#black hole planet 3 aliens

[gojira-ekkusu]

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

"HAHAHAHAH! Come on and stab. You can't kill me anyways, so what do your daggers matter?"

[fridge-04]

Save me Godzilla franchise aliens!!!!

[ylkl]

black hole planet 3 alien

[tanukitsuneko-suki]

build episode 36 thoughts:

- i thought the episode is titled “evolt hunts parents” and for a second i’m like yea he seems like the kind of guy to commit fratricide for fun. it’s his hobby

- yeah, damn straight!!!!!! it won't work for you ugly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🍅🍅🍅

- it's really moe when he looks pissed....evolt bring him back his wife already....ugly mf..

- when i said i wanted more of banjo and misora moments i didn't mean it like this... (both of them are possessed by aliens)

- i miss my wife you guys. banjo...come back....

- SHINDA HENSUU DE KURIKAESU KAZOE KOTO GA HARANDA NETSU (ramble// when i drew that sento fanart inspired by netsu ijou it really just happened to be on my playlist and i thought it would be fun to combine it with sento...apparently the song is about the last person on a planet as a black hole eats it away.. oh serendipity)

- "ah mb we got a lolicon in the team" ahh face

- oh god banjo ily lol. he's so cute i wanna put him in a jar (someone who folds quickly because of her oshi) (even if her oshi is possessed) (and in a suit) (banjo my wife)

- kazumin and gentokun bonding!

- kazumin recruitment era....kazumin... he's unexpectedly a really good character, isn't he? he's really noble... when he didn't give up the pandora's box despite threats to his closest friends/those he considers family... recruiting the murderer of someone very important to him because he knows they need all the power in their arsenal against evolt.. it's very refreshing!

- this goddamn scene

- WHY IS BANJO'S NAME ON YOU GUYS' MOUTHS. AGAIN. LMFAOOOOOOO I'M SO SERIOUS I WASN'T EXPECTING MISORA TO NAME DROP BANJO AS THE REASON HEKP

- I MEAN MAYBE HE'S JUST PREPARED TO DIE TO SAVE PLANET EARTH GODDAMN?????

- nevermind misora's just throwing guesses it fucking sent me though

- i'm so fucking sorry it's just his suicidal self-sacrificial streak talking i'm sorry for making it about ryusen again

- BANJO ENOUGH CHILLING IN THE HEADSPACE GO BACK HOME YOUR WIFE IS GONNA DIE

- his weak voice...oh god my...my meow meow...you don't have to do this.. STOOOOP FIIGHTIIIIIIING

- i'm in goddamn shambles ENOUUUUGHHHHHHHHH.. i miss banjo so much i can't take it anymore

- on a fucking android???? you can't even get an ipad for this my guy??

- he's such a goddamn hater lmao okay i got a bone to pick with evolt and of course i don't like him while watching the show because he's the antagonist but i can begrudgingly respect him because he's a damn good villain lmao. also that snort. i love you akaso

- i kinda forgot this is all happening in japan only and it's so funny like wdym nobody from china is knocking asking 'heyy uhh guys what do got there (referring to the big ass lights that beam to the sky every 18 hours)'

- yes well you're only fraternizing with greedy capitalists and i don't really think the opinions of the 1% is representative of the general attitude of humanity...i can assure you the normal guy on the street is only debating about whether they'll buy onigiri or tonkatsu on the way home from work..... evolt your sample is biased. never become a scientist

- atleast they can be together forever (used as evolt as fodder for war and violence)

- i just said "YOU CANNOT BE FUCKING SHITTING ME" out loud

- ... the best heroine of kamen rider

- suicide mission to save wife....... somebody help my wives are racing to sacrifice themselves for each other..

- ...

- uh, anyway! we are so back <3

- little white rabbit on the moon..

- YOU'RE SHITTING ME

- ENOUHDGSFSDHAFDSAFBDSHFGHDSAGFHKSADGFHSDAFGHSDAKFFDHFSDAHFKJASDLF IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD IM DROPPING BUILD

- THE FUCKING WORST

[kiibykris]

Halo i saw ur shadownova posts and i i am REALLy interested on how that rarepair would work... Can u pleas yap more abt their dynamic,? i love xylitol + entps, i am hearing u out <3💙💙

Short answer: I started shipping them because they remind me of Kiibouma from Danganronpa. Literally the only reason why i considered shipping them.

Long answer: I feel like their dynamic would work similarly to Kokichi and Kiibo from Danganronpa, at least on the surface. Xylitol Nova Cookie is an intelligent, intuitive leader who cares very much for his people and wishes to protect them at all costs. Shadow Milk Cookie is a trickster and liar by nature, twisted into the Beast of Deceit from a once kind and great scholar. (iirc, I'm not a lore player i studied them JUST for this ship)

Yap session ahead

I feel like they could relate on the issue of "knowing too much"; Sage of Truth seems to imply Shadow Milk was a scholar of sorts and was turned into a Beast due to knowing too much, "the wonders of knowledge" turn into the horrors of knowing too much and eventually turning into "the world is built on lies". Xylitol Nova Cookie knows a black hole will swallow his planet, commenting "Knowledge is important, but knowing doesn't necessarily make you happy." The constant threat of inevitable death upon having worked so hard to build a utopian society of inventors must weigh heavily on his mind. He's also stated "Knowledge and truth— the values our planet strives for", which means Planet Xylitol is a prime source of knowledge and everyone values the truth— sound familiar?

I'm still working on how they would even meet, but I think a Pre-"Saving Planet Xylitol" AU/storyline could work, before Astronaut Cookie decides to help or even arrives at the planet. Xylitol Nova actually lies to his people about the Black Hole approaching their planet as to avoid any panic, perhaps Shadow Milk could step in somehow and sow a seed of doubt. His blue color pallette when he shapeshifts also fits in well with the other Xylitol Cookies.

Shadow Milk is technically an alien to them and since Beast Cookies have only been seen in CRK (at least for now) then that means the Xylitol residents won't know about him or his status unless they do research on him/the Beasts somehow. Xylitol Nova Cookie didn't even know that people greet each other with certain phrases during different times of day in the Sweet Signals From Space event, he learns it just to greet Astronaut Cookie while she's staying there so it's safe to assume he doesn't know most customs from Crispia let alone their important figures.

I actually imagine them meeting before the recent Beast Yeast episodes, pre-Pure Vanilla awakening. Xylitol Nova Cookie would be Shadow Milk's first exposure to a Cookie who understands him, but because Xylitol is someone he's never met unlike Pure Vanilla, the connection isn't as deep and doesn't send Shadow Milk spiraling like in Beast Yeast.

