I’m putting this all in a master post because I’m not making half of my posts here related to fuckin PEAK
@eldritch-shyknee @loonaticforaza @sillywasp @purplegalaxy273 Fuck ALL of you /j
alr time to answer these one at a time
interesting question indeed. To answer your question, I will go through each OC to carefully determine how well they would perform with climbing a mountain
Bombyx: they don’t have any particular skills that would make them well equipped to climb to the peak but I think they are competent enough to do it AS LONG as they’re climbing with people they don’t absolutely despise.
additionally, Bombyx has photo evidence of them climbing a mountain, proving that they already have experience with this sorta thing
Kerro: would be fairly decent at climbing as he’s good with teamwork however, they have to communicate exclusively via bugle morse code, shiny and I did manage to beat the game whilst they were unable to talk so I think he’ll be fine especially if they’re with Bombyx
Cyborg: kind of at a disadvantage for being heavier than the other scugs, kind of at an advantage for their pseudo rarefraction-cell core powers. The cloak likely won’t help be convenient for it either. They also have hands that can turbo grip onto things, this is supposed to help with holding pearls but I think it would also be a good asset in mountain climbing.
Voltage: His rocket jump would obviously be pretty handy for vertical movement. Problem is that she’s just way too erratic to consistently be able to stand on the ledges, they are their worst obstacle in this
Vanesso: they can fucking fly
Beasttamer: She is generally agile and competent, so unless she’s got an army of lizards to basically climb the mountain for her, she’s generally the most average of the roster.
Ok so in general the iterators are already kind of at a disadvantage despite being human shaped, their cloaks are probably not suited for climbing. I mean who knows maybe they’re all wearing climbing gear.
Falling: predictably, She is NOT being a good team player. You would be running out of stamina when climbing up a steep ledge and she’d be looking the other way instead of giving a hand. Communication? What’s that? Waiting for the others? Nah ain’t nobody got time for that. Despite this, I’d still imagine she’s frustratingly skilled at actually climbing.
Topaz: He’d probably be good with using items. He would run 1000 calculations to determine the most optional usage of each and every item. Other than that, idk he’s pretty average.
Amethysts: Approaches the scorpions and beetles and goes “hey little guy :D” before getting poisoned/thrown off a cliff. Her tail would probably give her good balance but that’s about it. Also she would cannibalise rubies without a second thought.
Peridot: definitely a team leader, it’s already constantly trying to keep their group together as is, so I doubt a stranded island situation wouldn’t be that different from a normal Tuesday. He’d probably do his best to keep everyone alive, mostly to his detriment.
Amber: assuming this is post-collapse her legs are kind of broken, they most likely cannot climb that far. Even if that wasn’t an issue she’s half blind, which would screw over their depth perception which is probably not a great quality to have when climbing a mountain. Peridot would likely offer to carry her tho so she’ll be fineee.
Opals: gets seven thousand panic attacks in alpines. They can barely function as is, you expect her to climb a mountain????? Somehow I’d imagine him carrying all the statue items- you know- assuming their group can all make it up there alive.
Diamond: half his puppet is destroyed including one of his arms, screwing over his balance and you expect him to climb a mountain???? He’d probably be a good planner though.
Emeralds/Rubies: the most ANNOYING ass motherfuckers you can possibly imagine, I’m talking force feeding others green crisp berries, throwing banana peels everywhere, blowdarting people when it’s least convenient, not lending helping hands and trowing coconuts at people so that they are sent flying to the bottom of tropics. In general, they are both master ragebaiters, but rubies is somehow even worse and WILL target amethysts specifically.
all the other mothscugs are basically the same deal as Vanesso except for Betulia, who’s gonna be carried around by Biston anyways so it doesn’t matter.
I have a few candidates who could carry that title…
Falling - This one’s obvious, I feel like she’d run off and justify it with “I’m not abandoning a friend in need if we aren’t friends in the first place” she would absolutely prefer to climb the mountain by herself, but with people like emeralds and rubies around, could you blaaaame her?
and speaking of which-
Emeralds + rubies - also two contenders that should seem obvious for reasons stated. However, I feel like they’d both stick together too much to… face any consequences…. for breaking those rules. If one of them died however- actually part of me also thinks that they can’t possibly run ahead, they’re too incompetent to not either die or fall behind. I also think maybe Emeralds would also stick with amethysts if she was with them since they ARE friends, rubies would also want to stick with amethysts :) for different reasons :)))
Vanesso: we’ve established that they can fucking fly up the mountain now we gotta answer WOULD they fly up the mountain, leaving everyone on it behind. I’d say it fully depends on who they’re with. Now in most circumstances they would absolutely take their time to be a nice, helpful, kind teammate who is just so charming and sweet :)) HOWEVER- if the island has no one that they need to keep up appearances with- or is full of creatures that they can go mask-off around like say.. a mothscug or two…. Then fucking bye bye
Bombyx: now remember when I said Bombyx be a decent teammate IF they were with people they didn’t hate? Yeahhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhh all I’m saying is don’t put Bombyx and falling/Vanesso on an island together. It will not go well
Ok first of all- FUCK YOU- /j
Second of all, no they can’t, they’re lizards, they don’t have opposable thumbs so therefore they cannot play.
but maybe they would climb a mountain together idk
why of course, all of them like bing bong. Who doesn’t like bing bong
What does this mean, what does this mean
no seriously what does this mean shuggy
I know that’s you shuggy does this mean-
and as for the rest of the asks, I decided to kind of just combine them all together into one drawing, sorry to disappoint but you people are already putting me through the damn trenches I need to be FREE
(Also extra content: “the hole that I hate” was this one day in alpines where there was this giant ass hole that was literally almost impossible to get out off, all of us died in alpines there it was awful)
Halfway though drawing this, I realised that in this hypothetical Bombyx is basically climbing a mountain with 3 children LMAO-
Also yeah I added scout there too tee hee
