#florauna-robotics

[oh-nxts-and-bxlts]

@florauna-robotics

“Away ye’ go, ya’ jumping critters!”

Diggy lifted her arms above her head, waving her arms at the small swarm of grasshoppers that bounced in the tall grasses at her approach, leaping out of crushed tufts of grass and further into the dense field of flowers. Despite the enthusiastic motion, the little robot couldn’t help but slow her advance just a tad, in hopes to give the small insects plenty of time to escape and not end up squished as she made her way forwards.

As much as bugs weren’t really Diggy’s cuppa’ tea, there was no harm in just letting something small off easy. They couldn’t help it, living in a world full of giants. And this particular giant had decided to go on a stroll across hill and dale, to see the world away from the grey of civillization, marching on a straight line to nowhere in particular, hip-high grass nonwithstanding.

You’d think that Diggy would only feel comfortable around the greying bones of cities. To be fair, the little robot master was convinced there always would be some measure of innate comfort to cityscapes for her. Her insides were wires and steel, and they would always come back to the concrete and iron of human civillization, in due time. But all the same, just because her bones were born in the city, didn’t mean that they were incapable of appreciating some other-ness to the world around her.

Hell, you never truly know how much you appreciate home if you never experience anything different. There’s something to be said about going on an adventure of your own making. To Diggy, that adventure was just walking a few miles out of town across fields of wild flowers, enjoying the peace and quiet that came with it.

[magnetiix]

@florauna-robotics replied to your post “Luna w/ Mags ✨ (honestly curious about this)”:

((Oh no I meant in a more general sense! Luna definitely doesn't have any interest in meeting a Wilybot willingly atm adhgfsd))

​((Oh! In that case, the point still stands; everything that I said counts in general as well.))

[takahashi-labs]

OOGH YES ask time heehee

Is Moth's flight solely propelled by her wings, or is there also something else that assists with it?

"I do have a few extra parts for balance, and boosters on my feet to lighten landings, but that's about it." Moth hums. "All of my flight capability comes from my wings otherwise."

"I'm fairly lightweight compared to other Robot Masters, so my wings are sturdy enough to carry my weight, but light enough to allow me to fly."

[monsteropoliis]

hibiscus :   how does your muse view the gentler ,   daintier things in life ?   as things worth preserving   &   caring for ,   or things only bound to wither   &   disappear ?   - For Air

𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒 (still accepting!)

((To be entirely truthful? Neither. He is not the nurturely type, no, but neither is he someone heartless. Gentle, dainty things have their place in life, but he would not consider it his duty to care for those things. In his opinion, gentle dainty things exist not because they need to be cared for and preserved, but because they are strong enough to survive and even thrive on their own.))

[dsn-001]

For Classic Moon - What’s something your muse isn’t proud of, about themselves?

Headcanon/Development Questions (closed!)

((Moon is very much not proud the fact that she struggles to speak up for herself. Nothing will change about it, though; she will continue to stay silent and do what she believes will please others. That, unfortunately, takes a higher priority for her than her own happiness.))

[fortunate-re-fraction]

You know what Luna and Alto why not asjdhdkd

(( Hohoho. They’d probably kinda-sorta get along at first—Alto is usually very amiable and not a horny asshole!! Unlike someone!!!!

But like. Speaking in the long-term…

Honestly I don’t actually know too much about Luna’s personality but I do know she can kick ass and take names so it depends on how she would react to Alto’s whole… deranged mf who feeds off of the high of combat— ))

[haunted-machines]

For Snake - What’s something about the way your muse ‘helps’ that might be different from how someone else would help? What in particular about their style of ‘help’ is different/unusual? 

Headcanon/Development Questions (still accepting)

((Snake is not particularly proactive about things. He’s the type of person to know all the steps involved in some sort of hobby while having never actually done it himself. He takes satisfaction from simply knowing and understanding things, not actually participating in them.))

((So Snake’s brand of help tends to simply be watching and learning. He keeps his eyes on people, for better and worse. In the better case scenario, that means looking out for them. While he may not get directly involved in any problems of yours, he will help to ensure you are completely informed and aware of what is going on. And in some situations, of what people are saying.))

[overx]

...if only we could all be so lucky.

It's a good thing whatever chest Luna might have is hidden underneath all that fluff, otherwise she would not be safe.

[bone-pile-rp]

Luna D1 for the expression meme!