Anyways devsis if you're reading this ik you're adding more legendaries to CRK and since some space cookies (Space Doughnut, Stardust Cookie, Moonlight Cookie) are there can you um pretty pleeeaaassseeeeee add Xylitol at some point... heh....

Pls correct me if i got anything wrong I'm primarily a CRK player and read all the Sweet Signals From Space event just now from both the game and the wiki (i ran out of story keys) and I've been around for the Beast Yeast updates so I'm pretty good for Shadow Milk but there's barely anything for Xylitol Nova 💔

Also idk why you mentioned entps I'm an infp lmao

[callivich]

Gallavich Sci-Fi Prompts - Part 3 🛸👽🪐🚀

Part 1 // Part 2

For @deedala 🌌💖

Prompts for fics, headcanons, or discussion, art, etc. Interpret these however you like and feel free to use them as just a jumping off point, you don’t have to stick to the exact prompt! If any fics like any of these have already been written, please feel free to recommend them to me!

Ian usually transports cargo across galaxies all by himself. What he doesn’t know is that his latest cargo has a stowaway. Mickey’s planning on sneaking out at the next stop but when Ian makes a detour and doesn’t stop, Mickey realises he’s stuck on the ship….

Mickey knew as soon as he saw that flashy ship on his flight path it would be trouble. And he was right- one wrong move and they’ve crashed together on an uninhibited planet. He’s pissed as soon as he walks off his ship but then he sees the very hot redhead walk out of the other one…..

This is where Ian lands - janitor on a vacation ship. It’s not good. It’s a month before they can pick up passengers, so in the meantime a skeleton crew is flying through space. The ship is huge and Ian sees no one else apart from the other janitor, Mickey - who is grumpy and rude. Ian doesn’t know how he’s going to last a whole month with this guy….

Mickey’s job for years has been flying people between planets. It’s boring as fuck. He’s done it a million times and nothing about flying in space is interesting. When a rich old guy and his younger boyfriend come aboard, things change. There’s a weird vibe between them that Mickey doesn’t like. Usually he doesn’t get involved with the passengers but this time he might make an exception.

Ian’s stuck in a maze of black holes. Each one he enters is an alternative reality and he doesn’t know how many he’s going to have to fly through to find a way out. He’s frustrated…but then he notices that the same man has started to appear in each reality. Maybe this man is the key to Ian’s way out?

Mickey’s always been told by his father that he should kill any alien he meets. That they’re dangerous and bad. When he lands on a remote planet to scavenge for anything useful to sell, he meets an alien, Ian. And he’s confused because not only is Ian (mostly) just like him….he’s friendly and kind. Not at all the monster he’d built up in his mind. There’s a spark between them. Mickey would like to explore that but when he stumbles across something that could be very lucrative to sell, Ian won’t let him take it. He’s torn between stealing it to take back to his father or leaving it so he can stay with Ian.

Ian’s not happy about transporting a prisoner, Mickey, due for execution and his prison guard on his ship. He doesn’t want to be involved in helping someone go to their death but he’s given no choice. Ian frantically wonders if there’s anything he can do to help Mickey escape. Before he can come up with a plan, the guard dies in his sleep and Ian is left alone with Mickey. Ian wants to help but Mickey is suspicious and they clash. But when Mickey realises Ian hasn’t reported the prison guard’s death, he knows he can trust him….

Mickey needs to get off the planet ASAP due to….well, due to some crime he may or may not have been doing. He sees an ad: farmers needed for uninhabited planet, farm & house included, couples only, immediate start. Perfect. No one will look for him there. Now all he needs is a husband. While getting drunk in a bar, he meets a handsome redhead who seems very interested in the idea. He’s so hot that Mickey’s not really listening to what he’s saying but he does hear something about growing vegetables. Great. One marriage and one long journey later, they’re alone on their new isolated farm, ready to start a life. Except for the fact that Ian doesn’t know anything about farming. He just said he’d always wanted to grow vegetables…..

Being a night janitor at a space observatory doesn’t have any perks apart from the fact Mickey gets to talk to this alien called Ian. He shouldn’t be doing it, which is why he deletes the messages. In fact, he should probably tell someone he’s discovered intelligent life but he finds that he doesn’t want to share Ian with anyone else. When Ian suggests flying to earth to meet Mickey, he hesitates. Should he meet this alien? What if he wants to abduct him? If he does….would that be so bad?

Ian is a disillusioned Captain in the Galactic Army who is looking for something better but he doesn’t know exactly what. After a chance meeting with a mysterious hacker, Mickey, in a bar. He becomes obsessed with the shadowy underworld of freedom fighters that Mickey is part of. He wants to do something meaningful with his life and fighting back against the oppressive government he once served seems like the perfect thing to do. But as he gets more involved, he also becomes closer to Mickey. However, Mickey is solely focused on his mission and doesn’t seem to notice Ian’s flirting. When the group asks Ian to embark on a dangerous mission, he’s surprised when Mickey demands to go with him…..

Ian and Mickey have been best friends forever and have always talked about escaping their lives on earth. It’s always been just talk though - space travel is for the rich. Ian hopes that joining a high school program (some kind of space JROTC?) will give him a chance but he’s not hopeful. When he and Mickey stumble upon an abandoned spaceship, Mickey immediately suggests they steal it. After all, Ian can fly it. Ian points out that he’s only ever flown a ship on a computer program. Mickey thinks that’s basically the same thing. So off they go. But Ian’s a little too good at flying and the ship is a little too fast. Soon, they are lost light years away from home….

Robots/androids can’t love. That’s just a fact. IG has always felt different, what happens when he meets MM? The more they interact, the less and less robotic they become. They’re developing personalities and emotions. They don’t understand it….but could this be love? When the government realises this, they separate them - assuming they will go back to how they were. And it works for a while, they seem to forget each other. But then something triggers the memory of one of them, can they get the other one to remember too?

(Vague) Futurama AU: Mickey is a weed dealer who takes the unusual decision to deliver when the guy promises him a big tip. He accidentally falls into a Cryogenic Pod and is frozen for a long time. In the future, the timer on the pod runs out and he wakes up. Ian is the person assigned to help Mickey adjust to the future. But Mickey is not interested in getting a job and he’s not at all in awe of the things in the future. Mostly, he just complains. And Ian finds this….interesting and refreshing. Soon, he’s falling for him but he’s not supposed to be friends with his clients….let alone anything more….

