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colorfulstudentmuffinmaker · 2 years

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I'm on an Empires Hermes brainrot, so here's some of my headcanons on the relationships of the the other Emperors have with the Child of Thunder. (they/them/their for Hermes)

Gem

Gem isn't too fond of children, but she is smitten with this one

Hermes loves her wings and is careful when she allows to touch them.

When she has the time, she'll regale them with stories of wonder, light and kingdoms of faraway lands and times as she flutters around with a faint glow.

They call her their Fairy Godmother due to this.

fWhip

He is endearingly called "Scrunkle fWhip", like how Mabel and Dipper call Stan their "Grunkle"

Of course our good ol' uncle scrunkle is smitten with the child as well.

He once built them an incredibly elaborate and fun rollercoaster which Hermes thoroughly enjoyed.

Hermes loves Snort.

Lizzie

Lizzie is sort of a... strange aunt figure to dear Hermes.

She drops by, tells them how cod and salmon are dangerous, and leaves all cat burglar-like.

For their birthday, she gives them some yarn. Which Hermes, the dear, bless them, graciously accepts.

On her part, because she knows it's a troll of a gift, she amasses enough willpower to use the yarn and not play with it and turn it into a nice cat sweater. (with some help from Katherine)

Scott

Scott is the type of friend that'll regale a child with the story of how their parents met.

Except he tells Hermes how they were magically brought into existence.

One story is Joel got, ahem, dizzy, after drinking so much... grape juice. He saw Sausage suddenly and through drunken god magic spawned the dear child.

Another one is Sausage took a bath at the Lore Fountain for the lolz, and when Joel did some lore there, Hermes was made. A gross one admittedly.

Hermes' favorite is when Joel and Sausage first met at spawn, they instantly felt something between them. Not an attraction per se, just... Something. And that something brought about Hermes.

Jimmy

Our toy sheriff tends to give the best hugs, that's what Hermes thinks. That's what makes him their godfather. (insert Codfather reference here)

They don't know why exactly, but Jimmy just sort of feels like, that's what he was made for, to bring comfort to a child.

Jim also teaches Hermes to respect the law, of course.

Jim gives them an honorary deputy badge because of how much Hermes respects the law.

Pix

Pix loves the little tyke.

Hermes tends to get involved and help out with lore preservation and pranking, helping place glass and such.

Especially the calcite prank.

Hermes loves the Emerald Fountain and always asks one of their dads to take them their when they find emerald ore.

Katherine

Katherine, with Joel and Sausage's express permission, takes Hermes monster hunting with her in Glimmer Grove.

She says it'll be good practice for their god powers.

It is.

Hermes is a natural, vaporizing mobs left and right.

They also love watching Katherine transform. They have stars in their eyes a la Steven Universe.

Joey

Pirate Joe doesn't get to see Hermes often.

But he always brings the best gifts.

Pirate hats, treasure chests, prismarine.

Joey, Sausage, and Hermes once got to sail across the Ocean, with Hermes getting a chance to steer, with Joey's guidance.

Joel helped them escape a fight with Skeletrons by sending winds their way.

Shelby

Shelby always speaks with Hermes through telepathy nowadays, which they greatly appreciate.

She tends to send them funky potions, that are mostly harmless.

They mostly turn the stripe in their hair different colors.

Shelby doesn't try much magic around them in fear of messing stuff up and hurting them.

False

False is super awkward around Hermes, since she and children don't mesh well, but she tries to be cool, and failing

However, she did send them a wind up toy of an iron golem, that Hermes loves.

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skydoesthings · 6 months

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@mcyt-halloween gift exchange for @sand-stinger! Hope you like it :3c