She's always so pleasant to draw!

[renegaderobotics]

46. Are they a listener or a talker? If they’re a listener, what makes them talk? If they’re a talker, what makes them listen?

- For Ginkgo and Horn!

WEIRDLY SPECIFIC BUT HELPFUL CHARACTER BUILDING QUESTIONS

Ginkgo: He's a listener with, oftentimes, very little to say of his own opinion. It takes directly asking him his opinion for him to speak up. Otherwise, he'll just take in everything being said. He prefers that. Intaking the information around him.

Horn: He's a little in between both. Get him on a topic he likes and he'll go on and on, but bring up something he isn't sure about and he'll be more inclined to listen first. He does often give his opinion on half baked information, though. Yet, he's not afraid to change his ideas on something.

[splinter-sister]

Hands you Luna for the colorblind simulation!

This is such a drastic change! Luna is one of those muses she'll have to double take at if she ever sees in full spectrum. It'll blow her mind!

[oh-nxts-and-bxlts]

@florauna-robotics​ started following oh-nxts-and-bxlts

“Is it... bad, that seeing someone so fluffy makes me want to pet them ? I would never do it without them explicitly telling me they’d be comfortable with it, but... It feels like just wanting to do it is rude on the grounds they’re probably a serious, busy person with a right to being treated with respect.“

“... Ah’ dunno’, you tell me. Ah’m just tryin’ ta’ figure out how many chicken puns ah’ can cram in one sentence.”

[takahashi-labs]

17: [OC] What made you choose their faceclaim/appearance?

- For Moth!

((Ooooh this is a good one because Moth is still one of my favorite designs and DTNs.))

((When originally got the concept for her, I already knew I wasn't going to a Luna Moth because that felt... too easy to me? if you know me you'd know I try to avoid going the Obvious route, or if I do I put some absurd spin on it.

In Moth's case it was fun to try and figure out how to work her color palette and design, especially since I don't work with earthy colors super often. I also knew right away that I wanted to make her Toll because 1. I thought it would be funny if a bug rm was Toll, and 2. there are some Big Fucking Moths that exist. Like, I don't know about you but most of the moths that I see where I live are itty bitty things. So knowing there's ones that can be as big as your hand?? I had to play with the idea in the sense of bug robots it was too good to pass up.))

[monsteropoliis]

Ok out of curiosity's sake

Smash or Pass Air to Luna?

Send me “Smash or Pass” + a name and my muse will answer with 100% honesty. (still accepting)

"Pass." The answer is dismissive and near immediate. "I am not interested in such endeavors."

[dsn-001]

poppy :   what comforts your muse ? - For Classic Moon

𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒 (still accepting!)

((A cup of tea! It never fails to soothe her, no matter the flavor. Being able to sit by an open window with the sound of heavy rain outside and a steaming mug of tea is one of the most relaxing things Moon can have.))

[genesisgijinka]

I have returned with another essay on worldbuilding.

Part one: Design.

Your world has more animalistic pokemon. Going for a more... Adapted to a real functioning world where physics and biology are mostly in accordance with how it would work here.

My favourite example of this is this post. In it is pictured a Gardevoir. I don't know if the design is still accurate, but said gardevoir is less a funny alien creature and instead an elongated owl.

Another amazing example of this is the Power Scale post. The beastly legendaries and especially Arcy look sick. With "unrealistic" features like Arcy's fence gate being adapted into much more believable features/body parts.

That being said, we get to

Part 1.5: The Point

With most pokemon being animal-ified, there are some where that just isn't realy feasible. Good contenders for this are the magnemite line, a ton of Grass types and otherwise plant pokemon, and a bunch of object pokemon

small list of examples: Chandelure, klefki, Sudowoodo, oddish, bellsprout, shroomish, grimer, gastly, voltorb, Porygon, Koffing, Cofagrigus, and Ditto. (to be honest, ditto needs its own section)

How would you handle pokemon like that?

I kind of like the idea of naturally occuring mechanical life. You open up a dead Magnezone and there's just a load of gears and electric components in there. (imagine steampunk but with electricity instead of steam)

similarly, How would Gijinka of robotic/ object mons work?

Part 2: Pokespeak

In the anime all Pokemon speak Pokespeak. With pokemon being more animalistic, How do you handle them communicating?

