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I’ve had SO many ideas for AT character redesigns gonna post a lil abt them under the cut:

Pb- so full disclosure this is based on the shape shifters from star trek deep space nine. Basically, Pb came from the mother gum, which is a glooby sugary liquid creature, but she’s a humanoid for the most part. So I think it would be cool if Pb is also originally a gloopy gum creature but she started taking a humanoid form as a child to copy other survivors of the nuclear fallout, and continues to take that form. But when she loses concentration she starts to melt and drip all over the place and loses her shape, she does this when she falls asleep too. She wakes up in the morning and decides whether she’s gonna shapeshift a skeleton for herself that day.

Also I think it would be neat if she had some of the same features as Lemongrab to show that they are mother and child. So she, like Lemongrab, has slitted pupils like a reptile and has sharp teeth (though hers are candy cane patterned) and due to her malleable form she can, like Lemongrab, unhinge her jaw if she wants and turn her head 180 degrees, but she avoids doing this bc it freaks people out. 

Plus the reptilian features makes sense to me from a biology pov. Candy people are made of candy so to stop themselves from melting in the sun they’d have to be cold blooded and have endothermic reactions happening in their bodies to stay cool, so she’s cold and kinda slimy to the touch.

Lemongrab - 

General thoughts: so I think Lemongrab should be warm blooded unlike the rest of the candy kingdom. It’s established in the comics that pb made him by decreasing the sugar levels in candy, and I like the idea of him having plant like properties alongside being made of candy, so he’s resistant to high temperatures so he doesn;t need to keep cool. Skeleton wise Lemongrab has some bone structure like limb bones, a spine hip and ribcage but he has no skull. His head is a thick lemon rind exoskeleton. Bc of this his eye sockets work differently, as there’s no skull to hold the eyeballs in place. He has transparent eyelids like a desert snake that are fused directly to his eyeballs, which are fixed to his skin. So he can move his pupils around but they slide around under a film. After many many years his eyelids begin to gather scratches so Pb has to make new ones and surgically replace them, part of the reason he has such terrible reading comprehension is that she neglects doing this. So none of the Lemongrab’s blink or close their eyes to sleep. He just... stares. Probably wears an eye mask to sleep. 

His skin is an exoskeleton that has different properties from his body, so around his joints it’s very soft, so he can bend his elbows and legs, but he has reduced mobility in his shoulders and can’t bend his arms backwards, though he can raise them up going forwards. The base of his neck is also a band of softer skin so he can rotate his head around. Most of his body has reduced sensitivity due to the exoskeleton, so his sensations of temperature and touch are reduced, but these softer areas are really sensitive so he likes having his neck rubbed. Also his finger joints and wrists are very sensitive so he squeezes his hands a lot as a self soothing thing. 

Plant wise Lemongrab does photosynthesise, which is why lg1 and 2 were able to go so long without food in All your fault, but it’s not enough to sustain himself, he does still need to eat. (more on diet later) He does grow hair in the form of leaves and occasionally flowers that grow from his nub and on his arms/legs, but he prefers being bald bc it’s too much hassle and he doesn’t like the sensory feeling. Lemongrab is sensitive to plant diseases affecting lemon trees so he has to be VERY careful around fruit markets and around his own trees. But I imagine the symptoms of diseases affect him differently, so he ends up running a fever and vomiting alongside discolouration. Lemon trees also need to absorb a lot of water as well as various metals, so alongside eating candy Lemongrab has to hydrate a lot and swallow metal supplement tablets pb gives him (he hates this so he oftens skips it and then wonders why he’s so tired/annoyed all the time. take your vitamins weirdo.) 

Diet wise Lemongrab works kind of... like a pet if that makes sense? like pets can have a lil bit of human food but too much will be bad for them, and they should mostly stick to pet food? Lemongrab is the same in that he can eat a little bit of regular food but it’s harder for him to digest, so he should mainly eat lemon candy. Lemongrab can have a lil salami.

Candy people have amazing regenerative properties, and so long as they consume enough candy they can grown back entire body parts and organs (which is why Lemongrab 1 deprived Lemongrab 2 of food after biting off their eye and legs). Irt cannibalism Lemongrab has multiple stomachs like a cow, so Lemongrab 2 wasn’t digested because they got stuck in the first, least acidic stomach.  

