#starmites ramble

[sharkboy-starmites]

Spacepunk from starmites atla au

We love him.

So he's also from the earth kingdom (not ba sing se) because he and diggety are cousins and diggety is an earth bender from the earth kingdom. Spacepunk is a non bender and has a bow and arrow, because in out show he was supposed to have one (like cupids arrow style y'know) and also it looks cool.

[yourgayfroggiefriend]

Mmm, time for starmites angst!

So, we know how spacepunk and the mites escaped when they were little kids, and they’re the only ones left right?

Spacepunk on top of having to take care of the mites and keep everyone alive and well, also had the duty to carry on the starmites culture. They were the only ones left alive, and punk was the oldest so probably knew the most. If he forgot anything about their culture it was most likely gone forever.

I’m thinking that Shak Graa pulled something like a genocide, since there is no one else. So it’s not a stretch to say that he followed in the footsteps of many others and destroyed their places and culture and tried to erase them entirely.

Spacepunk was the only thing keeping his entire race of people and their history and culture and memory and from disappearing entirely. That has to be stressful, right? I’m just imagining him desperately trying to remember and preserve anything he can. Even as a little kid. He had to grow up so fast and pretend it was okay and give the mites hope. Spacepunk was fucking traumatized and holy fuck their backstory is horrifying.

Starmites angst has given me a serious brain worm.

[neonkoii]

missing my spring musical again

[sharkboy-starmites]

Starmites avatar au

So far we've got, milady is the avater and the starmites are trying to find her in the 1st episode (this does not follow the plot of atla) and when they do find her, she's in ba sing se. She has no idea that there's a war going on and she has to stop it, she's pretty sure these strangers are lying to her. Then they either convince her to leave the city and see what's going on, or shak graa (firelord) comes and kidnapps her, leading to the mites having to save her, following vaguely the plot of starmites (shak graa threatens milady, spacepunk shows up and tells him to leave, milady realizes her powers) after she realizes she is actually the avatar by doing like, air bending on accident or something. She joingls the starmites on their quest to train the avatar and destroy firelord shak graa. Diva and the banshees are the kyoshi warriors but more evil-y but they become the starmites friends eventually. Also, the swapped at birth thing has not been figured out for this au, but like diva is just, the kyoshi warriors leader or some thing queen like.

[sharkboy-starmites]

Starmites hazbin hotel au. The lore is the starmites and banshees were rival groups in life, with neither of them being able to call the cops on eachother because theyre both doing crime. Diva runs a cannibalistic cult and the mites steal and sell suspicious things to get by. Punk is the first to die, killed by diva in a gang fight. Punk and milady are kinda set up like Romeo and juliet rival families. Shak graa is a corrupt cop. They have human names because in this au thwyre just on earth human people. Divas name is Diana von diamandis, punks name is Sergio Pérez, ack ack is AJ Ackerman, sup sup is Herbert Harrison (in refrence to his old name) and diggety is Danny Rodriguez. Bizarbara would be like, Barbra von diamandis. Theyre all in hell because uhhhh they are. I had fun with this.

[yourgayfroggiefriend]

So, we all know that Shak Graa committed genocide on the humans, but why??? I always was confused as to why, with the canon reason basicly being he was bullied as a kid, so he killed everyone. I don’t like this reason, and made up my own.

So, magic is a natural resource/elemant in inner space. Basicly, it’s just a normal thing that exists and has always existed. Everything in innerspace has evolved with this, and basicly everything uses magic in some way to be alive. (Think of it as like, a vitamin or something. If it’s not there something might not really be affected, or it might get a little weak, possibly even die, depending on the thing.) Overtime, the amount of magic in innerspace has depleated, making difrent species become endangered, and some going extinct.

In innerspace, there used to be a few difrent humanoid/inteligant species other than humans, but they all depended on magic way more than humans did, so their populations dwindled and they died off. Eventually, only the lizard people and humans were left.

Since magic is a naturally occurring resource, humans of course harnessed it to make technology and other things, further depleeting it.

