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Hi! I’m Haunted (he/him) and welcome to my Hermitcraft & Traffic SMPs sideblog! Main is @unpredictably-ghostly​ so likes/follows will be from there.
This is mostly my art and other reblogs, though I also write sometimes! My tags are #ghost art #ghost writing and #ghost post. Any ship is tagged with #trafficshipping or #hermitshipping as well as the ship name (it’s nearly all treebark).
Watching a reasonable amount of hermits for s10 including: Ren, Cub, Grian, Mumbo, Scar, Bdubs, Tango, Cleo, Gem, Zedaph, Beef, Joel, Impulse, and Skizz!
Most of this blog is about Rendog and/or InTheLittleWood, both inside and outside the Traffic series, because I watched Third Life and haven’t known peace since.
My inbox is always open (and on anon), especially for fic recommendations or art requests!
Helped make a Renchanting-centric fantasy-style AU with @/liloinkoink! The masterpost is here and check #lamplight au for more :D
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Characters in order: @cjskribblez sona, @kalapebbles June Castillo, @mrfroag Altair Zavarrios, @melon-official Mago, @smurgle Gravel, @anpanbun sona, @karetyto Owl, @fluxydrawings Overseer, and @saint-starling Helewise and the God of Never Letting Go.
no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on tumblr.
Ren getting the blue axolotl in almost half the time it on average requires, driving Grian to madness in the process
Ren nailing Cub's crossbow game on the second try after having to ask what button to press to fire, driving Skizz to rage in the process
i anticipate a perfect run of Decked Out 3 when it opens for the people's princess, Ren "Renthedog" Dog, causing Tango to experience lovecraftian horrors beyond mortal comprehension
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questions!! how does vampirism work in toahk?
they seem to be immortal, but is that conditional? they're mostly active at night, is that a necessity? and they still eat regular food, is blood like a crucial supplement to that? also. do they get any cool powers And do they know about any other vampires beyond the fucker who turned florian?
Anon. I'm so happy you have asked this thank you thank you.
I was thinking lately about condensing the toahk vampire lore that we've been making with @saint-starling and @honey-daisies but seeing as you're giving me the chance to do it now--
I'm using Lukas as my main example AND because in canon he's a huge nerd that loves researching and curating vampire history and trying to find what's real and what's just myth. What I'm gonna say is basically what he's found out in the story:
Are they really immortal?
Yeah! Unless killed they will just live forever. Lots of methods to kill vampires have been written in stories but Lukas knows that at least the wooden stake method is real (don't ask how he knows, it's not a nice subject).
However as vampires age and get past the 300 years mark if they're too isolated they'll develop what's basically vampire dementia and get very, very careless with themselves. Which ends in accidental deaths and the reason why so little ancient vampires exist. Rip Grekos.
2. Are they most active during the night?
Also yes! They are simply nocturnal and are built for the dark anyway (ex.: the sun not only burns but it also is simply too bright and they can't see that well).
The light sensitivity thing also gives them eyes that are basically like cats, pupil dilating and going needle mode depending on the time of day and the light (but I like drawing them needle-pupil all the time cuz it's cute to me)
3. Do they eat regular food?
Florian and Lukas do, but it doesn't hold any nutritional value. However, according to research and memoirs by other vampires, Lukas has concluded that going for prolonged periods of time without the taste of human food ends up making them unable to taste it at all, and it's irreversible damage. Of course it's all alleged but Lukas doesn't exactly want to test if this is true or not- sue him but he likes filet mignon too much.
TDLR: They can eat for pleasure, but only blood actually feeds them.
Also fun little lineup I did about how hunger actually changes vampires. It's a mechanism that basically assumes that the vampire will try to deny their nature by refusing to drink blood- in turn, their bodies transform to make it even harder for them to blend in with humans, and thus force them to acknowledge their hunger and feed.
(Lukas and Florian also have an added step to actually disguise as humans, specially when Finn is around).
4. Do they have vampire powers?
I feel we've only discussed compelling. Kind of a mind-fuck hypnosis, works best with eye contact and spoken commands, helps to make someone do something, or forget they ever did anything at all, like seeing something they shouldn't have.
