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Mobian versions of mythological animals don't exist, but they are depicted a lot in pop culture, similarly to how humans portray creatures like vampires.
This means that there is a huge supernatural romance genre focused around mobian unicorns and dragons and shit.
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First Law of Magic
Perfection is impossible. You cannot create a flawless spell. Stoneskin will render you impervious to harm, but also make you unable to move. An amulet of strength will let you break walls with your bare hands, but it will not protect you from the bruises on your knuckles. For every blessing, a curse. For every boon, a tax.
A clever magician will build spells with drawbacks built in so they know what o expect. A skilled magician will make those drawbacks unrelated or unlikely to apply (e.g. a shield spell that is broken by squid ink). A Masterful magician is able to make a spell with drawbacks so miniscule as to be inconsequential, but there must always be a tithe paid to magic.
This is why curses have escape clauses. You have to give your victim a way out, or the curse simply won't take hold.
Second Law of Magic
Nothing lasts forever. Magic is energy, and energy runs out. Wards must be renewed, buffs must be recast, even blessings from the gods must be granted anew to each generation or be lost. You cannot cast a spell and expect it to last forever. Enchantments break as surely as the wall is worn to sand.
This is typically worked around by building in a means for the spell to replenish itself on mana from its surroundings, or for enchanted blades to devour the magic from those it slays to renew themselves. But a sword not swung will die, and a ward tested repeatedly will break.
There is one exception to this law, but it is forbidden to make intentional use of it.
Third Law of Magic
The soul is immutable. Seek no further answers here.
The Ecosystem of Plack Beach
Plack Beach is, in my opinion, one of the most memorable locations in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. Many areas in the game already have a strange theme to their aesthetics, but Plack Beach's giant-teeth-covered sands are so unique, nothing else has ever matched it. Today, I would like to take a closer look at this location and speculate on its creatures, so join me on this dental and marine journey!
Teeth, coral or both?
For the longest time, I never really thought about the giant teeth that are found all throughout this area. Maybe they come from a long dead giant race? Unlikely. Or they're just teeth-shaped rocks? Boring. But I think I have a more interesting answer.
Real teeth are covered in a hard tissue called enamel, which is primarily composed of calcium, and it protects its softer interior. Corals, specifically hard corals, are marine animals known for protecting their own soft interior with a hard exoskeleton also primarily made of calcium. So what if the giant teeth of Plack Beach are a colony of coral? They're found extensively around this marine environment, and could reasonably also be made of a calcium-based material. Perhaps this hypothetical coral evolved to produce an exoskeleton out of something chemically closer to teeth!
Building off from this, we can then surmise that, like real life coral, this teeth coral acts as the fundamental base for this ecosystem, providing shelter and food for all manner of life.
Pokeys and Viruses
Toothies are a species of tall Pokey-like creature composed of stacked teeth. Their nature is terribly unclear, but under this coral hypthesis, we have a few options. Maybe they are the coral creatures themselves. I find that unlikely, because most of the coral we see is scattered around, not stacked. Alternatively, they could be a highly-specialized species of Pokey which burrows inside teeth coral and stacks them up to protect its long body as it grows. Or maybe they're actually the spirit of a Pokey possessing a set of teeth, similar to the undead Skellokeys from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. Funny how these are also calcium-based, being skeletons themselves.
Another creature which takes refuge inside teeth are the blue viruses occasionally seen alongside Toothies. As stand-ins for the bacteria that cause cavities, it makes sense that they would live in and potentially feed on the "teeth coral", causing the many holes we can observe on them. In nature, this interaction is known as parasitism, since one of the species lives in and causes harm to the other.
As mentioned, Toothies can spit out blue Viruses to help defend them when they are knocked down. Given they help them, the Viruses could be in a mutualistic reloationship with the Toothy. They can hide from predators by living inside them, in exchange for protecting the Toothy when it is in danger. I don't think the Viruses feed on the Toothy, since it is shown to easily spit them out when it wants to, and it has no signs of cavities on its body.
The dentists of the beach
Pendrils are small penguins with drill-like beaks which can be found on Plack Beach. While a penguin in a tropical beach might seem unusual, most real penguins, such as the Humboldt penguin, don't actually live in arctic regions, instead living on temperate beaches and rocky shores.
Pendrils are capable of using their beaks to burrow in and swim through the sand. Given the teeth theme, their beaks seem evidently designed after dentist drills. Perhaps they also them to dig into teeth, looking for food such as the Viruses, who in turn sometimes protect themselves by hiding in Toothies.
The last (new) creatures to be found at Plack Beach are Drillbit Crabs. As their name implies, they appear to be a species of hermit crab wearing drill bits. With these drills, they could also hunt for Viruses inside teeth. It's not known where they get these drill bits from, but due to their similar colors, it is possible they take them from Pendrils.
