#emps2

[max-flower]

Thought of this when watching the new episodes

[viriv]

Well then, why dont we get this started...

[hermitcaft]

MY HERMITCRAFT/EMPIRES ANIMATION IM VERY PROUD OF YAY! I really like the way Oli talks.

[funkyfruta]

Hermitcraft s8, aka the experimental lore season, aired 19 of june 2021. In which 2 new hermits were introduced:

Gem and Pearl

You know what else aired june 2021?? Empires Smp, a intrinsically lore heavy smp (12/jun/21)

You know who was also in Empires s1?

Gem and Pearl

[timelykatheliz]

katherine should kiss as many women as she wants!! as a treat!! maybe emps2!false/grand architect false would be a fun kissing partner. why did i word it like that. i’m leaving

[day 12]

sorry was busy with yuri week but i can make room for one more yuri. here's your local cursed princess and amnesiac architect smooching it up

[harpymoth]

Painter emps2 Scott my beloved

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[sm0lcatfish]

sometimes i think about how in emps1 the community looked at shrub and lady katherine, who had hardly any interaction, and decided they would be cute together cus hehe mushrooms x flowers, and then cut to emps2 where a great witch named shelby was fighting with a pirate joe who was bisexual for a princess monster hunter.

how did we go from an ooc “oh yeah!! that’s really cute, i support it :)” to a canon “hey wanna go out on a coffee date”. empires the realest smp ever

[megabuild]

sausage vs oli is the toughest because there is not an ounce of shame in either of them

oli was forced out of the goddess pearl home resulting in him being stuck in a new unfamiliar world

sausage has evil sausage a very bad version of himself and past life guilt

I think that oli has more problems than are stemming from gods and probably prays to go back but there’s no regret

sausage has a lot of regret but i don’t think gods have a direct connection to the feelings and angst he has

so my question is what is more important to the choice the religious(oli) or the guilt(sausage)

i mean. what i keep stressing is that this is not a matchup about who is more religious or who has more religious trauma or who prayed the most or whatever it is very specifically about religious *guilt* so yeah the guilt however you choose to define that is the more important part LMAO

also i would argue that sausage does have a lot of direct connection to the gods considering season 2 sausage's entire arc is about pearl who in S2 canon is interpreted as a goddess, plus in afterlife and inbetween al and emps2 he's a literal angel who is cared for by her. it would be easy to say he has more connection to her than oli tbh, most people would certainly associate pearl with sausage before oli i think

[wither-rose-circus]

I think people should draw emps2 Scott like Ena

[gardenergulfie]

ayo ayo listen. i was doing a fun lil thing for halloween and basically. everyone in emps2 gets someone else to dress up as but theyre really just taking the aesthetics? instead of yk. just straight up wearing what other characters wear. do you want to see the lineup.

YES GIMMIE

[phosphorus-noodles]

Tell us your Joli headcanons please

YOU! I LIKE YOU!

Thank you anon, you have activated my trap card-

Gonna put this under a keep reading because it WILL get long djcnjsdds-

OKAY SO first some backstory-

On April Fools day in the jeremorbism server (name is a mess /aff) I decided to be chaotic and cosplay as Joel Smallishbeans. It quickly caught on and lots of people started becoming ccs, including my friend @/eevee-eclair who became Oli TheOrionSound.

At some point we basically acted out an entire enemies-to-lovers arc and kinda just. kept it going?? So when that April Fools day stunt became a real roleplay (known as the "orbyline," a cross between "orb" and "storyline") our jokey crack ship "Joli" stuck around. (This ship also accidentally broke up the one straight ship of the rp (Jizzie) so. oops-?)

So that was the first iteration of Joli: an afterlife smp roleplay. It was very angsty and messy but the devotion these two traumatized gays had for each other was mwah *chef's kiss.*

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NEXT we have cempires Joli! Which I absolutely adore!! (idk why we call it cempires, I think it was @/sm0lcatfish's idea, but it's an empires s1 roleplay with bonus cc empires)

There's a ton of lore for them (mostly Eevee and her friend Mushy's lore from their au) but the gist is that they're soulbonded DL-style which is already on to a winner and they also have shared trauma spanning 200 years! (Joel was permakilled by a demon and is now a ghost possessing a clay doll, and same demon trapped Oli and his entire kingdom in stone for 200 years so woo angst!)

Cempires!Joli is probably my favorite Joli because childhood besties! They're soulbonds that love to die all the time to spite one another! They understand each other like no one else does because they've been together the longest! They tell each other things no one else knows! They're silly little guys that like to be goofy and tease each other about their other partners! (Lizzie for Joel and Callum for Oli, but in the rp the polycule is much, much larger-)

I just,, care them a lot,, ghjvcnmxfjsn,,,

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I should probably also mention the empires s2 version (called "boogalpires" for emps2 electric boogaloo) but seeing as god!Joel hates mortals and Oli hates gods their "relationship" is... rocky at best. It's- it's a work in progress. They'll get there one day- /lh

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Anyway the tl;dr version of this entire massive infodump you probably didn't ask for is this:

Joli is what happens when you take the "childhood besties to lovers" trope and treat it like crack-turned-serious.

And honestly? I wouldn't have it any other way. This crack ship was an accident but I absolutely adore them and will die on this hill.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk, anon I am so sorry for this bc I doubt this is what you wanted at *all-* (there's too many versions to just have general hcs! /lh /hj) and have a nice day/night everyone o/