#hermitghostinnit

here, have a wholesome, non-dead tommy learning to build from Grian.

hopefully i improved in writing in the months i was gone. sorry again guys!

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Tommy’s been in this server for approximately 4 months. He’s been camping in Grian’s hobbit hole, building cobbledongs everywhere. Grian laughed at seeing it the first few times, but eventually he realized the new kid didn’t know how to build anything else.

So, Grian being Grian, he all but dragged Tommy to his mega base.

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"Tommy!" Grian can be heard, swooping from the air and landing in front of the grinning kid.

Tommy, still a little jumpy despite 4 months of peace, practically leaps out of his skin. He scowls at the laughing blond. Grian is practically bent in half.

"That's so not pog!"

Grian wipes his eye, grin never leaving his face. "Do you want to learn to build a better house? Not that I'm saying you can't live in the hobbit hole, but I'm sure you'd want to build other things with all your cobble."

Tommy was touched, a little embarrassed at being touched, and very much insecure in his building skills.

He's not good at building, you see. He's not good at redstone either, really. All TommyInnit's been good at was fighting, and even then, he was so far from being the best that all he has going is sheer will and determination.

Not anymore, though.

Nowadays, Tommy's just sitting around doing nothing. Maybe trying to learn won't be too hard.

Hey, at least Grian's proven himself to be nice enough.

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Grian was surprised at how fast Tommy picked up building.

The kid had creativity for miles, only stifled by how scared he is. It makes Grian sad to see what his old server did to Tommy, wishing, not for the first time, that the boy had lagged into Hermitcraft much much earlier.

It's okay though, Grian will still adopt him.

"Big G!" Tomny screeches, laughter evident in his voice. "I did it! I finished the tower!"

Tommy had made a tower of cobble. Well, at least mostly cobble. Bringing the kid all over the server brought out his eye for details and texture. It's like seeing a craftsman come back to what he did best.

The tower, only the first of many according to Tommy, is simple. It doesn't look like it was made by a newbie, and while it still needs polishing, it's more than anyone could realistically expect from someone who started learning barely a week ago.

There were vines crawling up from the base, mosstly cobble transitioning to normal cobble. Some chunks were missing, giving the whole thing a dilapidated, abandoned look.

Tommy thought up a whole story about a king leaving behind his empire and youngest sons to adventure with his oldest. Grian feels like it's a personal story, but he never asks.

(It is. A personal story, that is. That's why Tommy started building his base, at least the starter one, by Xisuma's place. It's fine. Tommy's fine.)

Everyone has a right to keep their pasts, after all.

"It's pretty good, Tommy." Grian smiles at the teen.

Tommy practically vibrates fron the praise.

"I'm going to make it have a green roof too, so we can match! We'll be like brothers!"

Grian almost tears up. He always santed a little brother.

"Yeah. Yeah, Toms. We'll be like brothers."

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This is the Hermit!Tommy AU that devolved/evolved to a Hermit!Ghostinnit AU. I have no idea where this is going, tbh. 

I tried to arrange it in a coherent timeline, instead of the order of posting, so yeah. Also I made like, arcs or something, idk how to explain it. 

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When Tommy was Alive

The Very First The Hermits Find Tommy Tommy Bonds With the Hermits Tommy and Grian are Like Brothers

Ghostinnit is Here

The Beginning of Ghostinnit Ghostinnit is Quiet, but not Because he’s a Ghost The Hermits Find Ghostinnit

Ghostinnit and DSMP Members

Ghostinnit Meets Phil and Techno Phil Breaks the News and Tommy Meets Ranboo Ranboo in Hermitcraft (What’ll he do?) Ghostinnit Sees and Meets Other Ghosts Tubbo in Hermitcraft (What’ll he do?) (Cry, probably)

Toast and Ghostinnit

Tubbo is Sad, so he Becomes Toast  Tubbo and Tommy: GhostBros

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Not in the Timeline Yet

Possible Revive Book Pog?

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I’m gonna put the taglist here too, but also reply here if you wanna get added. Or send an ask. Either way works.

Hermitcraft raids Dream SMP for the revive book

I take this and raise you:

Dream, as I've mentioned like twice before, goes crazy looking for Tommy. Then he hears Tommy is Ghostinnit now, in Hermitcraft. What does he do?

He sneaks into Hermitcraft and kidnaps Ghostinnit to try and revive him.

