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ohyeahben10 · 1 year

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Sometimes I go down the little rabbit hole of thinking about cross-species troubles in the Ben 10 universe. Kinecelerans struggling through off planetary treaties because they look ridiculous trying to sit in a chair made for a Human / Tetramand body plan. A Lepidopterran struggling to follow gendered customs because they have three sexes and they have no idea where their’s translates to on a m/f spectrum. Loboans first establishing relations with Thep Khufans and offering food because its a gesture of goodwill on Luna Lobo but the Thep Khufans have no idea what they’re looking at because they photosynthesize. Pyronite ambassadors finding out the second species stocked up on fire extinguishers and reminding themselves to not be hurt by that because they know it’s a reasonable precaution for a first meeting but nonetheless it’s disrespectful on Pyros to imply one can’t control their fire.

#ben 10 #kineceleran #lepidopterran #loboan #thep khufan #pyronite #headcanon

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simply02artists · 10 months

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I drew some of the aliens as kid, don’t drink the water episode, wish we saw more of the baby aliens.

Which one of the other aliens should I draw as children?

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whatudottu · 2 years

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The Classic Ben 10 series had a lot more mutants and otherwise unexplained creatures and happenings that do not directly relate to aliens, and it’s with that absence thanks to UAF retconning a lot of mutant and magic stuff (as well as not even acknowledging the blatantly weird that just seemed to be so accepted) that I generally prefer OS over most other iterations of Ben 10. It also might be why I actually enjoy what I watched of the reboot, because there’s some stuff in there that is rather unexplained and bizarre.

But I come with this post with an idea, one based in the original series and also inspired by what Kai does in Omniverse much later in the show’s continuity. What if the Ghostfreak arc of Ben 10 was not based entirely on alien monsters?

This thought mainly came from the idea that it’s generally bizarre to have not only an alien mummy - which connects in a different way than most to the ancient alien trope especially around Egypt - AND a Frankenstein’s monster construct, based on a very independent and specific story written by Mary Shelley in what’s considered to be one of - if not THE - first science fiction novel. The concept of a bipedal wolf alien is hardly odd at all, considering the logical steps that one could evolve in such a way aren’t too high for leaps and bounds, but I suppose also a ghost alien may be a little too out of reach, but the twists that are made towards ectonurites in their function and form made me think of a curious idea.

So what if, within the context of OS, that the only aliens of the Anur team were Zs’Skayr himself and the Werewolf/Yenaldooshi, for I find from both the modern idea of the werewolf and the yee naaldlooshi that the name has been derived from, that the entire concept of Ben shifting from boy to lenopan in a weird error of the watch fits the concept of man-wolves and witches turning into animals. For whatever bullshit that happened for Ghostfreak to dip out of the watch, whether it be some shred of ectonurite DNA finally regaining it’s sentience or perhaps something else, anything directly affecting Ben and the Omnitrix in this instance at least should maybe be alien fuckery, and Ben having another Omnitrix glitch out causing the DNA absorption mode to slowly come into affect (maybe from the damage it sustained) would probably lead to a new alien in the selection.

But what of the others? What of thep khufans and transylians? What do I do now with the existence of the mummy and doctor Viktor himself?

Well, we have other main characters don’t we? We can’t have everything be just about Ben, now can we?

Perhaps I’m looking too far into this, but in the debut episode of the mummy in ‘Under Wraps’, Gwen made the attempt to cast her spells from within the containment suit... failing because of the suit. But that brought up the idea that, within this arc, while Ben faces against a lenopan and ultimately gaining a new skill set, that Gwen may find her arc-based rival in the mummy as a being of ancient magic, born of the funerary practice of ancient Egypt so long ago.\

With some searching, the rituals of ancient Egyptian burial - the mummifying of the body, the grave goods to send across to the afterlife, the casting of spells - were believed to be necessary in ensuring immortality after death. Hah, if you think that’s interesting, just wait until I tell you this! It was believed that, if the bodies were mistreated after death, that the buried would rise again and look who we find walking around playing quest finder to a team of monsters.

