#oc countless petals waver

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Could you tell us more about your rain world slugcat ocs?

Sure! I gave them all some shoddily made title cards, because that's way more fun than just a block of text

As a heads up, (with the obvious exception) I give all of my slugs full names, iterator-style, and usually refer to them as such. Their titles are more of an afterthought

Silver Spun Insolence was the first rain world character I ever made, way back on the 14th April '23, which was when I played the game for the first time! It all went downhill from there. Inno as a character is very heavily based on how I navigated through the world during that first playthrough (and my interpretation of what I thought was happening, as I didn't have much of a grasp on Survivor as their own character and really only saw them as a vessel to play the game through, hence Insolence's creation)

They're the one to blame for the slugcats-with-iterator-names situation, as all I knew of the lore when I played was that there were cool robots with cool names, and I assumed that naming scheme applied to all characters in the universe lol. Even when I realised that wasn't exactly true I thought it was fun and ran with it anyway. The name "Silver Spun Insolence" wasn't actually intended for the slugcat, though, and was originally given to a green lizard I was particularly fond of and wanted to turn into a character! I never did though, but at least their name lives on (it was the one that spawns in HI_C02, if you're curious)

Insolence's gimmick is storage; they can hold up to three spears on their back and are also capable of storing two items in their stomach rather than just one, which they typically use to hold pearls. However, while keeping any items in their stomach their cant store food across hibernations. In-game stats-wise they'd pretty much just be another Surv, except with five required food pips and only two additional.

The general premise of their story is pretty bare-bones; follows an overseer from their colony which leads them to an iterator who takes them in. They're tasked as a messenger to keep three of the local group members in contact (classic slugcat role) and are content doing just that.

Because of the nature of their creation as a character, Inno is sort of like... a sona to me? But also not really? I guess you could call them a mascot of sorts. They're not a self-insert, but they represent my in how I play the game. Whatever they are, they hold a really special place in my heart and are alongside the likes of Polar and SNH as some of my most important and beloved ocs, even if they aren't heavy on the lore

Also, as you probably noticed, I stole UI's fanon nickname for them. Sorry. Mine now

They have a DMS skin, too!

(art by failed-inspection and mossyfella)

I hate this freak.

The Saviour is a part of the Apparition storyline, with Polar and NYR (who are getting their own lore post . ..soon . probably). Despite their striking resemblance to the former, they were created by NYR with the sole purpose of traversing the cold and barren arctic wastelands between him and his neighbours to deliver them a life-saving cure to the ware and damage they'd suffered over the many centuries they'd been abandoned there. And they do that! And it works! Just kind of a little too well. It's a long story...... ..lore post coming soon (<- guy who would never procrastinate anything)

Saviour is in a weird spot of simultaneous forgotten background character level irrelevance and aching painful frustrating bashing my head against a wall responsible for the inciting moment of the story relevance. And I mean that quite literally, NYR (by using Saviour) caused the moment at which Everything That Could Go Wrong, Went Wrong. Sort of. Somebody was already dead by that point but. It can get a lot worse than just that. They also, however, have the unfortunate trait of just being a slugcat and so apart from that they don't do much outside of being a cute pet to the iterators and a menacing force to the local wildlife

I never intended for them to be so similar to Saint in... a lot of ways. Similar name/namesake, brutal and cold residence, furred, complicated relationship with iterators, constantly closed eyes, and The Dreaded Themes. I don't even like Saint that much, but I think the parallels are kind of funny so I kept it like that.

Saviour's title obviously comes from their role in helping to save the iterators of the Apparition group, but title aside they do actually have a canonical name that NYR gave them. It never comes up though, and you're not getting it out of me ^_^

They were designed by @lovelyarps, who I really cannot thank enough (they also designed NYR!)

They Perform Perfunctory Tasks really shouldn't be here, because it isn't really a slugcat. It's more a mess of other creatures mixed together and disguised to imitate a slugcat. It's more closely related to eggbugs. Some iterators really need their biological engineering licenses revoked

Prior to being called The Imitator, Tasks was known as The Mother, due to the purpose it was created for; raising a litter of slugpups made by the same iterator that created it, each hybridised with a different lizard species. Only the white lizard pup survived infancy, and due to the grief of losing all but one of its children it abandoned the pup outside the facility grounds and ran to live alone in the wild

Most of its life (including its time raising the pups) was spent inside its creator's can, under their careful supervision. They weren't exactly pleased at it running away, but they haven't bothered to bring it back and instead opts to have an overseer guard it at all times, as an extra assurance that nothing happens to their precious asset

Tasks' appearance was very heavily inspired by whiskered auklets! Its own "whiskers" are kind of weird. The upper pair and functionally akin to antennae, as the long strands of fur that make up the whiskers serve to cover the actual organs. The lower pair is just decorative

Its appearance overall borders an almost uncanny affect for other slugcats. Their unnaturally massive size and uncomfortably large eyes are the main cause, but they also adopt what would be quite the painful posture for a regular slug and act very unlike what one should, which certainly doesn't help

Tasks and Insolence live within the same local group! They've never met, but they do share a common relative

The other ones! Cool! The guys not quite important enough to warrant their own rants. From left to right:

See as Stars Fall, "The Subject", was Insolence's cousin, though they essentially raised each other and have a sibling-like bond. They were the one to adopt Petal and provide them with their mask. After Inno went missing, Fall went out in an attempt to find them and return to the colony. Instead, they were found by a slightly less considerate iterator than the one who took their cousin in and spent the rest of their life as what was essentially a lab rat, eventually being sent to ascend just to see what would happen.

Countless Petals Waver, "The Chameleon", is the only surviving hybrid pup from the litter assigned to Tasks' care. After they were abandoned by it, they were found by Fall and raised by them as their own, with some help from Insolence. Like white lizards, they can change the colour of their fur to blend in with their surroundings (and similarly lose control with it when hurt), however they can't change camouflage their white markings. They almost always wear a carved yellow vulture mask, for safety

Unnamed..?, "The Host", slugcat if it was Awesome and Had Lizard Frills and Three Eyes and Safely Hosted A Rot Cyst Within It Without Taking Any Harm. Hell Yeah Brother

Sorry this ended up being so long, if you give me any opportunity to ramble about my characters I Will Take It. This isn't actually everything I originally had written, there were a good few paragraphs I ended up cutting for the sake of this not going for forever

If you'd like an extended post with more ramblings or rants or pieces of trivia or if you have any questions you should let me know 😏I Will Take It. Slugs, man. Slug!