This can go two ways:

First option is Dream revives him but the Hermits manage to save him, kill/imprison Dream, and steal the revive book to revive Toast or;

Second option is Dream doesn't even manage to leave Hermitcraft before he's caught.

Xisuma, ever since Tommy snuck into the server, has been regularly checking the member list just in case. One night, he sees Dream on the list.

Let's just say Dream doesn't get close to Tommy at all.

(This one can also go two ways, first is Dream bargains that he can revive Tommy, but Xisuma just takes the book and like, banishes him. The second is Xisuma banishes Dream and never finds out about the book, thus not being able to revive Ghostinnit.)

You know, sink (can I call you that?), you've given me a ton of potential for fluff. Finally, in this angst-filled AU, you gave me an idea on how to inject actual fluff.

i found an inconsistency in two of my oneshots/drabbles. one mentioned how ghostinnit was still loud and happy while the other mentioned he was quiet. i have an idea to patch it up.

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Tommy is- was loud. He was a loud child. He wanted attention. Recognition.

He wanted someone to look at him and think "I want to love this child."

Phil should have been that. Techno should have been that.

Wilbur was almost that.

(Close, but not quite.)

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Neglect produces many types of children. Sometimes they are destructive, maybe overachievers, or thieves, or even simply rebels. Sometimes they are quiet, sometimes they are loud.

I'm sure you can figure out what Tommy is.

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Tommy was a loud child, borne from the lack of familial love from most of the people who should love him.

He learned that to be seen, and thus, to be loved, is to be loud. It's to be annoying, and pushing, and attention grabbing. Memorable.

Tommy is a quieter ghost. His default voice is not yelling, his laughs aren't quite forced, and his whole demeanor is calm. Accepting.

He's simply different.

But that didn't start as a ghost. Tommy did not become calmer as a ghost. He did not learn that to be loud does not equal to be loved as a ghost.

(He learned that a long time ago, back in a server where lives are limited and admins are abusers and children die. He just never knew what else he could be so he could be loved.)

Before he died, TommyInnit seemed like a different person.

Still laughing loudly, still pranking, still causing chaos—but. He's different. Calmer. Quieter.

He's learned that to be loved is not to be loud, but just to be. Because the Hermits have love to spare, and Tommy is as lovable as all of them.

So yes, Tomny is a quiet ghost. Not because of death, but because he has almost no memory of a world where he needs to loud to be loved. Where he failed at being loved despite being loud.

So, Tommy just lets himself be.

(Tommy may have changed—quieter, calmer, more thoughtful and accepting—but he still himself. He will laugh loudly, he will prank other Hermits, he will love and finally realize what it feels to be loved unconditionally.

Tommy is, quite fundamentally, the same.)

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Tommy loves. He is loyal to few people because few people are loyal to him, but he will love everyone even if they hate him.

The DSMP hated him for different reasons, different ideals, and different opinions. They get a broken child who does not know what it feels to be loved like he loves.

Hermitcraft returns his love tenfold, for no reason other than they can and they do. They get a healing child who's loyalty is fiercer than netherite, and loves so much more.

Tommy is loved now.

(He was always loved, just not enough to for his friends and family to choose him over war and destruction.)

Tommy loves.

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oh my god, are you really @redorich ? omg hi i'm so honored, this is the best thing that's happened to me in months.

luckily for you, i have months of ideas stockpiled in my head. also, i'm giving you some wholesome ghostinnit because i have a little too much angst in this au.

just a warning though, i'm not that caught up with dsmp lore. though, i probs dont really need much from that since this is an au.

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Tommy sees someone outside Hermitcraft, once. Another ghost, like him, with ram horns and a blue sweater. Tommy has a weird mix of nostalgia and anger before turning around, entering SciCraft for a tour.

(Schlatt misses the time before the DreamSMP, when Wilbur and him were alive, when they were best friends, when Tommy was his brother as much as he saw Wilbur as a brother.)

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The next ghost Tommu sees, he's just come out of Hermitcraft to fetch Ranboo to hang out again.

The brunette ghost, with his yellow sweater and red beanie, looks at him once and rushes over. Tommy thought he was being ambushed, but the ghost just shook his hand and enthused about finding someobe like him—like them.

The ghost calls himself Ghostbur.

(Wilbur—Ghostbur—doesn't remember this blonde boy anymore. He knows he knew him, but the blue in his pockets become more appealing the more he thinks of his relation to this fellow ghost.)

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