Ian’s always wanted to fly spaceships and he’s living his dream. Except that the cyborg assigned to be his second mate on his ship is kinda…weird. He sleeps a lot and doesn’t respond to basic orders. He’s funny though and confident. But that must be the technology, it’s very advanced now. The cyborgs seem like real humans. That’s what Ian tells himself, all the while reminding himself Mickey’s not a real person. Maybe that’s why he’s able to be more honest with him than he’s ever been with anyone before. But when he finds the supposed cyborg in the galley eating all his leftovers, he realises Mickey isn’t a cyborg at all and that he’s shared his deepest secrets with a real person.

Ian’s flying back to his home planet after a long shift as EMT in a neighbouring galaxy when he hears a distress signal from a seemingly uninhabited planet. It could be a trap, there could be thieves waiting to kill him and steal his ship. But when a second SOS signal comes through, Ian knows he can’t ignore it. So he lands. Problem is, the signal is approximate not exact. He managed to set up a communication channel and the person, Mickey, tries to guide Ian to his location. But Mickey’s getting weaker….will Ian find him in time?

Horny Gay Thug/Tumblr!Mickey but make it ~Sci-Fi~ Ian discovers his roommate’s secret account which has some very explicit stuff on it. He finds himself obsessed with all the videos. When Mickey puts up a link offering private hologram shows for a price, Ian has never clicked a button faster in his life. It’s simple - he will see a live hologram of Mickey and will be able to talk to him but Mickey won’t be able to see him. Only problem is, he knows Mickey will recognise his voice, so he asks to communicate with Mickey via text. He can even use a voice to text app so he can keep his hands free. It’s amazing and Ian books more sessions. Everything is great until Ian accidentally forgets to mute his device and Mickey hears a very familiar voice…..

Ian and Mickey are on an exploration ship that’s going to unpopulated planets to forage for undiscovered plants and minerals. They are sharing a room and instantly annoy each other. When everyone else mysteriously disappears from their ship, they find themselves locked onto a route to an unknown destination. They can’t stop the autopilot and when it lands on a strange planet, they will have to use all their knowledge and work together to survive the dangers that await them…..

Ian’s an EMT but he’s only ever helped humans, he doesn’t know anything about how to treat aliens. Not only that, he’s not supposed to - they are seen as dangerous by society. But when Mickey, an alien, comes to him with a bad injury - Ian does his best to help. However, Mickey gets worse and Ian, not knowing what to do, decides to move in with him to care for him. Once Mickey is better, Ian knows he should leave but he finds he doesn’t want to…..

Mickey and Ian are separated by the alien invasion. Forced to flee apart they are trying desperately to find their way back to each other. But the aliens are watching and waiting to entrap any humans they find. It seems Ian and Mickey will never meet again. But then Ian starts to receive mysterious communications from an unknown source. He’d disregard it but the person uses code words only he and Mickey know. And the person is telling him to get to a planet he’s never heard of. It’s far but maybe Ian needs to take the chance?

[honourablejester]

More Starfinder Cool Creatures

I recently acquired Alien Archives 3 & 4, so I had a browse through to see what other weird and wonderful space fantasy creatures the Starfinder universe might have to offer.

I’m going to divide these into three broad categories, because there’s a couple of themes to my preferences. Heh. First, we have space undead. Because I just deeply enjoy space undead. Then we’ve got a loose cluster of what I’m going to call space hazards/space ecologies, creatures that inhabit the void of space and make life interesting for spacers. And finally we just have a grab-bag of more random planetary and weird beasties.

Space Undead

I deeply, deeply enjoy Starfinder’s sheer range of space undead. Because the elemental terrors of the void leading to uniquely fucked up deaths and resulting unquiet souls is deeply satisfying to my space horror loving soul.

Endling. Endlings are basically the ghosts of extinct species trying to wreak vengeance on whatever they believe brought about their end, ghostly vengeance on a species level. There’s a planet in the Veskarium that was aggressively mined out, obliterating the native ecology, and the capital city is now menaced by what are essentially spectral ghost pigs. Which is amazing.

Itmi Vruh. Okay. So we know I deeply enjoy space undead. And we know I deeply enjoy the scary end of FTL and hyperspace travel. The Itmi Vruh are the perfect fusion of those two space horrors. When a ship tries to perform a jump into the Drift and something goes wrong, rather than throwing the whole ship out or crashing, sometimes the ship makes it through, but the souls of several people onboard don’t, and are sucked out to blunder around the Drift, leaving their bodies inexplicably dead behind them. Itmi Vruh want those bodies back, and if they happen upon other ships in the Drift, they will attempt to possess people on them. So there’s two fantastic spacer horror tales to be afraid of: that the Drift will suck out your soul if you jump wrong, and that the fucking resultant space ghosts from hyperspace will possess you even if you make it safely in. Absolutely fantastic. Love it.

Vorthuul. Vorthuul are undead left behind by people who got sucked into a black hole, and they’re formed of two elements: a super dense obsidian skeleton overlaid by a screaming spectral form. Kasathan mystics think that these are in fact two separate quantum spirits formed when the forces of the event horizon fucking bent time and space so that two versions of the same person got overlaid together, one being horrifically stretched and screaming in agony, the other being crushed by gravity into infinite density. So you get two torturous deaths for the price of one! Any ship, station or observation post that passes too close to a black hole, even if it avoids being sucked in, might get invaded by one or more of these tormented things, like hideous avatars of the inimical force waiting to devour us all. They are so cool. Horrifying, obviously. But so cool.

Space Ecology/Hazards

There is something about imagining creatures that live in the void that is just … extremely happy-making to me. These are all creatures that kind of create an ecology in the emptiness of space. And/or creatures that create hazards in space, things that make the already-terrifying void and vacuum even more dangerous in interesting ways. These aren’t planetary sorts of dangers, they’re things you encounter in starships. Or inside stars. Or on space stations. And I love them.

Dawn Beetle. They’re giant iridescent solar dung beetles who dig around for debris inside the middle layers of stars to make giant heat-resistant junk balls that eventually are drawn back down to the core of the star to be used as a hatchery for future dawn beetles. If there is no debris (eg asteroids, shipwrecks, etc) inside the star, they sometimes try to ride solar flares out into the universe beyond, usually winding up stranded. They’re just delightfully weird, beautiful, funky little guys. They also hang around the Burning Archipelago of bubble cities in the surface of the Pact Worlds’ sun, which is one of my favourite locations in the setting.

