#pungence

[relgnira]

IVE BEEN HOLDING ONTO THESE ALL WEEK anyway have a pokemon mystery dungeon au! Featuring the NHO, the Buttercups, and some season 1 hermits :3

This may have gotten out of hand in the discord call and we wrote out a whole list of all the hermitcraft folks (and empires haha…)

[condorclaw]

I think next Life season they should take Bdubs not having a POV even further and just have Pungence play on his account instead to see how long it takes people to notice

[hermitcraft-shifter]

Inactive Hermits, especially Hermits who weren't active long, are great because that means you can add whatever headcanons you want without necessarily contradicting canon! Alternatively, active Hermits who have little to no canon lore mean you can cherrypick their behaviour and actions.

[brosniffer]

[hermette-historian]

There's something so...sweet about watching early Hermits explore a jungle temple for the first time.

There's something even more sweet about watching them get shot.

[nekodere07]

Tango is a bad influence

I had fun doing this

BdoubleO100/Pungence - B/Pungence of the Double-o Variety

Cubfan135 - Cub of the Fan Variety

Docm77 - Docm of the Seventy-seven Variety

EthosLab - Etho of the Slab Variety

FalseSymmetry - False of the Symmetry Variety

GoodTimesWithScar - Scar of the Goodtime Variety

Grian - Grian of the Bread Variety

GeminiTay - Gemini of the Tay Variety

Hypnotizd - Hypno of the Tizd Variety

iJevin - iJevin of the Slime Variety

ImpulseSV - Impulse of the SV Variety

Iskall85 - Iskall of the Eighty-five Variety

JoeHills - Joe of the Hills Variety

Keralis - Keralis of the One Variety

MumboJumbo - Mumbo of the Jumbo Variety

PearlescentMoon - Pearlescent of the Moon Variety

Rendog - Ren of the Dog Variety

StressMonster101 - Stress of the Monster Variety

TangoTek - Tango of the Tek Variety

TinFoilChef - Chef of the Tinfoil Variety

VintageBeef - Beef of the Vintage Variety

Welsknight - Wels of the Knight Variety

xBCrafted - xB of the Crafted Variety

Xisumavoid/Evil X - Xisuma/Evil X of the Void Variety

ZedaphPlays - Zedaph of the Plays Variety

ZombieCleo - Cleo of the Zombie Variety

[galaxygermdraws]

Decided I would do a redraw of this piece from 2021, which WOW it's been that long?? And I realize a lot of people in present day Hermitblr won't understand some of this. Uh. I have a lot of thoughts still.

(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Can't wait to see people ask me about this lol. Thankyu)

[mumbskall]

been watching hc s1 lately :P

[sammy-writes-sometimes]

Word Count: 243

“You do this to yourself weekly?” Pungence asks as he winces.

Bdubs still leans against his side, now tilting his head. “Wha– well, yeah? I guess I do.”

There’s a pause of silence, the brothers leaning against the wall almost solemnly as it settles. Pungence sits on the floor, wiping a hand over his arm as he thinks.

“If– if it helps– I usually use this thing–” He motions something circular with his hands, “–to help it be less scary, but I forgot to grab it.”

“I’m not scared.” Pungence puffs.

It makes him laugh, even the smallest of things.

Like brother like brother. Leaves fallen from the same exact tree.

“By the way, my T shots aren’t like this.” He adds quietly, moving away from Pungence. “They’re– they only really go into the muscle, not blood.” Bdubs shrugs lightly.

Pungence rests a weak, tired hand as his shoulder as he stands, still wobbling and reminding him of when the younger had still been a fawn. Wobbly on newly spawned legs, not knowing what direction was what.

The blindness and nausea had worn off, but not enough to be stable, the younger leaning against the older in some attempt to stay upright.

The action draws him back to the board, to what they had been doing, of the silly idea and gift he was planning to give to Pungence.

“So I– uh–” and he goes on, like the moment of softness hadn’t happened.

