#worldless luca

[incorrect-worldless-quotes]

LUCA: My therapist gets a kick out of you.

Worldless: Your therapist knows about me?

LUCA: Oh I spend far too many sessions talking about you.

[bnuuwitch]

Hey @k9mackenzie it’s LUCA ramble time :3

Okay so,

To me, LUCA is Worldless’ way of depicting biological life in a world of nothing but starstuff. Cleverly enough, its components are small, smaller than cores, as chemical components and atoms arise from dead stars, shattered to pieces.

LUCA is so interesting to me - a take on a lifeform that is not truly alive nor dead, simply existing.

I was thinking of putting in some level of biological component to the design, or rather, chemical.

Motes of stardust circling them in a facsimile of electrons, a “core” made of small clumps of biological mass - or the closest this world has to it, yet.

I’m unsure of what else to say rn, really tired. But I’ll detail and design da boy later

[sqarletsworldlesswandering]

Silly little thing,

But mind talking about Eclipsed! LUCA, if it's alright?

Sure! I don't have tons worked out for LUCA at the moment, and some of it depends on what I settle on for Worldless, but here's what I do have.

LUCA is Worldless' first attempt, so to speak. The trial run, the first attempt at their directive. The Occam's Razor attempt - see just how directly you can cut to the objective, does the seemingly obvious solution work?

It didn't.

Worldless succeeded in creating an entity similar to themselves, but... not quite. Similar enough to, nominally, be able to "let them in" to the world, and thus participate. LUCA isn't quite the same sort of entity, though, and the gap was too large for them to bridge fully. Worldless could put them in the world, but LUCA could not let Worldless in. Moreover, LUCA had a... detrimental effect on the world around them.

Thus, LUCA was a failed attempt.

Part of the trouble with LUCA was how rapidly they changed, and ended up changing things around them. They were adaptable and mutable, almost like an embodiment of mutation, both good and bad. Worldless did not like the randomness present, nor the potential for negative mutation. However, that potential for change is also utterly fundamental, something that Worldless realized very quickly as well. Change is necessary, a static creation will never improve, and when they realize that they can't just... outright create the solution to their directive, they conclude that their directive must be fulfilled by means of change in some capacity. Ergo, LUCA once again proves a valuable data set.

From any failed attempt, information can be gleaned, and in LUCA's case, a number of things worked very well. Worldless impaled LUCA with the spear, knowing full well that it would more just... store them away, like a file for reference. Something which they could replicate the functional pieces, and ignore the rest. Thus LUCA sits in their little void behind the spear.

To Worldless, LUCA is a data set. A specimen. An interesting and valuable result, but nonetheless a failure.

But that's just their perspective.

LUCA saw Worldless as their creator among other things, but in a sort of... detached sense. Being relatively similar, and endowed with a proximal processing capacity, LUCA objectively understood what Worldless was after, and where they were deficient.

They hold no grudge for Worldless' decision to discard them (even if, in certain stars' opinion they absolutely should). After all, they had not been the solution. They had failed.

However, they also feel no particular guilt over this failure of theirs - rational as ever, they came to the conclusion that if Worldless is who made them, then any errors are the result of how they did so. By that light, the failure isn't their fault specifically, because they can't exceed their own limits. To feel guilty at that point would be unreasonable.

Well, that's all fine and dandy.

But stars, it's boring in here.

And, while LUCA may be Very Smart, from an emotional standpoint their maturity is still... pretty darn child-stage. How young varies, and depends on the situation, but... they did not get any parenting from Worldless. If anything they concluded that emotions must not be very normal, because Creator doesn't display them, so maybe those were an error. And then just... files all emotions in this box off to the side that they don't touch.

Until eventually the pure boredom of their existence compels them to touch the box.

And they decide they don't like touching that box because that box makes their chest hurt really bad and their light starts getting drippy, and pain isn't a good sign so clearly it's not good for them, so they go back to not touching it.

....Yeah.

[mystic-menagerie]

MWW Round 1: Match 1

L.U.C.A. vs Adaptation

L.U.C.A.

A secret boss that can only be encountered after activating all Stone Monuments and reading their Lore Tablets.

The very first being, trapped inside one of Worldless's spears, its mere presence slowly withers away all nearby.

Adaptation

An unstable, shape-shifting foe that can be found in the red area/ east branch.

Able to shift their form at will, changing up their moveset, they keep their adversities on their toes.

Who's your favorite?

L.U.C.A.

Adaptation

Voting ended onAug 7, 2024

[octahedral-chaos]

New video is up!

[nvcblmkii]

hey wait a minute, did LUCA from worldless's name come from LUCA from biology? if so, this may imply everything is at least distantly* related to it and eachother

[incorrect-worldless-quotes]

LUCA, tearing up the room: Where are they?

LUCA, looking under a pillow: Who moved them? Who moved my children?

LUCA: Somebody moved my M&M's, and now I am going to start killing.

[incorrect-worldless-quotes]

LUCA: Does immaturely insulting me make you feel better about your sad single life?

Worldless: It actually does.