Grian got skizz and impulse matching shirts that said 'if lost return to impulse' for skizz and 'i'm impulse, keep him' for impulse at the same time getting scar a shirt that read 'i got a dig bick. you that read wrong. You read that wrong, too.' (it took ten minutes, three people and a white board to explain it to scar). He also got a shirt for gem that read 'just a girl keeping it reel'. Coincidentally impulse and skizz got her a shirt that read 'fishing queen classy sassy and a bit smart assy' as a thank you for getting them the original shirts.

After seeing the giggs crew rocking their shirts cleo got a couple ideas and got to work making shirts for some other hermits. The first one they made was small shirt for joe that said 'talk to the hand puppet'. (He was very happy to get it), then she made a shirt for ren that said ' lone wolf' with a picture of a wolf on it. Ren had quite the laught after getting it and finally gave doc a shirt that read 'i'm not rude i just have the balls to say what everyone else is thinking' which doc absolutely adores.

Ren, joe and doc then teamed up to find cleo a shirt and after a couple hours if bickering they landed on a shirt that read 'zombies eat brians, dont worry your safe' which cleo said fit their vibe exactly.

At some time during all of this a hermit sent xisuma a shirt with 'never underestimate me, I control the server' on it, he loves it and wants to thank the person who got it for him but no one will fess up to giving him it.

Bdubs got a 'short king' shirt that he did not appreciate, joel got a shirt that says 'i miss my wife' and Pearl got a moth man shirt.

Geminitay: have you checked your mail today?

Skizzleman: nope

Skizzleman: should i got check it?

Geminitay: yes i sent you something

Skizzleman: is it going to kill me

Geminitay: no you wierdo its just a gift

Skizz chuckled to himself as he closed his communicator and flew over to his mail box.

Sure enough the light indicating a package was lit up, inside was a shulcker box with a bow on it and a tag that read 'from gem to dad #2'. Skizz opened the box and pulled out the shirt.

Gem saw the shirt online and bought it for skizz as a joke. She forgot she ordered it until it came in but the joke was still funny so she cut the sleeves off to look like skizz's suit and sent it off, messaging skizz to tell him to go check his mail then promptly got distracted and forgot about it again.

Untill the weekly hermitcraft meeting when skizz walked in with his chest puffed out wearing the shirt that said "yes! i'm a lucky dad. i have a freaking awesome daughter she's stubborn, messy and a bit silly sometimes but she is a perfect mixture of angel and warrior we are the best partners in crime and i'm proud to be her dad

(yes, she bought me this)"

Grian nearly fell out of his seat laughing as gem tried to hide her head in her hands.

In the end they all had a good laught and skizz refuses to give up the shirt.

Look, grian knew Skizz was an angel, and he also knew Angles had wings, but the only time he had ever interacted with Skizz was in the life games, where a lot of hybrid features and abilities were removed for fairness, so he had never seen Skizz with his wings out. So it is completely understandable that in the first ten seconds of Skizz being on the Hermitcraft server a very excited Grian flying tackled hugged Skizz knocking both of them over.

"YOU HAVE WINGS!" Grian shouted as impulse picked him off of Skizz.

"did you not know I was an angel?" Skizz asked as impulse set grian down and offered a hand to skizz who took it and was lifted onto his feet.

"Yes I knew you are an angel and that angles have wings but I never put it together" grian said dusting himself off still bouncing around a bit.

"Ooo, then you'll think this is real cool," Skizz said as he started to flex his back. Impulse, letting off a small laugh, knowing what was about to happen. Two more sets of wings grew from Skizz's back. Grian looked in absolute awe before launching into an excited rant about how cool Skizz's wings were and asking if he could feel them.

"Ok, ok, ok," Impulse started as he stepped in between them "How about we head to the meeting area so the others can meet Skizz and Joel"

"Finee" grian groaned playing up the annoyance in his voice.

Grian landed on Skizz's shoulders. "Hey, buddy," Skizz laughed, looking up at his flying friend.

"How did you not even flinch? Oh, whatever, I wanted to invite you two to the first preening night."

