them are their own brand of weird and the combination would be so funny to see.

Like RT and Cleo can get murderous on occation, Grian and Wilbur are incapable of not going 'yes, and' when involved in a bit and Joe is weird in a 'not unhinged but yet the strangest man you'll ever meet' kind of way.

I wonder who would end up being the straight man in this situation. The one who ends up being the most normal one.

[flyingraven]

Just a small silly collection of Owen clips I like :D