Giant Space Tardigrade. It is a tardigrade. The size of a starship. It’s a titanic lumbering space bear-bug that is trying very hard to eat your starship, because there’s not a lot of food in the void of space and it’s very hungry. They’re extraordinarily tough, and they have personalities, varying from vengeful to playful, if usually still rather destructive even when trying to be friendly. They’re a fantastic combination of adorable and deeply aggravating, and just a fantastic thing to exist.

Kaion. I love the Diaspora as a location so much. The asteroid belt is home to so many of my favourite things in this setting. Here, they’re starship eating metallic space molluscs with bioelectricity and biomagnetism and weapons that function as basically railgun harpoons where they use their magnetic fields to launch hardened bodyparts at prey and draw them back via the same biomagnetism. I love when space ecology gets weird.

Lurker in Light. Evil space fey that are invisible in light and hunt in places like high tech cities and space stations and starships that are basically perpetually lit up. They’re sadistic little fuckers who like to hunt and hurt people, and to find them to make them stop often involves having to power down whole damned sections of the city/station/ship to force them into the open. Which. On a ship or a station. You have to turn off power in the void of space because an evil space fairy is hiding in the glare of the lights to hurt you. That is an excellent horror story right there. As they get older they become radioactive, which is just excessive, honestly. These are evil little things, and they’re excellent.

Shipkiller Bulb. They’re giant space plants that inhabit the ice rings of gas giants harvesting asteroids and ice for minerals and water while absorbing sunlight from the nearest star. Which is all fine, and another fantastic example of weird space ecology, but they’re called also shipkiller bulbs for a reason. And that reason is that they violently hate Drift travel, and if already starving when annoyed, they will violently attempt to tear an offending starship near them to pieces with tendrils and gravity attacks. If they successfully kill the ship, they’ll feed off the hull the same way they’d feed off an asteroid. They’re easy enough to take down with shipboard weaponry if you know they’re there in time, but if you didn’t see them before they absolutely lost their shit on top of you, you might be in for a bad time. I just. I deeply enjoy all these space hazards?

Voraija. Space whales! Different space whales to the previously-mentioned telepathic Omas. Voraija communicate via microwave radiation ‘songs’ that reverberate through starship hulls, can live up to a millennium, and follow long, meandering migratory paths looking for gas giants to birth their young inside. They can wreak absolute havoc on planetary communications systems and have been driven off as a result, and have also been hunted for use in biotech, resulting in some of the older individuals and pods holding powerful grudges. They’re just. I mean. They’re space whales. What more could a girl want?

Random Beasties

And then a final collection of just everything else that caught my eye.

Irokiroi. They’re just beautiful. Predatory sky-serpents with multiple gorgeous wing-fins from the toxic gas-moon of Osoro near Liavara, they’re absolutely deadly and absolutely gorgeous. They’ve recently been attacking a lot of settlements on the moon, possibly related to increasing ‘safari’ trips into the gas clouds stirring them up. Which is an excellent lesson on ecological non-interference, but they’re also so beautiful, so I can kinda understand. I would probably do something ill-advised and likely fatal to be able to see one too.

Kothama. These are less creatures and more people, so arguably shouldn’t be on this list, but they’re seriously enchanting, so I made an exception. They’re 18ft tall multi-legged shaggy ice bear-trolls that are completely peaceful and obsessed with star-gazing, and I love them dearly. They live on two icy outer worlds in the Vesk system that share a moon. Twice a year the orbits of the two planets pass close enough to hand off the moon, and the Kothama go on sacred pilgrimages via magical gates to the moon and the other planet when this occurs. They’re just … so mystical and cool?

Polyphonic Gel. It’s an ooze. It’s a sparkly, smoked-glass looking tiny ooze made up of millions of semi-fluid fibres that eat sound and sing. They can also use said sonic emissions to do horrific damage to people and things, but that’s incidental. They’re so pretty. They can get really big if fed a consistent diet of sound, like the thrum of industrial fans for example, but then get cravings for specific sounds and can thoroughly rampage through a place in search of them. Devotees of the goddess of music Shelyn believe that they’re sacred and can be a little overzealous in trying to help them out at times. Which I fully understand!

Rendalairn. They (or possibly it, singular) are massive (30ft diameter) metallic superweapons that rove around killing planets. They just hurtle around, land on a world, and tear it the hell up until they’ve wiped out everything intelligent down there. There are two known worlds where this has happened. On one of them, the rendalairn sent a polite telepathic message to everything in orbit to stay away from the ‘demolition site’ and then started telepathically playing music from the culture it was destroying as it razed the planet. On the other, there was no music, but it did still broadcast the warning. No one knows who built them, or sent them, or how they choose worlds to target, so it’s all a little terrifying, but it’s another fantastic bit of spacer lore to throw into your setting.

Sapient Purple Orb. Exactly what it sounds like. They’re sentient, friendly little psychic purple orbs that bob around trying to make first contact with new friends. They’re telepathic but also show visions on their surfaces to people. If they like their new friends, they get very protective of them. They also tend to appear in waves, and in noticeably smaller numbers each time, so there’s something mysterious going on there. They’re just a fascinating little phenomenon, and also adorable.

Vasporan. I blame the art for this one, because they’re just adorable. They’re 11ft fucking tall, granted, but they’re adorable blue giant squid-shrews that can rapidly molt or partially molt their shells into either disposable shields or gas pocket balloons for flight. They’re ambush predators, and dangerous, and, again, 11ft tall, but they’re really, really, really cute.

Warpstitcher. These things remind me so strongly of both the Weavers and the Slake Moths from Perdido Street Station. In different ways, obviously, but still. Serious Bas-Lag vibes with this one. They’re interdimensional spider-like aberrations that target powerful magic-or-tech users and stitch their victims onto their bodies to feed on their minds (which normally is irreparably damaging even for the few who survive, but can, very rarely, open the surviving mind up to revelation and euphoria). They hunt the people they do because they believe that magic and tech (especially the Drift) is doing irreparable damage to the fabric of the multiverse. They believe that before the Gap they were responsible for stitching the multiverse into a single whole, but something that happened in the Gap ripped them away from their true abilities and calling, and now they need to punish those they believe might have been responsible. They’re … The Bas-Lag vibes are very strong, yes?

I love the Starfinder setting so much. Science fantasy and space horror are such fantastic genres for me. I enjoy them deeply.

