(Krillin: QUACK!! *If anyone gets this reference, I love you*)
Nah, you guys know I'm going to ramble more. Go down below the "Keep Reading" to read in-depth about the facts that inspired Ch. 4 of Half-Life, including the courtship and anatomy of both Space-Ducks (Gigan’s species) and the Earth-Ducks that inspired my canon of them. Gigan’s deplorable behavior is explained.
BUT!! BUT BUT BUT!! Be careful, it’s not pretty down there. At all. NSFW!!!! So... proceed at your own risk.
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So ducks are rapists. Yeah, not gonna ease that in, ducks are muthafuckin’ rapists. Don’t be fooled by the cuteness, these things are monsters! It’s so bad, their reproductive organs are designed to rape (males) and avoid being raped (females). The males have MASSIVE corkscrew-shaped genitalia that extends out of their cloaca so fast and so forcefully that it’s described by actual fuckin’ scientists as “explosive” (sounds familiar to anyone who read Half-Life Ch. 4? Yeah, exactly!). And females in-turn have complicated AF corkscrew-shaped lady parts to make things difficult for the rapists!
Well, actually rape isn’t their primary means of reproduction. Ducks are monogamous, though unlike swans and geese who mate for life, they’re monogamous for a single breeding season. Females will choose a male to be her partner for the season and allow him to mate her through proper courtship. She’s relaxed during their mating, so her mate will have little issues getting the job done.
But not all males will be chosen. And those who aren’t will very aggressively force themselves onto any female they see, even outside their own species. It’s so aggressive that sometimes they end up killing the females in the process.
Females obviously don’t want babies with these assholes, so they tighten their lady parts, reversing their corkscrew in the OPPOSITE direction, to make it next to impossible. If she has a mate, he will also rush over to fight off the rivals. Oddly, after chasing her assailants away, her mate will often force himself on her without proper courtship, and she will let him! Just when you thought there would be an OUNCE of decency in duck courtship...
Anyway, because of this, only a small fraction of babies are fathered through unwilling copulation. But apparently this is enough to continue this behavior.
Now on to the Space-Ducks. Yes, I know Gigan’s species would have a proper name, but I’m not creative enough to come up with one, so Space-Ducks.
Like ducks, Gigan’s species is a monogamous one and unlike ducks, they do mate for life. Just like Earth-Ducks though, rape is prevalent in their culture and like Earth-Ducks, the Space-Ducks have the same means to accomplish/prevent it.
Gigan himself would be one of those assholes that would rather mate through force than go through proper courtship; even among his species (who are naturally aggressive as is), he’s bad. Like, really bad. A fuckin’ psychopathic sadist. As a space-pirate, you can rest uneasy knowing that he would’ve done to many others what he did to Ghidorah in the last chapter. And then he would kill them. And eat them.
Speaking of Ghidorah, as mentioned in a previous post, Ghidorah just so happens to have the two most attractive features in Space-Ducks:
Golden scales that resemble the golden display feathers in Space-Ducks, except in Ghidorah, it’s all over his body and not just on the chest and tail. Making him EXTRA-desirable.
And golden sails, which Ghidorah’s massive golden wings resemble (Space-Ducks REALLY like the color gold). And his wings are much larger than any sail on a Space-Duck, so DAMN this guy is HOT!!
So hot that even Gigan, who shunned the idea of a life-partner, is driven through monogamous instinct to make Ghidorah HIS! But Gigan’s habit of forcing himself is just as strong, making for a very unpleasant situation for Ghidorah. For unlike Gigan’s previous victims, he will not merely kill the dragon off when he’s done with him.
