#idk i just think itd vibe heavy

[sophiethewitch1]

So sick of being the only one who comes up with my sorts of fanfic ideas like wth...

[stuffedsand]

hii so uh. this post (@purgemarchlockdown hi) where i said i would Think About it Visually? yeah i meant it. old men got es quest amane'd

uhh design notes ish + the Thoughts that i wrote down and am now going to Type under cut

ok so. Twas kind of hard trying to put these two specifically into the "damsel" role cuz not only are they both grown men but also they both wouldn't accept the role i think. for one itd be hard to act that way for two. well they both have sperate second reasons ill put it seperated for each character

Shidous was the easy one out of the two to design. Honestly its mostly his prison uniform + a bit of my ocs prison uniform - the straps. His collar gets to be a stethoscope cuz haha. doctor man. Reason A for why itd be hard to slap him into a damsel esque role is that he absolutely Wouldn't Accept needing to be saved. He needs to save, not the other way around. Maybe hes still in the timeloop cuz jackalope thinks its Entertaining watching him try to save the one whos trying to save him. idk. Just to be safe i made it a point to make him as sickly looking as possible (not a tall order i mean look at triage)

Kazui was a fucking bitch to design. My instinct for him was. Yk. Suit. then it was the theatre outfit but....they were both tooo.....detailed, lets say. It didnt fit the vibe. i went with vaugely poet shirt looking following the pattern of his vest in Half and Cat. and before you say the lapel is the wrong way i know . pretend its intentional or mirrored pleas. I also ran into the problem of This Man Does Not Look Like He Needs Saving (as is a very fun aspect of his original MILGRAM characterisation) so i had to. Think. Real hard. all i got was to make the collar more obvious? I was thinking like. those heavy duty collars used for violent dogs mostly. ironic cuz hes a cat. was gonna add spikes but they look tacky in my style oops\

general notes wise. uh. i cant draw animalistic features very sorry. kazuis design gave me an anurysem and uhh. I actually forgot about the cat thing for shidou so all the features are on a different layer. Hope this turned out well i need to go back to studying now o7

[cielospeaks]

-dv livestream!

thoughts:

-so first of all, mY ABSOLUTE MADLADS HOLY SHIT JOSEPH JOESTAR VOICE RICKY BOI IS GOING TO WIN THE DEDUCTION STAR OH MY GOSHHhhhh ok. i am normal abt this. i would really like it if he wins but im terrified at what sorta skin they will give him.

neutral ending: he gets like. a chopin biopic theme outfit (or even another composer. monteverdi maybe if they want to hammer in the references to orfeo or whatever). playing it safe but thats fine tbh. you want me to suffer (affectionate) ending: its amadeus the movie and idk if ricky would be mozboi or sal but either way im screaming and crying on the ground. bad ending: its none of these options and its something predictable/boring/shipping related and im like. angery face. expanded galaxy brain it will not happen but i can hope: any of my shitpost rickys. music man ricky. froderick fronkensteen ricky. beet from batea ricky. ricky wearing a nightgown and nothing else absolutely losing it ricky (that being said i have no idea but a jekyll and hyde ricky would be a bit goated)

-and for the actual livestream stuff. the three new characters are neat. i think im more attached to them than other ones- memory and adaemil were very lore heavy, lily and friends were fine but i dont feel so invested (esp when operas backstory was just a more marketable rehash of antonios -angry face emoji- ). i like the gambler lady. shes fancy yes but shes got an air of like. elegance and politeness i dont get from other characters in the series. idk i just think shes pretty and shes got them gantsby vibes -pacha hand-. goatman seems nice, like bane or burk or someone. knight seems like a cool guy or could be just the "polite guy villified for plot" and i guess that means either way ill prolly like him -le shrug-. that being said i hope hes well written and isnt a character i wont end up liking. itd be cool if he and ricky can be bros. he gives me those vibes. also gambler lady and antonio being gambling buds would be so cute. the friend he deserves. everyone can be buds with goat man bc he seems nice too.

-not so interested in the crossovers/events besides the holmes one which is big interest omg. the new lady seems like shed be a cool irene adler if shes added. detective as holmes pls. (its prlly gonna b novelist or maybe mercenary bc of mr inference? but listen cone boi is detective so holmes should be too, since his apprentice is lol)

-sept the first school au hunter gets revealed. im like :| bc this series hasnt had any faves yet but it also seems mostly harmless and gives less popular characters skins occasionally so tbh im fine w it. itll prolly be a popular hunter and not my boi antonio but whatever. -shrug emoji-

-rest of lore: ok this is fine. like tbh id rather they dont focus on the journalist plot bc i really dont like it lmao. i find the animation kinda ugly and the characters are all really unlikeable. its also just impossible to talk abt the plot to anyone since everyone has such different takes on it lol

-that being said i am looking forward to maybe the next essence/season (w gambler lady? antonio a/b tier pls he needs it. pretty lady who is also gambler i think he needs this)

[kyle-fiore]

a bigger interest of mine recently has been Kasane. as with everything else i like, i want to incorpate it into TWST in a way.

more under the cut

because of the existence of magic in TWST, id like to believe the powder found in the lipstick is obtainable.

maybe the powder could be found on Sages Island? or maybe the Queendom of Roses. Itd still be incredibly hard to obtain either way. (unless Sams Shop is in question.. i think itd cost a ton though)

the first person to come to mind on who would use the lipstick in the first place would be Vil.

-do i think that just because hes an actress ? yeah..

but still, theres a possbilty of following a similar timeline as there is in Kasane. theres no way to replicate that though.

i think Vil is listed as an only child, but what if he had a sibling nobody knew about?

his mother isnt mentioned at all from what ive seen, but maybe she had left the lipstick behind? rather then the abusive father that Nogiku had to deal with, Vils father worked to raise him (and a possible sibling) with the utmost care.

with Vil being interested in acting and such, that couldve enabled his father to encourage swapping faces with his (supposed) sibling, due to the industry being heavy on looks.

or, Vil is not actually Vil. sorta like how when Nogiku swapped faces with Kasane, her stage name was Saki. maybe he would go through something similar?

for Habutas role though, i feel like Jack would be a good fit.

others i think that would use the lipstick would be Kalim and Jamil. Kalim doesnt have any evil motive behind his use of it, just using it behind his family had ordered him to. i would imagine Jamil to experience similar emotions to Neena, in a way atleast. this would be sorted at birth though, so it might just be normal for them.

another would be Cater.

