MSM: Tales Of Harmonair

(NQ’s sideblog for her MSM au) A fan-project of mine--the world of My Singing Monsters reinterpreted as a fantasy world not unlike The Legend of Zelda or Lord of the Rings. This blog will act as a sort of archive for my headcanons and writing related to Tales of Harmonair.

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Okay worlds most random question, but COULD I use Shhimmer as like. A chair or something with how big it is????

(Idk why this was the first thing I thought of)

My brother in the Stars, you could use her as a mattress if you ever wanted to. She would probably even let you do that.

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How do Major and Minor forms work in this universe?

Paironormals change forms based on their mood, usually. A lot of them have their major form as their default since that form is associated with happy and calm emotions, like the major key. Minor forms are often reserved for very specific negative feelings like anger, insecurity, paranoia, etc.

Some Paironormals can switch immediately at will—these ones often know how to listen to, and to an extent control their own body and emotions to trigger a transformation from major to minor and vice versa. These are individuals like Scallyrags and Owlesque.

For others, the transformation is slower and builds up over time until they eventually spiral into an uncontrollable, destructive form that is a danger to both themselves and others. These are usually ruin elementals, but Hairionette also is an example.

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heights of the Paironormals for Tales of Harmonair. May do more of these in the future for some other monster species.

Class, please discuss your opinions on Shhimmer's egregious size.

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jeeode for the headcanon thing…?

Jeeode is an interesting one!!

They’re actually a lot like Wubboxes since they’re mad of a bunch of parts held together by magical forces that have to be sustained—and they do that by constantly absorbing new crystals to refresh their bodily makeup, their equivalent of eating. Each one of their body parts has its own "circulatory system" with liquid minerals & metals instead of blood, which is transported between the parts via Crystal magic. It appears as a barely noticable mist between their limbs.

Their closest relatives are actually Quarrister, and their life cycle is somewhat similar too, except that they don't huddle together for protection and then move on from there. Jeeodes start as a bud inside a geode-like protective shell, and then using what little magic they have at creation they absorb surrounding minerals and develop their bodies from there. This means that their body can be made from materials other than gemstone, so long as Crystal magic can clump it together.

Also like their relatives, they can shape and carve their body parts to their liking, making "tattoos" of sorts that can mean various different things such as their occupation, marital status, or other things. Using their magic they can even add minerals to their body parts over time, or to objects that they enchant--this is how their drums/pads are made.

...Anyways, if you couldn't tell already, some of these headcanons were inspired by PHM's Eridians. I love speculative biology so much...

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regarding the “seasonals get assigned elements based on their area or relatives” i need to know what happens to jam boree this is Very Important thank you

This might be a shocker…

…but Jam Boree is technically a natural quint in ToH given its residence in the Gleamlands (Gold Island).

Your silly little cake guy has the same elemental properties as a monster that is essentially the Mothman of Harmonair.

Congratulations.

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galymph.

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With the knowledge that a Rare TooToo's ears turn into horns (or hairdo), Does it effect their hearing?

This one might be a little disappointing.

In ToH’s universe, the Colossals don’t really like to exchange important senses or sensations for aesthetics—which is surprising, given that they have gone quite far sometimes with making monster species into their image.

In this case, the White (Rare) TooToo’s ears are present, just reduced to ear-holes to make way for the horns and hairdo. It would be too big of a trade-off for the Colossals to rid them of their hearing completely.

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You mentioned that seasonals in harmonair are more affiliated with other classes such as natural and magical. Are there any other in-game classes which are "reclassified" in harmonair?

That is a GREAT question, and I actually do have an answer.

Legendaries also got reclassified, but they’re a bit more complicated. Essentially what the “Legendary” class encompasses in ToH is monsters that have no elements whatsoever, and 99% of these are humans that got “Seamed” (pulled through the Seam into Harmonair). They start out with no elements and then gain their properties as they start to study magic. Some of course are more predisposed to one element—Shugabush are a prominent example—but for most, all possibilities are equal.

As a little bonus, here are my headcanons for the Werdo Muses’ elements since we’re on this topic:

Tawkerr - Cold

Parlsona - Air

Maggpi - Water

Stoowarb - Earth

Charkoll - Fire

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any ideas about shLep

shLep I think was likely spawned from a Cherubble’a dream about some unpleasant encounters they had with a Jlellijiggle, Anemonon and maybe also a Haymaker (rare) Yawstrich? I don’t really know. It definitely came from a nightmare.

As for biological makeup, this one is a bit odd. shLep feed specifically on monster blood or blood-equivalent, much to the dismay of the citizens of the Islands of Oneiros. However, thankfully, a mixture that can give them relatively the same nutrients that they receive from blood has been developed by some ingenious monsters from the nearby Outer Reach—both areas are on Harmonair’s moon (which I have yet to name, lol). They basically drink this to survive.

Many other features that they have, like the other Dreamythicals, have no known function and were made quite literally with dream logic. The “lucky charms”, for example, can only be shook around to make noise like in canon, but do not have any known further purpose.

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arcorina!!! :3

Ough… this is a hard one. I don’t really have too many headcanons for the Paironormals but I can tell you what I currently have so far.

Arcorina is actually an individual like the rest of the paironormals. They were all likely humans at some point, but when the Colossals pulled them through the seam their bodies became too corrupted to recover, and then were sent to the Carnival.

