#Bean's PT AU Lore Tag

[smalltimidbean]

What's inside your Fake Peppino?

I wanted to show how clone tongues are stored inside them, but then it turned into a full anatomy diagram kjfgkj - I was gonna make one for Peppiclones too, but that would have been redundant since they are the same thing, just in a smaller package kdfggdsfg

More info under cut - but be warned bc I am not a science man, even if I try to base it on real stuff kfgdsg - it's also a wacky cartoon world so it doesn't have to make real life sense

This is also a 'standard' clone, so other clones with additional DNA might have extra organs or whatever

Please also note there are mentions of body horror, injury, death, sexual reproduction, and vomit (phrased as 'regurgitation') but nothing graphic

All aspects of a clone are made of the same material - a highly malleable dough-like matter - just in different forms or densities. Clone matter can take on most properties, turning from liquid to solid in seconds, and even mimic different textures or colours, but they will always return to its default state after some time - although the default state can be altered via a clone's own desires, an overabundance or a lack of food, trauma or another outside influence.

The Membrane, or the 'skin', is the outermost layer and gives a clone their structure. It is around 3–4 inches (7-10cm) thick, thinner around the hands, eyes and orifices, and thicker around the organs - the thickest the membrane will get is if a clone develops a pouch, which is around 6–7 inches (15-17cm) thick, protecting any offspring inside. The membrane is fairly resilient - most damage simply bouncing off it - but it still can be cut/punctured/etc, causing a clone to 'ooze' (the equivalent of bleeding), but this is quickly healed dependent on damage taken, and how much 'blood' they have.

The membrane is quite porous, and a clone is able to absorb things through it - although this is more prominent for newborn clones, as they have yet to learn how to eat properly, and their membrane is not as thick. Liquids can pass through the membrane easily, but solid matter requires some time.

The 'Blood' (for lack of a better term) is not actually blood, but a more-liquid form of clone matter. It is full of nutrients and keeps a clone healthy. Anything digested by a clone is turned into this fluid and then predominantly used as an energy source for a clone. If there is an abundance of food, clones will continue to store this fluid inside them until required - this also causes the membrane of a clone to expand to accommodate this, making them larger as a result.

Alternatively, if a clone is injured severely causing excessive 'oozing' or experiencing a lack of food, and is using up 'blood' reserves, the membrane will shrink around the fluid, making them smaller - or if they are loosing a lot of 'blood' quickly, they will just lose their shape, appearing to 'deflate'.

The 'blood' is also used as other bodily fluids, as saliva and tears etc, and changes viscosity as needed.

The Brain is possibly the most important part of a clone, as it tells all other parts what to do. If the brain is destroyed, or severely damaged or starved, a clone will be killed. Although it is commonplace for clones to toss their heads around as projectiles, leaving their brains exposed - they are not very smart... But it also can be a sign a clone trusts someone, if they feel comfortable enough to have their brains exposed for long periods of time, and some clones even swap heads as a bonding experience.

The Brain 'Legs' are not actually 'legs' but part of a clone's nervous system. These were named after the fact that if a clone is in a dire situation, the brain and main nerve will eject itself from the body as a 'last resort' type of escape and 'run' on these 'legs', akin to a beetle or other bug. The brain will either have to return to the body when it is safe, or find a new source of clone matter, as the brain will starve without a stomach and 'blood' after about an hour of leaving the body. The 'legs' also help keep the tongue in place, so it is not caught in the 'blood' flow and end up stuck inside.

The teeth are the only 'bones' in a clone's body, but they are also the same dough matter as everything else - they are just in a very solid state. Mostly, used for chewing and tearing food as it is faster to ingest (and while most can swallow things whole, this can leave a clone vulnerable as it takes longer to ingest and then digest). A clone's teeth are also a main part of the threat display, usually opening their mouths wide and baring these teeth, often forming a secondary set behind the first and making them appear sharper. A clone that shows their teeth excessively, or 'smiles' a lot, is often seen as an aggressor and should be avoided.

