#vhozon

[lord-rodentia]

Yaoi agenda

Ft. My special designs for Trace and Noxus

I love them :)

Yes, the other one is that marry art trend.

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‘Cold’ is the absence of energy; It’s why the concept of cryo-beams and the like is not so simple, because you can’t create absence. AC took much longer to figure out than heating, which is natural; The principle of AC is transferring heat from an area or things, to leave behind a space or air cold enough to cool things down. And that energy has to be kept or released elsewhere; Thus, to keep something colder, the rest of the world must become warmer in return. Equivalent exchange. Something something metaphor for limited resources or class inequality idk.

My point being: Metroids feed on energy in its purest form. And my HC is that their indestructibility comes from an energy field they project. So it’s fitting that the exact opposite of energy, the absence that is cold, is their weakness; Rendering their own energy ‘absent’ or ‘inert’ for a while, allowing Metroids to be destroyed before they draw on their potential energy reserves to thaw themselves, and project their living field again. It’s not just their cells becoming brittle, it’s that the Metroids’ shields are essentially extinguished; Perhaps cold weaponry is another tactic against energy fields in Metroid, bedsides just overwhelming them with, you guessed it, force.

All of this is why the Ice Beam is so special; It shows the brilliance of the Chozo to defy the laws of physics by creating a ‘beam’ that is seemingly infinite and can naturally place stasis upon energy. Is it entropy incarnate? Without the Ice Beam, Ice Missiles are required; These are in limited supply, being made from scratch and relying on chemicals, but when schematics are combined with Samus’ power suit, it is able to create these instead, and instantly.

Similarly, the Phrygisians generate ‘cold’ via cooling gases their bodies synthesize from their environment and the nutrition they ingest. The Vhozon Judicator relies on a similar principle, essentially producing mass from a frozen core harvested from Vho itself to shoot at targets; It is not unlike an advanced AC unit in that this core is grown by feeding it air and drawing away heat. The secret to the Judicator’s construction is guarded by the Vhozon, available only to the highest levels of the Codex.

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Vhozon Biology

Course, two versions for viewing pleasure

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Vhozon torsos are translucent and shimmery, they do not serve any biological purpose.

Vhozon do not lay eggs and can reproduce both asexually and sexually (preferring the former [except for males who exclusively need sexual reproduction]) and their young are fully Opaque with non-digitigrade legs. Vhozon Children are round and stupid looking, you can literally roll one like a ball. [70:30 F to M]

Legs are formed in a way that doesn't disturb movement.

They actually have mouths, however they need to use the beak like tooth to help them consume food. Believe it or not, they're more herbivore than omnivore.

Like the Kriken and Chozo, Vhozon have small holes on the sides of their head that work like ears. Vhozon hearing is incredibly high and can hear sounds from about 1000 miles away.

The average Vhozon however doesn't have very good eyesight despite having four eyes, they often get confused and disoriented because of it. Apparently there's services that help with this kind of thing. Speaking of the eyes, if you look really closely at one, you can see a slight outline of where the iris or pupil is.

Vhozon have a height average of 6'0" to 7'0", females lean more towards 6'0" while the males have the latter.

[lord-rodentia]

buh

Low quality drawing, ig

Info under cut.

Their names in question?

Qixi [Chi-shi], Halé'ethé (or Halé [Hah-ley], or full [Hah-ley, Eth-ey]), Kuro-Kuro [Koo-row, Koo-row], Haanin [Hah-neen], and Icke [pronounced like eek.]

To who?

Qixi belongs to bird boy (the Chozo Hybrid) in the left< Halé'ethé is the red one (The Kriken)< Kuro-Kuro is gold boy (The Enoema), Haanin is purple (The Vhozon), and Icke is the middle girl (The Space Pirate).

They are all tied to two projects: To be the Hunted {recently changed to be Metroid only} and Error Sector-07 {about 14 years after TbtH}

Important maybe?:

Halé'ethé was removed from the Kriken Empire for her safety. Kuro-Kuro was hidden away for his safety. Icke was artificially made which explains some of her appearance but also taken away for safety.