Shak Graa is a lizard person, (fun fact, They naturally have a longer life span than humans) and he grew up spent with biological parent till he was a young teenager, but then they died, and he was alone. Some humans found him, and took him in. They weren't good though, and he was bullied most places he went because he was different and weird. He saw what humans were doing with magic, and tried to speak out about how they were using what little magic they had left for stupid things, and it was killing everything. They didn't listen, and he kept trying, but it never worked.

He built non-magic alternatives, but most people rejected it, and kept using their magic versions. Shak Graa saw what was happening, and blamed the humans for his people and the other races dying, and decided to fix the problem at it's source. Of course, by killing everyone.

This started a war that lasted hundrads of years. Shak Graa leading an army of robots (droids) and some other humanoids. This in turn caused more weapons and military gear to be made for the war, causing Shak Graa to be more determined to kill them all.

[sharkboy-starmites]

Messy little comic about the mites

So, lore dump here. My friends wanted to make sup sup a cyborg (idk why) by injuring him severely and fixing him up with robot parts. So that's why he's dying at the end of the comic.

Here's cyborg sup sup.

[yourgayfroggiefriend]

So we're talking about how spacepunk was trying so hard to remember future human and starmite culture, but what is their culture?

For one, it says that women are to be worshiped and reveared, right? Well, that's why I assume they were the ones entrusted to guarding the cruelty. Probably like an eleate force of women who were all chosen for being badasses. Obviously they'd be trans inclusive.

Also! Their names. We all know that their names are goofy and wacky, but I had an actual idea for why that is. So, I was thinking that when born, they're given a name. For example, Ack Ack would be named that. But then, when they go out to battle and come back for the first time they get a ceremony and get given a new name by the elders. For Ack Ack, it would be his last name; Hakeraxe. But we don't see anyone who would have actually gone throught hat since the were all kids. I assume Punk just took what he knew and tried to give them all names based off their traits. That might be why spacepunk doesn't have one, or he might have tacked on "space" or "punk" onto his name.

I feel like the names would be an honor thing, and not limited to soldiers. A blacksmith would get a name based off that when they successfuly make their first thing, for example.

I feel like they would sing a lot. It's human to sing, and I feel that the starmites would do a lot of it. Constant songs and tunes and dances made and heard around town no matter where you go. They would definitely have whole days centured around singing and dancing. Imagine them teaching all the little baby's how to play instruments and move their feet following the dance so many others have for hundreds of years. picture the music and songs and laughing. The culture that's now dead because the burden of rememberance was put onto a child.

I imagine they would have big feasts on days where they successfuly won a battle or got territory back, and sing songs and celebrate lifes lost when not. (Think Día de los Muertos for celebrating those who were lost but with more singing and storytelling)

This is just a couple things I drafted up in my head, feel free to add onto this!

[sharkboy-starmites]

Compilation of starmites images I have collected over time. The one with the dude in front of the greenscreen is from a YouTube interview with Barry keating (starmites creator) and it's a good watch. There's a Lotta other pictures from that one so go watch it if you want them. Honestly du yourself a favor and go look up starmites on YouTube and go wild. Just watch random videos, there like a 4 minute news segment on starmites from 1989 and its so funny the lady talking seems like she's so mad that starmites exists.

[sharkboy-starmites]

MORE STARMITES SHIT FUCK YEAAAAAHHHH

I'm deranged, so my friends made a starmites au where one of my friends oc's, shak graas sister, kahz graa (graa is the last name and they're triplets. The third one is racist Daniel who they keep killing because he's racist. He's a joke character there to die I guess) and kahz hates shak graa and Daniel. She is the "normal" one of the three triplets. And she hates cops.

Yeah but kahz in this au is diggetys mom and the other mom (kahz is trans) is diva so diggety and bizzarbra are siblings, and another part of this au is that kahz is not parenting this little fucker at all.

So, now that we've got that outta the way, yknow how the mite fled to the edge of shreikwood when shak graa killed everyone?

Well the banshees found them. And then kahz was like, oh shit that's my fucking kid and his buddies uhhhhhhhhh guys don't eat these ones.

The banshees, who are all friends of kahz, don't eat the mites and instead turn them into banshees as well.

So now the mites have like, banshee power stuff because the reason in this au why the banshees are evil creatures is because of the crueltys evil magic seeping into them.

