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trick or treaaaaat!!! there's a little bee at your door :]
I can explain this one too okay um. Well you see it’s
how’s the destruction fic going? :D
BAD OKAY IT'S GOING BAD!!!!!
(this is mostly a joke; i've had a big mental block with it for a while because i've lost track of the sound of Doc's voice for the last chapter rghrghrhg HOWEVER!!! i literally just moved that chapter to my notes app so its less of a mental hurdle to pull up the document LOL. so i'm hoping i can wrap it up real soon!)
Haii, random q,,
What ships are canon/ure planning to have canon in the au?
(no pressure just wondering~)
so far the main ones that have been implied to build at some point are Ethubs [Etho|Bdubs], Docsuma [Doc|Xisuma], and Ranchers [Tango|Jimmy]! Though I'm a grumbo girlie at heart and i would be surprised if grumbo wasn't a thing at some point sooner or later :3
X isn’t big on hugs, but Doc does what he can. It’s the little things that help.
Been thinking about lots of soft and cozy and healing xisumas to make up for the terrible terrible horrors I’m putting him through <3
I’m not familiar with the games, so I’m gonna ask somethin here
Do they generally treat the androids poorly until they realize they deviate? How does the shift from “this is my obedient servant” to “this is my close friend” usually go? /genq
(Also if you answered this already, sorry! Couldn’t find it :’D)
OUUUH no this is a great question!!
I honestly think bdubs is one of the only hermits who is really overtly kind of “upset” about having an android (at least, that I’ve figured out so far)! There might be a common “this android will do the tasks I give it” mentality across all of Hermitcraft, since that’s what they were made for, up until Doc deviates and informs Xisuma (who then informs the rest of the server) about the phenomenon.
But, even then, I think many/most of the hermits treat their androids very human-like: being kind to them, making casual conversation, laughing like they would with any of their other friends, stuff like that! Of course, it’s not really the same when their non-deviant androids are only parroting back responses that algorithms tell them are the most appropriate and friendly responses, but I have a lot of cute scenes in my head where, say, Pearl asks (non-deviant) Impulse what he thinks of her newest build, despite impulse not being able to give a thoughtful or sentient answer, or Grian dragging (non-deviant) mumbo along by the hand for his newest prank or idea, or Cleo making small talk with (non-deviant) joe about a book they’ve been reading lately, stuff like that :-)
Since the androids still maintain memories from their “non-deviant” time, most of the time the friendships that form after androids deviate one by one are really natural-feeling :3
A last life ethubs comic that isn’t really about last life ethubs
Not quite
Why does Ren have 4 ears? Are they all real or is one set fake?
Hehe I’ve gotten this question a lot actually! They’re all real— I like to think hybridization isn’t always a clean balance of traits, so Ren just unfortunately ended up with two sets of ears— his Dog ears being much more receptive to sound, naturally— and sometimes when the extra intake of sound is too overwhelming, I imagine he wears earplugs in his human ears to help adjust :> it’s a bit weird, but idk! i like to make designs funky and nonconventional! I liked the idea that Ren had hearing struggles due to wonky hybridization and just kept the concept :>
This is @myketheartista’s fault and myketheartista’s fault ONLY
OBSESSED with dbhc doc but is there a reason he only sometimes has his horns? i don’t think they were in his ref so i was curious <3
YEAH!! I did a stupid doodle about it here, but basically he eventually added them in s8 when he got really into the goat thing (and they were non-removable), but when he went into season 9 his player model reset, and he thought he would theme his season differently anyway so he decided to go without them. However, halfway through the season he realized he really missed them and made them again, re-coding himself so that they would now be part of his actual player model (so they won’t disappear every time he enters a new world). In addition to adding them to his code, however, he also made them removable! so they’re like, his default state, but he can manually remove them to sleep or whatever else (like when I forget to draw them n.n )
looking through your docsuma tag.....love them. wish they had one more combined braincell so they could realize their feelings
HERE'S THE THING THOUGH OKAY the problem is actually that they're both too smart about their feelings. you've got me down a horrible rabbit hole okay let me do my best to explain without being a freak(reading this back over, i failed <3).
