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[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Results from todays flocking paleostream

We did Gaiasia

Pelagornis

Platyhystrix

And Astrodon

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Commission by LeafLion_ 💜

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[conceptofjoy]

[hiro-doodlez]

INKTOBERTALE DAY 24- WARRIOR!

Yes, this is an ink-aang fusion. Yes im crazy

BUT THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO THIS POST BY COMYET WITH A JOKE ABOUT INK BECOMING A MONK… it reminded me THAT I MADE A DESIGN OF HIM A WHILE BACK SODJSNDJ

Shoutout to the ink server for starting this…

Old version + design under cut IDNDJDJDSKSDN

Woah ive improved i think :O

[punksandcannonballers]

i love the ing design from prime 2. happy halloween :^)

[silksoldier]

[sepublic]

The existence of Ing-possessed Dark Metroids in Echoes does bother me a little, because this is a game that came out after Fusion, and with Fusion we know the Metroids have an insane immune system; They were designed to fight the X, and are probably the only living thing unable to be infected by them... Except maybe the Dachoras and Etecoons, it's ambiguous. Regardless, Metroids are the ultimate bioweapon, and can drain energy. So it does bother me a little that an Ing can possess a Metroid without being consumed in the process; The series is named after these things, they deserve more narrative respect than just being another killable enemy!

But I am reminded of a log scan where it's revealed that the Ing fight for the privilege to possess the Space Pirate Commandos; Only Hunter Ing are even considered viable for this. So the Ing have a constructed social hierarchy in which they compete for better, stronger hosts... Okay. Given what I've mentioned about Metroids being the titular monsters of the series and galactic-scale threats, let's play with this in regards to a hypothetical Metroid series; Like it or not, Dark Metroids are enemies from the game, and a variant of THE titular creatures, so they should be adapted regardless.

So consider a scene: Samus is exploring Dark Aether when she comes across some commotion. She checks it out, watching from behind a corner; It's a whole congregation of Ing at an arena, and at the center is a cage in which a lone Metroid is angrily clawing at its containment. It's hungry, eager to devour the Ing on the other side; But the holes are too small for it to squeeze through. Surrounding the cage are a couple of Hunter Ing.

There's clearly some sort of ritual going on; One of the Hunter Ing slips through the cage from the other side of where the Metroid is. The Metroid notices, screeches, and lunges for the Ing. The Ing maneuvers around the Metroid, then lashes out with its tendrils; They enter the Metroid from its sides, as the Hunter Ing possesses the Ultimate Warrior.

The Metroid screeches, darting around as its body clouds into an Ing color. It falls to the floor, scraping its claws across and leaving marks; There's a clear battle of wills here. But in the end the Metroid wins out; Its nuclei flash red and the Ing coloration disappears as it drains energy, devouring the shadow. Watching from all sides, the Ing murmur, unimpressed and disappointed.

Cue the next challenger; This Hunter Ing watches as the Metroid rises back into the air, and then latches onto the nearest wall, still insatiable and hungering for the prey on the other side. This Ing circles around the cage, until it's sure the Metroid has singled it out.

Without any hesitation, the Ing launches through the cage the Metroid is latched onto, right into its mouth; The force sends the Metroid flying back from the cage. The Metroid absorbs the Ing, same scenario as before, same struggle. Only this time, the outcome is different; The Metroid's nuclei flash amber, and then its body undergoes a transformation as it struggles, darkening into blackest shadow as it's enveloped, the shape changing. Its voice deepens and becomes more Ing-like.

Finally, a single glowing eye emerges from the Metroid; The black coloration clears to reveal a new, Ing-possessed Dark Metroid. It rises into the air, triumphantly screeching as the Ing around it chant in celebration. Samus watches, deeply perturbed; The Metroids are the ultimate weapon, held back by their lack of strategy and inability to be tamed; This latter issue was how the Space Pirates were defeated the first time, because they lost handler Mother Brain. For the Ing to be able to control one...!

At this point, the Dark Metroid stops and notices; And then its eye looks up, directly at Samus. Metroids can sense energy signatures, down to those of individuals; It's how they can distinguish X mimics from the real deal, and track them down. By possessing a Metroid, the Hunter Ing has inherited the same abilities, and can sense Samus through the walls. It screeches, alerting the horde as all of the Ing turn and head towards the intruder.

Samus is forced to flee, and probably eventually fights this Dark Metroid. With a small army of Ing allies cooperating alongside it, this makes the Dark Metroid much more difficult to handle than a regular one; In particular, any energy it drains from Samus or even a lower Warrior Ing, it can transfer to one of its allies to heal them. Said allies will even take an Ice Beam or Missile blow for the Dark Metroid, to protect it.

