#lepidopterran

[mintybloomz]

The last 5 of Julie's original 10!

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[rubydreamsuwu]

kinda feel like ben's "gross" aliens are underrated

like look how delightful these guys are. stinkfly is such a wonderful weird bug and upchuck is the nicest little animal guy

[acevstar]

Ben 10 Redesign - Stinkfly

Stinkfly is a DNA sample of a  Lepidopterran from the planet, Lepidopterra.

For Stinkfly's redesign, I opted for a reboot style but enhanced his insect-like features to make him appear more alien. I modified his facial features (his mouth and eyes) and changed his wings for a more jagged and insectoid appearance. Additionally, I dressed him in a green jacket that reflects his color scheme from the original continuity.

[whatudottu]

Honestly I’d love to see the Ben 10 fandom go more in-depth as to what the galactic audience’s thoughts regarding interspecies relationships and what dynamics formed between different species are like. Is dating To'kustars or Galvans when you’re not a To’kustar or Galvan frowned upon due to the severe height difference involved? Are there debates on whether it’s ethical to date a Vulpimancer or not? Is a Galvan dating a Galvanic Mechamorphs seen as a power imbalance? What would a romantic relationship between a Petrosapien and a Tetramand be like, or a queerplatonic one between an Ectonurite and a Lepidopterran be like, or even a platonic/familial one between a Kineceleran and a Pyronite?

Heheh, I really like thinking about the interplanetary community and it’s dynamics throughout the cosmos in the Ben 10 series, because I dunno it’s like rife with potential for worldbuilding and I guess political drama? Because apparently I like fictional political drama? I guess when it’s fictional it doesn’t affect anyone so it can be played around with in interesting ways.

Got some talking points down below hehe-

I have like SO MANY headcanons about how the interplanetary community treats vulpimancers, though to be fair I have like an unrefined list of notes about the chronology of Vulpin politics and ideologies that I haven’t neatened up yet, and one of those headcanons is the difficulties they face trying to prove themselves just as sapient as the other species; amongst all the bullshit that does bring, interspecies relationships are also affected by that bias. And the fact that you bring up the implied dynamic between creator (the galvan) and creation (galvanic mechamorphs) is interesting too because also, you can kinda also have debates about ‘is it ethical to date the first generation of a species’ especially in comparison to galvans who seem to have quite long lives, ‘is it ethical for a long living species to date a species by all means younger in their entirety than they are’ type questions-

It also isn’t just like the general interplanetary community though it’s also just the differing planetary communities (with their differing nations etc etc until we get to the individual) that also butt heads with each other- an ectonurite’s family really REALLY pushing for them to ‘get together’ with their queerplatonic lepidopterran partner before they have to host a funeral one day vs the lepidopterran having to explain to their hive that they’re happy with their ectonurite partner especially without the pressure of it being romantic there’s so many others that can and do *coughs into hand* ‘contribute’ to the hive population! Or or! The kineceleran not giving two shits about their pyronite sibling from another… pibling? Ah whatever- being so frickin’ slow because they can both bond over sports vs the pyronite wanting to share one of their thrill seeking traditions from back home with a race in their stunt car against their kineceleran cuz’ own personal wheels!

Lowkey I kinda made at least a concept for a tetramand/petrosapien couple which I based on a pseudo sumo wrestling match I saw at school once where one of the participants was slammed into the ground but they quickly switched their positions to roll the person on top so fast the crowd thought THEY were the one to win and not the person they flipped who won first- I mean! In my sphere of headcanons about petrosapiens and Petropia is that they barely got much chance to interact with the universe at large (being cracked open by the fulmini before Plumber intervention set them off plus doing something similar but… a little MORE to what they did on Revonnah) and so modern interplanetary discussions about any petrosapien relationship is ‘i thought they were extinct?’ and especially with tetramands intense courtship it may even skip straight to ‘oh they might as well be extinct’. Not exactly pleasant to hear, compounded by the rare potential someone happens to know - to put it in gross terms - a ‘suitable mate’ with the opposite sex of the petrosapien they’re pestering. At that point you’d better hope it wasn’t the tetramand/petrosapien pair because if the petrosapien doesn’t stab you over the offence, the tetramand would put you in your place, as legally able to as they’d can just to piss them off :P

Do you think if a galvan and a to’kustar were dating it’d be considered a ‘long distance relationship’ :P?

[ohyeahben10]

Sometimes I go down the little rabbit hole of thinking about cross-species troubles in the Ben 10 universe. Kinecelerans struggling through off planetary treaties because they look ridiculous trying to sit in a chair made for a Human / Tetramand body plan. A Lepidopterran struggling to follow gendered customs because they have three sexes and they have no idea where their’s translates to on a m/f spectrum. Loboans first establishing relations with Thep Khufans and offering food because its a gesture of goodwill on Luna Lobo but the Thep Khufans have no idea what they’re looking at because they photosynthesize. Pyronite ambassadors finding out the second species stocked up on fire extinguishers and reminding themselves to not be hurt by that because they know it’s a reasonable precaution for a first meeting but nonetheless it’s disrespectful on Pyros to imply one can’t control their fire.

[mightyart]

Baby Lepidopterran

[dragonsdenstudiosofficial]

My designs for the OG 10's species as they appear in my Jen 10 AU (not to scale). Which one's YOUR favorite?

(Note: these aren't Jen's transformations, just examples of her OG 10 species.)

[rapidfirestormer]

Kevin Levin, with mutations for all of Ben's original ten aliens, plus Kevin 11 with some new details:

Diamondhead arm has cracks resembling Ghostfreak's markings.

Heatblast arm rocks are shaped to resemble Upgrade's patterns.

Stinkfly's wings emerge from Diamondhead back spikes.

XLR8's tail ends with Stinkfly stinger, which holds Ripjaws fins for when it merges with XLR8 colored Ripjaws "loincloth".

Wildmutt arms have Ripjaws fins and hand webbing.

Can deploy Ghostfreak chest tentacles, now colored like Upgrade.

Four Arms eyes on shortened Stinkfly stalks.

Ghostfreak pattern is now on the head, connected to Grey Matter eye, which has a smaller, diamond-shaped pupil in a merging with Ghostfreak's eye.

To run at high speeds, fireballs are created under toes with Heatblast's powers. This results in the Four Arms legs getting positioned in a way that resembles XLR8.

Can generate XLR8's face mask using Diamondhead crystals and Heatblast rocks.