The only reason all five of those kids know eachother is because of an event that occurs early in TbtH, and they proceed to still know eachother until ES07 where they're not as friendly to eachother {Halé'ethé immediately forgets everyone after TbtH}.

Qixi and Icke are the only two hybrids of the group, Qixi being Chozo-human and Icke being Space Pirate-Human (both with 80:20 ratios). Everyone else is not a Hybrid or modified in anyway.

ALSO LOOK AT THEIR LIL' OUTFITS, THEY'RE SO CUTE!

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When the Metroid Crisis first began, a LOT of people throughout the Federation were terrified, and rightfully so; The Space Pirates had launched an unprecedented, successful attack against several key Federation locations, using an army of seemingly invincible, unstoppable monsters.

So when it became apparent that the Metroids were weak to cold, the Federation announced this as quickly as they could; PSAs constantly announcing that Metroids will freeze from sub-zero temperatures, and can be shattered in this brittle state with sufficiently concussive force. But at the same time, they can thaw themselves incredibly quickly; In 1-2 seconds. In the end, it's still a narrow hope, plus you have Space Pirates backing up the Metroids as well.

But Metroids also slowed down in cold, too; And this is all a lot of people need to hear, especially the ones who had directly survived a Metroid attack. There were so many refugees to frozen worlds, such as Phrygis or Vho. Indeed, the Federation helped to fund and arrange deals with these frozen worlds, in exchange for housing survivors, and even unharmed citizens who wanted to avoid any danger. There was definitely a consideration that if the Metroid Crisis continued to escalate, the Federation might be reduced to a handful of frozen worlds, its surviving population and military concentrated there, focused more on defending their positions than retaking any.

But in such a weakened state, the Federation would still have to contend with the Space Pirates themselves, who would lay claim to all of the resources left behind in the great emigration, and use it to bolster their non-Metroid forces for a final invasion; And God forbid, they would be able to engineer Metroids without a weakness to cold! It truly seemed like the end of the Federation to many, and a new age of Space Pirate dominion where all species bowed before the 'stronger' ones.

In the meantime, many were focused on just surviving; Plenty weren't ready to just uproot everything, just yet! But a minority can still be a lot of people when we're speaking in the billions, if not trillions, here.

Vho accepted everyone for free; Say what you will about the Vhozon, and you can say a lot. But they were consistent to their standards of morality, freely taking in refugees, providing housing and food, etc. Of course, they also took the opportunity to push their Codex onto said refugees; Many criticized the Vhozon for taking advantage of the Metroid Crisis this way, or only letting in people who would convert.

The Vhozon adamantly insisted otherwise; It was in their code regardless to let people in. They were just also obligated to spread the word, but if refugees did not listen, they would not listen and would still be protected. Naturally, a lot of people found gratitude to the Vhozon and ended up becoming receptive to the Codex, and the popularity of the Crusaders of Vho surged.

For a high-ranking Vhozon such as Noxus, it emboldened his righteous fervor, and seeing how Metroids could drive such large numbers made him dedicated towards wiping out these demons. Indeed, the Crusaders of Vho saw how easily the galaxy could teeter into chaos, saw how uniquely suited they were for handling this crisis, and how much people appreciated them for it... For many Vhozon, it was their destiny, and vindication.

Phrygis was also very popular; The native Phrygisians had the innate ability to create ice, which made them seem very safe as neighbors and allies to refugees. Now, the abilities of Rundas are like comparing an Olympic athlete to an average human; His cryokinesis far exceeds the typical Phrygisian, through concentrated training and effort.

But anything is still better than nothing; Phrygis' own citizens stood a better chance than probably anyone else of surviving a Metroid invasion. Refugees prepared for colder weather, rooming in at cities designed to be of more hospitable temperatures.

Phrygis' economy also boomed; The Federation made sure to pay Phrygis ample seguru for taking in these refugees. It also paid them plenty to manufacture Ice Missiles, as a reliable means of freezing Metroids; The Federation had plenty of concussive weaponry, but freezing weapons were, up until the Metroid Crisis, seen as very situational and not worth the funding.

