#florauna-robotics

[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."

[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!

[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.

[cherryrenni]

Hiya! Please call me Renni!

✦ 27 ✦ She/Her ✦ My biggest current hyperfixations are Honkai Star Rail, Megaman, and Hollow Knight, but I like a lot of different media ashgfsdg ✦ I also really like moths -w-

Megaman RP blog: @florauna-robotics

Multimuse blog: @acr3ss-the-cosmos

[hypnosiacon-archive]

Already have names <:3 👉👈

Florauna (for the fauna flora etc one)

Techrobai (for the robot tech etc one)

:D

I will 100% do these tomorow! *w* the thing is that i have no idea how to do the flags <:( so uh, if its not too much of a bother, could you make the flags and i do the post? /nf

@gender-mailman

Beep Beep! How 'bout these? Florauna and Techrobai

[io-archival]

Techrobai - A neogender centered around things connected to tech, robots, AIs, viruses, cyborgs, digital things, virtual things or anything that someone might associate with technology

Florauna - A neogender centered around things connected to fauna, flora, nature, naturecore, weather, different species of animals and plants and anything that someone might associate with nature.

[IMAGE ID: two horizontal flags with nine stripes; each flag has a cotton slime in the center. the cotton slime is a light yellow blob with small eyes, an open smiling mouth, long rabbit ears, and whiskers; it resembles a rabbit. the middle stripe is twice as large as the rest of them, which are equally sized. the first flag has these top three colors: dull teal, cool green, and nearly-white grey. the second flag has these top three colors: green-brown, forest green, and dull yellow. each flag has these bottom six stripes: warm light yellow, off-white, warm light yellow, medium warm yellow, warm medium brown, and warm dark brown. END ID.]

cottonslimirus: a gender connected to being a cotton slime virus; this gender is connected to cotton slimes, cotton slime aesthetics, virtual aesthetics, feeling mischievous or villainous, and being techrobian!

cottonslimitaur: a gender connected to being a cotton slime centaur; this gender is connected to cotton slimes, cotton slime aesthetics, nature aesthetics, being any kind of centaur, and florunity!

@radiomogai @liom-archive @obscurian @drowntowns @electrosaccharine @gender-mailman

[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.

[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— ))

[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.))

[bone-pile-rp]

He looks so bastardly smug as she gets to eye level with him. Of course, there's a fat cigar between his teeth letting loose the worst looking smog imaginable. A little ring of black smoke gets puffed in her face through his grin.

"Your job? Why, I'd say you're interrupting mine!" Any bot who knows him knows exactly what he was made for. Deforestation and scorching the earth.

"So how about you flutter on along out of my face."

[Inbox call from @bone-pile-rp]

"Well, look what the cat coughed up." Oh no. Why was he here? Out of all the forests to run into, this was the one spot Burner happened to cross paths with Luna once again. His pilot was alight with that sickly green flame, steady and still as it burned on. His massive frame towered closer and closer when he spotted her.

"Fancy seeing you here! What? Looking for a bulb to flutter around?" He's not here to apologize as is evident of the sneering grin on his face. He was in the middle of doing his job and, oh, how it brought out the maniac in him.

It had been a good work day so far for Luna. She had already documented 7 different butterfly species in this section of forest, and she even found a female Cecropia Moth resting on the trunk of a Sugar Maple. However, as she happily observed it's beautiful patterns and coloring, the little moth robot master picks up the stench of something all too familiar, followed by that growling, smug tone. Her body freezes for a split second, and then relaxes before she sighs irritably.

Why here? Why now??

The Cecropia Moth seems to sense the change in the air as it flies away from its perch on the tree trunk. Luna is grateful that at least it will be safe now. She turns around to face Burner with a not-at- all pleased expression, and activates the gravity generators in her legs to hover up to his eye level, crossing her arms over her chest. He wouldn't have the satisfaction of looming over her this time.

"If you think insulting me is going to get you anywhere you're sorely mistaken." She says steadily as she stares him down, her voice clearly showing that she isn't taking any of his nonsense.

"What do you want, Burner Man, and why are you interrupting my job?"

@bone-pile-rp

[bone-pile-rp]

Morbidly curious,, , Hot or Not: Jupiter to Luna

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

"This robot would do better as scrap metal or a quick meal. I hold no attraction to them otherwise."

[renegaderobotics]

💗 for Luna and Ginkgo

"Well I must say that would be rather nice."

[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.))