[nhothicket]

pungence for a moot on twitter !!

deeply apologize, he is not goku

[rzdhc]

Keralis, Bdubs, Biffa, etc all judging Pungence's building skills is something I didn't know I needed until I watched it

[theinwardshoe]

Headcannon:

Yes pungence is not no longer an active member of hermitcraft, but he knows his brother’s password so he doesn’t intrerrupt him while playing, but he does make havoc when he’s not logged in. Mainly he bugs Kendall’s

[nontypicalnonhumanhermits]

Pungence (and Skyzm) are Watchers! My Watcher lore is convoluted, but basically they're the multiverse police with a cult problem. They got offered to become one in... Season 2? 3? Pungence threw his brother back to Hermitcraft when Bdubs left (Season 5/6) and is all around a menace. Personal headcanon is that Skyzm caused the Moon Crash (even if the theory EX did is cool).

In addition, EX is a robot X made who's currently possessed by a— you guessed it —Watcher! He's not the Watcher, to clarify. He has his own sentience. He's just... -gestures to jeff the minion-

Thanks for reading! ^^

Ooh, former hermits being watchers reminds me of the ending of evo, like returning to being one of the viewers!

and im plural, so hearing a sentient robot being possessed by something else sentient just makes me think of mundane things like one eating the other's dinner

[hermitcraft-shifter]

BUTCHER VANITY by Vane Lily is c!Pungence's theme song. No, I will not elaborate. (I will elaborate and that's a threat.)

[scp-10000]

I feel like knowing Bdubs’s brother Pungence said he’s Assyrian is the Hermit fact I bring up the most.

Like once a piece of information actually gets into my brain, it is stuck there.  It can be buried, but it will also have the ability to come back up again.

This is one of those things that keeps coming back up.  I know a fair amount of weird trivia about Hermits, but I feel like this is one of the Hermit facts I’ve shared the most times, both counting and not counting this post.  

I feel like in the fandom I’m more known for being the one who annoyingly reminds everyone Bdubs’s bro said they were both Assyrain.

[fryingpan1234567]

so, in your post about your HC superhero AU, you mentioned that the villains were mostly helsmits, and you already gave us a few (evil x, helsknight, and the unnamed bdubs sibling that I’m not sure if they’re an original hels or Pungence), so what drove those guys to villainy in the first place?

So! Yeah it’s Pungence, and ofc we’ve got EX and Hels himself.

But there are lots of other Helsmits, most of the names of which are not mine obviously, but I’ve got some stuff on them.

As I mentioned, EX and Pungence ran away from the AHM when they were kids, leaving their brothers behind to be trained to be supers. Hels was knighted by the same ghosts as Wels, so he’s kind of stuck because he swore to protect. He’s got a loophole, though: his partner and the people he considers his family are all villains. Therefore, he is protecting what he has to. Wels is pissed about that but can respect it.

Just a quick list of Helsmits:

Indulge

Zedeath

Limbo

Kamalis

Wendigo

Medic

BadTimesWithScar (BadTimes)

Bear

Mani

EmeraldialSun

AriesEva

TrueSymmetry

Strain

Skall

Phoenix

yC

Some of those are mine, most of them are just ones the fandom have come to conclusions on. If you guess them all right I’ll give you a cookie lol

Basically, they’re all related to the Hermits in some way- maybe they’re siblings, cousins, some rando who happened to be born at the same time, ex best friends, etc. They got sick of being in the Hermits’ shadow, and decided to do something about it.

Most have powers. Some are failed trainees. Some are self-taught. Some are just angsty and decided a life of villainy was what they needed to do. There are even one or two trained by professional villains.

I should mention that the Hermits and Helsmits are not the only hero/ villain teams out there. You thought the Hermits were bitter about being forced into hiding? How do you think the Dream SMP, the actual psychopaths who killed the president’s daughter, feel? The split about down the middle, but that’s a story for another time.

Fortunately, there aren’t very many all-out wars with full teams. Mostly it’s just a couple wreaking havoc, and the appropriate Hermits are sent out to deal with it.

There are a couple very specific backstories though, and I’ll tell you about them:

~ For as long as he could remember, Hels and his twin brother were actually very well off. They had that cool thing where they could read each other’s minds, and they didn’t even fight that often, despite sharing a bedroom and… pretty much everything else.

But. The biggest issue? Wels was a huge suck-up. To their parents, the teachers, the coaches. Hels was more of a ‘put a finger up towards the world’ kind of guy, because he knew it wasn’t kind, and he was happy to return the favor.

