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Hermit-A-Day May - Day 16: GoodTimesWithScar

It's Mr. Goodtimes for Day 16!!!

So, RMAU Scar is a little like Cub... But also different, XD. So. RMAU Scar is a Human/Fae Hybrid, with shapeshifting magics! However, his Fae abilities were mostly blocked - so he went into a Deal with the Vex with Cub. What Scar got out of the deal was the unlocking of his natural Fae abilities as well as giving him access to Vex abilities too. Due to being half-human, he doesn't exactly have a full Trueform, but he is able to display Vex and sometimes Fae traits, particularly when emotional.

So - due to him not having a full Trueform, I picked an Alt Skin to do in addition to showing his Vex trait-expressions. Looking back at it, Elf Scar would've been a great example of his shapeshifting abilities, but my friend suggested Lawyer Scar and I couldn't help but laugh and do it! And I really like how it turned out!!! If you've seen my standard and Zoo Scar designs, you'll have seen the leg-braces before - the ones he powers using his magics (both Fae and Vex). He also has a wheelchair that he uses on bad days or just when he doesn't feel like or need to walk, although I haven't drawn that yet. I think I talked about the braces in my Scar post last year, so I'll leave it at that this year and you can find that post or ask me questions if you wanna know more. Well, that and I'm still pretty pleased with how I designed them!

But yeah, I like how this turned out - the combo of practically booty shorts and suit jacket and tie is just so silly to me? Especially with the tie flipped over his shoulder! I also really love how the Vex features turned out - particularly his scars and eyes glowing blue-ish! All in all, a piece I'm pretty delighted with!

[anonymousreader4d7]

Hermit-A-Day May - Day 2: Grian

It's day two and it's time for Grian!!!

RMAU-Verse Grian is a Watcher! In RMAU, Watchers can be made by someone with Admin abilities staring into the Void for long enough that the Void stares back, and thus Changes them.

I'm REALLY pleased with how he's turned out!!! I've had vague impressions of this basic design floating around in my brain since almost the conception of the RMAU-Verse itself, which was back in 2022 (oh... Oh RMAU is over three years old now, what?!?!?!), but I'd never actually drawn him in such a way that he'd felt RIGHT. But as I worked on this sketch and then touched it up, he repeatedly felt more and more Right. He's the perfect balance of eerie and ethereal and cute!!! My favorite details include his Void eyes (aka my way of nodding to Grian saying he canonically has no eyes, just holes), Void claws and talons, and just the generally kreechur-y vibes, lol! (Well, and the Void Core you can't see under his little poncho thingy... That's why he's kinda a dark to lighter gradient from there out ;D) I also love the way the metal and glow effects turned out, literally so pretty and adds so much "oomph" to the design!!!

[anonymousreader4d7]

Hermit-A-Day May - Day 29: Skizzleman

Day 29 is Skizz!!! Probably my second favorite Hermit currently too!

RMAU Skizz is an Angel, and Impulse's Antipode. I know I've been doing a lot of explaining about my lore here most days, but I'm... Kinda blanking on the Angel lore right now, lol, and I also know they're some of the ones I've talked about the most, so you can check out my pinned masterpost for the Angel lore I guess...

So. Skizz is the other design, alongside Impulse, that I've had mostly done before HADM this year. However - right as the month started, I decided I was going to add a few details things to his design. I got the scars added before the Disaster, but didn't get around to the glow and extra metal effects before I lost my original canvas. And then I didn't feel like doing a whole lot of drawing again today, and certainly not redrawing THIS whole complicated design, so I just added the details on top of the screenshot I had. Unfortunately, that affected the visual quality a little, so I'm adding the image I had before at the bottom too, so you can see details a little better! I am still super pleased with how the design turned out overall, and I'll probably redraw everything at some point so he looks a little clearer.

(also, like Impulse, there are two scars that are slightly differently colored and have Lore Relevance somewhere on Skizz, if you can spot them! ;D Also, feel free to ask me about what his OR Impulse's Galactic markings mean!!!)

Hmmmm... comparing the two designs, I think the glow is turned up a little high in the first piece - I might tune it down a little when I eventually redraw him... Oh well! ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[anonymousreader4d7]

Hermit-A-Day May - Day 24: JoeHills

Well howdy! It's Day 24 and that means Joe Hills!!!

So. RMAU Joe is something called an Unknown. The Unknown aren't exactly your typical species - any being can become an Unknown, because Unknown are created when a being or group of beings reach a certain level of "resonance" with the universe. There are some complete species that do fall under the Unknown as a species, but there are also plenty of individuals. Joe has never shared what he was Before becoming an Unknown, or how long ago that was, and he never really does anything that gives it away either. He's just Joe Hills, something Unknown. He can also use his abilities as an Unknown to either "astral project" as a Jhost (BeetleJhost? I don't know the Jhost lore) or "possess" the Juppet, or, as in the case of the drawing, something sort of both, XD.

I was originally just gonna draw Joe in a bright green suit for today, but then I got this idea right as I was about to start drawing, and, well... I was sold. Especially once I realized I hadn't drawn the most recent Juppet design either. But yeah, I really enjoyed drawing this, it was a lot of fun!!! And also went really fast, I've finished this in the about two hours since finishing TFC 30 minutes late, AND taking a break, so I think I spent MAYBE an hour and a half on this total??? Anyways, it's felt really fast, but I'm also super proud of it, so that means this style is getting easier and I'm discovering faster ways to do things - YAY!

[anonymousreader4d7]

Hermit-A-Day May - Day 27: Welsknight

Day 27 for Wels!!!

