-blaze hybrid. in my AU shulkers, spiders (the big mob), scorpions (like the spiders, there are also very large scorpions which live in the Nether, but they’re rare) and blazes all have a common ancestor in these ancient dinosaur/scorpion/arachnid/crustacean-like creatures. pretty much every mob and hybrid is descended from mythological creatures which no longer exist or are nearly extinct. for instance, sirens used to be around, and they were like enormous sea creatures which were similar to various species like eel or anglerfish, but they slowly faded out. Now the only trace of them is in some aquatic hybrids, like cPurpled, an anglerfish hybrid.
-anatomy: he’s got the tail, of course, claws, small chelicerae which he can retract inside his mouth if needed, tiny extra eyes, very strong bones, and exoskeleton plating on his back around his tail and small scaly patches around his body. cSapnap also has those spines, which vibrate with sound waves and help him track things. most of his spines are big like that, but some are so small as to be mistaken for body hair. like actual scorpions, his eyesight is pretty poor. he does okay in the Nether, since it’s more monochrome and familiar to him, but even after years of living in the Overworld the colors still tend to be too bright for him and blur together a lot, especially if he’s moving quickly, so he relies instead on his ears (he has human ears with heightened hearing), sensing vibrations, and his sense of smell, which again is very good like an actual scorpion’s. he hates the smell of lavender. cSapnap can strike multiple times with his venom, usually between 8 and 12 times, depending on the dosage. it takes him 2-3 days to replenish his venom. his venom is paralytic, not lethal, but in a high enough dosage it could damage brain function enough to kill. if his victims survive (in the Nether, he mostly used it to immobilize powerful prey, like large hoglins) it causes lasting headaches, nausea, and sometimes vision problems. even though he’s not particularly tall, he’s pretty strong, and is good at using his tail in a fight. even if he doesn’t use his venom, that thing is solid exoskeleton plating, and it’s not very pleasant to be whacked over the head with. he could also inject venom with a bite, but it’s more difficult to do and it’d be a smaller dosage because the venom sac in his tail is much larger than the two in his mouth area. some blaze hybrids have the ability to spray venom. and most, but not all, have the ability to breathe fire.
-yeah, he can’t breathe fire. not even a little bit. he can make a hell of a lot of smoke, but he can’t breathe fire. like any other blaze hybrid, he is used to and needs constant, overwhelming heat. that wasn’t a problem in the Nether, but now that he’s in the Overworld he’s constantly chilly at best. he likes to make himself underground dens and surround himself with campfires; it reminds him of his Nether burrows and actually makes him warm for once. other blaze hybrids would be uncomfortable but fine due to their internal furnace, but not cSapnap. when Sapnap was very young, he accidentally tried eating one of the baby Nether scorpions, before he really understood what was going on, and it took a chunk out of his tongue. it doesn’t impair him except when he’s speaking, but it was a problem for him in the Nether because it meant he couldn’t mimic the accent of the rest of his colony. for these two reasons, lack of fire and an odd way of speaking, he was heavily ostracized growing up in his colony.
-blaze hybrids don’t care who their parents were. blazes give birth to offspring and then the whole colony raises them. blazes grow quickly but mature slowly, meaning Sapnap looked fully grown, similar to how he does now, at around ten, but mentally he was closer to eight. in the Nether, different species tend to keep to themselves, but within those species they are fierce divides between different regional groups. Sapnap, for instance, grew up in the basalt deltas with his colony, which is one of three large colonies that live there. colonies in different regions of the Nether look different, speak their own languages or dialects (there is a common blaze language, but each colony speaks it slightly differently, as well as their own personal regional language), and have different cultures. they also tend not to like one another very much and prefer the others within their colony or region. each blaze colony is a lot like its own little hive, with queens and workers who all share intimate communication. the colony is more important than family, the colony is everything. which is great until along comes a blaze like cSapnap who has no fire and can’t speak the language properly because of his missing tongue. no one actively ostracizes him, but he also never gets invited to anything, he’s never spoken to unless he speaks first, and even if everyone is polite to his face, he can tell that he makes them uncomfortable. that he disturbs them. the worst part of it is that his colony doesn’t even hate him, they just simply don’t care about him. one day, he tries tagging along on a hunting trip. he has a decent time, thinks things are going well, and then when he tries to meet back up with the rest of his group they’ve left. he returns to the colony, wants to know why they abandoned him, thinking they did it on purpose. so it really fucks him up when they genuinely, honestly tell him that they forgot about him. they just forgot.
he’s not good enough to care about, he’s not important enough to be hated. and when he finally can’t stand living in constant silence and leaves, no one stops him. no one’s sad that he’s gone, but no one celebrates, either. no one cares.
-so this sticks with him for the rest of his life for forever. extreme fear of abandonment, of being uninteresting, of being useless, that people are only pretending to like him, that he has to hide everything that he perceives to be ‘wrong’ with him or everything will go to shit. he has bipolar and autism.
-eventually, he meets cBad, who he immediately likes because cBad is also ‘strange,’ although he’s never been ostracized for it as ghasts are more solitary creatures and don’t judge like blazes do anyhow (i hc cBad as a ghast hybrid with vitiligo. he was light gray with grayish/black patches when he was younger, and they slowly spread until he only had little white and gray speckles left). cBad, unlike most ghasts, is not a very solitary creature at all. he likes cSapnap very much, thinks he’s a cute little baby, and takes him in. cSapnap instantly goes about trying to make cBad like him as much as possible, including doing his best to get rid of his blaze accent and mimic cBad’s instead, which is a little easier because Bad’s ghast language contains less hissing and is easier to do with his tongue.
-cSkeppy is a fish hybrid who got rich off pyramid schemes and paid to have his three (3) scales removed and diamonds embedded everywhere as a fashion statement. he tells everyone he’s a diamond hybrid and wears diamond chains around his neck to hide his gills. not because he hates being a hybrid or anything, he just wants people to think he’s naturally made of diamonds and also those scales were reallyyyy itchy. cSapnap despises him at first because he wants him to stop trying to bang his dad but finally grudgingly accepts him. cSkeppy is like an awkward stepdad trying to connect with his husband’s kid from a previous marriage except there was no previous marriage cBad just found that thing in a dumpster and now this blaze kid who looks like a full grown man and could definitely kick his ass doesn’t think he’s good enough for his dad.
-cSapnap is transssssssssgenderrrrrrrrr. unsure what flavor yet but leaning towards transmasc multigender maybe? oh and he’s intersex because intersex people are awesome and he’s awesome therefore awesome