"Oh g"

"So it's going to be in pearls base because she already has her starter base up that try hard, and"

"But I"

"It will be this Friday; there will be a bunch of different snacks. You can bring something, but no pressure, and it's great you're going to love it. Yeah that's about it see you there skizz it's awesome having you on the server buddy, I got some stuff I need to finish so I'll see you later bye skizz"

"Wait, g" Skizz watches his aviator friend fly off as he glances at his own white wings.

Now, it's important to note that there are quite a few differences between angels and aviators. One difference is how their wings behave at rest. An aviator will just fold their wings to their back, and if need be, they can cover their wings with something like a Pancho to hide them. Angel wings, on the other hand, can transform from their physical form to nothing more than a tattoo on the angel's back. This is so angels can fight on the ground without worrying that their wings will become a target.

Angels like skizz offen choose to have at least their main pair of wings out because having all three pairs hidden becomes uncomfortable so most people dont even know that angels wings can completely disappear.

This also means that angels do not have to preen their wings since every time they tuck their wings away, they reset to a tidy and clean version. And here lays skizz's delema. He doesn't know how to preen wings.

Skizz didn't know what to do. He didn't want to no show the preening night but he also didnt want to show up not know how to do anything and have his wings not need preening, so he did what he always did when facing a difficult situation.

"DIPPLE DOPPPP" skizz barreled into the ground next to impulse earning him a small yell as impulse whipped around.

"Geez skizz every time"

"Hi, buddy," Skizz said as he picked himself up.

"I need help"

"When do you not?" Impulse remarked as he got back to what he was doing.

"HEY!" Skizz yelled following impulse. "This is serious dude"

"Ok, ok, what got you twisted"

"Well" Skizz started passing "g invited me to preening night and I want to go but I dont want to let them down because my stupid wingies don't need preening and I don't know how to preen but I don't want to just not go but I feel like if I go i'll just let them down." Skizz slumped over on a nearby block.

"Why don't you just leave your wings out?" Impulse asked, taking a bite of a golden carrot.

"UHH WHY DIDNT I THINK OF THAT" Skizz exclaimed "Well that's part of the problem but what about me not knowing about wing stuff"

"Don't worry about that part; the others will be more than happy to teach you. Quiet honestly you dont even need to leave your wings out, preening night is just another reason for hermits to hang out" Impulse said "Just show up, it doesn't matter if you just sit and talk,"

"Ok, thanks dipple dop"

"Anytime buddy."

Skizz's wings were itchy; he had them out all week as well as rolled in some dirt for good measure, and all he could think about was how uncomfortable his wings felt as he walked up to the door a plate of snacks in hand.

Pearl opened the door before he could even knock. "Skizzly." he shifted the snacks in his hand to give her a one-arm hug.

"WHAT IN VOIDS NAME HAPPENED TO YOUR WINGS?" Grian yelled, peaking around Pearl. "You know what, no time," Grian exclaimed, pushing past Pearl and taking Skizz's arm. Pearl catching the plate skizz brought as Grian pulls through the door and into a room covered from wall to wall in different pillows, blankets, and cushions.

Grian pushes him down on a mattress up against a couch, where he sits and starts working on preening Skizz's wings.

Skizz blinks a few times adjusting to the light shift and looks around the room. False is sitting at the base of a arm chair with zed preening her wings to her left is mumbo who is carefully sewing scar's vex wings as scar works on cub's. pearl sits back down on the floor in front of gem who continues to remove dust from her wings with a makeup brush, behind her impulse braids gem's hair, looking up and giving a small wave to skizz.

"I need an extra set of hands. TIMMY" grian glances over to jimmy and tango who are sitting at the end of the couch tango carefully going through jummy's wings. After a couple seconds grian turns his head "JIM"

"Sorry what" Jimmy looks over in a daze to grian.

"Get over here I need help with skizz's wings." As jimmy starts to shift tango wraps his arms around him " get someone else to help you jimmy's busy" tango challenged staring down grian.

Impulse gets up and sits in-between grian and tango who are both giving the other death glares. "I got it," grian huffs as tango grins and gets back to preening jimmy's wings.

