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Lediblock2 [2018-12-24 06:10:22 +0000 UTC]
Every time I reread your stuff, I always find myself fascinated by the mentions of racism and stereotypes. Regarding dryads, what are some other crude jokes and bits of condescension that humans give them? (Stuff along the lines of dryads being scared of rabbits and such while humans only fear big, nasty monsters)
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EvolutionsVoid In reply to Lediblock2 [2018-12-26 13:16:15 +0000 UTC]
Dryads get some condescension from humans for their caution around fire. Due to being a plant-based species that live in forests and plant-based houses, dryads are wary around flame and often find replacements for it in their daily life. Humans often find this caution humorous and will blow it out of proportion to the point where they believe dryads will run screaming from a single lit match. It doesn't help that humanity really likes to boast how they first created and conquered fire, and the fact that dryads avoid it is proof that they are not as strong as humans.
Another thing humans often smear dryads with is the idea that they are an insidious and seductive race. Some folk compare them to sirens, ones who would seduce men and women, then use them for their own horrible purposes. This mainly comes from the fact that the majority of dryads identify as female, so they believe they will practically throw themselves at human males and try to corrupt them. Attempts to explain to these folk that dryads are hermaphrodites that just identify as females has just made things worse, as then they believe that dryads will just switch genders depending on who they are trying to seduce. On that line, humans and many other species are often confused by dryads' dress code. It may be the source of an occasional joke, but it is mainly bafflement on how some dryads will wear clothing, while others just walk around naked and no dryads ever think it is weird.
Another bit of condescension they sometimes get is the idea that dryad culture and civilization is merely mimicking humanity's. As flesh-based organisms, man often believes itself superior to plants and fungi (which is something a lot of flesh-based species think). Why on earth would a human ever take a tree or bush seriously, or ever think of them as equal? We may observe the fact that a tree may be centuries old, but do we truly respect such age? So for some, dryads are inherently inferior and the fact that their way of living mirrors some of humanity's daily life, makes people believe they are copying humans. Dryad kind could never possibly achieve such things without stealing them from the genius minds of humanity.
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Changeling1234 [2018-09-04 20:05:36 +0000 UTC]
What if an aconstrum bites a non-dryad sentient plant?
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EvolutionsVoid In reply to Changeling1234 [2018-09-04 20:54:13 +0000 UTC]
It would not turn them, as aconstrum are specific to the dryad species.
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Changeling1234 [2018-09-02 03:26:57 +0000 UTC]
What if a dryad got bitten by an aconstrum during the planggalan transformation, or vice versa?
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EvolutionsVoid In reply to Changeling1234 [2018-09-02 06:57:05 +0000 UTC]
In the rare case such a thing happened, you would wind up with a terrifying, though somewhat malformed, creature. The body shape would still be like a planggalan, though it would have the teeth and thick bark of an aconstrum. It would try to develop clawed limbs, but these would come out stunted and warped. The resulting creature would be too heavy to have the floating ability that planggalan's have, so it would have to writhe across the ground to move. It's thick bark would protect it from the sun, but it would still be vulnerable to copper.
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EvolutionsVoid In reply to Changeling1234 [2018-09-04 20:53:34 +0000 UTC]
It wouldn't work properly, it would just result in the dryad dying mid-transformation.
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Changeling1234 In reply to EvolutionsVoid [2018-09-04 21:15:37 +0000 UTC]
What if you take sap from the hybrid and inject it into a dryad? The same thing? The dryad explodes?
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EvolutionsVoid In reply to Changeling1234 [2018-09-04 21:19:45 +0000 UTC]
Pretty much. The victim would wind up ripping themselves in half as the body tries to morph into an aconstrum and the head tries to tear free into planggalan.
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EvolutionsVoid In reply to Changeling1234 [2018-09-04 22:47:17 +0000 UTC]
Still would die, as the planggalan transformation process converts the organs and separates them from the body. Aconstrum need those organs to live so the body will fight the process and wind up ripping the organs apart in the struggle.
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KingOfWarlocks [2017-04-30 19:19:25 +0000 UTC]
very interesting, and quite fear-inducing! i like how you used the fact that normal werewolves can't stand silver, but changed it to copper for the Aconstrum, and I also quite like the mouth. I also had a good chuckle at the part where she wrote that she saw wearing copper for defense as a superstition, but was currently wearing a copper leaf necklace at the moment.
By the way, are you following playthroughs of Outlast 2?
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EvolutionsVoid In reply to KingOfWarlocks [2017-05-04 01:42:37 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! The copper bit is a slight reference to silver with werewolves, but it is actually more based on the myth that you can kill a tree with copper nails! Figured combining the two was perfect for plant werewolves!
I have not seen anything from Outlast 2, or so I think.
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