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nonhumanhermitheadcanons · 2 years

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This is a compilation of all the entries for the NHH Fictober! The original post can be found here, the tag (NHO/NHH fictober) here/here, and the AO3 Collection here.

Day One: Vampire

00FFFF - An old friend (AO3) Summary: “Please, Scar? Why won’t you let me in?” “Cub, it’s the middle of the night,” Scar sighed. “I’d rather go back to bed than get roped into whatever you’re planning to do this time. The vex didn’t call for us, did they?”

blueticked (tumblr) Summary: He had made peace with his fate. Recited his oaths. Said his goodbyes. He knew that this was a mission he wasn't going to return from. If he could take a few of these vampires - these monsters - with him along to the afterlife, he was ready to sacrifice himself to protect his loved ones.

CrazyCatMeow - A Quick Shopping Trip (tumblr & AO3) Summary: TFC is shopping in boatem and nothing is going poorly, for once. Except he’s getting hungry. He doesn’t want to become the problem.

Leopardmask - Why Does My Deer Have Red Eyes? (tumblr & AO3) Summary: False and Stress find a strange new creature roaming the swamp. It looks like an herbivore, but those are some awfully big teeth...

Lackyducks (tumblr) Summary: Bright signs highlight a neon outline onto the black bricked building. A metal staircase leads up to a platform overhead, heavy bass thumping through the walls. But, outside, the air is crisp with autumn chill, and the glow of the moon is obscured by thick clouds. And a peculiar group huddles in front of a lone vending machine.

Day Two: Werewolf

blueticked (tumblr) Summary: "Where's Etho?! You found him?" "Shh... yeah, we found him. He's sleeping in Scar's wagon. The big one." "Why's he-" Iskall huffed, stomping towards Scar's base. "What's he-" "Iskall," Impulse stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. Iskall whirled around to face him, and Impulse shook his head slowly. "He's a fox.”

CrazyCatMeow - If an animal sits on you you can’t move (tumblr & AO3) Summary: It’s the full moon And Ren is ready for his night.

Leopardmask - Pale Moonlight (tumblr & AO3) Summary: A white wolf prowls on the night of every full moon. There is a werewolf on Hermitcraft.

Day Three: Ghosts

blueticked (tumblr) Summary: Impulse sat up with a jolt, placing a hand over his chest, finding himself back in his starter house at Boatem. As many times as he had respawned over the years, it never ceased to be a startling, fearful experience.

CrazyCatMeow - Grim Grining Ghosts (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Something glitches, and Iskall suffers the consequences.

Leopardmask - Grim Circumstances (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Ren's emergency-grade cybernetics have had the potential to result in grave mistakes...

Day Four: Zombies

00FFFF - No don’t go back to that comfortable bed (AO3) Summary: Based on You’ll Dig a Grave With Me I’d like to think that Zedaph would eventually grow comfortable (maybe a bit too comfortable) with the fact that he died.

CrazyCatMeow - ZombieHills (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Joe gets bitten, but there’s not much anyone can do until he’s fully turned…

Leopardmask - Mobile Marketing Mishap (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Tango’s advertising scheme turns out to be a little dangerous… and a little too much for one person to handle alone.

Day Five: Demon

CrazyCatMeow - Where the demons hide (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Something’s in Zedaph’s base, and when Xisuma comes to take a look his brother bolts past him and blocks the door.

Leopardmask - Field Experience (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Tango tries to summon a friend. Another friend gets in the way.

Day Six: Angels

CrazyCatMeow - Your smiling face (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Impulse normally doesn’t get tired but today seems to be an exception… when he wakes up he realizes why.

Leopardmask - Z To A (tumblr & AO3) Summary: The Spookificator doesn’t always make people scary. Sometimes the concept is scary enough.