The fucking mummy, that’s who!

Now we essentially have the ancient body of a disrespected undead, perhaps a mage themself responsible for casting spells of their own for the funerals of others, of someone who probably was only a mere serf who has found themselves back in the world of the living and come face to face with a man made of other men and women staring back with eyes in the wrong colour. Yes I am back on my Frankenstein bullshit, and yes, I’m making Viktor the modern Adam by some modern Frankenstein fanperon who accidentally found themself with another crime to humanity.

And baby, this lad is now Grandpa Max’s rival of the Ghostfreak arc.

Of course, the visual design of Viktor is very much influenced by the modern and more bumbling beast takes on Frankenstein’s monster, but he also appears - at least pre-reveal - to have taken on the interest of the academic that the original Shelley monster had. And also, maybe the uglier and disjointed Viktor looks correlates to how much the disrespected mummy wants to work with him rather than target specific assholes who shat on their grave or whatever happened (US archeologists do it like the British and fucked over another country’s historical grounds and got a mummy sent on their asses?), but regardless of that, I find it interesting that he has that dynamic between monster and man.

His debut episode, he is very much a doctor who has found his way into the graces of NASA, and that alone could very much parallel Max in the perspective of a human reaching their hand out towards the stars. But if the grand Dr Viktor is a being made of the parts of people very much passed, a created life searching for life outside of the planet and between the expanse of space itself, boy howdy the modern Prometheus has gotten futuristic and DAMN if that isn’t interesting you can fuck right off i’m joking i’m joking i just think this is very cool-

It is also in this episode, that Max and Viktor are both of their team’s ticket to get within NASA and - very much for the latter than the former - get their hands on rather limited Earth developed space tech, even if Dr Viktor and the mummy don’t have experience of otherwise. And on that note, for as much as Viktor may be reaching to discover more about the stars above, it is Max who has known and met more aliens than the constructed man learning the theories and building the tech to reach them, the two - in this context - parallels of the scientist seeking to learn and the front-liner on the field getting first hand experience of intergalactic contact.

But all this comes to ahead with whatever the fuck ectonurites and Zs’Skayr are in comparison to team monster, what is he and what fuckery are his people?

Well, Zs’Skayr is integral to Ben as the alien that never felt his own and made his skin - it’s not his it’s not HIS - crawl whenever he had become Ghostfreak. But with his multiple showings within Omniverse, his significance in association with magic began to spawn and thus, Gwen too gets involved with the schemes of Zs’Skayr, not only from just being occasionally possessed that one time. And reversing back to his reintroduction into the series in UAF as a prisoner kept under watch for crimes unknown to us, but perhaps to Mr ‘top of the board’ galactic police Max Tennyson; dealing with the reincarnated DNA of a ruler of a nation and a criminal of interplanetary degree has never been more Plumber business, but with Zs’Skayr directly impacting on the lives and mental states of his grandchildren, it just got personal.

But what the fuck is up with that? How in the world does Zs’Skayr just do that? To essentially spawn copies of himself from shreds of DNA not just from stored data like the Omnitrix, but from the scattered remains of his ash against the brick and mortar of a preppy... high school? Collage? Whatever it was it was some form of clock tower.

Well, my dear friends, ectonurites are just built like that... because of their exposure to Legerdomain.

How I see it, certain locations within the universe have thinner barriers between dimensions (as actual dimensions and not alternate timelines like Dimension 23) and the thinnest between most planes is within the Forge of Creation, worn thin by the powers of celestialsapiens rather than a naturally fragile veil between realities. On Galvan Prime, for example, there was a veil thin enough for the galvans to discover and experiment with, developing the technology responsible for traversal into the Null Void.

