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HII!! I LOVE YOUR WORK SO MUCH <33 So, I know Mycheal is asexual but people are asexual for many reasons. What is the reason for Mycheal being asexual?
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#mushroom oasis vn#mychael ask#doodles#i understand the question came from a good place but its just funny to me hahaha!#uno reverse of âwhy are you gayâ#plus its only one aspect of his character#in terms of his biology theres somewhat a reason why#he just doesnt biologically procreate#nor is he interested#hes still panromantic!
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Please tell me about shatterstar's Childhood
oh my god anon okay Iâm assuming in context of what Iâve recently posted you want like... my version of events rather than whatâs canon but just in case I hope you know that thereâs basically zero canon material that actually describes his childhood/young adulthood beyond âI was a warrior bornâ or whatever the fuck. if you want to know about that idk go on the fucken... marvel wiki page or something
also--I hate that I have to put this out here and I doubt anyone would actually do this but just in case--I have spent like 1 million hours thinking about this because I have brain disorders and it is very close to my heart so please do not A) use this in fics, etc without letting me know/getting my permission in advance or B) reblog this post
anyways. this is a can of worms so Iâm going to do a cheeky lil
first we have to get something out of the way: I hate the âshatterstarâs his own grandpaâ paradox. I am sorry if this angers people but it makes me mad so I ignore it. the reason it bothers me is because it means alison blaire essentially married her grandson, which is A) weird and B) bad from a genetics perspective.
in my version of canon âstar IS the biological child of longshot and dazzler but longshot wasnât cloned using âstarâs DNA because..... oh god... another whole separate post can be made about this but... in my head, on mojoworld the way genetic engineering works is not really the same as it is here. here genetic engineering generally means taking an existing genome and inserting or deleting genes. this is how they make, for example, animals that glow, or confer pesticide resistance to plants.
but on mojoworld I think the way they genetically engineer is more like... the way we mechanically engineer. like the entire organism is built from the ground up. thereâs a master genetic blueprint which is essentially the âminimal genomeâ required for a functioning humanoid. this was created by study of Earth humans by arize and the other genetic engineers. they can then go in and customize by adding elements to the genome that code for the signals/building blocks that control things like height, strength, hair color, eye color, having hollow bones etc. so in my head longshot was sort of... designed with âstar as the inspiration, but not directly cloned. that wouldnât even make sense anyways because A) different hair color and B) LONGSHOT HAS 3 FINGERS ON EACH HAND and shatterstar has 4!! thats NOT HOW CLONES WOULD WORK!!!!
(side note, the concept of a minimal functional genome is a real thing in biology! some scientists have taken a bacterium that already has a small genome and reduced it to the minimum size required for viability. here is a wikipedia article on it and here is the original paper (DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5447.2165)Â which I can explain in more detail because I took a class on synthetic biology which this technically falls under and I had to read this paper very closely).
fuck Iâve written 4 paragraphs and not even talked about his childhood yet. I am so sorry. anyways. so the way I think they raise the gladiators on mojoworld is they create them in batches of 5 to 10 identical copies of a certain âmodelâ, place each copy in a different âclassâ with a set of 2-3 mentors/teachers, and train them to fight until they are 13 or 14. until this time the only names they have are the names that identify the âmodelâ--like for shatterstar that would be gaveedra-seven where the model identifier is âgaveedraâ and he is (in the lore that I have come up with) the 7th of 8 total.
the reason they create multiples and put them in different classes is each mentor is going to have a slightly different style of teaching which is going to work better for some and worse for others, so it allows them to have more mass production while increasing the chances of creating a truly great champion. itâs classic nature versus nurture--the genetic engineers create your nature, but you donât end up exactly the same as others of your model. maybe you get an edge, maybe you donât.
another thing that happens is different mentors believe in different ways of raising the kids in their care. shatterstar specifically was raised in a class where there was absolutely zero emotional development at all and no attachments allowed beyond fighting alliances. thatâs not the case in all classes, and it also had the effect of making him somewhat of an outsider even within the other gladiators as he got older.
at 13 or 14--and yes I realize this is very fucked up but dude its fucking mojoworld idk what you expected--they start participating in fights. the first ones arenât to the death and theyâre as teams and theyâre not usually televised theyâre more like high school sports games that are attended by scouts (here, theyâre âsponsorsâ--I think thatâs a canonical term but I honestly canât remember) and if you get sponsored you leave your class and join a new âteamâ thatâs really just a bunch of people who all have the same sponsorship. this is where things can get interesting because theyâve all been raised with slightly different fighting styles but more importantly, slightly different degrees of Personhood.