Lg1- so. Lg1 was the first lemon person ever made and getting him to work fully was a trial and error thing, so there’s tons of fading scars on his stomach from when Pb had to do surgeries on him to get his organs to work when the sweet and sour in him would react badly before she got the balance right. Most of his life Lemongrab had a lot of internal pain bc of this which is part of the reason why he was screaming when first created - he had literally just been born with no frame of reference for anything, and was in intense agony! 

On the subject of the sweet and sour thing, in the comics there’s a storyline about Lemongrab being the only one immune to a candy mind control monster thing bc of his lemon juice, and his physiology has an acidic effect on the creature. And thinking about this deeper if Lemongrab’s physiology is directly opposed to candy and can cause pain, then wouldn’t it be so sad if he couldn’t touch Pb’s bare skin without burning her? He’d be so sad :(  

Already talked about his shitty eyesight. Bumps into things constantly. 

I like the idea of Lemongrab being able to flick his jaw out like a baby damselfly. Also he has multiple rows of teeth like a shark. 

Lemongrab 2 - Lg2 was made in a rush in a pantry so they’re not identical to their sibling. One of their eyes is lower than the other and their features are just. Ever so slightly off kilter. Lemongrab 1 finds them a bit disturbing to look at because of uncanny valley- they’re something trying to mimic him perfectly but they can’t quite get it right. 

They’re also shorter than their brother! And they have irregular limb lengths, so they have to wear a thicker sole in one shoe to correct their height and stop themselves limping everywhere. Their fingers are different lengths to each other so their hands are asymmetrical. And they don’t have a second row of teeth, and are actually missing several teeth. They also don’t have any claws and can’t flick their jaw out or rotate their head 180 degrees. And their skin gets irritated easily so they have a lot of acne and easily develop rashes. 

Lemongrab 1 isolated them from others as an abuse tactic so their skin is paler due to being bleached from a lack of sunlight. They have really good eyesight though. 

Lemongrab 3 - He’s a reanimated corpse and it shows. I like giving him really noticeable red stitches (he paints over them w yellow makeup a lot though) but it’s not enough. He has a mixture of their teeth so he has part of a second row of teeth, but not a full set, and has some gaps. He has one eye from each predessecor so he has to wear a monocle. Like Lg2 he has to wear mismatched shoes and has irregular arm lengths. 

He also has a lot of stretchmarks on his body from Lg1′s bodyparts. 

Organ-wise he only has one stomach so he’s on a very restricted and controlled diet, which is why he only eats lemon candy and drinks water or lemonade. He really misses being able to eat other food. 

His head exoskeleton was cracked and broken so it no longer works properly, and Pb eventually gave him a skull because he kept having headaches. 

A lot of his skeleton was rebuilt and like lg1, it was a trial and error process to get him to work again. He can still do the jaw thing. 

LSP - I think not enough fan content leans into LSP being an alien from another dimension. She has black eyes that are like a bug’s, and she has multiple hearts and circulatory systems. She has one for regular liquid blood and two that pump gases around her body that have similar properties to helium and allow her to fly. She can stop herself from flying (biologically stuff gets released into the bloodstream that neutralises the gas, but it happens automatically and really quickly). LSP can lose a lot of liquid blood and be okay but if the gas veins get hurt she’s in a lot of trouble - due to being a gas it’ll seep out of her body really quickly and her body doesn’t generate enough of it to replenish it without hospital equipment. For this reason her skin is really tough and rubbery, and she has no bones or fixed shape so it’s incredibly difficult for her to cut herself. Like she was unharmed in the scene where she gets mauled by wolves, as her body just moulded itself to the bite marks. 

But stuff like needles and small blades, or tiny sharp points, can cut her. 

Also she can see shrimp colours I just think it would be funny. She has wizard eyes but doesn’t make a big deal of it. 

LSP has some minor shapeshifting properties as she and Jake’s species share a common evolutionary ancestor. She knew that Jake was an alien like... immediately but either a) thought “that’s his business” and said nothing, or b) assumed everyone already knew and decided to keep quiet about how she probably should have said something earlier when it turned that no one else knew this actually.