So fast forward like 10 years, the time where starmites actually takes place.

Instead of punk. Being obsessed with milady its switched around cuz its like, he is like, not all lovey dovey. And she's like 'holy fuck fictional hot guy!'

There's plot stuff that happened idk this au very well and then bizzy has to get married cuz prophecy but she won't marry the mites cuz they're like her brothers so she tries marrying milady and that works because banshee + human =shak graa die.

But then shak graa shows up like he does in the show and takes the cruelty and blah blah things happen he dies boom plot done.

@yourgayfroggiefriend please you and mother made this au so you should explain it better.

And I drew the banshee-ified mites. I gave them cool air because banshees are supposed to have cool hair.

[sharkboy-starmites]

OKAY.

The parasite pit au explanation.

(We made this when we didn't know the full lore so some of its off but man do I love this)

the starmites as a society are violently sexist. They literally threw out all the women. If there was a girl baby, they would put her in the nearby river that flowed past a forest... SHREIKWOOD FOREST!!! (they didn't know it was shreikwood).

The first banshee was oragala and was tossed out as an adult and raised the rest of the women, she was magical and used her magic to heal the children of any ailments. (Because of the starmites sucking at being alive all of the babies have like horrible mutations).

Eventually oragala realized she wouldn't be able to care for the children forever, and so she put her magic into the river which made the river magical and able to heal anyone who was put into the river.

The remaining banshees started worshipping oragala because of her sacrifice and that was passed down for generations. This worship turned oragala into a God, and so she was a sentient river that helped carry the babies along and heal them. (Oragala told the banshees to eat the starmites because they kept putting babies in the river and was salty)

And then one day somehow the starmites started worshipping oragala, and then oragala was like, OH SHIT because she already told the banshees to eat them but now the starmites like her so like..... a.

Oragala gets more and more powerful since 2 entire populations of people are worshipping her, so she starts giving the banshees cool things, like wings and sharp teeth and jungle red talons.(teehee line reference)

And now we get to the pit.

So the starmites are also still being born with horrible deformities and its only gotten worse (fuck them for living in space I guess?) And they don't have a way to fix it and babies keep dying. (Or living with no skin)

When the banshees eat a starmite, whatever is left returns to the starmites and forms a pit. Basically, it's a pit full of dead starmites taken parasite form. (They can look like whatever I guess but we picture them as little white bean maggots)

When a starmite (non banshee) is born or injured they are tossed in the pit and the pit cures their horrible lack of skin, lungs, or vital organs or just plain old injuries!

So, now that that's out of the way, here is all the individual starmites parasites from the pit.

Spacepunk has no teeth, only parasite. (The teeth parasites give him teeth that can detach, move around, become sharp, and give him several rows of teeth and he can unhinged his jaw, a new addition by gay grey)

Ack ack has no skin, only parasite. ( it's can squirm and camouflage him and form armor)

Sup sup has no eyes, only parasite. (The parasites keep messing up and giving sup sup more and more eyes so now he has eyes that can turn into mouths EVERYWHERE on him. He names them)

And diggety, is a banshee. (This is based on me being cast as a banshee and then recast as a starmite. The additional lore is that he sucks at being alive and oragala hates him but she keeps bringing him back because he's important to the plot and she feels bad because she couldn't heal him when he was a baby in the river) he's trans and keeps dying.

[sharkboy-starmites]

I'm just a bit silly and in fact very normal about starmites.

Spacepunk in a stupid outfit. Yes. This is what the world needs right now and forever.

I figured since the mites are basically left with nothing after everyone is killed, they would go back and try and find resources in the wreckage. (Example, the horrible car)

So I imagine they would try and have some vague sense of style and individuality because they would go insane without it, but they have very little materials so their outfits tend to look like odd patchwork of clashing colors and ripped shirts.

I want spacepunk specifically to look extremely tired, I imagine sometimes he can't sleep. He thinks about everything and never sleeps. That's part of the reason he looks so tired. I also gave him some cuts on his face from him trying to shave because he wouldn't know how because he had no one to teach him.

His belt is a seat belt. That's just because it's kinda funny that the buckle on his belt just says 'push'.. yeah punch him. Don't.

