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mcyt-amber-tftsmp · 3 years

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Could you please write Ranbob with an axolotl hybrid reader? Preferably headcanons for how they met or what their like as a couple? (If you can write this, i wont be mad if you cant write it since i doubt lots of people know behaviors of axolotls)

Thank you <3

I really like your work and youre like one of the only people who writes tftsmp and im really greatful for it

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*inhales*

Challenge Accepted!

*speedruns research and reads a whole document on them*

>:)

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➶ 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐛 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝟐 ➴

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It was basically one of those days Ranbob decided to sit outside at the entrance of Mizu to take his mind off of things which brought him to meet you.

You were technically swimming about in the ocean when you came across this glass dome thing which made you very curious as you looked around to see on how to get in and you guessed that it was somewhere up on the surface.

So you decided to find it and you did as you slowly resurfaced your head and basically saw the enderman hybrid sitting and looking at the opposite direction and not knowing about your presence.

You stayed around as you looked at him curiously and it didn't take long for him to notice that you were there in that one spot for a while.

No joke when I say this cause the minute he laid eyes on you, he legit thought you were one of the beautiful creatures he's ever seen and honestly this kind of made him blush slightly at the thought but he decided to break the silence between you after a while.

"Are you... an Axolotl Hybrid by any chance?" He asked noticing the feathery external gills on both sides which is a distinguishing feature of an Axolotl.

You felt somewhat shy but you answered anyways.

"Yeah I am. If you don't mind me asking but what are you exactly?" You asked out of curiosity.

Ranbob could already tell that you were pretty curious and was shy when it came to meeting someone new but he never really expected this type of behavior from an Axolotl considering they are pretty aggressive but who's he to say? Nothing.

"Oh I am actually an Enderman hybrid." He started as he explained something about who he is related to and how the white part is something he's not aware of like at all.

You seemed to take in on what he was saying and it really made you interested about him even more and you just mostly stayed in water as he spoke since you couldn't come out just yet due to the sun being up and was very bright.

Both of you eventually made small talk and talked about other things topics and got to know each other a bit more and you were surprised to know that unlike other endermen he didn't have any problems with getting touched by water.

While you two talked, you noticed how the sun was slowly setting and you could technically come out now which you did as you slowly pulled yourself up and sat beside him on the cold stone floor.

Ranbob's breath legitimately hitched for a few moment when he saw you and got to see you properly and yeah no joke he actually is a hopeless romantic at this point.

"Can I tell you something?" He asked as you nodded with a small smile.

"Usually from what I know that Axolotls are pretty aggressive at times and you don't seem to show it." You heard him say as you slightly felt nervous.

"O-Oh..." Was the only thing you said in response.

You weren't offended by what he said cause it was true that Axolotls are pretty much aggressive and you were used to anyone thinking that.

"But I'll be honest and say that I didn't expect you to be this adorable and cute." He said in a small flirty tone.

That caught you off guard cause you didn't expect to hear this from him and this seemed to make you blush and feel flustered that you instantly just covered you face in embarrassment.

"S-stop..." You said feeling flustered and you could practically hear a smile form on Ranbob's face as he let out a chuckle.

"I'm serious." Ranbob said as he slowly removed you hands from your face to see that you were still flustered which made him smile a little.

Both of you did continue to meet up with each other every single day and eventually both of you did get together and become a couple but of course that did not stop Ranbob flirting with you every once in a while.

"Did I ever tell you how pretty and cute you are?" He asked as a smirked formed on his face as he turned to look at you as you were still in the water.

"You know I seriously won't hesitate to wipe that smirk of your face." You slightly threatened as Ranbob chuckled as he slowly leaned into your ear.

"I'd like to see you try sweetheart." He said in a slightly low tone and this kind of gave you the advantage to just pull him into the water by making him lose his balance which resulted him to fall into it.

He eventually resurfaced cause he can and when he did, he saw you giggling and he knew why you were but this didn't really stop him.

He slowly swam a but closer to you as he cupped both of your cheeks with his hands which stopped you from giggling anymore.

Before you could react, you felt a pair of lips meet your as you melted into the kiss as you wrapped your arms around his neck as your fingers ran through his white and somewhat black hair which was now wet because of the water.

