Rec-Cember 2025 Day 16: Hermitcraft x Empires SMP [11]

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Listen. I have so many MCYT fics bookmarked. I have to separate them into chunks somehow.

a scientist and a demigod step onto a boat by EXT1ChampionshipOfficial
General Audiences | Gen
Docm77, Hermes
3,478 words | One-shot
Doc turns to the Rift. He notices three things. The first is that the Rift seemed to have been barricaded, and the bridge leading to it had been broken- some parts blown up, based on the charred materials. The second thing he notices is the boat down in the water next to the Rift. And the third thing he notices is a child sitting there. What’s a kid doing alone in a boat when a storm’s about to break out? He decides that the Rift isn’t going anywhere, and he glides down to land on the boat.
Very old oneshot about two people left behind (aka Doc finds Hermes on the boat Sausage left him at to watch Grumbot from, and wonders if this kid knows he's getting rained on, or if he knows why everyone's gone all of the sudden-)

a sort of sleeping beauty by Bee_4
General Audiences | M/M
Joe Hills/Oli TheOrionSound
Fairy Tale Elements
4,381 words | One-shot
In which Oli falls out of the sky directly onto Joe, and the events that follow only get weirder, really.

Daylight Moon Sings To You by songbirdscoo
General Audiences | Gen
Joel SmallishBeans/Lizzie LDShadowLady, BdoubleO100 & EthosLab, Grian & GoodTimesWithScar
Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Light Angst, Friendship
3,247 words | One-shot
Etho is lonely.
Nobody ever comes out at night, afraid of monsters from their own minds and terrors that are nothing scarier than the breeze on the grass.
Etho is lonely, until one day, he's not.

Going Home by ChrisRainicorn
Teen And Up Audiences | M/M
Jimmy SolidarityGaming & TangoTek
Fluff, Happy Ending
10,174 words | 3 chapters
"You know how they say you only dream about people you have met before? Like you could glance at a stranger in a crowd, and your brain would remember that while dreaming…" He said without expecting a reply. "Maybe we met before…?" "...Where?"
"...I wish I could remember."
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Tango has weird dreams where he talks to this sheriff character, who insists, in turn, that he is the one dreaming. Which made no sense! The Sheriff was just a voice inside his head. Wasn't he...? Still, it all felt strangely familiar, and he couldn't put his finger on why.

grief divided by hattrem
Teen And Up Audiences | F/M, Gen
Grian & Joel SmallishBeans, GeminiTay & Joel SmallishBeans
Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Friendship
10,768 words | 2 chapters
He craned his neck up to look at Grian, eyes flashing with recognition, then narrowing. “You,” he said. If Grian didn’t know any better, he’d say there had been a bit of malice in his tone.
“Hello, Joel,” Grian said, refusing to let go of Joel until he was sure the man could walk by himself. “Feeling well-rested?"
Joel blinked up at him, then stared for a full ten seconds.
“I don’t know,” he finally said, rubbing his eyes. As indistinguishable as it had been, the malice seeped out of Joel and his gaze softened as he attempted to move a bit. “I had the craziest dream.”
Or, Joel brings unfathomable loss and grief to Hermitcraft

Here in the Crops of the Garden of Eden by CUUNO
General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
fWhip & GeminiTay & MythicalSausage, fWhip & GeminiTay & MythicalSausage & PearlescentMoon, fWhip & Rendog
fWhip, GeminiTay, Rendog, impulseSV, PearlescentMoon, ZombieCleo, Joe Hills, Xisumavoid
5,692 words | One-shot
fWhip gazed down at the scenery below. It was… not quite what he had expected, that was for sure. The land was nearly entirely undeveloped, a wide, deep river cutting through the forest, hills and valleys and mountains on either side. Small bases and construction projects dotted the area, and people buzzed between them. Gem sighed, quietly, preparing to descend.
"Welcome to Hermitcraft."
…
After the destruction of Empires SMP, fWhip and Gem flee to Hermitcraft for sanctuary.

I Rule Too Much Already by rainyinautumn
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
BdoubleO100 & Pearl
Angst
4,162 words | One-shot
The sun is kind of a big deal. From day one—literally, the very first day ever—it’s a real hit with the mortals. They like the way it warms them and makes the crops grow and lights up the whole world, and they tell Bdubs as much. He takes it in stride. Everyone likes the sun, which means everyone likes him.He thinks people might sort of like the moon, too, but he sleeps through every night, so he doesn’t really know.
--
Or: Bdubs and Pearl have known each other for a very, very long time.

live not for others by gladismajor
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Joe Hills & Oli TheOrionSound
Unconventional Format
383 words | One-shot
[Incoming call from: Joe Hills]
"Oli? Oli, can you hear me? Are you alright?"
Or, Joe finds out that Empires S2 ended and handles it very well. Yep. Definitely.

misguided ghosts by orphan_account
General Audiences | Gen
Grumbot, Hermes
Fluff, Light Angst, Crack Treated Seriously, Not Canon Compliant
1,658 words | One-shot
The random adventures of Hermes and his new best friend. Two teenagers being a demigod and a robot—what could possibly go wrong?

Sunlit Coincidence by Amethystfairy1
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Cubfan135 & MythicalSausage
AU - Mutants, Kid Fic, Friendship
5,377 words | One-shot
Cub liked this cafe. The one that Scar frequented near campus was nice, too, but it got busy and loud fast. Cub wasn't always in the mood to deal with that, but sometimes he did want to do something other than just go to work and then go home. Today in particular, he was glad he did. It wasn't easy; sometimes, his vision would play tricks on him in the brightness of the over-city, so far removed from the pitch-black world he'd been raised in. The only light occasional flickers of turquoise skulk flora growing over the stone. They'd tried to warn him that day, just the same as every day before, tried to protect him as they always did, his only friend in the world. Friend being quite an overstatement. It had been too loud, too bright, he'd been too slow, and had it been anyone else well...Cub wasn't sure if he'd still be breathing today.
Much less breathing fresh air.
Yeah, he was glad he'd stopped by the cafe today. It was good, for once, to run into a familiar face.
{In which Cub can't have heard that right, Sausage is a ray of sunshine even if neither of them had seen the sun before, and they have 26 years of catching up to do.}

Three Black Crows by Aard_Rinn
General Audiences | Gen
Pixlriffs, ZloyXP, Lyarrah, Xisumavoid, Grian, Dinnerbone
5,141 words | 3 chapters
Season Four: Xisuma's server has two Watchers. It's understandably off-putting - there are a lot of secrets buried in the soft green grass of the server. Tired gods. The creepers who fight them. Herobrine, sometimes.
Season Five: Xisuma's server has two Watchers. They're - harmless, honestly. The tired gods checked. So did some gods who are not so tired. So did Herobrine, but he didn't mention it to anyone. Zloy and Pixl, as far as anyone can tell, are Good People, inasmuch as it's possible for Watchers to be good. Or people.
Season Six: Xisuma's server has three Watchers.

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