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Visual Art / Re: Mr E Creativity
« on: October 01, 2022, 10:23:10 PM »
@RainbowFaceProtege
I'm glad you like it! I considered making fruit bats an SCP. Since you're interested in more of the concept, I'll elaborate for anyone curious (you don't have to read the whole thing. It's only for the sake of interest).
Fruit bats are known for their effervescent friendliness, intelligence and innocence ... but that does not mean they are harmless. Friendship with a fruit bat can be tricky. You just have to be mindful of their abilities. They slowly drain nutrients, primarily sugar and water, from any object they touch (sans other fruit bats), even if they'd rather not. That includes the human body. It takes hours of constant contact for you to notice the effects. After that, you may find yourself tired and craving sweet food, especially fruit. It can be very good for a diabetic, or someone trying to watch their weight, but bad for someone with low blood sugar. Sometimes, fruit bats learn about this the hard way, as they can get carried away with cuddling. It's dangerous to fall asleep while cradling a fruit bat. You might have a hard time waking up, assuming you wake up at all. This can be mitigated by often giving the fruit bat something sweet and hydrated to hold onto, as they will drain the sweetest thing they are touching before you have to worry about blood sugar. It's possible to accessorise them in this manner, as they can temporarily graft parts of other plants to their bodies. For instance, you can attach a pair of cherries to a fruit bat's head, adding visual appeal while giving it a slow burn snack.
Though personalities vary, they are naturally empathetic and peaceful. It takes a lot to make a fruit bat angry, but if they or someone they care about is threatened and there is no other option, they will reveal their more horrifying abilities. They can drain blood sugar and water much more rapidly on command, leaving an opponent faint if not unconscious, while adding to their telekinetic juice. Perhaps their scariest power is the 'Citric Screech'. Any orange juice (or citric juice) in range of the screech will drastically increase acidity for as long as the screech lasts ... even if it's in your stomach. The louder the screech, the greater the acid's effect. Imagine an enraged fruit bat splashing juice everywhere with an explosive flap, then screaming, louder and louder, slowly ramping up the burning effect until its enemies flee or stick around too long and suffer the consequences.
Fruit bats' voices are key to their juice control, thanks to specialised, secondary vocal organs channeled through their flaps. They shape their wings with 'The Song of Flight', involving mechanical resonance phenomena such as acoustic tractor beams far more advanced than anything modern science can accomplish. Wings are just one of the shapes they can form. The Rainbowfaces from War Before Time also use mechanical resonance and other obscure, acoustic sciences, but in a less specific way.
Edit: I'm considering the possibility that they use acoustic levitation to stay in the air, and their wings aren't the main source of lift, but rather for direction and balance. If you watch a fruit bat hover on the spot, you might notice they don't really flap as much as they should, as though hanging on the wind like a soaring eagle ... except there is no wind. The flaps they make are more to maintain position than fight gravity. Their flight seems to resemble energetic swimming more than flight, as they don't need to fight gravity. The heavy tail hangs to add more balance when they hover around. Otherwise, they could more easily spiral as though in zero gravity. When moving at high speeds, their tails unwind and flatten to help them pump through the air in a motion similar to a swimming wale. It is unknown how they manipulate the behaviour of juice for sturdy structures and increased acidity. As Nikola Tesla put it, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” The fruit bats are way ahead of us in that regard, and they don't even know how they're doing it. It just comes naturally.
If their juice powers are a headache to modern science, their semi-immortality is an aneurism. When damaged beyond their threshold, they will respawn from the closest orange within a multi-mile radius. That orange will become their body, uncurling into the fruit bat. Seedless oranges do not apply, and the range of this ability is unknown. Of course, randomly respawning from an orange can be inconvenient or even awkward. There's no telling where they'll end up, or how easily they'll find their way home. Some fruit bats can choose their target orange, and respawn at will if not taken off guard. This skill is used similarly to teleportation. It can be difficult to tell which orange they have respawned from unless they reveal themselves. When seamlessly curled in their tails (which is how they like to sleep or hide), they resemble normal oranges.
The Blight is one of the only things that can threaten fruit blats. This intelligent fungus has ravaged their world, infecting plant creatures and turning them into super spreader monsters, or unwitting carriers. Of all the fruit bat breeds, it hates oranges the most, as their juice and Citric Screech are its kryptonite. Throughout various points in time, floranimals like fruit bats have entered the human world through portals such as Animal Flower Cave (a real-life location in Barbados, even if not a portal). Now, The Blight has followed them, but a partnership with the humans just might be what it takes to save both worlds.