Being able to generate ice made it cheap for any Phrygisian to create ice-based products; It was one of those things where if it came to you for free, you may as well make the easy cash there, even if you also intended to pursue other careers as well.

A lot of people/worlds DID try to take advantage of the Metroid Crisis, price-gouging refugees; But the Federation put their foot down and warned otherwise. It promised to pay back, but also made it clear it would take martial action if it considered the situation unreasonable.

As the Federation's focus on Phrygis increased tenfold, it also invested in Phrygisian units. The use of specialized soldiers of more esoteric, combat-capable species had always been a thing, but never with such a slant towards Phrygisians. The Federation continued this program, even after Mother Brain had been destroyed, and the Metroids cleared from Federation space; The threat of a second Metroid crisis always lingered, as long as any still existed within Space Pirate hands...

It was a new age for the people of Phrygis; One, Rundas, saw just how useful he was to the Federation and realized an economic opportunity, even if he was also motivated by heroics and altruism. Already famous for being the only off-world Phrygisian bounty hunter, Rundas hired his services out to the Federation multiple times, with the Federation having already been looking for him with or without the call.

His feats in rounding up remaining Metroids made him another hero of the Metroid Crisis, alongside Samus; In some ways, Rundas was a more public one, working alongside the Federation, and on Federation worlds where civilians might've still lingered and seen him in action. He did not turn down any interviews, and the people of Phrygis began to regard Rundas as more of a hero following this turn of events. He would be hired to help train other Phrygisians in honing their abilities of cryokinesis, and there became much more of a market/trend for these lessons on Phrygis. When Rundas died in the second Metroid Crisis (also known as the Phazon Crisis), a state funeral was held for him.

Indeed, Phrygisians are among the last prey any Metroid would consider; Their bodies are naturally frozen, so unless a Metroid was starving and/or had nothing else to feed off of, it would avoid Phrygisians. When the Federation had secured a Metroid egg, a Phrygisian unit was stationed as a contingency measure. When Metroids were cloned on the BSL station, a Phrygisian Unit was also present; They were all killed, like every other Federation employee, by the X. A second unit had been sent to capture the SA-X, but the mission was canceled when Samus Aran obliterated the BSL and SR388, and all X present on either location.

Even in the aftermath of the first and second Metroid Crises, many refugees still opted to stay on frozen worlds such as Phrygis anyway; They felt safer there, they wanted to play it safe. The second Metroid Crisis proved a point to them, as did Samus Aran exposing the Federation's failed Metroid breeding program. Many refugees had made friends in their new homes, including with the locals.

The sociological impact of the Metroid Crisis have already been massive and apparent; But seeing how it has affected demographics, and created new migrant colonies and generations for colder worlds, is continuing to unfold. Indeed, it seems to be the rise of a new community, whose generations onward will bear the story of the Metroid Crisis in their existence. Worlds like Phrygis and Vho have already changed when it comes to their place within the Federation, gaining more prominence for it, with their populations and economy now forever altered. Many historians have taken to calling this event, "The Metroid Migration."

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In response to some claims that Noxus is the true hero of Prime Hunters -and indeed, I did play with this belief a couple times in the past- I have to reconsider his character and how the writers actually intended for him to come across. Between being called a zealot, the Vhozon being described as a monastic race with a fanatical view of morality, and a 'Vhozon codex'. And I feel like this dude is meant to be more of a Holy Crusader, Knight Templar type character.

In other words, he's bad news; He seems more noble at a glance, but it becomes apparent from extended interaction that Noxus holds very dangerous views. It's worth noting that the specific sources describing his motives to seize the Ultimate Power, whilst not working with Samus, are "to prevent it from falling into the hands of lawbreakers or the unworthy."