Day Seven: Hybrids

00FFFF - Spience (AO3) Summary: Tango grabs his communicator just before he reaches the front door to Zedaph’s lab. He checks his last received messages. <Zedaph> Tango!!! You have to come see this! <Zedaph> My latest experiment has been a success! Come by my lab :)

CrazyCatMeow - A pressing problem (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Something is wrong with Xisuma, EvilX Will do everything in his power to fix it.

Leopardmask - Hybrid Hygiene (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Being hybridized with another mob often comes with problems that neither creature would have had normally. As a silverfish hybrid, Wels has a carapace to deal with.

Day Eight: Ghost Hunting

CrazyCatMeow - Who You Gonna Call? (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Not this crew of ghost hunters. They aren’t the best at the game.

Leopardmask - Mending the Split (tumblr & AO3) Summary: When Doc and Bdubs argued, they divided Grian’s haunted house between themselves. When the house was split, someone else got caught in the middle.

Day Nine: Nocturnal

CrazyCatMeow - Instincts (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Doc gets like this some times, when he’s more creeper than not…

Leopardmask - Nighttime Wanderings (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Joe can't sleep. Cleo doesn't sleep. It's nice to have each other.

Day Ten: Eldritch Being

CrazyCatMeow - The Flowers Over Take (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Stress’s ice palace has been overtaken by vines, the hermits don’t know how they should proceed. Bad memories are linked to overtaking vines after all.

Leopardmask - From Void She Came (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Everyone knows that the Void destroys. Not as many know that the Void creates.

Day Eleven: VOID

00FFFF - Adhesion (AO3) Summary: Etho has never taken his mask off. Not since he put it on for the first time.

blueticked (tumblr) Summary: Having a void hole at Boatem wasn't doing Impulse any favours. This Impulse is from the Dynasty Decapitated AU!

CrazyCatMeow - Turn To The Void (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Something is very wrong, a patch of void has appeared on Impulse’s hand and it’s growing

Leopardmask - Press Escape (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Ren and Doc have trapped themselves in another world on their quest to solve the mystery surrounding them. They can’t get out by normal means… it seems like there might be only one way back to Hermitcraft.

Day Twelve: Midnight

CrazyCatMeow - Midnight Screaming (tumblr & AO3) Summary: It’s midnight and the fox known as Etho will not be quiet.

Leopardmask - BOO! (tumblr & AO3) Summary: There’s a reason Bdubs has an emergency bed on him, a reason he goes to bed at dusk every night. If he stays awake until midnight… well, no one really knows what will happen, even Bdubs, but he knows it must be bad.

Day Thirteen: Death

00FFFF - Grim End (AO3) Summary: A prank. A plan. A mission. An unexpected blast of explosive energy, and then darkness.

CrazyCatMeow - What will you do when that timer runs out? (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Nothing ever came of the timer Death granted Mumbo in season six, but it will always be there. Ticking away, until it stops...

Leopardmask - And the Universe Said, "I Love You" (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Respawn glitches sometimes. It’s no big deal, really. But the delay time can turn into quite the experience.

Day Fourteen: Witches

00FFFF - The Lion, the Wizard and the Crystal (AO3) Summary: In Last Life session 3, Bdubs bought a ‘Courage of a Lion’ crystal from Wizard Scar.

CrazyCatMeow - Curses (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Gem saves a witch’s cat and in return gets a few potions

Leopardmask - Do You Even Know Who I Am? (tumblr & AO3) Summary: A particularly enterprising witch thought that the strange blue slime in their swamp would be a fascinating creature to experiment with. Jevin disagrees.

Day Fifteen: Bats

Leopardmask - Driving Cleo Batty (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Joe can turn into a bat. He’s not a vampire, just a bat. He uses this power for only the most important of endeavours, obviously.

Day Sixteen: Potions

CrazyCatMeow - Potions (tumblr & AO3) Summary: The Combrewter brakes and ends up making some weird potions. Zedaph’s going to try them.

