Rambling Fools

[keferon]

For the ShockOp Isekai, what's the starting point? The book is shaping up to be "Transformers continuity soup, but with Isekai tropes" but which Shockwave is going into this feels important because. Is this some kind of modern/civilian au equivalent where he's is still in vaguely the same carrier but not a book, or just some nobody? Is Isekai Shockwave human and supposed to be from the real world or a cybertronian isekai-ed into a cybertronian book? Please, we need define what level of weird and underprepared this soon to be acting prodigy is internally screaming to.

(My vote is for "real world" human with a regular job, but he's one of those people who gets really invested in decoding fantasy worldbuilding from tiny details, and that is exclusively how he knows what he's doing)

I originally was thinking that Shockwave would be from peaceful no-war version of Cybertron. And also have him be a professor of some kind. He is really smart, passionate about space and literature.

The fun thing is that when he ends up in a book, his actual science degree betrays him immediately because EVERYTHING in the book always exists to serve a narrative purpose first and logic second. Materials don't interact as they should if their interaction gets in the way of the plot. A bomb that would explode in a second takes two whole minutes to activate because ~drama~. You know the stuff haha. Movie logic.

So Shockwave, being both a scientist AND a literature nerd AND a professional autistic decides to play by the new rules and starts inventing absolutely impossible bullshit purely by going "yeah so everything is possible if you find some kind of rare imaginary material".

If something is shiny and ambiguous. Chances are...it can be used in 10 different ways from curing a cough to reviving dead. If you need something unrealistic to happen you just check if there's an ancient Prime with similar powers and go for their artifacts. Everything is possible:D ESPECIALLY because Shockwave NARRATIVELY supported as a "crazy scientist who does impossible stuff".

[f1shbowl]

@keferon has given another funky creature to draw

[keferon]

THE CREATURE!! YES YES THE CREATURE OH MY GOD THIS IS SO LOVELY

[keferon]

Fish behaviour 👍

[keferon]

Space Roommates AU concept:

Blurr, still suspicious as fuck of Longarm asks him accusingly if he’s experimenting on Shockwave.

Longarm, not picking up on the tone, answers Yes.

Because for the last however long they’ve been stuck together Longarm has legitimately been running small experiments on Shockwave like “How far can I turn up the heat in here before Shockwave starts complaining?” Or “How long does it take Shockwave to find his missing screwdriver after I hide it?” Or “If I switch the labels on all his flavor packets will he notice or will muscle memory keep him ignorant?”

Meanwhile Blurr thinks this giant terrifying alien has just confirmed he removed Shockwaves arm as a part of an experiment.

These two are absolutely experimenting 9n each other all the time Kndjdjdbd yess

Longarm is curious of how eyes work. Shockwave is curious of how antennae-thingies work. They test each other's foods, they test each other's stats like speed and strength and reaction time.

Longarm should walk into a room with some scary medical equipment and go "I take your blood" without any elaboration and Blurr would absolutely freak the fuck out. But no. No it's fine. They just entertain themselves like that, it's enrichment for their brains. Last week Shockwave was asking for blood. It's chill.

They're both scientists who met an alien. Of course they're scientifically freaky about it haha

(Blurr is not a fan. He gets violent urges every time the creepy alien asks Shockwave for a tiny piece of his skin to analyze)

He gets used to it over time though. And at some point it occurs to him that if something bad happens it's better to have the alien educated about humans and humans educated about the alien. Just. In case of an emergency.

[keferon]

Is Longarm cold-blooded or warm-blooded?

Now THAT’S a million dollars question. Being cold blooded would make him very reliable on climate control systems. Cold blooded animals have a lot of their body functions tied to temperature. Which. Could be a fun thing to play with because being cold would literally make him slower and sleepier. Dumber too, possibly. Plus. He is kind of a weird amphibian and those are cold blooded.

Hmmm.

That would also nicely explain why his species evolved to live without light. The surface of their planet is covered in ice but it is warmer underground.

With that some everyday-life differences would be fun to explore. Warm clothes would be almost completely useless for him. If anything, being under a heavy blanket would make him a bit colder bc it would serve as a barrier between his body and the warm air around.

