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Re: PSA: spn_hardcore_bb

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

OMG I'M TAKING THAT AS A YEEEEESSSS. WOOHOO HE'S A MOTHERFUCKING DRAGON!

HEY, CAN HER SHIFT INTO A SHAPE APPROXIMATING WHAT WE CALL DRAGONS? IS THAT ALL HE HAS TO DO, OR DOES HE LIKE, NEED A LIVE SPECIMEN TO IMITATE???

AND HEY HEY HEY. HEEEEY, DOES HIS BODY COME WITH ANY FORMS OF SPECIALIZED SELF DEFENSE? THE ONLY THINGS I CAN COME UP WITH IS REVERTING BSCK INTO TENTACLE FORM AND FARTING A BUNCH OF TOXIC GAS (WHICH IS HILARIOUS).

Re: PSA: spn_hardcore_bb

[(Anonymous)]

SA

DOES MISHA HAVE REAL TEETH? DOES HE HAVE TENTACLE THAT NATURALLY PRODUCE THINGS LIKE KERATIN AND STUFF?

Re: PSA: spn_hardcore_bb

[(Anonymous)]

SA

HOW DOES HIS SHAPE-SHIFTING EVEN WORK ANYWAYS?

MAGIC ALL THE WAY OR PSUEDOSCIENCE THEN MAGIC???

Re: PSA: spn_hardcore_bb

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

*HANDWAVE*

Re: PSA: spn_hardcore_bb

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

He can turn into pretty much anything he has the mass to construct. This isn't magical shape-shifting, though, where you say "I want to be a dragon!" and you're a dragon. Anything he turns into, Misha has to study pretty extensively. It took him close to two decades to drag one human form out of the uncanny valley.

I'm actually not sure about the self-defense! If you look at very smart, self-camouflaging terrestrial tentacle monsters, they are actually pretty much balls at self-defense; they are good at hiding and running away. So I toyed with the idea of venom or something, but I think the best he could do is get his digestive juices on someone (probably totally ineffective against skin, but will fuck up your cotton shirt real bad). And I think he's stronger, pound-for-pound, than a human.

He doesn't have real teeth or hair. He can only fake their physical properties by handwave shapeshifter handwave.

Re: PSA: spn_hardcore_bb

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Ohh, I bet he took allll the human anatomy classes he could get his tentacles on. Possibly figuring drawing classes as well.

Okay, that my sudden headcanon, what classes actually catch his interest?

How good is he a multitasking? Hoe much can he multitask and how complicated are the individual tasks? (cleaning different sections of a room in two different ways versus pre-calculus while fixing your wristwatch)

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[(Anonymous)]

sa

and wait. Creatures are complicated, I get that, imitating one would take a shitload of work. But what about simple inanimate objects? Like a sphere?

And how can he change the appropriate color? Is he a natural blond?

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

FIGURE DRAWING CLASSES. Genius. I had been thinking about the anatomy study thing, but figure drawing would be even more useful, and if his focus is there it also explains why he's a bit surprised by the particulars of human genitalia when confronted with a set (and makes the wrong assumption about what to do with the wet orifice in the front; it could happen to anyone). Anyway, this brings me to....

Okay, that my sudden headcanon, what classes actually catch his interest?

With his skillz he'd make sense as an illustration or design major. His neurology naturally emphasizes different visual data than ours does; I bet his caricatures are fucking weird. Anyway, I want his major to be something not explicitly tentacle monster oriented. No marine biology, no astrophysics.

I know Jensen intends to major in business but will actually wind up in something like anthropology or classics. His character arc is about sloughing off the assumptions about himself and what his life is going to be like that are wrong, and also about wanting a tentacle monster to nail him. I think Genevieve is premed.

How good is he a multitasking?

He's always multitasking to some degree, and it's possible that his human-form eyeballs are just cosmetic and he actually sees through his skin, which means he doesn't have to per se look at something to see it and also that he's difficult as hell to sneak up behind. If a task engages both of his primary brains at once, he can't perform a second one of similar complexity simultaneously, but I don't know what the threshold is.

He can make a sphere. He probably also has some standard camouflage shapes he's put a lot of work into, like "unremarkable log".

He changes his surface color and texture via handwave. I'm not going to examine the particulars of this too deeply, because it's tempting to talk about chromatophores and shit, but essentially it is magic.

Funny you should ask about his hair color, because I've been waffling about it. Misha's had some good hair in various roles and I'm always tempted to play around with that (the Alexis Drazen hair, be still my beating libido) but I'm also reluctant to spend a lot of time on physical descriptions of the characters in fanfiction.