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gallusrostromegalus · 9 months
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What became of Tokagero Kenpachi after she entered the sewers?
She managed to accidentally crawl into an opening to a pocket dimension in Seireitei's sewers, but it was very cold on the other side and she went into Hibernation for several hundred years, then the pocket dimension catches fire and she wakes up in time to answer one VERY unfortunate man's prayers by eating him :)
Afterwards, she and Zaraki have A Very Good Fight, with Zaraki eventually triumphing due to his better cold tolerance and extensive practice hunting and defeating lizards in his childhood. Yamamoto commended both parties on getting the ceremonial duel to determine which of them would continue to bear the mantle of Captain without fuss.
"Didn't actually know I was fightin' to keep my job." Said Zaraki. "I just wanted ter fight the Bigass Lizard."
Tokagero currently serves as the 11th Division's 4th seat.
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crevicedwelling · 1 year
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my mom recently read in a novel that some larger praying mantis species have been known to kill and eat hummingbirds. I know about bird-eating tarantulas, but I was curious if you knew of other insects who prey on birds, mammals, etc.? I know most will scavenge anything, but what abt critters who hunt? the idea of insects who hunt large prey is fascinating to me
large generalist predatory insects like mantises and katydids predominantly eat other insects, but the majority of the vertebrate prey they take is probably frogs and lizards, and typically ones smaller than themselves. hummingbirds might not be too representative of typical vertebrate prey because (I believe I heard a mantis researcher say) their metabolism is so tightly wound that the stress of being caught is enough to kill them, and all the mantis has to do is hang on, which they definitely can do. still, vertebrate predation is pretty impressive for orthopterans and mantodeans, since they’ve got to do it all without venom!
army ants of various types are also famous for their ability to catch vertebrates, but most army ants are actually specialists on other social insects (ants, wasps, termites), and the few generalist predator army ants still predominantly prey on invertebrates (and don’t skeletonize cows and horses like they do in cartoons).
diving beetles will hunt fish and aquatic amphibians—there’s a reason their larvae are called “water tigers!” belostomatid water bugs are probably the most impressive aquatic vertebrate-eaters though, and use powerful venom to subdue surprisingly large fish, tadpoles, and even other vertebrates:
outside of insects, there’s a lot of spiders that can feed on herptiles, either by overpowering them with strength like huntsmen and tarantulas, or by snaring them in webs like widows, the most successful snake eaters:
plus, there’s always the famous Nephila orbweavers whose sturdy webs can catch avian prey, but this is probably a fairly rare occurrence.
going over to centipedes, giant scolopendrids are quite successful predators of vertebrates, with any species large enough likely preying on herptiles, and occasionally on some far larger than they are!
Scolopendra venom is evolved to take down large prey, so it’s no surprise they’re some of the most prolific vertebrate-eaters in the arthropod world. some very large Scolopendra (gigantea, maybe galapagoensis, viridicornis, heros) will hunt bats, sometimes by hanging to catch them in flight. other predation on mammals and birds seems to occur opportunistically, especially where the prey is helpless: S. galapagoensis was recorded feeding on baby rodents in the Galapagos; other island species like Cormocephalus coynei will feed on seabird chicks (enough with the “fluffy” avian favoritism, Nature! ‘pedes gotta eat).
oh, speaking of nestling-devouring, there’s also some freaky observations of slugs munching on soft mushy songbird babies! someone on Twitter had their nest camera record some chicks getting eaten by a large Carabus ground beetle, but I can’t find it again.
but I think the most shocking example of vertebrate predation by an invertebrate is probably Epomis, another ground beetle. as larvae, they feed on frogs far larger than they are by letting themselves get attacked, latching onto the would-be predator, and munching on it until it perishes. adult beetles also prey on amphibians, but just run them down instead of luring prey.
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(there’s also video of the adult beetles preying on frogs, but they seem to all be stolen by some weird content scraper YT channels, so I’ll not post them here.)
let me know if I missed any good examples of vertebrate predation by bugs!
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yuribracket · 1 year
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MALIGNED YURI BRACKET: Round five (semifinals)
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How is Misa Amane/Rem (Death Note) maligned?
"i think just the fact of being women in death note is enough to qualify. like misa dedicates her life to light in the worst written way possible and then doesn't even get mentioned in the fucking ending or epilogue of the manga...meanwhile rem comes to love (yes that is the term used) misa enough to DIE for her but not only is the build up to this incredibly bare bones, she literally goes out of her way to explain 'don't worry it's NOT in a gay way' and that is. So funny. thankfully SOMEONE understood the tragic yuri potential when writing the death note musical where rem is explicitly in romantic love with her, so everybody say thank you to them" "#i shipped them in 5th grade adn my ex friend was ilke u cant do that theyre both women and i was like ok and i stopped" "#they are gay one is a hideous death god their love is her undoing and her death #does misa love her back? unclear. that just makes it more compelling. theyre messy theyre weird theyre fucked up they are MY yuri"
How is Marcille Donato/Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) maligned?
"Bro falin literally dies in the first chapter and you discover their relationship through backstory reveal his is this not maligned" "#falin got eaten by a lizard and her bestie does magic crimes to try and save her#succeeds in turning falin into the giant lizard thus forcing marcille to hunt her and kill her again"
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my1oves · 14 days
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Ugh, your writing is beautiful. Not a request, but rather a ramble: I'd like to think of a dragon!hybrid/person being like a bit off-put by Laios and the others. Like, imagine one of the big guys of your dragon group, the red dragon gets temporarily slain and eaten. It gets worse! The same people who slain said dragon, and it's quite obvious which one is the weird one. (Laios) is finding you and spamming you with questions! Like, don't eat me?? Also, I'd like to imagine draconic peeps have a similar feature of having their tails fall off when they're scared, like lizards lol.
i can't imagine being a hybrid and not being off put by Laios. he's staring at you so intensely, probably asking a lot of invasive questions, and secretly planning what type of meal he'd put you in if he had the chance. however as a dragon hybrid?! oh goodness, it's definitely tenfold the horror and terror— they not only took out the giant red dragon but ate them too! and it's obvious who's idea that was by the bloodthirsty look in his eyes (laios!!)