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LMAO I posted this one by accident, I wasn’t finished with it but the problem is that’s kinda all I have for right now. I will add onto it later maybe. So sorry haha

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arcorina!!! :3

Ough… this is a hard one. I don’t really have too many headcanons for the Paironormals but I can tell you what I currently have so far.

Arcorina is actually an individual like the rest of the paironormals. They were all likely humans at some point, but when the Colossals pulled them through the seam their bodies became too corrupted to recover, and then were sent to the Carnival.

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your headcanons for anglow? 🤔

ANGLOWWWW!!! I <3 Anglow too. They actually made me rearrange a bunch of things for ToH and made it kinda what it is right now as a planet in a solar system rather than something else.

Anglow are, of course, not genetically modified by the Colossals and are their own thing, a sophont alien race right here on Harmonair. So their biology is gonna be different and also hella fuckin’ weird.

Anglows have a very strong pod mentality (pod = group of Anglows). They hunt like killer whales and honestly act a lot like them too under the water. The Elderglow is usually the oldest one in the pod and has the job of watching and raising the offspring of the other Anglows.

They’re also cathemeral—not active at any particular time of day, just whenever. However, they do follow a behavioral pattern depending on when they are active. During the daytime they reside in the depths of the Living Ocean but when night falls they come up to the surface layers, likely to feed.

Despite how feral and offputting they may look at first glance, they actually have made lots of technological advancements, even some allowing them to exit the water for extended periods of time.

I have more but don’t want to yap again… I’ll lose motivation and I have like 3 more to do :/

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Hi I like kayna. Did you know that I really like kayna?

HIIIII I LIKE KAYNA TOO!!!! Kayna’s my second favorite monster actually :) I have a lot of headcanons for them!!

Kaynas are actually bird monsters like tweedles and glowls, but a very primitive type specifically, sort of like the Harmonic equivalent of a velociraptor. They even have little vestigial wings and tail feathers but these get covered up by their rock-scutes as they grow to become adults.

Their round bellies are actually not just to accommodate their stomach, but rather a separate organ used for digesting the rocks that they eat. The minerals from these get deposited into their furthers, becoming hardened rock-scutes that not only provide protection, but also will melt when they concentrate their fire magic into their limbs, adding an even more devastating layer to their self-defense. The same organ also allows the Kayna to spit up the molten rocks as a last resort.

I should probably stop here so I don’t yap so much :( but I may let you all in on their lore in the future! They essentially have a whole era of Harmonic history dedicated to them LOL

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TooToo

TooToo is honestly one I don’t think about too much but I do at least have some things to give.

TooToo shoes are traditionally made from a very specific type of Bubblerite that is light and a bit hollow. They’re sharpened to a point, like a prism, and act as an extension of the TooToo’s hooves (which they do have in ToH). By grinding the tips of these shoes against the ground of the Starlands which is rich in Light magic, they absorb it and store it, and the TooToo can release that energy with just a step in any direction. And before you ask—yes, they do need to be constantly sharpened.

Their biology is a bit weird too, especially with their eyes. Unlike cycloptic monsters like Wynq and Fandhul that have what is essentially an overdeveloped parietal eye, the TooToo’s genes specifically code for their left eye to be on the bottom and the right eye to be on the top. Humans still haven’t even really figured out how this kind of genetic-biological fuckery is even possible, but apparently it is.

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seasonals? do they do anything new here, assuming they exist?

Seasonals don’t really do anything new other than their seasonal elements just kinda… not existing anymore. They just kinda act like naturals/fires. What elements they have depends on their area that they live in or their closest relatives (ex. Hoolas having the same elements as Pompoms, Carillong being treated as a magical, probably light).

The Seasonal Shanty boat is simply just called the Shanty and has a very complicated history, but now is hailed as a living piece of Harmonair’s history from the Valkyrie era (whenever the “great pause” was occurring). It is… HUGE. How it would even float on the water I probably wouldn’t know. Think cruise ship times two. It hosts a lot of parties for the wealthy and affluent, and any other kind of important Harmonic figures.

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Any ideas about cherubble?

Cherubble!! This one’s interesting.

Cherubbles, or rather their non-sentient ancestors, are considered the earliest known experiment by the Colossals on sentience in Harmonair. They were, however, not the first organisms to exist on the planet, that award would belong to some very simple single-celled organisms, much like Earth.

While they are modified to mimic an Earthen mollusk—specifically a sea slug—the Colossal that designed Cherubbles (likely Dulcettea) wanted them to be able to manipulate objects and make tools, so they bestowed some dextrous tentacles amongst them that in canon are used to hold its “harp”.

Being such a primitive monster, too, their intelligence and consciousness likely works a bit different from that of later monsters, but this is not fully understood.

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Rare Wubbox

Rare wubs don’t technically… exist??? In ToH??? It’s weird.

There’s two kinds of wubs in ToH, the Standard Model (owned by The Blue Bitch™️) and the Biomechanical Model, which turned into the Guardian Wubs (epics) after the Great Thunder.

ToH’s equivalent of rare wubs are called Clerics—Mack in the askblog is a Cleric if you would like to talk to him—and they literally look and act exactly the same as rare wubs save for not having speakers and a record player by default. They’re well-trained Cadets (commons) in electrical magic, specifically. They’re common in any kind of monster settlement and usually take up the role of paramedics and nurses.

So yes, if you were beat up enough, they would be happy to carry you bridal style.