The tongue is a primary sensory organ for a clone, used in conjunction with their sense of smell to find food or figure out what is nearby. The tongue is very long - typically almost the length of a clone's body - and it is fully prehensile, acting as an additional limb. The tongue can be projected out of the mouth at quick speeds, but it is slower to retract, depending on if they are bringing something back, and how heavy that thing is etc. Tongues are also important in clone behaviours, with clones bonding over grooming/licking each other (or favourite person/thing), and tongues hanging out of their mouths as a sign to show they are relaxed, or if combine with excessive drooling and/or lip licking, so show they are submissive and not a threat.

The 'crop' is a smaller stomach that precedes the main stomach, although it is not able to digest anything, and is often used as a storage space of sorts - much like a bird's crop, hence the name. Food must pass through the crop to get to the stomach, so the crop can expand to accommodate large meals passing through.

The 'Heart' is not a heart, but does function similarly, as it pumps the 'blood' around the body, and keeps everything moving. The movement of the 'blood' generates heat and keeps a clone warm - the faster the 'heart' pumps and the fluid moves, the warmer a clone is, and the slower the process is, the cooler a clone is. A clone's heart can stop if required - i.e. if a clone is overheated - but if the process is stopped for too long, a clone can become unwell as the nutritious 'blood' becomes stagnant, and a clone can even begin to solidify entirely if left too long.

The Stomach is the second most important part of a clone, as it is the only organ to create new clone matter from food. The stomach can expand to around five times its size if needed, but most clones opt for smaller and more frequent meals, as trying to digest a large meal takes more effort and can leave a clone vulnerable. The stomach can digest most organic matter, and some non-organic if they happen to swallow any - but if it can not be digested it will simply stay within the stomach, until it is regurgitated - a clone can starve to death with a full stomach if it is filled with non-digestible items.

Digestion can begin instantly - although some clones choose to stave off the digestion process in order to regurgitate it later for offspring or others in need. Everything digested is turned into clone matter, and absorbed directly into the 'blood' from the stomach. Clones do not produce any waste product, everything is used.

The reproductive organs - well, I am sure you can imagine what these are used for - although most clones have offspring via budding, so these are mostly just for pleasure, bonding or stress/tension relief

The 'Spinal Nerve' or the 'Main Nerve' is the largest nerve in the body and connects all other nerves and the brain together - although not shown on these images, there are many nerves all over the body, which are what make a clone able to feel sensations

(I did draw a version with the nervous system visible, but I did not like it, so you will have to use your imagination ksgksd - it's pretty much like a human's, just made of dough)

#now what the hell do I tag this with #Bean's PT AU Lore Tag #there should be a tag for clone info too #idk what yet kjfdgk #this clone is 0001 but he is technically dead so no character tag #pizza tower #body horror

[smalltimidbean]

hi, I was reading the Pep toyhouse page, and I found something I thought was worth sharing with the class:

First off, the tongue. You're telling me this guy's TONGUE is longer than my entire body? He can't even fit it all in his mouth.. goodness gracious

Second: we learn what that tongue do- it's able to sense emotions with its taste buds, with more potent feelings yielding more pungent flavors. Assuming the gustatory and olfactory systems of Pep's body have the same relationship that they do in humans, he can smell your fear.

The 7 foot tall clone of an Italian with such rage that he single-handedly destroyed an entire tower; the guy who can become a 16-foot tall beast with an insatiable hunger for revenge by simply meeting a particularly awful so-and-so and being angered by the interaction; the guy with a tongue so long it isn't even funny. That guy can smell your fear.

... It's times like this that I'm grateful Pep would consider me a friend, and that I'm glad he's on our side

(Pep's Toyhou.se page, where the snippet is from) (Although this was also on his ref I posted to tumblr several months ago, the only thing I added was the length of it dfkgdg (lighthearted))

But yes, his tongue is very long, but that is not an oddity for clones - most of them have tongues that are several feet long (~4ft for Peppiclones and ~5ft for Fake Peppinos on average), and some have even longer tongues due to spliced DNA or how big they are - the only ones with short tongues (well, 'short' as in like less that a foot) are the Plushpinos since they can't stretch like the others

The 'tasting emotions' is unique to Pep! He doesn't always know it is fear, since everyone's 'fear' (or any emotion really) tastes/smells different to him - Peppino's fear tastes like black pepper, Bean's fear tastes like ham etc

But yes, he is a good boy, even if he can smell your fear hehe

#bean talks too much #it is also why a lot of the clones are blepping #their tongues are too damn big for their damn mouths!!! #although it is technically stored with in the body and not just the mouth #kinda like how woodpecker tongues wrap around their brains! #OC: Bean #sona tag #fake peppino #Bean's PT AU Lore Tag #pizza tower

[smalltimidbean]

That makes me wonder does Fake Bean and Fake Peppino hibernate?