imagine being able to shift from one form to another, being chased to be eaten bc you're a weaker dragon, only to shift into a human form. marcille and chilchuck set their foot down, and laios begrudgingly agrees not to eat you. instead he takes this time to study you- asking question after question after question, wanting to feel your scales & tail & wings, he asks for you to shift into dragon form so he can see it up close n personal, etc.
meanwhile poor dragon hybrid! reader is absolutely shaking in their boots, praying laios doesn't randomly go berserk and decide to eat them. also yea, the tail falling off like a lizard is hilarious! imagine it just falls off bc laios scares the shit out of you and you just gotta wait for it to regrow but that's so embarrassing esp bc laios is now asking even more questions and bringing it to light to everyone uGH
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reigenkills · 1 year
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MISSION FROM GOD TO FILL THIS TAG, GOD BLESS. THIS IS A SERIES NOW I GUESS
PART ONE | PART TWO (YOU ARE HERE) | PART THREE | PART FOUR | PART FIVE | PART SIX | 7 | 8
also this is on ao3 for easier archival
The nice thing about being entrapped into such an outlandish job such as capturing Death is that your clients hadn't paid you beforehand. They barely thought about reimbursement for your exploitation, really. They were more smug about the fact that they had leverage on you and eagerly sicced you on the personification of death.
But, while you went penniless from the encounter, you had no binding contract, magical or otherwise, which means that now that you have no obligation to do anything for them, you can sail halfway across the ocean with them none the wiser.
Duloc used to be one of the biggest kingdoms this side of the hemisphere. Ever since its ruler's untimely demise, however (eaten by a dragon, or so the rumors say), the resulting power vacuum had thrown the whole place into chaos with lesser aristocracy staking claims here and there, lobbying assassinations at each other while everyone else tried to stay out of the way.
But it's been years since Lord Farquaad took the slip n' slide down a giant lizard's throat. The kingdom has mostly stabilized, with sovereign villages here and there, while the fighting mostly took place on aristocratic lands. And where there's a semi-safe village and a shitton of espionage, there's an open job market for people like you.
You find yourself the cheapest inn available, ditch your usual all-black attire for locally-made clothes (a lot harder to track where you're from when your stuff's locally sourced - you are not getting compromised by a shirt tag), and start hitting the seediest bars you can find. In a land with this much unrest, there's plenty.
Predictably, you're not the only mercenary on the hunt for a job. Duloc's mostly merc country now, and the barmaid helpfully tells you where to frequent and who to talk to. There are even formal guilds here, though until you get a better feel for the land and the political climate, you think you'll go solo.
Your first few weeks aren't too bad. There's jobs from big wigs and commoners alike - from farmers needing wolves chased off their property to jealous lovers with too much money putting a hit on some poor schmuck. The most challenging thing you have to do is going to the mountains to bring a pair of brothers home after their camping trip goes awry, and their worried family puts a job out to find them when they don't come home. Turns out they got scared by some deer and ran deeper into the woods, getting lost in the process.
It's nothing you're not used to. At least no one's given you an assassination job, but you're new to town. Everyone's still getting a feel for your presence too - par for the course.
Three months into your stay in Poisonapple, Duloc, a hysterical parent barges into your new favorite bar, already drunk out of his mind and begging people to help him. Muffet, the barmaid, winces and mutters, "He's still at it?"
"He's done this before?" you ask.
"He was here yesterday," she says. "Poor Elrick's gotten tangled up with some rich family up north. I heard they got him tricked into pricking his finger on a cursed spindle."
"Oooh." You suck in a breath through your teeth. "True love's kiss not work out?"
"If his love even knows what's happened to him." Muffet shakes her head. "His father's been asking people to find some way to undo it, but - " She looks around, then leans closer as she whispers. "You ask me, I think Elrick's love's been locked away in some tall tower to keep 'er away from trouble. Weeks' worth of journey and the boy'll be bones by the time anyone comes back."
"Royal types do tend to do that, don't they?" you mutter. "Thought that solution fell out of popularity after Fairy Godmother herself kicked the bubble."
"Eh, where there's a vacancy in the market, there's a thousand other people waiting to fill it," Muffet says. "Competitors just had to take over the niche."
"Yikes." You knock back your drink, turning around in your seat to watch the poor old man plead, hands wringing as he begs for someone, anyone, to save his son.
You'd give it a shot, but like Muffet said, intel gathering would take days alone. The human body isn't designed to be unconscious with no food or water for that long. You don't even know how long Elrick's been knocked out, how long he has left.
"Can't they get someone else to do a counterspell?" you ask Muffet. "Like Sleeping Beauty?"
"Fae are hard to find around these parts. Witches too. Lord Farquaad chased everyone magical off the land a few years ago and very few have decided to come back since. The constant fighting between them aristocrats ain't helping."
"Yeah," you say. "Guess it'd be easier to find a witch and buy time than getting that true love's kiss, though."
Elrick's father suddenly turns to you. You freeze, and watch in horror as the man begins to stumble towards you.
"You - you know how to help my son?" he asks. "Please - "
"Uhhhh." You turn to Muffet, who wipes down the counter and dutifully keeps her gaze away, minding her own business. You're all for minding your own business, encourage it in fact, but come on. Traitor.
"Please," the old man says. "He's only sixteen - "
Fuck. Of course he is. Or course it has to be some young fucking kid.
"I don't really know, I was just…throwing ideas out," you say, tugging on the collar of your shirt. "See what stuck."
"B-but you're a witch, aren't you?" The old man eyes the red of your cloak, a new piece you'd gotten to replace your older one. While people in Duloc dressed much more colorfully than from your old town, the colors you now don make it so easy to identify you. 
People know what your look like because they've been keeping an eye on you. You have a red cloak. You have two guns holstered on your belt at all times. You have a spellbook you carry in a satchel everywhere.
"I'm not very good at it," you admit.
"At least try."
"I could make it worse. I don't know how to use magic," you say. "Is it really worth the risk?"
The old man pauses, his brows furrowing, before he nods. "Anything," he says. "I just need someone to help."
"Look," you say. "Messing around with magic I barely know is a recipe for disaster. If I mess up, I'm not just gonna be trying to break a curse, I'm gonna have to drag your son back from the jaws of death. Does that sound any better?"