That would also mean that humans are excellent cuddling material because of their warm blood. Or. Shockwave at least. Blurr is so skin and bones I don’t think he generates enough heat.

Yeah I think he should be cold blooded:) Let’s make him a bit weirder than he already is

[keferon]

Shockwave and Longarm are like. Cuddles are essential for warmth 🤝 Cuddles are essential for mental health

Longarm loves physical touch bc his human is a walking heater while Shockwave is genuinely just very tactile person and will go insane if you deprive him of physical contact.

And Blurr wants cuddles really bad but too anxious/scared to ask.

Also I am now imaging Longarm discovering the purpose that blankets hold for humans. He’s initially like “bruh humans wrap themselves like burritos when sleep? Ok I guess. Weird.” And then one time Shockwave decides to prove that the fabrics burrito is not stupid and goes “come here”. And that’s it. Longarm is instantly sold and charmed. The human produces heat! And the blanket TRAPS the heat! The heat stays inside! ITS WARM

[keferon]

He got clothes :3

YOOOOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL CREATURE YES YESS

[keferon]

Oh I imagine in a situation like that? Where the best and most important thing you can become is a doctor or a scientist (botanist? Mechanic? I am rounding them up) ? EVERYONE wants to be that. Smart people rule the world! The world is very tiny and sits in the middle of empty void but that's all they have and they are in control of it.

It's a situation where smart people do the progress and an average person does maintenance just to keep smart people's progress steady.

....dang that would probably also mean that having one of the smart ones as a partner is like. A huge deal. Because then you get to have some small blessings here and there, with them favoring you over other people. And also there's increased probability of your child also becoming "the smart one" because their parent would definitely influence and teach them as soon as they're able to learn. And smart people get to have the best food and vitamins and health care so obviously everyone REALLY wants their children to be that.

Then. Of course. There's the arranged marriage situation. Because "oh everyone wants to marry a doctor" doesn't really mean anything. The genetic pool rules everything! There is a very specific number of people who can get a doctor as their partner because their genes are right and there will be no inbreeding.

(There is probably a designated person who's job is to keep track of genetic tree. An apocalyptic version of matchmaker if you will. I imagine people would try very hard to bribe that person into giving them better matches hm..)

I think Blurr was probably. In line? For a match with someone?

Also now I’m just imagining a scene where Shockwave starts rambling some science stuff and Blurr is like hold..hold up. ……This man is so beautiful AND so rich and kind AND SMART TOO??

[keferon]

More space shockblurr doodles. Most of which are inspired/based on Without Hope of Recovery by Almighty_Hat because I barely managed to inhale a couple of times after escaping work and instantly went to read about Blurr having a “WTF” moment about fresh tape and artificial raspberry hehe

[keferon]

Okay but now i’m thinking about what Longarm’s ship looks like, and how it connected to the Seraph for Longarm to get inside. Also came to the conclusion by thinkin my thoughts that Longarm’s planet has to be oxygenated if he’s interacting with shockwave without protective equipment (unlike Rocky and the Hail Mary), and if the atmo is equitable, it means that Longarm’s planet is also probably human habitable, so, minimal human terrarium? Thems thoughts

Spent yesterday and now spending the today thinking about their setup 🤔 I don't want to just copy Rocky's ship. Longarm is not Rocky so I want his ship to be different. For now I'm trying to base his ship on some Decepticon spacecraft that I know about. Minus the cartoony ass spikes and senseless decor and evil red lights lol

Then there's also air situation. I don't want Longarm to breathe Oxygen like humans, but I also want him to be able to hang out with humans! So. He is breathing Nitrogen >:D Which makes him compatible with human air because the stuff we inhale is 70% Nitrogen and only 20% oxygen. The space station air is technically 79% Nitrogen OKAY POINT IS. There's fuckton of Nitrogen that Shocky and Blurr breathe at all times but their lungs don'tuse it. So technically humans and aliens don't breathe the same air but they breathe different parts of same air. It's like sharing a cake but you take the frosting and your friend takes all the layers~

I also had a fun idea about Longarm possibly breathing Carbon Dioxide (like a plant lol) but sadly. Human spacecraft is made to maintain a very small percent of Carbon Dioxide in the air. Longarm is big, I am never going to believe having less than 10% in the air is gonna be enough for him.

