#lepidopterran

[ohyeahben10]

Sometimes I go down the little rabbit hole of thinking about cross-species troubles in the Ben 10 universe. Kinecelerans struggling through off planetary treaties because they look ridiculous trying to sit in a chair made for a Human / Tetramand body plan. A Lepidopterran struggling to follow gendered customs because they have three sexes and they have no idea where their’s translates to on a m/f spectrum. Loboans first establishing relations with Thep Khufans and offering food because its a gesture of goodwill on Luna Lobo but the Thep Khufans have no idea what they’re looking at because they photosynthesize. Pyronite ambassadors finding out the second species stocked up on fire extinguishers and reminding themselves to not be hurt by that because they know it’s a reasonable precaution for a first meeting but nonetheless it’s disrespectful on Pyros to imply one can’t control their fire.

[mightyart]

Baby Lepidopterran

[rapidfirestormer]

Kevin Levin, with mutations for all of Ben's original ten aliens, plus Kevin 11 with some new details:

Diamondhead arm has cracks resembling Ghostfreak's markings.

Heatblast arm rocks are shaped to resemble Upgrade's patterns.

Stinkfly's wings emerge from Diamondhead back spikes.

XLR8's tail ends with Stinkfly stinger, which holds Ripjaws fins for when it merges with XLR8 colored Ripjaws "loincloth".

Wildmutt arms have Ripjaws fins and hand webbing.

Can deploy Ghostfreak chest tentacles, now colored like Upgrade.

Four Arms eyes on shortened Stinkfly stalks.

Ghostfreak pattern is now on the head, connected to Grey Matter eye, which has a smaller, diamond-shaped pupil in a merging with Ghostfreak's eye.

To run at high speeds, fireballs are created under toes with Heatblast's powers. This results in the Four Arms legs getting positioned in a way that resembles XLR8.

Can generate XLR8's face mask using Diamondhead crystals and Heatblast rocks.

[notskull29]

these are designs i've been working on for months, my own take on the negative 10! based on derrick's statements:

this art is just to get the designs across, they'll receive finalized art in the future

Here's some information about them. They're not what you'd expect from a villain team, they're actually very friendly toward each other and bond a lot, they aren't any threatening or controlling to each other, to others however, they very much are. Now as for information for each of the members shown here:

-Arrash is indeed not the leader but rather co-leader like how Derrick planned, same with him looking like a poison frog, obviously the tech guy of the group. I didn't know any crew member that didn't already have a Galvan named after 'em so i named him after a popular fan artist instead, O. R. Ash.

-Su'korch is the actual leader of the team cuz why not, i just thought it'd be fitting. He's also previously worked for Vilgax and his main goal is to find his body and bring him back.

-Nanitha, she's a bit of a hothead and is super good friends with Arrash, often working side-by-side with hims.

-Spook'omi is supposed to be a subversion of expectations, being shy and not at all evil, she's only in the Negative 10 to get revenge on Ben for killing the leader of their species, Zs'Skayr. she's actually inspired on komi-san lol

-Conidas, i actually had the idea to bring in the Piscciss Volann prisoner as being part of the Negative 10, so this was the previous one before he got replaced due to being captured by the Plumbers, maybe the prisoner joined because Conidas was his brother and he wanted to get back at them in a way. Since Patelliday was named after patellidae, i named him after conidae.

-Gevaudan, they're supposed to be technologically enhanced yes, heavily inspired on and even named after the Beast of Gevaudan, the design is specifically based on the version of it from the movie Brotherhood of the Wolf where it's just a heavily armored wolf(?). -Golp has a bit of a wrester-like personality, aswell as the one behind Gar Redwind's missing hand arm and missing eye, he's a highly wanted criminal. -R-CHRe is overconfident, extremely egotistical, and playful with her enemies she used to be a showwoman, but gave up on that life style, but is considering returning to it. -Shinite is very ninja-like, often using her body to reflect light to blind her enemies, she has beef with Tetrax for the destruction of their planet, having previously trusted him and being a good friend of his prior to her destruction along with Petropia, ever since it and all Petrosapiens were restored, she's been training to hunt him down and kill him. -Lymph is a single mother with no conditions to take of her children, so she joined the Negative 10 to get any support possible.

these are designs i've been working on for months, my own take on the negative 10! based on derrick's statements this art is just to get the designs across, they'll receive finalized art in the future

they're finally done! i can't believe it, it's about time!, i don't know if any of you were excited for the finished product after i first posted the w.i.p., and if you were, thanks for all the wait!

Here's some information about them. They're not what you'd expect from a villain team, they're actually very friendly toward each other and bond a lot, they aren't any threatening or controlling to each other, to others however, they very much are. Now as for information for each of the members shown here:

-Arrash is indeed not the leader but rather co-leader like how Derrick planned, same with him looking like a poison frog, obviously the tech guy of the group. I didn't know any crew member that didn't already have a Galvan named after 'em so i named him after a popular fan artist instead, O. R. Ash.