"Then just drag him back, witch," the old man insists. "Rally against death if you have to."
Your eye twitches. This is why you hate talking to people. This is why all your work is through written correspondence and why you talk sparsely. People always forget to suggest and go straight for commands. Where are the manners?
You turn around, mouth clamped shut, tapping a nail against the grain of the counter while the old man shouts behind you. A few people later come to drag him out.
You ask Muffet for another drink with the biggest glass she has. She gives you a raised eyebrow as she slides one twice the size of your forearm at you.
Whatever. You need to get a little reckless, burn off some energy. It's fine. Just as long as the person you're now supposed to rally against doesn't show -
"That could have gone better."
Son of a bitch.
You slam the glass onto the counter a little harder than you should. In the corner of your eye, Death flashes a smile.
"What can I do for you this evening, señor?" you ask, fingers twitching. 
"What was your last command? Rally against Death?" He turns and leans am elbow on the counter, resting his face on one paw. "How are you gonna do that, peque?"
"I am trying - " your hands itch. " - not to."
"Can you actually fight your curse?" he asks.
You resist the urge to bang your head against the counter. As much as you're trying to control yourself, he's not making it easy when every word that comes out of his mouth makes you want to maul him.
He snickers. Your nails scratch against the grain of the counter as you turn back to him.
"Oh? Something's happening." Death leans over, hunching down to your height so you're nearly nose-to-snout, red eyes tracking every twitch and tic of your face. "What are you gonna do, peque? Bite me?"
You bite him.
"Son of a bitch!"
In your defense, he'd suggested it, and he was the one who got the brilliant idea of sticking his nose within biting range. You get a mouthful of freezing fur and snout, and then he's pulling you off of him like a leech. You snarl, grabbing fistfuls of silver fur to hold on, but he's much stronger - and he pulls you off with a comical pop!
He punts you across the room. You tuck your knees in and roll, landing on your hands and feet. "What the fuck is wrong with you? Mierda!"
You spit out the fur in your mouth - it tastes like ice chips for whatever reason. What the hell. "Hey, you asked for it. Gift of obedience, remember?"
You stand and watch him actually pause and consider it, before he glares, remembering he'd phrased it as a question and not a command. He reaches up to rub his snout.
"You're lucky you've got a while to go." He glances over your head. "Otherwise, I'd make you regret that."
"Hey, I was told to rally against Death. Can't hold that against me, can you?" One of your hands is already itching towards your gun. You look to your hip in distaste, your fingers twitching again.
"Don't."
Despite how annoying he is, you visibly sag with relief, sighing as the uncomfortable urge to just maim disappears. Your hand drops. You straighten and smooth out your cloak.
"That's way better," you mutter.
When you turn back to Death, he has his head tilted, his now-lopsided hood revealing the end of an ear. That's actually kinda cute, if he was, you know, not built like a brick shithouse and has rows of needles in his mouth.
"What?" you ask.
"I could just tell you never to attack me again," he says. Your hackles raise. "But that'd be less funny."
You raise an eyebrow. "What am I, entertainment TV?"
He snickers.
"Asshole."
"Brat."
You sneer, before marching back to the counter to drop a few pieces of silver onto it. You have no idea where Muffet's gone. Out back for a smoke break, probably, since you were the only customer left by the time Death showed up.
"Might wanna keep away from these parts, old man. Some of the folk up north are getting restless and desperate," you say. "My previous clients weren't the first people to think about chaining Death. There's always people who want more power."
"I know, peque. I've been here longer than you," he says with a chuckle. "You keep your eye on not getting turned into a dance monkey again."
You turn and flip him off. He laughs, and the candles in the room flicker, bathing everything in darkness for a second.
When the lights steady, he's gone.
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saritawolff · 5 months
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#Archovember Day 27 - Udanoceratops tschizhovi
The leptoceratopsids are known for being small, pig-sized Late Cretaceous ceratopsians reminiscent of their more basal ancestors. But Udanoceratops tschizhovi took things to the next level, growing to the size of a hippopotamus, with the head and jaw strength to match. While assumed to be a herbivore like other ceratopsians, little is known about plants that grew in the Gobi Desert at the time of the Cretaceous, so it is unclear what types of plants it would have eaten. Its sharp beak, powerful jaws, and shearing/crushing teeth suggest a diet of relatively tough plants. Like other ceratopsians, particularly leptoceratopsians, Udanoceratops could have also opportunistically scavenged carcasses, nests, or even small mammals and young/weak dinosaurs for extra protein in its desert environment.
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In the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia, Udanoceratops would have lived alongside the smaller, more numerous protoceratopsians Protoceratops and Bagaceratops. This was a mostly barren landscape, likely dotted by oases and arroyos that would have attracted smaller animals like nanhsiungchelyid land turtles, lizards like Gobiderma, frogs like Gobiates, crocodylomorphs like Artzosuchus, small mammals like Asiatherium and Mangasbaatar, and small theropods like the oviraptorosaur Avimimus. Udanoceratops was the largest animal around. Thus far, no predators large enough to take on an adult Udanoceratops have been found in its locality. The dromaeosaur Velociraptor could have snatched a baby Udanoceratops when the opportunity arose, but it would then risk the ire of this giant desert hippo with a staple remover for a head.
