Object biology! (With Blizz)

Now they may look like regular noodle limbs, but let me drop some truth on you!

Fig 1: Behold! A featherless biped!

Think I’m joking? Well look below the cut if you dare!

I have deleted it and have blocked both after finding out that Julie is 15 after asking how old Julie was compared to me, given what my DNI is it should be obvious

Although it is still my fault as I had assumed Julie to be at least 16 after prior interaction where I had previously thought Julie was 18, when I checked their TikTok and their age said was ‘teenage’ so yeahhh, granted I’m probably being vague but that is the general gist.

(WARNING: Anatomical illustration below cut)

This post was inspired off my friend @objectworldbuildinglol ‘s post about object stacking, you can find it here!

Arm fluttering, we know it so much.

Fig 1: Book 👀👀

Arm fluttering, as described by the BFDIA wiki, is used for “emphasis or to express extreme excitement, panic and/or anger.” Though I’d believe the behaviour originally was for emphasis and quickly evolved into expression of those three emotions, as well these emotions are all about emphasising something.

You’d want to emphasise your extreme positivity or feeling of danger or annoyance to communicate with your community. But, these emotions build up tension in the body and you’d want to exercise that out, so waving your arms erratically would relax you. That’s two ways of going about it!

Much like stacking, this behaviour is complex and is NOT what Pillow says. Look, as much as I love her character, she is not a reliable narrator and that is very clear in the episode (BFB 1: Getting Teardrop to Talk)) as it goes against what Teadrop is trying to communicate.

It’s strange however that all this confusion over Teardrop fluttering her arms happens at all. This behaviour is universal across objects, it has to be a natural behaviour, and we’ve seen objects communicate by arm fluttering and they’ve never had confusion over that.

I’m getting side tracked and I feel like this post will delve into a topic I’m uncomfortable talking about and also am not equipped to talk about it properly.

I’m a little mad but I need to drive interaction:

Send me more asks in ask box. Ask me an object to concentrate over, or some arbitrary trait objects or non-objects have, ALMOST anything I will answer.

Remember to read my bio before doing so if you’re new here, very important.

Okay so uh TPOT 23 introduced to negative numbers as a real thing, but they’re not regular functioning algebraliens. They’re just a ‘zombified’ version of those original algebraliens, this process I will call ‘negation’. Totally not stealing off the wiki.

Negation appears to be an infection that comes from yoylelite but why? We’ve seen algebraliens absorb power from the yoylelite and not be affected. So why does it affect them now?

Well I believe it is down to yoylelite toxicity, not caused by particles from the actual rock but the power itself. It could be that too much power absorbed from the rocks themselves overload an algebralien’s systems and zombifies them in a way.

But why doesn’t One get infected? We’ve seen her absorb a lot of that power, from algebraliens mind you, and she hasn’t been negated. Maybe algebraliens have a varying tolerance to it, perhaps some are more naturally able to process it and handle it in greater quantities.

Besides that it’s probable that yoylelite toxicity only affects integers, y’know the numbers. But we’ve only seen it affect numbers, we don’t know what kind of affect it’d have on other species of Algebralien like exponents. We don’t even know if non-algebraliens can suffer from the same thing.

But what I can gleam is that too much power from yoylelite leads to a burden on the nervous system that ends up with a zombie like state on affected numbers. And this power overload will also affect other numbers if hit by a zap from a negated individual.

Now I say “algebraliens”, but we’re only going to focus on the Integers. You know your Four and your One and your Two and the red one/j

They’re really the only group we see demonstrate this ability. Why is this the case? Idk numbers.

What is fusion?

Before I explain, I gotta do a refresh.

Integers can fuse with each other by using mathematical symbols. This can be done by these inanimate mathematical symbols just lying on the ground on their home plant or using any entity that remotely resembles them. Look if X is considered a variable (just the algebraic X) but can be used as a stand-in for ‘times’, I’m gonna include that.

Fusing can be done with a plus or a times symbol, although you can just rotate a plus or a times into either by perspective or presumably by just turning them.

Fig 1: Six and Nine finding out perspective

The symbol will either glow or there will be a bright light.

Either way, the result is a fused Algebralien that takes on both colours of the integers and mushes them into a gradient. This is standard for all fusions, although how the fusion acts is quite varied.

