#jsab worldbuilding

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anyway, I have a couple of different interpretations of corruption but the 'corruption as a disease' is the one I do the most often (sue me i think it's cool)

plus it's fun to draw amorphous blob of roots, veins, and tendrils with lumps and uncanny floating disembodied eyes-

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this is basically what happened the instant that Alnus became aware in the tree void:tm: (ft. xeis no-imprint shape form and a spontaneously generated corpse-copy of a long deceased shape but don't worry about it :) )

also some bonus worldbuilding about said tree void:tm: under the cut

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little bit of shape worldbuilding:

shapes are partial shape shifters, as well as partial size-shifters, it's pretty limited and depends on the individual in question.

their height does depend on the amount of energy available in their energy reserves- for the most part this is a gradual thing, though in some individuals' cases, like the player shapes, they remain the same size until a certain threshold is met, upon which they sorta explode in height. there is a maximum and minimum amount of height though this again does depend on the individual.

Shape physical changes are dependent on the individual, though there are some common types of changes:

Unconscious changes (normally a response to the shapes mental/emotional state)

Conscious Changes (things that a shape consciously decides to change about them, some shapes describe these sort of changes 'like switching a light switch on and off')

do keep in mind, changes can be both types, but this is sort of just a outline.

some examples:

Fresh/Boss when startled, stressed, or pissed will grow spikes, this is an unconscious change

Sticking with Fresh/Boss, his claws are mostly a conscious shift, while they will sometimes shift in alongside his spikes.

Post-corrupted Cube's clamps and other energy constructs are a unconscious change for the most part, they don't really know how to control them, having never needed to learn how to control shifting like that bc of their condition.

Barracuda normally keeps their mouth sealed so they don't start biting people on reflex (being hideously and VERY lethally venomous does that) this is a conscious change.

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mmm when the corruption is in 'full' control the host prolly acts like a rabid animal, moving in straight lines or having a repeated pattern that they go on and they won't stray from it unless actively hunting down a uncorrupted individual

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more shape headcanons that will likely involve me tweaking my designs (again)

shapes have multiple colors, a primary color and a secondary color-

colors are important, because ones of a certain color will be either immune or resistant to corruption i.e pink is resistant/immune to pink, blue is resistant/immune to blue, etc.

whether one is resistant or immune depends on the individual and it ranges quite a bit. for example, cube is resistant but can still be corrupted, but shapes like the helicopter and the boat are unaffected by it, it can still hurt them, but they can't be corrupted-

and if we want to go further, there could be shapes who retain their mind somewhat after corruption after their systems fight it off like it's a disease, but can still be corrupted. in the meantime though, they will still act like one that had been fully corrupted. (theoretically lycanthropy could be one of these shapes)

so why 3 colors? because more than 3 is kinda overkill and gets complicated, FAST when it comes to designing, and 3 is still a good color to work with when it comes to coloring/designing. (not excluding shades of colors are still counted as that color i.e dark red and red are both reds)

shapes can be the same color on both colors, i.e magenta/magenta/magenta or blue/blue/blue. but it's fairly rare for that to happen. generally speaking, the colors are ranged from most to least, so a shape who is primarily say, blue with some black markings and pink highlights, the colors will be ordered as the following: blue/black/pink

i should prolly make a reference for what certain colors affect- for ease of worldbuilding later-