Leopardmask - In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Zedaph wants to help his friend. Secretly modifying a potion and surreptitiously hiding the volatile result nearby is probably not the best way to do that.

Day Seventeen: Plants

00FFFF - Slept like a log (AO3) Summary: Beef has his feet planted firmly in the dirt, and stretches his arms up wide. He feels them extending, growing leaves, taking in the sun from above and the water from below. Based on the idea that the nHo all got taken by the jungle in S5, and were replaced with plant-like creatures. You can read all about Etho in this story!

blueticked (tumblr) Summary: It was a sweltering hot day, and Aque Town's tall buildings kept all that heat within, humidity trapped between the buildings, so close together. Bdubs needed to get out of Aque Town. He could feel the heat beneath his feet, his building materials hot in his hands, his sweat dripping off the tips of his hair.

CrazyCatMeow - Things have changed (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Keralis meets potato Mumbo.

Leopardmask - Hug A Tree (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Beef had been specifically and subconsciously avoiding jungles for a little while. He’s pretty sure none of them are cursed like That One was, but he doesn’t want to deal with the memories, either. Swapping homes with Iskall for a while is starting to bring them back… as well as some other changes he had tried to forget.

Day Eighteen: Robots

00FFFF - Foxes and farms (AO3) Summary: Based on Foxhunt by Leopardmask. Mild spoilers if you haven’t read that yet!

CrazyCatMeow - HoneyBee (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Bdubs has had a pretty bad respawn, and something is different.

Leopardmask - You'd Lose Your Head If It Wasn't Screwed On! (tumblr & AO3) Summary: A mysterious, headless figure has appeared overnight… has something happened to one of the hermits?

Day Nineteen: D&D Game Night

CrazyCatMeow - The Road To Phandalin (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Doc wakes up in a place he doesn’t recognize. Thankfully some hermits are there. Now to just figure out how to get home.

Day Twenty: Resurrection

CrazyCatMeow - Resurrection (tumblr & AO3) Summary: The spookifacator has done something to Cleo. And she doesn’t like it.

Leopardmask - Til Death Do Us Part (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Alliances shift constantly in and across many worlds. But one union will stay strong, despite the magic that threatens to pull it apart.

Day Twenty-One: Creation of Life

CrazyCatMeow - A New Life (tumblr & AO3) Summary: A person who went by the name of Doc created Tango many years ago, he can't be the same Doc that's on Hermitcraft. He's a creeper... Tango's creator was human...

Leopardmask - Revenge of the Spider (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Cub thought he was being funny when he donated hundreds of cave spider heads to the Head Games. The spiders did not think it was as funny.

Day Twenty-Two: Slime

CrazyCatMeow - Slimes can absorb almost anything (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Jevin can eat almost anything due to him being a slime. Hypno spots him absorbing his food and he’s curious about what he can absorb.

Leopardmask - Slime Powered (tumblr & AO3) Summary: You are a slime. Your base is powered by slime energy. What could possibly go wrong?

Day Twenty-Three: Possession

00FFFF - Don’t dig straight down (AO3) Summary: How long has it been since Wels set off to close all the portals? Based on the story in which hermits mysteriously go missing in the New Nether. If I ever were to write a part two, this would 100% play into it.

CrazyCatMeow - I’ve Mingled With The Wither Lords (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Something that most of the hermits don't know is that Evil X was being controlled during his attempts to take control of the Hermitcraft server. That is no longer the case, he was so bad at being evil that the withers dumped him and moved on to a new vessel. This new vessel was banished and the withers shift back to the original vessel.

Day Twenty-Four: Centaur

CrazyCatMeow - Centaur (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Wels has had a pretty bad day. It’s going to get worse

Leopardmask - The Wrong Half (tumblr & AO3) Summary: xB and Hypno may have killed a few too many horses in their quest for business.

Day Twenty-Five: Limbs

00FFFF - Impossible? (AO3) Summary: This... this is not what he expected when he plucked that glowing opossum off the road.