Or do some clones tend to stay awake in the winter

I have been thinking about this all day, and I am still not sure

In theory, yes a clone could hibernate, provided they have enough food to put on enough mass, and slow their metabolisms to an absolute crawl to survive through ~three months - But in practice, probably not!

Where most of the clones are now, there's a whole lot of them in a teenie tiny space, so there is not enough food for them to bulk up enough, so they'd likely starve within a week or so, if they tried to sleep the whole time (and without resorting to cannibalism ofc)

There's also a very very small risk of them absorbing each other, if they were all cuddled together - not necessarily a death sentence for the absorbed clone(s), but it's kinda complicated kjdfkj

This is unique to Fiend, but they have to eat every ~12 hours, or they turn into their big hangry chase form, so they definitely cannot hibernate

Clones definitely get more sluggish and sleep a lot more during the cooler months, but I don't count that as hibernation, so I guess my answer is; no, they do not

(And as the artist, it would not be very fun to draw Fiend/Pep/any clone just sleeping all the time, and I wanna draw wintery things with some of them!)

#bean talks too much #it's funny bc I am the clone expert #I made all this up kjfkfdg #but yea the only clone that could potientally hibernate and be fine is Chickpea #he's got the mass for it but he doesn't need to bc he's in a temperature regulated room all the time #and he's practically hibernating already bc all he does is sleep #tho if he did properly hibernate he'd come out the other side much smaller than when he started kjdfgkgf #I have said hibernate too much it's not a real word anymore help #OC: Bean #OC: Fake Bean #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #pizza tower #Bean's PT AU Lore Tag

[smalltimidbean]

hi again! So I have a lot I wanna say following the anatomy post, as I'll be calling it, because even though it's fresh I read the whole thing and I'm glad we know more about the clones :D and also I assume now would be a good time to ask about because of how fresh it is. ANYWAYS let's get to it!

So I wanted to ask about these specific parts, and what I could tell from them:

To summarize, a clone bearing a toothy grin is threatening, and a clone sticking its tongue out/drooling/licking it lips is not threatening. This is the premise I worked under when I made this:

(In like, 2 minutes. I wonder if anyone can tell!)

As you can see, I added a few facial expressions that weren't mentioned l, and that I wonder their meaning in relation to what has already been stated. I think I can confidently predict what the first two mean, thanks to the fact that clones have made those facial expressions before. Though anyone is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong!

Closed-mouth and open-mouth smiles are not threats, unlike the toothy "smiles" which are. The quotation mark around "smile" in the original post(as well as a part of pep's toyhouse page(which didn't appear in the Tumblr post from several months past)) also indicate that the threatening smiles are not genuine, and so smiles without teeth are genuine expressions of joy.

The other one, though, seems to send somewhat mixed messages. That expression is saying both that "I am a threat" and "I am not a threat, " which when a applied to the only clone we ever see donning this face, Pep, is true. Though, whenever he smiles like that, it is genuine and not an attempt to threaten anyone. Is this because he's smiling at something or someone other than a fellow clone, and he knows that, in order to communicate the same emotion he has to make a different facial expression depending on if he's making it at clones on non-clones?

But uhh yeah :D hope this wasn't too long winded and that I made any sort of sense lol!

Yaya! I have a ton of clone info I wanna post, but I have been trying to figure out how/where to do that, so I might just unload it all here in chunks kjlfdkfg

Asking questions about clone stuff is alright, and it helps me figure out stuff, or point out if I have contradicted myself - which happens more than I would like kjfgkjfg

Although for these points, perhaps I spoke too broadly as this post was supposed to be on anatomy and not behaviour, but I guess I can't help myself kjdfgk - it is also why I did not mention other types of smile

But for clones there are genuine smiles, and there are threat 'smiles', like this;