[sharkboy-starmites]

Horrible starmites car they built from scraps. They can't drive.

The driver seat is a wheely chair and it moves around the car so the driver (spacepunk) can't actually drive, so then ack ack who is in the front seat is like, oh no the car needs to be driven and he trys to drive but then sup sup is like, no ack ack you suck at this you're gonna crash the car.

So everything they drive the car spacepunk is spinning around in the chair, ack ack and sup sup are fighting, and diggety is buckled into a baby carseat. How they've never crashed it you ask? Well you've heard of Jesus take the wheel now get ready for...

Oragala take the wheel.

The car is decorated like a turtle for reasons I forget. The headlight is just a flashlight.

There is always thick smoke coming from the engine but the car is fine... probably.

No windows, all broken.

[sharkboy-starmites]

Oh by the way. @yourgayfroggiefriend and I looked through the dsm 5 and just autistic traits and oh boy milady is autistic. She checks like almost every box. I think it's cuz a lot of female characters who are written to be quirky and weird are accidentally written to just be autistic. Also for spacepunk we couldn't check enough boxes because we don't know too much about his like, social development I guess??? I forgot but we just didn't know enough about him but he checks enough boxes that we inferred that he's most likely also autistic.

TLDR: Spacepunk and Milady are autistic. We checked this.

[sharkboy-starmites]

I am genuinely crying about starmites. They're just guys. I don't like crying in public but I'll be dammed if these silly fuckers aren't bringing tears to my eyes.

[sharkboy-starmites]

Some highlights are:

Punk saying weirder shit than ever, I had to bust out a dictionary to understand this guy I love him so much.

Bizzarbra is pathetic x2. Also love her she's my favorite

"Suck dirt low life" Jesus balbraka chill out

"Well wicky wacky woo" shak graa wtf

Diva implying weird sexual things?? Like three times??? About teenagers????

Diva imply spacepunk is too into milady to function as a person. Accurate but ouch.

Spacepunk is literally just a little guy I love him so much he deserves the world and a hug.

Punk is so confused like 9/10 times anything is happening

Milady is annoying. That's a bit mean but she is not helping at all. (She made the mites sad! 😢)

Diggety is so fucking weird. I love it.

Shak graa has a vague backstory???? For real?????

Shak graa is genocidal Dr. Doofenshmertz

Diva doesn't want to give up being queen of innerspace, until the end where she's like. Damn this shit hard I'm going to retire. EVERY BAD THING COULDVE BEEN AVOIDED IF YOU MADE THAT DECISION 200 PAGES EARLIER!!!!

why the hell are they all so mean to trink

I think the stsrmite code of gallantry was made by punk so that the mites don't do stupid shit when he's not watching but it clearly doesn't work because the second he leaves they just break like all the rules. They're like 'sweet dads gone and some fucking lady is in charge, time to break every rule written!!'

Why does diggety growl at milady, dude are you human?

Milady just to conclusions like she's playing the floor is lava istg

She's only a likeable character when she interacts with punk. Why.

Dude the starmites are just, so helpless.

Banshees are strong as fuck??? One of them just picked up ack ack by his pants??? What????

Punk actually caring about people other than milady is a nice refresher from the version I know.

Punk has like 5 emotions, fear, anger, sadness, dad, and "I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVEEE MILAAAAAAAAADDYYYYYYYYYY OOOOOOOOOH"

Punk and bizzy are very pure.have done nothing wrong.

They are sweet babies. I love them.

Bizzy sees punk once and is like damn he's hot mom can I marry him. Valid he is hot.

Bizzy is the best character in the show prove me wrong.

Every bad thing bizzy does is because diva makes her do it, and every bad thing punk does is because he doesn't know what else to do.

Milady is the least helpful superhero ever. She shows up after the bad shit happens and then is sad. Girlypop youare these 4 boys only hope at least try.

AAAAAAAAAA I GOT THE 80S STARMITES SCRIPT FOR MY BIRTHDAY IM SO FUCKING HAPPY DUDE. AAAAAAAA THAT IS THE ONLY THING IM EVER GONNA TALK ABOUT EVER FROM NOW ON.