I love thinking about all the lore/technical/worldbuilding side of things with servers and hybrids and stuff
like, is everybody a hybrid? How did we get to this point? Who’s accepted? Who’s not?
do different servers have different code for hybrids? Or are they always the same? Like, does an avian have wings and talons on their private server but only wings on their smp?How do avians interact with elytra? Rockets?
do fish hybrids have gills? Webbed hands/feet? Do they need water to breathe? Does it change depending on the server?
(lots of snowballing thoughts under the cut. Be warned)
I like the idea that different servers have to have code (or lore magic, depending on the server) to accommodate different hybrids, and different servers do it differently. Maybe every server comes with some amount of prewritten code that is a blanket cover to prevent pain or injury or dangerous Instincts (eg making it so water-based hybrids can breathe air, undead hybrids may be sun-sensitive but not catch fire, vampire hybrids don’t want to devour everything/one, netherborn can survive at overworld tempetures)
Some servers have more accommodations (eg hermitcraft, which continuously tries to make the world as comfortable as possible for the players and often updates its code) and some have lore-specific ones (like vampires or empires, based on the stories told within)
I’m imagining a group from an established, well-protected server visiting another that’s run by non-hybrids, or who had the members all create their own custom-coded accommodations.
the Experienced group expects at least the blanket protections, of course, because they’re everywhere. The Inexperienced group has a bunch of individuals who spaghetti-coded something to keep them looking human and not in pain. The blanket protections were deleted in a corruption event or by someone who didn’t know how server running worked. The members don’t know how to code or why their protections work, and they forgot to tell the Experienced group.
queue a bunch of players ready for a great
collaboration spawning in and several of them spontaneously collapse. a creaking hybrid cannot move, a merplayer can’t breathe, blazeborne starts to catch the grass on fire.
mad scrambling, possibly a server restart, and a server admin yelling at the spaghetti coders.
shortly after, there are free coding resources available and a mandatory course for anyone starting a new server.
the two servers have some great collaborations, but will continue to joke about the incident forever onwards.
aaaanyway, that’s my brain.
My superpower that turns everything chinese aka I made them into the four auspicious beast because! Why not! Also ignore how grian looks like an npc compared to the others, that's because I hate him! 😊
Anyway i do have a half baked plot about them! Read it if you want to 😁
For thousands of years, the four auspicious beast has protected humans and ruled over them according to their cardinal dominions
Vermilion bird: south
White tiger: west
Azure dragon: east
Black tortoise: north
Sometimes they work together to fend off monsters, othertimes they go on wars with each other. There will always be humans dead from the aftermath.
Seeing this, they finally settle on a peace agreement and worked together to seal every monsters and then vow to never use their powers again so no other catastrophic event will happen.
The four beasts takes on different apporaches to their "retirements"
Gem decides to become a military general and teaches her people how to fight and defend. Just because an era of peace is upon them, doesn't mean that they will always be safe. Even though she cannot protect them as the azure dragon, she can still do so as a human. The east is now a very guarded place with powerful military prowess thanks to her.
Pearl became a priestess that lives in the mountains. She lives in solitude, but still opens the door for her former subjects who came to ask her for guidance. The north is small, but wise.
Scar essentially heard the word "retirement" and said "about freaking timeee 😌". He spends his days literally as a greedy house cat being pampered by the royal palace. This guy is literally a bum who gets the best food, entertainment, toys, beds, literally everything he asks is provided to him and he does absolutely NOTHING! He's not even ruling or giving advice or anything, those are taken care of by the emperor and the other relevant boring politic guys (he doesn't even know or care who they are, they're all servants in his eyes), he just lazily rolls around in the sunlight all day, he's literally just a spoiled cat. Everyone loves him 😭
Grian is a farmer. Yepppp. He's overworked, underpaid, he hates everything. All the other 3 guys gets recognized and honored by their dominions in some ways, not Grian. To be fairrr these people dont even know he's the vermilion bird, everyone is under the assumption that the vermilion bird is currently resting in the volcanoes. And that was true... for like a hundred years ago. Grian's done with his rest, and goes back to civillization, but when he came back, nobody believes him when he says he's the vermilion bird 😭 he just looks too pathetic 😭 and its not like he can prove it either with the no power rule, so now he's stuck having to work odd jobs to get paid somehow 😭 He eats stew everyday and he's like.... well! I guess this is my life now! You gotta do what you gotta do! 💔
This is where the plot comes in where main character jimmy (i just love him), who had always had these strange premonition powers gets a prophecy about the future where the seal keeping the monsters trapped breaks. So now he's on a quest to get the band back together (im laughing at him finding grian miserably planting a potato looking like a sad victorian child and he's like... "mr. Vermilion bird??" And grian literally starts sobbing cuz someone finally believed him 😭😭😭😭).
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