Basically. For now I think that Longarm's planet miiiiight be okay for humans. It definitely has water and similar to Earth temperature. The life on it is soft and roughly human sized so the gravitation might be kind of similar. Maybe it's a bit weaker than Earth gravity. Actually. Yeah I like it, they should have weaker gravity than Earth so Longarm can be like "wow humans are stronger than they look".

(I am looking for a fitting exo planet in real life as we speak hehe. The world lore must be established before I jump into alien shenanigans. And Longarm having a proper name for his planet and people is important.)

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⬆️ I might update all that if I come up with better ideas. At the very least the info about Longarm's planet

[sightseertrespasser]

World building, my beloved.

Because you’ve described Longarm as being semi-aquatic, my mind went to “what is the wettest spaceship I’ve ever seen?” Which leads to two interesting options.

My first thought was The Stranger, a ring world ship from the game Outer Wilds. The entire thing is basically a self sustaining river/swamp in space.

Something like this but only semi-submerged caves would be both cool and deeply unsettling for a human to explore.

Longarm doesn’t have eyes so just imagine Shockwave trying to navigate an underground river in the pitch black, never knowing when something is going to be a dead end and god forbid any tunnels he’d need to use are completely underwater.

Meanwhile Longarm is like, “You don’t like my wet labyrinth? Why? It cozy.”

The other option if you want to get really freaky with it is:

A living spaceship.

A super organism domesticated and carefully cultivated into shape to serve as housing and transportation. (This picture is of a xenomorph nest specifically but you get the idea.)

Instead of maintaining engines and firewalls, maintenance involves giving your ship adequate feed and medical care. Plus side or organic based technology is that it’s a lot less prone to catching on fire than electronic technology. Down side is if your ship sneezes, all your shit is falling to the floor.

Plus it means once more throwing Shockwave into The Horrors that aren’t actually that horrible once you get used to the visuals.

Longarm, again: “You don’t like my ship? Why? It likes you.”

[keferon]

Dang I’d say we smash both of these aesthetics together>:0 Fully organic ship is really something I don’t want to design (because. me not smart enough) BUT we can easily have a deeply unsettling HALF-organic ship. So the interior is only semi normal but if you pop a wall panel open? THERES FUCKING MEAT INSIDE. And of course it is dark as hell. And wet too. Not everywhere but at least the living space would have a good amount of water in it.

I don’t think the ship should have a functional brain though. Ships that are alive are kind of an expectable cute cliche in human media. It’s easy to humanise a creepy meat wall if you think that it likes you. But it’s a lot more unsettling if you look at that meat wall and you know it has much more in common with tumour than it has with you.

Shockwave and Blurr should absolutely have a tour inside and react accordingly AHAHAHFNVJ

Actually. In a ship made by swimming creatures with long ass legs and strong grabby tails and big hands. Shockwave would struggle sooo much on vertical surfaces. It’s fine though, Longarm can carry him if needed.

Also Blurr absolutely cannot swim. The biggest amount of water he ever saw could fit in one bucket haha

[keferon]

Okay but now i’m thinking about what Longarm’s ship looks like, and how it connected to the Seraph for Longarm to get inside. Also came to the conclusion by thinkin my thoughts that Longarm’s planet has to be oxygenated if he’s interacting with shockwave without protective equipment (unlike Rocky and the Hail Mary), and if the atmo is equitable, it means that Longarm’s planet is also probably human habitable, so, minimal human terrarium? Thems thoughts

Spent yesterday and now spending the today thinking about their setup 🤔 I don't want to just copy Rocky's ship. Longarm is not Rocky so I want his ship to be different. For now I'm trying to base his ship on some Decepticon spacecraft that I know about. Minus the cartoony ass spikes and senseless decor and evil red lights lol

Then there's also air situation. I don't want Longarm to breathe Oxygen like humans, but I also want him to be able to hang out with humans! So. He is breathing Nitrogen >:D Which makes him compatible with human air because the stuff we inhale is 70% Nitrogen and only 20% oxygen. The space station air is technically 79% Nitrogen OKAY POINT IS. There's fuckton of Nitrogen that Shocky and Blurr breathe at all times but their lungs don'tuse it. So technically humans and aliens don't breathe the same air but they breathe different parts of same air. It's like sharing a cake but you take the frosting and your friend takes all the layers~

I also had a fun idea about Longarm possibly breathing Carbon Dioxide (like a plant lol) but sadly. Human spacecraft is made to maintain a very small percent of Carbon Dioxide in the air. Longarm is big, I am never going to believe having less than 10% in the air is gonna be enough for him.