[gojira-ekkusu]

Deforeal Godzilla (1974) with Black Hole Planet 3 Alien - X-Plus

[luvtonique]

Can we have more info on Xi'iX?

Sure!

Xi'iX is an alien worm called a xAvAx, piloting a humanoid mech made of meat kept alive via electricity. The mech is called an AvA frame.

Their species live on a planet called xOx, which is the heart of a titan species of galaxy-sized humans that used to live in space and are now extinct. They keep the heart beating by emitting electricity through their wormy bodies, and build mechanical devices out of the "ore" of the planet which is meat ore.

Their planet is neighbored by 3 stars in a constant state of falling into a black hole, creating a celestial solar storm that they call O.

Their entire species is electricity based, eating and manipulating lightning through their worm bodies, making them extremely good hackers and able to drain or charge electronic devices instantly.

They're also obsessed with symmetry, and their written language is entirely consisting of symmetrical crop circles. Their native language is also just electrical spark sounds and they speak entire books in an instant bzzt sound.

Xi'iX is a former princess who is on the run from a religious cult called the oXo that gained a lot of political power on her planet by convincing the xAvAx that if they increase their body's polarity via upgrading their AvA frames to the point that lightning strikes them and incinerates them, they're "being chosen by O" and therefore are maintaining the solar storm.

Power going to the head of X, the religious leader of the oXo, made him eventually convince the xAvAx that O was collapsing and therefore they needed to sacrifice the royals.

Xi'iX, being a princess, was taken by a soldier girl named AvivA who helped her escape and told her to fly through a wormhole to be safe.

Xi'iX is also part of an old religion called MiliM, who worshipped humans since humans have a heart exactly like their planet, and so they believe humans are descendants of the titans. Therefore, she has designed her AvA to look attractive to humans so that she can befriend them and live among them.

But she hasn't told them that her species is chasing her and might invade any second.

She's kind of a huge ditz.

But she gets to have fun sex with humans!

(All of this is based on a single dream I had about her 15-ish years ago)

[misscammiedawn]

okay i need to ask cause im curious, what are your top 5 bruce banner/hulk stories? i have such a hole in my marvel knowledge about them aside from like. cartoons or w/e of him

Oh, this is a pleasant surprise. Thank you for asking.

We'll be quite happy to hear your favorite DC comics in return sometime, so do hit us up.

So, to answer the question. It's on a sliding scale. Hulk is an interesting character because he's the ultimate incarnation of a typical miscommunication fight-to-friends superhero scuffle. His one against Wolverine was the introduction of that character and both Avengers AND Defenders had elements of that in their origins.

Hulk makes for a glue to the Marvel universe because he is always a hero and yet he can always be fighting against other heroes. More often than not he is.

Assume you've checked out our Essay Posts but for us we want to see a story about Hulk explore different aspects of the character. Our favorite authors for him are Peter David, Greg Pak and Al Ewing. We also prefer stories that deal with Bruce's DID.

#1 is and always will be Immortal Hulk. This 50 issue run is so good it briefly outsold Batman. It's horror themed, references the entire lore of the character and is an anti-capitalism anthem. I once saw a shitpost that said that Immortal Hulk is what Mr. Robot would be if the Alderson System decided to just punch capitalism until it stopped. But sincerely it's introspective, it's respectful of DID in a way I've not really seen many other comics get right and Joe says "Trans Rights" (there's also a prominent trans character who resists propaganda/nostalgia based mind control because she's fucking sick of the world telling her what she is supposed to be and she does not look at her childhood as a safe place to retreat to).

#2 Ground Zero by Peter David. This was about the time that PAD was gearing Hulk from the Mantlo era into his soap opera era and in this era he's writing a Gray Hulk who speaks more than the green guy and isn't the hero that everyone would associate with the character. The best part of this arc by far is the depiction of Sam Sterns, The Leader, and why he is a fun and perfect foil for Hulk/Banner. Just a damn good comic. As its its spiritual follow-up a few years later, Countdown.

#3 Joe Fixit/Vegas Arc by Peter David. Right after Ground Zero. Pretty much anything between Joe's introduction in Vegas as an enforcer up until Samson forces the system to merge into a new alter called The Professor. It's soap opera action but it's fun seeing the Hulk/Banner divide from the perspective of Hulk. Usually Banner is the one trying to prevent the transformations and feeling Hulk is ruining his stability and life but here you have Joe living a happy life and Banner being the thing ruining it for him. Made for some interesting stories for a few years. The scene with Betty and Joe laughing together is one of my favorite moments in comic history.

#4 Planet Hulk. Honestly anything in Pak's run is good (I especially liked the Amadeus Cho stuff with Hercules) but Planet Hulk is rightfully held up as the best of the era and gets consistent adaptations (Thor Ragnarok is pretty much Planet Hulk). Hulk being imprisoned by a barbarian race is actually a fairly common story. I can think of 3 times it has happened off the top of my head. He even gets a love interest in 2 of them. But this one is the perfection of that oddly specific formula.

#5 Crossroads. The Bill Mantlo series which pretty much all modern Hulk takes inspiration from knowingly or otherwise. 80s Hulk was a weird time because of the TV show bringing a lot of interest to the character which couldn't translate into the Marvel universe as it stood at the time and that series was able to isolate him out into his little adventures which were fairly isolated and got to be experimental. Also includes the Banner family backstory as well as a symbiotic alien parasite a short while before Spidey had his black suit stuff happen. It's a classic.

Thank you for asking and sincerely ignore everything and just read Immortal Hulk because it's the correct answer.

[lifesteal-headcanons]

its 3am i cant stop thinking about my pride duo + squiddo headcanons

okay okay so first fo all, pride duo are brothers. no one can tell me otherwise.

the 2 of them are from space, but spoke is like a black hole sort of thing whilst planet is like a white hole sorta thing (referencing their skins)

when spoke was around 10 and planet 7, they decided to go and move to the planet saturn where tjey found civilization. Saturn is ALSO where they met Squiddo, their soon to be best friend.

Squiddo (8), and pride duo got a logn really well and were really close

when spoke was around 18, squiddo 16, planet 15, they built a rocket ship and launched it.

their plan was to explore space, but instead, they crashed into earth.

the first insect squiddo saw was a beetle and she turned in a little beetle thign! so now she can switch between alien and beetle:3!!!

ANYWYAS

The first "human" they met was ashswag, 16

ash and squiddo immediately clicked and the 4 of them became really close friends

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[leasthaunted]

Episode 126: Information Not Found...