When he and his brother were given power as vast as they were, Hels’ mind went straight to what he could do to the assholes that called him slurs, made fun of Wels for every reason possible, their parents, who made both boys feel like they were failures no matter what they did.

Unfortunately, to become a knight, there’s an itty bitty problematic oath you have to take. You can’t harm anyone who doesn’t attack first, and you must hit back within reason.

“Within reason” meant a different thing to Hels than it did his brother and the knights. He’s not stupid. And he doesn’t let go of things easily.

His solution? Leave and find a way to make that oath his own.

Yeah, maybe seducing the leader of the only villain organization he knew (it was very small at the time) was a ploy to get out of being a hero. He didn’t feel like saving the assholes that had caused him so much pain. But then he really fell in love, and he made some genuine friends, and after that?

No one could stand in his way.

~ Pungence liked having powers. It put him above kids who made fun of him and his brother, not that they knew that, but it was nice to have a secret like that.

He had photokinesis, just like Bdubs, only his was more… dark. Bdubs produced light. Pungence sucked it out of things.

Still, they got along. When people were racist assholes at school, the brothers just let loose a string of random Spanish until they got scared and left them alone. That was pretty funny, no matter how many times it happened.

And then one day, there was an offhand comment about how America made the best superheroes. Anyone who wasn’t white or an American citizen could never live up to the heroes they had.

Especially Bdubs and Pungence.

That was the last straw. The boys had decided enough was enough, and showed all those kids right then and there just how heroish they could be.

Which… didn’t go over as well as they’d hoped.

Their family was shunned by the rest of their small town, and they were forced to leave. They ended up in New York, but it wasn’t long before the AHM tracked them down. A massive sum of compensation, more than either brother could comprehend, was offered to their parents in exchange for the two of them. There wasn’t much hesitation when the decision was made to hand them over.

Bdubs resolved to show everyone who had doubted them, their parents, everyone back home, even himself, that he could be great. The greatest, even. He’d be the brightest hero the world had ever seen.

But Pungence couldn’t forgive all of that. Frankly, he was surprised Bdubs could. Normally they were on the same page as far as things like revenge went, but not this time.

He wasn’t going to prove them wrong. He was going to prove them as right as he could, and he knew he’d go down in history… just not on the same side of it as his brother.

~

Martyn Littlewood used to be Ren’s best friend- more than that, for a time, but that went out the window when he discovered Ren was a werewolf.

At first, he was mostly horrified. He felt bad for that, mostly because the only reason he found out was that Ren came to him for help after being injured by hunters, thinking Martyn would help him. He was wrong, of course, but he didn’t know that at the time.

Once Martyn got over the fear and Ren was far away out of his life, he decided maybe powers like that wouldn’t be so bad. He happened to come across an offer to become a hero, and he didn’t pass it up.

They didn’t quite give him the powers he was expecting. But honestly, a wendigo wasn’t all that bad. Pretty sick, actually.

He realized the issue when his thirst for blood became too strong to control. It took the entire police department together to contain him, and he was handed over to the AHM, only to be recruited by EX and Hels.

Revenge on Ren and the people who locked him up, plus free usage of his powers? Not a bad deal.

~ Typically, heroes were respected more than villains. You know what villains have over heroes?

Fear factor.

People are terrified of beings with power and aren’t afraid to use it. Heroes could be pushed around, and villains could not.

The Void twins knew this. It’s why they came to the Earth dimension in the first place- power. Their powers don’t work in their own dimension, so Earth was a good place to make a name for themselves.

X wanted to go down in history, just like Bdubs.

So did EX. They wanted to be the most powerful interdimensional overlord in the history of time-space.

X was able to keep them at bay for a few years, but when they met a new boy with just as much ambition as them? It was too good an opportunity to pass up.

Pungence said goodbye to Bdubs when he left. EX said nothing to their brother, because they knew X had the power to catch up to them. So as soon as they were ready, EX got them to Britain and they didn’t come back until they were ready to take on New York with a brand new team of very powerful people ready to kick ass.

~~~ ta-daaa, how do we feel anon? does that make sense? I wanna start writing more actual stuff and not just concepts lol send in more y’all