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God, was Shelby scared. The sculk was spreading, and it was spreading FAST. It had covered her body, it had taken over her empire, and the ghost of the area was even more mad at her than usual. Yeah. She hated this. And the worst thing of all, she had blown Katherine away so rudely, when all she wanted to do was help! But, she also knew that it wasn’t her that shouted at the princess. Every little while, her memory would start to go fuzzy but remain there, as if she was watching a movie where the main character’s going to make a decision that will make the entire story make a turn for the worse, and there was nothing she could do or have done to stop it. And she wanted to stop it SO BADLY! Yup, you know the feeling. It was making her do so many things that she didn’t want to do, just the other day she blew up a potion that she’d been working on for days! Everything was happening, and all of it was happening to her. Oh yeah, some evil being just shows up and starts living in your body and making you do things you don’t want to do? Not. Cool. It was infuriating! Now Katherine’s been talking so much more to Joey, and that was just one of Shelby’s problems! (No Joel, she doesn’t think about girls all the time. Just, like, 70 percent of the time.) Anyways, many problems. Yeah. Like, she overhears all her citizens talking about her, like she’s changed from the benevolent, clumsy witch they once knew to a slightly more rugged, more violent being. And there was always that voice, that little voice that just showed up in the back of her head, telling her to give in, and keeps repeating that weird mantra ‘spread the souls, spread the sculk’. Oh no, that reminded her of Cub! Poor Cub, that rift thing had unwillingly taken him from his ‘hermitcraft’ or whatever it was called world, and dumped him here, in empires! And then stupid Shelby, with no control of her stupid magic, turned him into a sculk monster! Thankfully, she had somehow managed to cure him before he crossed over to his world again, but that was a SCARE. She can’t let that happen ever again. But it seems, her magic was failing her once again. Every potion, every spell cast, they all did nothing. When she got close to Tortoise, he looks at the sculk and walks a step back. All her magic could do was make it appear like the sculk was gone, even when it wasn’t. She just doesn’t think that she can survive like this. It’s all getting too much. And she hasn’t even started on the fact that she’s a wanted fugitive in the witch world, and got expelled from her academy! All the negative things in her life were consuming her, ripping away the fibres of her skin, making her feel like she wasn’t human. “And,” she chuckled, “I don’t think I am anymore at this point.” Shelby walked out of her hut, and took a step back to look at it. The hut, that she had lovingly made, as soon as she came to empires, trying to make it as cosy and cute as she possibly could, now looked harsh and unwelcoming. The kingdom of Evermoore, which she had built up with nothing but her bare hands and a few spells, now looked dreary and chilling, full of citizens casting worried looks and her and then hurriedly whispering to their friends. The mangrove swamp, which seemed cold at first, but soon became home, now looked just as scary as it did as when Shelby first came there. Of course, not to mention the sculk that had spread everywhere. She suddenly heard whispers, and noises that sounded like howls of dogs.

“You started this…you’re the reason that all of this is happening…pathetic…you couldn’t even do anything in your first life…”

“Huh? What? Who are you? What do you mean by first life? HELLO???”

Just as mysteriously as the voices started, they disappeared. But the voice in her head got stronger. “Spread the souls, spread the sculk. Spread the souls, spread the sculk. Spread the souls, SPREAD THE SCULK!”

And, you know what, maybe it was right. She didn’t have anything left to lose in her life. She’s realised, that she never felt stronger, and more in control of her magic, than now, when the sculk possessed her. She’s realised that she should have had revenge on Joey a long time ago, and maybe on the witches’ academy too, while she’s at it! If that makes her immoral, if that makes her the bad guy, then so be it! She’ll be the bad guy. She’ll redeem herself, no matter what it takes, no matter what anyone says.

She walked into the center of her empire. She saw the place where the sculk had begun spreading. She got down on her knees and gently touched the substance. She felt the power, the anger and the sadness these souls that disintegrated into the sculk felt, and she felt it surge into her body, and provide her with power. She had fully embrace the sculk now, she couldn’t take the things happening to her any longer. She slowly undid the overalls and took of her shirt. Ah, yep. That felt better. She could feel the power flowing through her veins much better now. She slowly got up, and took of her hat and threw it away, watching it fall to the ground. The old Shelby was gone now, and she would never come back. Suddenly, she heard footsteps.

“Hey Shelby, I haven’t seen you in some time and I wanted to check oon yyoouu…Shelby?”

Shelby turned around, a manic grin on her face, sculk all over her body, highlights missing from her eyes and a glint in her eyes that would make anybody sure that she was insane.

“Hello Oli,” she crooned. “You’re just in time to witness the marking of my new change.”

And then she pulled out her scythe and lashed out at him.

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Somewhere, locked deep in her mind, the uncorrupted Shelby shook the bars of her sculk cage, tears streaming down her face, being able to do absolutely nothing as this new version of her killed her friend.

#sky actually wrote #i am actualy so happy w/ this #i hope you like it too :]

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unexistingdotnet · 2 years

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Make it Better

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Word Count: 1,225

Summary: Superhero AU. The famed Vigilante Huntress shows up at Shelby’s door after getting dealt pretty bad wounds, unaware that Shelby has already figured out Huntress is her classmate and crush, Katherine.

Relationships: NatureWives (KatherineElizabeth/Shubble)

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It did cross Shelby's mind that this would be a pretty good set up to a horror movie. A young woman, reading late at night, hears a knock on the door. It is harsh and slow and pained. Outside, there is a slight pitter patter of light rain and the occasional car racing by, going who knows where at this ungodly hour. Shelby was only awake because she was expecting this arrival. She didn’t know it would come, but something in her guts told her tonight would be one of those nights.

On the other side of the door was The Huntress, a masked vigilante famous for her swift justice and the terror she struck into the hearts of evildoers everywhere.

To Shelby though, the Huntress was just the girl who showed up in the middle of the night, like a wet cat, in need of someone to take care of her. She was just the girl who tried not to let Shelby see that she was crying as Shelby stitched her wounds closed. She was just the girl who blushed deep red whenever Shelby touched her sides gently, or kissed a wound better or had to get really close to patch her up.

