I love the idea of leafling scars!! Such a cool idea but I’ve never seen anyone draw anything life that! Maybe I’m biased because I like Bernard.
Had this idea brewing since the game came out and there are SO many ways it could be applied to imply extra stories for Bernard and the castaways! I have no idea when else I'll be able to talk about this in length so thank you for sending this I can finally ramble!!!
Cured castaways are left with vine stitches that protect and keep together any internal or external injuries (may or may not disappear once the injury is fully healed)
The pikmin parasite potencially focuses on the head to control the host
The longer they're a leafling the more vibrant the hue left on the skin is. (I wasn't sure how much of a tomato Olimar would be)
Flowers can bloom in their leafy coats
Despite being brought into the same Onion they have different types of leaves/vines/flowers
I left it ambiguous whether or not castaways are still being healed after they've been turned into leaflings
Other info and ideas I didn't include:
A lot of times the plant grown will be poisonous ie. a yellow leafling grows buttercups. This is to protect them from predators.
Marks resembiling their leafling eyes might be visible on their corneas
Drinking nectar gives them a similar effect to the pikmin; blooming flower, faster speed (maybe strength? forgot if that's boosted), they also get "extra lives" but their pain receptors are more sensitive than the pikmin so they get temporarilly incapacitated for longer
Keeping it ambiguous if castaways are straight up revived from the dead or need to be brought in while they're still hanging on (there's so much story potential if theres a time limit tho!)
They might be able to use the vines as a second limb (I accidentally drew Olimar's vine too low so he probably has a vine tail now)
Dunno if I did Yonny's speech pattern justice here (still experimenting) but-
I REALLY wished we could've gotten notes from Yonny about this since he got to see them up close. And dang it I'm really curious about how the leaflings work, I get that they're all dandori n stuff but what if the pink ones can fly or the purple ones are stronger. Maybe all of them except blue leaflings get hurt by water.
So many questions and no answers, and so much design and story potential!!!
I cut the image in case tumblr's compression kicks me.
This was a pretty fun way to start drawing the castaways too. Now I'm really tempted to draw everyone's leafling forms (I may have already picked flowers for the rescue corps team based on their symbolism)
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