We've discussed the idea of telepathy and I don't remember making it canon but it would be funny because I think it would be a learnt skill, and Florian and Lukas were isolated from their start as vampires so if they learnt it is because another vampire found these two overgrown fledglings that didn't even know they could chat with their minds.
The blood. Though.
I like the idea that drinking another vampire's blood kind of puts the vampire that drank it in a very susceptible state to the one they drank from. It's like the hypnosis but fully out of control for the vampire that was drank from.
It's also fun? The most basic vampire drug is drinking a buddy's blood so you feel all nice and floaty. The florilukas case is 1000000 times worse because they are disgustingly in love, so if Lukas decided to take a sippy from his husband it's gonna turn him into a puppydog for the rest of the evening until the effects pass.
But in the case of a fledgling drinking their maker's blood, the thrall is a million times more powerful, and it's absolute. All free will gone, basically a puppet. It's a terrible power imbalance.
5. Are there any more vampires?
Probably? There at least were, because Lukas has a bunch of old diaries and parchment in his office by vampires, but I think in present day it's a tiny population that stays out of each others' business (also florilukas are weirdo freaks that don't like the idea of meeting vampires or going out in general). Also making new vampires via turning is kind of a no-no because there's the idea that if you make a fledgling, when they get to their angsty vampire phase of hating immortality, they most likely will kill their maker out of resentment. It's like a given, so I imagine that a vampire tells their vampire buddies that they made a new one and their friends are like 😬😬😬"Okay man so it was very nice to know you-"
But also with Beans and Daisy we have this non-canon (at least not rn) concept of "the vampire gc" that Lukas and Florian are in and it's just basically updates on whatever old thing they do nowadays or Lukas sending PDFs about his latest essay about vampires.
Anyway the gc (once again rip Grekos):
6. The fucker that turned Florian
. Okay not really a question but I do wanna elaborate on that fucker indeed.
The vampire doctor. No name no face because we like the mystery of this figure in black, hat shadowing his face, leaning over Florian's bed. @saint-starling did make lore for him which iirc showed him to have simply been a twisted person even in life. Killed his maker also, and had fun exploiting people that were vulnerable. Florian was probably one of many other "patients" that were actually just a farm operation to have easy blood available, the illnesses not being an issue for this particular vampire.
And then, when the patients seemed too weak and the effort to bleed them didn't pay off, the doctor would just bleed them dry. The reason Florian is around for toahk to happen is because the vampire doctor thought he was... pretty. So much that he wanted to keep him (and we have to remember, a maker's blood-induced thrall is absolute. Florian as a vampire would've been both healed and easy to control). However, Lukas gets home early and-
Okay I have yapped enough I think LOL.
Thank you anon for letting me be ill about vampires🖤🥺. I have more stuff in my head but this is long enough, so maybe at another time I can speak turnings or other vampire things- or just about the characters! I have a lot about them... I like them :)
hiiii ghast! i would love to learn more about finn my beautiful sacrifical lamb. curious about what kind of things he might notice/not notice in the early days of working at the estate? what kind of assumptions is he making about his mysterious employers?
HAUNTED HI HAUNTED THANK YOU FOR THE ASK I LOVE YAPPING ABOUT THESE GUYS
Okay Finn. The thing with Finn. The TDLR is that he is happy not noticing things until the novelty of New Job wears off and he starts actually paying attention to things. Which is his first mistake tbh.
Early days are mostly him moving in to the servant house (convenient that he's allowed to be on-site cuz he's been evicted LOL) and getting familiar with where everything is and how his bosses want him to tidy and clean stuff- put books over there but if you find trinkets leave them in this other place and this specific table is a special material so you clean it with this and that, which is stored over here- etc etc etc. Finn's thankfully good at picking up his new tasks and it helps that he likes a clean space anyway, type of guy to clean to clear his mind.
Finn does notice odd habits and schedules tho, of his bosses. They're already gone when wakes up, and he doesn't see them come back to the mansion even thought they assure him they were in town for work-related reasons. Is there a car here? Must be, because they can't make it on foot down the hill into the forest. And when they ARE at home, Finn doesn't see them until 5 or 6 in the afternoon, them seemingly appearing out of thin air.
