#ask caiman

[caiman-the-chimera]

How did Clem turn into a monster if the Meebophages are connected to the Workshop?

Simple! The Meebophages aren’t limited to just the Ethereal elements!

You see, while they may be most closely associated with the Ethereals thanks to our good friend Zarroë, the Meebs are actually capable of attuning to more elements than just the Ethereal ones, and this fact also unsurprisingly applies to the Meebophages! Also I may as well list down what elements the Meebophages can and can’t attune to.

Things they can attune to

Natural elements (this includes Fire BTW)

Magical elements

Ethereal elements (duh)

a secret fourth thing (you gotta find loopholes in how Meebophages work to get them though)

Things they can’t attune to

Mythical/Dream

Paironormal elements (how would they even attune to such abstract elements in the first place?)

Electricity (since this element is technically just a bunch of elements compressed into one, kinda like a ZIP file. Also all the monsters of this element are artificial LMAO)

Celestial (ahem those are basically DEMIGODS that would be too OP)

Seasonals

Legendary (the Werdos keep their secrets once again…)

Dipsters (why would you even want this?)

Of course there probably are methods of turning into Monsters from classes that the Meebophages can’t work with, but that’s a post for another day.

So yeah TLDR: Clem is a Meebophage Victim like her brother, and Meebophages are not limited to just the Ethereal elements. I hope this helped clear things up!

[caiman-the-chimera]

6 : Penny , Cecil

6: “How does your character like to be treated on their birthday? Do they voice that expectation?”

For Penny she’s probably one of those people who tries (keyword tries) to act like she doesn’t care/like people celebrating her birthday but deep down she actually deeply appreciates that people would go out of their way to celebrate it. As for her voicing it she probably never directly says anything about it to anyone cuz she just kinda expects them to already know (even if they genuinely don’t know when her birthday is cuz she either hasn’t told them or they haven’t checked) but if you do forget about her birthday she will be kinda upset about it (she doesn’t lash out at you or anything but she will be a wee bit sad)

With Cecil he really just wants to vibe on his birthday TBH, I imagine he doesn’t really like anything overly extravagant, but he mostly just wants to spend time with those he cares about. Cecil would probably just say something like “Oh yeah, I should probably mention my birthday’s coming up soon, do with that what you will kid…” offhandedly to inform you about it, but he really doesn’t want to do anything too crazy on his birthday, he’s definitely the kind of person who’d say that you really don’t need to do that much for his Birthday.

[caiman-the-chimera]

Please draw Pentumbra

While I did already draw Pentumbra’s Outside Helpers design in this post, I figured I may as well show off some doodles exploring this guy’s ecology and anatomy and whatnot, so enjoy!

[caiman-the-chimera]

Would Outside Helpers’ plot have aspects of Down in the Workshop and Tear You Down?

If I’m being honest with you, not really. I mean sure Down in the Workshop may have been one of the (surprisingly many) things that initially inspired me to make Outside Helpers, but as the story currently is there’s honestly not too much in common with Down in the Workshop besides stuff that’s already canon with mainline MSM, and any similarities besides that are relatively minor things.

[caiman-the-chimera]

Gimme some fun facts about Cecil. Bro doesn’t get enough attention.

indeed you’re right, he does not get nearly as much focus as the other three!

Despite him being the shortest of the main 4, he’s actually the most capable driver and the one who’s usually appointed with the task of driving the car (a 2006-2008 Honda Pilot affectionately named “Flamestar” by Qwerty) when they go out on missions, as the other 3 either lack any limbs to hit the pedals with (Qwerty), are way too anxious about causing an accident to drive (Barrie) or would just cause a car accident and commit vehicular manslaughter on purpose for shits and giggles (Penny). Of course the driver’s seat was given a few slight adjustments in order to accommodate Cecil’s smaller size (they pretty much just added extension pieces for the pedals and whatnot).

The only reason he’s even working with the other 3 is because they just randomly found him in a parking lot or something. I imagine Qwerty just picked him up and started carrying him around with them and Cecil just kinda accepted it.

his bones are made of metal and if you were to squeeze his body it would kinda be like those Goo-Jit-Zu squishy toys due to his innards being composed mostly of a sort of plasmic ooze.

He’s bisexual! He’s also already married though so if you were hoping to get with him I’m afraid you’ll have to look elsewhere.

that’s about all I can think of RN, hopefully this will suffice!

[caiman-the-chimera]

What do the Helpers think about the Workshop Monsters respectively (and vice-versa)?

That would, entirely depend on the specific Workshopper in question TBH!

I’ll be going with the Workshop counterparts of their respective species here (ie Qwerty and Workshop Auglur) if that’s alright

Barrie probably doesn't mind Workshop Piplash too much, though he’d probably find his counterpart a bit off-putting with how concerningly nonchalant they can be about certain things. I imagine Workshop Piplash would be rather friendly towards Barrie, though TBF that’s kinda how they are with most people.

Workshop Auglur finds Qwerty extremely annoying and weird. She essentially just tries her best to ignore them whenever they try to strike up a conversation with her. Qwerty of course wants to befriend her as she’s a fellow Auglur though they don’t seem to fully understand why she keeps leaving.

I’m gonna be honest, Penny would probably think that the Workshop Blarret is an annoying moron. As for Workshop Blarret, it’s likely another Qwerty situation where they try to befriend their counterpart but don’t seem to grasp that Penny finds them annoying.

And finally Cecil and Workshop Yooreek’s first interaction could be pretty much summed up as them standing next to eachother for a bit and both of them going “Yeah, this guy gets it.”

[caiman-the-chimera]

I FOUND YOU!!!

yippee! You found me!

Now you must find the other 379 little guys scattered across the in-game map in order to receive an arbitrary in-game reward that probably wont be even remotely worth all that effort!

[caiman-the-chimera]

Do you have any islands unlocked? if so what is ur fave island <33

If you're referring to My Singing Monsters islands, then I pretty much have all of them unlocked as of this point in time. As for my favourite, currently the crown goes to Magical Sanctum