also at this point I should mention that by this time, there are usually only 2, maybe 3 of each model left. either they died or were recognized as not having talent so they were sent to eventually fulfill other roles in the network. in âstarâs case there was just him and gaveedra-five. once you get to the stage where youâre sponsored and youâre actually fighting to the death one of the first people youâll fight is any remaining members of your model group.
by the time youâre the only one left of your group, youâre also eligible to earn a stage name. this usually happens if you have a particularly epic fight with a lot of viewers, you win and the commentators will typically say something like âLetâs give this crowd a real name to cheer!â and theyâll have a few candidate names and theyâll kind of just pick one. AUGH I actually have this scene written out in story form but its too long so I think Iâll save it.... :)Â
after you get a name you also get a cool outfit and usually some kind of mark or tattoo that serves as a brand. this brings me to another important point--shatterstar inherited the X-gene from alison and therefore he IS a mutant. his mutation is the swords vibration thing and the glowing eye. the star mark is a tattoo and teleportation is benjamin russellâs mutation (how he fits into all this is... for another post). basically after he got his name the costuming department guys were like âhey your eye glows, you look like the Legendary Warrior of Old, Longshot, weâre gonna pattern your look after himâ so they gave him the star tattoo and the outfit thatâs literally inverse colors of longshotâs.
also this brings me to another aside: youâre probably wondering âif heâs the biological kid of longshot and alison how are there 8 gaveedras?â when the genetic engineers got a hold on him as a baby they were like Sick! free baby! free genetic material! thats our job done for us! so they cloned him (in the traditional sense) and made 7 copies. this was also to kind of conceal his identity as technically being from outside mojoworld, which would make him stick out and thus be a target. they DID edit out the x-gene in the other gaveedra models though. this wasnât a problem for âstar because his mutation didnât manifest until he was already sponsored.
I think thatâs .... pretty much it for macroscopic lore on what it was like to be a kid gladiator on mojoworld. now let me give you some Tidbits of his life specifically:
like I said he was raised in a particularly cold and ruthless class. the mentors that raised him are like well-known by everyone to produce some of the best warriors but also thereâs discourse on mojoworld because some people say perfectly emotionless killing machines arenât as fun to watch. when he was sponsored there were 4-5 others in the same sponsorship and they were like Theres Something Wrong With You LOL
they speak earth languages on mojoworld because theyâre imitating the broadcasts they (the spineless ones) used to hear from earth. however, most of the lower-class as well as almost all arena fighters and other television personalities speak cadre or other languages which are native to the planet. the stage names are all vaguely in english, but the gladiators donât really understand them at first.
shatterstar got his name before he got the glowing eye, and when he learned what stars are, and saw his eye as a little star, he was like wow :) this is Me :) which is why that name is so important to him. itâs also one of the first things that wholly belonged to him.
(you canât see stars on mojoworld because of light pollution and also because itâs a pocket dimension and there just arenât that many stars to see)
I hate to bring up the s**ley miniseries but I do think it would be interesting to have him have a sort of ... mentor/first friend, similar to the concept of gringrave but they were NOT in a relationship. it was more like... another kid who was a year or so older than him got a soft spot for him and helped him not be so clueless. she didnât make as much progress as xforce did, obviously. but they were.... something like friends.
unfortunately she was used by spiral to get shatterstar to murder the first rebel guy who tried to get him out of there. then she got switched sponsors (this can happen) and he had to kill her, and he was like well I will simply never develop any kind of attachment to anyone ever again.
he almost didnât make it out of the first training session with his sponsorship group (this is semi-canon--thereâs a reference when heâs teaching terry to swordfight to almost not surviving the first time he was in a gladiator class or whatever it was).
the closest he ever came to losing was the day he got the name. thatâs why the crowds loved it so much.
the double-bladed sword was a gimmick weapon but when he got his mutation they realized it works way better if thereâs resonance between two parallel blades so they redesigned it as an actual weapon.
(forgot this but I feel like I should include it) at 17 he escaped the arenas and joined the cadre alliance. two years later he came to earth and joined xforce.
I think thatâs going to have to be it for now because itâs literally almost midnight and I have work tomorrow and I did NOT intend to stay up this late but I did. thank you for this opportunity anon :) feel free to ask me any other questions and also I realize a lot of this probably makes no fucking sense and thatâs because I am not a writer or anything Iâm just a biochemist with brain problems that cause me to obsess over stupid shit
#answered#shatterstar#GHKDJFDKHGRJ I KNOW THERES SOMETHING WRONG W/ ME THAT THIS FEELS LIKE EXPOSING MY SOUL....#Anonymous#long post#NSCU#<-thats my new tag since other people have asked about this#it stands for nadine shatterstar cinematic universe
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