"Wait i'm confused, I thought that preening night would just be winged hermits." Grian shrugged "it started like that , but in season 8 we already had all of boatem except mumbo and impulse so I dragged them along, and at the same time gem tagged along with pearl then we stole tango cuz his hands are nice and warm and during the crossover with empires jimmy started coming and just never stopped showing up and zed kinda just appeared and has been here ever since"

"He's surprisingly good at preening" false chimed in "and braiding" gem added. Zed "I am a man of many talents " zed said looking up from false's wings.

"Dude seriously what did you do to your wings" grian asked deloging a stick from skizz's left wing. "Everytime I've seen you on hermitcraft your wings have always been flawless,"

"I said you could keep your wings out not role around in the dirt for half an hour " impulse remarks as he works on skizz's right wing. Grian gives impulse a confused look. "Do skizz's wings actually fit under his shirt?"

"No angel wings can retract into the angels back and when they do that the wings go back to a default state." Skizz explains. Grian paused for a minute "so how did your wings get this bad" skizz goes quite and looks down. "Mate did you intentionally get your wings nasty so we would have something to preen" pearl asked looking to skizz. "Maybe" skizz says not looking up. The room fell into silence for a couple of seconds before tango starts laughing uncontrollably nearly falling off the couch.

"Ok tango you can stop now, im an idiot we all get that" skizz says "your not an idiot" gem says putting down a makeup brush. "You just wanted to be part of the group"

"I told him that preening night is just another excuse to hang out but he was to busy worrying about upsetting people to listen" impulse scoffed wiping his hands on his paints and sitting back. "Yeah im not finishing that" grian declared also siting back. "Yeah thats fair" skizz says retracting his wings into his back then letting them out again.

"do you want to learn how to preen, skizz" impulse asked going back over to gem. "Your not touching my hair unless you rinse your hands" gem says picking up and pointing a small makeup brush at him. "I don't know I'm not the gentlest guy I wouldn't want to hurt someone's wings" skizz says as grian sits in front of him.

"Don't you worry about that, once scar set one of my wings on fire and you can not be worse than that."

"Hey I told you that was an accident" scar pouts.

"And let's not forget the time you fell on top of one of my wings g" pearl added swapping places with gem and starting to finish braiding her hair.

Grian rolls his eyes as impulse comes back from washing his hands and sits next to skizz, the room falling back into peaceful chatter.

"Just copy what I do" impulse says as he takes one of grians wings and starts gently sorting through grains feathers, dislodging dirt and broken feathers as skizz does the same, all be it slower on grians other wing.

About a half hour goes by as impulse finishes preening and skizz is about half way tongue stuck out in consideration, body stiff. Grian is locked in a rant about fishing that nobody is paying attention to as tango gets an idea. Slowly he starts to creep over to the other side of the couch his tail flickering back and forth like a cat hunting. Gem looks up just in time for tango to pounce on skizz's shoulders.

Skizz yelps his other two sets of wings launching out of his back sending tango over the couch as he accidentally rips a couple feathers out from g's wings which causes him to smack impulse with one wing as he jumps forward into gem who also yells at the sudden face full of feathers.

All the commotion causes mumbo to suddenly look up the sudden shift of motion knocking scar off balance into cub who was just about to sit back down from getting a drink. Cub falls to his side knocking over the chair zed is in which dominos over to the chair peal is sitting in knocking her to the floor.

Jimmy who was untouched in the chaos breaks out laughing as the others groan and sit up. "What just happened?" Zed asked partly beneath the arm chair he was sitting in. Skizz opens his mouth to start apologizing but before any words can come out gem stand up

"TANGO" she stomps over to the couch as tango stands up behind it, giggling. "Yes gem?" He says trying, and failing to act innocent.

"Don't you think I didn't see you sneaking up to scare skizz look at what you've done" gem says arms shooting out hitting impulse in the face. "Oh sorry impulse" impulse waves it off. "What were you thinking" gem says turning back and pointing at tango.

"I was thinking this is going to be so funny. And it was"

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry about all of this" skizz says helping pearl up.

"Eh no worries mate tonight has gone smoother than a lot of other preening nights" pearl says dusting herself off, grain nods shaking his wings back. "Im really sorry about ruining your preening night." Skizz says looking at grains one messy wing.