She was just the girl who sat behind her in bio 101 and asked for help on problem sets she didn’t really need help on. Katherine didn’t know Shelby knew, but there aren’t too many girls running around with one of their eyes clouded over, and certainly none who could possibly be as adorable, brave and talented as Katherine. Besides. Even without the eye, Shelby would know. She knew exactly what Katherine’s eyes look like, good and bad.

Shelby’s initial reaction to the huntress is always the same. Awe. Katherine usually wears sweaters which, though very cute, don’t highlight her biceps the way her leather costume does. It happened slowly, gently, then all at once. First she had a friend, then a good friend, then a day spent with out her was a day spent dreaming of Katherine. Shelby had never been in love before, she had never had a crush before, she had never so much as given someone a second look. She thought a crush would be bitter, she definitely didn’t see it as this sickeningly sweet.

The huntress coughed up a lungful of blood and smiled. “Hey Stranger. I might need a patch or two... could you help me?”

“Oh my god, you’re bleeding so much.” No matter how many times the Huntress showed up for help, it was still scary.

Shelby helped the Huntress lie down on her couch. She laid her head back and the Huntress sunk into the couch. She was starting to leave a depression in this exact position. Shelby helped Katherine out of her suit, and started to look her over. Other than the obvious gash in her side, she had a ton of bruises and smaller cuts. Shelby placed ice packs all over body and disinfected her needle to get prepared to stitch her up.

“I’m going to start stitching, so start talking about something.”

“Wait, wait, wait.” Katherine grabbed Shelby’s wrist. “What should I talk about?” Any time Katherine was asked to just talk, she’d start on this cute girl in her Bio class who was super smart and super cool. This didn’t feel like the right place for that.

“Just tell me about your week.”

“But what if... what if it reveals my secret identity.”

Shelby smiled her small, little grin. “Somehow, I don’t think that’ll be a problem. Leave out any details that you don’t want me to have.”

“Okay let me think.” It still hurt, of course, but she kept talking. She tried to remember the things that were important to her this week, about how she had a test coming up and was studying with this cute girl, or hanging out with her friends, just the things that stood out to her.

Once Shelby had the wound stitched up, she placed a bandage over it and let herself kiss right next to the wound on her stomach. “Do you feel better?”

Katherine giggled. “Well... I have another place you can kiss and make better.” She tapped her cheek, very close to her lips. Normally she wouldn’t have the confidence for this. Maybe it was the blood loss clouding her judgement, but also, when she was in her huntress costume, she felt like she was invincible, like she could do anything. It was almost a completely different person.

Shelby stifled a nervous laugh as blood poured into her cheeks, flushing her face, making it painfully obvious how smitten she was. Somehow, Katherine’s fingers had become interlocked with hers and her brain was yelling at her to kiss her you fool. More than ever before, she was drop dead gorgeous right now. Shelby could smell the blood and sweat coating her skill like a protective bubble.

Shelby opened her mouth slightly, and started to lean in. “I’m sorry, I can’t.”

In an instant, all the moxie drained out of Katherine. Shelby rushed to the sink and scrubbed the blood off her hands and dabbed her forehead with a wet towel.

“Wh- Why not?” Somehow, the deep wound wasn’t the thing dragged her towards tears. But she couldn’t cry, not now.

Shelby walked back and knelt by Katherine. She took a deep breath to steady her nerves and started to explain. “There’s this other girl.” She started to dab Katherine’s forehead and clean her off. Doing something else calmed her down, and you could almost miss the shake to her voice. “I like you a lot, Miss Huntress, but you should meet her. She’s so sweet and so smart, and I’m not a good student, but I’ve been to every class with her just because sometimes I’ll turn around and see her looking at me and when she turns her head to pretend she isn’t it’s the cutest thing.” Katherine felt Shelby’s fingers touching the edge of her mask, begging for permission. She nodded and closed her eyes and felt the tape taking a little bit of her skin with it.

She opened her eyes to see Shelby’s overwhelmed face, a cocktail of excitement, fear, relief and happiness.

“Damn, you’re gorgeous.”

Katherine couldn’t stop herself from laughing and blushing.

They stared at each other for a long time. They both knew what happened next but both were really hoping the other would make the first move.

“You know...” Katherine said, mumbled really. “If you wanted to kiss me now, I’d like that.”

“Huh.” Shelby paused. “Okay... Okay... Okay. I’m doing it.” She didn’t do anything. Then, suddenly, she gave Katherine the lightest peck on the lips you could imagine.

Shelby looked down at Katherine, who was grinning. “Let me try that again.”

Usually when the Huntress crashed at Shelby’s place, She was gone before the sun rose. It was nice to wake up here, and not be in a rush. It wasn’t like she could leave anyways, Shelby’s arms gripped her waist tightly, and Katherine would never forgive herself if she woke her up. So she laid her head back down and snuggled into her girlfriend. Somewhere on the street a car alarm went off and she may have heard an ambulance going, but for now that wasn’t her problem.

#nature wives #vigilante au #superhero au #shubble #empires smp shubble #Katherine Elizabeth #empires smp katherine elizabeth #empiresshipping

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