#SqarletTalks

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Okay here's a question for you, because Summum is on the brain:

How would y'all's respective AU takes on Summum react to a starlet/starlets? Whether that be holding one, just discovering one, being shown one, what have you. What would the response be, how would they feel about this??

Cuz Eclipsed Summum is like... immediate dad mode mixed with "wait they're so incredibly tiny I'm scared to touch them I might break them."

Obligatory tags:

@mystic-131, @octahedral-chaos, @indiestsnake, ( @many-faced if you're interested, cuz Summum), (and ofc anyone else who wants to jump in on this!)

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First of all, Context:

Hello there! I'm SqarletGecko, or just Sqarlet. I'm elsewhere and more informally called Spectral from time to time.

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Okay so I'm thinking about Daylily again-

So uh... imagine, if Daylily, Alyx and Carol could freely go from the realms to Earth. So logically... Daylily could ramble about stuff humans have-

Also imagine if the couple somehow realises that Daylily escaped the household and attempted to hunt her down... only to realise that the flock AND Carol and Alyx aren't happy with them attempting to find her-

Also since Daylily lacks wings, I could see her trying to climb to the flocks house while everyone else just Stares at her like "Lily... you could ask for help-"

Also I can see Daylily using 2000's/ 2010's slang and confusing everyone-

Now that could be very interesting. Plus, Revenge Potential™.

Hehehehhh yeah they're gonna run face first into just... a small army of incredibly angry, fully matured and flighted Ophanim (and two humans).

Oof, yeah- She'd be trying to do things the hard way because "I can do it, y'all are just overreacting-"

Meanwhile I can see the flock responding by putting up ladders, ramps, hand/foot holds etc. so that she can access stuff on her own, because Ophanim are... very aware of that sort of thing. They would want her to be able to manage on her own just for her own sanity - constantly needing help isn't always fun....

PFFFFT HELP- SHE WOULD THOUGH-

And no one knows what she's saying, but ultimately they're Here For It.

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GUESS WHO'S ON FALL BREAK NOW!!!

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Random Eclipsed tidbit:

Once things settle and Edda discovers her love for baking, she acquires at some point the equivalent of a sourdough starter (which explodes every now and again, because of course).

His name is Sir Doomblade the Destroyer of Darkness

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Also on the Daylily silliness, or sadness...

Imagine Daylily getting a nightmares about her past. Also Carol and Alyx comforting her when she does get them-

Also Daylily talking about human stuff! Like TV series, books, probably games too!

Talking about games, I think she'll like arcades! Also Daylily, Alyx and Carol playing a fighting game with each other!

Also I can see Daylily switching to her carnyx form and just vibing in it-

Nooooo sweetie- *yeets plushies at her*

Heh, the Ophanim have no clue what she's talking about, but they're happy to listen-

Ooo, yeah, I can def see her in an arcade. Maybe they play some of the multiplayer games together.

Pfft-

Ophan walks in and just... sees a carnyx laying on the couch. Just vibin.

The last ophan in the flock comes home to see just this... this pile of ophanim in their weapon forms stacked on the couch.

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Also imagine Daylily finally meeting her flock! Like the ophan they encountered noticed her and immediately realised that "Hey! Thus was the one that was missing all those years ago!" So they somehow call that specific flock and cue a happy reunion foe Daylily and her flock!

Also imagine how everyone is reacting to Daylily, angel-wise. I think they'll probably carry her by Tzafira and Hasyut... and maybe Tephira probably hears about Daylily due to the commotion from this particular flock-

(Man I am cringe-)

Anyways... does the flocks have any names? Or are they just like a bunch of people living in an apartment complex?

Oh you can bet that's exactly what happens - all of the Ophanim are at least aware of the missing starlet, and know a rough description and prediction of what she should look like. All it takes is a glance and the realization that they don't already know here for them to put together that this is the lost starlet. The one who finds her probably sends out a summoning call of biblical proportions, cue the sudden and rapid emergence of every single Ophanim in the immediate area.

I suspect the immediate response is "are you hurt okay yes you are is it still bleeding no okay lets get you to a doctor may I pick you up?" And they probably head immediately to Tzafira because Doctor. If nothing else, 'Fira knows about her from Hasyut, because flock news usually travels between flocks too.

(cringe in what way I see nothing wrong with this-)

Hmmm.... Realistically they probably would? They're pretty tight knit groups and basically share a house, and then the houses are spaced out in a little village of sorts. Not all of the flocks live in the same area.