He's also seen them eat, but- wow, rich people must really be used to gourmet because their plates looks like too little. Maybe they have more meals than just the three? But he's never seen that either. Overall they're weird and eccentric and seem to have an active night life that Finn cannot make sense of. Maybe it's a rich people thing? Maybe...
The house is also strange. He doesn't get all the keys at once, which he understands, but then when he does get bedroom keys it's strange. One is blank, old clothes in the wardrobe and the bed feels dusty. It's allegedly Mr. Lukas' bedroom, but it doesn't seem like he uses it. Mr. Florian's bedroom looks live in enough, though Finn does see reading glasses on the nightstand that he's never seen Florian wear.
And about Florian and Lukas, he genuinely believes them when they say they're just friends. Finn sees a gold band on Lukas' finger and he can't resist asking, and the man sort of stammers and says that oh, widowed very young, he'd rather not talk about it... And Florian with that bohemian way of his just laughing like "oh no, I'm married to my art and that only!"- and Finn tries to recall about a ring but Florian wears so many anyway so he's not sure if it was a wedding band what he saw. But oh, how nice that these good friends keep each other company like this! How nice. He keeps sweeping the halls.
Honestly his biggest worry is when he accidentally discovers that his bosses are very much not just friends- because hey it's weird rich guys that seem to be very private and not have a public persona of any kind and knowing personal things about them feels like the thing Finn should be signing fifty NDAs for. But then that is pushed back in the list of things Finn has to worry about, because he finds weird letters and death certificates and pictures hidden in a storage room (which honestly I think Florian and Lukas didn't know were there. They're old, they forget) and it makes Finn just.
Too curious. And that's what gets him in trouble- well, depends if he gets caught. Which he won't. He just wants to take another look... and another...
remember when there were two guys and one died and the other grieved so hard he couldnt tell where his own soul ended and his lover’s began until he became a version of himself that was both of them all at once. a collage not a painting. and everyone else just accepted it like they always expected it to happen. i’m talking about a minecraft smp btw
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top5 treebark moments of all time? best treebark moment from each season of the life series?
haha. hoho. hooooo.
6. the beheading in 3L and its immediate aftermath. this is not in my top 5 but i feel like it has to go on any list of treebark moments, because it colours all their future interactions in some way. martyn was so messed up by it... and years later ren still talked about it as a terrible sacrifice he had to make for his loyal hand and also he punched martyn in the unmentionables and martyn called ren's bits grey and long and strong
5. martren. that whole. whatever that was. when the love of your life randomly blows himself up in a death game and you grieve so hard you absorb him into your soul and carry him all the way to the finale.
4. mratyn's secret santa wishlist in rats 2. what do you mean he asked for "a mural of my beloved captain" and "a bed for our home". world's most normal rat
3. ren matter-of-factly sacrificing himself for martyn at the end of veinbound and saying it was an easy choice to make. and this:
2. ghost!martyn saying he'd tried to sacrifice himself so ren could win at the end of LL (and promptly cutting it out of his own pov. ren kept it though!)
1. it feels mean saying my favourite treebark moment is one where ren isn't even there, but it's the one that got me into the ship, so i can't not. those last few seconds at the end of martyn's limlife finale where his whole life flashes before his eyes and somehow half the flashbacks have ren in them. limlife martyn was just Such a guy. everything reminded him of ren and everything he did was a treebark moment somehow
honourable mentions:
- ren getting all pissy when he was trying to introduce martyn to the shadow alliance in LL and martyn was late. calling martyn "his highness" and all
- ren training his bow on martyn in DL and going, "martyn, you look so tempting! i can't control myself!" like what was that even
- martyn's PL finale where he showed all the finalists with a picture of their base, except for himself, where he had a picture of ren's fuckass lava pyramid.
- when ren filled in for tango in SL and martyn dropped an anvil on his head. and ren said he still loved him
- bf!ren telling alistar to take his rightful place as "the right hand of the flame". everything alistar said about ren in that stream really. "our king, as you know, shines light on darkness, can bless anything that crosses his path." ðŸ˜
More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"
I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.
I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).
By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.
Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.
i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.
the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.
in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!
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