#blue beetle bio diagrams

[wazzappp]

I’ve been thinking about Jaimes healing factor.

Because Khaji is quite literally integrated into every cell of Jaimes body, it makes sense to me that they could force his cells into an accelerated rate of healing. But we’ve only seen this in action with scrapes and (probably) internal injuries (you can’t tell me his ribs weren’t broken like. 5 times), so I’ve come up with an idea that helps on a larger scale of injury.

Ok so I’ve been watching a LOT of Roanoke Gaming on YouTube (he’s a microbiologist who discusses movies that deal with infections mutations and just a lot of speculative biology in general it’s REALLY cool) and I saw him discussing a fungus called Mycillium. It creates small tendrils to explore an area before growing in that direction. It just looked. So cool. So I decided Jaime should get some.

This would become useful for larger injuries (like. Dismemberment ya know). Which would knit the wound back together so Khajis healing has an easier time kicking in.

The Mycillium-like structures would likely be concentrated in the spine, as Khajis main concern would be fear of spinal damage. I think that might be the only thing that could actually kill them. These structures essentially hijack the nervous system and thread through muscles, just beneath the skin in the spinal area / major joints, and bones.

#the suit is tough but you can’t tell me dismemberment isn’t a concern #jaime reyes #khaji da #blue beetle #my art #sketch #the mandibles are on their way I just need to mull it over a little longer #in the meantime Jaime can get internal stitches. as a treat #blue beetle bio diagrams

[simply-trash5]

Science Tutor

Wow. I have written two days in a row. Mind blown honestly. Anyway this is another collegeAU. This one is for my Shino a.k.a BugDaddy simps. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE REQUEST SOMETHING. 

Have a wonderful day, drink water, and keep simping. 

gif credits to the babe that made it.

“I failed another fucking test,” you grumbled to yourself. You slammed your computer closed and headed to the front of the lecture hall to talk with your professor. “Dr. Williams, I need this class to be able to graduate next semester. Is there anything I can do to makeup my failed tests?” Your professor pursed her lips in thought. “Have you considered going to the science tutoring lab. All of the available tutors know my content well.” You closed your eyes and took a deep breath. “Dr. Williams, I am desperate.” The small old woman gave a chuckle. “If you go I will give you an extra project grade, but I will know if you actually attended the session.” You flashed your professor a thankful smile. “Thank you Dr. Williams. I will sign up for an appointment right now.” You walked back to your seat and grabbed your bag. 

Just as you told your professor you pulled up the tutoring lab app and set up an appointment. “Okay so I can either work with M. Lang or S. Aburame,” you looked at your best friend and roommate, “who should I pick?” Your roommate grabbed your shoulder. “DO NOT go with Lang. He is kinda creepy. I don’t know whats-his-name so go with him.” You laughed wondering what history your friend Alina had with Lang. “Aburame it is. I am meeting with him tonight in the lab at 7:00.” You and your friend continued discussing your classes and how you longed for graduation “Well Y/N if you’re screwed if you don’t pass this semester. They don’t offer that class in the spring. Plus your internship is next semester. “You gulped realizing just how important this tutoring session was going to be. 

The day seemed to creep by. You spent most of the afternoon in the library with your roommate half studying and half goofing off as you always did together. “Shit, its 6:50 guess its time to get rolling,” you groaned, grabbed your bag, and headed to the door. “Y/N, you never know, maybe he will be cute.” You rolled your eyes at your friend. “I hope like hell he isn’t. Remember I have to actually learn something. Anyway, text me.” You laughed and headed toward the lab. It was a clear, cool, fall evening. Your thoughts began to wander. Maybe he would be nerdy or weird. For your own sake you hope it was a girl. You got distracted and nervous around men. Especially men who thought they were “smarter” than you. You tried to push the negativity out of your mind and kept reminding yourself that you needed the extra credit. 

In no time your were in the main science building standing outside of the tutoring lab. You carefully opened the door to see only one person in the room. “Oh shit,” you said to yourself examining the man in front of you. He was bent over reading a large textbook with a pair of headphones in. HIs dark hair was messy and seemed to stick out in all directions. He had a pronounced jawline that was covered in stubble. He wore a black turtleneck with a thing gold chain. His long legs were tucked under the table and you noticed he was wearing worn out light blue jeans and beat up black high tops. In the ear closest to you, you noticed that he had some sort of earring that looked like a bug. Your palms began sweating realizing how attractive he was. You grabbed your phone and quickly typed a message to Alina. 

