#ancient mite

[puzzleddonkey]

Angry old man doesn't want to admit he's like every other mite, and core mites love to remind him.

Also Mad mite lol, lil tiny nerd mite in there too.

Edit: lemme add this just in case lol

[toad-in-a-trenchcoat]

< A mite with that kind of sense >

He’s kinda being put on the spot there…

Moon Mites and Ancient Mite by @puzzleddonkey

Calypso by me

[puzzleddonkey]

Ts cult pmo

The colony regularly cycles through leaders through elections, Am's leader status having passed on to more charming faces that had won the vote. Even with the front of a fair and balanced colony, all still operate under the belief system Am had established and continues to uphold.

This colony is settled on a small moon that orbids the Cluster, a lot of their efforts spent trying to "rehabilitate" mites, make them into model citizens that have the potential to live amongst other alien societies, particularly that of the Galactic Federation. Despite their peaceful front, they're very armed, defending their colony from raiders and core mites regularly. Though small, they hold settlements across many occupied star systems in their mission to make mites part of civilization, their most successful work being mite involvement within black markets, specifically the creation of the moon-mite-script-translator.

Like a cult, they target vulnerable mites, convincing them to become a part of their movement and way of living. The indoctrination is especially grueling, damn near torture to fully reshape mites into "model citizens." The colony's populace split between Haven neighborhoods and massive hospitals filled with drugged out mites still undergoing their indoctrination. Deeper in these facilities are mites that had been straight up abducted, experimented on in order to find the perfect method to turn even the most rabid of core mites into humble civilians.

Haven Colony, to other colonies, are seen as stuck-up snobs that flinch at meat and preach abstinence in nearly everything mites do on the regular.

[puzzleddonkey]

Jackass gets Intatutionalized and falls in love (kinda)! Sum gud ol morally gray scientist getting seduced by their morally fucked experiment/patient, doomed to relapse over and over again in his attempts to "rehabilitate" the first Core Mite, discovering the worst parts of himself that he's been fighting to ignore. The critter whimsy common amongst mites is one thing, but what is threatening to surface is much, much darker. Guilt is his only lifeline.

Jackass would learn a thing or two about herself as well. Being drugged up with just the right amount of whatever hellish substances the colony has created has made her a bit more mentally sound, enough to open up about things she has long forgotten. Unfortunately, even with this insight, at her core (hehe), she's still a creature of yearning... hunger.

Ou

[puzzleddonkey]

Doodles of some Jackie, Timid and AM

Writing korean lyrics with mite script is indeed hard as hell

[puzzleddonkey]

I'd like to think that to the common public (of shadow regions at least), Am is to the mites what the brain gremlin is to the rest of the gremlins, the honorary ambassador of their kind. Promoting the perspective that their kind only wants what established civilizations have, coexistence. Only difference is intent.

[puzzleddonkey]

The biggest threat to Ancient Mite's cult Community of Rehabilitated Mites is surprisingly not The Core or Mite Raiders, but Timid.

She fits in well, perfectly even, a gentle, social and incredibly intelligent mite has become incapable of having berserker fits (only fainting fits, like a goat), the kind of mite AM has been working restlessly to create. Her wisdom rivals that of AM's, some might even say she surpasses him but is holding back out of, well, timidness. Her abilities, her behavior, her very nature always left AM breathless, having a newfound admiration he never thought he had for a mite... but that admiration turned into complete dismay when learning of how she became that way and where her beliefs lie.

Hell cannot even begin to describe the torment she had endured in her past, the closest thing to measure it to would be the era of enslaved mites. Experimentation after experimentation, death after death, torture after torture. Wronged time and time again yet was seemingly left with no malice in her heart... at least that's what AM believed, until she'd share to him what she believed of her predicament.

She believes all sapient beings are evil, mites included, it's inevitable. Unimaginable chaos and torment is the natural course for sapient beings, to waste your lifespan seeking peace in a haven is utterly pointless. Found havens, built havens, they always end in hell one way or another. It's a treat to live in a haven while it lasts, but finding peace in hell is the true path to contentment.

Very morbidly positive nihilism that goes against AM's beliefs and purpose of creating the community - to guide mites to higher teachings without the exposure of horrific evils. Though at first he saw Timid's jarring morals as a quirk to subtly indoctrinate out of her, what came to scare him out of his wits was learning how much influence she had in his community being that he wasn't the only one Timid shared her beliefs with. The community would devolve into chaos, mites fighting to survive as others relapsed completely, all the while Timid continued tending to her little garden without a care in the world, in peace.

Indoctrination camps would be overwhelmed to the point the community just had to cut their losses, banishing massive numbers of mites, Timid included. She was compliant, understanding, leaving with a gentle smile and wave that brought only dread to AM.

He was conflicted beyond belief, but could not stand to be near Timid for another second. He couldn't dwell on the past, not for a second, otherwise, it'll drive him mad, otherwise, he's no different than the Core Leaders. There's no peace in hell.

[toad-in-a-trenchcoat]

@puzzleddonkey

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