Maybe Pendrils can shed their beaks? Alternatively, Drillbits take the role of necrophages who feed on dead Pendrils and then take their beaks, but who knows. A little morbid, but it is what it is. As for why/how their drills are so much larger? I don't know. It could be that they go for unseen larger Pendrils, or that their drills come from something else entirely unrelated to them, or maybe their size is a gameplay abstraction so they can work as enemies. No answer seems satisfying to me.
Chuboombas can also be found here, but I can't think of anything for them. They're likely just on their way to and from Cavi Cape, so they don't matter much in the grand scheme of things. Also talking about what is essentially a type of Goomba as if it were a wild animal is... weird. The same goes for Kuzzle and Chakron, two characters who can also be found in this area.
With that said, here's a quick graphic illustrating all the different interactions I mentioned so far. Putting this together gave me a greater appreciation for this area, and I hope it was an interesting journey for you, so thank you for reading!
Good cop. Bad cop. A very happy, very belated 25th of May, for those who were there.
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Question, did you do any more of the Skyward Sword that the main characters were zonai because I have not seen any new ones in a while????????????
I do! I must admit I am very proud of my Zonai/Aspect Impa, she was extremely fun to draw! The jade armor went so well with her color palette :D
what happened to kamek?
in the new yoshi'a game. what happened to kamek
all of you are making'a jokes but he was trapped in that book for like'a 20 years
I have a question about that actually. Canonically, you're apparently 25, which is fair enough, younger than I would have said but it explains why you're so spry.
But if Kamek was in the book for 20 years, and last time he was out Bowser was still Baby Bowser... Is Bowser ALSO in his 20s? Like, 28 max? Because that feels wrong.
The Artificial Entity's Guide to Empathy 101 - Parole AU [6/6]
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Guys, I don't think they were talking about just bees
WE'VE FINALLY REACHED THE END!!!!!!! FINALLY I CAN REST. OH BOY.
This was a handful, but one hell of a journey.
First things first, there are some things that I'm unhappy about this comic. But in the end, I can't really bring myself to care about the mistakes anymore, I just want to get this out of the way now, since it's actually hindering my schedule.
So I did my best to end it off as soon as possible, though I managed to preserve most of the message, so there's a plus there.
Another would be that I don't like how I ended up diverging their characterization a bit to make the message possible. I'm sure if I had more time on my hands, I would've been able to provide a much better paced story that's actually in-character for these two, but... I don't have that kind of liberty.
I'm honestly just so relieved that it's finally over, and I was actually able to reach the end.
Now, for my thoughts about Caine's ignorance towards psychological torment: this is the one that I'm most certain he doesn't know. Mostly because you could easily mistake psychological pain with emotional pain and mix the two together, so I'm certain that this is the reason why he keeps doing things his way.
Just like emotional pain, as long as there is no stimulus source of the discomfort, he thinks that it will eventually go away.
But there is one aspect of psychological torment he kinda has a bit of an idea for: mind influence. And that one, he's since stopped doing, and he's only doing seldomly-- and within safe boundaries. (What he admits to doing in episode 7)
It will not be an easy journey for Caine towards betterment, but it's a good starting point.
I do hope you all enjoyed the story, and thanks for sticking 'till the end! As well as for the support, I've been receiving so many messages about how immersed people are with this comic. Which is just so heartwarming;;;;
It's been an honor making this comic! But GOD I do NOT want to make another one of these LMFAO
Imagine being one of the parents for the kids in the Magic School Bus class. Getting those field trip permission slips home every single night.
Like what, another one? Doesn’t she teach? This just says Inside a Dog
Ms Frizzle sending you one (1) permission slip at the beginning of the year to cover all the field trips and you’re like huh that’s a little unusual but I guess it’s efficient at least and then you open it and it’s written like This
So how often does Farcade succeed in saving a world? And what does success even look like? Do they, like... does the hero have to die? CAN the hero die? The universe operates on video game logic so surely they just respawn, yeah?
So does 'success' look like constantly keeping the hero from ever reaching the win condition? Because I can't think of a game where the villain actually gets to win; all they get is a fade to black and a reload to the last save.
I wish I could favorite things a hundred times but instead I will do it once and then reblog it while crying.
This whole SPM and TADC crossover made me realize that Kinger would probably get along with Count Bleck. Both are characters that unfortunately lost the love of their lifes but Kinger would see that Count Bleck deals with his grief in the worst way possible with his whole “Destroy all worlds” scheme
I think Kinger would be willing to sit down and talk with him 🥺
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Trainer Alex wants to battle!
I add
please consider
A new challenger enters the stage
how about…
I present:
Fuck you
doodling a bunny vs doodling a hare
I fell in love with this hare and made one out of clay
hare painted ✅
hare finished! the ear broke off, but I glazed them separately and used kintsugi to rejoin them
they've got a cool kintsugi earring!
🎶Statue of a wild hare! Lagomorphic!🎵
When your live studio audience of one doesn't take you seriously and gets you in trouble with your mom.
Did you know if you heckle the toddlers at Gamestop, someone enters mortal danger?
This was originally going to be much shorter for an ask, but the devils of improv kept saying "hey the joke keeps going, the joke keeps going!" and here we are.
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