I expect the flock name would derive from the name of their Cherub, really. That or their Gladiran(s).

In total, there's around 63 flocks or so, each flock containing 7 Ophanim. So I do imagine they'd have names to differentiate.

If they needed a more precise system, they might just go through the alphabet and attach the zone they're in. E.g. Forest Aleph, Sanctum Qof, Peaks Dalet, stuff like that?

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Starfolk Anatomy II

The Stellar Core

The stellar core consists of three different cell families: Adama, Luxo, and Anima. The adama and luxo families showed up last time. Anima is a family unique to the Stellar Core.

Structurally, it has the core, four main pseudoshell layers, and three interstratal essential fluid layers: 

The Core Prime

Prime Sheath

Circumcordic Fluid

Clypeic Mantle

Texilic Fluid

Texilic Mantle

Sublapidic Fluid

Lapidic Mantle

Microscopic Anatomy (Now With A Diagram!):

Aka 1400 words of harebrained xenofictional anatomy. My apologies in advance.

The Core Prime consists of a concentrated collective of animions. These animions generate and maintain everything. They are the be-all-end-all regulating source of a Starfolk’s physical form and nervous capacities, the control center, everything. Of the animions, there’s a subgroup called the prime animions - these have animionic arms extending out to the very surface of the lapidic mantle. These terminate in animionic nodes, which send out their essence lines to the Starfolk’s articulates and connect to receiving animyrals in the essence beds. 

Around this concentrated cluster of animions, the animyrals function as the water-boys, forming a thin, dynamic layer in junction with animacytes and animalymphs to maintain optimal conditions for the animions. Just outside this thin membrane, coordinated luxoblasts constitute a small network of essence beds, called the “Prime Essence Plexus.” These also hook into the prime animions’ arms as part of the essence signal. 

Lastly, there’s a final layer of animablasts, more animacytes, and more animalymphs that form a thin film on the outermost layer. The animablasts also secrete the primary matrix - animaeal essence. This essence is a specific and pure strain of essence for the animions specifically, that’s specially filtered and curated to be optimal. The animalymphs and animacytes in the core’s dynamic layer filter and organize the animaeal essence, and the animyrals monitor it and ping for replacement and draining. 

The whole package here is no bigger than three quarters of an inch (~2 cm) in diameter. It’s… kinda squishy, with a gel-like consistency or a firm jell-o. That said, any such squishy pressure would be damaging, and if you were handed a core and squeezed it very hard, it would just... crush.

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The Core Prime is protected by the prime sheath, sometimes called the prime mantle. This is a thin layer of shell that controls and filters the external conditions for the Core Prime. Animablasts and adamablasts in tandem secrete shell-matrix, which the adamacytes and animacytes then arrange into a flexible, somewhat gelatinous film protecting the Core Prime. Additional animalymphs monitor and filter any incoming material, though very little actual material ever passes through the prime sheath. It is worth noting that the prime sheath can be surgically penetrated and heal just fine, as long as the core underneath is undisturbed. 

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After the prime sheath comes circumcordic fluid - a soft, goopy fluid suspension housing the Core Prime and Sheath at its center. This is, once again, an amalgam of animaeal essence and regular essence, with a higher ratio of animaeal. It’s very close in composition to the prime sheath, but arranged differently to remain far more liquid. Where the sheath is sort of like those jelly window decorations, the consistency of circumcordic fluid is closer to water slime - it reverts back to it’s original position, but it moves readily while holding its central contents steady. 

This is also the fluid responsible for awareness of position and movement - small floating disks of semi-solid essence (courtesy of the Prime Essence Plexus) sit suspended in the fluid, and have small animionic lines brushing through and past them. When the starfolk moves, these are jostled or tilted, and lag behind with inertia. The animionic lines pick up on this and translate it into positional awareness. 

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The clypeic mantle keeps this fluid contained. As a membrane, it’s got a very slight bit of give, but not just tons. It’s intended to hold its shape and keep the circumcordic fluid in the right position. Adamablasts and a smaller group of animablasts secrete the matrix, which adamacytes assemble into the quasi-shell. Once again, animalymphs and luxocytes monitor anything trying to come in, and filter accordingly. Most of what passes through here is just essence and energy. 

This mantle also houses the animionic annuli - little rings constructed from animaeal essence that work as interpretation centers for sensory stimuli and translate it for the Core Prime to work with. 