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Put More Daleks In Your Games
Probably not literally, it’s more of an eyecatching metaphor. But every time you see a Dalek in Dr Who and someone goes “oh that’s fine, we can go shoot them” they lose and probably die. Similarly, your own game plans can include enemies like this. Things that aren’t an insurmountable obstacle and have things that the PCs can do to stop them being a problem. They can be outmanuvered, they can be outsmarted. But they cannot be defeated in a straight up fight. Maybe it’s situational. For a level 1 D&D party, a castle that’s hired two trolls as guards fits this. If your PCs decide to fight the trolls they’ll get ripped limb from limb and eaten. But trolls are big and obvious and have terrible perception, so finding a way in that isn’t through the main gate guarded by trolls should be a solid option. If you revisit that castle later then the wizard gets to fireball them once and you walk straight in and that’s fine. It only needs to be scary now. Dragons should honestly be a good example of this. If you need a thing from the hoard of a dragon, going and killing the dragon should probably feature lower on your list of ideas than retiring and becoming a potato farmer. It’s ended up ingrained into the modern fantasy genre that you get to be the big cool heroes who killed a dragon, but honestly being the big cool heroes who stole from a dragon and lived to tell about it should be equally cool. If we look at more classic fantasy, Gandalf and thirteen heavily armed dwarves didn’t go “hey lets go kill this dragon” or even “hey lets go get the armies of our people and kill this dragon”, their plan was always steal the one treasure they really needed and write the rest off as a loss. Conan the Barbarian is a big guy with a huge sword who literally has The Barbarian as his surname, but that doesn’t stop him being smart enough to know that not hitting the huge fire breathing lizard that can eat you is a stupid plan and that dying cuts down on your ability to steal its stuff. The other consideration is that they don’t need to be literally unkillable, just unkillable by things the party can personally bring to bear. As a result, they can be killable by plot devices and other GM contrivances when specifically planned for, striking a middle ground between murderhoboable and straight up indestructible. Maybe the thing that you have to kill them with is a giant orbital laser, but that’s not exactly portable, so the PCs need to evade or outwit them most of the time and then finish by manuvering their enemies into an area where they can be targeted. Maybe the thing that actually kills them is extremely resource limited, such as the Colt from Supernatural which kills anything it hits but was made with only thirteen bullets. So now you can kill 13 Daleks, but you’d better make those shots count.
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azuremliam · 1 month
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What is the culinary practices like in Bug-world?
Do they like to cook their foods into dishs? Being breaded and fryed, baked, dried.
Or is it very simple? Like basic honey, raw aphids, fresh fungus, etc?
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@bringerofmilk They do indeed cook their foods into dishes! Bread, fried, baked dried- you name it they'll work with it, and its mostly due to fascination in old human cook books!
Though that's not to say that cooked foods float everyone's boat, many insect folk (especially the more carnivorous bunch) enjoy eating things raw!
Even more infodumping as per usual underneath the readmore!
There's insects, like Abegail (though she focuses on human medical practices), who specialize in researching and practicing human cooking methods! And its waaaaaaay more common than expected, the people of Bug World enjoy variety to their foods too heheh.
Cooking also makes more foods readily, and safer, to consume! As some species have their toxins neutralized when cooked. But it all boils down to personal preference really.
On average, there's a preference for breads, baked sweets, pastas, salads, and soups. And steaks, lots and lots of steaks when available.
The giant fruits, roots, edible plants, and vegetables are commonly used when found too! But since they're massive the take longer than usual to harvest- it takes a big team effort to make them bite sized.
Both Finn and Liam are fans of giant strawberries and Jake loves eating clovers. Scarab will eat whatever Liam offers him really without any complaint.
Oh! And when a Beast gets hunted (very rare for the massive ones but it does happen!) the meat is very valued and often gets distributed to all areas nearby.
Also, while Liam does love eating raw aphids (a guilty pleasure of their's- they just enjoy the taste a lot and they crave meat a lot too) and honey straight from the comb- they do enjoy cooked foods a lot! (Also the burger they're eating is from the young lizard beast they hunted + some pieces of wings- they taste like chips).
Finn's just chowing down on a regular ol pizza (with mushrooms harvested from a mushroom forest farm that is heheh but its safe to eat of course) And Scarab is eating an oil fried aphid.
As for foods that get made, lots of stuff is given to cooks as "spare" parts from recently deceased or (very often) over hunters or the hunted. Lots of sauces and seasonings go into cooking bug parts- gotta make them tasty or they default have a really earthy taste to them.
Most common things that get given to the cooks to well, cook, are crickets and grub! Crickets can get really brutal when battling for standard brood laying area "hunts" and the ladies can really tear each other apart when doing so.
When that happens, they basically give themselves a final meal of tasty fruits or meats, then either die and have themselves transferred to their dinner of choice or go their themselves if they have enough energy to do so!
In fact that's a standard for most dying bugs to go to a place to eat (they get spoiled with luxuries) before passing away peacefully and being sorted through their "will" afterwards. Abdomens are a common "steak" and often cooked and served as is or breaded/fried.
Carapaces (if given permission) are ground up and turned into their version of flour to make certain bread products.
As for grub, various beetle folk have A LOT of grub and not all make it (or some grub turn on each other and leave half eaten siblings behind RIP) so they often get sent over to cooking places.
Overall, lots of bugs on the menu!
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tell me your indus and Howie headcanons please
Aaa! Of course!!! I genuienly love Indus, so theres plenty for him! Sadly for Howie, not so much :( hes great but vv hard to hc for
INDUS TARBELLA:
He loves baking! You can walk into the kitchen seeing him covered in batter and trying to muscle open something with a barrier. (Mera has to help him open things)
Loud snorer, i cant explain WHY but i look at him and feel like he does snore loudly
His not so guilty pleasure is Disney movies; he'll have Mera watch them all with him. Its kinda cute seeing him giggle at everything like hes a child
You cant take him on rides at Disney tho, he'll scream. Mera learned that the hard way
Dog person. Loves the big does, and lizards! He'll come in with a handful of lizards and be like:
"Look at what I found, Lady Mera!" Indus declared proudly, offering his two hands forward to reveal a family of lizards.
Mera looked down at them both, raising a brow in confusion. Looking back up she sees Indus' childlike grin, "May I keep them??? Please???"
Mera sighed heavily "Indus, put them back..." Indus lowers his head "Awww.. "
Hes probably eaten anything that wasnt food, either by dumb curiosity or trying to protect Mera, sometimes its the other way around and Mera has to slap something out of his hands. Or comfort him when hes coughing out a bite of deodorant
Hes like a giant pillow. You will sink if you hug him, absolutely worth it.
On that note, he loves hugs! But will absolutely crush your bones! Just like that one bear pokémon
Music taste wise, i picture him listening to the Tarzan sound track, or whatever Mera's listening to (probably grungey stuff)
Has punched a scare actor in the face many times out of fear. Hes banned from several haunted houses and thene parks
His hair is ridiculously fluffy. I can sense it
HOWIE HONEYGLOW
Prone to burnout, sometimes he will pass out from being overworked, only to get back up and continue working
Has fucked up teeth from all the honeyed snacks
Secretly collects a lot of bee related things, like plushies
Rarely gives sick days or time off, you better either be dying or dead to not come in
Unpopular opinion, I dont think Howie's aro, but i do agree that he's ace.