-why ? just because. or maybe one of his sisters would use the lipstick on him. idk honestly Cater just kinda gives that vibe

[clamdove]

decided to make a timeline of the classic* sonic games, in case anyone cares

(to be clear, this is just a headcanon. i will vibe with what official sources say whenever i Feel Like It)

tails adventure [sonic and tails have not met. i suppose this could also take place after/during sonic 1]

sonic 1 (genesis)/sonic 1 (8-bit) [if these are indeed 2 different stories, i dont rly think itd matter which came first]

sonic 2 (8-bit) [sonic knows tails but has not yet learned the spindash]

sonic cd [sonic has learned to spindash, but tails is not yet capable enuf to accompany him (also sonics sprite is still the one from the first game but that probably doesnt actually mean anything)]

sonic chaos/sonic & tails 1 [sonic feels comfy bringing tails alogn with him and has learned to spindash, but the 7th chaos emerald doesnt seem to be a Known Thing yet]

sonic triple trouble/sonic & tails 2 [i suppose you could argue this takes place after 3&k since knuckles is present and the 7th chaos emerald is a factor but its meant as a sequel to chaos/s&t1 so im putting it here]

sonic 2 (genesis) [sonic can spindash and fully trusts tails, 7th emerald is a factor, death egg is A Thing now]

sonic 3&k (sonic & tails's story) [sonic still has the emeralds from 2 at the start, death egg is still A Thing]

sonic 3&k (knuckles's story) [death egg is gone, knuckles & robotnik are enemies now. maybe the reason you dont actually fight robotnik directly is bc hes still recovering from his last defeat]

heres all the games that go Somewhere in my timeline but idk where:

sonic blast takes place sometime after 3&k [knuckles helps sonic, maybe the reason robotnik's plan isnt as grandiose is bc yet again hes still recovering from his last defeat]

tails sky patrol happens sometime after he meets sonic [hes described as wanting to go on an adventure without sonic, if he hadnt met sonic yet that part wouldnt occur to him]

sonic labyrinth takes place at the same time as tails sky patrol [sonic has defeated robotnik multiple times at this point, tails has met sonic but is absent]

knuckles chaotix takes place sometime after 3&k [knuckles tries to defeat robotnik, metal sonic has been repaired which means this probably takes place a decent amount of time after cd]

sonic the fighters takes place sometime after knuckles chaotix [death egg 2, espio is there, metal sonic has been repaired again]

sonic 3d blast takes place sometime after 3&k [sonic, tails, and knuckles are friends]

sonic mania takes place sometime after sonic the fighters [heavy magician disguises as bark & bean which wouldnt make as much sense if the cast hadnt already met them in stf]

and heres a list of all the games i know i didnt include:

sonic generations

sonic forces

sonic drift 1 & 2

sonic r

sonic spinball

sonic jam (game.com)

mean bean machine

segasonic the hedgehog

segasonic cosmo fighter

sonics schoolhouse

sonic x vapor

sonics bonus game

the lcd games

waku waku sonic patrol car

segasonic popcorn shop

sonic eraser

unreleased games

blue sphere [i dont even think this counts but i have a feeling someone would bring it up if i didnt]

knuckles in sonic 2 [ditto]

flicky [ditto]

dynamite bros [ditto]

sonic 4 [ditto]

*"classic" is defined based on Vibes, not when the game was released (hence the presence of generations, forces, and mania)

[hayakawapartner]

(rbing since this was my ask and i have Thoughts To Add hehe)

AKI DEFINITELY STARTED W EEVEE!! i always associated him to the sinnoh region since sinnoh is based on hokkaido and while i love the gen4 starters hes definitely an eevee -> umbreon guy :-) i could see him mayyybe using glaceon (assignment of ice types) but umbreon absolutely has Aki Vibes. and if he Had to have a gen4 starter maybe hed pick piplup? maybe thts my empoleon bias tho .. but eevee just works for him and tht was my initial thought too

i also feel like hed have a gyarados, no reason for this i just think gyarados fits him idk idk. he def visits the lake trio and brings them offerings and berries and other things and theyre super friendly w him now….

also i dont think hed end up catching any legendaries (just a personal choice, he wld def have the skill to), but if he ever caught one, i think itd be either lugia, one of the lake trio (like u mentioned), or maybe xerneas? leaning heavy towards lugia/lake trio but xerneas just gives me an aki vibe i cannot describe

been playing a Lot of pokemon and in turn thinking of aki as a gym leader or somethin .. maybe one of the elite four .. i feel like hed specialise in ice types and his main would be alolan ninetales (ice type + ninetales in general reminds me of fox devil)

idk if ur a pokemon fan just wanted to share a Fun Thought hehe

- 🐙

YESSSSSSSSSSABSBAJSJANA I love pokemon so I would be delighted to talk about this!!!!

ugh yes... I think aki would definitely have some ice type pokemon, but I always pictured him as the kind of trainer who would have a big goal like defeating the champion, but later on he decides to settle down with his pokemon / become a gym leader. he's apprehensive towards pokemon at first but eventually learns to love them and becomes best friends with his team...

aki's pokemon: eevee (starter, eventually evolves into umbreon), absol, alolan ninetales, aegislash, lapras, luxray, flygon, corviknight, also I can't decide between them so just all of the lake trio are cool with him

[chisatowo]

Why am I just apparently incapable of making stories without time travel bullshit now where did I go wrong fmfndjfnd

[especdreamy]

do u have any ideas about what ppl’s daemons would be? I saw u mention tommy with clementine who hasn’t settled but maybe tubbo’s daemon is called benson? not sure whether it would make sense for benson to be a duck though. i’m a little bit of a tubbo bee motif enjoyer for the way it relates to his vibes with the nukes (although pretend bees are as big as they are in mc canon maybe akdjs)

THIS GOT SO LONG IM PUTTING IT UNDER A READMORE

See heres the thing while cTubbo bee symbolism enjoyers are very cool I don't know if Bee is something I'd give him as a Daemon. Also not sure abt the name benson either I just have to try give thought + search names and all that so I can make a good decision. Tbh I'm very fond of Sheep c!Tubbo idk I just like Sheep so I'm just gonna throw a very loose shot and say he would have a Valais Blacknose as his daemon? It'd be pretty cool. Also this au idea is not at all very original so like people can make their own aus with bee ctubbo yknow.

I lly need to look in just overall animal symbolism and all that to be certain of soem characters, rn it's all just like. A Hunch. Also got no idea abt names either but...I'll look into it.

