Bouncer: If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image I’d have 15 cents.
Hot Head: If I had a dollar for every ounce of rage I felt in my body after I read this comment, I would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you!
Ninjini: Actually I did the math, Hot Head would have $225, not $0.15.
Bouncer: Girl, I’m right here...
Crusher: If I had a dollar I would buy a can of soda :)
Thumpback: While you’re there could you buy me an apply juice?
Crusher: Sorry, I only have a dollar.
Thumpback: :(
Eye-Brawl: He would actually have $22,500 because it is a dollar for every pixel, not a cent.
Crusher: If I had $22,500 I would buy a can of soda and an apply juice!
Ninjini: You could buy anything you want with $22,500!
Skylands robot biology headcanons because I frickin love robots
Arkeyans are the only known examples of natural robots that are made from “organic metal” and weren’t made by anyone other than each other, but most just kinda appeared one day. Due to many events (implications of in game lore and stuff I learned from the Book Of Kaos) natural/original Arkeyans nowadays are quite rare and mostly extinct.
Thousands of Arkeyan ruins and pieces are scattered all across Skylands. Arkeyan armor is often being recycled and used in other more modern things. It is highly sought after by technomancers due to its “organic” nature and the unique magic it possesses allowing it to stretch and grow.
Arkeyans include some Skylanders such as Bouncer, Drill Sergeant, Chop Chop, and I guess Krypt King? Although considering King’s a ghost possessing a deactivated suit of Arkeyan armor, that would technically make him a reanimated corpse. Nice.
All other robots who aren’t Arkeyans are built by other people or even each other. I love the idea of them being able to buy different parts to be bigger/taller and change how they look, I’m now imagining stalls in big marketplaces selling those. These would include Skylanders such as Magna Charge, Gearshift, High Volt, Wind-Up, etc. I like to think some of these manmade robots such as Spy Rise and Jawbreaker, are “hybrids” having been made with some recycled Arkeyan parts.
I wouldn’t necessarily count Blast Zone and Ignitor as “robots,” they’re more of a “fire inhabiting suits of armor” kind of thing. But I bet they would benefit from the spare parts market in case they ever loose or heavily damage pieces of their armor.
Hey sorry I keep sending you alot of asks I just like your skylander takes anyways i wanted to ask if you had any hcs or thoughts on giants like maybe the giants themselves the arkeyans stuff like that
Aw, it’s no problem! No need to apologize. Although I don’t respond to asks as quickly as I’d like to, I really do enjoy talking about the Skylanders series!
I consider Skylanders: Giants to be my second favorite game in the franchise and the Giants themselves might just be my favorite “Gimmicklanders” altogether, so I can definitely share a few thoughts on them!
The Giants must’ve been in for one heck of a rude awakening upon returning to Skylands after their 10’000 year exile. The last thing they remembered doing before getting banished was defeating the Arkeyan King. But once they return to Skylands after 10’000 years, they find out that some random guy had not only rediscovered and reawakened a dormant Conquertron, but that same guy was also planning on reawakening all of Arkus as well. They fought so hard to end the Arkeyans’ tyranny, only for history to repeat itself once more
Adding on to that, oh boy. The Giants probably did not trust Chop Chop and Drill Sergeant for a while—Chop Chop especially. A really neat fact about Chop Chop is that during the development of SSA, his early/working name was “The Pandoran Elite.” While it may not be his canon name anymore, I really love the idea of Chop Chop having been a high-ranking Arkeyan soldier (an Arkeyan Elite) way back in the day. Maybe the Giants didn’t know Chop Chop specifically, but they probably had to have run into Arkeyan Elites in the past, which would make them very, very wary of Chop Chop for quite some time. (They’re all on very good terms now, it’s all good. By the time they meet Krypt King, the Giants are ecstatic. Another heroic Arkeyan? Awesome!)
This is more of a general thought than a headcanon but I cannot stop thinking about how suspicious it is that the Iron Fist of Arkus is built with a blinking eye on it, or how the Fist can move on its own, or how it just created the Portal that banished the Giants in the first place. Like. What does it all mean. Why is it a Portal. Why does purple mist leak out of it. Why does it have an eye. Why is this thing alive.
Arkeyans are genuinely so, so, so fascinating to me. They’re robots. They’re mummies. They’re skeletons. They’re robot-skeletons. They’re weapons. They’re people. They have souls. They’re pre-programmed. They have free-will. They lack free-will. They speak. They’re voiceless. They live to serve. They want to be free.
I think a lot about the “Elder Elementals” Story Scroll in SSA that foreshadowed the Giants, and how there’s a part that says “These giants possessed powers of light and darkness within their flesh.” Now, if I were to take this literally…gosh. It would be so cool if there were Giants of the Light and Dark Elements that we just never got to meet
Ninjini: Not gonna lie, Crusher, you’re in kind of a bad position here. With that tree blocking your shot, you’ll have to bank it. If you bank it to the left, you’ll probably end up in the pond and if you bank it to the right, you’ll probably end up in the sand bunker.
Crusher: (hits the ball so hard it smashes through the tree)
Ninjini: …..
Bouncer: If brute force isn’t working, it’s because you’re not applying enough of it.