Let's talk about my sizeshifter scientist Noel Rinbang
Here comes a special boy TM (all art here drawn by @miniature-knight)
Name: Noel Rinbang
Occupation: Scientist/Geneticist
Species: Hybrid (Half Earth human (Homo Sapien)/Half Neo Sapien)
Age: 33 years old
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Likes: Dressing well, partying, vaping, beaches, swimming, coffee doing his job as researcher well, his fellow researchers at the lab, his security synth android Rose, his Father
Dislikes: Stuffy events, Investors and Shareholders,being under pressure, being isolated, watery coffee, waterfront resorts, long meetings, being micromanaged in his work
Wants: To cure himself and others of their stress based giantification, to be able to be intimate with people without hurting them/endangering them
Noel is the son of a royal astronomer and the lead Neo Sapien ambassador who was in charge of making content with Earth. He isn't the only hybrid born at the beginning of the Neo Sapiens making contact with the planet, but he is one of the first conceived. However not too long after he an the others were born, a genetic mutation was discovered in the children. Under extreme stress the hybrids will grow to gigantic sizes, and in particularly overwhelming situations adopt a destructive persona.
Noel grows up isolated from both Earth and Neo Sapien society and spent a lot of childhood in an alien lab, having his giganticism studied in remote Neo Sapien labs far from Earth. Anytime out of that he spent with his father, Danny who home schooled him and taught Noel pride is his human heritage despite his isolation. He also taught him a love of science and research
In the three decades since first contact Neo Sapiens and Earth Humans have been in an uneasy alliance , with Neo Sapiens sharing their advanced technology but issuing a ban on Human/Neo Sapiens having children together, even frowning upon mixed coupling at all.
Despite this throughout high school and college Noel begins to explore physical intimacy with other humans as he reintegrates into society to go to study at University.
Around this time Noel's mother assigns a highly advanced Security Synthetic Android to his side (synth for short) This synth's name is Blue Rose. Security for Noel is her main focus, but protecting people from Noel is her back up objective, often deploying a range of methods to keep the scientist from losing control as he grows under stress.
While at first he finds her obtuse and invasive the two come to understand each other and Rose quickly becomes Noel's closest friend and confidant.
Often Noel has reintroduce or re-contextualize certain things on Earth for Rose. While she was given a pretty great set of reference data for Earth, it's many customs, and cultures, Neo Sapien understand leaves a bit to be desired.
(I'll go more into Rose in her own separate character post)
Noel's mother as the lead ambassador has put her son in charge of finding a cure for the other Hybrids, a task he truly takes to heart. The Neo Sapien ambassadors fund and oversee all of Noel's research, as well as providing the build for his lab. At first they wanted the lab built off-planet to satisfy safety concerns, but Noel is able to convince his mom and the other ambassadors he'll get the best most consistent results on the planet the hybrids were born on.
Even though he is brilliant as a genetic researcher in his own right, and has a team of equally qualified researchers working with him, progress towards a true cure is often stalled by the Neo Sapiens themselves and their commitment to certain rigid social order
As lead researcher Noel still finds himself having to compromise for his mother and her fellow Neo Sapiens contradictory demands. Often resulting in more stress and more growing.
Luckily Rose is there to help manage this stress, if not directly, often interfacing with the Neo Sapiens and more easily being able to navigate around their double speak and demands
But Rose has her hands full. Anti-Neo Sapien sentiment has become common in the thirty years since contact and that Noel himself is a pretty high profile person due to his mother, the lab often faces attacks from armed terrorists
Rose does her best to keep Noel and the other scientists safe from attackers, but even as a high powered super weapon, she can be overwhelmed
Though in those scenarios the attackers may end up getting more than they bargained for given Noel's condition...
My ask box is open if you wanna know more but that's it for now! Stay posted for more about Blue Rose...
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
For those who liked my posts about my sizeshifter scientist Noel I am re-posting a short story I wrote for him and Rose (who I need to make a post for). This story features Noel on holiday for the first time with his security synth Rose and all the stress (and growth) that comes with it!
Saw "GOAT" in theaters this weekend great movie, fantastic performances all around with some notable mentions to Patton Oswald , Jennifer Lewis ,Nick Kroll ,David Harbour, the lead Caleb McLaughlin (fresh off stranger things) and the showstopping Gabriel Union as Jett Filmore
of course the animation engine of Sony image works continues to breathe incredible life into these characters and their world with Sony taking the ideas layered in "Zootopia" and cranking them further with fun little things in the background like Jett having a bed but sleeping on a large tree branch that grows behind it, stairs for smaller rodents for the subway car leading to an upper level, different biomes for the games themselves which present different court hazards so on and so forth. A highlight is watching these anthro characters switching from two legs to four legs in scenes and how natural it feels
If you're a basketball fan you're going to be in for a visual treat mixed with voices you've heard on the court, like Angel Reese and Steph Curry. If you're not into basketball please still go see this amazing re imagining of the game, with well directed chorography for the players that keeps you engaged with every bucket sunk
I imagine it's just cause the creators ended up wanting the characters to stand on their own but can you imagine Colombo and JB Fletcher meeting would have been like