Basically. For now I think that Longarm's planet miiiiight be okay for humans. It definitely has water and similar to Earth temperature. The life on it is soft and roughly human sized so the gravitation might be kind of similar. Maybe it's a bit weaker than Earth gravity. Actually. Yeah I like it, they should have weaker gravity than Earth so Longarm can be like "wow humans are stronger than they look".

(I am looking for a fitting exo planet in real life as we speak hehe. The world lore must be established before I jump into alien shenanigans. And Longarm having a proper name for his planet and people is important.)

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⬆️ I might update all that if I come up with better ideas. At the very least the info about Longarm's planet

[keferon]

Some more of. That:)

[keferon]

Eeeeeeyyy who wants more of the alien shenanigans?

[spookyspaghetty]

Needed this today

[ladyothelakes]

The Night Shepard

A little comic from last spring I made that hasn’t really had a home anywhere.

I liked the idea of immortality leading to a reverence for life and the world around it, rather than nihilism and wanton destruction. It was also a comforting thought that if immortal beings walked among us, they could see the future of our hope become a reality someday… so it felt relevant again.

[dailycatsblog]

[weregreatatcrime]

I'm reading Earth is a Deathworld fics again and have the funniest idea for a Naruto crossover for founders era like. Imagine with me that the Uchiha are in fact an alien species related to the Otsutsuki species. And the Senju are still humans stuck on primitive earth.

So like picture with me. The otsutsuki are known for invading planets and cannibalizing them like a spider. Inject their chakra into the world and then suck it and the dissolved life right back out. Except Earth fucking cannibalized the otsutsuki right back and gave all its native life forms chakra instead. Which humans gleefully adapted to and took advantage of so it's their chakra now bitch. (This isn't too far off from my usual hcs about how canon chakra being from space works actually)

So now all of space is fucking terrified of this deathworld where the most dangerous parasitic species in the cosmos was just. Fucking ate. Not even by the lifeforms or like military might. But by the planet itself just fucking uno reversing them.

Everyone is TERRIFIED of the human race after that. They took the otsutsuki source of power and just. Used it as their own. The ultimate adaptable race got handed some crazy wack shit power and said "no take backsies". So Earth was designated as a "go there if you want to get devoured like an entire branch of the otsutsuki did" quarantine zone

Except we all know people don't like to listen to that shit, and think humans could be dangerously cool warriors or fighters or cool exotic pets. So someone kidnaps a very confused Tobirama who is EXTRA exotic because of his 'coloring'.

What proceeds is a very pissed off and emotional Hashirama coming after his only remaining brother and hunting him down (with MUCH chaos and destruction in the process) while Tobirama was at first squicked by being treated like a wild animal, but already broke himself free ages ago. He's been 'kidnapped' or 'enslaved' by one ship after the other as he actually studies the aliens around him more than they're learning about him, then when they go too far with some bullshit he busts out and goes and finds the next group of suckers. All is fair because if they didn't actually try to hurt him or experiment invasively on him he wouldn't destroy their ships.

Then a very confused and horrified Madara and Izuna find a deathworlder held 'prisoner' and 'rescue' him for his own safety. Tobirama is fine with this. A much nicer group of aliens who let him study them just as safely and respectfully as he studies them? He's having the time of his life.

Madara and Izuna are not having a good time. They are terrified both for and of this deathworlder who keeps trying to poke them. Hashirama is still tearing apart like entire slave networks trying to find his baby brother. The mokuton just needs carbon and water to work. It *works in space.* Aliens across the galaxy are fucking trembling.

At some point someone attacks the Uchiha ship or whatever and Tobirama just fucking. Obliterates them with a water dragon. Goes and starts poking their corpses.

"Could he do that the WHOLE TIME???" "I guess he WAS being friendly with us..."

