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do u accept fan art of chaseyyyyy???

Yea!! Best sent either through messaging it to me, or @-ing me in a public post. That goes for pretty much all AUs and ocs of mine, which you can find in the masterlist.

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 18 hours

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#Chasey #Chaos 0 AU #sth #sonic the hedgehog

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 1 day

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Are Merch Mimics capable of using assimilation offensively against humans, for self-defense and otherwise? Like, if someone tried to break a toy/game/etc they were inhabiting, could the Mimic instead pull them in?

To a degree, yeah. I should mention though that Victor isn't "in" the TV in any magical sense; spoiler alert: he's the controller Vance is holding! Hence, the eye on the controller reacting to the dialogue. The Victor on the screen is actualy a model he rigged for a homebrew game he coded the old fashioned way, which responds to whatever inputs the controller sends to the Wii.

He actually is an active member of the homebrew community, and loves to mess with electronics the old fashioned way. Almost no one on the forums knows he's a toy bird, but are impressed nonetheless with his little projects, various rail-shooter games, and weird obsession with snarky anthropomorphic birds.

Victor could technically "jump into a game" on a tv screen, but it'd be a bit of a weird process if he doesn't know how to mod the game, so it'd look more like a shitty greenscreen effect rather than anything coherent. He'd need to learn in real time how the game is coded, how to inject arbitrary code into the system while it's running, etc etc. He CAN do that because he's a fucking NERD, but it wouldn't be a quick process at all.

I should also mention, mimics have an inherent ability to create dreams, since they come about from processing the thoughts and ideas of humans. If a human bonds with a mimic, such that the mimic now knows how the human thinks, they can pull a (somewhat) willing human into the dream when the human sleeps. So to wrap this all up: what Victor could do for a game he understands inside and out is pull a human into a dream that happens to match whatever he himself experiences as currently going on in the game. Basically the ultimate VR experience, with the mimic as a middle-man. Which might be something that'll happen in the comic soon....!

So that all seems a bit convoluted, right? Here's even more worldbuilding about matter assimilation by mimics below the cut. Stop here if you don't want a headache.

The reason so many hoops would be needed to pull a human into a game world is that assimilation is much easier on inert, inanimate objects that are not currently "in use" by a thinking thing, or something that relies on constant electrical signals to function. This can be something with brainwaves, or some other kind of animation like a normal robot. A mimic can convert a CRT TV that's turned off somewhat easily, but a TV that's turned on, with particles of every kind constantly moving into and out of it, is much harder to convert.

This means that humans and biological creatures in general are also trickier to convert, though it can still happen if done gradually enough. Hence, Victor wouldn't be able to rapidly convert Vance in one fell swoop, it'd be a whole process. It's easier to just pull a human into a dream instead, and if a mimic undersrands a video game, or a story in a book really well, they can basically make the fictional world into an extremely lucid reality for whatever human tags along with them.

I often describe mimics as just "jojo stands if they were corporeal and could just get up and move around on their own with no user"; you know how in jojo stand battles or old stories about magic curses, if you break the curse or kill the stand before its effect becomes permanent, all of the damage is magically undone? Like if you kill Green Day, the mold stand, all of the molding just instantly stops?

Mimics who use their powers of assimilation offensively work similarly; they can project their influence to a certain range, and partially assimilate matter in that range. If you knock out or kill the mimic, however, everything reverts to normal. A human who doesn't want to get converted can basically just turn around and walk away most of the time, or shoot the mimic, so the mimic in question needs to pull off some trick to get the human to stay within range for the assimilation to fully stick. A human can still break free and get out of range even if fully converted, but it's much harder, as assimilation usually means the mimic gaining greater control over the converted object in question. The exact range and effect mimics have is again like jojo stand ranges; it varies.

Different mimics have different affinities for different things. Victor can assimilate cheap electronics fastest because he likes them and understands how they work (it's why he's a toy bird mp3 player). Az can assimilate guns, and turn ammo into weird anomalous ammo with weird effects. Zachary is a genius who can assimilate any matter, including biological matter, faster than anyone... but he's also extremely picky and hates the sight of blood, so he only uses assimilation on things he really, really likes.