Both of you eventually pulled away as Ranbob leaned into your neck and left two kisses there and another one on below your jaw which earned him small giggles from you.

He looked up to see you giggling a bit while being slightly red in the face as well and that made him happy.

"That's one way to make you flustered." He said with a smirk.

"Oh shush." You said slightly puffing up your cheeks as you leaned your head onto his chest as he held you close.

Both of stayed like this for a while but when the sun was setting, Ranbob eventually got up from the water as he helped you get up and pulled you onto his lap you leaned against him while he held you and played with your hair.

"I love you, Ranbob." You told him in a whispered tone.

Ranbob smiled as he kissed your forehead and slightly leaned his head on yours while holding you tight as if not ever wanting to let you go.

"I love you too, sweetheart." He replied back to you.

Even if both of you are of different species, you both love each other dearly and no one can say otherwise about it cause both of you make each other very happy and that's all you can ask for.

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No joke but I actually had fun writing this!

It was a new experience for me to write with an Axolotl Hybrid Reader and I enjoyed it!

I decided to use another way of writing headcanons!

I hope you like this though cause I do!

#ranbob #ranbob x reader #ranbob x you #ranbob x y/n #tales from the smp #lost city of mizu #fluff #headcanons

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kariachi · 4 years

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Red Sea Body Plans

We’ve gone over the single-celled life from which everything else on Osmos V arose, so now it’s time to get into multicellular lifeforms. It’s here where things are going to get a little basic, purely because I don’t have the time, energy, or inclination to make up a dozen or so body plans per sea. Instead, we’re going to be building two or three base body plans each for both major forms of symmetry (radial and bilateral) for both haplicytes and lampicytes, and using them as the basis for life moving forward.

This is where the haplicytes are really going to split for us into specialized autotrophs and specialized heterotrophs. The autotrophs, which will become out Red Sea originating plants, will be dealt with at another time. Here we’ll be dealing with our heterotrophs, our animals.

We’ll call the autotrophs chlorocytes from here on out, and the heterotrophs phagocytes.

The things to keep in mind when designing any basic body plan are feeding, defense, respiration, and reproduction. We’ll be keeping all these in mind as we go forward.

Radial Symmetry

To start off with we’re going to focus on our radially symmetrical body plans. Radial symmetry is when creature can be split into multiple identical parts in a circle around a central point. These creatures are often slow moving, if not entirely sedentary, and we’re going to have to take that into account.

We’ll do two of these here, one sessile and one mobile, to start us off.

Sessile first. The first thing we know about this creature is that we’re going to have to work out a way for it to catch it’s food, as it can’t go hunting. The way most species in this predicament do it is through tentacles or fronds, with which they either catch passing animals or detritus floating along the currents. We’ll go with fronds to start with, say an even dozen, as it’ll make catching detritus easier and that’s probably where such a creature will start off. We can even give them external digestion, so they don’t yet have to worry about a stomach. As they don’t do much moving, respiration isn’t as much of a concern, so they can probably make due with using pores in their skins to diffuse oxygen in the water into their systems.

Reproduction will be more of an issue though. Nature tends towards sexual reproduction, which allows for greater genetic diversity and security for a species, but that’s difficult when you’re sessile. Can’t exactly hit up the club, ya know? Some sessile species handle it through pollination, others through spore distribution. In the water something like the latter is most common, referred to as ‘broadcast spawning’. We’ll be going with that, but to make it more interesting we’re going to make this a three sex species, all capable of making ’eggs’ and fertilizing them. We’ll make it a circular system, where Sex A+Sex B=Sex C, Sex C+Sex B=Sex A, and so on. They’ll broadcast their spawn, eggs will be fertilized, and the young will float around on the currents as zooplankton until they become large enough to settle in and attach to the sea floor. Their main defense at this stage will just be a pure numbers game.