[weregreatatcrime]

Here's a funny suggestion for eldritch Tobirama's love interest: Hikaku Uchiha. Everyone always writes him as a completely normal Guy TM surrounded by the absolute insanity of the shinobi world. He's so unmain character energy that you could put him in IRL and he would immediately blend in as a background office worker. So now imagine this normal ass dude just being paired with the eldritch being called Tobirama.

I know in order for Tobirama to fall in love his partner needs to obsessive about wooing him which makes Hikaku sound like a poor canidate. But remember, Hikaku is a Uchiha, and we all know how obsessive they can be. He's the clear, sunny sky that most people mistake for good weather ahead when in reality it indicates a vicious storm incoming.

YOU'RE SO FUCKING RIGHT AND BIG BRAINED. You know what's extra fucking great about that?? Tobirama would *absolutely* fucking fall over himself for this plain ass Normal Human Man. Picture with me this eldritch entity who doesn't understand humans and sees the like, Epitome of Just Some Guy ninja, and Tobirama would be fucking *fascinated* by him. What are you. What is this. "Normal"? That's so strange. Amazing! Do more "normal" please, he would like to observe you

Hilariously, falling in love with an eldritch entity is also like, the least normal and most Uchiha thing Hikaku could feasibly do, and I fucking *love* that for him actually

[weregreatatcrime]

Know what I'm not done, I'm thinking a lot about this. It won't be for a while yet (Tobirama seems to be dragging things out in his childhood for some reason) but I'm definitely going with this ship now

The trigger: how does Hikaku get a crush on Tobirama? I'm thinking it's gotta be a longer running crush, as in he probably started out like "Oh he's pretty" and then "oh fuck no that's the Senju’s spirit, I can't be horny for him"

But yanno, time passes, the village is created, plenty of time for Hikaku to just Observe and be like "oh he pretty AND competent and so scary... I want that"

Tho tbh, eldritch Tobirama is a lot less competent in creating the village than Canon Tobirama. I mean he's the ocean he doesn't understand this shit. He's going all out but fuck does he not understand human society shit. He's very serious about protecting it though

Anyways, so Hikaku probably does work up the nerve to like. Offer to court him. All professional and traditional. And Tobirama just "What" "I would like to court you" "For real" "...yes, 'for real'" (Hashirama is having a conniption, Kawarama is just :D, and Itama's romantic little heart is swooning)

Meanwhile the entire Uchiha clan is staring at Hikaku in a combination of horror, awe, and sheer shock because HIKAKU. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SANE ONE. WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

Hikaku, calmly: Courting the ocean, clearly.

Tobirama, confused but curious, is fine with this but like. "I must warn you, as you seem to know more of what I am than most. I am genuinely unsure if I'm capable of romantic feelings."

Hikaku firmly "Is that a fucking challenge"

Cue the softest, sappiest, most romantic courting either clan has seen in probably generations, because Hikaku IS an Uchiha, and he doesn't play by halves. This man goes whole ass into whatever he does. He just usually only does normal things unlike the REST of his balls to the walls clan

Somewhere along the lines, Tobirama decides that he's still not sure if he's capable of love in the same sense as humans, but fuck, Hikaku is His Human now. Kindly fuck off all competitors. For some reason this gave me the funniest brainworm of Tobirama asking Ameterasu for her permission to marry one of her children. Everyone who hears this has an instant aneurysm. Hikaku is so touched he gets teary eyed

[weregreatatcrime]

The Uchiha are the children of Amaterasu and Tobirama respects that. He knows from the first time he saw them that they had her eye. The kami can't interact with the physical world so much these days, but it's pretty easy to go to the edge of Himself and find her where the ocean and the sun meet.

Amaterasu is a bit confused but delighted. She is willing to offer her blessing if he'll pass along a message or two to her children. Tobirama sends the Uchiha priests into a frenzy and Hikaku is both breathless because what do you mean you asked my goddess for permission to marry me. And also he's swooning because that's so fucking romantic holy shit.

Tobirama ends up visiting Amaterasu on occasion and bringing back news for the priests. Amaterasu leaves Hikaku little presents as thanks for growing her connection to her children back again. Hikaku was not prepared for this

(What, you thought you could get away with only ONE non human entity being interested in you and your in-laws? Sorry buddy, it's an all in sort of deal lmao)