For Legerdomain, a few notable planets have a thinner veil between them and the magical dimension, that being Anodyne, Aldabra and now Anur Phaetos (oh look they all start with ‘a’). The presence of Legerdomain in such proximity is equivalent to UV radiation from the sun, and much like the green grass upon our own planet being the colour suited to reject the majority of Sol’s light, beings like anodites and geochelone aerio have adapted to be filled with mana to the point where they’ve become resistant to the effects of it. In fact, because the veil is thinnest across Anodyne, even breaching the two realities and serving as gateways, anodites have completely converted into energy beings built from the mana itself.

In contrast, ectonurites on Anur Phaetos have become the equivalent of orange/red/magenta grass growing on a planet with an Earth like star, adapting to diametrically oppose mana to take in all of the background mana like a sponge. And akin to UV radiation, mana in such intense is very much a radiation of life energy, and for ectonurites to welcome it with open arms with their anti-mana bodies... well.

You might find that they have more life in them for one person to enjoy...

Between being rather adept with magic should they so try to develop the skills for it and being biologically more welcoming to extraneous life force, a lot of their ghostly powers are the result of mana manipulation in quite the opposite application of anodites, and are magically capable of retaining memories and intelligence in strands of DNA instead of being purely centralised in a brain; possessing one primarily for motor manipulation rather than for sentience. And it is with this intense exposure - what is equivalent - to mana radiation, there is no one form an ectonurite is nor is formed to be.

It is an anomaly to regenerate as one was before, being that the power of regeneration from particles is a form of asexual reproduction were the high presence of mana turns the pieces that used to be you into people entirely new, a planet-wide acknowledgement that - at least to them - reincarnation is very real. It is that anomaly that is why Zs’Skayr is so intrigued by the Omnitrix, because inherent as a machine there is no shred of mana within it, regardless of how much life is stored within it’s database.

The appeal of immortality, of existing as a constantly regenerating being through the use of the Omnitrix, is what led his DNA being gathered and stored within the watch. Though rather unfortunate, the Omnitrix did not end up being simply a DNA storing device as it was planned to be, as a very particular warlord interrupted it’s path towards the Omnitrix’s final and true destination.

And that’s a compilation of what I think might be cool if OS kept with the mutants and magic addition with aliens for I guess a rewritten Ghostfreak arc, with some exploration of ectonurite biology for a bonus, perhaps in some way a series of headcanons I can drag to the more canon settings of the Ben 10 series as a whole. I mean, I certainly am proud of that exploration of anti-mana and the fucked up things it can do to a species’ development, but do tell me what you think of that and my other ideas.

I don’t know, this was ultimately rather random and I just thought I’d share it, haha!

#loboan #ben tennyson #thep khufan #gwen tennyson #transylian #viktor #max tennyson #ectonurite #zs'skayr #anur phaetos #legerdomain #there are other mentions of species planets and dimensions #but these are more integral to the point and if i elaborate- they'll be in different posts #this isn't about them- it's about team monster #ben 10 #headcanon #rambling #what would this constitute? is this au enough? do i want this to be my way of thinking?#would i even consider it to be fully an au?#hmm #ben 10 au #mutants and magic #i guess it's more than just an 'i'm ignoring your retcons uaf and ov' explanation and just straight up #turning two alien species into essentially the undead #having the mummy walk around as the body of an ancient human real fucking upset that grave robbers are still a thing 5000 years later #especially face to face with a frankensteinian being #who thanks to the heightened presence of alien activity #probably has a few of the mystical based plumbers hunting down that very fateful grave robber successful at creating life #since kai green is going out searching for a certain dr jekyll's serum- might as well be a victor frankenstein running about #or maybe- who knows- maybe the authors of such stories are the true scientists behind the plots of modern classics

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half-a-stache · 9 months

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After reading about Irene 13 in the Ben 10, I began to think of what her origin would be and how I could make her different to Ben Tennyson.

So far, I got:

Irene Thorton, a young girl living in the streets. One night, some older kids harass her in a park, before a small meteor fell from the sky and nearly hit them.

She recovered quickly and looked closer, watching what looked like a strange bug hatching out of a soft egg.