CrazyCatMeow - Too many. (tumblr & AO3) Summary: There’s a glitch, and Bdubs is not happy.

Leopardmask - Yes! Wings! (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Impulse’s little prank on Zedaph leads in an unexpected direction.

Day Twenty-Six: Pumpkins

CrazyCatMeow - Pumpkins (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Pumpkin carving with the hermits. From the meteor effect universe.

Leopardmask - Destruction, Death, and Plants (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Mumbo has a new pet. It’s helping him out, but to everyone else it’s a bit of a nuisance.

Day Twenty-Seven: Dragon

CrazyCatMeow - Dragons (tumblr & AO3) Summary: It's been a long day, so Tango's decided to take a bit of a brake and go relax in a lava lake. His friends join him.

Leopardmask - Sun, Moon, and Stars (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Gem wakes up in a strange, though beautiful place, in an even stranger body. Thankfully, she's not alone.

Day Twenty-Eight: Snakes

CrazyCatMeow - Snakes (tumblr & AO3) Summary: It’s common knowledge that Scar is absolutely terrified of snakes. As such when one gets into his base, Boatem is absolutely ready to help.

Day Twenty-Nine: Mers

CrazyCatMeow - Sharks and Eels (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Impulse needs to grab some things from horse head farms. A perfect time for a swim.

Leopardmask - There Are Many Benefits to Being a Marine Humanoid (tumblr & AO3) Summary: There are mer hermits, and one has the ability to temporarily grant others a similar form. However, it’s unclear what might happen when trying to add fishy features to someone who doesn’t even have bones.

Day Thirty: Dolls

CrazyCatMeow - Dolls (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Bdubs had an unfortunate encounter with the Spookifacator.

Leopardmask - A Floppy Kerfuffle (tumblr & AO3) Summary: The hermits know Grian can inhabit any one of the bodies he's made for himself. But it's still funny to see how they react to uninhabited ones appearing in their bases.

Day Thirty-One: Dolls

CrazyCatMeow - Trick Or Treat (tumblr & AO3) Summary: It’s Halloween and Tango unexpectedly respawns. So the Hermits Agree to take him trick-or-treating. Jevin tags along for fun.

Alternate Prompt: Transformation

CrazyCatMeow - Mumboshroom (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Mumbo peace-love-and-planted his way into becoming a mooshroom.

Alternate Prompt: Hermitfusion Generator

Leopardmask - Vulpine Wine (tumblr & AO3) Summary: Joe might need to fortify his winery against foxes that are too clever for their own good.

#hermitcraft #nho fictober #hermitcraft fanfic #hermitcraft fic

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justletmeplayminecraft · 3 years

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so, i thought i'd do some of the prompts for @nonhumanhermitheadcanons's fictober list! i probably won't do all of them, but i might post one or two of them.

warnings/summary: casual discussion of blood-based snacks, pearl is a city vampire, grian is a small town vamp, mumbo is an out of touch vampire and pearl is showing them the ropes

Vampires

Bright signs highlight a neon outline onto the black bricked building. A metal staircase leads up to a platform overhead, heavy bass thumping through the walls. But, outside, the air is crisp with autumn chill, and the glow of the moon is obscured by thick clouds. And a peculiar group huddles in front of a lone vending machine.

"Right," the woman tells them, piercings catching the light as she looks at her companions. Fake silver, of course. She had them done by a werewolf piercist on the outskirts of the city. "See the panel here?"

"Yes!" One of the men replies, whilst the other groans, "Pearl, we've been looking at this panel for like five minutes."

"Hey," she flashes her fangs at him. "Mumbo's the old one. A little wait isn't going to kill you."

"Does it count if he didn't leave his house for centuries-"

"Guys, stop arguing about my age!" Mumbo calls. His suit looks out of place in the parking lot of this night club; perfectly tailored, with a blood red tie to match. "I want to see how the machine works," he adds in a quieter voice, ducking his head. Pearl snickers, poking her hand out the opening of her hoodie sleeve.