Idk why but cWilbur makes me think of Badgers a bit. And they represent Independence which is basically his whole goal with Lmanburg. c!Wil with a badger seems pretty good..

c!Dream is just. Snake. Snakes have a whole meaning between life and death and rebith because of the popular alchemic symbol of ouroboros. And even further than symbolism, snakes are always given that cold, calculating personality.

c!Techno is a bit tricky, since most people design him as a piglin and i feel itd be a bit odd to have him have a daemon. A possibility is that in this au he's a human with a Boar daemon, it's cool but also I like pig techno more... So instead I think I would go another route, which is how the Armored Bears are: their equivalent of a Daemon is their armors that they themselves forge with Sky-iron. Maybe for Piglins they instead forge a weapon with Netherite, which is where they pour their whole soul into. If your weapon gets taken from you it's not a deathly feeling (or maybe even death depending on how separated they are from u...) as with Daemons but instead the piglin ends up feeling empty, depressed, at least until they are able to get their weapon back. So yeah I like this idea for cTechno a bit more.

c!Ranboo. Listen I would give him a Cat. Just for the funnies. But I'm also not sure how it'd work for him since he's not Rlly Human either. I'd have to think A Lot on how this concept would work with endermen - I got the feel like they wouldn't really have an equivalent of a daemon to begin with? Unless they reach a different level of consciousness beyond them being a mob (like most endermen are...) if I were to toy with the idea of him actually having one...maybe I'd go for a weasel. Idk.

And like. Bruh. What else. I already kinda burnt myself out trying to put so much thought but if anyone in here wants to play with the idea theyre very welcome I' dlove to see everyone's thoughts on it specially because assigning animals to certain characters is a very analysis-heavy thing and I'm not that good at dsmp analysis.

[autisticstarseed]

if u could, perhaps, bless us with all the applicable symbols from that fic ask for hvh 👀

ooOoOOOoOO Rub s gay hands togehter omg ty friend 😍;;;;;;

💡 - What was the motivation behind the story?

hHH i hadnt written in 10+ years so when i latched onto this plot idea i just thought itd be a good time to jump the shark and try it again !! i just wanted smth really edgy and depthful bc im emo and the rest kind of snowballed

💎- What was your favorite part?

osdlfksd;lf it’s hard to pick a fav but the drunk scene was definitely the most fun to write at least

⛰️-  What was the hardest part?

THE SCENE WHERE THE GANG IS KIDNAPPED BY ENKI,,,, i debated toning down the violence but in the end i knew where the story was going (and where its still going) and that its gonNA be kinda dark so why hold back now ig

🎭- What was the feeling or mood you were going for?

BITTERSWEET AF,,, sort of just treading the line of ‘hopeful’ and ‘hopeless’ at all times to fully portray the feeling of being at your lowest, but with that classic tss ‘silver linings just around the corner’ kind of undertone

🏟️- Who was your intended audience?

mostly all the adults that watched tss as a kid and felt like spirituaLLY MOVED BY IT cuz i really tried to tap into that Emotion Tee Em we all felt when we found out that zak was [redacted]

🔬- Was there one scene you were building up to/knew you had to get just right?

hHH theres actually a LOT of scenes like that and i think a lot of my general motivation to keep going comes from that ‘WAIT FOR IT WAIT FOR IT’ vibe slkdf:SDF but the Plot Twist tm in the latest chapter was definitely a big’n, and theres a few more of those still to come :^)

🗝️ - What were you thinking when you wrote it?

kjdjFSDs:DF tbh whenever i start really writing, [’im shifting into soup mode’ seinfeld meme voice] im shifting into maladaptive daydreaming mode

🎥- Were there any tv shows, books, or movies that influenced this verse, if any?

:^) devilman crybaby pls forgive me for everytHing

📈- Was there a clear character arch you wanted____ character to go on?

i actually have a short list of what i somewhat consider to be the story arcs in my notes !! mostly just for organization and obvs i wont list the future ones but so far we’ve seen the kushtaka arc, the enki arc, and now we’re in what i call ‘the annunaki’ arc.

🎢- Were there any scenes you were nervous about? For audience reception or otherwise?

ALL OF IT JSHDJSKD, but again a lot of the enki scenes i was worried would be too edgy TM, and the whole annunaki plot as well i was worried might be too ‘out there’ for ppl, but it takes the story exactly where i always wanted it and lines everything up perfectly so i went for it lol. i was also ofc worried if people would like ila or not bc oc but most ppl love her actually which is so 😭❤️

☠️- Did you consider killing off any of the characters? Did you?

8^) [mickey mouse voice] this is a surprise tool that will help us later ,

✉️- Did you title your chapters? What title do you like best?

yes! the next one actually has my favorite chapter title yet, but so far i like ‘so strikes the harpoon’ since its a throwback to the first couple chapters

☀️- Was there symbolism/motifs you worked in?

o every single paragraph is an overly thought out middle school poem im entering in the talent show actually

🎵- Did you have a playlist/piece of music that went with this story?

Yes !! i have HVH insp part 1, Part 2, and an extra one for all those songs that have the vibes but just dont fit enough to make sense in a playlist

📜-Do you want to write something like this again in the future?

probably ! ive learned i definitely like the edgy/darker and emotionally driven stories with ongoing plot, so that trend will almost definitely continue. idk if ill write a dystopia again anytime soon, but i think my future stuff will at least retain that long and heavy vibe

💁- Did readers influence/change any part of this story?

oh yEA like basically i was ready to quit after the very first chapter before it was even written and kinda just got it all out on a whim of motivation but was expecting to flake on it like i tend to do with projects, but the invested response to it was just so uplifting that its what ive been riding on all ten chapters and im so grateful for it :’)))

✏️-Would you go back and change anything if you could?

hHHHHHHH yes and ok this is terrible but i actually tend to avoid re-reading my older chapters until i hAVe to bc i suffer from that sO much ,,, , its just little things like tiny words i wanna change or bits i wanna take out/put in and once or twice ive even caught a mistake or plot hole/smth i forgot to add that i rly do have to go back and edit and i just turn to dust every tim e

⭐- What’s a scene/paragraph you’re proud of?

i really liked the northern lights scene!! it was meant to be a pivotal moment of that ‘bittersweetness’ vibe i was talking abt and it was another one of those scenes i had been planning for a while;;;

“ I think of how much the rest of the family would love this. This isn’t like the moon and the sun, where I can see it and know that even if it looks different, they’ll see the same one soon enough, wherever they are. This reminds me only that I am not with them. It stings. It seems unnatural for something so gentle and natural to appear before us as if we aren’t in complete, total fucking chaos. After all we’ve been through, and the sky still dances. “

📣-What was the best piece of encouragement you got?

