*pulls up a chair and sits down at your plant reader post* I am here for this and wanna hear more of your idea! If I had to pick favorites from the current post, it'd be the courtship and terrforming idea. Last Stampede ep def implies that independents have their own abilities, so a terrforming one would be cool as heck. Also, I just love alien courtship tropes.
Thank you!! I’m absolutely feral about exploring and developing fictional species, since it’s a ton of fun to throw ideas at the wall to see what makes sense—especially when it comes to romantic behaviors and such :3c Sci-fi is my preferred flavor of worldbuilding after all, so the idea of Stampede plants being explicitly non-human aliens offers up so much potential that I just can’t leave it be 👀
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I prefer to think that plants, like humans, are fully capable of evolving to better suit their environment—perhaps even faster or more drastically than what most people would expect from them. This could easily account for the birth of Vash and Knives, as it would make sense to develop an appearance that allowed them to better blend in with humans; this could be interpreted from the perspective of prey trying to escape the attention of a predator, or perhaps even the opposite: a predator trying to hide among its unassuming prey.
Given the lacking records of non-independent plants becoming aggressive to the humans who rely upon them, most people tend to believe the former opinion, though there has never been any hard evidence either way. A majority of people—even prior to the great crash—don’t even believe plants to be sentient creatures.
Some people theorize that plants were not truly created, but instead originate from a parent alien species that humans had come into contact many generations prior to the SEEDs ships departing earth. Other people even think that plants aren’t from our dimension at all, which could explain why they are capable of creating all manner of organic material from basic forms of energy in a way that seems to defy the laws of physics. The truth has long been forgotten regardless, lost in dead memories or destroyed computers when the ships crashed upon Noman’s Land, and most people don’t have the time or energy to research such useless information.
Nonetheless, these details may point to plants trying to evolve past the tools they were originally created to be, perhaps if only to communicate with humans themselves; its hard to tell if the relationship is truly symbiotic or not, especially when plants themselves are so alien that few people have actually never seen one’s face before. Do they want to protect the people whom rely upon them for their livelihoods? Do they yearn for freedom from the boundaries of their glass enclosures? …Could they even survive the world beyond it?
This in the end leads me to an interesting concept; a non-independent plant metamorphosing into a form that appears to be human, but only on the surface. Like a chrysalis, it is simply to protect them from the harsh world beyond their cage—the only environment they were ever designed to thrive in. Imagine this plant having to learn how to be human, but also how to hide their abilities from those who might try to use them like a tool—perhaps this plant has inadvertently evolved into something incredibly powerful, capable of creating not only water and food, but terraforming swaths of the desert landscape.
Perhaps this plant is the next step in the natural progression of their species, which itself has somehow decided that the next step is not simply surviving on their new host planet, but transforming it into a truly habitable planet according to what very well may be written in their DNA.
And that is exactly what I picture the reader being; a plant that is somehow able to take a human form (much to their confusion and fear, its like suddenly being born into conciousness) and escape the confines of their glass bubble, all while trying to make sense of the powers they hold and desperately trying to find others like them in the hopes that they aren’t alone.
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Regarding your post on fandom and Yas, it's definitely weird and honestly concerning how intense they can be. I'm new to the fandom and honestly find it very hard to participate in it, because people on twt can be so Intense™ sometimes but there's almost never new content on Tumblr unless there's a new ep and even then it's really just gifs and not like...conversation. So sometimes when I'm in need of new content I go on twt and see some very aggressive fans and I...go back to tumblr and look through my own reblogged Kacy post lmao I just want to talk to Kacy fans why is it so hard
twitter is a wild, wild place, but i agree that it definitely is livelier there than here. i feel like it definitely attracts more of the louder, younger fandom, because half the people ik here are too busy with their jobs/grad school to even watch the episode within the first week of airing let alone post nearly that much (though theyve got a lot of older adults there too tbh, who are arguably more intense than the younger fans). i only use it casually to watch edits and see bts stuff and i still get overwhelmed and leave pretty quickly.
tumblr was def more active when s1 was airing and the kacy angst was at peak capacity, but lucy being absent and the lack of a significant kacy plot this season is probably what's contributing to the lack of conversation unfortunately. it will probably pick up though when new episodes start airing again next month so youll be able to strike then!
a lot of those gifmakers have a lot to say if you message them! and idk if you read fic at all, but all the writers for ncis: h ive interacted with/messaged on here/twitter are very cool and more than happy to talk about kacy!
if im remembering correctly, there are a few kacy discords floating around here that im sure you could jump in as well if you ask about them
if all else fails you just gotta keep making posts in the tag and scream until someone hears you! LOL
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Hi hi hi the soc and pjo comparisons are still floating around in my noggin and I was just thinking
Remember when Percy was choking that goddess on her own poison and it scared Annabeth and she asked him to stop?
Yeah remember when Kaz was bragging to Pekka Rollins about how he buried his child alive and it scared Inej and she asked him to stop?
Yeah. I think about that a lot.
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