Get the 411 on the 411. No, not those 411, the other 411! Confused? That's to be expected. This time we get tangled up in the weblike string of the old "crazy board" and try not to lose ourselves in the wild conspiracy of The Missing 411... And along the way we'll visit some National Parks too! 

Content Warning: This episode discusses topics that some listeners might find upsetting or disturbing.

As always, please come join the episode discussion on the Least Haunted Discord!

Enjoy the images below!

Mail from the PO Box! Thanks to Kenn and Margaret for the stickers and posters! They really help tie the HQ together!

David Paulides: former "detective," Bigfoot researcher, conspiracy theorist, and scam artist. A news article regarding David's early career work for The San Jose Police Department in San Jose CA. Paulides was "King of The Bookstore Detail" which involved him entrapping gay men at adult bookstores and watching porn on the taxpayer dime. In 1987 David was demoted after a police brutality incident in which he and a group of other officers severely beat a black man whom they believed had resisted arrest days earlier. He was taken off the streets and became a *Court Liaison * for the department. During this time he began scamming celebrities on stolen SJ Police Department stationary for autographs. These were either for his own personal collection, or possibly to sell for profit. He was tried and sentenced to a fine and being fired from the department.

In the early 2000's he began researching Bigfoot and wrote two books on the subject before teaming up with Dr. Melba Ketchum. Ketchum ran two different (fraudulent) DNA analysis companies. The two conducted "research" and "analysis" on supposed Bigfoot DNA and wrote a study on their findings. They claimed Bigfoot was a human primate hybrid, and potentially an unidentified Indigenous American tribe. Their research was rejected by every peer reviewed journal, so they started their own to publish the single article and nothing again.

Sometime in around the Bigfoot Study, David claims that while on a visit to a National Park he was approached by a park ranger with disturbing information. This would be the impetus for David's journey down the rabbit hole and into a vast conspiracy that he would eventually dub, "The Missing 411."

David has since written 12 books, and released 3 documentaries outlining the supposed conspiracy. The conspiracy is that 1000's of people go missing in National Parks and National Forest Land. And that these disappearances all share certain commonalities and are being actively covered up by the government and parks service.

This is a "Cluster Map" of the Missing 411 cases. Why Missing 411? Because in the first two volume book David covered 411 cases. Later he would retcon the name to mean "Missing Information" since in The United States 411 is the phone number the public can call for information.

And here is a map of US National Parks for comparison.

The criteria David has come up with that a case needs to match to be a Missing 411 case are very common and laughable in context. Things such as: presence of granite or water near by. Granite is the most common rock that makes up the Earth's crust, and the planet is 70% water. All you need to do is spend a few moments looking over the website and associated store to see what David's game really is here. This is a grift. A very successful money making grift.

David is careful to never fully explain what he thinks is going on, but he will infer and imply very heavily. (Everything from Bigfoot, to Aliens, weaponized portal technology, and government experimentation). For a comparison, here is a map of known cave systems in the US. Notice anything? They match up pretty well with his Cluster Map. Maybe people are getting lost in caves?

Either way, It is not a conspiracy. It is simple reality and statistics. People go to the parks in the millions. The National Parks and Forest Land are wild areas that are dangerous to humans. Wild animals, terrain, maybe even other people… There is nothing unusual about any of this. But David Paulides (Who has a history of scamming and misconduct) has built a media kingdom out of this half baked conspiracy.

GARTH'S CORNER! GARTH'S CORNER!

Edward Abbey, who spent two seasons as a Ranger at Arches National Park in the 1950’s and advocated for keeping the parks as undeveloped as possible.

A note from this gnome: Public lands are one of the most amazing things this country has done to preserve the wilderness and wildlife of the United States. Public lands are for everyone and should be enjoyed by everyone. Be kind and respectful of nature and keep our public lands safe and lasting for generations to come ❤️

[artdecosupernova-writing]

OC Kiss Week Day 3: Stolen

WIP: Darkspace Portent Pairing: Warren x Thrive Timeline: we'll say before/after book four for shits and giggles (likely not canon unless I say it is in which case I never said this) CW: mature content Rating: M? (to be safe idk lol) Words: 955

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"I don't know how to tell you this," Warren muttered five seconds after sitting beside Thrive at the table in the kitchen. He hesitated, the open space of the capital house beginning to crush him. "...The shirt is gone."

Thrive raised a finger to his own lips to buy time as he chewed a good-sized chunk of pan-seared steak from an alien mammal. His brows pinched, and he nodded as if either processing Warren's words or enjoying the food—it wasn't immediately clear which.

"...Shirt?" he responded at length, putting that conundrum to rest for good.

Warren folded his hands over the surface of the table. "The... shirt. The shirt. The shirt with the black ringed planet on it?" He looked at Thrive as if he'd suggested they go bowling with the skull of an eliyi. "You wore it for just about two weeks straight, E.T., what the fuck?"

"Ah, yes." Thrive sliced through another portion of the meal he was, as Warren only realized then, eating alone up until that point. "It's gone?"

Narrowing his eyes, Warren let out an all-too-patient exhale through his nose. "I looked everywhere. Picked apart your office, went through every conceivable room in the capital house, even Gouna's office and Corin's lab. I feel like you're not reacting appropriately, here."

"Perhaps I know where it is," Thrive said simply. He reached over for his glass of fruit nectar, the thick apricot-colored beverage shimmering as it was agitated, and imbued Warren with an unbothered look.

"Do you know where it is?"

"No," Thrive said with a soft snort of pomposity before he took a generous gulp of the nectar.

"So why aren't we more concerned about the shirt I so graciously gave you when you had every intention of walking around Earth completely buck-ass naked? The shirt that's become somewhat of your signature and I can no longer think about without thinking about how fucking sexy you look in it?"

Thrive's gaze lifted from the square of colored glass used as a plate, a gaze of dark triumph. He turned to Warren again, that triumph no longer present to such a degree that it could've been imagined. "...Where could it possibly have gone, Warren? The entirety of civilization on Tournaltis is within a mile in every direction of this exact location."

Warren opened his mouth to answer that, then closed it.

"It'll turn up," Thrive assured him, giving his knee a gentle squeeze before focusing on the meat. "Don't stress too much over it."

Warren had no choice but heed him, and he went through the rest of the day as he normally would... but every so often, he'd think about the shirt, attempting to mentally backtrack, to remember when and where he'd last seen it to no avail.