"Dont you worry about that. none of us need serious presning cuz are wings reset after dying" false says taking a bite of an apple. "Plus this is not nearly as bad as that time in season 8"

"I thought we agreed not to talk about that time" mumbo muttered dusting off his pajama suit.

"Maybe you agreed " false answered

"In our defense half of us hadn't slept in a week for the mooners" scar replied

"Sleep deprived or not it was a bad idea to snort redstone dust." Cub added.

Breath in,

Hold for 4,

Breathe out and pull the trigger.

"YEAH BABY, NOOCH"

"You are going to get yourself killed" Impulse's voice crinkled through the mic.

"I can celebrate a little bit," Skizz says between Snickers as he packs up his gun. "Plus did you see how awesome that kill was, i'm taken out baddies left and right"

"How about we save the celebration for ~after~ we complete the mission, your final target is in the gray building with a sheet metal roof" Impulse says typing on his computer "Their communication is still down but the backup system is going to be back on line soon so move quickly "

"You got it, dipple dop," Skizz whispers as he starts creeping to his next target. After a couple of minutes, the building comes into view. "Your target should be on the north side of the building on the second floor"

"Copy," Skizz says faintly as he sets up the sniper on the forest floor hidden within the bushes. Looking through the scope, he finds a window leading into the room his target is in, mindlessly walking around on the phone, completely ignorant of the gun pointing through the window.

Breath in.

His target walks into view

Hold for four.

Skizz tracks his movements

Breath out.

as soon as the target pauses

Pull the trigger.

It's a direct hit; it always is.

"Nooch," Skizz smiles and quickly packs up his sniper. "Does Etho need any help with his targets?" "Uh, let me ask." Skizz keeps packing as he hears Impulse turn his chair. "How you two doing?" Impulse says, barely being picked up by his mic. Theirs talking as tango replies but nothing can be made out. "Ok got it" Impulse's voice rises as he turns back to his computer "You're all set to get to the extraction point etho just got his last mark" "All alrighty then see you soon dipple dop" Skizz starts silently walking to the extraction point where there's a car already waiting to take him and etho home.

It doesn't take long to get to the truck, and it takes even less time for Etho to show up; Skizz gives a small wave as he and Etho put their weapons in the trunk. Skizz takes the driver's seat as Etho gets in the shotgun. Skizz turns the key and starts the drive back. "Sooo I was thinking"

"No" etho immediately says his voice even as always.

"You don't even know what im gonna say"

"Yeah I do"

"Nu-uh"

"Ok then ask your question"

"Thank you, as I was saying I was thinking we should stop for pi~"

"No" etho says cutting him off the smallest hint of enjoyment in his eye.

"Why not" skizz wines

"Because we had pizza two days ago" impulse cuts in over the microphone

"I forgot you could still hear us," Skizz says with a bit of a jump.

"Sometimes I wish I couldn't," impulse says pretending to sound bored.

"HEY" skizz says seeing etho smiling under his mask.

"Is Skizz asking for takeout again?" Tango asks, coming through the impulse mic, and impulse makes a small noise of confirmation.

Tango sighs. "Give that to me," he says as the sound of impulse mic and headset is taking off and passing to Tango. "Skizz listen, we have to stop eating out every other day, we're going to go broke"

"No, we're not," Skizz scuffs in reply.

"If you really want to eat out we can, but your paying"

"Come on man," etho and impuse start to snicker. "You all suck"

"Hey," Impulse says as his mic is handed back to him. "You could always request a transfer "

Grian- watcher/parrot avatar: has watcher powers but only uses them in an emergency, has big parrot wings, bird legs, and feet. He does perch on other hermits, his favorites being Mumbo, scar, gem, impulse, and Skizz (so Magic Mountain minus Joel because he will go limp on purpose). He also sometimes will randomly swoop in, land on a hermit, and take off hard to knock them off balance, his favorite victims being Scar, Joel, and Doc. He has tried to knock Mumbo off but can never get him to fall over for some reason.

Skizz-angle of justice/laughter: has a full angel form. Some of his scars are actually closed eyes. Any sword he welds gets fire aspect until he puts it down. His normal form has a pair of wings and a halo, if he gets overly emotional(stressed, angry, happy, etc) he will gain two more sets of wings, and the halo will become tilted and another one will appear overlapping in front of his eyes(he can still see clear as day) this is not his true form, the only one who has seen his true form is impulse.