The stakes are raised further; If the Ing take all of Aether's energy, Dark Aether will take its place within the dimensional plane. And if it does, who's to say the Ing won't colonize other worlds as well, because of their Emperor's greed and selfish hunger? With the ability to control and essentially BE Metroids, the Ing could start their own breeding program, and succeed where the Space Pirates had failed in using the Ultimate Warrior; There's no single, load-bearing controller for Samus to destroy, as there was with Mother Brain! A second Metroid crisis could be on the horizon... At the very least, Metroids are efficient trackers and weapons, so the Ing's chances of winning the war on Aether, and defeating Samus, have just risen significantly. Pair them up with some Dark Pirate Commandos and it’s like it’s Dark Zebes.

This ritual differentiates itself with the competition to possess Space Pirate Commandos; With those, a possession is guaranteed, so the distinguishing criteria is for Hunter Ing to fight each other to earn the privilege of that host. But for a Metroid, they don't need to fight one another. Instead, a Hunter Ing will prove itself worthy of possessing a Metroid, by actually being able to possess it to begin with; The only other outcome is to be destroyed by their attempted host. Thus, Hunter Ing don't need to fight one another directly for that honor, they can skip that formality to answer directly if an individual Ing is even capable of controlling a Metroid at all. And not all of them, not even all Hunter Ing, can pull off a Metroid possession.

[babyangelsky]

MAMA ING WATCHING HER NOVELA WITH HER NEW FRIEND AND CARETAKER MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME

[tallon-underworld]

I love how Metroid Prime 2 features zombies in the first ten minutes and nobody talks about it

[floralovebot]

to me, the fab five are a found family in an intentionally forced way. and i don't mean forced by the writers, i mean the characters themselves forced that relationship dynamic upon the group.

at first, they really were just some kids hanging out and occasionally fighting criminals together. they didn't consider each other family or even best friends. and even as they got older, they continued to think of each other in a very Just Some Friends kind of way. sure they got closer, but they weren't family by any means.

however, this dynamic changed drastically when they became adults because they were all neck deep in mental illnesses, people around them dying, and desperately wanting to live normal lives. a lot of other titans groups become found families early on in their teen/kid era, and it's easy to assume that the same is true for the fab five considering they're quintessential kid hero trope, but that's not the case for them. they only started to consider each other Family as adults and that was specifically because everything else in their life was falling apart and they latched onto their only lasting consistent.

i'm not saying that the fab five were naive in thinking that the others would always be around, but i am saying that for a very long time, they were always around. they were absolutely scared that someone would die, but they also knew they could actually count on each other in a way that they often couldn't count on their actual families. this is taken to an extreme when dick cuts contact with bruce, when ollie dies, when arthur betrays garth, etcetc. everything was falling apart, so they latched onto the last bit of their childhood innocence and accidentally started seeing each other as family.

they don't know each other but they do understand each other more than anyone else in the world. they're mean and petty and they would die for each other. they're unsympathetic and they would fistfight the others' mentors in a parking lot. they aren't family and they're the only family they have left.

the fab five specifically became a found family in response to their own families being at best, very hard to deal with, and worst, absolute dogshit. they forced that dynamic because for a while, they couldn't rely on anyone else. dick couldn't rely on bruce after their falling out, but he could rely on donna and wally, even if they didn't completely understand what was going on. donna will always be able to call upon the fab five - they will never, ever leave her, even when they're going through whatever relationship drama dc wants to write about. roy knows that no matter what he does or what they say to him, they'll always be there in the end.

they forced the found family dynamic!!! that's why it feels different and more complicated than other titan groups!!!!! they didn't naturally become a family, they forced it on the group because their actual families were falling apart and dying!!!!!

[kosmonauttihai]

A small (about 7x8cm) piece of printed cardstock from a halloween decoration's packaging, with a horde of ing from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes painted on it with acrylics. The one shiny spot was already part of the cardstock for some reason, and I kept it as an ing eye and made sure to photograph this from an angle where it reflected the light.

[delta-hexagon]

some metroid thoughts, about the ing

theyre portrayed as hateful, cruel creatures ingame because something has to fill the role of "evil beast for Samus to kill" but what if, without the militaristic control of the Emperor Ing, they're just another alien people trying to survive?

what if they had names? a culture? revered the beauty of the darkness and looked upon the strangeness of the light dimension with curiousity? the leviathan impact destroyed them as a species, but What If?

could they have established a peaceful first contact with the luminoth? could possession be more like a cooperative symbiosis? both people learning about the universe together, as one, helping each other survive?

i just have so many thoughts and feelings about the ing

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Wonderful commission by @nickuarts! 🌊💕✨

[melvincholy]

Mashle kinda bomb

[viejospellejos]

Así están las acciones de ING hoy tras la polémica suscitada por la retirada de su publicidad del programa “Horizonte” de Iker Jiménez:

Go woke, go broke…