"So, when nothing's selected, you hold down the 'enter' button-" she presses on the green symbol, tapping her foot until there's a distinct beep, "-until you hear that. And then you enter '6880'."

"Why's that?" The other man asks, bundled in a comfortable red jumper, his shirt collar sitting on top.

"Vampire number," Pearl replies, with a hint of a smirk. She presses enter, and there's a shutter as the items in the menu switch. Mumbo gasps, grabbing the jumpered man's arm.

"Grian! Did you see that?" Grian sighs, yet makes no effort to remove Mumbo and his outrageous height from his clothes.

"I am standing right next to you, Mumbo," he replies, dark eyes looking up to meet blood red ones. Pearl snaps her fingers to get their attention.

"So!" She declares, turning to face them with a hand on her hip. "What do you boys want?" Mumbo is too busy examining the machine to answer, like he could unlock the secrets of the universe.

"Do all these machines do this?" He asks, some strands of black hair falling into his face as he looks towards her.

"Only the ones from this company," Pearl replies. She taps the logo, making it obvious for him. "They're pretty well known in the city for this stuff." Grian nods, humming as he too tilts his head. He's seen their logo at a few of the hangouts Pearl has taken them to. Nothing a human would pick up on as out of the ordinary. Pearl's already punching in numbers, taking her wallet from her hoodie pocket.

"Could I have the iced blood?" Grian asks. "I had a drink before I came out."

She hums, "Yeah, sure." The machine beeps as it accepts her card, whirring into life. She skims through the menu to find Grian's request.

"Oh, could I have some blood tea?" Mumbo asks.

"I swear you're addicted to that stuff," Grian comments. Mumbo crosses his arms, pouting.

"It's nice! Nothing like a good cup of tea to start your night." Pearl leans down, scooping a blood lolly from the open slot. She smiles as she tears open the packaging, shoving it in her pocket.

"So…" She starts, tapping Grian's order in with one hand, mischief in her voice. "How do you two plan on paying me back?"

#hermitcraft #Mumbo Jumbo #Grian #pearlescentmoon #nho fictober #supernatural city au #hoping to get back into a writing groove with this. wish me luck

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leopardmask-ao3 · 3 years

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NHH Fictober Day 17: Plants (Hug A Tree)

Day 17 of the NHH Fictober challenge. This one might feel like it cuts off a little abrubtly, doesn't really resolve, and that's because it was getting really long for the challenge. I might repurpose it on my ao3 for a full fic later. Beef had been specifically and subconsciously avoiding jungles for a little while. He's pretty sure none of them are cursed like That One was, but he doesn't want to deal with the memories, either. Swapping homes with Iskall for a while is starting to bring them back... as well as some other changes he had tried to forget. Characters: VintageBeef Words: 992

Beef exited the Nether portal in a decorated, underground chamber. He paused to enjoy the relative coolness for a minute. It was fine. This was normal. Everything was fine.

He took a deep breath and stepped out into the much larger space of the base proper. He was still technically below ground level, but he could see up and up at the living wooden structure and the circle of blue sky at the top. As soon as Beef opened his elytra and lifted himself above ground, he was hit with a wave of warmth and humidity, and he shuddered.

He landed on the bright green grass at the bottom of the giant tree and scanned his surroundings. If he had had any idea what he had signed up for, especially if he had known that he would be living in a jungle for a few weeks, he would have stayed away from that stupid countdown machine.

There was only one ground-level exit from the tree. One! Although that did also mean only one ground-level entrance, one place through which the foliage outside could encroach. If he needed to, Beef could leave out the top of the tree, or through the portal, which seemed secure enough in its underground room.

He would be a good sport about this. He could stay for a few weeks. It was just a jungle. It wasn't... it would be fine.

