CORTEX GROUP

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(Sideblog run by @chaotic-minds-think-alike )

Place to store all things about my rw ocs, mainly my iterators! Asks may occasionally open... ———-———-———-———-———-———-———-———-———-— The Cortex Local Group is a group of 4 iterators primarily focused on void fluid research and its effects on living beings. They are reserved and communicate only when necessary due to three of them being in troublesome states.

A Bright Future [ABF] : communications are CLOSED Early Warning [EW] : communications are CLOSED Eight Strikes [ES] : communications are CLOSED Faulty Functions Beyond Repair [FFBR] : communications are CLOSED ———-———-———-———-———-———-———-———-

Tagging system:

#ABF - all posts featuring A Bright Future #EW - all posts featuring Early Warning #ES - all posts featuring Eight Strikes #FFBR - all posts featuring Faulty Functions Beyond Repair #lore related - important lore #creature database - wildlife exclusive to the local group / OC world stuff #ooc - self explanatory

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Lied, have more animals

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Unfortunately more lizards

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Yk I forgot to show you guys the Beholder… he already has a ref and I made it when I got into vector art recently which I oughta pick back up but here he is:

Btw this ref is the first and old one because some of the info is a bit different and he was made before Eight became a thing but that’s the gist of it

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“ok so dragon lizards probably going to be renamed to something else because there will be 2 types

these guys are the failure dudes and Eight kinda was just "bye" and dumped them into the world (also Eight wants to make his own ecosystem but mf this is not how you do that!!!)

they were made as apart of the maintenance roster but he screwed up somewhere and they were too dumb to follow orders and started destroying where they were deployed aoaoughg

he does NOT like them but think its funny to fuck around with them because of how stupid they are

so now they kinda just roam around in the wild

ok so now their abilities

they're probably blue liz size because they were meant to "fly" but cant for obvious reasons and actually glide (and leap far) instead

they're also slow like greens and can climb poles because their wicked claws but aren't that active and prefer to stay on high vantage points

now for the metal bits on their head is a kind of regulator because in the experimental phase mfs would choke on their own excessive exhaust and die so this stuff is just a filter (and so exhaust shoots out the back of their head like a vulture's)

they still can breathe normally and so if too many are in a small area breathing fire they'll stun eachother (losers)

also yeah they're just really loserish gassy guys and so they breathe fire by creating a spark which means every time they open their jaws their specialized teeth ignite the excess gas

also as you might be able to expect they're not that good at firebreathing and can only do so in short bursts”

(Me info dumping just copy and pasted)

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reblogging for storage purposes, updated post is here

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The worst part about this guy is not what he’s done to Warning and Future but the fact that Eight heavily favors him. Eight’s completely unaware of his dark past and Torrents even put in measures to make sure of that.

The stinker!! The scrawny toothpick who hurt not one but TWO iterators!! And even tried to hurt a third!! <- (but by then he was much less involved). Torrents was the main lead and creators of ABF and EW and favored engineer of Eight’s. Tbh I don’t think he deserves much other than what I’ve been showing in the videos.

I guess to say why Eight likes him because he’s very straightforward and without hesitance gave what Eight asked for when he needed it. (Also haha loser unmasked he looks so ugly)

Overall ancient design heavily inspired by @bitsbug ‘s

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I was originally going to wait till I had 4 guys done but I’m insane

Some freaks!

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More of them

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Beasts of the crawling kind

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Guys love impulse making and speedrunning animatics just because a song they found had roots with thorns in them

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Eight Strikes [ES] (or just “Eight”) reference

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Early Warning [EW] (or just “Warning”) reference

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Faulty Functions Beyond Repair [FFBR] (or just “Beyond”) reference

Half of Beyond’s identity, Function’s reference

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A Bright Future [ABF] (or just “Future”) reference

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hello ffbr! is there any particular reason you’re named that? what do you think about your name?

[FFBR]: could be… a… mistake…

[FFBR]: I do… not doubt… all… potential interpretations.

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I wonder who these guys are…

First 4 icons (greens, blue, and pink) made by @pine-arten

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I don’t feel like coloring this but an idea of Eight’s purposed organism creating chamber thingy looks like

Imagine a lot more needles but it’s used as both the main method of creation and a copy machine for existing blueprints (I also just wanted to draw some machinery)