HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 26
Hermit PVP x Pokémon
I wanted to do something a little different for this day, so I drew Pokémon!
I really enjoy the Hermits impromptu battles on Gems (unintentional) beach arena, so that's the group/collab moment I decided to draw for today. And for that, I thought Pokémon would be perfect!
This is more of a design challenge than a style challenge today - all the Hermits were redesigned as regional variants of existing Pokémon. So instead of putting my references under the cut, I'm going to put the Pokémon I created variants for and their variant typings. See if you can guess them before you look!
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Gem is a Water/Steel type Pawniard
Ren is an Electric/Poison type Rockruff
xB is a Water type Koffing
Scar is a Dark/Flying type Impidimp
BDubs is a Grass/Fairy type Tangela
Etho is an Ice type Fennekin
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hey hi! i loved your work on cysm (have reread it twice and cried a lot) but i was wondering if you had any tips on writing etho and bdubs individually and how they interact with each other? working on my first project for them that's set in an alternate universe and i really want to get it right! thanks a lot hope you have a good day
hi anon!! thank you so much, i'm really glad that you liked cysm that much omg
hmmm ok i have a lot of thoughts so i'm gonna do my best to make this as comprehensible as possible:D
I'll start with Etho. One of the first things I noticed while writing CYSM and learning how to write Etho was his voice and his speech patterns, and how to transfer that onto a page since I didn't want to just be like "He spoke with a Canadian accent," and leave it at that when in my fic, Canada isn't really even a thing.
He has the signature "oh, snappers!" (hehe), he'll say "buh-bye!" and when he's exasperated or about to laugh or smile you can tell based on his tone. And he's got the "no-ho-ho-ho" he does when something goes wrong and his voice goes up a few octaves.
Depending on what content you're basing Etho off of, his personality also changes. If you're basing your writing off of his early days (so, Mindcrack and that era), I noticed that he's a lot quieter in general. If you're writing based on Hermitcraft, he's a lot more open.
A lot of people write Etho as cool and mysterious and slightly terrifying, and I think he can be depending on the au (e.g. @bananasofthorns' god au, where he's part of the void, you can read that au here and I adore those fics) but... a lot of the time Etho is just a guy doing a thing. He's ridiculously smart and entirely a wet rag.
In short, he's quieter, he's making fun of you without you realizing, he's got no idea what he's doing, and he's a genius.
And now I'll shut up about Etho and move on to Bdubs.
he's just a little guy! little skrunkly moss man!
Once again, depending on what era of content you're basing on, his personality would be slightly different. For the purposes of this, I'm gonna assume we're talking hermitcraft/traffic series and go from there.
god. where do I even start. Bdubs has a habit of giving his loyalty and love to anyone who will have him. We've seen him do it time and time again-with Scar in season seven, Cleo in third life, Ren in the current season as kingmaker, even Sausage now in Empires--Bdubs has this want to be wanted and given attention, and he'll swear himself to someone if that's what they can give him.
And he always goes back to Etho. At the end of it all, it's Etho Bdubs returns to.
He's loud, he cracks jokes, and I think he has a tendency to live in denial, especially when the end is near and everyone knows it. In canon, an example of this would be when it's the end of season eight and everyone else has left, but Bdubs is ignoring the giant rock hurtling towards him and filling the sky in favor of "claiming" all of the server as his own. In last life when he turns red the final time, he doesn't really accept he's red (ex. of this in my fics would be the moment in cysm when even Etho's accepted his fate, and Bdubs goes back into denial).
Bdubs will be incredibly kind while telling someone their build sucks. He's up front about things and a terrible liar.
The two together? oh god okay here we go. i'm going to have to put this post under a read more i think. whoops.
They can't take things seriously. It's rare they manage to have an entire conversation without skirting around anything deep and I think they leave a lot unsaid. It's easier to speak in actions then define it in words, and I think they've been doing that a long time.
Bdubs is the louder one, but Etho will drive him insane (it's his love language I think). They love each other but they'll never say so to each other, not really.
I think the best example of showing that I have isn't in cysm, but in I love you, I made you tea. They always leave SO much unsaid and it drives me INSANE.
Bdubs will brag and put on a bigger front than he actually has. Etho will go along with it, and tease him relentlessly.
Anything to keep the heavy topics at bay.
and now! moving on to love languages!
i think my sibling @oceans-swim worded it really well earlier so i'm gonna just say what they did SLDJKFSKLFJ
etho tends to show love to bdubs through acts of service, and bdubs shows love to etho with physical touch and words of affirmation?
another way i like to write them and affection--bdubs' love language is like. he loves attention and etho will give that to him, while etho is more reserved and bdubs will just love him anyways.
in a way i think sometimes that can actually maybe cause a problem because i think they both show love the same way they'd like to receive it but... that's just not what tends to happen? it really does go back to the lack of serious, non-joking communication. it's not an issue until you as a writer make it one LMAOOO
and uh. that's about all i got! maybe. hopefully. i really don't ever shut up about them. i hope that helps you! best of luck with your au!
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