So! Wels is the one who's gotten a Lore update while trying to figure out a design to draw for HADM this year... RMAU Wels is still a human, but... Wels' homeworld has a very unique living metal. A metal that will resonate with certain people, certain Knights-to-be, and a metal from which they will ceremonially forge armor that is bound to their soul, leading to them being called Soul-forged! This Soul-forged Armor will take on a glow/aura when they want it to or they're truly in a fighting "groove". I think they'd have a matching weapon (typically a sword, and definitely a sword for Wels), but I didn't draw one this time... Also, this Soul-forged nature also applies to Hels, as Wels' clone! This nature is ALSO why Hels is a Warped Version of Wels - the status of being Soul-forged interfered with the cloning process.

I had a lot of fun redrawing Wels, and adding the effects to the metal as well as the cape and the glow. I debated making the plume on his helmet blue as well, but decided instead to stick with the canon-red, since it's both canon AND helped balance out the blue and helped retain the "knight" vibes. I'm really pleased with how he turned out though, and think he deserved a fun Lore tidbit that I had fun giving him!!!

[anonymousreader4d7]

Hermit-A-Day May - Day 11: Cubfan135

Day 11 is Cubfan!

RMAU Cub is... unique. Previously a human Born-Moderator, Cub and Scar made a Deal with the Vex. You'll learn about Scar's side of the Deal on his day, but for Cub, that Deal involved and led to him becoming a Vex Hybrid. Meanwhile, after the Deep Dark was brought to the Dev-Overseen Worlds (aka your average, non-"wild" worlds), he also "bonded" to the Skulk, so now he's also sorta a Skulk Hybrid as well... So, he sorta has a Trueform, but it's much more "human" than everyone else's we've seen so far.

I'm really pleased with how the skulk-y bits themselves turned out - yes, I hand-drew every sparkly-dot in the skulk bits, no it didn't take as long as you're probably fearing. But I mention that cause I'm really pleased with how the placement of the glowy dots turned out and how much like Skulk it actually looks!!! Anyways - I'm pleased with how it turned out, and the redraw process for the lineart/base color went a lot faster than I'd expected, so I'm honestly even more pleased! All in all, a solid design I think!

[anonymousreader4d7]

Hermit-A-Day May - Day 21: XisumaVoid

It's Xisuma day!!!

So. So, RMAU Xisuma is both a Voidwalker AND an Admin. Voidwalkers are similar to Watchers, in that they both came from beings staring so long into the Void that it stared back - it's just Voidwalkers came from Enderman instead of Admins. They're basically made of Void, and often kinda "wisp" towards their points... Uhhhhh, Voidwalker Admins are super rare, so rare that Xisuma was actually ostracized by his Splash (I've just decided that a group/clan of Voidwalkers is called a Splash) for it, and had to be rescued by Doomguy. (Yes Doomguy is canon to RMAU and is basically X and EX's dad... Because I felt like it, that's why.) They DO have Trueforms, as well as very limited shape shifting abilities - hence his normal lack of tail and more normal human proportions.

Anyways! I was SUPER excited to do Xisuma, and while I'm not sure I'm completely sold on all the details or the pose, I do kinda love the general vibe and most of the details!!! I especially love the effect on his wispy parts, with the smoke and the glow combined... I'm also super attached (unexpectedly lol) to the ears I gave him - which are inspired by mule ears. No I can't explain why other than they felt a little derpy, XD. I also kinda like the glowing scars too, although if I hadn't been trying to finish this literally in the last 10 minutes and before going to bed, I might have been a little more particular about how I did them. I'll probably draw Trueform X again sometime and "touch up" some of the details I'm not as sure about right now. Also, I had to get the yawn in with the long curled glowing tongue, and also the glowing paw pads, so you get some tiny additional doodles on the right... the top one is just to further demonstrate his ears... But yeah. I like his silly long limbs from the Voidwalkers' Enderman heritage, and his glowy-wispy-ness, and his silly floppy-derpy ears, and... Yeah. I think I do like it, even if there are things I'll "touch up" in later drawings! :D

[anonymousreader4d7]

Hermit-a-Day May - Day 1: ImpulseSV

It's Day One of Hermit-a-Day May 2025! We're starting off with probably my current favorite Hermit too - it's ImpulseSV!!!

Before revealing my art though, I have to explain! Last year I did a series of drawings of every Hermit the way I standardly envision them, that is, as in my Realistic Minecraft AU - known fondly as the RMAU-Verse - which is basically a Minecraft but in a homebrew fantasy setting. I've made up and world-built races or lore tidbits for basically every Hermit, and you all got to see their Standard Everyday designs last year. THIS year, by popular demand (and my own original plan lol), you get to see the Trueforms of all the Hermits that have them, and alt skins of those that don't (with one exception who got a lore reworking just the other day and is getting an updated main design). But anyways, with that out of the way, without further ado: Trueform Impulse!!!

RMAU-Verse Impulse is a Telluris Demon - basically an earth/crystalline aligned Demon. You can read more about the lore behind Demons as a species by checking out their page via my pinned post! And I'm happy to answer any questions about my lore, designs, or world building as well!

I don't have much else to say for this one, so... I'm really looking forward to Hermitaday May this year after having so much fun last year! I might not get something posted on the day every day (life came up during my originally planned prep time), but I WILL post something for every day in the end!!! I have it all planned out, I'm so excited!!! Thanks for coming with me on this journey, and special thanks to @hermitadaymay's Mods Sky and Luna for running this event for us all!!!