i’m thinking about iris today and realizing i never told any of you that her ivensis avatar is a slimegirl JDBEJDBSJ it feels . so relevant.
in fact i have never slimeposted on this blog. i do it on my main
i am not really truly a kin person or any of the related but one of my biggest Thats Me! things is like slime characters. it’s not like a f-tish thing (its not like Horrifying to me either in that context but thats notbthe point)
it’s honestly more like a weird type of . xenogender envy/euphoria ??
i might try to explain it in another post sometime just for fun for my own sake but for the most part the important thing is just Uniformity of materials. Varying levels of opacity. Flexibility of appearance and body plan. Whatever stuff like that
ANYWAY. Iris starts the game with a halfling avatar because they have good generalized survivability in The Wilds and her preferred playstyle is wandering all over the place (me!). But there’s a faction questline that involves cleaning up a magical lab accident in an area where they were experimenting with local slime population and fucked it all up. and the questline unlocks a gated avatar race called Gelatinous Experiment.
so obviously iris becomes a slime literally immediately much to jensen’s amused disapproval, as it totally destroys her combat playstyle because all her physical perks change. (not that he can talk, he becomes a werebear later just for the vibe and it fucks up his playstyle too)
But she loves it and it helps with ruin exploration when you can unlock most simple locks with your finger or slide under doors lmfao