AVERY ALL OF UR LIVEBL OGS AND COMMENTS GIV ME SUCH L I FE, ,, ,, CRYIGN CAT FA ce

🔦-Did you learn anything while writing it? About yourself? Writing?

isdfhSDF YEs, part of my hesitation to write came from this thing where i always just assumed there was a wildly high standard of writing in fandom spaces like in original literature spaces, where you had to have like 10+ sentences to a paragraph and you had to describe every tiny detail of a setting and you had to follow every single grammar rule or it was unreadable but like. genuinely its like sculpting with words as long as you have a shape ppl get the idea which is such a weight off my shoulders lol, its still a lot of work but so much fun to know i can to an extent do what i want and ppl actually like it like that. i also learned that like most other writers i have to cause my favs emotional and physical pain,

🎁- Any writing advice for people who want to write something like this?

hhHHHH 1. please do it its so fun just give in to the edge my guy , 2. try to get comfortable re-reading your chapters, for me its like when ppl listen to themselves sing/act but im trying to do better bc its so much more consistent when i keep it fresh in my mind and it also boosts confidence when u can pick out the things u like instead of the things u dont, 3. trying to have at least one scene in mind for each chapter that ur excited to write so u can have motivation to update faster! for me it doesnt have to be smth i think would excite the audience either like it could be the most basic thing but just having an idea of it and knowing i want to see it come to life rly helps me stay on top of it all

TY SM FRIEND THIS WAS SO FUN x x )

[ryssbelle]

I had to rewrite and resketch the moderate comic like 4 times already.

Good exposition is hard lmao, but I think I got it, so hopefully yalls will be getting a comic later tonight or later tomorrow!!

Just an update! Sorry everything is taking so long, holiday season is coming up and I work retail lol so it's taking up a lot of time due to me being scheduled A LOT. Unfortunately I'm one of the few in the store who are there regularly and know just about everything so they can put me anywhere.

I've also been trying to take care of my boo boo wrist more so I've been taking more breaks and time in between drawing sessions, so that slows down progress a bit.

I'm doing my best so please bear with me lol, if youd like you can send me some questions or random thoughts and I'll do my best to answer depending on what it is (no spoilers)

[1milzine]

As we celebrate over 200 followers on tumblr, here’s round two of favorite rarepairs!

@lurkerwithcomputer said: Still taking fave rarepair asks? I have a slowly growing love of Toga Himiko/Kaminari Denki. I'm honestly surprised it's so rare considering all the Traitor Kaminari theories. (I mean, there are only *2 fics* - I kid you not - on Ao3 with this ship and one of them is mine...)

Mod Muse: Oooh, good point. This will be a very valid ship if the traitor theory turns out to be true! Heck, even if it doesn't, I could see the dynamic being a lot of fun. Toga's chaos, empathy, and undercurrent of cunning combined with Kaminari's raw chaotic dumbass… chaos squared.

Mod Echo: I’m fond of the “Kaminari is the traitor” theory just because Kaminari is cool but like he could be even cooler with a shadowy past, and Toga and Kaminari would just be amazing to see together in general. I feel like these two are a pair I would not want to meet in a dark alley. @_@

Anon said: this is gonna sound weird but bakugo and that friend he had in middle school (the one w the long fingers) they WERE childhood friends, nd i feel like theyd have a very “no homo” kinda relationship (but secretly Yes Homo) nd angst bc the friend ISNT a hero student and esp w bkg rebuilding his relationship w deku, he could feel like hes not Good Enough to act on his feelings 4 bkg. idk i think itd b cute bc hes the friend bkg had a consistent good relationship w/ and i wanna explore that dynamic

Mod Muse: I don't think it's weird at all! I could definitely see that sort of vibe coming from them and the potential for angst, character development, and all those other things is… delicious. I love rebuilding old relationships type ships, and this hits that mark perfectly. :D

Mod Echo: “Childhood friend” ships are A+ in my book; I love those wholesome moments of “Remember that time when we…” Doesn’t seem like a weird ship to me at all!

Anon said: Dunno if you’ll do another round of fav rarepairs but I think ShinIzuOcha is so cute!! Also Kendo x Momo x Jirou are adorable

Mod Muse: Oh gosh, you're right, they are cute! I should have thought twice before suggesting this event… i'm… gonna end up with too many ships. RIP me

Mod Echo: Y’all ever look at canon and go “Wow, you’re just not trying hard enough. There are 505607920 ways you could be infinitely more awesome.” And here’s two of them right here! I’m a big fan of Shinsou in general so sign me up for ShinIzuOcha, and Kendo, Momo, and Jirou just seems like a totally natural ship--their connections all have good development!

@fleurdesamione said: I love the big three as a polyship! They're just such a good balance for each other and so sweet in their friendship! The idea of them sharing a romantic bond just makes me soften!

Mod Muse: *teary eyes* Too right OP… too right

Mod Echo: L I S T E N they’re not called “The Big Three” for nothing, okay??? There are some characters yah just don’t separate and this is it right here, gold standard. Nejire and Mirio’s outgoing natures balance out Tamaki’s shyness and Tamaki’s determination gives the others motivation to keep going. So good, just so good.

Anon said: Todoroki/shinso has got a killer vibe going for it right now with me! I love the idea of the two who declare from the start they don't want to make friends coming together and finding a warmth and love from each other.

Mod Muse: That sort of dynamic is always nice! I’ll admit, I probably wouldn’t have thought of Todoroki/Shinsou on my own, but now that you mention it, it sounds like it has a lot of potential.

Mod Echo: Yesss, let’s continue to further the Shinsou agenda… I think there’s so much good stuff that could happen in a ship like this--they both have elements of their quirks that they hesitate to use or don’t view as heroic, so finding a way to make their quirks into something they love and feel great about TOGETHER is just flawless. 

@coffee-craving-canine said: I have A LOT of rarepairs, but currently, my favorites are Frozen Marbles (Rei/Compress) and DabiHawksMiruko. Compress, despite being a villain, is much more of a gentleman than Endeavor ever could be and would treat Rei so much better; plus he's very charming. Rei deserves good things. The scandal with Dabi secretly dating two heroes is angst heavy, making it fun to plot how it could work out. Hawks and Rumi can relate to each other with their animal instincts (plus "Dabi is a furry" jokes)

Mod Muse: Is now the time to say that I actually ship Dabi/Miruko myself? So yes, Coffee, I definitely understand where you’re coming from! And you’re dead right about Rei deserving good things! Compress may be a villain, but at least I have little doubt that he would treat her right.

