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An art set based on the Solution Epsilon scene from Overloard feature my character Zaida, and
Votakot's character Lacrice:: https://www.deviantart.com/votakwot
This set didn't come out as I would of liked, but it's completed so it'll do. I like how Zaida came out in it.
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Posted by doomed 3 years ago Report
It must suck becoming apart of her ,…. But are they still conscious or do their minds just get absorbed too . Leaving nothing left of them at all ?
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
In this case there'd be nothing left of Lacrice. Just absorbed into becoming a meal for Zaida. Maybe if her will was strong enough she could reconstitute herself, but it'd depend on how much times passes and if she doesn't lose herself.
Posted by doomed 3 years ago Report
Ah so it’s like dropping dye into water . If it’s strong enough it will change the water color and survive . But if it’s not, the dige just fades away into nothing . No wonder people don’t wanna be absorbed lmao that’s a cruel fate XD
Thanks for explaining
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
Np. I imagine there's a lot of reasons to not want to be absorbed lol.
Posted by LemonBarb 3 years ago Report
All due respect, if her 'conciousness' where still... There, post absorption. It could objectively be more cruel/malicious if say, the predator (Zaida) kept Lacrice 'awake/alive' in her at times, if only for malicious pleasure, or 'finer control' over her own gelatine form. and if that's the case...
Imagine if she sometimes does the same, for every past meal/soul she's dissolved within her gel, like some horrific "Cell grade" power up montage?
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
Thinking on it, she might be able to pull off something of a Cell thing, tho temporary. Once she'd run out of the specific mass that gave her said power up, she'd lose it.
Posted by LemonBarb 3 years ago Report
In that lens, in the lens of ego. I'd assume at 'best', any 'conciousness/ego' of her's has been broken down/assimilated to such the tee/DNA, that Zaida has 'all' of her experience, knowledge etc...
Which if you go by 'everyday life', probably blurred/meshed, with every other meal she's dissolved for her, assets. Or hey, likely 'stronger gestalt/will' by virtue of having broken down/fused the 'egos' of her previous prey, to have her own identity/self be stronger.
Still. Can't help if Zaida kept a 'thought', or ego entrapped inside her core, slime-mind in some predatory nostalgia... Or possession/obsession? It'd be more likely at a stretch, "cosplaying" a part of them, in changing her 'looks' more than anything. Or a "Pet" to forget/discard once bored...
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
Hmm. Well Idk about all that happening with Zaida. This is me going by a lore standpoint, but the way you are describing how the absorption process goes it actually a lot closer to how Genesis(her "sister) goes about things. The consciousness of previous prey absorbed by her having the echoes of their personalities/memories inside her. However in Genesis's case it's less of a thing she controls. Usually, due to her own mental weakness, she only gets small bits of memory/personality and abilities from her prey. And often times it is temporary unless it's someone who she knew and was close to over a good period of time. In which case she can recall them and use some manner of their ability. Although the only case this has happened was with another character by the name of Anu-ai. And it was more of a mimicry thing. Even the last bits of how one might keep their egos trapped inside is something much closer to what Genesis does to Zaida later on in the story. In Zaida's case, despite what she does, I wouldn't find her to be as cruel as to keep someone's mind trapped in her. Her way of doing things is kept simple and seemingly as natural as a predator eating prey in the wild would be. Could she do it? Maybe. But it's not something she'd do without reason. Genesis on the other hand, again as I'll say, is pretty how you described everything here to a Tee. Zaida has quite good control over her body and is quite stable, minus her over excessive use of her own mass/regenerative abilities. And I suppose to some degree actually lacking some of the flexibility other slime characters would have due to her more solid nature. Genesis being as unstable as she is would use others to keep herself stable despite it actually making it worse for herself due to not being able to handle things.
Posted by LemonBarb 3 years ago Report
Wow. That's quite a lot of surprise lore behind all that. Not just in general ability/response, but general specialties and such.
If going slightly astray, in some thought on Genesis's own personal weakness. This is probably before no doubt, I might guess she could end up with angst, be stuck with the horroro on if someone she's grown fond of being 'one' with her, is gradually (digesting) 'fading' away over say, 'aeons'. Until what's left of their ego, is more her 'memory/feelings' for them, if at that. With odds of even that, possibly fragmenting...
Damn. Now I can't help on how your 'take' on "The Caretaker's Everywhere, at the End of Time" could go like. Long term absorption ~/~ becoming nothing more, than a biological 'part' of your slime preds, even 'if' there were absorbed/'preserved', somehow.
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
There is a lot of lore to my characters, but I've just been too lazy to write them down. I try to keep it in mind when I do commissions, but try to find that balance as to not have things that aren't canon to lore affect what I want to see in comms. Still it's good to have in regards to how a character works in content.
Genesis has quite a few weaknesses with her mind's fragility being one of them. She was never a whole person from the get go, but pieces leftover from Zaida's creation. That only grew further sentience upon assimilating her first host and gaining some of her will as well as a human body. While her first host's will/desires has affected her the strongest those she's assimilated after have still had the echoes of their wants/desires and so forth remain with her slime mass. As such to some degree she is left tortured by it. I imagine that if she did grow enough fondness for someone and assimilated them that the idea of them slowly disappearing from her memory would push her over the edge she's been tiptoeing on. Not that I want to go too far into how her lore or story plays out.
Glad it helps flow ideas.
Posted by LemonBarb 3 years ago Report
No problem. If anything, very light/loose ball glance over your gallery. Might, at a vague point give me some possible 'fanfic' idea on your characters. If not for existing backlog and such.
That said. Maybe, once I'm done, and the idea lingers. I'd send a PM then. ;)
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
Well ty for the consideration regardless.
Posted by ChaoskampfNunc 3 years ago Report
Honestly there's not a lot of good, goeey absorption like this, I quite enjoyed it!
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
Ty and glad you think so!
Posted by LemonBarb 3 years ago Report
By and large. Don't go comment hunting normally...
But in general/TLDR, I love your slime predators.
Posted by xblurp 3 years ago Report
Ty