“Lina, he's hot. We have a problem. I hope you're good at bio. “

BZZZZ

“Maybe he's good at anatomy ;)”

You shook your head and cursed your roommate as you threw your phone in your bag.

“You must be Ms. YLN. My 7:00 appointment.” His voice was on the deeper side and he spoke in a very gentle tone. You shook your head suddenly forgetting how to speak. “Well Ms. YLN my name is Shino Aburame. I am a senior environmental science major with a specialization in insects. Dr. Williams briefed me on  your situation. What exactly is giving you trouble?” You involuntarily rolled your eyes and huffed. “Literally everything. That's why I put this class off for so long.” He nodded his head. “Well lets begin with cell theory.” You followed him to the table and sat down across from him. He was very serious and intimidated you. He cracked open the book and began talking about cells. You pulled your notebook out of your bag and began jotting notes but soon your thoughts began to wander again. You wondered if he was always this serious or maybe he was just nervous. You wondered why he was wearing sunglasses indoors. Most importantly you wondered how they hell you were supposed to learn biology if you keep wondering what your tutor would look like in grey sweats. “Uh Ms. YLN, do you want to sit beside me so that it is easier for you to see the diagrams?” You blushed. “Yeah. Oh and Shino, you can call me Y/N.” He nodded as you stood to take the seat to his right.

He began talking again about organelles. He reached a long finger to point at a specific graphic. You nodded finally understanding something. As he continued to move his finger his sleeve began to ride up showing a tattoo of a beetle on his forearm which made you smirk. “Ms. YLN, I’m afraid we only have 5 more minutes. Do you have any questions before the session ends?” You had plenty of questions, just none that related to Biology. You shook your head no and gave him a big smile. You reached out to touch his shoulder which to your surprise was muscular. “Thanks alot Shino.” He blushed slightly and cleared his throat. “I have more appointments this week.” He said in an even tone. You shook your head, gathered your bag, and headed out the door.

On your way back to your room you thought about Shino. He was so calm and collected but seemed flustered when you touched him. He was definitely handsome. You blushed remembering his tattoo and strong shoulder. You imagined him working out. “What did he wear? I bet he wears grey sweats,” you thought to yourself but you were soon brought out of your thoughts by a hand around your small wrist. 

You jumped feeling the large hand wrap around your wrist. “You left your notebook Ms. YLN'' said a familiar deep voice. Shino stood in front of you, his hand lingered on your wrist for a little longer than it should have. You both blushed, his standing out despite the dark. “Thank you so much Shino,” you exclaimed, grabbing the notebook from his hand. “Remember, you can call me YN though.” You giggled and he tugged at the sleeves of his sweater. “Right. Hopefully I’ll see you soon.” He turned and began walking away. Your arm still burned where his large hand was just a few moments before. You began to think about his gold chain and what it would look like dangling toward you with his tall muscular frame hovering above you. You shuddered at the thought and your notebook hit the ground. “Shit.” You cursed to yourself. “What is this?” You said grabbing a card that had fallen from your notebook. “Shino Aburame-Science Tutor.” You read aloud and flipped it over to find a handwritten note scribbled on the back. “Ms. YLN if you ever want some private tutoring let me know. Btw you have a beautiful smile.- Shino'' you smiled and put the card in your pocket. The next tutoring session would definitely be a lot more private. “I hope my next lesson is on anatomy” you said to yourself as you headed to your room.

#naruto #naruto au #naruto imagines #naruto oneshot #naruto headcanons #shino aburame #shino #naruto shino #naruto fanfic #naruto fandom #BugDaddy #please like it shino simps #simp #trash writes

[wazzappp]

How the Funnie happens in my au. Khaji’ s plan was that the outer layer of dead skin would make it as painless as possible for the mantis blades to emerge. Unfortunately, because of Jaimes fear (that Khaji tried to circumvent by being not entirely honest), the mantis blades to emerge early in an attempt to protect him from the perceived threat.

Also, my experience drawing this:

#I have a follow up comic in mind. will make it? maybe? #9 to 5 killin draw time :’) I have wanted to make this for a week #jaime reyes #blue beetle #mantis blades au #khaji da #blue beetle 2023 #my art #sketch #blue beetle bio diagrams

[wazzappp]

MANDIBLES TIMEEEEEEEEEEE

Ok so if I’m following @bakageta amazing ‘separated eating and breathing tube’ where Jaime could technically just talk without his mouth and is basically lip syncing everything he says, keeping the mandibles stored under his tongue isn’t a big deal. So that just leaves eating. Because of how the tongue moves to help push food down the esophagus I don’t think? It should be too much of a problem?