Doesnt listen to music; either the bee movie or buzzing asmr is playing in his ears
Probably had a speech impediment, it comes out when hes angry
An artist! He's not all that good but hes TRYING
Knows the art of pinecone milking (Percy taught him)
I feel like this man would bite into a honeycomb and like it
On that note, he eats honey nut cheerios for breakfast every day
Always has water on hand for the fellas, cant let em dehydrate! He himself? Dehydrated as fuck
Also brings snacks for the fellas! He himself? Hungry but wont say anything
Favorite pokemon are all the bee ones
Nonbinary, uses He/they pronouns
Looks at least 30 from stressed and over working himself
His diet consists of only ceral, honeyed snacks and monster energy
At least he has good iron intake?????
Hope you enjoyed, anon!
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iluvmyships · 28 days
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Golden Bear? Pt 1
AGED UP AU!!!!!!NO PEDO ALLOWED HERE!
GN Elf! Reader x Dragon! Kirishima x Dragon King Bakugou x Cassidy
Warnings: Cursing, Blood, KiriBaku being a horny ass couple, Mommy/Daddy, Eventual SMUT
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You, Bakugou, and Kirishima were walking in the forest, determined to "The Burning Forest". Though it didn't seem that you dragon companion wanted to walk, since it was daybreak (2:00 am) and dragons normally slept till 9. Bakugou and you had to make sure the giant lizard didnt fall asleep midwalk.
"How much longer do we have to go...." Kirishima whines, breaking the slience between you three. "About a few minutes." Bakugou says, slapping the back of Kirishima's head. "Ow! What was that for!?" Kirishima snaps, staring at the ash blonde. "We just started walking and your already whining?" You ask the dragon. "Yeah! I mean I'm tired as heck! Us crimson dragons don't wake up this early!" The dragons groans, starting to walk as if he was dizzy.
"Stop walkin like a damn drunkard! You aren't a alcoholic." Bakugou yells, staring bullets at the red head. "No! I'm not like that! I don't even like alcohol!" Kirishima whines, shaking his head in defense. Before the two started their bickering.
"Be quiet you two! We made it!" You say, shoving the two off eachother. "Now hurry up before I leave your dragons asses!" The H/C says running off in front of the two boys. "Are you challenging me!?" The ash blonde yells, quickly running after you.
"Guys don't leave me here! I don't wanna get eaten!" Kirishima yells running after you two. "Well hurry up!" The two shout back slowing down slightly to let the dragon catch up.
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hsr-texts · 10 months
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No, but the fact that belobogians never seen a chicken raises so many questions.
What farm animals they have and how do they keep them alive? Like the place has gotta be close to city, because it's simply easier to warm up the area this way. And just how big this farm area needs to be to provide for an entire city?
If they don't have chicken, what do they use instead of chicken eggs? If they don't use any substitutes, then they don't have cakes or other food like that. Or do they only have eggless recipes that don't require baking like some type of cheesecakes? I mean their planet is already like a giant freezer, they can use it.
Or they probably use other eggs, like idk duck eggs.
Does that create an even bigger divide between the overworld and the underground? Like most of the farm animals require plant-based food, so it would be very hard to keep them in the underground, especially after Cocolia ordered to close the border. But does this mean that some kids from the underworld never had milk?
omg hell yes i love discussions like this
this has sent me down a rabbit hole where i'd research belobogian cuisine ingame
(warning: this is a bit of a long post)
i'm looking at the flavor text lore for the dishes that you can get from belobog and i have this stone-grilled olm. i looked up what an olm is and yeah it's basically an amphibian
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besides olms, they have crabs which interestingly enough also has interesting lore implications because apparently these crabs could "wreak havoc" in belobog before the eternal freeze and then became extinct so has hook just been eating an extinct species this whole time??
the answer to my question was in "Miners Weekly" where it talks about how the rock crab nests were destroyed so it seems like the extinction only happened recently
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then we also have crystal lizards that are coldblooded and live in mines and apparently isn't even meant to be edible despite the fact that this is also something being sold by the food stall. i also wonder if that dialogue at the bottom saying how the crystal lizard satay tastes like chicken is from the trailblazer or march because it can't really be a belobogian
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i checked the bookshelf if i had any books that could answer my question and lo and behold, here's a recipe for how the crystal lizard satay and some lore attached to it. apparently the dish was created out of necessity due to a mining accident and lack of rations. i guess desperation can be the best source of creativity.
note: according to the same book, they've eaten candied mushrooms.
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so when it comes to farm animals, i found that they do have pork, rye bread soda(?), and yogurt
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this implies that they have pigs and cows but we can't be sure if they're different from cows and pigs in our world. the sausage is considered a national delicacy though so perhaps pigs are common enough that they can be produced a lot since a hundred years ago.
i found the recipe for rye bread soda in my bookshelf as well!
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then i found out they do have fish and jam which makes me wonder where they fish.
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According to Lila, an NPC that's a zoologist, Belobog has dogs, cats, wolves and birds but in ancient times, Belobog had domesticated bears and direwolves in the wild. The bears and direwolves are no longer around though.
anyway yeah this is the info I've found on Belobogian food. I hope you guys enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed researching this.
It's really cool to learn more about this kind of lore in hsr
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"I suffered because of my crUsT" no Marianne you suffered because humans suck don't blame it on your Nabatean blood, if the Nabateans were still keeping humanity from fucking up every five seconds you would have been fine
TBH,
It's a kind of "both sides" with Marianne, with the added twist that no, the Nabatean who was eaten has no part to play, but it's all caused by Momo and the asses who randomly blame Marianne for what he did eons of years ago -
Like, if Momo wasn't an ass and wasn't happily slaughtering everything with his Nabatean Femur he called a sword, maybe he wouldn't be remembered as a butcher, and maybe, wouldn't have turned in a demonic beast (which is kind of meta in a way, even as a "human" Momo was behaving like a crazed beast).