Nothing is said about not using the Ultimate Power; They do have a criteria for those who can have it, and apparently the Federation isn't one of them. Another source also says, more condemningly:

"The Vhozon race makes its home in the icy outer rim of the galaxy, where it wages constant war on the forces of chaos and evil. Noxus follows his race's strict moral and spiritual code, and has become a bounty hunter to administer justice to felons and sinners throughout the galaxy. Though the Vhozon and the Galactic Federation share a strong belief in justice, they define the word very differently. The Vhozon are absolutely merciless to those who violate their strict rules of morality, and their methods have left them at odds with the galaxy's other civilized societies. When Noxus heard the telepathic communiqué, he did not hesitate to set a course for the Alimbic Cluster. He is determined not to allow the ultimate power to fall into the hands of a heretic."

So yeah, these guys actually sound like assholes. The "Tough on crime" sort, not much different than Evangelicals who like to push their beliefs on morality onto others and insist on making them law. I bet Noxus is a loser who hates pre-marital sex.

This reminds me of how in the Zero Mission manga, we actually had a brief sub-plot of the Federation being comprised of more reasonable politicians and views (represented by Keaton's tenure as Chairman), while others were much more fanatical and fascist about things (hence Vogl's term). Given Sakamoto's insistence on attributing the corruption in Other M and Fusion to a rogue faction of the Federation, and not the Feds as a whole, I think this makes sense; Plenty of governments aren't monoliths who all agree on the same thing.

My point being, I wonder if the Vhozon would've supported Vogl, if they share similar views. Or if they're too extremist for even that side of the Federation, which is representative of how a lot of right-wing groups can disagree with one another, and even accuse of others of not going far enough.

I bet the Vhozon believe suffering is purifying because they evolved on a freezing planet they had to fight to survive on; They kept warm by generating friction from spinning, hence their gyroscopic abilities. They had to fight to keep themselves alive, and this translates to a disciplined lifestyle due to resources being scarce.

The Judicator carries ice from Vho, a bit of home on its wielder at all times, that unleashes Vho onto the immoral galaxy; They believe Vho’s frozen crucible forged a just society out of the Vhozon, and spiritually believe the Judicator as a vessel to bring this deliverance off-world. The Judicator can apprehend and lead to a sentence to learn from; Or it can destroy. It is the wrath of Vho, which the Vhozon worship almost like a god in and of itself. You either adapt and survive, or be wiped out.

This leads to an idea I had for a story where Samus meets Noxus, on his own, for the first time prior to Hunters; Like in a Metroid TV series that adapts all of the major arcs, while having plenty of episodic adventures between and even during said arcs.

Based on what we know of the Vhozon, I can absolutely see them participating in the war against the Space Pirates (since Weavel is also a rival to Noxus) when they first used Metroids against the galaxy. Following Mother Brain's defeat, the Metroids could no longer be controlled and turned against their Space Pirate commanders; With no choice, many Space Pirates destroyed and/or abandoned the Metroids on the planets they occupied, knowing the Federation would be obligated to perform clean-up for them; It was a way to save their own skin and also take some Feds down in the process of aborting their Metroid program.

The task of exterminating Metroids from former Space Pirate bases was often commissioned to bounty hunters like Samus, the greatest Metroid slayer in the galaxy, as well as other ice-wielding mercenaries like Rundas. Noxus wasn't hired by the Federation, but he chose to lead his own crusade against the Metroids regardless, because from a Doylist and Watsonian standpoint, his freezing Judicator is exactly the kind of specific weapon needed to kill the Ultimate Warriors.

Samus and Noxus encounter one another, team up; He seems like someone with the same ideas and views, the same goals, just like Rundas before. Noxus has some antiquated and eccentric beliefs, but whatever… But then they come across some stray Space Pirates. Noxus' Judicator can be used to encase victims in ice, not freezing them solid, but still leaving them confined for Federation police or anyone else to arrest them later.

But due to his ranking within the Vhozon codex, Noxus has the authority to take liberties as he deems fit, to judge on an individual basis (hence his crowning weapon’s name, the “Judicator” that places heretics at such deciding mercy to begin with). And even though the Space Pirates are neutralized as a threat and even pleading for mercy, Noxus decides to just execute them right here and there, instead of waiting for the Federation to arrest them.