As for the adults’ defense, toxicity is an option, but the scaly-footed snail has my interest recently and this Osmos V has a large amount of metals, so I think we’ll go with protective ‘shell’ around the base of our vaguely anemone-ish friend into which it can retract it’s fronds. We’ll make this shelter out of iron sulfide, just like the snail, which should give it oranges and blacks as coloration. To know when they have to retract, they’ll need some form of sensory input, so we’ll give them primitive eyes running along the fronds. That way they can see danger before it reaches them to retract to safety.

We’ll call these little guys siderpodes, or ‘iron foots’.

Which brings us to the mobile ones. These guys are gonna be able to track down dinner, rather than just having it come to them, but they’re still going to have to focus on slow moving or immobile food. Their mouths will most likely be located at their center, with a stomach attached, and with things like this are typically on the underside. We’ll make them omnivores, occasional scavengers, that feed on the chlorocytes, siderpodes, and other slow moving or immobile animals. They’re need to be able to track down their food, so we’ll give them rudimentary eyes as well, and thin tendrils they can use as early smell receptors. We’ll put these at the end of, say, seven thick arms, sort’ve like a starfish. They’ll breathe same as the siderpodes, and for defense will instead go with a chitin-like scale armor, to preserve mobility and maximize speed. (After all, if dinner moves at 0.0003 mph you don’t wanna be stuck moving at 0.00024)

For reproduction, we’ll still go with broadcast spawning for now, with the young joining those of the siderpodes as zooplankton. And actually, I think we’ll keep the three sex system, not just for these guys but as a Red Sea trait.

These guys will be the ozasters, meaning ‘smelling star’.

Bilateral Symmetry

Bilateral symmetry is the contrast to radial symmetry. We’re an example- species that can be divided into two symmetrical halves, generally with a notable front and back, with the front often but not always being where brains and sensory organs go. They’re the more motile of the two types of body plan, for the most part, and have higher respiratory needs. These guys will all have some form of circulatory system, generally a free-wheeling ‘blood everywhere’ system, and a form of respiratory system to go with it.

We’re gonna try to make two of these guys too, and they’re going to be the rulers of the open sea, at least the Red Sea.

The first thing we’re going to make is a segmented swimmer, because as near as I can tell they were quite literally everywhere in early evolution. Apparently you couldn’t put on a pair of socks without crushing something exhibiting distinct segmentation. We’ll give it a long, thin body, to minimize drag, with rudder-like fins along it’s sides, four to a segment. eight segments in total. It’ll primarily eat plankton, and to that end we’ll probably give it four little, almost feathery digits at the front to catch them in, then it can eat the plankton off them. This wouldn’t necessitate much sensory input, but I’ve got a plan for a predator for them so eyes will be handy. We’ll give it six, three along each side. These, along with the speed granted by it’s shape and fins, will serve as it’s primary defensive measure.

For respiration we’ll go with gills, placing them along the belly so water rushes over them as our little critter swims. Reproduction, meanwhile, will be more direct. With the ability to see comes the ability to see potential mates, and so these critters will be able to actually seek out members of their own kind for breeding purposes. This will probably lead to a degree of sexual dimorphism among them, possibly in coloration. They’ll lay their eggs in simple nests in crevices and on the sea floor.

They will be plumaretes, or ‘feather net’.

But our little plumaret buddies will need that predator I mentioned. We need at least one fishy line in this mess or I’ll riot, so let’s play around with that, hm? They’ll be larger than the plumaretes by a fair bit, large, long, and laterally flat. We’ll give them eyes as well, since everyone else has them- only four, forward-facing. They’ll have gills along their sides, along with eight fins, for mobility and respiration. Our first dedicated predators, willing and able to eat anything that’ll fit into their mouths.

They’ll also be our first foray into size as a defense. They’re big enough that the biggest threat to them at this point in development is other, larger, members of their group. This’ll come up more as the project progresses.

Reproductionwise, I think we can safely class them in the same spot as the plumaretes. Sexual reproducers, external fertilizers, that lay eggs in crevices and such. For both groups the young probably make up yet more zooplankton, because a body of water can never have enough of those.

These guys, we’ll call primavenes. ‘First hunters’.

And these four will be the base off which we build all future Red Sea originating species. Next time, we’ll dive into the Grey Sea and see what’s happening with those mad lads.

Trust me, it is definitely stuff.

#the babo project #ben 10

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