Same question with the sentient mons situation from the anime. Most if not all pokemon on the protagonist's team (COUGH Pikachu) are of similar intelligence as a human, they have complex logic, can read, experience the entire spectrum of emotion, can perfectly understand language, etc.

How does that work?

That'll be it for now.

Part 1-1.5

Yep, gardevoir design is still accurate. Most of my design process for figuring out how I'm going to interpret pokemon design is deviating from a lot of common things that I see. Continuing with the gardevoir example, it's one of those pokemon that you don't google bc everyone just turns it into a booby waifu. I looked at the face and kinda went, 'Hey, that looks like the facial disk of an owl,' and started there.

For things that aren't easily interpreted, I switch to scribbling around with shapes. The Arceus fence thing was more inspired by the biblically accurate angels thing from the book of Revelations bc i thought that was funny lol. Sometimes I just give up tho and things like sylveon still gets it's weird ribbon things bc it's a Fey and they are not beholden to normal rules.

Other ways I design pokemon is by trying to figure out what niche they would fill and how would they have evolved to fill it bc nature is bonkers like that and doesn't like empty spaces. The universe of Genesis is absolutely riddled with ambient energy, so you get things like sentient almost-rocks and minerals or florauna creatures that make up plant types since everything is essentially swimming in a sort of low-key primordial soup. Sometimes a loose spirit just really thinks that chandelier is cool looking and would make a good home. The Good Soup™ makes it easier for that spirit to move its new body and now you have a new pokemon! All that loose energy gives life to things that on our world, would not work. But hey, such is magic-science.

There are lots of different paths I can take, so I don't really have a set process of how I generally do it. And there are so many theories of how certain pokemon came to be - either through in-game lore talked about in the pokedex/from NPCs or someone with their red string on the wall making a spider's web of what's going on in the world of pokemon - that I can take some of those and just run with it. For example; you brought up ditto. Congratulations! You've discovered Prime's "siblings," since I'm using the theory that ditto were Rocket's failed attempts at cloning mew. Little blobs that use the energy of the world around them to craft bodies several times their mass and size, using moves that they don't normally learn.

Robotic/object gijinka would depend on which pokemon is the base form. There's a whole lot of human in a gijinka which keeps things to a mostly human base (this is how I ignore the egg types in gijinka when it comes to reproducing and y'know, keeping your culture alive), so it would mostly boil down to types. If someone was of the magnemite line, they'd have iron/steel deposits in places where the skin is thin, like how Heph does on his knuckles, a characteristic of a steel type gijinka. They'd also be more prone to generating static electricity. Or a doctor giving a vanilluxe gijinka a check up has to have a different base body temperature to test against since ice types have a body temp that runs a little bit cooler than most others (fire types have the opposite problem. Razor has torched off shirt sleeves before, which is why he's almost always in a tank-top of some sort)

Part 2

How do pokemon communicate with each other? Idk, the same way they do in Tarzan. They just, can. Smth smth, pokemon speaking with their hearts, not words. Pokéspeak isn't suuuper well understood, mostly due to not having enough cases to study, but it does very rarely crop up in people from time to time. N is canon to the Genesis timeline (not sure when just quite yet but anyway) and he can fully understand pokemon. Biggest theory is that it's stored away somewhere in the human DNA, a leftover from when pokemon and humans were once considered the same, ala Sinnohian lore. Kinda like how every now and then irl there's a human baby born with a tail. Tail genes are still in our DNA, but it gets switched off at some point during fetal development.

That being said tho, some pokemon have managed to learn human language, in a way. Unown being the starting point for many languages in the world used to communicate more with people back in the day, but now it's considered a mostly dead/slightly resurrected language like Mayan.

The abra line are particularly clever and good at figuring out human patterns. Champion Red from Kanto taught a lot of his pokemon sign language as part of their training and a few of them can sign back at him. He's rarely seen without his kadabra, Pythagoras, and she's the most fluent out of all his pokemon. It's still broken and incomplete tho, kinda like how an african grey parrot would string words together.

A lot of how pokemon speak to each other is mostly body language tho, which even in humans is calculated to make up a whopping 55% of how we communicate with one another (38% is vocal tone and a measly 7% is the actual words and their dictionary definition/context. So it's no wonder why so many people get into arguments on the interwebs with black text on a white background) Pokemon still pick up on all of this, and with their different way of communication, they can still usually pick out human meanings just fine.