Cue a moral dilemma for Samus, who objects to this, begrudgingly. Noxus asks what's the difference between this and her massacre of an entire base on Zebes; That's different, Samus insists, she was in their territory and had to fight to survive and succeed. They gave her no choice, they had no intention of backing down or surrendering. Maybe this could be a moment of growth and reflection for Samus; Remember how you can find a Space Pirate hiding from you in Zero Mission, and kill them anyway? Yeah. It seems Samus has a tendency in canon to reconsider her actions, such as the Metroid genocide of SR388 later on…

Coldly, Noxus brings up rumors that Space Pirates murdered Samus' family on K-2L. Samus retorts that she decides how she feels about that incident, and especially how she chooses to live afterwards. And last she checked, all pirates involved in that massacre are dead, except one, but he's not here.

Yet as far as Noxus is concerned, it's proof of Space Pirate policy towards innocents; These pirates would do the same if given the same opportunity. Is that not proof of guilt, the dark intentions in their hearts?

But they haven't, we don't know that yet, Samus argues. There's a reason why the sentence is lesser for an attempted crime, VS one pulled off. Noxus scoffs and insists this is why the Federation is weak, and Keaton a disgrace for reversing Vogl's policies.

Noxus finally brings up this point; Even if she personally disagrees, he's not asking Samus to do it. She can still look the other way. At the very least, she's not going to fight Noxus for them, is she? He's an ally to her, she knows that; He just helped her exterminate all Metroids on this planet! Samus needs Noxus more than these Space Pirates, he is of more contribution to the galaxy than this scum; It's a simple choice, a calculus between a greater and lesser evil (not that Noxus considers himself evil, but this is Samus' semi-reasonable perspective).

Samus fights Noxus anyway, and beats him because it's Samus. She ends up freezing/trapping Noxus, in an ironic mimicry of how he apprehends 'sinners' with the Judicator, and lets the Federation arrive to arrest the Space Pirates, and deal with Noxus themselves. Noxus is left pissed off as hell when Samus leaves, hence their... disagreements over the Ultimate Power.

Makes it appropriate that Noxus is seen fighting Trace, who also hails from a fanatical race bent on imposing their will; Although the Kriken seem way less concerned about moral superiority, and much more upfront about wanting to rule through Might makes Right. Unlike the Vhozon, they just want to take over the galaxy, rather than "bringing about moral influence" which is just a roundabout means of conquest if you think about it.

Given Vho is on the outer rim, I wonder if that puts them close to Kriken territory; Given mentions of waging constant war, I bet the Vhozon have a tendency to agitate open conflict with the Kriken, unlike the Federation which prefers diplomacy and is desperately trying to keep it because you do not want a full-scale war against an empire that makes the Space Pirates look like chumps. So again, the Trace-Noxus rivalry is perfect.

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What if Noxus and other Vhozon could turn themselves sideways while spinning to act as wheels. They stick their arms out while rolling to push themselves off of the ground and into the air, building up speed beforehand to achieve some impressive leaps. I originally meant this as a joke but at this point it could be a possibility and help Noxus feel less like a discount Rundas in terms of moveset. It could either look incredibly silly or kinda cool. Like Droidekas.

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The way I write them, the Vhozon are autistic to me in the sense that they operate on a rigid moral code, black-and-white thinking; They adhere to it strictly and are thus surprisingly consistent compared to others who also claim to act 'righteously'. And it's very difficult for them to 'let go' what they perceive as an injustice, and can be righteously stubborn about seeing resolution all the way through. They aren't necessarily correct either, but they stick to how they define the rules to those morals; Hence the Codex, the Crusaders of Vho.

There will always be exceptions of course, but I think it's worth considering that in the discussion of neurodiversity, different sapient species in fiction might be represented differently; For some, stuff like ADHD or autistic IS the norm, and 'neurotypicality' the divergence. Which kinda gets to one of the points of this Metroid fanon I'm doing, which is the question of who defines what is normal, and why? Especially when you have several different, often wildly different races interacting. Are categorizations actually set in stone, with any inherent reality; Or are they being built upon an assumed default?