penmonition

"emptying your enderchest" for being honest/open

"putting silk touch on shears" something needlessly complicated and mostly useless

"like finding coal at deepslate" for rlly hard tasks

"the creeper in the room" self explanatory i think

"enchanting without the lapis" doing something without being prepared

"in a bastion with no gold" oops ur in trouble

one Cubfan135, entirely made in desmos, traced over point by point.

and for anyone who wants to see the actual graph: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xdsxf0qgfv

You’re seeing the minecraft movie in the movie theatre. Everyone is having a great time. Jack Black seems a little excited. “We have a surprise for you guys.” Jack says. All of a sudden most of Hermitcraft comes out and start singing “Revenge.” When Jimmy gets to the chorus, someone else starts singing…

"I've got a deal with destinyyy-"

so here’s my very rough analysis of my most viewed Hermits, this is just what I’ve managed to gather so please don’t call me out for what I’m missing

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Scar

Rarely stutters in normal speech. Maybe pauses if he’s started a sentence and doesn’t know where it’s going, but he doesn’t tend to trail off unless something interrupts his train of thought

Stutters a LOT when he’s startled. Also makes ‘hoo!’ noises repeatedly before he finds his words

Lays on the charm THICK when he’s trying to convince someone over literally anything; compliments their looks, their handiwork, and then pitches his proposition in smooth segue. Not one to entertain haggling though (however he DOES do a ‘look if you’ll pay full price I’ll throw in xyz’ thing). King of upselling even the most mundane things.

His tone is cheerful most of the time, no matter what he’s saying. He’ll actually often say very disturbing things with a light voice (ex. when discussing how to retaliate ie “what should we do about him?” “we could kill him! :)”)

Builds and locations somehow are always capitalized in his voice?? Like he says them differently. I can’t really explain it (when he talks about Aqua Town or Scarland or The Big Dig)

Literally has an evil laugh when he thinks of a way to prank someone or mess with people

Hums in thought quite often, and uses “huh!” quite often when confused or finding out something new (Mostly with redstone)

His farewell is almost always “Byeeee, have a great time!” even if the conversation he left was not a pleasant one. I’m almost certain he does this in tense situations just to get under other people’s skin and really push how unbothered he is

Doesn’t tend to insult people, the farthest he’ll take it is backhanded compliments

That said he is not afraid to outright threaten (“I will murder them.”)

References media a lot, both for concepts for builds and in speech (ie his greeting “Well hello there!” is from Star Wars)

Number one exclamation is “Sweet Baby Jellie!”

(More under the cut!)

He is incredibly confident and difficult to intimidate, as he lives under this assumption that everything is under control. Anything that threatens this assumption is corrected as soon as possible, for his own peace of mind. Oh, so and so hates him? He does something nice for them, so now he has something to bring up if they think about attacking him. Oh, he’s about to die? He takes himself out on his own terms, so that even the inevitability of death is something he has a say on (See: double life finale, many limited life deaths, the start of secret life episode 7). This philosophy is behind like… 90% of everything he does, feeling in control (even when things very much aren’t) is something very important to him.

When Scott is told about the zombie apocalypse, what does he do? He says no thank you, and he goes back home. The reason he gives to the survivors is that he thinks the zombies are only after green names and therefore it isnt his problem. but like. considering that bdubs was infected as a yellow, there is actually no way that he wouldn’t have realized that reason is bullshit. Scott is smart. That isn’t the real reason he brushes off THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. The real reason is that he thinks bad things can’t happen to him unless he lets them happen; he thinks that he is safe as long as he plays it safe. Gem already advised him to stay clear of her this session, Gem is his friend and ally, and Gem has *no reason* to go after him, so he believes himself exempt from the apocalypse… Almost.

He decides to approach the zombie army directly anyways, and give them a gift: a disc and a jukebox! This is how he plans to settle any remaining doubts he has: to reassure that yes, they won’t go after him, because he’s made himself a good asset (and to Gem and Impulse, a great one). He should still be exempt anyways, of course (this is why he felt safe enough to even approach them in the first place), but it doesn’t hurt to reassure himself that he is by reminding them that he is nice and friendly and helpful and good to keep around. Yes, this should keep the target off his back for sure. This is how Scott avoids and resolves a good 80% of conflicts; playing the social game is how he survives, it’s how he feels safe and like everything’s under control.

But Gem is different. Gem doesn’t care. Her army doesn’t care.

They surround him, they mock him, he runs and they chase him. Gem says (almost playfully) “Hey Scar, you wanna take the first hit?” and Scott repeats “first hit?” in this sort of quiet disbelief. He gets away, but it shakes him; he’d heard his own heartbeat (represented via a heartbeat sound effect played during the scene), he was genuinely scared. because… that Should Have Worked. As per usual, he’d played the social game well this entire game, so realistically Gem’s army shouldn’t be after him, it’s even led by his ally ffs. It doesn’t make any sense to him. He later assumes it was entirely the task, the task made Gem untrustworthy, so he still calls Gem and Impulse his allies. That is, until Gem dies, and respawns back at their base.