-Su'korch is the actual leader of the team cuz why not, i just thought it'd be fitting. He's also previously worked for Vilgax and his main goal is to find his body and bring him back.

-Nanitha, she's a bit of a hothead and is super good friends with Arrash, often working side-by-side with hims.

-Spook'omi is supposed to be a subversion of expectations, being shy and not at all evil, she's only in the Negative 10 to get revenge on Ben for killing the leader of their species, Zs'Skayr. she's actually inspired on komi-san lol

-Conidas, i actually had the idea to bring in the Piscciss Volann prisoner as being part of the Negative 10, so this was the previous one before he got replaced due to being captured by the Plumbers, maybe the prisoner joined because Conidas was his brother and he wanted to get back at them in a way. Since Patelliday was named after patellidae, i named him after conidae.

-Gevaudan, they're supposed to be technologically enhanced yes, heavily inspired on and even named after the Beast of Gevaudan, the design is specifically based on the version of it from the movie Brotherhood of the Wolf where it's just a heavily armored wolf(?). -Golp has a bit of a wrester-like personality, aswell as the one behind Gar Redwind's missing hand arm and missing eye, he's a highly wanted criminal. -R-CHRe is overconfident, extremely egotistical, and playful with her enemies she used to be a showwoman, but gave up on that life style, but is considering returning to it. -Shinite is very ninja-like, often using her body to reflect light to blind her enemies, she has beef with Tetrax for the destruction of their planet, having previously trusted him and being a good friend of his prior to her destruction along with Petropia, ever since it and all Petrosapiens were restored, she's been training to hunt him down and kill him. -Lymph is a single mother with no conditions to take of her children, so she joined the Negative 10 to get any support possible.

[drama-glob]

Since I already drew Grey Matter, Way Big and Goop, I’d be so inconsiderate of me not to draw Stinkfly, one of my favorites from the original series. ^_^<3<3<3

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[whatudottu]

Out of left field but I’ve been thinking about alien eyes and specifically unique aliens eyes and how Ben 10 is sorely lacking in variety.

So I’ve been thinking about one of the sets of eyes that comes prepackaged with some special detail; lepidopterran eyes.

Starting off with the obvious, let’s talk about those stalk eyes though-

Between snails and crabs (and all the little creatures in between), eye stalks are very good at looking around when you either have no neck or have a very energy inefficient equivalent, but sometimes the sight itself isn’t the greatest depending on the type of eye (snails don’t have auto-focus and manually use the stalks to adjust vision, crabs have compound eyes and see hundreds and thousands of small blurry repeating images). Lepidopterrans, with four prehensile stalk eyes which have the ability to shoot goo, probably don’t have the best sight because of this.

But what’s this I hear about a goo shooting set of eyes? Where does the goo come from and how does a lepidopterran aim and otherwise not be bothered with gak coming from their face?

Well- perhaps unlike the eyes of Earth’s creatures, the ‘pupil’ does not act as part of their eye but as a barrel of a gun.

Something something the Original Series was being wacky by having current Ben transform into a ‘pupil’less Stinkfly only to have Babyfly and Papafly get a set of black dots, yada yada Omniverse came along and gave Stinkfly some well deserved holes, what if the reason why lepidopterrans can see while firing is because their eye is not the entire opening of the eyestalk but a concentric ring of compound eyes that circle some goo tract. Compound eyes may not be the best kind of eyes for sight and otherwise aiming, but a full regular eye would not quite fit around the tract without getting crowded and compound by proxy; besides, who needs sight when you’ve weaponised stink. Lots of flying insects have compound eyes anyway.

But moving away from eyes, the formation of this eye tract would mean that at the base of all four of a lepidopterran’s eyes there probably isn’t a brain but instead a special goo organ. It’s not to say that a lepidopterran doesn’t have a brain at all, but it certainly means that the already poor sighted bug has a longer distance to send visual information to a relevant occipital lobe for perception, their brain being located - like certain Earthen bugs - more so within their chests. This organ can also be accessed by the mouth to spew out goo rather than shoot it.

Why have I made this post? I have no idea I was zoning out and now I’ve finished a write and have no clue where I am or if this was cohesive, have some unique alien eyes and now some weird biology shit.

[artblooger19moon]

Stinkfly

Ben 10

[macabreaurora]

Time for best bug-girl, that good girl who stinks: The Lepidopterran!

(Edit: did you know that shading is a thing lmao, its late for me)

[redisloser]

For almost 2- no 3 years! I've had the idea of a pacifist Tetramand and a adventures Lepidopterran falling in love!