Threat smiles are not expressions of joy, they are meant to convey 'I have teeth, and I will use them if you continue to upset me' or simply 'you are bothering me' if they are not showing teeth - whereas genuine smiles are just that, they are happy

If you add a tongue to a threat 'smile', it is still considered a threat due to other aspects like the eyes and stance etc, but more along the lines of either a submissive threat ('I am scared, please leave, or I will attack') or the clone is hungry ('I will eat you if approached, so back off for your own good') - but honestly it depends on the situation, sometimes clones already have their tongues out before threat 'smiling' and it ends up hanging out regardless dhfsdh

And yes, most of Pep's smiles have been genuine - there has been at least two with a threat 'smile' (both directed at or implied to be directed at Peppino) - but most of the time he is genuinely happy

It can be a bit confusing since clones are kinda animal, kinda people, so they get both that 'smiling is a threat' (animal side) and 'smiling is friendly' (people side) lfglgfd

When I make a post(s) on clone behaviours, I will be sure to make this more clear! But I still appreciate the questions!

#bean talks too much #Bean's PT AU Lore Tag #still need clone lore tag but ppfpttp tired #also hey the threat smile looks like someone #gee I sure wonder why (silly)

[smalltimidbean]

Bean Thought of the Day

If a Plantpino can produce a fruit/vegetable, presumably it would be made of clone matter, but would it have the properties of said fruit/vegetable or would it just be full of goop?

I suppose it would depend on how skilled the clone is at shapeshifting, environmental factors, how much food they have access too etc - so both options are possible, I guess jksdfgjk

Would not recommend eating clone fruit tho, no matter how much like a normal fruit it is!!!

#bean talks too much #I have been thinking about this bc one of the next clones is another plantpino #little fruity guy hehe #Bean's PT AU Lore Tag

[smalltimidbean]

Hey, I had a question, can cheeseslimes swim in water?

What an interesting question

My personal headcanon, I think cheeseslimes would be pretty buoyant and float in water, so they could like doggy-paddle if needed!

But I also imagine they can't be in water for too long, or they'll begin to separate and eventually dissolve, leaving mostly just an oily puddle

I think most would just avoid water entirely for that reason, and bc they get a little extra gloopy when wet

#bean talks too much #subject to change if anything official comes out #but then again apparently in canon Vigi believes he is a human and not a cheese and I am like hmm #I don't think so (has a whole story that contradicts that) #but I do imagine him extra grumpy after the final fight bc not only he is getting his cheesy ass kicked by Peppino again #it's raining and he is getting soggy #Bean's PT AU Lore Tag

[smalltimidbean]

I can only imagine how peppino would probably react to one of the baby clones, gummy or not- [ I sent this to the fake pep ask blog initially but thought it might clog up that ask box so sending it again but here- ]

Considering Pep's blog is already clogged up with... 857 other asks, I don't think a single ask would have made a difference (lighthearted)

But I am afraid you'll have to keep imagining for now! Peppino's reactions/thoughts on baby clones is a potential plot line I hope to follow, so drawing a hypothetical would spoil that! (and hence why I did not answer the initial ask, I was saving it for when we do eventually reach that point)

Besides, there are not many baby clones around at the moment, let alone any little gummy bear ones! Only lab-made clones have that stage, and Chickpea was the last one to be made - and he is a very big boy now lkdfgsk

Non lab-made clones have their 'gummy' stage while still attached to their parent, while in their egg or just righttttt as they are birthed, but they grow very quickly - and all current babies are in their non-gummy toddler stage (except maybe Sundae's, but they're a special case (the case being; I haven't decided yet jkfdsl))

So it is unlikely Peppino would ever see one of those babies this time - He could potentially see a toddler clone since there are some in the area, but most of the parent clones would either run away if they saw him, or scare him enough for him to run away first

Or if it's Cake, it's on fucking sight and Peppino would probably be obliterated before he sees Cupcake hgjdsd

#bean talks too much #Bean's PT AU Lore Tag #Peppino does technically know a parent clone bc Pep has kids but he is not aware of that where we are at in the story #also Pep's kids are a little older and do just look like extra short Peppinos #they're also kinda missing in action and possibly dead so uh #unlikely to see them any time soon! #and the only other clone Peppino has seen outside the tower and aside from Pep is Eglantine but hopefully he'll meet more soon hehe