Welcome to the Blood Mage AU Extravaganza
The thing is, it’s not that Mumbo isn’t familiar with you, he is! He was there when you joined and voted in favor of adding you! It’s just… well, you’ve taken the hermit in Hermitcraft seriously, and while he’s noticed you starting to relax and reach out to others he’s just… Concerned. That’s all. Totally normal!
It’s totally normal to be concerned for your fellow- fellow coworker? Fellow hermit. It’s just that your heartbeat is- well, it’s odd, but that’s not something you can just ask people about. Not this soon, anyway.
But you're a redstoner! Or, you say you're a redstoner! Mumbo has never seen you do redstone, he has, in fact, seen you crouched next to your tree farm in tears staring at your redstone, but! Well, everyone starts somewhere!
He has to wonder if this is your first time in a server with enough redstoners that you have to actually learn redstone to excuse the red that stains you clothes and fingers. Which is definitely redstone and not blood. Totally. Mumbo would ask you about it but then he'd have to explain why he can smell blood a mile away.
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welcome to hermitcraft! your first task is desperately trying not to out yourself as a blood mage
mumbo knows you're just a baby redstoner and figures you're doing it to cover up why you're constantly covered in blood
mumbo knows why he's always covered in blood but he doesn't know why you're always covered in blood and the curiosity is killing him. metaphorically. because he's a vampire
meanwhile you know why you're always covered in blood but you don't know why he's always covered in blood and asking would mean explaining why you know it's blood when everyone else writes it off as redstone.
unfortunately for you both, the majority of hermits have known mumbo since teenhood, and immediately interpret this mutual alarmed fascination as a crush
except grian. grian knows exactly what's happening and thinks it's too funny to do anything about
this leads to (and i will eventually be posting about) increasingly complicated shenanigans while mumbo tries to prove you're Up To Something while dodging increasingly obvious attempts to set you up with him
meanwhile you're just trying to source enough blood to do the rituals you want without tipping anyone off to your own shenanigans
someone keeps leaving you redstone manuals that slowly get more and more simplified and sympathetic. you're conflicted on if they've realized you barely know anything about redstone or if they think you can't read anything more complicated
either way, you're kinda insulted
that does not stop you from using them. redstone is hard and you are too busy doing Blood Things to actually learn it











