#oc: the symbiosis

[cordycepsbian]

Auh we suddenly got inspired to talk about our slugcat ocs so. stuff about their mechanics if they were in the game down there ⇩

the symbiosis:

eight food required to sleep, two can be stored. has a high nutrition demand because the fungus takes a lot of it

gourmand world state, nothing crazy going on story wise because we have no ideas for its story

can release clouds of spores that obscure predators' vision and kill bug enemies at the cost of food pips

weakened by sunlight, so spear strength & running speed are dependent on the region it's in. regions that are very exposed or sunny make them have monk strength and regions that are dark and enclosed make them have hunter strength

can eat mushrooms and spore puffs like regular food (spore puffs give two pips)

rain deer will try to eat it but it can crawl through worm grass as if it's holding a gooieduck

the trickster (formerly known as the chameleon but we decided to change it):

six food required to sleep, three can be stored. can eat meat

pre-spearmaster world state, enjoy your alive moon!

food that she eats affects her color and eating meat from a predator will make her mimic its appearance, so other creatures will behave like they would in the presence of that predator

starts with a pearl in hand and is followed by an overseer from no significant harassment

giving the pearl to pebbles makes him angry and he kicks you out and kills the overseer. giving the pearl to moon reveals that this is the "something unpleasant" nsh sent to another iterator :) she rewrites the pearl to a message scolding nsh and tells you to take it to communications array

so basically spearmaster story and ending but funnier

the sleepwalker:

four food required to sleep, two can be stored

monk/survivor world state

always wakes up in a shelter failure. for the first few minutes the region will be darkened (like shaded citadel but everywhere), after that is a few minutes of just rain, and then it becomes normal

always has neuron glow and can use a flash bang ability at the cost of food pips

unique creatures that only appear during the dark periods (we will have more on them. later. we just came up with this idea now)

not sure what their story is yet

the crusader:

nine food required to sleep, three can be stored. can only eat meat, no fruit or popcorn plants. every modder has one of These scugs come on

post-rivulet world state but not snowy because he's in another part of the world entirely

starts in the puppet room of an iterator named deep impression of a fang. he instructs you to find echoes and return to him

starts with maximum of two karma, and strength scales to karma level. it cannot throw spears at all at karma one (be prepared to eat a lot of batflies), but deals five damage at karma ten

regions and echoes are completely different but we don't have all of this plotted out yet so we can't really tell much about it

ends with a challenge 70-like boss fight against deep impression of a fang :) he really did make this slugcat just to kill him. ending cutscene is the crusader leaving fang's facility grounds to hunt down more iterators. saint but with violence

[godsfavoritelitlesilly]

That one Soviet-raised symbiote that latched onto the local blond maniac.

[umbre24-blog]

:D You got this! Uproar wishes everyone a good day lol Idk made this thingy cause hes a comfort oc

[jalapeno-xcf]

😎🤙🐸🕸

[alexstarksblog]

Heheh, here is my beautiful Spider os - Maia Aranha. Strong, positive Brazilian single mom

And also she has some interesting relationship with this tattooed lady~

[rontra]

thank you enormously for the OC post, I am chewing on them. As always I’m a HUGE fan of how you draw Women That Are Shaped Like Bricks. I love the OC posting tbh

we have to make zarni big. she literally deserves to be big. like whenever fal gets too insufferable (which is often) zarni needs to be able to pick her up with one hand and carry her away for everyone else's sanity. its a public good

[soupdwelling]

hi i drew @arcadecarpetgay ‘s oc dez again! shes so wonderful

ref image under the cut

[monards]

me drawing more than twice this month is a sign of the end

[tickfleato]

oops! new ocs! nem is the jockeyworm, and flake is the host. nem is primarily the one controlling the body out of necessity, as flake is still recovering from their very traumatic installation, but they have a lot of communication internally and the two are working together.

the reason nem’s installation was traumatic is because with unwilling hosts, the symbiont is used to completely suppress the host’s consciousness. this was not nem’s choice, and after escaping surveillance they attempted to bring flake’s mind back. 

some more info on the history of jockeys and their relationship with the myzo:

Sometimes referred to as Jockeyworms, these small, worm-like symbionts attach themselves to the brain and nervous system of sapient hosts. They are not, however, necessarily parasites - the relationship can easily be mutually beneficial and they prefer to communicate with the host and equally share body control. They were originally created by the Greys (and share a significant portion of their genome, like most Grey tech), but things did not go well - attempts at Grey hosts lead to an inextricable merging of mind and body with a badly damaged end result, and worse, alien hosts became less susceptible to Grey influence (almost exactly the opposite of the intended purpose). They were nearly wiped out, but a small subset managed to escape and survive.