The others recover only to see the bug leaping onto her wrist and biting her.

In her attempt to get it off, she turned into a werewolf, scaring the kids away.

She, then, ran off until she changed back. She decided to experiment in private. Transforming into Nightblood (Vladat) for the first time was not a great experience. Especially when the first time was during the day.

On the way, she would help as many people as she can, no matter how ungrateful or scared of her they are.

Eventually, she would be found by some "monsters" lead by Zs'Skayr, including Doctor Viktor, who made her Omnitrix.

She would get adopted and they would live in a manor in Bellwood owned by Zs'Skayr.

She would get into all sorts of shenanigans. Going to school, help Doc Vik with his experiments, play anf prank with her new cousins, Zs'iza and Zs'oise, meet and be besties Charmcaster and have Zs'Skayr and Spellbinder be colleagues, etc.

Irene Thorton's Aliens (8/13 mostly there aren't any more in canon or Tom Perkins' art):

Zr'Tiin = Ectonurite Howlscape = Loboan Cleopatrap= Thep Khufan Frankenstorm = Transylian Nightblood = Vladat Walking Dread = Ormerowon Giller = (L'Goon's Species) Dead Weight = (Skele-Ton's Species)

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edgybluerat · 2 years

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Anur aliens. 2 thep khufans 'cos they cool. Ectonurites later.

#ben 10 #transylian #loboan #vladat #thep khufan #ormerowon #skele-ton #anur aliens

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6clawdy6 · 2 years

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Day 12: BANDAGES

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How many psis of force do you think Thep Khufans can output with those bandages? I imagine a lot...

Apocalypso/artwork© ClawdyRecordsWinroStudios

Thep Khufans/Ben 10©Man of Action

#thep khufans #thep khufan #ben 10 #apocalypso #goretober #goretober2022 #gore #eyeball #bandages

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bloodmoon24 · 1 year

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Meet Sphinx. The Thep Khufan

#my edits #ben 10 #Thep khufans #sphinx #Egypt #Sphinx the Thep Khufan

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macabreaurora · 11 months

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Time for the best mommy? Sorry, I mean mommy? Sorry, had to do the joke lol. Anyway: The Thep Khufan!

#ATU Eldritch #ben 10 fandom #ben 10 oc #ben 10 thep khufan #character design #creature design #alien design #art

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bambeptin · 2 months

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[Azmuth ∞] if you want something done right, do it yourself! Azmuth's picked up the Omnitrix in this AU after a series of... unfortunate mishaps leaves him no choice but to hunt down whoever stole his inventions

Alien I: Guypedal (Human)

Azmuth has access to the master control in addition to knowing how to use all of the Omnitrix's weird functions, but is unused to the severe gap in height and intelligence when he transforms

he swaps out aliens pretty often, actually, but human is one of the mainstays

starting aliens / most common aliens

human

chimera sui generis

to'kustar

vaxasaurian

appoplexian

galvanic mechamorph

thep khufan

celestialsapien

#ben 10 #azmuth #bamboo draws #azmuth infinity #i think i have his whole starting aliens set in stone #but also he does literally have the master control so he swaps them out as needed #i love xenofiction and azmuth takes his time to understand differences between species when he has the time to

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moxielynx · 2 months

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If it’s possible to ask for request, can you draw snare oh just awkwardly (shyly) looking at someone? (I see him as a laidback off and chill kind of guy, but is secretly shy when meeting someone new or looking at them.

And given how thep khufan’s body are very light, it will be impossible to know he is near you or behind you unless you see him.

Or basically ghostfreak being some sort of big brother figure to his anur system siblings

hope this was what u were lookin for !

here's the other one u requested :3

#i like to think ghostfreak and snare-oh annoy the shit out of each other #but as soon as someone says something slightly mean to one of them they get on the defensive about each other #“HEY! only *I* can make fun of him!”#ben 10 #ben 10 classic #ben 10 omniverse #ben 10 fanart #snare oh #ghostfreak #ben 10 ghostfreak #ben 10 feedback #ben 10 toepick #lynx submission #lynx posting

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ohyeahben10 · 2 years

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So How Exactly Does Snare-oh… Work?