Xisuma takes longer to realize, first of all. He's got so much to deal with coming out of s8 and through the beginning of s9 that quite frankly he's really just grateful to have another friend he can count on and trust, and he's so consumed by getting the androids back in working order on top of his actual season 9 plans (on top of Cleo shoving self care down his throat and demanding that he make a better habit of taking breaks and taking care of himself, which takes a LONG time to adjust to, if it can be argued that he ever does) that he doesn't really realize he's developed feelings for Doc until his heart beats him over the head with it randomly one day. Probably sometime in S10. Even then, because of said busy-ness, I think Xisuma has a very hard time getting over the meta-ness of a creator developing feelings for his creation and the selfishness of that reality amidst all of his other responsibilities, and he is likely too scared/overwhelmed to entertain the thought of the feelings themselves, much less the likelihood of reciprocation or the fantasy of a relationship.
Doc, on the other hand, realizes he is developing feelings for Xisuma kind of steadily throughout the course of s9, since that's when they start spending so much more time together in the lab working on androids and improving android tech. As a general statement, Doc is very aware of himself, all of the time. His awareness of the self is very important to his sense of normalcy and control, so any time he experiences a new emotion, he notes it, logs it.
So, while he's very aware of the feelings he's developing as they happen, he doesn't quite put a name to it/realize what it actually is until he talks to Tango and Etho, funnily enough--It's definitely one of those moments where Tango or Etho or whomever are explaining their struggles with the physical manifestations of their... idk, lovesickness-- ie, thirium pump rate irregularities, temperature fluctuations, influxes of feelings they've described as a combination of longing, affection, want, happiness, yearning... and Doc, as the unbiased third party to put 2 and 2 together, explains to them that those are obvious signs of romantic attraction, only very belatedly realizing several hours later that those are the exact symptoms he hasn't quite been able to put a name to. Naturally he's exceptional about being quiet about this realization until he slips up during a maintenance check-in with Tango sometime after, who is not doing well in s9, and Tango (mid romance-ranting) catches the passing of a wistful expression on Doc's face and calls him out for "totally thinking about someone right now" (Teasing aside, tango promises to keep Doc's secret).
So, despite knowing well his feelings before X ever develops his own, Doc is actually very, very careful about them-- He knows more than anyone else how busy Xisuma is. He knows how stressed X is. He also knows Xisuma seems to be more knowledgeable when it comes to emotions and feelings, and despite the clear signs that Xisuma shows interest(?) in him as well, Doc can only assume there is a good reason nothing romantic has happened between them-- he trusts Xisuma more than anything, and he--firmly-- will not breach this trust by acting on something Xisuma does not seem to be ready for (or does not seem to want yet(yet?)). Therefore, Doc is patient, and even though as Season 10 develops and Doc becomes aware of the likelihood that Xisuma could return the feelings, he trusts Xisuma's emotional intuition more than anything. He, painfully, recognizes Xisuma's discomfort (or hesitation), concludes that there must be a missing variable in this equation he cannot grasp, and decides to let Xisuma lead because of it. He will not push farther than he feels Xisuma has.
It's definitely one of those "fell first" "fell harder" type situations I think. I'm normal about them. can you tell
"i wonder why xisuma would be apprehensive/avoidant of being in the lab with doc" is a very funny question to pose right after destruction JFKDSLJFKL like maybe hes just running out of spare doc limbs? ever thought of that?
LMAOOOO LISTENNN yeah it's actually hilarious, I was telling a mutual this the other day but like. Please understand when I say this is all backwards. This is not the order in which I planned to release this lore (we went from Destruction, which is the start of s9, to this weird cub discussion comic that's in mid-late s8, and i'll probably be giving more lore kinda working back towards the beginning of season 8 LMAO) SO IT'S ALL TOPSY TURVY but also... it's kinda fun that way i think. Like a puzzle piece!!! I should put a season 8/9 grand timeline together and update it as i post more... that would be fun
YIPPEE!!! another opportunity to not shut up about the storytelling implications of a dbhc comic >:3 (with some of my favorite tags because y’all nailed this one down)
[Set in Mid-Late Hermitcraft Season 8]
In which we learn a little something about Cub, a little something about Doc, and a little something about Xisuma.
