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[almightyhamslice]

Insektober day 2: Garden!

It may surprise you to know Krud City has its own garden! Of course, it must be self sufficient in order to ensure its citizens don't go hungry! Though, it's a lot different than Flowered City's gardens. The Kruds only grow microgreens, potatoes, wild onions, and rice, as anything more is seen as fanciful and decadent, and therefore a waste of the limited space the citadel can provide.

Akane and Kaboche offer helping hands in the garden by planting and watering a new bed of sprouts! They aren't carreer gardeners, they just help out when they feel like it. I could talk for AGES abt Krud n Verigreen culture ngl it is SO fucking fun I missed this sm LOL

[almightyhamslice]

I'm going to fucking SCREAM why did I post this on my reblogs account lmfao!! UGH I was so out of it last night ffs. No wonder it got no traction!!! (as if my funny bug posts dont get like 2 notes each) Any fucking ways lol.

HUGE headcanon post abt funny bug food since I have been thinking abt it for a while!!

So Krud food is weird because Krud City is barren and the only fresh food sources they have are aquatic vegetation and fish! It's also possible they might have a garden, but it's small and maintained by the commoners (The Insektors Annual 1997 book calls the commoners "common-or-garden Kruds" in Bakrakra's description) so it could be herbs or microgreens? They MIGHT benefit from growing potatoes and wild onions since they're easygoing, so I won't rule out that possibility! Similarly, they may also grow rice since they're surrounded by water, and rice grows well in very wet environments?

So aside from the aforementioned fish, sea greens, and potentially rice and potatoes, most krud food is imported from other places in Yukdom or occasionally Joyceland (they have a bitter grudge obviously but DAMMIT Joyceland fruit is tasty!!) OR Kruds can just go into Flowered City and steal... but thats pretty shitty lol. Krud hunters like Niff basically never kill the animals they hunt, because they are HUGE compared to the Insektors themselves! It'd be too much of a waste to kill them, so Niff and other hunters merely use blades to cut chunks of flesh from their prey, and it's actually a pretty scary/dangerous job! Similarly, Kruds do eat eggs, but I think that'd be RLLY difficult considering they're so tiny in comparison! I think it must be quail eggs or even hummingbird eggs. Hummingbird sounds ridiculous, but it'd be the same size as a full grown Krud so like, I think it's more reasonable. They'd be a pain to harvest though, maybe ants collect them since they're the strongest!

A lot of imported food is often dried so it can last longer-- Kruds are very against wasting food (funny considering their horrible carbon footprint LOL) so dried fruit and jerky is consumed more often than their fresh equivalents. This is actually kind of a problem for hemipterans like Makabris, however, since they don't have teeth and can only 'drink' their food. I imagine they are probably used to drinking things that have been powdered and blended. Which is gross, but sometimes being a Krud is less abt living and more abt surviving! Maybe all the time actually lol. They're kind of ascetic. OH YEAH also Kruds know how to pickle and process/grind foods! in the UK dub Wasabi knows what burgers and pickles are so they must exist on a funny bug scale. Which is good since I dont think there's an easier way for the Insektors to eat stuff like grains beyond them being processed into flour, cuz ONCE AGAIN, grains are HUGE compared to them! I was joking abt this on my server cuz even though the Kruds have the right ingredients to make sushi regularly (rice, seaweed, fish) it'd have to be RLLY WEIRD sushi because they're too small to eat individual grains of rice! So it'd have to be made of something more like rice cakes? Their bread may also be more often made of rice flour or potato starch cuz of the whole garden thing I mentioned before, idk if they'd be able to grow the other stuf.