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After the clypeic mantle sits the texilic fluid. This… doesn’t exactly look like fluid, but the majority of it behaves as such, albeit very thick liquid - think heavy syrup. It derives its name from the thread-like strands of essence weaving between the texilic and clypeic mantles. The majority of the fluid is an arrangement of luxoblastic matrix, arranged with traces of adamablastic matrix as well. Some of the thicker concentrated strands of essence protect animionic arms, and the remainder consist of threads of adamablastic shell-matrix intended to provide additional structure and anchoring. While the Core Prime has no particular orientation it must sit in, the arrangement of the clypeic mantle and circumcordic fluid does. The texilic strands help ensure things stay put while still having enough give to not simply snap under sharp movements. 

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The texilic mantle itself has a bit more give than the clypeic, but still has a rigid and defined point of stress - sort of like the webbing in a fan. It’ll press a bit, but push too hard and you get a tear. In this case, though, rather than tears you get cracks. The matrix here is mostly luxoblastic to keep the stretch and give, but the adamablastic components maintain the break-point. 

The texilic mantle also contains a lot of the Starfolk’s sensory points, including the sight points and sonar receivers.

Sensory points are where animionic arms terminating in animionic nuclei, which then specialize to receive certain inputs. Those inputs travel down the arms through the animionic annuli in the clypeic mantle. 

Sight points are one such case, and form in different patterns for different Starfolk - some may have one point, some two, some more, some have spirals or other geometry. Sight points also have extensions going out to the surface of the lapidic mantle - it’s those termini that actually allow sight, while the sight points are their origins and partial interpretation centers. 

Another set of receivers are the auditory receivers, which actually consist of six points at the primary axes of the body and permit for directional awareness of sound. These receive any auditory input, and specialized nodes within serve as sonar receivers specifically. 

If the termini on the lapidic surface get damaged, those can heal. There’s a temporary fudge in sight, but it will go away over time. If the sight points in the texilic mantle get damaged, that’s when lasting damage happens, because it can’t necessarily heal properly. The texilic mantle can patch itself back together, and to a degree so can the animionic arms (although that’s only for very minor damage), but if the actual sight point is damaged, that’s permanent. It can sometimes self repair enough to be blurry rather than blind, but… that’s there forever. Starfolk doctors are working towards reversing this damage, but it’s difficult to study and test, with how delicate everything is. 

Kleisme (Dark Paladin) is an excellent example of a slighly damaged set of sight points - the blunt force of Ceren's hit was enough to jostle things, and impacted in a place that ended up pressurizing the sublapidic fluid against the texilic layer, right against the sight points. The pressure caused some damage that healed into poor eyesight.

Quimera is a case of the sight points getting severed from their lapidic mantle extensions. No actual damage to the sight points, but because there's nothing extending up into the mantle, all he sees is darkness. If it's bright enough, he might get a vague impression of green.

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The last layer of interstratal fluid is the sublapidic fluid. This is probably the most outright gelatinous of the interstratal fluids, with a bit of bounce but not a lot of movement given the lapidic mantle. It’s purpose is entirely to cushion and brace, with shock absorption through the roof. It’s also the thickest layer of fluid. It’s got pathways for animionic arms and sensory pathways to get to its surface, but beyond that, pretty minimal perforation, and that’s at a microscopic level. This layer is, by and large, the reason Starfolk didn’t constantly end up indisposed with concussions or other rattle damage during the conflict. It’s mostly comprised of adamablastic matrix arranged into a gel rather than hard shell, with lines of luxoblastic essence to keep everything healthy. 

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Lastly, we have the lapidic mantle. It’s the thickest and hardest layer of the stellar core. Amusingly, it’s outermost layers are firm to the touch, but not quite solid rock. The very bottom is hard - it’s full-bore adamablast shell matrix, reinforced with animaeal essence. This is true for a good bit, but then as you get further up it starts turning just the slightest bit soft, o the outermost layer that you could theoretically touch has some squish to it.  It’s firm, but will press and, if you were to throw it, it would bounce. This is not recommended, do not try this at home. Repeated treatment of the stellar core as a bouncy ball will result in concussions.

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WORLDLESS IS ON A BIG 'OL SALE Y'ALL

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Some Random Worldless: Eclipsed Headcanons

Just... eclectic ideas.