And yet, at the same time, we have humans blaming children for the sins of their parents, and this for several generations - while it gives credence to some part of Rhea's lies calling the Dudes "Heroes" instead of revealing the Truth (tm), it's more remarkable as a demonstration of "humans are prejudiced against something they don't know" (which also, sort of justifies Rhea's lies/omissions about her being a giant lizard).
For Marianne, she blames her Crust for her suffering - when she should be blaming the peons who throw rocks at her for having said crust for said suffering.
It wasn't played like that in the game because it completely clashes with Supreme Leader, but Marianne's bg story could have been a situation where someone apologises for being born a certain way, with the cast/story telling her that hell no, you're not at fault for being born with a crust, the people at fault are the people blaming you for being born "this way".
(but then world for humanity, pointy ears cannot rule over round ears because they have pointy ears, and what not)
Fittingly, the paralogue ends with :
The blood of a beast no longer flows through me. I feel human for once
:/
Of course we can interpret the "beast" as in not beast like a four legged creature like Baldo'n'Waldi, but beast because Momo was a beast aka a butcher - and now that she put an end to him she's free from his legacy -
Still, imo, that would miss the point, because Marianne still thinks her curse (thus not feeling "human") stemmed from her blood (tied to Momo) when that's not the case - sure Momo is to blame, but she shouldn't have been shunned/blamed for having the "wrong" blood to begin with!
Where's the "people grew to despise Maurice, but you're not him, so you shouldn't bear his sins" mention?
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Gwen's mom just ran inside the gas station to pay for gas. The car was still running. The full moon filled the inside of the car with soft light. It was past her bedtime. They were driving back from her aunt's house, visiting cousins who were home from college for the holidays.
Gwen was 9, she lived with her mom, her dad was away for work. They were a happy family. Gwen didn't have many friends but she made up for it with a love of animals. Every day after school she would be collecting rocks and sticks to fill jars to be homes for bugs and lizards and the occasional snake. Her parents encouraged it, buying a terrarium for the odd creature that would be okay to keep, and helping to return the ones that wouldn't to their proper habitats. She cared for everything and was gentle with every animal she found. She never had a bite, sting, or even seemed to worry about the possibility. She said she could talk to the animals and sometimes her parents believed her–they were always fostering some new animal that had fallen into their daughter's lap; it was almost like every injured creature made its way to her.
Gwen's secret was that she could talk to animals. Sort of. The scientists would eventually call it empathic telepathy. She could sense and convey the emotions or intentions to and with animals. But this term and understanding wouldn't happen for a few years. All Gwen knew was she was special and she used this special part about her to help those who didn't know how else to ask for help.
Suddenly there was a horrific screech that split the night air. It was akin to thunder if it were a higher pitch but the thing that scared Gwen wasn't the sound itself, despite how it hurt her ears, it was the feelings that it conveyed. Storms didn't carry intention, or emotions, this sound, as it shattered the silence once more, did.
Death, I bring Death, I am Death, I am Hunger, I am Destruction.
Gwen screamed for her Mother, to warn her but this too betrayed her own emotions to the presence drawing ever nearer.
Fear.
Gwen saw her mother burst through the door of the gas station and looked to the sky as her skin pallored to match the white of the Moon. The car lurched as talons the size of Gwen tore into the car, metal screeching like nails on a chalkboard and suddenly the car was flying, gripped in the clutches of a monster.
Gwen stared up at the beast, its leathery wings looked like that of a bat, but bats were cute and furry, this creature was devoid of softness. This beast was composed of a writhing mass of taught skin and muscle, ribs jutted out of its chest as if the thing had never eaten a day in its life. The mass of skin looked slimey in the moonlight, and suddenly they were descending. The car slammed into the ground, still wrapped in the talons of the kaiju. She recognized it now as its twin forked head crest angled down and the creature looked within the car; looked right at her. It was a Gyaos, a type of bird monster that ate anything and everything it could. The scientists said they consume just enough food to lay a clutch of eggs and then continue, all they did was consume and reproduce. Unlike most Kaiju they were determined to be an ecological threat to the well being of the planet and were treated with harsh prejudice. Gwen always thought that was unfair until she felt the creatures presence and understood that it wasn't natural. This wasn't born, this was engineered. More importantly… It was evil.
Prey… flesh… consume…
The Gyaos started to reach down, to pry the door off of the car and to… to… Gwen couldn't think anymore she sent out her fear, she begged God or the Universe for help!
Enough
The Gyaos looked up and with one terrific flap of its wings, causing a veritable gale storm in its wake it pushed itself back as a ball of fire erupted where it once stood. Landing where the fire still billowed up a giant turtle now loomed over them, its eyes glowing green. The same green as an Aurora Gwen thought. But as soon as the Gyaos landed further back and roared its challenge at the newcomer Gwen realized the greater danger was being caught in the middle. She sent out ber plea to the universe once more.
Please help, save me from this monster, I'm scared, I'm trapped… Help…
I will save you
Gwen looked in surprise. Never had she felt a response so clear, intentions so pure and understandable. She locked eyes with the new monster. Suddenly she recalled this one as well. Gamera, the translations of ancient texts regarding it called him the Guardian of the Universe, but he had become known as the friend to all children. He roared a challenge at the Gyaos who faltered in its defiance and took to the sky. Before it got too far there was an eruption of blue flam from beneath them and Gwen felt the whole world falling around her before she understood what was happening. Looking out the windshield, now shattered, Gwen saw the Gyaos flying away, a bloody stump where its leg once was and the car lurched once more as whatever was left of the leg fell away, Gamera held the car carefully in his hand, still soaring through the night as flame propelled him from where his legs once were. He landed, placing the car gently on the ground.
Safe. Hurt?
The question struck her. It was the first time anything had asked a question through this emotional net she cas about herself.
Safe. Please stop Gyaos. Don't let it hurt anyone else.
I promise.
The turtle stepped back and then drawing its arms and legs into its shell fire erupted once more from within. Spinning now the gentle giant tore through the sky, spinning rapidly as it went.
I will stop Gyaos. You are safe now.