I totally overthought this whole thing LOL. It rlly harkens back to my Crash phase where I'd overthink the CNK aliens! I kind of miss that ngl I'd totally do it again if any of them returned in Crash Team Rumble....... (please)

OH FUCK I FORGOT TO MENTION LUKANUS' DRINK! He is drinking honeydew! It's kind of like drinking cow's milk but weirder (and it has a 'specialness' to it thats kind of like... sparkling cider I guess? Not something you drink all the time.) because it's made by aphids. If you know you know. Its weird to hemipterans and relatives but not weird to most other bugs? Rook's pretty unaffected by it cuz hes a carnivore though so its like. who cares. (Makabris does!! He is SO grossed out rn)

insektober day 11: food

makabris n lukanus enjoy fresh apple slices at rrook's bar. its a special treat since kruds dont grow their own fruit.

[distant-glory]

Update: Blue Roses

Title: Lugubrious Prompt: lover100 Table B, Fandom: Insektors Pairing: Acylius/Aelia Rating: K  Word Count: 3,813 Summary: The differences between Yukdom and Joyceland run deeper than just music, flowers and kolors. Notes: Fic one of ninety-two for the year...I hope. The Joyces that Fulgor and Aelia refer to are two of the dragonfly squadron; their call signs are Tango-Zulu and Oscar-Papa.

FF.net / Ao3

[almightyhamslice]

Insektober day 22: Masquerade! (sorry its late)

Queen Bakrakra and General Lukanus at the masquerade ball. Lukanus wishes to dance with the queen but alas, he's a never been much of a dancer and she hasn't moved her legs this much in years.... they'd be a disaster on the dance floor.

So instead Bakrakra will stand and watch her subjects like ants, while Lukanus scours the premises for a certain ant! (FULGOR!)

This piece takes place at the same time as day 7! Same masquerade ball. The whole Masquerade thing is an episode of my rewrite (still a WIP....) and @dnpanimationstudioclone came up w the idea for it! It's meant to go between Koa the Frog and The Reskue, a transitional state between the Kruds being unable to put a face on the Verigreen threat and the Kruds recognizing Fulgor as the main threat of Verigreen resistence (and Aelia, but they don't really take her seriously since they see her as a weak butterfly)

[almightyhamslice]

Insektober day 28: Night

Erik and Niff go out to watch a Verigreen fireworks show, but they have to take Moritz with them. Erik's basically the go-to Krud for keeping other Kruds and Verries in custody. They're supposed to be watching for Verigreen activity in suspicion they invade, but they're honestly just enthralled w the lights LOL. They r unironically having a good time. Well, Moritz isn't, but they suppose it's comparatively better, so it feels a little bit good.

I mentioned Moritz briefly in my TDOV post, but it's time I introduced them to you! They're a young assassin bug who's been ostracized from Krud society due to their acid spit. Other Kruds are terrified of them because they think they're unpredictable n don't want to get close, lest they be hurt accidentally or even intentionally. So, they are forced to wear a muzzle that tucks their beak under their jaw, therefore also preventing them from speaking and defending themself. They attempted to learn sign language (or rather, the Insektor version of it since they all only have 3 fingers rather than 5) but Moritz only has 2 fingers, so they were eventually fitted with koal powered prosthetics (which you can see in the TDOV drawing of them!). It's generally seen as 'safe' for them to use koal guns because koal juice is harmless to Kruds, unlike their spit.

Moritz thinks it's unfair. If they can control the weapons strapped to their hands, why can't they be trusted to control their own body? They wish someone would just listen to them talk, but at this point it's been so long they can't even remember the sound of their own voice. It must be so raspy and uneven, from years of disuse.

[almightyhamslice]

Insektober day 13: Monster(s)!

These characters are all termites! Fightermites even. Left to right they are: Nasuto (nah-SUE-toh), Lord Sisyphus (SISSY-fuss), and Cubit (KYU-bit)! Nasuto and Cubit are soliders and both are blind (fun fact did you know irl termite soldiers and workers are blind? the winged termites that eventually become kings n queens aren't, though). Sisyphus is a termite king (demoted to Lord at Queen Bakrakra's demand) and he's Lady Prometheus' husband!

