#bee virus

[lovelylivewirez]

Nightmare Coated in Metal

A comic I made specifically to fulfill my own need for catharsis

[radicalcircuit]

Team Chaotixs pirates their media. Like you could say that for any of the characters, but them specifically would go through the process of going to sketchy sites to find a movie Charmy wants to see so they can save a few bucks.

They also 100% pirated Photoshop so that they can make their flyers.

[honey-crypt]

me irl: grad student and research assistant, getting my degree and shit, trying to navigate adulthood while medically complex

me on tumblr: hehe elliott from stardew valley likes to bottom

[penny-arcade-productions]

Crying over this amazing trio

[hishighnesstheprincess]

Hi! This is gonna be a masterpost about how the metal virus in Sonic IDW functions, complete with screenshots and a whole ton of rambling!

So first off, this is gonna be divided into four sections: How It Infects, How Zombots Behave, The Cure(s), and Miscellaneous.

Obviously let's begin with section 1: How It Infects

We find out from some scenes of Dr Starline and Eggman the very basics of how the virus infects things: it starts with the liquid ooze that Eggman creates, but anything that is infected can be a transmitter. It can infect anything organic, but inorganic/processed materials, at least in these early scenes, cannot be infected.

The rabbit and the flower are both infected and converted by the initial liquid, and the rabbit goes on to infect the pig by just touching it, and the flower infects the squirrel in the same way.

Some other details from analysis of these scenes: once something is infected, it can transmit the infection to other parts of its body just by tapping them (the last shot of the squirrel transferring their infection from their hand to their head). And while completely covering the victim in liquid converts them to a zombot within seconds (as also seen below with Rough and Tumble), merely tapping them doesn't spread it nearly as quickly.

However, repeated exposure to the virus is shown to speed up the process significantly (as seen below).

Lastly for this section, how the virus works while it is on organic material. It actually appears to have two different rates of infections for plants and for living beings, as shown in the panels below.

In the first one, we see that it takes at least ~8 hours minimum for the virus to creep a couple inches up the side of a tree and to infect a flicky sleeping in it. In the last two, we see that it doesn't take long for a small spot of infection on a Mobian to progress into a full blown zombot conversion (we know not much time passes, maybe an hour or so, because the sky doesn't progress much from what looks like the middle of a sunset to the end of a sunset). While due to the power of exponential growth it's likely that more of the natural plant life on Mobius would get infected at an increasingly faster rate as the virus went on, it does seem that the initial infection rate is very different. For whatever reason, I don't know and don't particularly care, it's useful.

One last note on this section before I end this bit (cus I've hit the image limit already yay Tumblr): how the virus interacts with clothing. We can see clearly from Charmy's case that not only can the virus get on clothing, it can infect from there, and in many other cases down the line we see that it can get all over clothing. Additionally, from Rough and Tumble we can see that their gloves and shoes get transformed along with them. Either this means the virus can infect inorganic/processed material, or every Mobian we see infected is all wearing organic material somehow. I'm going with the secret third option: it's for plot convenience, and in my AU of the metal virus I'm just going to bullshit something about the clothing being skintight or something.

Anyway, this is the end of part 1, other parts on their way shortly.

[sweetiefayce]

Things I would have liked to seen explored in the metal virus arc: Espio dealing with not wanting to be “lead detective.” Not because he’s incapable, not because he wouldn’t be amazing at it; but because of the finality of the loss that would come with it.

Had this conversation in another post: when Vector said that line, it really had a vibe of a father passing on a position to his eldest son…a son who doesn’t feel ready for it despite being plenty capable.

What I would have loved to see in the comic; Espio grappling with the weight of that and maybe just having a moment where he feels his age. Just a little moment, at least.

I mean, the comics do a great service in letting the younger characters have moments of being young…but sometimes it feels a little disproportionate because, well…Sonic and everyone but Vector and Vanilla aren’t exactly all grown up either. Sometimes it can just come off a bit patronising/infantilising…but that’s a whole different conversation.

[loveology-doodles]

u open me up like a zip bomb! i can taste u on my lips like ur lip balm!

redesigned my girl smoothie recently!! also DoNotReadMe.wav is so good. slimecicle stop being so good at making music challenge [impossible]

please use she/it for smoothie!

[juneyartandocs]

IDW Sonic fans is this anything.

[ricopop]

updated slightly more detailed oscillo ref ... had lors of fun researching for this :-3 @cephalonheadquarters @superbellsubways

bonus things under cut

[nonbinarycharmybee]

team chaotix is so funny vector's really like "yeah i make sure this kid brushes his teeth and doesn't hurt himself playing with scissors and held his hand as he took his first steps and was there when he said his first word and tuck him in at eight pm almost every night. we're coworkers <3"

[0ne-shot]

guys what do you think sparked the change of espio and charmy’s dynamic. like what turned espio’s perspective of charmy from “eh this kid’s a bit annoying but i’ll put up with him” to “this is my child and i swear to god if anything happens to him i will be charged with several homicides”

[banyanas]

Very much enjoying picking at the things you can do with the differences between an Infected Solver drone and an Inherited Solver drone (of which Disassemblers are closer to the first, i would think, just more customized).

And also because!!! Writing with the internal logic of Drones Is Insects To Me- Solver main hosts as 'queens', Solver not-main hosts as maiden queens, and Disassemblers as drones/worker bees (deeply ironic titles i know). It's fun to think along this line, with baby Solver 'queen' Uzi and her Two Whole Drones. She's doing great honestly good for her.

[number-one-shadisper-shipper]

As promised, my post- Metal Virus Chaotix oneshot is up!

Even though it's finally over, everyone's been pretty traumatized by the Metal Virus. Vector had been worried that Charmy would have a hard time dealing with it. After all, the kid was only five. But he never expected the real problem would end up being an emotional ninja with abandonment issues

[thatoneluckybee]

...so kindle's gonna be a No

[sweetiefayce]

Back with the second part of “Things I would have liked to see in the metal virus arc.”

Pretty much the biggest thing: Vector acknowledging how freaking traumatic seeing him get zombified must have been for Espio…

But then, he -is- a great detective…so I figure that he probably already knows damn well what it must be like: the trick is that Espio would probably have to be the one to broach the subject.

And, of course, Espio being Espio…just wouldn’t.

It was actually a lot of fun to play around with -how- to portray Espio here; there’s a fine line one can dance between stoicism and just shutting down on yourself completely, and it was intriguing trying to capture what Espio is clearly feeling despite his best efforts to hide it.

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Wooooops I let my brain atrophy again