The night crept onto him without his knowledge, and he found himself standing with Plio and Roel in the dark outside Corin's lab as they'd been for the past few hours. He could've missed the nightfall altogether if he let enough distractions overtake him. He bid the other two a goodnight and trudged back to the capital house.

With a sigh, he entered his pitch-black room next to Thrive's office, closing the door behind him simultaneously with picking up on Thrive's unmistakable scent.

"You're like a little gremlin sometimes," Warren said, dropping onto his bed—silently thanking whatever deity existed that he actually did drop onto the bed rather than the floor. He kicked his boots off. "I swear I'll get used to the darkness one day."

"The shirt was stolen," Thrive said from somewhere near the window.

Warren let his body sag, then he leaned back on his hands. "...Who the fuck would steal a dirty t-shirt riddled with bloodstains and bullet holes? There wasn't even any glitter on the planet anymore."

As soon as the words left his mouth, the curtains hanging in front of the picture window parted, and the light of three moons filtered inside. Thrive stood directly in the beam, finger pressed against the wall panel until the curtain finished opening. The ringed planet T-shirt paired with the oft-forgotten jeans clung to every plane and curve of his powerful torso and thighs, accentuating his muscular arms and shoulders while honoring the outline of his abdomen.

"I would," he murmured. "From you."

Warren's head fell back and he laughed in embarrassment at his immediate and visceral physiological reaction to this. "FUCK!" he shouted.

Thrive moved to Warren and buried his long fingers into his hair. "You're not getting this back," he growled, fisting the milk-chocolate strands to angle his head more efficiently. "Ever."

"Pretty sure that was made abundantly clear the second I saw you wearing it for the first time," Warren breathed.

Thrive crushed their mouths together, his other hand coming up to wrap around the column of Warren's throat, putting tantalizing pressure on the sides. Warren groaned sharply, already running his palms over Thrive's heated skin under the shirt.

"I think not," Thrive purred against Warren's lips. He let go of his hair to displace his wandering hands, then pressed Warren back by his throat, laying him prone across the mattress. He crawled onto the bed, straddling his hips. "Let me show you just how sexy I can look in this shirt, th'saiya."

Warren, his pulse fluttering wildly under Thrive's fingers, hummed in eager approval at what he suspected was the beginning of an incredibly erotic night.

And he was right—toyed with and railed, all with those clothes covering just about every inch of Thrive's lean body except for the important parts. The more Thrive discovered how to use his human form for evil, the more Warren was content to let him fully corrupt him.

[very-bad-poetry-captain]

TOS novel book review McCoy edition nr 4 - Planet of Judgment

I knew there was a TOS novel where McCoy's wife was called Honey and she divorced him because they hadn't been intimate in three whole weeks, but I didn't remember it was Planet of Judgment. And I am judging this book.

Link to the previous review

Title: Planet of Judgment Author: Joe Haldeman Year published: 1977 (this was one of the very first trek novels ever published)

Content warning: a few descriptions of dying and wounded people, a bit of body horror

Plot summary in two sentences: A pretty large landing party including Kirk, Spock, and McCoy get stuck on a planet where natural laws don't seem to work and they have a few very bad no good days playing "stranded on a planet trying to kill us" before the aliens make contact, and then they are experimented on but like, it's clearly for a good reason so it's all fine (it's not). This book seemed like it could have been a TOS episode but mercifully it wasn't. Official plot summary: Never before had the Enterprise been betrayed by its own technology. Never before had their systems, instruments and weapons failed to respond. And never before had Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew faced a total breakdown of science and sanity... until they stumbled on the mysterious world that couldn't exist... A world orbited by a black hole ruled by chaos - where man was a helpless plaything for a race of beings more powerful than the laws of the universe. A brain-bending voyage into the unknown with the Starship ENTERPRISE.

This book is for you if you:

Kinda like the classic 70s scifi plot style

Want to read every novel that has McCoy in it (his parts are fun)

Enjoy philosophical questions such as "Is experimenting on aliens ethical if the constant 'clatter clatter' from their brains is really annoying? Like, super annoying. Honest." and "If Spock has read romance novels and knows about fake dating, does that mean every fanfic on the subject where it's Spock's idea is no longer out of character (asking for a friend)?"

Want to read a really detailed description of the scene on Vulcan in Amok Time minus the part about Jim's shirt being sliced open because that was apparently not important

This book was 50% not very interesting and 50% wow, he really wrote that huh 🫢

The ultimate McCoy questionnaire under the read-more (some spoilers):

1. Is McCoy in it?

Yes! More than I excepted at the beginning of the book!

2. Is McCoy in it a lot?

If you can get through the first part of the book, McCoy gets lots of time to shine. If you cut out most of the book and keep the McCoy parts I'd say it was a really good book.

3. Does he get to be concerned over whatever angst has befallen Kirk lately?

Well, yes and no. He's befallen with the same angst. Mostly. He gets to sneak in a "heh I really don't envy you having to be captain, Captain" in there. And there's a few hours where he thinks Jim is dead. The book doesn't linger too much on his anxiety but to be fair the book skips ahead quite a lot and isn't too keen on explanations.

But in a memorable scene he cuts down a tree and it falls right on top Jim 🤨

4. Does he get to have silly little arguments with Spock?

Read these excerpts from the book and tell me this isn't potentially the weirdest exchange of words he's ever had with Spock.

There was a really classic exchange though between the three of them that hit their dynamic just right (after Spock and McCoy join Jim to be stranded with him on the planet because they missed him):

Spock: You volunteered for the mission, Doctor. Surely there must have been some thread of logic to support your decision.

McCoy: Only intuition, Spock. Worked out the same.

Kirk: Whatever your reasons, I'm glad to see both of you but sorry we put you in the soup.

5. Is he the damsel in distress?

Not at all :/ But he does say "Good God. I wish Jim was here." so at least he was feeling like a damsel in distress.

6. Does he suffer, preferably a lot? Physical and/or psychological torment.

Mostly psychological, there's the experimenting of course and an injured crewmember that disappears and comes back all wrong and of course he blames himself for it for a while. And he gets to re-live when his wife left him. Because they, uh, haven't been intimate since March 3rd (three weeks ago). Presumably that wasn't the only thing but his immediate reaction to her taking their daughter and leaving the apartment is seeing an ad for Starfleet in a magazine and going "oh yeah I'll join Starfleet, that'll show her". Show her what? I have questions, Mr. Haldeman. And I think he could have suffered a bit more but I suppose there needed to be enough room for Kirk to have a sword-fight against pirates.

