#“- without CPD inserted” rant before I started this fic idea or after...

[muddthebugg]

I've Pretty Much Finished Wild Kratts and I'm Making It Everybody's Fuckin Problem :]c

Headcannons galore!!

I'd think Koki would be the go-to or "emergency" medic of the group.

Idk, she just vibes like that. Martin would probably be her assistant, or second hand. I don't remember the right phrase (Also, when I say "emergency", I moreso mean "something bad happened and we need someone to stabilize/calm the situation while we head for an actual medic/hospital").

Nobody else is allowed to touch the medical supplies that are in the Tortuga's med wing. Jimmy uses far too much than necessary, Aviva somehow gets grease and oil over all of it, and Chris messes up the system she has set up whenever he tries looking for something that isn't in a place he would expect it to be -

The medical supplies are the only thing Martin keeps organized,, XDD

said this in another post but Jimmy is a top tier pilot

like,, ya boi cannot be matched frfr.

I like to think that Koki largely built the Tortuga, and perhaps programmed the piloting (somewhat unconsciously) off of some very cool game she played when she was younger, or heard about from Jimmy. Or, maybe, they didn't want anybody but Jimmy to be their pilot, so she purposely made it so that the Tortuga would be difficult to pilot to anybody but him >:]c

Chris is his pilot-in-training, and only because one of the last episodes I saw had Chris in the pilot's seat while Jimmy was looking out the windows.

Aside from him, Jimmy doesn't really let anybody else pilot. Especially after the whole thing with Thornsley... ough.

Creature Power Discs use DNA and coding to function

I mean this one seems pretty obvious in the way that the show had progressed from episode 1... still!

Aviva is seen creating Creature Power Discs, or CPDs, either by doing what seems to be ground-up via coding and incorporating certain data points and limits from observations and scans, or from starting with a DNA sample and filling in blanks where applicable.

I would imagine this is also why, as is noticeable through the series, we get different "tiers" of Creature Power Suit Transformations, or CPSTs. Like another post has remarked:

Tier 1 is the Kratt Brothers in a fursuit. Really impressive cosplay they got going on there. Tier 2 is the Kratt Brothers in a sphinx situation, or in a quad-suit. That is a blue/green animal with a human face.... ok then. Tier 3 is the Kratt Brothers turning into blue/green animals. Why is that Very Blue Whale™ looking at me :( . And I swear that green(??) mountain goat just said human words -

There's also the secret fourth tier that didn't seem to be mentioned in the post (probably due to how little it seemed to happen in the show): oh that guy is piloting a mech suit of a whale/squid.

Aside from that, being that she can adjust the details of the suits, it's also why she has to be super careful with parts of the suit programming such as the Mood Stabilizer (or whatever it was she mentioned in the Bass episode).

Too much and ya boi goes fish-brained, not enough and he'll have to learn from scratch how to swim and use any of the most basic bass powers :/ tis a delicate process!!

Martin has a pretty good idea of how to make a CPD

Idk. Why not let him dabble in something else. Helps keep his mind stimulated :]c

And y'know, aside from the whole episode where we saw this happen (theeeee Erminator episode??), he in general could definitely do a thing (with more practice), if allowed to start with a pre-filled template (via using animal DNA to start with). He just has to remember to clear the activation cache so the disc won't have any ghost activations,, XDD

the Creature Power Suits cannot function without touching the animal...

CPS usually needs three things to activate a transformation. As the boys say: "insert animal disc, touch animal, activate animal power!" Disc. Animal. Button.

If you cannot touch the animal, you can use an alternative Point Source DNA, or PSDNA, such as a tooth, antler shed, horn, fur, scale shed, exoskeleton molt... etc. But you cannot activate a transformation without PSDNA.

Lets pretend I know anything about programming and say that the suit samples the PSDNA and stores it into a "data file" that the disc programming reads off of to send modified data back to the suit for it to read out and implement upon activation.

That was a lot of words.

So. CPS cannot function without touching the animal...

...but they can function without CPDs.

It is not recommended. Ever. Unless the wearer is in absolutely dire circumstances.

Thing is?? Like I hc'd, the discs take the data from the PSDNA, goes at it with a red pen like "ehh, don't do that, do this instead, and adjust that, then we're good" and the suit reads that before it activates.

If there is no disc, tho? The suit only has that DNA sequence to go off of. It won't have an error read out, it'll just go "eh, whatever you say, bud" and transform the wearer. Essentially, the wearer goes full animal. Tier 5, so to speak.

It could be that certain aspects of the wearer's personality and/or subconscious remain intact (for angst purposes, ofc), but the longer they remain like that, the worse shit is gonna get. The harder it'll be to bring em back, fully.

That, and it's just really hard to get the wearer to keep still long enough to deactivate. Nevermind if they're a very small, very large, very skittish, or very aggressive animal at the time.

...and perhaps, the discs are all pre-written with a special deactivation code/prompt. Perhaps, because I thought of this just now, if you activate without a disc, the longer you go makes it increasingly harder to do a safe deactivation. To the point where you would kinda sorta maybe need Aviva to take the suit apart while the wearer is still in it -

cough.

...yes i totally have a vague fic idea lined up for this...

the Tasmanian Devil episode could've gone much worse.

:|

that's it.

like!!! just based on the previous point's rant! Coulda gone super horizontal ngl.

Main reason it didn't, according to my unprofessional opinion, is because the T-Devil (was it T-Bone?) bit through both the CPD slot and the activation functions. It damaged both. Chris' brain didn't really have time to be affected by the Tasmanian Devil instincts 100% because his suit was rapidly changing between it and a human form.

Then again!! I know fuckshit about T-Devil behavior, so he may have just been a lil gremlin rather than a menace. Like, that entire episode was Chris advocating for T-Devils just being Lil Guys™ in spite of how they sound like. Y'know. Devils.

you shouldn't hold/touch more than one animal when activating

Literally the Halloween episode. Granted!! Martin's CPS was reactivated while he was holding like. 6 different guys and with the incorrect disc in.

I'm gonna hazard a guess that the processor in the suit got overloaded with all the requests and data sets being sent with at least 5 different PSDNAs... so it was like "fuck it, we ball" and spat out. You know.

I should draw that CPST sometime........

Alternatively!! I believe there was a time they (Chris??) had one CPD inserted and touched an animal related to the CPD he had inserted, but not the same one. So it just sparked, then didn't do anything. Could just be an incompatibility in the data sets that wasn't compensated for. Like how Aviva sometimes programs certain discs from one-species discs to multiple-species discs, so long as it's the same genus/kind or somethn.

I'm pretty sure she's done this before, and without making a new disc.

So there. That's my take ig :]c