Mod Echo: YOOOOO, I love this!! Mr. Compress more like Mr. Steal Yo Girl!!! He should totally go save Rei; Horikoshi get on this stat! DabiHawksMiruko is hilarious to me because I’m imagining how such a situation would happen in canon and what people’s reactions would be… Great stuff.

Anon said: My favorite rarepair (and just bnha ship in general) is Setsumori! (Setsuna/Kinoko) They have such a cute dynamic: Excited tol and shy smol (in the most simple terms). They're also just both cuties!!

Mod Muse: You have me intrigued. Excited tol and shy smol girls is a worthwhile shipping investment indeed! 

Mod Echo: Class 1-B needs way more love! There are so many fun characters and dynamics there and then the comic just glances right over them. I want to see some interactions with these two in canon!

Anon said: Inko/Yagi/Naomasa! All Might and Naomasa have such a good rapport in Vigilante! But Toshinko is such a wholesome ship! So why not make a ot3, you know?

Mod Muse: I do know! Naomasa deserves more love, and Inko and Toshinori both deserve nice things. Ship them all together and let them all be happy and warm and wholesome. ^.^

Mod Echo: There are so many shippers with great taste submitting responses here. I love All Might/Inko, and I also love All Might/Naomasa--Inko/All Might/Naomasa is like double the love! We all know Toshinko is A+ but man, I feel like Naomasa’s calm and just generally kind demeanor is a great match for Inko too. This was a great idea for acquiring new ships....

Anon said: Shipping Fuyumi with Miruko is popular but I'm also intrigued by Mt. Lady and Fuyumi together, considering they also have such clashing personalities. With Mt. Lady very self-assured and attention-seeking and Fuyumi tends to throw her all into supporting others.

Mod Muse: Oooh, I could see them making lovely foils! I approve! Also, imagining the surprise of Fuyumi’s family and friends finding out she’s dating Mt. Lady… lmao

Mod Echo: I like Fuyumi with like… everyone. XD She’s just a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world… But Fuyumi with Mt. Lady could be really cool! I feel like Mt. Lady is really good at putting on a media personality, but having to be herself around Fuyumi could be very interesting challenge!

Anon said: i have such a soft spot for kirishindeku ;;w;; shinsou and deku already have a friendship in the series, and kirishima would absolutely get along w shinsou as well!! they make me all sorts of emotional, haha

Mod Muse: S o f t. I think that Kirishima and Shinsou would balance each other out really well, and then Deku falls really nicely somewhere in the middle of the relative soft-stale cinnamon roll spectrum.

Mod Echo: I see you, fellow Shinsou fans; I see you. Kirishima and Deku are already adorable together just by themselves, but Kirishimi and Shinsou is a dynamic I hadn’t even thought of. I could totally see Kirishima hyping Shinsou’s joining the hero class, and can we just talk about the sheer amount of motivation contained in a KiriShinDeku ship???

Anon said: I really like Mei/Himiko/Iida! mostly because of how hilarious it would be to pair off Iida, one of the most intense and serious members of class A, with two of the wackiest, one-track mind characters.

Mod Muse: O-oh my gosh. I have no words, this is… this is just utterly fantastic. Bless Iida and, in this scenario, heaven help him. I could actually see this relationship being good for all three of them though! 

Mod Echo: RIPPPP Iida! XD There are some ships you like because they’re serious and deep and thought-provoking… And then there are some ships that you love that are just plain comedic genius. The potential for wacky hijinks here is truly and completely off the charts. Just yes, please.

[wickymicky]

so, um, ive been sorta drifting in and out of sleep and i saw that it was 5am so i watched the new clc video lmao... hell yeah dude i really liked it haha. that was a really, really fun song. its not the same intense heavy girl crush theyve been doing since hobgoblin (with the exception of where are you) but at the same time, i think it fits in their discography really well. maybe its just the video, but it kinda feels somewhat like pepe? it wasnt what i was expecting from a song called ‘devil’, i thought itd be more like hobgoblin, but honestly im really pleasantly surprised lol. i love hobgoblin, but idk, im not as interested right now in hearing more songs in that vein. if they did another song like ‘no’ and ‘me’ i’d probably still like it cause i like those songs, but i wouldnt like it as much as i like this. my only complaint at the moment is that it feels short. it just kinda... ends. and im vibing with it too much and im not ready for it to be over lol. luckily, i can just press play again, cause its really fast to start up, it doesnt waste much time getting to the good stuff haha. ive listened to it like three times during the writing of this post and yeah i can tell for sure now that i like this a lot. i wasnt like eagerly anticipating it cause honestly i got kinda tired of ‘me’, but again, i’m very pleasantly surprised. im gonna listen like one or two more times and then go back to sleep.

also like every scene in the video screaaaams digipedi to me, but i cant find any confirmation of who directed it. i’m pretty sure though

[isaacathom]

names. uh. fuck

junzha is a very placeholder-y name for Jun. Rhiana. Zeke? well i guess its derived from ezekiel so why name. uh. Ezekel??? smth like that.  Gwen? her full name is Gwendolen but that doesnt really shorten easy. uh. Gwenil? Gwenln? looks like a mess that one. Gwendl? that sounds like grundle and i dont think i want that. or maybe the latter half - Dolyne? Endlyn? that looks kinda cute if Whack as Fuck. i like that.

Lyndel is fine (it doesnt really capture the vibe of Lyndelle but theres no real way to do that is a 6 letter constraint). Dahnte is fine. ill take it. Elliot already fits. waaiiiiit that means 3 of them have E names..... oh dear. uh, and then Felicity. oh gee. oh dear. Icitas? from Felicitas. Tsitas, perhaps.

ok lets say that works. nooooowww uh. Ezekel Endlyn and Elliot. hoo boy. i think ill keep Endlyn because it has a nice sound to it. i think Elliot should definitely change. his name is way too clearly just like, a human name. itd be like calling your troll Andrew, yknow. maybe put it from a diff language. like, it derives from Elias, so sounds /like/ that. er. Ilias? Iliyas? god i wish fonts would differentiate capital i and lower l better. iliyas. i kinda like that. its cute.

so that leaves Ezekel and Endlyn. uh. ho boy. i mean i didnt really /want/ it to be Ezekiel (thats why he was called Zeke - i didnt want it to be like...... super in for the religion thing, which is wayyyyyy too much in ezekiel for me. all the -iel endings are that way). hmm. Zekiel would be too heavy. zeeekeee. mb like Zachariah (even though im 90% sure ive either called a character that or used that name for something...... prb just the zacharie thing). Zakari? Zekeri? smth like tha.