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His bedroom was up high in the trunk, well above the canopy of the rest of the jungle. He could still hear the birds, the wind rustling leaves, but it was quieter up here. Quiet enough for him to get some sleep.

His dreaming was peaceful. The sun shone and warmed his soul, and he stretched wide to embrace it. The tops of jungle trees swayed below him. A gentle breeze blew across his leaves- his leaves?

The wind sped up, grew hot and muggy and unpleasant. Suddenly Beef was in and under the trees, and he needed to get out, but couldn't move. Didn't want to move? The jungle wasn't a peaceful place. It was his home, but it wasn't. Leaves overtook him, blocked his vision. The Jungle was taking him-

Beef jolted awake.

He lay in bed for a moment, just trying to breathe, before movement returned and he sat up. He rubbed at his face. Some of the feelings from the dream, feelings of growing leaves and energizing sun, lingered in his mind. Maybe he wasn't handling this environment as well as he'd thought.

His eye caught a small, dark brown line on his hand. Had he gotten a splinter while building inside the tree earlier? He must have. Beef picked and pulled at it, grimacing at the jab of pain when it came free.

And now he was bleeding a little. Of course. Beef sighed and got up to go find a bandage.

Once on the ground floor, he paused, looking around. Now, where would Iskall have put something resembling a first-aid kit...? Beef picked a direction and moved toward it.

And almost fell over, as his feet refused to move.

Beef strained one foot upward, starting to get nervous again. It felt like his foot was buried in the ground, or had something wrapped around it, pulling it down, down to where the other plants could grab and pull-

- ? - ? -

A thought, a message, passed into Beef’s mind. A wordless sense of “why?”

“Why am I freaking out?” Beef said aloud to the empty air. “Because I’m stuck, that’s why! I’m stuck and I’m- I’m talking to plants, aren’t I?”

The realization panicked him more. He tried his other foot, but it was even more locked in place.

- c - a - l - m -

Beef hunched over, pressing his hands to his ears. He didn’t want to hear it again, he wasn’t listening, it wanted him back,

- c - a - l - m -

“NO!” Beef shouted. “You’re not- I’m not going back!” He shuddered and closed his eyes. “Oh gods, this can’t be happening,” he muttered. “That’s... that was the past. Maybe I’m still dreaming. Maybe that’s it. And if I’m dreaming, I can...” Beef concentrated. Control the situation. Imagine that his feet aren’t stuck to the ground.

He lifted his foot. It lifted easily. Normally. Beef sighed. “Okay. Of course. It’s all... it’s all fine. It’s not fine, I need to get out of here.”

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Beef paced a lot. After a few more scares, he didn’t want to keep his feet in one place for long, even on artificial floors. He hadn’t told anyone about it. Maybe he should - Bdubs did, eventually. But... Bdubs had never accidentally rooted so strongly that it took longer to free himself than it did to get himself stuck in the first place. He never rooted into solid stone. And he didn’t ever talk about feeling stiff and crackly, like Beef did - as though if Beef stayed still for too long in any way, he would freeze completely. Bdubs’ vines were always flexible, and now that they had been discovered, often out and moving.

Beef also stayed away from “his” base. Something always seemed to whisper to him whenever he was there. He never listened closely enough to decipher what the wordless feelings were telling him, afraid that if he did, it would take over his mind completely, root him to the spot forever, and he would be lost.

Beef tried to stay away from the jungle, but the Jungle continued to make itself known. Striped, reddish bark was starting to spread across Beef's skin - another change that he had been trying to ignore. Or was it more of a reveal? Bdubs had said that his discovery of his vine-y form didn't feel like a new thing - it felt like they had always been there, just waiting for him to notice. Or, maybe not always... but ever since...

Despite their best efforts, the Jungle had never truly released any of them.

#hermitcraft #hermitcraft fic #nhh fictober #vintagebeef #nHo #nHo jungle #HCBBS

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