Their initial relationship with the Myzo was equally fraught, and still is, just in different ways... Myzo turned out to be excellent hosts, and the worms tried to do the whole covert brain parasite invasion kind of thing with them (though they prefer a mutualistic approach, they were pretty desperate at the time). Once this was identified, however, resistance was aggressive. In the end an enterprising group of Myzo interfered before the Jockeys could be eradicated, recognizing a potentially VERY useful tool, and the worms now found themselves flourishing in population, but heavily restricted and controlled.

The official word on what Jockeys are used for is that they're given exclusively to willing hosts for therapeutic purposes, but as one might guess there's an extensive dark side to the arrangement, both in the treatment of the symbionts and use on unwilling hosts. Though the natural state of the relationship is balanced, where the host and symbiont are given mostly equal control and clear communication between eachother, there are ways to tip the balance including drugs, mental training, and hypnosis. In extreme examples it's possible to completely suppress the consciousness of the host, or greatly restrict the free will of the symbiont (if the whole indoctrination from hatching thing doesn't keep them in line).

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

🌧️ and 🌈

🌧️ something angsty from your fic

“Roy,” she said, abruptly serious — not the way she was serious with her patients but the way she had been in court during her grudge match of a divorce, lips pressed flat and eyebrows low. “Are you okay?”

“The fuck are you asking for?” he demanded, unsettled.

She was standing in front of him now, hands braced on the hospital bed. “I’m asking because you’ve played football since you were nine and I’ve never heard you say a word about what you’d do afterwards. I’m asking because you ran your body into the ground and bit my and everyone else’s head off any time we tried to get you to stop, and I’m fucking asking because you’re my brother, and you’re about to have surgery, and I love you.”

Roy flinched. Not at the fact that she loved him but at the fact that she’d said it — they didn’t, in their family, not to each other and not from their parents. (Phoebe was the exception, of course, because she was a child and needed it spelled out that people loved her. So were Jamie and Keeley, who were both so open with their affection and more fragile than they let on).

“It’s fucking shit,” he admitted, choked. His eyes stung. “It’s fucking shit, Mara, I don’t know what the fuck I’m going to do with the rest of my life.” They held each other, then, just the two of them in that quiet cool room where the doctors would slice him open and not even fix him in any way that mattered.

🌈 something soft/fluffy from your fic

Because [Jamie] could be sweet, in his own clumsy way: he brought her breakfast in bed and endless cups of tea when she’d caught the flu back before they were even properly dating and debated nail polish colours in the salon, and sometimes when they were curled up together late at night he forgot he was supposed to act all cool and unaffected and the strange odds and ends of knowledge he had packed up in his mind came spooling out all wide-eyed and earnest.

[cordycepsbian]

can u show me one of ur characters i want to study one in a small glass jar.

study this beast? the slungus (slug fungus)

[trulysummersprivate]

Entry no.2 Everyday is a School Day

I've seen some wild things over the years. Being mutant and attending a school for mutants does that for you. You see shapeshifters, telekinesis, people who can turn into beasts, people who can kill with one touch, people with claws in their skin, but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw today.

The day started very normal, kids watching TV, eating breakfast, chatting when one of the kids, we'll call her Pink Roses, decides to prank her...boyfriend? They're a couple I think. Or really good friends. I need to do more research. Anyway she decides it's a good idea to prank him or rather his slime friend on his shoulder helps her prank him and suddenly he's turned into those blue cat things from that movie Avatar. It was uncanny! One of the kids, let's call her Purple Shell, screamed like a banshee alerting all of us to what had happened and I could not believe my eyes. This kid had just transformed into a big blue cat!

And according to what I've been told, that's not normal! This kid, we'll call him Blueberry? Seems fitting. Blueberry, has multiple kinds of mutation or mutates in his body. Like someone or something just shoved several different X Genes into his DNA and waited to see what happened. From what I've heard he hosts a symbiote, has lycanthropic tendencies and the same gamma radiation impulses as a certain green fella we all know. Three different abilities!

They teach you in school that finding solutions to unknown problems is like throwing spaghetti at a wall. Some of it might slide off and land in a mess on the ground but if it's got enough sauce on it and it's fresh enough, it might stick to the wall until you can clean it up. This feels like someone just catapulted spaghetti at a wall despite the mess, hurling it over and over again. It's fascinating.

Despite all my training and experience with mutants, you can still learn something new every day. The kid's fine by the way, he stayed a cat the rest of the day. It was kind of cute and his Dad reassured him he would be okay. At least I think that's his Dad? Or just a really kind Uncle? Again, I need to get some files on my desk so I can figure out who's who properly in this place. Maybe I'll have to request them. But the kid is okay. That's all for now.

Now I really want some spaghetti.

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[adriartts]

Wolf/Sheep/Shepard, one in the same

[umbre24-blog]

Uproar is ready for Christmas hehe 🎄🎄 Also new updated pfp for me :D

[axollyon]

d&d character i won't get to play for like a year probably 🥲