Junzha isnt ideal in any way (its just a combo of his first name and most of his surname). but his name isnt very..... malleable. i never even figured which meaning it was. probably army? hmmm. hold on i have an idea. fuck that didnt turn up shit. oh jesuuuusss. mb meddle. Junnza? looks worse. Zhazhu? looks like im fucking around. idk. Junzha might have to do? i dont have a lot to work with.

ok so. Junzha. Rhiana. Zekari. Endlyn. Lyndel. Dahnte. Iliyas. Tsitas. thats fine? i can roll. dont even fucking ask what their last names are iiiiii have things i really oughta be doing other than /naming the characters in my fucking homestuck au of my pokemon original story/

[urmomsstuntdouble]

oh ho ho this is very cool, tysm for writing it all out!!

i rlly enjoy the idea of endermen being made of magic almost, and the idea of magic being present throughout all dimensions of the game. i think your point about the nether being the least magical place is especially interesting, and adds to the perception of the nether as a hell dimension. makes it more inhospitable to more types of creatures, yk? also its interesting to me that you say that’s the dimension with the least end magic, bc of its heavy association with crying obsidian (found in chests in bastions and also in ruined portals, think that’s the only way to get the block in game?). it doesnt really do anything but it’s a nice block and has the purple coding that’s so associated with magic. maybe crying obsidian and nether endermen are related somehow? idk, thats something id have to think about more but i like the concept and how you went with it.

i also like your ideas about the ender pearls as their “cores,” it kind of gives off the vibe that they’re a really big single celled organism. maybe that’s why they’re so unstable and can shapeshift so easily? like a total rewrite of your biology to shapeshift has gotta be easier and less of an ordeal when there’s only one cell to rewrite. also like the concept of their core, or the nucleus if you will, being a black hole. i think that could also explain why they have black skin in game, because of the whole light absorption thing of black holes irl, and that no light can escape- it perhaps only looks weird to overworld entities because the overworld has a sun and the end doesn’t. they just blend in! 

another thing that’s interesting also about the end is how the end portal always looks the same whenever you look at it, if that makes sense. like the portal coloring is like you’re looking through a doorway rather than just swirly magic vibes like the nether portal, and i think that’s really neat- it makes the end seem more like a naturally ocurring thing imo, and the nether becomes more associated with magic that way. and then when you get into the end, if you drink a night vision potion, the fog turns into purple static- I think with your interpretation, that purple static might be something that the endermen are always capable of seeing and it’s what’s inside them as well. it might also point to another element of the cultural divide you bring up between the endermen of different dimensions re: pearl treatment (point 5), cause if the stuff you’re made of is also all around you, i think it might lead to a different opinion on what reality actually is across the different dimensions. like the end endermen are so connected to the end magic while the endermen that live in other parts of the world are a lot more. disconnected and there’s a greater distinction of where they end and the rest of the world begins. i think itd be really interesting to explore the concept of self in endermen in this way (<-theyre being pretentious). 

also i lurve your thoughts on what they’d eat, like carnivorousness. its an interesting take in comparison with what i usually see, which is that the endermen are carnivores. i think a common interpretation is that they’re very cat-like, which fits, cause cats are carnivores, but it very much does check out that they wouldn’t be since the main food source of the end is chorus fruit. they could eat shulkers but like. is it rlly worth the effort. idk man. also the dragon, but they seem to be in some sort of conflict with the dragon in game, due to the achievement being called “free the end” and also how they will attack the dragon sometimes. also yes you’re 100% correct in your thing about animals who are omnivores having more energy, they dont have to rely completely on hunting (energy intensive) and so they’re able to more efficiently gain the calories they need to function. 

also to add on to your ideas about the eyes of ender, what if the eyes are just what’s actually at the center of the pearl all along, and blaze powder is sort of removing a bit of an outer protective shell? cause the pearls being used as a teleportation device is cool but then the eyes can also be used to craft ender chests and open the end portal, so i think theyre still very powerful in that way. maybe they have something to do with the blaze powder being used to channel the energy of the black hole? like tying the black hole-ness to a single chest location. and then having 12 of them in the portal is bringing together enough of that massive black hole force to tear a hole that connects the dimensions (did that make any sense lol it did to me). also thinking now that maybe obsidian connects the dimensions, bc its necessary to craft a nether portal and is also necessary to craft an end chest, and is also found within the end with the massive towers. and then maybe crying obsidian is something that’s a bit more end infused and that’s why it can’t be used to go to the nether? at this point its a bit of a ramble but good on you for inspiring a ramble lol 

something else that this has made me wonder about is the way that cranboo’s memory loss works, like they’re having a natural death sort of but very young? in my mind when i read the word disintegrate i just sort of imagined them turning into kinetic sand, like with the end magic within them turning from a gas to a solid and then that solid crumbling into sand type of vibe. that’s what’s happening in his brain <3 it is sand <3 and maybe with hybridization the sandbrain comes in faster, due to the other species being involved that has other elements (like more than one cell) that results in the magic having less ability to stay gaseous for a longer time. maybe cranboo is like how they have dog and cat breeds that are just biologically destined to die at a younger age and so the sand brain kicked in at age however old they are or something. 

i also got the image in my head of the endermen dying in a kind of similar way to how the doctor on doctor who regenerates, like they explode except instead of regeneration its just sand <3 

anyway uh i think these are all of my thoughts? thank you so much for taking the time to not only write all that stuff but also draw diagrams!! it was a very neat and fun read, and i really do love minecraft lore (like the idea that there was some cataclysmic event and the world is slowly recovering as the game updates to include more animals and eventually more intelligent life in the form of villagers)! hope this rambly train of thought response was not awful! 

wait dude your thoughts on enderman biology seem neat, what else are some of your thoughts on how they work? u don't have to answer this w a drawing or anything, am just interested in hearing your thoughts!

I was meaning to add more pictures to illustrate my concept but its been over a week and I will never post this otherwise

OKAYY I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS.

First of all I wanna elaborate on end magic. Ever notice how the Nether portal gives out particles similar to those that surround endermen? well I thought like. What if End magic kind of. flows around all the different dimensions? and is invisible to the naked eye? and it connects them in a way? This was heavily inspired by the dust from His Dark Materials (y'all should read it or watch the HBO series. the worldbuilding in it is absolutely fantastic!)

Endermen can teleport through realms thanks to this end magic that connects them. End magic originates in the end and flows through other realms. The nether has the least amount of end magic flow due to the fact that it's less connected from the end (the "source")

While the amount of end magic doesnt really affect the realms in any specific way, it does affect the enderman life cycle in each of them!