I'm glad you like it! I considered making fruit bats an SCP. Since you're interested in more of the concept, I'll elaborate for anyone curious (you don't have to read the whole thing. It's only for the sake of interest).
Fruit bats are known for their effervescent friendliness, intelligence and innocence ... but that does not mean they are harmless. Friendship with a fruit bat can be tricky. You just have to be mindful of their abilities. They slowly drain nutrients, primarily sugar and water, from any object they touch (sans other fruit bats), even if they'd rather not. That includes the human body. It takes hours of constant contact for you to notice the effects. After that, you may find yourself tired and craving sweet food, especially fruit. It can be very good for a diabetic, or someone trying to watch their weight, but bad for someone with low blood sugar. Sometimes, fruit bats learn about this the hard way, as they can get carried away with cuddling. It's dangerous to fall asleep while cradling a fruit bat. You might have a hard time waking up, assuming you wake up at all. This can be mitigated by often giving the fruit bat something sweet and hydrated to hold onto, as they will drain the sweetest thing they are touching before you have to worry about blood sugar. It's possible to accessorise them in this manner, as they can temporarily graft parts of other plants to their bodies. For instance, you can attach a pair of cherries to a fruit bat's head, adding visual appeal while giving it a slow burn snack.
Though personalities vary, they are naturally empathetic and peaceful. It takes a lot to make a fruit bat angry, but if they or someone they care about is threatened and there is no other option, they will reveal their more horrifying abilities. They can drain blood sugar and water much more rapidly on command, leaving an opponent faint if not unconscious, while adding to their telekinetic juice. Perhaps their scariest power is the 'Citric Screech'. Any orange juice (or citric juice) in range of the screech will drastically increase acidity for as long as the screech lasts ... even if it's in your stomach. The louder the screech, the greater the acid's effect. Imagine an enraged fruit bat splashing juice everywhere with an explosive flap, then screaming, louder and louder, slowly ramping up the burning effect until its enemies flee or stick around too long and suffer the consequences.
Fruit bats' voices are key to their juice control, thanks to specialised, secondary vocal organs channeled through their flaps. They shape their wings with 'The Song of Flight', involving mechanical resonance phenomena such as acoustic tractor beams far more advanced than anything modern science can accomplish. Wings are just one of the shapes they can form. The Rainbowfaces from War Before Time also use mechanical resonance and other obscure, acoustic sciences, but in a less specific way.
Edit: I'm considering the possibility that they use acoustic levitation to stay in the air, and their wings aren't the main source of lift, but rather for direction and balance. If you watch a fruit bat hover on the spot, you might notice they don't really flap as much as they should, as though hanging on the wind like a soaring eagle ... except there is no wind. The flaps they make are more to maintain position than fight gravity. Their flight seems to resemble energetic swimming more than flight, as they don't need to fight gravity. The heavy tail hangs to add more balance when they hover around. Otherwise, they could more easily spiral as though in zero gravity. When moving at high speeds, their tails unwind and flatten to help them pump through the air in a motion similar to a swimming wale. It is unknown how they manipulate the behaviour of juice for sturdy structures and increased acidity. As Nikola Tesla put it, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” The fruit bats are way ahead of us in that regard, and they don't even know how they're doing it. It just comes naturally.
If their juice powers are a headache to modern science, their semi-immortality is an aneurism. When damaged beyond their threshold, they will respawn from the closest orange within a multi-mile radius. That orange will become their body, uncurling into the fruit bat. Seedless oranges do not apply, and the range of this ability is unknown. Of course, randomly respawning from an orange can be inconvenient or even awkward. There's no telling where they'll end up, or how easily they'll find their way home. Some fruit bats can choose their target orange, and respawn at will if not taken off guard. This skill is used similarly to teleportation. It can be difficult to tell which orange they have respawned from unless they reveal themselves. When seamlessly curled in their tails (which is how they like to sleep or hide), they resemble normal oranges.
The Blight is one of the only things that can threaten fruit blats. This intelligent fungus has ravaged their world, infecting plant creatures and turning them into super spreader monsters, or unwitting carriers. Of all the fruit bat breeds, it hates oranges the most, as their juice and Citric Screech are its kryptonite. Throughout various points in time, floranimals like fruit bats have entered the human world through portals such as Animal Flower Cave (a real-life location in Barbados, even if not a portal). Now, The Blight has followed them, but a partnership with the humans just might be what it takes to save both worlds.
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. Inability to stop laughing aside, my sincerest condolences. How did this happen? Who are responsible? Are they aware of their deeds? Where do they live? How do I get to them? Do they need a hug or/and someone to tell them it's gonna be okay and this doesn't have to haunt their resumes for all eternity?