Gemma has been streaming everyday for the past week and it was finally getting to her. Going from streaming 4-5 days a week to a full 7 took a toll on her - mentally and physically. She loved streaming but since joining the QSMP it got overwhelming, and the late hours were not helping. So, still in her deep fixation on QSMP, looking for a break from it all, Gemma started building her house off-stream.

It had just been her at first, since she joined earlier than almost everyone on the server so she had no distractions. After browsing Pinterest for inspiration, she decided on building a giant magical-looking tree and carving a cottage through the bottom of it leading to an underground area as well. Yes, ambitious, but nothing she can't finish in a few weeks.

After mining blocks for the build and ordering Chinese food she gets to work. To beat boredom, Gemma plays songs on Spotify and sits cross-legged on her chair. Eventually Pac, Fit, and Tubbo join the server. Pac and Fit join her for a while, getting to know each other while she builds and the two calm her down when she gets stressed when something gets messed up.

"Just relax, it's only a house." Fit had said, trying to comfort her, but she was so frustrated she just screamed and cursed in Spanish in response.

"You got this! You're a good builder, I know it." Pac had tried to reassure her, but little did he know that it only stressed her further, thinking she had a level to achieve as to not disappoint.

Of course, the two were trying to be sweet and helpful. But used to building alone, Gemma found the attention a bit strange. When building she forgets there's an audience to entertain and on previous servers the members were looking for content, something that Gemma didn't really give when building. Thankful for their help, she sends them off, agreeing to massage them when things get too much. In the next couple of hours, Gemma takes them up on their offer three times until Fit logs off and Pac gets busy with Richarlyson.

Without Gemma knowing, when she briefly left her streaming room to toss out a takeout box and make some coffee, Foolish joins and starts searching for her. He didn't want to start working on the titan yet and since Pac and Tubbo were busy he wanted to find her to delay working. Luckily for him, Gemma's location was visible on the mini-map, and she was building her house a bit behind the museum. When Gemma settles back into her chair with a fresh coffee mug, Foolish is already gliding over to her from a nearby hill, screaming and emoting.

Gemma furrows her brows, suddenly self-conscious of the messy start of her house behind her. "Hey, don't look at this mess." She says, walking away from it with Foolish trailing behind.

Foolish hums as he follows her, but she catches him stealing glances at the tree she started working on a few times. "What? It looks really good. What are you building?"

"My house," she explains, crouching in front of him when they are finally out of sight of the house - the museum blocking it. "I love building custom trees, so I'm building a cottage thing in a big tree."

"That sounds so cool, do you have a picture reference or something?"

Gemma tabs out of Minecraft to save the picture from Pinterest. "Eh," she starts, dragging the sound, "Kinda. I'm not big on references; I mostly build from scratch, but I was blanking on ideas. Wanna see the picture?"

Foolish agrees, and she can hear the smile in his tone. Before Gemma's discord loads, he begins whining, "Wait, I have no idea how water frames work, do you?"

Gemma pauses, discord now open. Embarrassed, she tabs back into the game. She thought she should send it over discord but maybe that was weird to assume and Foolish didn't want to add her on discord, which was fair all in all. "Oh, I- No."

Foolish makes a puzzled sound and Gemma is so close to just say forget it when he starts rumbling. "Oh! You can send it on discord, yeah. Like, add me and we can, y'know..." he trails off and Gemma smiles, immediately agreeing and waiting for a friend request from him that comes a second later.

Gemma accepts and sends him the reference right away, curious for his thoughts. "Wait, that's awesome! Can I show my stream?"

"Yep! Mine is gonna be out of spruce wood though, and maybe have glowstone," she explains, "if I can find any, that is."

"Oh, I have some." Foolish says while opening his backpack, he throws her two stacks, "There ya go, do you want more?"

"Oh I have some," she imitates him in a low voice, "here you go, Gemma, have more than a hundred glowstone I just carry in my pocket."

Gemma does let him look at her progress eventually, only after extracting a promise from him not to judge it. Not that he's the type to criticize someone else's builds, but Gemma isn't quite familiar with him yet, so Foolish agrees to honor her request. Foolish wouldn't admit it but he knew very well how good Gemma can build, had seen past projects of hers along with the high praise everyone gives her, so he wasn't surprised to see how fast she built the trunk of her giant tree nor how organic she made it look.

Gemma and Foolish chat for another hour before he leaves to build his titan and Gemma starts her stream to do planned lore with Cellbit.

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EDIT: changed a picture!