Your Favs as Bacteria

He/him !! Main blog is @6ear9er

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Welcome to “Your Favs as Bacteria” !!!!!

As the title suggests, this blog takes characters and decides which bacteria they would be if they were bacteria!! These are all opinions and just for fun, please don’t take to too seriously.

Please send me asks with characters you like!! (And all sorts of other asks are welcomed too!)

CURRENT PENDING REQUESTS: 9

Characters will be tagged in the order “first name, last name” such as “Teru Minamoto” ✅ as opposed to “Minamoto Teru” ❌

Bacteria will be tagged with the full genus name included, such as “Escherichia Coli” ✅ as opposed to “E. Coli” ❌

This blog is run by a teenager (he/him) with an interest in bacteriology, but I’m not a proper scientist and I have no training or degrees or anything, so please don’t count me as an authority.

Anything that is NOT a bacterial headcanon will be tagged as #not hcs

Some (not all) bacterial headcanons will include fun facts! They will be tagged as #fun facts

If some information in a fun fact for a hc doesn’t seem to have a source, or the source(s) linked to in the fun fact part don’t cover some of what is said, then the relevant source for that information is the Wikipedia page linked when you click the big green name of the bacterium!

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hornet from hollow knight?

Here ya go!!

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If Hornet was a bacterium, she would be Elizabethkingia Meningoseptica!

Character Photo Credit: Team Cherry

Bacteria Photo Credit: Dr. Saptarshi

Requested by anon!

FUN FACT: Elizabethkingia meningoseptica has been found on the roots and leaves of bago trees in Malaysia! I’m not sure how this would relate to Hornet, but I thought it was cool.

(I don’t believe they are called ‘bago’ in Malay but I’m not sure what the Malay word for the trees is, and I’m most accustomed to these trees being referred to as ‘bago’ trees, hence why I called them that. My apologies!!)

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IM CATCHING UP!!!!

ok I’m FINALLY gonna catch up on all the asks I have!!

I know I’ve done fun facts for all of them so far - but but please don’t expect fun facts for ALL of the bacterial headcanons I do!

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I would like to make microbe tumblr a thing. Yes. Microbeblr. Thank you

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Hi everyone!!

I forgot to enable anon asks, but they’re enabled now, so feel free to send in asks even if you don’t want your name on them! Just know I won’t be able to tag you in the headcanon ^_^

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If Teru Minamoto was a bacterium, he would be Geobacter Sulfurreducens!

Character Photo Credit: Aida of Aidairo

Bacteria Photo Credit: Anna Klimes and Ernie Carbone, UMass Amherst

FUN FACT: Like all Geobacter species, Geobacter Sulfurreducens is capable of electron transfer. Similarly, Teru exorcises supernaturals with lightning (ELECTRICITY, do you see where I’m going here?)

Additonally, Geobacter Sulfurreducens was initially isolated in Oklahoma, “from materials found around the surface of a contaminated ditch.” I think that sounds appropriately miserable for someone like Teru </3

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fun fact: this blog exists and i think thats funny! go check it out and be educated

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I love you tbhk fun facts. I love you

this is /silly I am sorry if I made you at all uncomfortable!!

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If Kris from Deltarune was a bacteria, what would they be?

Here you go!! <3

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If Kris Dreemurr was a bacterium, they would be Helicobacter Pylori!

Character Photo Credits: Deltarune Development Team

Bacteria Photo Credits: Yutaka Tsutsumi, M.D. Professor Department of Pathology Fujita Health

Requested by @iliketbhk !! THATS MY WIFE!!!! YAAAY!!!

FUN FACT: I haven’t played Deltarune yet, but from what I’ve read, it seems like Kris is a very quiet person in most situations, but they are actually very eccentric in many ways, enjoy pulling little pranks sometimes, and are very strong when fighting! Heliobacter pylori infects the stomachs of over half of the population globally. While it can cause serious illness, the vast majority of people are asymptomatic. (Which means you’re almost certainly safe!) I’d argue infections being mostly asymptomatic could be analogous to how Kris is a quiet person, but not devoid of personality — When heliobacter pylori does cause serious illness, it can bring about many kinds of gastric disorders and further complications beyond that. But once again, please don’t stress over this! Even if you do have heliobacter pylori in your stomach, developing serious illness is RARE, and if you do begin to experience symptoms, they are treatable!

Sorry, I know jumping between Kris from Deltarune and serious bacterial infections is a bit awkward, but I’m trying my best to keep it lighthearted enough that it doesn’t feel tone-deaf!! Thank you!

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oooh Amane? plz :3

Here you go!!!

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If Amane Yugi was a bacterium, he would be Streptococcus Mitis!

Character Photo Credit: Aida of Aidairo

Bacteria Photo Credit: ABIS Ensyclopedia

Requested by @amaneyxgi !!! Thank you!

FUN FACT: When the Apollo 12 mission brought the Surveyor 3 back to earth, Streptococcus Mitis was found alive on the camera, leading scientists to believe the bacteria had been to the moon. But as it turns out, there weren’t sufficient measures taken to prevent contamination as it came back, so the Surveyor 3 most likely picked up the bacteria when it came back, and streptococcus mitis probably never went to the moon at all. Amane Yugi was fascinated by the moon while he was alive, but decided he would never actually make it there.

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If Tiara Minamoto was a bacterium, she would be Geobacter Anodireducens!

Character Photo Credit: Aida of Aidairo

Bacteria Photo Credit: N/A

FUN FACT: Compared to Geobacter Sulfurreducens and Geobacter Metallireducens, Geobacter Anodireducens can “withstand nearly twice the salt concentration”! Despite being 5 years old, Tiara’s exorcism abilities are very strong, and she’s said to actually have much more potential than Teru as an exorcist. Speaking of being 5 years old, Geobacter Anodireducens was discovered very recently! Its first isolation was in 2014. (So more like 12 years, but still pretty recent compared to Geobacter Metallireducens and Geobacter Sulfurreducens!)

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If Kou Minamoto was a bacterium, he would be Geobacter Metallireducens!

Character Photo Credit: Aida of Aidairo

Bacteria Photo Credit: Derek Lovley

FUN FACT: Geobacter Metallireducens is capable of something called direct interspecies electron transfer! I’m not sure exactly how to describe my thought process here, but that sort of reminds me of his relationships with supernaturals, particularly with Mitsuba!

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If Teru Minamoto was a bacterium, he would be Geobacter Sulfurreducens!

Character Photo Credit: Aida of Aidairo

Bacteria Photo Credit: Anna Klimes and Ernie Carbone, UMass Amherst

FUN FACT: Like all Geobacter species, Geobacter Sulfurreducens is capable of electron transfer. Similarly, Teru exorcises supernaturals with lightning (ELECTRICITY, do you see where I’m going here?)

Additonally, Geobacter Sulfurreducens was initially isolated in Oklahoma, “from materials found around the surface of a contaminated ditch.” I think that sounds appropriately miserable for someone like Teru </3