Gamera disappeared into the night sky. Gwen heard sirens in the distance. She stepped out of the car, the flashing lights drawing near. Looking down she found a rather large bead, it filled the palm of her hand as she picked it up to examine it. It glowed faintly and was warm to the touch. It was shaped like some sort of crescent, more like half of a yin yang symbol. Gwen couldn't explain why, but she knew it was a gift, and a promise… from Gamera.
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I am a SO ready to talk Godzilla movies. I’ve only seen a handful of them compared to like the dozens I know exist-the more recent ones where they were trying to do Avengers but the big Monsties-but god I love them.
Admittedly Kong is seared into my brain because it came out at the Height of my Tom Hiddleston obsession-I even own it in dvd like I was that deep-so that’s the one I remember the best. And it’s the one I like the most because of the wide range of monsters we get to see. Big Buffalo guy? The skull lizards? Fuck yeah love my monsters wish more movies were monster movies lol.
Anyways, the others are more spattering in recollection. But I wanna ask, which of these movies is your fave, why, and what do you think of the empty core earth/godzilla goes into the center of the earth to recharge like Superman does to the sun? I remember finding that very. Odd? But ripe for interest bc in Kong they set up that whole. Under-earth world the skull things came from.
I've also only seen a handful of the movies... exactly 6 Godzilla/Monster-verse related movies (that I can recall anyway): the original Gojira and the original King Kong. And then Godzilla 2014, Kong Skull Island, Godzilla King of the Monsters (watched last night), and Godzilla vs Kong (watched today!).
I've only seen each of them once, and Kong Skull Island is the only one I saw in the theater (Tom Hiddleston obsession what....😅😅💚❤). Watching Godzilla KotM's last night was the first time I'd actually seen several of the monsters I already knew of through cultural osmosis, like Rodan and Ghidorah, which was very cool.
My favorite is hard to say. (I mean, to say the best movie would be easy: it would be Gojira, because I think it's awesome and perfect and very much a product of its time that said what it needed to say. But I feel like it's an entirely separate genre than the other movies I've seen.) I enjoyed Skull Island and I remember it being slightly better story-wise than the Godzilla movies, IE it made me care more about the human characters and they had better development and reasons for what they were doing.
Since it's the one I just watched I might say KotM is my favorite, just because I loved all the monster battles, and because there are apparently no locked doors in this world (Millie Bobbie Brown can just walk into Fenway Park, and also her family home that's been abandoned for months/years, without any keys or any problems). And also because of Charles Dance, who is a fantastic villain even though he looked like he was phoning it in and even though he didn't get eaten by a dragon (It was all I wanted... what was promised. lol). GvK was fun, but not quite enough to overcome the silliness of the premise. (like, come on, giant monkey versus radioactive dinosaur. who do you think wins? I did like that the movie turned it into a team up against Mechagodzilla/the ghost of Ghidorah.)
The first mentions of the Hollow Earth Theory kind of took me by surprise, so it took me awhile to get over the silliness of it especially the gravity inversion lmao. (Just last month or so I finished watching Sanctuary, which has its own Hollow Earth theory lol) But I did really love the concept of Godzilla's temple where he would go to recharge in KotM. (Too bad they blew it up 😭 Or did they?? Maybe Godzilla's temple where he hangs out can withstand nuclear blasts? 🤔) I love the idea that he would go to this place of ancient worship to rest and regain his strength, sleeping among the memories of when he was perhaps more literally a god. The whole "recharging from the center of the earth bc there's radiation" is whatever. The origins of Godzilla have changed so much to get him to fit into this new idea of him and his place within the world and what he represents, so... sure. The Earth is a hollow, Godzilla recharging battery. 👍
I really liked the development they did for Hollow Earth in GvK. I like that Kong's axe gets charged up by Godzilla's blasts. And I loved that when you see Kong's "throne," Godzilla is carved into the stones around the base of the throne. To me this suggests that rather than a rivalry, Kong and Godzilla have an ancient symbiosis: Godzilla is King Kong's guard dog... or perhaps "court wizard" in the sense of the archetypal magician, with the knowledge and power to comprehend a balance within nature that he then "advises" the "king" about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I dunno but I think that would be really cool. I'd love to see more "monsterverse" movies with fewer human characters getting in the way (though I did really like Millie Bobbie Brown's posse wandering around and stumbling onto Mechagodzilla; that was a cool way to reveal that information to the audience). But more stories specifically about the interactions between these ancient creatures would be very interesting. In the special features for KotM they say that Mothra is the only female monster, which is kind of odd. I suppose Godzilla never really "dies" so he doesn't need to... reproduce in a standard-for-higher-Earth-life-forms way, but I'm pretty sure I remember Kong having parents in Skull Island, which I guess makes him (or his mom) an outlier if we're roping him into the monsterverse. Though the continuity for any of these stories is very loose (in KotM there are kaiju on every continent, but GvK is 3 years later and all of them... left? Everything's normal now. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you? And then Godzilla rolls up in Hong Kong and trashes it. There's one shot of a "kaiju bunker" or whatever, but no other preparations or any sort of contingencies for what to do if attacked by world-destroying monsters which last happened 3 years ago).
Anyway I hear there's another Godzilla movie coming out this year, and one called GodzillaXKong which I can only hope is the shipper movie we've all been waiting to see!! ;b
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POPPY - What historical event does every student learn about?
ROSE - What is the most known myth?
BLOOD - What do the people do with the dead? What are their funerals like?
GORE - What is the most common method of murder? Is it legal?
BLUSH - What are the views on sex before marriage? How strict is it?
LIPSTICK - What is the beauty standard, and how often is it met?
APPLE - What is the most eaten meal?
CHERRY - Describe a celebration!
Answering these for Ostrein, the main country in Account of Calamity A Chant for Blood ^^
POPPY - What historical event does every student learn about?
Probably the Ostreinan Subjugation, a period of time when Ostrein was under control by the country Louksna, who exploited them for their valuable minerals and rare medicinal herbs. Around 1,700 years ago, uprisings started but Ostrein would not become it's own independent country for another 50 years. Most historians cannot agree on how exactly they won the war, but most believe it was because of the largest rebel group, known as the Heorots, defending the capitol city of Isarnan from Louksnan soldiers.
ROSE - What is the most known myth?