Sisyphus was meant to be the general and commander of the army of Fightermites, but he realized his wife needed his support, so he abandoned his military duties to better care for her. Bakrakra tolerated this because Lukanus was able to take Sisyphus' position and lead the fightermites, but as a result none of Sisyphus' children respect his command and just think he's a pathetic little guy. There isn't much familial love between the Fightermites since there's hundreds of them and neither of the parents can give them much attention... but Prometheus has a commanding presence and Sisyphus doesn't, so they all listen to her. Prometheus finds it difficult to be personal to her children, but she is at least able to with Cubit and Nasuto since they are her guards and therefore usually by her side.

I am NOT late and I did NOT forget, I was just out of the house all day. I chose to draw Prometheus' henchmen for today's prompt cuz termite soldiers remind me of frankenstein's monster lol. They're like different bugs stitched together into 1!!

[almightyhamslice]

Insektober day 9: Seaside

Ambrose and Thoran rest beside the sea at Khord Shore, allowing the local water mites to crawl over them as they lean against each other. Ambrose is a notorious pirate who wishes to be a captain someday, but is held back by his boss. Thoran wants to live a quiet and peaceful life, but always finds herself entangled with the pirates. The two hate each other, and yet they still sit together under the sunset. What must draw them to each other?

Weirdly tender piece between 2 underexplained characters of mine. I absolutely love Thoran and will talk abt her any chance I get, but there's not much of her on this blog! And Ambrose... I straight up didn't post him at all lol! I'll tell you about them right now, then! Also since it's quick, regarding the water mites: they're kind of like pests to the residents of Khord Shore, though some think they're cute and keep them as pets. They're like rats but semi aquatic and arachnids LOL. They're not anthropomorphic, kind of like how the Amorites are in the show.

Ambrose is a spotted lanternfly. I basically designed him as a central villain for a certain episode of my insektors rewrite that I haven't gotten to yet... he's something of a megalomaniac, though his boss usually "keeps him in check"... by manipulating him. He likes to take on a leading role, though often thinks he is held back by his fellow pirates. He knows as well as any other pirate in his crew that it's dangerous for him to fight alone, but he wishes his backup would. y'know. back him up. He wants Thoran to go on raids with him, but she hates the pirate life & wishes to stay out of trouble. It's frustrating-- Thoran's one of the only people Ambrose trusts, but he hates how stubborn she can be!

Thoran is an eastern dobsonfly. She's part of the same rewrite story as Ambrose, though she is more of a grey figure-- she's a Yuk, but isn't allied with the other Yuks around her. She is kind to those who are kind to her, regardless of alignment essentially. Also, she is transgender! Though you may have already guessed that if you're familiar with dobsonflies in real life. Unlike Krabo, Greeb, Moritz, and Zarojo, Thoran doesn't have access to medication so mostly relies on social presentation. Dobsonfly gender roles are interesting as well-- female dobsonflies are expected to be strong and fierce, while males are just supposed to be pretty (their mandibles are purely decorative, they're soft and not good for fighting!)-- so Thoran's been literally fighting her entire life to gain respect from her peers. That's how she lost her eye and part of her mandible! She's actually proud of the jaw scar-- the stump that's left of her mandible looks much more like a cis female dobsonfly's would. She's been thinking about getting her other mandible filed down or cut off, but she thinks it wouldn't be "honorable" or "fair" if she didn't lose it in a real fight. So I guess she has some self-destructive tendencies going on, though she definitely doesn't see it that way-- she thinks she NEEDS to risk her life in order to be viewed as 'valid' by her fellow Yuks. She doesn't have much support, so often results to a life of isolation and reclusivity. My god I rambled a lot abt her LOL. I LIKE HER A LOT OK...

Also to clarify about yuk/krud terminology-- 'Yuks' are an umbrella term for the whole group of Insektors that are dull colors and don't fly, while 'Kruds' are specifically the Yuks that live in Krud City. So every Krud is a Yuk but not every Yuk is a Krud! Joyces and Verigreens are the same-- they're only 'Verigreens' if they live in Flowered City. Also I saw Saw X today finallY!!!! it was so fucking good lol.