The first thing Scott does is compliment Gem, tells her to do a little twirl to show off her new red outfit. But he can hear his heartbeat again. He’s still scared. The second thing he does is downplay how much he knows, and ask for an explanation— “Oh my goodness, what’s happening? I know there’s like a zombie apocalypse…” but Gem isnt listening. Instead, Gem announces how much of a good job Joel is doing, having killed Skizz! Gem takes an innocent step towards Scott, and Scott steps back. Gem notices. She takes a couple more steps. Purposeful this time. Threatening. Scott goes for Plan C: He shows off how useful he is. He warns her that Martyn trapped her tripwire, all while backing away with every step Gem takes. But Gem doesn’t care about that. She knows he’s scared. She wants to make that known. “How are you feeling?” she asks. It’s rhetorical. She knows EXACTLY what he’s feeling. She just wants to hear him say it. So Scott makes a break for it. Gem chases. He still tries to give her an incentive to stop, telling her that he hears digging, doesn’t she want to go see what the digging is? She hits him with her sword, says she just really wants to do some damage. Scott yells “YOU’VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE, GEM!” to which Gem yet again asks how he’s feeling. Scott says “HURT” and Gem lets him get away.

Scott hardly ever lets himself feel fear, but when he does, he (being as reputation focused as he is) almost always defaults to a fawn response. but gem is not a fawn she is a deer with antlers who will maul you in the woods and leave your body for the worms and fungi to clean up. Scott tried to appease her in any way that he could, flipping through every method that usually works… and for the first time, it all failed completely. He did everything he could have done to prevent this, and she still hurt him even though he gave her no incentive— he gave her nothing but incentives not to, in fact. It doesn’t make any sense! He can’t avoid this, he can’t will this away, he can’t even fight back because Gem is stronger and Gem won’t back down. Scott was never in any real danger— Gem hadn’t even planned on killing him, as it wouldn’t have counted for her task. She just hit him a couple of times and let him scamper off. But Scott was still noticeably more afraid in that situation than he is during actual real attempts on his life. Because Scott isn’t afraid of death, not in itself. He’s afraid of outcomes he cannot predict, and he is afraid of what he cannot influence. By being his ally all season, ignoring all of Scott’s attempts to make peace and then chasing him down anyways, taunting him the whole way— Gem proves in an instant that she can not be influenced at all. She could bite scotts arm off just because she feels like it. And (gestures to opening paragraph) for someone who needs to feel in control to feel secure, this is a huge problem.

Scott recounts this interaction to Cleo, and Cleo asks Scott why he didn’t just hit her back. He tells her outright: “yeah that scares me.” And it’s not hard to see why. Gem is genetically engineered to scare him shitless. Scott fears feeling powerless, and most of all he fears fear itself. Gem not only attacked him, but she toyed with him, she took joy in it, and she made him think about how it made him feel.

tldr: scott needs to feel in control to feel safe. gem is more powerful than scott through not giving a fuck about his niceties. this mixes badly, and scott cowers for the very first time.

it is actually fuckin wild that gem kicked scott around like a scared puppy and hunted him for sport for an episode only for them to go back to business as usual next episode, but it also. Makes sense. In what is perhaps the most scott move of all time, he decided it wasn’t a big deal actually, for the sake of keeping good relations with his alliance. He goes so far as to open up the next session by gifting Gem a heart, to show how “over it” he is. And considering that he typically likes to keep his heart to use as a bargaining chip later on, I think this was an attempt to make sure Gem didn’t try that shit again via his beloved fawn response. Which is really funny because again, that doesn’t work on Gem, she was still like “ok lets kill them” about her scotts towards the end of the session (I love you gem). Lucky for scott he was already considering letting gem kill him anyways so it worked out fine, but he was very likely going to get killed there no matter what

In the next and final episode, Scott is still a bit wary. He’s dedicated to helping Gem at this point; she’s his alliance so he Has to be (being wholly dedicated to his current alliances to the point of self destruction is part of his identity), but considering (gestures towards Gem gleefully trying to kill him) all that, he doesn’t really trust her. Letting Gem kill him in ep8 was further insurance towards Gem NOT attacking him again down the line, but when Gem starts negotiating with Pearl, Scott still feels the need to pull her and impulse aside for a “band meeting” to say “Gem. Gem. I want you to remember that both of us let you kill us. You have to make sure that no matter what other alliances you have, this is the top one.” which is bullshit btw Scott makes other alliances all the time, and Gem rightfully calls him out on it (“you cant be lecturing ME on having other alliances”). Scott just wanted to make sure that his sacrifices actually paid off