#especially the characters wooooo I looove my precious little characters!!!!!!

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Could we hear a bit more about the Hybrids of PDBC? 👀 like, do you have any examples (drawn or written out) of what exactly they're all mixed with and how they work? Also, is this how Gourdie gets a fish child? (If I'm remembering that correctly 😅)

YAYYY QUESTIONS ok ok. I’m not sure if there’s any more explanation I could give to the hybrids—admittedly the science behind it isn’t very fleshed out, but I will try my best to make an example!!!

First off, there’s not really any set components to what makes up the hybrids, as the genetic materials involved vary widely for each one. It could be assumed that there’s certain elements that go into each one that are needed to create the basic anatomical needs of the hybrids, like to confirm that they grow into a functional organism, but I dunno what those are and I think getting into the nitty gritty science of it all would be at best a waste of time (in other words I Do Not Know). But whatever those basic components are that guarantee sentience and proper biological functions for the hybrids, they’re put into small capsules known as seeds. Whatever optional materials that make the hybrids unique are then put in. Let’s say for example you want a hybrid who’s uhhh who’s French and green. Idk that’s the first thing I thought of ANYWAY. Let’s call this hypothetical hybrid Vert. You would take the base seed, and insert whatever genetic materials, hormones, dna, stuff like that that would result in something close to those characteristics. So like, you’d use a Frenchman’s dna and maybe some sorta chemical in the blood that would give the skin a greenish hue, or you could have the hybrid soak in a sort of dye as it grows that would permanently turn the skin green, etc etc etc. There’s also a psychological aspect of it—like this hypothetical hybrid, Vert, even if he’s technically French, you’d have to really convince him he’s French, and that he loves baguettes and wears little berets if you want a walking talking French stereotype (though most hybrids pick up traits naturally). Does it make any logical scientific sense, no. You just gotta go along with it or none of it works. So, this seed containing the elements of what will soon be the hybrid Vert, is planted in the Patch. The seed slowly grows into the complete hybrid over the course of a year, provided nothing in the process goes awry. And then bam you got yourself a hybrid. For a hastily done visual representation:

So yeh!!! Very rough example but hopefully it gets the point across. As to how they work after they’re “harvested,” they pretty much function as any normal person. The growing process isn’t that exciting, it’s really just an amorphous blob that slowwwwly becomes a sentient being. The only real identifying characteristics of hybrids is that they have scarring on their palms from the tubes and on their ankles from where they’re cut (kinda like an umbilical cord I guess?)

AS FOR THE FISH DAUGHTER: no actually, Gourdie got her fish daughter from bringing her dying pet fish to some fella with demonic powers who gave the fish human life!!! You were close actually, cause iirc, in-universe the hybrids were created as a sort of rebuttal to the whole fish daughter thing, and the first hybrid actually has genetic components from the fish daughter. But yea I think that’s it for the hybrids, thanks for the question!!! YIPPEE (EXPLODES)