7. Does he get to whine and complain and be right about it? Even better, is he wrong about it?

Both he and Jim have these weird little rambling half-asleep thinking sessions that take up a couple of pages of unstructured and barely legible writing. He does complain about the experimentation though, and he gives Jim a really dirty look once. Most of his complaints are very reasonable in this one.

8. Does he get to throw some of that southern charm around?

There's a throwaway line that he's interested in one of the women in the landing party, but it really is thrown away and not used? He's always charming, though. Why is this even a question. Even Spock agrees in this book.

9. Does he get to do some medical malpractice?

Well now. He has to do stitches and use a knife, not even a clean one. And you know he hates such medieval practices but the medical instruments aren't working. I'd say that counts as medical malpractice. He also gets to kill a guy? I think that goes against his oath or something.

10. Does Spock call him illogical or similar?

Only a little bit. This is one of those missions where they finish each other's thoughts etc. so like. They're besties<3

11. Is he forcibly put through his arch nemesis the transporter? Or the dress uniform?

He has to go in a shuttle (not shown but I assume he didn't like it) and then he gets telepathically beamed through space by aliens with pretty bad aim several times :3

12. Does Kirk call him handsome (joke or not this happens more than you’d think)?

No but he complains that McCoy knows all the ship's scuttlebutt about who's sleeping with who and so on. McCoy was so ready to read out a list to Jim but I think he decided that as captain he's better off not knowing. And he tells McCoy not to get into mutiny-territory which, when you think about it, is kind of the same as calling him hot.

13. Bonus points if his accent is pronounced and his speech is full of befuddling southern expressions which make Spock question McCoy’s sanity (and me wondering if I need a dictionary)

He calls Spock "weirder than a whistling fish" and it took me forever to realize it wasn't some southern expression (or is it?) it's just that if a fish whistled it would be pretty weird. Anyway Spock is like yeah okay fair enough.

McCoy calls one of the aliens "ugly son of a bitch" so at least he got to swear in this one.

Criticisms/things I’d change

I'm sure this book is a product of its time so I won't be too hard on it. But if I could, I'd definitely elaborate on the scene where Spock asks McCoy to help him get rid of Chapel's interest in him. Like, I just think it has so much potential. Just trust me on this I'll make it really normal and not at all weird (it was already weird). Jokes aside I think they spent too much time playing "help we're stranded on a planet trying to kill us" and in the end no one even explained how all the science around the planet worked, just chalked it up to "oooh powerful aliens". The ending was interesting though. Being experimented on is enrichment for Starfleet officers.

Highlights:

To be honest the best part was where the aliens beamed everyone back to the ship using their mind powers only, except for Jim and Spock, and then after ten minutes they were like hey actually we made a mistake we're bringing McCoy back. They put my poor wife through something worse than the transporter twice when they could have just kept him on the planet all along, and said hey how about you help us save the world against evil scorpions with your will power, no pressure but we start in ten minutes and you'll probably die :D Also he sleeps on a bunch of cardboard boxes? And gets to cut down trees with the scifi equivalent of a chainsaw? And he gets to play mind poker in some kind of gangster movie setting... Fun times all around!

Final McCoy meter: 8/10

[goth-boots]

👹 Baki Headcanons 👹

Fear me for I have dedicated my life to writing silly, goofy Baki headcanons and scenarios >:D

Dealing with depression my way 💪🏽 (but if we are to talk seriously, please, go get yourself a therapist, they know how to help)

P.S. Btw I'm not that good at prepositions ;-;

So, uh, enjoy these headcanons o' mine. Write in the comments who you'd like to see in part 2. Hope you like it :3❤️

School Subjects (part 1)

Baki

- He doesn't care about most of the classes;

- Most of the time he daydreams or sleeps;

- But when it gets to astronomy he seems interested;

- "Are there any aliens? Are they stronger than us? 🤔";

- Now Kozue, Retsu and others know a lot about planets, black holes and theories about Moon being an artificial satellite and other galaxies where nonhuman civilizations live;

- Watched dozens of sci-fi movies about different creatures and other worlds;

- Almost decided to go to a space station, but Kozue somehow stopped him;

- "You know, that'd be awesome to meet an alien";

- Please, don't tell him about Area 51.

Kaoru

- Have you seen him near school?

- Overall he has good grades even though he rarely goes to school;

- Nobody would ever give him C or B! (for their safety and in general Kaoru is pretty smart so there's no need to give him low marks);

- But he has an interest in history, especially in Sengoku period;

- "These weapons look weird... I wonder if it was hard to break them";

- Sometimes outsmarts his teachers by pointing out at their mistakes;

- May bring his favourite books with him, so the time will pass faster;

- "School is disappointing. Interesting, how Baki is doing? 🧐";

- Can stand up in the middle of a class and leave because.. he can?

Jack

- Didn't pay attention in classes;

- Instead always studied at home;

- And had excellent grades 😳;

- "When is the break? I'm already hungry.";

- Didn't like every subject equally, except for math, biology and health & physical education (those 3 were "fine");

- Some biology topics like anatomy interested him;

- PE was a mandatory for him (sometimes he liked it, sometimes he didn't);

- Always had pills in his backpack;

- Was bullied, but tried not to pay attention to it;

- "Uhuh, so that's on what I was missing.. Well, now let's go to the gym to try it out, I guess?";

- Was annoyed by those who tried to protect him from bullies;

- Graduated, but wanted to drop out.

Retsu

- Probably didn't attend a public school;

- Temple was his everything;

- Surprisingly was and still is good at calligraphy;

- "This stroke looks off..... RRRAAGH!!";

- Suffered every time when he needed to concentrate on something;

- Tried to be more patient. Failed multiple times;

- Enjoyed cooking, and now knows how to make almost every traditional Chinese dish 😋;

- When Baki asked him to look at his physics homework, Retsu kind of malfunctioned;

- "Uhuh, so this is it. Right. But what about this part... 等等，我不應該懂這種程度的日文.";

- But he's always willing to learn something new!

Doyle

- Studied really hard, but after some time got disappointed with teachers and the whole educational system;

- Was actually liked by teachers and had a couple of acquaintances among classmates;

- Favourite subjects were science, biology, and design & technology;

- "What do you think.. Can I get CIPA? ... Nah, wishful thinking";

- Planned to install blades in his joints from school;

- In general he's a smart cookie;

- Was never bullied, but ignored;

- "I need to learn chemistry.. What type of metal is incompatible with human body? 🧐";

- Dropped out.