As time would go on Ben 10 would introduce a lot of aliens that can… struggle to make sense biologically. Such as Echo Echo being made of living sound or Feedback being pure electricity, apparently. The Original Series is considered to have the most natural aliens, so to say.

Though Snare-oh is considered an exception to this. Since he and other Thep Khufans are, well, mummies that don’t seem to have… anything under their wrappings.

So, how does Snare-oh function biologically?

To me, it doesn’t seem like Thep Khufans are made up of paper, or a material like it. Instead, Snare-oh’s wrappings are made of skin. I see them as thin tentacles-esk body parts that connect from their head.

“Oh but they can make more and stretch out-” We regenerate skin, why couldn’t an alien species do the same thing, albeit much faster?

Something interesting I’ve noticed is that Thep Khufans don’t seem to react in pain when their wrappings are torn, but Snare-oh, for instance, reacted in pain when fighting the werewolf in his debut.

This leads me to believe their wrappings are so thin there is very little there, apart from nerve endings. However, it seems the longer they stretch, the thinner these nerve ending grow. To the point that having their skin torn up feels like just a scratch. Their nervous system is still strong near their central body, though.

“But how do they eat-” I don’t think they eat at all. I mean, don’t remember ever seeing one with a mouth. Considering they come from a desert planet, I think Thep Khufans photosynthesize. Sure, they aren’t plants, but I doubt this is the most far fetched thing in Ben 10.

#ben 10 #ben 10 omniverse #snare oh #snare-oh #thep khufans #anur khufos #the anur stystem #I donno this seemed cooler in my head #ben 10 headcanon #me

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simply02artists · 6 months

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A wip drawing of Jen Tennyson (nicknamed Jenny)

For the au shapeshifter ben, in a version where he has a little sister names jen, having the same ability as him to shape shifts into aliens because of the remaining dna in Sandra.

She was born when Ben was twelve.

The draw of her as 6 year old, and of her as teenager. Two of her forms i drew.

I wanted to draw her having some appearance of Sandra, but she has some freckles on her face, and has lighter brown hair, and green eyes.

Shapeshifter ben au belong to @sweetpeaches666

Shapeshifter ben sister au, Jenny Tennyson belongs to me

Ben 10 belongs to man of action.

#ben 10 #ben tennyson #ben 10 au #shape shifting ben #ben 10 jen #ben 10 Jenny #sister au #thep khufan #pyronite

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sweetpeaches666 · 9 months

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Can we do some sort of mini roleplay of how shapeshifter ben met aziza?

(Note: ben met aziza when he was being babysat by kuphulu and coujio, of course he ran away from them when he was playing hide and seek with them, he ran into her small library, hiding there.

Also another note: both kuphulu and coujio nearly got their asses beaten up by zs’skayr, and the mummy, for losing ben again)

Oh, my God, yes! Ben was mischievous and hiding from Kuphulu and Crüjo again, but this time, he ran into a small library in his Thep Khufan form. Ben meets Aziza and her being sweet to him. The fact she doesn't know who he is but still treats him like a child, helps her get on his good side.

The other Anur System residents are either scared of him because of his unlimited powers or because of who he is related to. When Aziza does find out who he is, it doesn't change her outlook on Ben, still sees and treats him as a child. Which is why Aziza ends up becoming Ben's new babysitter.

And yes. Kuphulu and Crüjo nearly their asses beaten by Zs'Skayr and the Mummy for losing their son again. It's only when Ben arrives with Aziza. The Mummy quickly scoops Ben up in his arms, hugging him tightly, and Ben is a little embarrassed by it.

#ben 10 #ben 10 original series #ben 10 au #shape shifting ben #ben 10 oc #ben tennyson #kuphulu #crujo #zs'skayr #ben 10 the mummy #ben 10 sed #roleplay #ask

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