#✺⊰| filє αиd яєρσятร ⟨ yogi | headcanon ⟩

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| Headcanon | Yogi

Baby Yogi is very easy to sneak up on, especially when occurred with eating or dozing, he’s not always fully aware of his surroundings, though if caught by surprise, he sure as hell makes sure people know about it (see bellow for an example)

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| headcanon || The Network

The Mycelium Network exists as pathways that sits in it’s own realm between and throughout the universe, but it’s vast connection grows and forms to new worlds and universes. 

But, internally, the network very different to planets and conventual physics. The network isn’t just one slab of land that’s elecongated, it’s in fact hundreds of millions of islands that vary from size to size. Some big as counties, some as small as a shuttlebay, depending on it’s location and uses. 

Larger the island, the more life it contains, like Tardigrades, KallaRar or JahSepp. Smaller islands are found closer to mycelium barriers but the islands are important to maintain the energy flow around it and plant spread. 

The network itself has to be adabale and moveable, so islands make that most convenient than a solid mass. Some species don’t realise this is the lay out until they find themselves at an edge. 

As there is no gravity like a planet. falling off the edge would not mean certain death or getting lost in the void, but could cause the one to hitch a ride down the energy undertow to another island. Plants, spores and animals use this as methods of traveling to island to island. This layout was the original cause for the evolution of the multicellular life, like Tardigrades and KallaRar, the slim diversity that the species relied on.

Plantlife, however did become so much more diverse than the Fauna, but the spread and patches are not confined to a single island like typical plants would in a normal planet of isolated plantlife. Carried by species or flow of energy, or even by the pink pools that carried and received organic information from other areas of the network like a nervous system. The network is far more contained and the jahSepp are the ones that help maintain the healthy atmosphere and biosphere from each one. SepPhri also use this energy for themselves to survive but otherwise don’t get involved. 

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| Headcanon | Yogi

Tardigrades are photosensitive. Since the Network is run on bioluminescent plants than star light, the creatures have evolved to tolerate the light at a dimmer spectrum but make up for it in better night-vision. 

Yogi is not an exception though some can find ways to deal with the light differences from outside by gradual exposure to brighter words, better younger than older tardigrades as it allows them to adapt quicker. But more often than not, when overwhelmed, he’s try to bury his head into something dark, or burrow somewhere to relax his eyes. 

Yogi’s had some time to visit places to get a little tolerance so far.

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| Headcanon | Yogi

Tardigrade eggs aren’t typical seen around the network. They’re hidden away in nests that are burrowed underground, this helps the mother incubate them and protects them. After hatching, each of the shells are removed and eaten by the Jahsepp as means of hygiene and maintenance of the next. 

But tardigrade eggs are typically about the size of ostrich eggs and brightly coloured, like a rainbow; this is to ensure that it doesn’t get lost in the undergrowth, and as there aren’t dangerous predators near the birthing grounds, then camouflage isn’t important. Mother tardigrade would be very defensive. 

However, if a tardigrade isn’t hatching at the time of the rest then the eggs are typically disposed of with the others to make more room. It’s assumed to be dead so there’s no point keeping it. On the off-chance there was a liv one, the tardigrade would be rejected by the mother and siblings. Runts of the littler are the last ones to hatch ahd have significantly smaller eggs. 

Yogi was a late hatcher, and had a very small egg. His egg size was about the side of an emu (like the blue one compared to the ostrich one) and it took him a little longer to break out, narrowingly avoiding the removal process

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| Headcanon | Yogi

Yogi has seven siblings. Five sisters and two brothers. Females are much more common than males and they are much bigger too. In general, tardigrades can reproduce both sexually and asexually, depending on environment and availability of mates in the area. 

Tardigrades can have names, or they allow others to give them one. As such, Yogi’s siblings are called, Tofoo(f), Yaga(f), Sol(f),  Meele(f), Dran(f), Kix (m) and Feni (m). 

Yaga is his favourite sibling and Tofoo and Kix are his least, at those two tend to sit on him the most in the nest.

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| Headcanon | Yogi

Tardigrades are capable of dreaming though young ones can’t always control what they do in the sleep, one of the reasons they live in burrows and a nest, as this helps prevent them from wandering away in their sleep. Most of their dreams are of the network and food, though they do often dream about others. this can lead to a few to end up kicking each other or jumping out their nest before waking up.

Yogi is one of those sort of tardigrades that, when full, can be very active in his sleep. When he’s like that, he also has the tendency to snore, more so on how he’s sleeping though unlike a human, it’s more softer and higher in pitch. Yogi will grow out of that once his body develops more and when he gets bigger.

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| Headcanon | Yogi

Tardigrades are a burrowing species. While they mostly spend most of their time above land, the burrowing is mainly for the sake of the offspring. Tardigrades are also a species that lays eggs, from 4-8 in total so they have to be kept in warm areas and spaces, most often this is a burrow where it can heat up due to the tardigrades body heat and where it’s been dug.  A nest is also built for comfort of the new tardigrades. 

This acts not only to keep them warm, but also as means to protect the eggs/or offspring after they hatch, as new-borns are capable of wandering off or tardigrades that have lost young would attempt to take wandering or lost eggs/young for themselves

Young Tardigrades, such as Yogi, prefer burrows of sorts of means to sleep in, it helps him utilise his body heat for himself and it made him feel protected. If he’s presented with a pile of dirt, you can guarantee he’ll reorganise it for his own personal burrow where his siblings can’t take up the space or  all the warm pockets. 

[bornfromthenetwork]

✺⊰| Headcanon | Yogi

Yogi is related to Ephraim the Tardigrade, one that had once been called Ripper on the USS discovery. Not on of their direct descendants, but possibly a nephew as all Tardigrades tend to have siblings from 4-7 in a single nest. This though would not make them necessarily care for each other but Yogi was aware of his familiars exploits outside the network and why they’d come and go.  

While they’re cared for, natural selection would still play a role in the network, runts of the littler would most likely be rejected from the mother or the siblings if they don’t catch up in size or strength. This can lead to death, aggression or the tardigrade can adapt and find other means and places of survival. 

Yogi was already experiencing rejection from his siblings for his small stature and as a result, adapted to care for himself by vising places that could tend to needs he couldn't receive, such as attention and love that’s any baby would need to develop a healthy mental frame of mind. He already knows how to get food and where to go potty but that sort of care has to come from another being.

[bornfromthenetwork]

Say hello to Yogi

Yogi is a tardigrade from the mycelium network. After his birth, he found various ways to escape from his nest and his mother. He developed a little faster than his many siblings, he began to use his natural abilities to search for his own food than what his mother regurgitated up for them upon her return and he often got there late, so didn't get as much as he wanted.

So, he began to leave for his own, his mother kept an eye on him but allowed him his explorations, even as he left the network. As he wasn't humanoid, the tardigrade species aren't capable of speech, but can communicate like most network species through electro-chemical responses.

After exposure to languages, Yogi becomes able to understand and respond to them, though he is sentient and intelligent, Yogi likes to act lesser, as means to get his way as he understands that it means things are less...complicated.

As a baby, Yogi met a JahSepp who had taken humanoid form, Jayla who attempted to encourage him back to the network as he was too young to be out. He enjoyed her cuddles and warmth though still saught the same sort from others.  Yogi eventually found himself vising more often a ship that be became fond of, and began to connect with the crew, leaving for personal needs such as toileting and eating or giving the crew some space from him....