I feel I ought to send an ask in turn: what is your favourite random fact you know?
One of my absolute favorites is that trees can communicate with each other through mycelia, those fungal roots! They can transfer water and nutrients to a tree that might be struggling from their own supply to ensure the health of their neighbors, which are usually their children!
That and albinism in plant life is incredibly rare, but possible! Albinistic plants usually die quickly because they don't have any chlorophyll, meaning they can't photosynthesize, but they can survive by parasitizing another nearby plant's roots! They still almost never survive beyond a few weeks, but if they're next to a much larger and well established plant, they have a chance of growing to maturity.
Oh, also, hallucinatory honey! There are plants that ward off unwanted pollinators by containing poisonous nectar, and this is usually bypassed by the desired pollinator either developing or already having a resistance to that poison. Some species of honey bees have this kind of relationship with the rhododendron. What people don't realize, though, is that the honey made from that nectar is still poisonous and virtually indistinguishable from regular honey! There have been times during wars where this poisonous honeycomb was left out conspicuously for enemy soldiers to find and eat, only to leave them tripping balls and entirely incapacitated.
Thanks for asking! :D
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Okay I just thought of a weird fantasy race that I need to share to the world!
Warrior flower people.
Just think about it.
You spy a cute little Pansy girl sitting on a small bench back towards you, presumably photosynthesising. So you walk up to her to say hi but as you do she gets up to face you and you quickly scan her.Her outfit consisted of what seems to be hardened leafs all around her body making a sort of protective armour,odd sure since you didn’t see any threats lately but this world is dangerous so you shrug it off. As you do the pansy girl brings 2 sharpened stems (Which resembled arms) up to your throat and with a quick movement slashes through the remains of your throat. Making you her new fertiliser.
Oooo and plants do canonically (<- I forgot the word) fight for sunlight in real life so plant wars would be viable.
Ooooo and you could get stronger in the plant war by killing more animals/plants and using them for their nutrients therefore making the plants grow increasingly more blood thirsty.
Omg I need to use my horrible literacy talent to write this immediately!!!!
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Hee Hoo, I love drawing plants.
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Plants are so cool. Like-
Oh, I need a defense mechanism, let’s be ✨spicy✨
Or
I need a defense mechanism, let me have a deadly poison that can kill an adult human with 10 berries!
It’s so cool
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how about that uhhhhh Fantasy Julie. she gets her sword <3 no one can take it from her <3
rambles:
SIKE you get an extra, lower quality doodle
SIKE AGAIN here's the rambles
yeah... i caved and gave her a tail... I'm Not Sorry! it's cute! i wanted to stick with her sorta flower motif - it's stronger in her princess look, since I imagine that when she was part of the royals she was very blatantly flower power based. it was her Thing!
but a Julie free of her noble shackles... she deserves her big sword. like yeah, she has flower magic, but who needs it when she has a Giant Blade??? on the royalty vein, and if we're classifying "rainbow monster" as a species, i feel like horn size/curve would be a status symbol of some kind. maybe Julie would have kept her horns filed short. but if she ran away from that life... longer horns! i like to imagine that they'll keep growing until she has a pair of Extra Weapons attached to her head! curved forward like mammoth tusks maybe!
i imagine that like Frank, she goes with minimal armor - range of movement over protection, yk? some scale mail over her front, a thick leather flower over her chest w/ scalloped leather pauldrons, wrist armor and metal knuckles! i'd think that the faux-suspenders include a back sheath for her sword... i wish i'd thought of that Before i finished the little ref! i don't feel like going back and editing!
i imagine that she was forced to cut her hair when it got caught in something (a gelatinous cube, mayhaps). it didn't look good! don't let anime and Mulan fool you! cutting your own hair with a blade will not look nice! but someone - Eddie, probably, he's good with scissors i'd assume - cleaned it up for her. and hey, it didn't look bad! plus, Julie probably liked being able to just tuck up her long strands into her hat when she's feeling a bit more like a Julius than a Julie!
it's been a fun challenge transforming their canon outfits into a similar variation with fantasy flavoring and twists! i want them to suit the setting but still maintain Themselves! Julie's was tough i gotta admit. i was messing around with the princess look and the fighter look side-by-side. it worked better when i sat back and thought "fighter Julie is Julie unrestrained. that version would be more aligned with her canon look"
i wanted her princess form to look Restrained! she has to be a ~delicate flower~, a noble woman, pristine and poised and very much a princess. soft colors, poofy clothing, bright white gloves that are not to be sullied. carefully bundled up hair! jewelry! that dress must be Heavy and hard to move in! her tail must be so cramped under there!
but Julie Unleashed? violent pinks! rose gold accents! short skirt so that she can sprint and Kick! fun boots that she can be active in and delight in watching them get dirty! her hair is free to whip in the wind and get caught in things! fun straps and Deadly Accessories! a sword that she stole from the royal armory on her way out the window! she has forearm wraps both to match Frank and to support her wrists!
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