YES! Pleasee I love it when people talk to me. I'm still learning how to tumble also. I started this blog sometime January or February and it took me a while to work up the courage to talk to people. Now I cannot shut up XD
I am very average height and nonthreatening IRL :( But yeah, I think Knack has adorable features that can come off as a bit intimidating. Big eyebrows, big nose, big tusks, big hands, and spikes. And they don't go away when he's small, either. He can tell when humans are nervous around him, even if they're polite about it. In fact, I'm almost certain Viktor's problem with him is that unlike Viktor's robots, Knack's destructive power is controlled by Knack. Despite Knack's obedience to the Doctor, Viktor and Katrina talk about him like he's a wild thing. I saw similar elements with Xander, also. Being scary on purpose is like taking control over that. Now they hate you because you're actively threatening them, and not because you have something they want or because of your looks. It could also work sort of like an ice breaker? But it depends on the person he's pranking.
I'm not sure if I got that right.
I have an idea that Knack goes through a brief phase where he's jumpscaring Lucas or the Doctor at every opportunity.
The lab coat thing is inspired by my college's policies on where you should or shouldn't wear them. Knack occasionally strikes me as a teacher's pet, so he would remind Lucas to take off his lab coat when he is outside. This naturally mutates into something like inane sibling shenanigans, and as soon as Knack is not the subject of active study, Lucas is going to have him wear a lab coat. He'll think he's winning something and Knack is going to pretend that this is ridiculous.
The holiday sweater is because @/chibifox2002 drew him in a sweater when I asked for a drawing of Knack listening to Lucas's heartbeat, and I thought that was so adorable.
And the cloak idea is based on a costume I want Charlotte wants to put him in.
I had a draft where Knack was a bit afraid of putting his hands on someone else, but then I remembered that he playfully shoved Ryder in the first game when teasing him about Katrina, and Ryder only came up to about 2/3rds of his height. So maybe he's not so worried about his strength. I can see him worried about landing on top of someone, though. When he pushes Lucas out of the way of some robot lasers in the second game, he seems very careful to throw himself to the side. Despite him floating around and having trouble pulling levers, he is made of stone. I headcanon that he's at least 50 pounds at minimum, and at least double the weight an average human would be at his height (when he is within human growth ranges, of course). Lucas is swole af from pulling Little Knack up ledges on their hikes. Humans are about the same density as water, but stone and metal is at least twice that and more.
All that said, I do have him make the Doctor's nose a little bigger by accident, hehehehe, and yes, it was intended to be an affectionate gesture.
Knack having a tongue does feel cursed. In the first game, the animators only sometimes include it when he is reassembling. But when I noticed it, I was like 'wait a minute'. I looked around and he even has it when he is small!
It's hard to get close-up views of all his pieces, but here in the first game, it looks like this:
Took me a while to figure out what it was. But now that I know what it is, it's hard to imagine it being anything else. I bet that's how Lucas and the Doctor feel about the rest of him, too. Here it falls into place just outside of the view of the camera, at the top, there.
Why are you hiding it from us, devs? What are the lore implications?
Uhmm, that's about all I can think to say. As far as I know, we can do whatever we want with reblogs, but I do notice the post is getting long. I'll just tag it with #long post. That should do it! This is a lot of fun!
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