Anyway BITE BITE BITE STAB BITE STAB BITE BITE

#blue beetle #jaime reyes #khaji da #my art #sketches #damn two days in a row #i am mentally hitting you with that one meme like 'TAKE THIS TAKE THIS TAKE THIS TAKE THIS TAKE THIS' #blue beetle bio diagrams

[wazzappp]

Ok so I have NO IDEA how feasible this actually is I just really wanted to mess with the idea of Khaji Da making entirely new muscles to secure themselves to Jaime.

My goal was just ‘it’s gets worse the longer you look at it’. There’s a lot here that’s just WRONG which I think is pretty cool.

#drawing this with drawings of the human back pulled up like ‘THE DIAGRAMS I MUST CONSULT THE DIAGRAMS’ #idk dude I took 4 years of biomed in high school and really enjoyed it but I can’t remember shit my medical knowledge is bleh #anyway this was fun and if anyone has ways to make him more fucked up please don’t hesitate to let me know lol #jaime reyes #khaji da #blue beetle #my art #sketch #body horror #blue beetle bio diagrams #blue beetle headcannons

[wazzappp]

I have missed two days of my drawtober thingy to finish this. I have no regrets.

#ugh this is way sloppier than I would have liked #but ive been meaning to finish it for a WHILE and I dont see a lot of free drawing time on my hands this upcoming week #ANYWAY #jaime would really just have it easier if I hit him with a bus huh #jaime reyes #khaji da #blue beetle #Ive had this idea in my head for MONTHS. ITS ESCAPED NOW!! #my art #sketch #im putting this guy in situations ong frfr #milagro reyes #first time drawing rudy #I hope he doesent look too much like guy fieri. Not that theres anything wrong with looking like guy fieri its just not what I was going fo #blue beetle 2023 #mantis blades au #blue beetle bio diagrams

[wazzappp]

Been having some Jaime claws thoughts.

I’ve seen a lot of claws where it’s just the nail getting harder and longer but to be real with yall I’ve never really been into that. Ever gotten a splinter under your nail? ITS AWFUL. Scraping through stone or metal or bone and getting slivers stuck under your nail would SUCK. So I’ve devised a solution!

It’s essentially a layer of chitin that forms underneath the fingernail and the pads of the fingers (BEANS! FOREVER BEANS!). The bone of the fingertip extends partially into the claw to help with sensing pressure, because he can’t really feel textures where the chitin is. And! Nothing can get stuck under his fingernails now! YAY!

#blue beetle #jaime reyes #khaji da #my art #sketch #blue beetle 2023 #I’ve got some other body horror ideas I’m working on that are way more. horror. than this lol #cute little clawsies. little guys for ripping people to shreds <3 #you can fit so many knives on this guy #blue beetle bio diagrams

[wazzappp]

AIGHT this idea has been marinating for a while now and I finally had a free moment to get these ideas down! Mostly I just really like mantis blades and wanted to give them to my favorite lil guy.

I figure Khaji Da reasons that Jaime really needs a way to defend himself properly in case they go offline for whatever reason. Mainly if the Reach shows up and tries to get them back On Mode and under control, then Khaji can deactivate without worrying too much about Jaimes safety.

During all of this Jaime is likely going to need to sleep hard and eat hard. It’s similar to getting better after a cold or healing an injury. As for the duration of all this I’m not sure. I want to say relatively quickly because Khaji wants to minimize suffering, but I also gotta consider what’s reasonable. So a week? Maybe? Minimum? Needless to say this uh. Really sucks for Jaime. But having these on both arms assists in defense, offense and even climbing. Khaji can rest well knowing their host is safe.

#sorry I rambled about my horrific diagrams do you still think I’m hot 😢 #Khaji saw ONE cyberpunk 2077 ad and went ‘ITS NOT A WANT ITS A NEED’ #jaime reyes #khaji da #my art #sketch #body horror #tw body horror #I’d imagine this would be some kind of breaking point for Jaime. like bro. this is unignorable. #someone needs to remind khaji of the quences bro. the quences to their actions #mantis blades au #blue beetle bio diagrams

[wazzappp]

So. What if Jaime had chemoreceptors on spots his armor? I have four potential explanations/reasons.

One: the less creepy version: certain types of bugs taste with their feet, etc. Not beetles, but they do. They can land on things and identify whether or not they’re food that way. So, fingertips and or balls of his feet have the ability to taste.

