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whatudottu · 4 months ago

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Actually wanted to address your tags re: tails

The tail isn't actually symbolic of anything it's more of a personal body plan choice since mechamorph's are shape shifters

I actually did give toddler ship a nubby tail (that's gonna disappear as he grows more) and Aether also has a stumpy tail too (personal choice). Ephem doesn't have one and upgrade and baz-l won't have them either

Evolutionarily tails do provide allot of balance, realistically Ship would probably benefit from having a tail but all those nanites are going to growing him limbs longer

Ah woopies, just a little misinterpretation then! Only spotted them on designs that with meta-knowledge - I guess - looked like a non-standard body plan, and I guess technically that’s true but for different reasons than I assumed :P

Either way, I really do like the tails and I guess with shapeshifters (even if for mechamorphs it’s exclusively shape shifting) one can have literally any body plan within physical reason, but now I’m wondering if ‘tails for balance’ symbiots and ‘tails for aesthetic’ adults I’d suppose have some form of differences haha! Xenobiology on the mind and all!

#ask #fiestylittlebeetle #galvanic mechamorph #ben 10 #lowkey did forget about gm’s shapeshifting (how could i it’s literally in the name)#prolly because i only associated it with the tech upgrading #but yeah shapeshifters especially ones made of nanites can have nearly any body plan they wanted #since tails help with balance are there adults who prefer a tailed body plan for that bonus?#not to exclude all the gms who’ve opted into the tail for aesthetic purposes #do symbiot tails make having one appear idk ‘youthful’ or ‘childish’? if a symbiot starts to lose its tail is that considering maturing?#these questions don’t have to be answered- at this point these tags are rambles that i’m jotting down for conversation starters/continuers #xenobiology xenopsychology xenosociology all that good stuff and more haha

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