Dragons. Everybody knows they're not real. Hell, there are barely any lizards in Onginnan compared to earth. So how did the myth of giant lizards with wings start? Because a few centuries ago, the First Mage of Louksna had a dream about a winged lizard residing in the core of the planet, eventually eating his way out and reigning chaos upon the world. The "prophecy" became wildly popular and dragons were the craze for about 70 years or so before dying out. Dragons are still seen in art, ballads and books but a dragon eating its way out of the planet is mostly a joke now.
BLOOD - What do the people do with the dead? What are their funerals like?
They are most often cremated in their best clothing. Followers of Incarna have their ashes poured into a river, as they believe rivers are the only way to meet their Divine Matriarch. Forest Folk, however, have their ashes buried in the very forest they originated in so they can return to their Mother. Non-Incarna followers and non-forest folk, they are buried in cemeteries or cremated, their loved ones keeping their ashes.
Funerals typically depend on the religion or location; Incarnan funerals are often serious, and family of the deceased must wear mourning clothes if they are in large cities. The more rural or non-incarnan it gets, there's more music and energy as some people see the funeral as a celebration of the deceased's life.
GORE - What is the most common method of murder? Is it legal?
Poison! And no, unless it's an execution. Poison can be slipped into any drink or food and can be made magically undetectable with some basic spells, however there are some advanced detection spells that can detect the poison, which is why some would-be rich widowers or jealous second-born sons choose to use a poison that would slowly kill the victim over the course of a few months, just so their cause of death wouldn't immediately be suspected as poison.
BLUSH - What are the views on sex before marriage? How strict is it?
Marriage isn't very important in the country of Ostrein. Marriage is only expected by nobles who require a stable relationship to produce an heir. Sex before marriage isn't much of a concern, either. If one person falls pregnant, however, then they are expected to marry. Young people are sort of expected to fool around during their young adult years, so no pressure is put onto them to make such a life-changing decision like getting married. Having sex before marriage doesn't make one 'impure'.
LIPSTICK - What is the beauty standard, and how often is it met?
The majority of Ostrein are Ainlif, elven beings with long, thin movable ears and large, round eyes. the beauty standard among them is dark hair, dark eyes, and a rosy complexion. White hair is rare, and so is also considered beautiful. Ainlif are pretty diverse, so half the population meets that criteria. I have not worked on this part of the worldbuilding so this is pretty lackluster 😅
APPLE - What is the most eaten meal?
Eel soup. Eel jelly. It's an Ostreinan staple, so much so that if you complain about the horrible taste you will be promptly thrown out into the cold.
CHERRY - Describe a celebration!
The Harbitas Fair! It actually occurs within the first book. It's to celebrate the end of summer and the coming of autumn, but it's also for inventors to show off their latest inventions and food. Aside from the new tech, it contains, games, prizes, and magic shows.
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this is. certainly something i’m posting. but fuck it we ball
here’s all the lethal company fnaf monsters
- they’re all nightmare or bonnie themed (excluding the ghosts) because of william’s influence over them👍
manticoil: effectively a bird lol. poses 0 threat ever, nothing rlly fits this role lol
roaming locusts: …locust. nothing rlly fits this role lol
spore lizard: almost made this nightmare chica, but couldn’t find a better fit for nutcracker so she’s that now. nothing rlly fits this role lol
hoarding bug: plushtrap cause his small stature but also cause i think he’s most likely to just fucking steal shit. also most likely to make the “yippee!” noise.
hygrodere: ohhhh the blob maybe? cause like pool of agony->pool of kids melted together forever. ok yeah i dig that.
earth leviathan: this is a giant fucking worm. nothing really fits that role lol
bunker spider: princess quest glitchtrap goop because it moves slow enough to warrant this role>thumper and would probably set up webs to catch people like the spider in game. also so many connections i could make out of that
snare flea: princess quest rabbit head cause it eats ur head like a snare flea does
forest giant: nightmare cause big bear eat people. also contended glitchtrap for this role but glitchtrap isn’t quite mindless enough i dont think
baboon hawk: freddles cause the baboon hawk mechanic is that if it’s 1v1 they’ll run away but if it’s 2v1 they’ll attack you. so long as they have more numbers than your group then they’ll attack
circuit bee: these are bees with lightning powers. nothing really fits that role lol
masked/mimic: …the mimic. but you can’t see it’s the mimic because it’s wearing a company jumpsuit and it’s only real difference is its lack of defining features and its rudimentary behavior.
ghost girl: cassidy because i think she should be allowed to blow people up by touching them
eyeless dog: becomes eyeless bear, aka nightmare freddy. can only hear things
coil head: spring bonnie because HEAR ME OUT. operates like a weeping angel. when you catch it it stops and creaks heavily with the force with which it stopped. and instead of replacing your head with a coil, it SPRINGLOCKS YOU!!!!!
bracken: toy bonnie, they just look similar lol. would’ve been nightmarionne if not for nightmarionne being used in the jester
thumper: nightmare mangle my beloved. because she can run at you really fast but can’t make turns very well so she skids into the wall headfirst at top speed sometimes 😭😭
jester: CHARLIE!!!!! cause puppet+music box. sometimes charlie pops out to talk to whoever she’s following but she’s only aggro when she’s nightmarionne
nutcracker: nightmare chica; glitchtrap contended for this spot as well cause i thought he’d be funny with a gun but that was mostly out of a loss of where to put him until i realized chica would work a lot better here; the cupcake operating as the eye the nutcracker has, and instead of a gun firing at you she just chases you if her cupcake sees you move
i DO want to put glitchtrap somewhere really bad and rn i’m considering him just being like. either another version of the ghost girl (they skip the same lol) or the company’s ai that’s actually sending the afton kids on this trip. the only thing with both of these is it kinda severs his connection with vanessa and that makes me sad :( making him the forest giant would’ve been cool as he’d’ve been the biggest enemy in the game and it would be TERRIFYING to be scooped up and eaten by him, but i just don’t vibe with 1. dumbing him down to the forest giant’s level 2. making the forest giant any goddamn smarter than he needs to be 🤨 inescapable fuck.
SO. that’s where i’m at rn. suggestions for blank ones are welcome but otherwise i’ll just keep them as they are cause they are mostly environmental anyway :3
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