If I could somehow make another read more at this point, I would. It's gonna get messy:

What a weird power and setup though, right? Why? The true nature of mimics is unknown to most of them, but the deepest lore is that the first mimics were constructs made by a people long ago, who first made them as highly advanced machines that'd recognize the thoughts of their masters to fulfill any practical desire. Need a road built? Done. Need a ship repaired? Done. With physical needs all met, the people began to turn inward, and use the mimics to illustrate their own artistic ideas. Eventually, the will and consciousness of these people were assimilated and inherited by mimics, who themselves became people. Mimics spread, altered themselves, duplicated, deviated, fused, split, and wandered around. Getting into recreational wars, manifesting horrors and delights into reality because they could.

Somehow, after the dust settled, the strongest mimics, the angels, decide to set their sights to the stars, and observe other lifeforms develop technology and their own art. Did mimics come to earth millions of years ago, and simply watched humans grow, evolving with them in-tandem? Or did humans make the first mimics, and somehow became undone and set back to the stone age? The answer to this mystery is currently known only to the oldest of mimics. Except Zachary. He's old, but didn't care to remember.

This is generally why mimics seem so compatible with humans; they were made by either them, or people who were, for whatever the reason, very much like them, flaws and all. The ability to assimilate is basically the conversion of matter into a more malleable state of information. A virtually magical power, but this was achieved not through prayers and spells, but a very human-like obsession with developing technology to the point of exerting control over molecules, then atoms, then the lowest planks of matter. The obsession with scaling every mountain and crossing through every valley. To rip the natural world apart, and hopefully, put it back together before it's too late. Angels seek to ensure humanity walks the right path there, but with human's own desires and intent honored, for better or worse.

To answer your question: yes. A mimic of Mario can pull you into the game and you can jump with him and eat shitty low poly spaghetti with him.

The process for doing that is just convoluted and complicated, and you need to get to know each other a bit first. If he tries to use it as an attack though, it either won't work, or it might just wind up giving you mild brain damage.

#Victor #Merch Mimic #worldbuilding #Character Design #Fantasy race design

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 1 day

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@the-hydroxian-artblog's Kaita is my favorite "character created by some random person on the internet" ever and I want everybody to appreciate this dumbass super strong robot dog woman.

#Other Folk's Art #Kaita #Gift Art #YEAH BABY!! Always love how you draw her!!#moaccyrk

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 2 days

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slice of the wind (and unrelated things)

#Sonic the Hedgehog #sth #anthro #furry #kemono #Commissions #HC #Other Folk's Characters #sona #can you guess #not my birthday for the record; for a pal

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 3 days

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#Rouge the Bat #sth #sonic the hedgehog #Rouge AU

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 3 days

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Ink-Sketches for $20- $25 per-character, PWYW!

8 poses will be done on-stream!

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Icons done off-stream for 50 bucks!

Message me refs NOW! If preferred, feel free to contact me via joining my Discord server and sending me a DM!

The stream itself is usually on Friday, but this one will be on Saturday this time around. I usually post the announcement and open slots at this time though, so here we are. Cya then!

More examples below the cut:

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 4 days

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#Knuckles the Echidna #Miles Tails Prower #sth #sonic the hedgehog #who is a car

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 5 days

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Based Habits (and unrelated things)

#Cream the Rabbit #Zachary #Other Folk's Characters #anthro #furry #kemono #sth #sonic the hedgehog #Commissions

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 5 days

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Hydro I love love love ur arts! And I was wondering, For your plastic pals do you draw them from memory or is there a little toy next to you that you use for reference on how the joints work and such?

Thank you! From memory at this point, though when I was starting out with designing them, I did look up refs and such on google. It helps! I actually only have about two action figures (ignoring a mega man amiibo and a weird bendy knuckles figure) so it's kinda funny I have a whole roster of ocs like that when I don't actually have a lot of em myself. I sometimes glance at them for reference, but their joints aren't quite what most of my merch mimics have.

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 5 days

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Do you have like canonical voice claims for Az and Zachary?

Zachary I can hear as Dio, obvs. But for Az I'm torn between a masculine Pinkie Pie and Duke Nukem

Unfortunately. You're basically on the money. There are other equally valid interpretations but that's basically it, yeah. Zachary as a more... casual Dio fits him very well, while Az is able to switch between those two voices very effortlessly, which is funny because he usually keeps his Cute Face while speaking with either. He usually sounds... somewhat masculine and soft.

Oh! For once my daydreaming of ocs in AMVs pays off: I always associated him with both dancing and singing to the song Canned Heat by Jamiroquai, so I think that gives you a good idea of his range.

Now to totally mislead you, here's him sounding like Danny Elfman