More in-depth analysis of their body mechanisms and life cycles and the logic of it all under the readmore (WARNING: SUPER LONG, LIKE ALMOST 3K WORDS KINDA LONG, I HAVE A VERY SIMPLIFIED VERSION I MADE EARLIER THIS YEAR HERE)

1. CODE

Endermen bodies are made of end magic. But their real "life source" is ender pearls! Each ender pearl is unique and contains "code" that makes up an enderman's appearance (basically dna...but I call it code because video game and because theyre not organic...yknow?).

Code decides things like markings, eye shape, and ear shape - at least these are the things that cannot be changed and are basically "permanent". Due to the un-organic nature of their bodies endermen can shapeshift ever so slightly if they desire to, things like longer hair and sometimes height or body shape can be changed through time.

Most endermen have purple eye, markings, and insides colors, and also varying shades of dark fur - In very rare situations this differs, peobably due to anomalies on the code (glitches) or hybridation- but an enderman cannot willingly shapeshift these unless its written in its code, high-stress situations can glitch the code and lead to an enderman to acquire a different fur color or even different markings. <;- my explanation for purple-eyes in enderwalk and also some of the changes that my cranboo goes thru post-death.

2. BIRTH AND GROWTH

Each enderman has a main, "central" ender pearl...its basically the ender pearl its born (or incubated? I'll refer to it as incubation from not on) with. Ender pearls without bodies have to be taken care of very meticulously because they're fragile and any stress in them can break them or make them too unstable to form a body to begin with.

If you were to look at an ender pearl in the process of it forming a body - You'd see it slowly pulling end magic (purple particles) into itself, and then it'll coat itself with a purple layer (or rarely other colors depending on the code), then it'll slowly form an outer layer that looks like the fur color, then limbs begin to separate until a youngling is fully formed!

The amount of time it takes for an enderman to grow highly depends on the realm its in: Realms with more end magic lead to rapid growth and maturity, while realms with little end magic have very slow growth. Basically endermen born in the end mature in a comparatively short amount of time, endermen born in the overworld would reach maturity at a pace similar of an human, while endermen from the nether can take much, much longer to mature.

Once an enderman is fully grown its aging becomes stunted. The longevity of an enderman depends on which realms it spends its life in, and whether or not it suffers injuries (More in depth explanation in points 4 and 6)

3. ANATOMY

Ender Pearls are sort of like...black holes in a way? They pull the invisible end magic flowing through the realms, and that's how an enderman's body solidifies! They also can create something akin to worm holes for the enderman to teleport (or for players, I elaborate on how that works in point 7)

The enderman body is strange to explain. Try imagine an ice cube in which only the outside of it is frozen, while the inside is still liquid water. Enderman bodies have insides of flowing end magic, their "blood" in a way, while the outer layer or "skin" is more solid end magic to prevent the insides from spilling out. Pure liquid water (only water, liquids containing water like milk or potions dont count, solids like snow or ice also dont count) dissolves the outer layer, making it thinner or can even break it leading to magic leakage. Also the outer layer is...fuzzy? I wanted my endermen to be fluffy, my logic is that fur means more area of outer layer which makes it harder for water and other hazards to fully break through.

An enderman's chest is sort of hollow, basically a very thin layer of the outer skin and some magic to leave space for the ender pearl(s) to be in. The enderman's mouth-throat is the only direct connection to the ender pearl, energy is consumed from the ender pearl to keep the magic pull, so they need to eat sometimes to keep themselves...stable.

In point 1 I mentioned markings, well markings are areas where the outer layer is thinner and slightly traslucid - they match the color of the insides and have a faint glow. All endermen have markings in the chest/back (where the ender pearls are located) and under/near the eyes. Most endermen also have glowing markings on their fingertips and toes, and its not unusual for some to possess markings around arms and abdomen too.

Each enderman has an unique combination of markings (some can have same/similar chest markings but different ones on eyes or other parts and vice versa) and its sort of how they identify each other.

4. DIET AND ENERGY

Whatever mechanism goes in there for the ender pearl to acquire the energy isnt fully fleshed out, but i'd say its pretty instant, kind of like throwing something to an incinerator. Endermen dont really need teeth to mush up their food due to this, so they dont have any really. You might notice that I never draw my cranboo with teeth (other than that little fang on the lip, but i'll argue that the fangs on an enderman's lips/mouth are more for attacking/defense rather than eating!)

Also talking about food, while many tend to hc Endermen as more carnivorous I'd say that they favor vegetables! Obviously they can eat anything but iirc hervibore animals get more energy than the carnivores that consume them in a way? Also since the only "food" that exists in the end is chorus fruits I think its logical to think that enderman diet is more veggie/fruit based rather than meat.

When an enderman reaches adulthood, basically the only work the ender pearl has to do is to keep its body stable, but this will slowly wear down the ender pearl no matter how much it tries to "maintain" it! Injury or lack of end magic around means extra work for the ender pearl to keep things together which equals shorter lifespans.

So with this logic, the end having little to no hazards towards endermen and also being the literal source of end magic leads to endermen that spend most their lives there to live for far longer. The Nether, being the realm with the least end magic AND with so many hazards means they have shorter lives. This is obviously only taking natural death/of old age into consideration.

5. AGING, REPRODUCTION, AND BEHAVIOR

When the main Ender Pearl begins to lose its magic pull, the enderman will start "producing" more of them in its core (To a maximum of 6 pearls). This creates more magic pull to keep its body together - but maintaining multiple enderpearls also needs more energy so older endermen tend to have stronger appetites. The magic pull extra pearls create isn't as strong as that of the main pearl though, and processes like healing an injury only strain the main pearl.

Extra ender pearls can be "Extracted" (Regurgitated) to make new endermen, refer to point 2 on how new endermen form! When a pearl is regurgitated it also acquires a thin layer of end magic from the parent, which makes it possible for the ender pearl to "survive" out of the body.

Although the new ender pearls tend to have very similar code to that of the original enderman, it is never the same! code isn't really copied but more like...influenced: instead of direct copy-pasting it'd be like trying to copy a classmate's homework - similar to be just right but not the same. I do not have a whole explanation on the mechanism on how pearls are replicated so, sorry about that.

Since end endermen consume less energy, they take longer to get to a stage in which they need produce more pearls - so they dont reproduce nearly as much as those from other realms. Nether endermen start reproducing very quickly after reaching maturity! Since they start producing new pearls earlier.

