#please i need to see them interact it'd all be chaos

[gompereatsall]

PLEASE I NEED A CROSSOVER

[spicygambles]

Continuing the darkvex ideas would it be hard to break mumbo out of their hold? Would he even imagine them still with him when the other hermits try to interact with him. Or even what would they do if they had manage to take mumbo with them

Ohoho I do have more thoughts hold on ( ꈍᴗꈍ). Darker stuff under the cut as always.

The answer to your first question is, kinda? See, Mumbo was exposed to a lot of very experimental vex magic and the only way to undo that would be to tackle it with some more vex magic. Good thing X has anime protagonist syndrome and a good network of information (as seen in the Jellie Potion story)

The basics of what the vex magic did to Mumbo is to make it so he had the ability to subsist on magic alone, no food or water necessary. But the longer he did so made him unable to consume the regular old stuff. Combined with a slight... dampening? of the senses and rearranging of memories and thoughts, it made him pretty dependent on the Convex.

So, on to the healing part. Xisuma had, at first, frozen Mumbo to find out exactly what's wrong, even going so far as to contact some off world evokers for help (they've always been a bit more willing to help than their in-world counterparts), and even they got stumped. But in the end they did manage to deconstruct the spells and what not and, after unfreezing the redstoner, got to work with something like a counter, which worked a bit slower than they'd like and needed constant supervision.

While Mumbo didn't necessarily 'see' Cub or Scar in his fellow hermits' concerned faces, he knew that they were missing, and given his dependency on the Convex members, it made him fairly unpredictable. Let's not forget that his memories are jumbled and in his point of view a bunch of strangers were keeping him locked up with no sight of the only two people he remember.

So the counter spell chugs along and thankfully the first thing that comes back was the ability to eat regular food, putting an end to the fear of Mumbo just wasting away. Around this time the hermits had formed a sort of schedule to stay by Mumbo, there was a bit of guilt involved since they all kept thinking that if they only noticed that things were going awry sooner...

One day Mumbo wakes up, bleary and confused, and sees Grian asleep beside him on the bed. The builder practically sobbed in relief when Mumbo said his name and called everyone over. And while Mumbo wasn't 100% cured, so to speak, it was a still a sign that he was recovering well.

If the Convex ended up bringing Mumbo along with them it'd be a different story.

They had inadvertently prepared Mumbo to become like them, a part of Convex, but given the circumstances it would've been a bit tainted still. Once Mumbo wore the mask it's not clear if he would be able to take it off again, as soaked through with Vex magic as he is. And because his memories and thoughts have been muddled, who even knows if even a tiny little sliver of the old Mumbo is still there, nestled in the chaos and mischief of the Vex.

Cub and Scar, well, they don't mind one bit. As a matter of fact, they might even return to hermitcraft and show everyone what happened! Wouldn't they be pleased to see Mumbo again? Given how hard they fought to keep him there in the first place?

Well... they did fail in the end... and I don't think Mumbo appreciated that.