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[paranoidpug]

Welsknight thought based on his latest video:

Winged Welsknight! He uses an elytra as a mobility aid, like Grian, but unlike Grian it's due to a partially-missing wing from an injury he got back when he was an active-service knight.

Oooooh cooool! Could also work with him being a found of the Yes Wings Club in season 8! :D

[paranoidpug]

that winged wels idea with him using an elytra as a mobility aid cause of a wing amputation has some nice opportunities for welsknight whump

feather issues, war trauma, phantom pains, lost/damaged prosthetic, culture clash, did he come to hermitcraft fully of his own accord or was he banished or something, if you go with the rare birdfolk lore perhaps he was the only bird-person knight there or maybe his homeplace was fighting a losing battle...

Ooooooo the possibilities. I can't say I've explored Wels ideas all that much but really, a knight character just inherently comes with angst possibilities, doesn't he? How did he become a knight? What battles has he seen? What happened that he's no longer serving in whatever noble battle he came from? If he's no longer fighting, why does he still wear his armour?

The possibilities >:)

[paranoidpug]

that empires food worldbuilding post had me thinking about hermitcraft cooking practices

specifically, while actively working on stuff the hermits tend to just have work-snacks that are easy for them to get in bulk, but when just living their life they have a more varied diet. depending on the hermit this may still be super plain, and it does tend to be heavy on ingredients they have some form of automated farm for since it's pretty much just the hermits there, but they're not living entirely on golden carrots or gigapies or steak.

grian does however know so many ways to put golden carrots in dishes. so many.

Oooo love this, I love imagining different ways to add more life and realism to the world and stuff, these are some cool ideas.

I love to think the Hermits have their own dishes and stuff they cook regularly as well, perhaps they share them at the occasional group dinner or something. Some of them can cook… some can’t.

- Scar makes all sorts of magical treats he picks up from his exploration of different magic cultures. He can bake stuff like elven cookies and pastries, plenty of fae dishes and the occasional vex treat. You don’t want to know what’s in those ones though.

- Cleo makes dishes for the undead - some questionable sounding ingredients but they apparently taste pretty good to anyone slightly less than alive.

- Some the Hermits make dishes related to their home worlds or countries.

- Joe makes a darn good sweet berry wine, a recipe he perfected a few seasons ago.

- Pearl makes lots of soup, though it’s hit and miss whether it’s going to be the best soup you’ve ever tasted or straight up poison.

[paranoidpug]

tango hurt/comfort idea: i think tango mentioned in the in-game chat early this month that he hasn't used a bed since november

extremely sleep-deprived c!tango, fixated on building, has barely slept in months and the few times he has slept it's been on the floor

Oooooooo I think I've read a few things with overworked Tango and the other Hermits having to stage an intervention to make sure he's sleeping, though I can't remember any specific fics off the top of my head.

[paranoidpug]

a guardian headcanon: those fish they drop is actually guardian meat; one of their weird supernatural traits is that their meat can taste like ANY fish.

a related xbcrafted and scar cooking headcanon:

yeah some of those vex dishes use guardian-person meat. it's xb. started as an "i wonder what i taste like" curiosity combined with respawn being relatively painless on the HC server and then just...became a thing that happens occasionally

(not the only hermit who's ended up consensually in a vex dish. scar's even used himself. it's not much of a vex-magic tweak to the hermitcraft respawn system...it's already been modified to sometimes leave copies of the head behind, after all)

Mildly horrifying, but also, Yes. XD

I bet Scar likes to be all ominous about it as well, like ooooohhoho I wonder what's in this Vex stew, and everyone just knows anyway. Like, yes, Scar, you and Cub occasionally eat people, we know.

[paranoidpug]

welsknight elytra course record!

a winged welsknight headcanon for you: his feathers are so shiny. really metallic looking feathers. very good iridescence.

when he's under a lot of stress any new feathers growing in are a lot less shiny

Ooooooooooooo shinyyyyyyyyyyy :D

[paranoidpug]

NPG-related headcanon: Grian was trying to clone himself to get a second Grian around, for company and also as a proof of concept on cloning elytrians/avians!

If it worked he was planning on getting his hands on some pre-End-collapse elytrian/avian remains and cloning those. maybe one of them would like jimmy and meet all his standards and he'd stop complaining to grian and pearl about all the good ones being a. women, b. uninterested in having a clutch someday or c. surprise actually a relative.

And also, a side benefit, the proof-of-concept grian clone would be an entire extra brother. like having a twin! a twin who didn't go through everything grian went through!

...and then instead he got an empty body that just laid there and breathed. trying to put a ghost in it (because that'd help right?) instead got him whatever the heck NPG is.

Proof of concept: failed. Now he had to deal with this terrible roommate. Uhhh. Closet???? Why did he try to bring back the dead again? This was a terrible idea!! Now he has a rustic-houses-obsessed demon using a copy of his body!

Ignore the banging on the closet door and the remnants of demonic rituals on the floor, everything is fine, I promise, everything is fiiiiiiiiiine.

*distantly, muffled by the sound of a door*: "Hey, want to build a rustic house?"

[paranoidpug]

There being a whole part of the town dedicated to unsupervised kids/teens implies there's either mass child abandonment, mass orphaning, or an expectation that a lot of kids would move out younger than kids do in our world

...considering it's the cursed YHS town it's probably a mixture of those plus sometimes people do end up having and raising kids in that area

I love how it's just become a Thing that this town is extremely cursed and now we're just building out a heap of the worldbuilding the show neglected to give us XD.

Anyway, yessss we do have child abandonment (Dom by Mr Dorito), children living on their own (most of the characters) and families actually still living with their kids in that area (Rowan and Okami and their kid Silly) in canon too. :D