This also ties in with how real life animals work in fact, animals who have longer lifespans and less threats tend to reproduce on a lesser scale than those who have shorter ones and are prey animals.

Realm influences behavior around new ender pearls and younglings, and how they interact with each other:

Nether endermen are more defensive, and tend to live in small communities for self preservation and care for their slow-growing youth, theyre also very territorial of other mobs and anything they might find as a threat - this explains higher spawn rates in warped forests.

End endermen are very careless about ender pearls and younglings since incubation/growth is rapid and theres little threats around, but this can lead to pearls being left alone before a body can even form - its not rare for a pearl to be left on the ground and get broken or kicked off to the void due to passerbys.

Overworld Endermen tend to wander alone more, only settling in an area while they are taking care of an ender pearl/youngling, there's rare ocurrences of them having companions.

6. INJURY/HEALING AND DEATH

Grave injury like loss of a limb isnt always fatal, in fact an enderman can regenerate a limb on the span of weeks-months at the expense of a shorter lifespan (it's not like it can control this regeneration though). Usually when healing from an injury, the outer layer is more traslucid and acquires the color of the inside - they can look very similar or almost the same as a marking, the difference is that markings are permanent while all scarring fades eventually.

As explained in point 4, ender pearls need energy to keep the bodies together, and they wear out as time goes on - Outer layer damage requires more work from the pearl to heal, and this affects lifespan along with the kind of realm the enderman lives in.

A Natural death, or death of old age, means that the main ender pearl's pull has basically fully worn out, so much that not even secondary pearls can make up for it. The enderman will lose its appetite and become lethargic, and its body will slowly begin to disintegrate - one could basically see the end magic exude from their bodies as opposed to it being attracted during incubation.

Once the body reaches a dangerously low amount of magic, the enderman fully destabilizes and the leftover of its body dissipates abruptly.

The main ender pearl collapses and disappears with that, the survivability of the extra ender pearls depends on how the final dissipation ocurred, if the enderman was standing and they fall down to the ground they almost always always break or become too unstable to form bodies, but if the enderman was laying down there's a chance the extra ender pearls get a slight end magic coating from the dissipated body.

The way a dying enderman looks in an unnatural death depends on the injury.

Stabbing through the chest fully breaks the main ender pearl and the enderman dissipates instantly, any extra ender pearls also break in that instant.

To kill an enderman without a direct stab to the chest requires to create as much ruptures to the outer layer to exacerbate leakage of magic (or well...bleeding i guess?), at some point it'll reach the threshold that makes it destabilize, and its body fully dissipates.

Death by water exposure looks very similar to natural death, due to the water dissolving their outer layer the magic will leak out more evenly. Any extra ender pearls will not be stable to form a new body if theyre exposed to water after the enderman's death.

Endermen can feel pain due to damage from their outer layer, on the other side the insides are numb. When an Enderman dies of old age it isnt sudden damage to the outer layer rather than it dissipating, so they dont really feel pain but they also lose the sense of touch.

7. ENDER PEARLS AND EYES OF ENDER

So yeah, last big point I'll flesh out is how Ender Pearls work when they're looted from a player - Traumatic and sudden deaths like Chest injury will break all of the pearls so they're the least recommended if a player wants to get some - unfortunately its very easy to go for the chest when you're being attacked by an enderman and want to get rid of it asap.

In the previous point I detailed how the "safest" way to kill an enderman and keep the ender pearls intact is through creating as much damage to the outer layer to cause rapid destabilization, it's important to not make the death too instant because sudden change in environment and too much stress can make the pearls break.

Its important to clean the ender pearls with water after acquiring them - this will take off any end magic coating and make them too unstable to attract more.

After this its important to handle them carefully, causing stress on them will also break them!

Throwing an ender pearl will basically activate the sort of worm hole endermen teleport with - but since the player is organic and NOT made of end magic they'll suffer damage from the teleportation.

Using Blaze Powder on an ender pearl to make an eye of ender will make it more stable and reactive to end magic - but it loses any teleportation capabilities, throwing an eye of ender will make it float towards areas with high levels of end magic (aka end portal!)

8. EXTRAS

Endermen lack a sense of temperature - so they dont really feel too hot or too cold, but their chests tend to be unusually warm while the rest of the body is ambient temperature or the temperature of anything theyre in contact with.

Due to their shapeshifting capabilities, Endermen are very good at imitating sounds/voices. Their malleable bodies allow them to shift the anatomy of their throat to create different pitch, tones, and noises. An Enderman's throat by default is only capable of making the noises we usually hear from them in game.

While endermen are more intelligent than the average mob and can form social circles, most of them dont have a sense of individuality/society as a player does and are more instinct based/animalistic - This doesnt mean that they cannot achieve it though, as there's cases where an enderman can reach more individuality to the point where they can choose to do things like shapeshift-grow their hair out and style it, or acquire a sense of fashion, or identify with a specific gender.

They have retractable claws, but instead of retractable theyre...shapeshifted in?

They have paws on their legs and have 4 toes - they lack pawpads though, their paws are more similar to that of a rabbit (all fluffy means more sneaky and the solid layer helps protect while walking)

End Magic is, by default, a glowing purple-magenta hue when in a flowing state, and is traslucid to dark blue tones as solid - an enderman's body color can range from medium dark purple to dark blue depending on how thin or thick its solid layer is, but altering the arrangement of end magic particles down to a microscopic level can give colors outside of that spectrum with an extra energy cost.

Hybridation is a complex topic (looking at you, c!Ranboo), but I personally believe that enderman hybrids are more like- fully enderman who have "code" of another species in their ender pearl: The ender pearl makes the end magic arrange in a way that it resembles the characteristics of the other species accordingly, and it can even attempt to imitate bodily functions of the other species - But hybrid bodies are basically an enderman body 'shapeshifted' to an extreme and aren't organic in any way - ie: they have no blood, the complexity of their insides can vary, still depends on end magic.

Glitches can also make a non-hybrid enderman to have different capabilities from the "average" enderman or very different traits like eye/insides colors or physiology - sometimes (but not always) both.

High-stress situations or even near death experiences can also rarely cause glitches on the code - the new traits present after a few days/weeks/months (depends on the realm), less severe glitches tend to be rewritten with the original code within the lifespan of the enderman, but more severe ones tend to to last until death.

Hybrid traits and congenital (?) code glitches can be passed to descendants, but the code always has a tendency to converge to that of a "default" enderman one after several generations. This is because keeping a body outside of that framework is harder to maintain - more drastic differences tend to lead to drastically shorter lifespans.