Finally, after 3 years, I've drawn them. The Tetramand is named Novus, and the Lepidopterran is named Videri.

I hope you love them as much as I do, please draw my boi's!!!!

[ohyeahben10]

I think a lot of Pyronite music is based from glass blowing, made from the sand underneath the planet’s surface. Petrosapiens make crystal circles of all sizes and play them like an over complicated drum set, long and thin crystals as drum sticks included. Lepidopterran buzz and vibrate their wings and Loboans howl in unison. Vaxasaurians make drums from hollowed trees larger than some houses and their own shed skin. Toepick’s species have deep, guttural chants, ironic for such a stoic species. Piscciss Volanns blow bubbles through hollowed out, broken off coral.

[hunty627]

These are some of the planets, moons and other celestial bodies that Ben Tennyson learned about. Khoros is home to the Tetramands, Petropia is home to the Petrosapiens and Crystalsapiens, Pyros is home to the Pyronites, Kinet is home to the Kinecelerans, Galvan Prime is home to the Galvans, Cascareu is home to the Cascans, Galvan Prime's moon, Galvan B is home to the Galvanic Mechamorphs, Flors Verdance is home to the Floraunas, Arburia is home to the Arburian Pelarotas, Lepidopterra is home to the Lepidopterrans, Fulmas is home to the Fulmini, Ekoplekton is home to the Ekoplektoids, Appoplexia is home to the Appoplexians, Terradino is home to the Vaxasaurians. Peptos 12 is home to the Gourmands, Aranaschimmia aka Arachna is home to the Arachnachimps, Piscciss is home to the Piscciss Volanns, Xenon is where Ben met Azmuth, Anur Transyl is home to the Transylians, Anodyne is home to the Anodites, Luna Lobo, Anur Transyl's moon is home to the Loboans, Revonnah is home to the Revonnahganders and Muroids, and Kylmyys is home to the Necrofriggians and Psycholeopterrans.

[rapidfirestormer]

Some of the prisoners at Incarcecon in Secret of the Omnitrix.

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

Befriending a Lepidopterran HCs

-You better get used to the smell otherwise it would be wise of you to invest in air fresheners. Also, frequent showers and deodorant/perfume is a must unless you also want to smell like them. Don't worry, it won't hurt their feelings.

-Lepidopterrans live in giant hives and thus are very social. It's incredibly rare to see a Lepidopterran on their own. You can say that they are (pun intended) social butterflies.

-Because of this they will bug you (again, pun intended) to go out and socialize. Expand your friend circle (hive)! Actually gives pretty good advice and has great insight regarding personal relationships. Quite adept at social media and has built up a bit of a following.

-They do however like to prank people by pretending to be a feral alien and hissing at random. Loves it if you play along.

-Quickly becomes your roommate. It's not even subtle. They keep bringing stuff over to your place and spending more and more time there and suddenly they have their own room. They have a bed yet they sleep upside down on the ceiling.

-Not the worst roommate but not the best either. They never ask before they borrow your stuff, eat all your food and clogs the drains with slime. HOWEVER they are remarkably tidy, always keeping the house clean, always buys groceries at the best price and picks out the best movies for movie night.

-What's theirs is yours! Just like they always borrow your stuff, you can always borrow theirs.

-A bit of a hoarder, especially when it comes to food. They find the best deals and uses coupons to stock up on mainly conserved fruit. They also hoard shiny things, mostly stuff that they just randomly find outside. May or may not have stolen a neighbor's parabolic antennae and now uses it like one big cereal bowl.

-You are welcome to initiate physical contact but they won't expect any hugs or high fives considering the oil they secrete. But if you do decide to do anything like this then they will be pleasantly surprised. Just prepare a spare change of clothes beforehand.

[thenten]

@rathalascendant said: "i've got an idea. get its attention."

Mandalorian S2 Starters- Accepting!

The instruction is met with an immediate grin, hand already going to his wrist and scrolling through the Omnitrix's holographic display. "Drawing attention to myself is what I do best."

Ben following the proud proclamation with a press down on the device, a now familiar green FLASH enveloping him.

Human form being replaced with a... less than appealing one, insectoid wings quickly buzzing to life and carrying from their hiding spot, circling around the beast before them.

"Hey, HEY! Look at me, monster buddy!"

The obnoxious yelling is accompanied by his arms waving, and a revolting torrent of green slime from the Lepidopterran's four eyestalks upon the monster's face, drawing their quarry's ire as it snapped at the flying pest with obvious irritation.

He certainly was an expert at being annoying, wasn't he?

[sweetpeaches666]

(A conversation between Ben and Kevin while being chased by the police when they first met in this au.)

Kevin: What are you?

Ben, in his Lepidopterran form: I'm Ben.

Kevin: So, you're a kid? And a bug?!

Ben: I'm a lot of things.