Two: the raptorial version. The forearm blades/upper forelegs are raptorial. If he’s fighting/hunting, he might wanna be able to sense if this is food or not, once he sticks his blades in. So taste receptors on the blades. Possibly little pores like ampullae of lorenzini (detects electrical impulses, so might help with finding muscles to cut to incapacitate prey), or thermal pits like vipers (to help locate large veins to slice.)

Three: antenna version.

The upper forelimbs kinda look like antenna, could give them sensory function (in suit). Maybe sensitive to pressure on the tips, with chemoreceptors clustered on the tip (active investigation, like he’s poking at a thing) and trailing in a rough line down the limb towards his main body (passive investigation, like the wind blows a smell to him)

Four: scout version. The scarab is an infiltrator, part of infiltrating is collecting data, so the armor must have a whole fuck-ton of sensors on it, so the scarab can get lots of data to send to Reach. Khaj isn’t interested in the reach, but that doesn’t change what it was designed for. So lots of sensors everywhere, with taste/smell receptors clustered on the ends of limbs (feet, hands, blades)

Thank you, have a nice day!

Hey. Hi. Not to be dramatic but I’m going to marry you now. This is not a request. Put the ring on

Hoooooooooly fuck I love the Ampullae of Lorenzini idea so much. I know there aren’t really insects that have them (as far as I know) but I don’t fucking care they’re SO COOL. The gel inside ampullengang might need to change because it’s meant to detect electromagnetic fields underwater but that’s like. The only real issue here.

Fuckkkk you could have so much fun with behavioral shit too. Movement might cause his mantis blades to try and lash out to attack whatever’s triggering them. In battle this could help with quick instinctive attacks that might not be possible if he was doing it consciously. BAD news is that means he has to get a grip on them real fucking quick so he doesent hurt anyone on accident. OHHHH MY GOD WHICH WOULD MAKE DUCK-TAPING THEM DOWN IN MY LAST LIL AU BLURB EVEN MORE FUN LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO.

Oh god accidentally hurting a family member. His worst fucking nightmare. Delicious. I am drinking that shit like lemonade.

Yes I added his little clawsies in the diagram you can fit SO many knives on this boy.

THERMAL!! PITS!! Holy fuck I did not know there were beetles that have these but there ARE. They’re called fire chaser beetles and they can sense fires from MILES away and holy fuck I love them. Their sensilla (sorry for spelling it wrong in the drawing lmao) are stored in the thorax and are infrared receptors. These contain liquid which expand in response to the infrared radiation, and touch a nerve, which tells the beetle where heat is coming from.

For Jaime this would be weird as FUCK. It’s more just a sense of 'HEAT WHEREMST’ than infrared vision. It is nice for telling his mom when she forgot to turn off the oven though.

#god bless this slow day at work. if I had to wait any longer to draw these I was going to implode #also I love that bottom right Jaime. he looks so bug. I’m so proud #jaime reyes #khaji da #blue beetle #my art #mantis blades au #blue beetle 2023 #this ask had me in a mental frenzy for like. 5 hours. it was great #sketch #blue beetle bio diagrams #blue beetle headcannons

[wazzappp]

Hey, how would the blades fit in Jaime’s arms? They look too big to fit without his arms being really large or his muscles being really small. What if the arm pockets are like the tardis? Bigger on the inside. Like the horror of your body not even fitting into conventional space? Or in the 2006(?) comics, the Reach (and Khaji Da) use this artificial fake dimension thing called the Bleed to hide stuff (it makes things completely invisible and intangible, so then it could be made to fit/“hide” in “plain sight” But that’s not quite as visceral as them going back into the pockets in the arm.

Also, is the skin of the pocket (like the seam) skin-color, scar-looking, or like blue or black or whatever?

Ooohhh fun pocket dimension idea!! But they actually fold down to press tightly to his arms. As long as he's wearing a baggy long-sleeve, he's relatively good to go.

You can see in some of my previous doodles how they fold down.

The idea of them being hidden in a little flesh pocket is cool and I love where your mind goes. But I purposefully wanted them to be unavoidable so Jaime would be forced to face the extent of his biological changes. He strikes me as the kind of person who would just try and brush things off.

So the sweetness of having things happen and happen and he denies and denies until its so evident he can't hide from it anymore. Delicous. My favorite kind of angst. The existential dread. The species dysphoria. Ough.

#jaime reyes #khaji da #blue beetle #my art #asks #mantis blades au #blue beetle headcannons #blue beetle bio diagrams