Starfolk don't really have accents in the same way we do, but if they did, Summum would have a Scottish brogue.

Aziel can rock the dancefloor. The Electric Slide? Smooth as silver. Contradancing? He's everyone's favorite dance partner. Swing? Hold on tight!

He also gives me some vaguely Irish vibes.

I can also see him as a bartender.

He would 100% learn how to make mead in his free time, just for kicks and giggles.

Oh also there's little Lucerni that are very like bees. They make sweet goop and some spin little crystal formations that are also sweet.

In other news Aziel is a beekeeper now.

The Training Room (Reminiscence) is the ultimate safe and chill space. It's also basically the closest thing the Duo have to a home/living room at first.

And it doubles as a gym-

Side note the Duo is basically homeless for a good chunk of New Eden's impetus. They uh... don't have a proper home.

They take up residence with Summum or Throne in the meantime. Sometimes they crash at Archi's when they need to.

Aven is really flexible. Mans can turn himself into a pretzel.

Edda is jealous. However, she can swing a sword properly and will forever hold that over him (affectionately)

(Side note, Aven can't wield a sword or shield to save his life. Edda finds this endlessly hilarious.)

Because he sinks like an absolute rock, he's great at diving games! Just... not so good at bringing the dive fetch back up.

The General's all-time favorite piece of clothing is this sleeveless black turtleneck she has. She just... she loves it. She's not even really sure why.

She also discovered via Throne that she can in fact rock a halter top.

The General has like... one, maybe two dresses in her wardrobe - a stunningly elegant formal and maybe an evening-wear semiformal-cocktail dress... thingy.

She's...never really had a reason to wear them.

Willow is very determined to change this.

Speaking of Willow, her combat skills haven't gotten rusty in the slightest. She and Athena still spar sometimes. Willow can win about 20% of the time.

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Also sillier thingy but… Imagine if we yeet Edda and Aven into Gris-

Hehehe YES

I imagine Aven's gonna pull all the weight through Blue.....

I can also see Edda carrying them through the sandstorms in Red.

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Also on the silliness in the notes of that recent ask-

Imagine Hasyut and Tzafira giving Daylily a health check-

Like... wonder what would a starfolk health check would even look like?

Also both Alyx and Carol being very confused about this-

Pfffft-

Well, for one it would probably include something to check on shell and essence health, for one.

Starfolk often have average heights and approximate weights that are healthy, so they'd check to make sure she's not, like, wildly over or under. Especially for sake of making sure she's not been stunted or something.

Normally there'd be some wing and summons checks, which for Daylily is half irrelevant.

For Ophanim specifically there would probably be some sort of electricity test to make sure everything is at normal levels.

There's probably a bit where they look at their full form and make sure everything is where it should be and forming as it ought to. Plus bad posture is a thing they have to deal with as much as we do-

Definitely something to check on Core health as well.

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Also imagine Eden meeting Lorelei Firethorn... I cam see Lore being very, VERY confused

Oooh yeah. Confusion time!

I suspect Eden would be equally confused... Although they'd be fascinated by this intriguing contraption called a "gun".

Would this be Lorelei's first encounter with another sonar speaker??

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Pfffffffft- HELP-

Why is that so PERFECT?!

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have you ever considered making canon aven meet your au version of aven? (and maybe other versions of aven like raven aven, heck, even RAVIN' AVEN)/nf

I've definitely mulled it over! Might have to write a lil skit for them, cuz that'd be hilarious.

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Also Daylily things!!!!!!!

She would love sparkledogs! And furry stuff in general.

Also she's 7'9, so kind of short for an ophan-

OH and I figured out her backstory! Basically she got swept away during a storm/ disaster and got thrown into a rift that led to Earth.

Ah yeah! I saw that post I think.

Hehe, short lass. Who is still significantly taller than most humans-

Imagine Daylily gets used to being the tall one, and then gets to the realms and realizes she is, in fact, short.

Also poor thing... and her parents would be devastated....

As a side note: I'm vaguely amused by "Hills Samek" because Samek is towards the end of the alephbet, which implies there is a Hills Aleph through Hills Nun (although I guess technically they might not start the alephbet over for every zone-)

Actually I just counted, there's just barely more letters in the Hebrew alephbet than there are flocks, so they wouldn't actually have to start it over. So Hills Samek works fine. I think they'd have flocks on aleph through sin, and then if it turns out that any additional cherubs also have flocks, there's shin and tav to cover that.