Impulsesv-demon: demon of ambition, semi-fireproof but not much. Has a full demon form. Much like Skizz, he has the form he presents most of the time, and when he feels strong emotions, his looks become more demonic. For his every day, he has two small horns on his forehead that go from his normal skin tone to an ashy black and a forked tail that has the same effect. His wings are like bat wings and have small yellow talens on the ends. For his more demonic look, his horns get bigger, his eyes will start to glow, his teeth will become too big to fit in his mouth, and when his tail strikes the ground, it creates sparks. Also, like Skizz, this is not his true form, and Skizz is the only one to have seen it.

Gem-shapeshifter: the main form is a humanoid with deer antlers, usually with flowers and vines woven in.

Scar-vex: made a deal with the vex and became one. His normal form is a human, but if he gets angry, which is rare, his skin turns blue. He can also summon vex wings and can turn into 1-3 small vexes, can only walk through walls and fly when he is in either vex form.

Mumbo-vampier bat/part watcher: can shift to and from bat form but rarely does it mostly because he forgets he can. Gained the watcher part after eating grians soul back in season 8.

Joel- meat-eating pixie hybrid: has sharp teeth for tearing into meat and can shift from his human size to pixie size.

Tango- blaze: fully fireproof, arms are disconnected, but that is usually hidden with his shirt/hoodie, has blaze rods floating around his head and will sometimes use them if he needs one and will give them to other hermits if they ask.

Pearl- moth: has moth wings and antennas. Every once in a while a hermit will find them staring at a light and have to drag them away

Etho- arctic fox: can freely shift from human to fox form and will use this power exclusively to prank people. In human form, he has fox ears and a tail.

False- eagle avatar: has eagle wings,

Ren- dog: on a full moon, he will turn into a full dog, but like a Minecraft dog (zed makes sure to stay inside during full moons because of this), he can also shift into a dog outside of the full moon with the bonus of still being in control. He is allergic to things dogs can't eat, like chocolate, but they just give him a stomach ache, so he sometimes just eats the stuff anyway. In his human form, he has dog ears and a very fluffy tail. If a hermit throws a stick or something around, no matter what state he is in, he will chase it.

Cleo- zombie: sometimes they have to sew their limbs back on, and for whatever reason they can't do it, they will get Joe to do it; other hermits are allowed, but Joe does the best Joe and has fun, colorful thread.

Beef- long-horned cow/bull: has long bull horns that make it annoying to go through doors sometimes.

Xsuma/evil X- void walker: although he technically can breathe the air in the overworld, it is a lot harder, so he wears the suit to help him breathe with the added bonus of having it temper regularly because the end is a lot colder than the overworld.

Hypno- wasp: wasp :)

Cub- vex: was born a vex. They had the same vex features as Scar with the same mechanics.

Doc- creeper/goat/cyborg: doc started as just a normal creeper hybrid, but then he had his arm ripped off, so he made himself a new one with some perks, of course. Then he lost his eye, so he replaced that, and then he just kept going. He now has goat horns, a robotic spine, and butterfly wings, along with countless other modifications. Now, it's not the changes that Doc made to himself that freak the hermits out; most of the hermits think it's really cool, but the fact that no one can figure out how the hell he did it. Replacing an arm by yourself is one thing but a spine. A SPINE DOC. It wasn't even necessary he just did it.

Joe-???: nobody knows what Joe is; everyone just knows he is not human. The most common theory is that he is a ghost, but due to the nature of Joe Hill, nobody is sure. It certainly doesn't help that he keeps saying he is from a place called Nashville, Tennessee, and the hermits can't figure out if it's a server name or a dimension or whatever; most of them have just given up on trying to understand Joe Hills and just accept whatever he is.

Xb- guardian: elder guardian hybrid, has retractable gills and a tail.

Keralis- ethereal being: whatever he is it is not human for one and two, has been here long before the universe formed

Zedaph- sheep: normal sheep hybrid, can be nametag _jeb, but the person who does this will end up with various zany redstone contraptions that may or may not be lethal

Wels- falcon: has falcon wings

Jevin- slime: blue slime