A fusion can be:

A) Controlled by both Integers

Fig 2: Fifteen, controlled by Nine and Six (1.5 mill sub special))

B) Be controlled by only one Integer

Fig 3: Fuckface Fourteen, controlled by just Seven (2 mill sub special)

We’ll get into why that’s the case by the end of the…

How?

There is a lab technique called ‘Parabiosis’, which involves the artificial stitching together of organic tissues. But, did you know it’s also seen in nature? One example is performed by deep-sea anglerfish, which have extreme sexual dimorphism. The male is really small, much smaller than the female, and fuses with the female as part of their reproduction, where much of their internal systems interlink.

This process can take weeks but for algebraliens, their fusing takes a few seconds. Just to clarify, algebraliens do not have sexual dimorphism as they do not have any gender, even if referred at times with feminine or masculine pronouns. Also they’re not anglerfish.

But the idea of parabiosis remains the same and is what I believe is happening. But let’s get more in depth!

When two Integers are going to fuse, they are quickly ripped apart, painlessly, into their basic components. Their shredded organic tissues quickly try to reform together, fusing and regenerating cells until they regenerate a new individual. The fusion.

There’s also some other subconscious control where the integer that’s always first in an equation colouring the top of the fusion, and the second number colouring the bottom.

Upon completion, you have an entirely new fusion with presumably all the insides perfectly fused together. Well, I say perfectly, but the mind aspect isn’t always perfect. Fifteen, for example, is controlled by its parts, Nine and Six.

Normally, it can be presumed the Integer at the start of the equation takes control of the fusion (e.g. Fourteen). But maybe fusing isn’t always flawless?

Who knows, anyways I wanna end this quickly.

But what about the Donut?

Oh! Yeah Donut.

So Donut’s an object, but he looked similar enough to a zero for the equation to work. It’s just that Four and Zero didn’t exactly fuse? Not in the typical way, I mean Donut was relatively the same besides getting Four’s powers. Maybe it could just be a Zero thing.

Idk but like

Maybe fusions with an actual Zero wouldn’t go like that? And it’s just Donut’s an object, so things go differently. It could just be that the biomass of Four kinda just dissolved into Donut’s spongy object.

Okay first off, algebraliens (or at least their ancestors) engaged in predator-prey dynamics. It’s probably the most likely explanation as there doesn’t to be much else wildlife around besides plants.

And before you say, “What about the cat or the fourse?”

Well…

Subscriber specials are considered non-canon

Why would two Terran genera be native to an alien homeworld? And yes the fourse is native to Earth because it’s in the Equus genus, and I don’t see no space horses.

Why does the fourse exist then? That’s not important to today’s discussion.

We’re talking about algebraliens and specifically my headcanons on Zeroes and their ecology.

The first headcanon

The ancestors of Zeroes were troglobites, meaning they are a species limited in range only to caves. They lived their entire life in caves as these pale, smooth creatures. Their rounded bodies allowed them to slip more easily through their environment, but they stuck to large cave chambers.

Following a mass extinction on the surface, their ancestors would slowly move back to the surface. Their pale skin would evolve to house more melanin to protect against the sun, eventually turning grey. They never really evolved eyes again but their hearing and smell were enough to get them by in the world.

That’s why my idea of a Zero design is to give them no eyes. Also because I like giving integers a certain number of eyes, corresponding to their number e.g One would have one eye, Two would have two eyes, etc etc

The second headcanon

Zeroes are the primary consumers of the world or at least the secondary consumers. Cuz ya see, their numbers being so much higher than other algebraliens kinda tracks with species closer to a food chain’s bottom having large populations.

This all has to do with how energy passed along a food chain/web will decrease with each level, as energy is lost. Primary/secondary consumers tend to be more numerous than tertiary consumers and then so on, till reaching the apex predators.

The third headcanon

Zeroes are largely herbivorous, although still retain some carnivorous habits due to their ancestors. Usually they will have their fill of meat during large swarms of invertebrates, but will occasionally feed on carrion or gang up on a weakened Algebralien.

Even if they do eat plants most of the time, Zeroes aren’t without their defences. Their sharp teeth, used for shearing grasses or maybe shredding fruits, can give cruel bites. They also got claws on their hands, held over from their ancestors that used them to scale up rough terrain.

They will swarm you if you’re alone and if they think they can bring you and then you’ll become the hunted!

The fourth headcanon

I headcanon One and her entire species to have long necks. Cuz like come on. I wouldn’t say a single eye would be good for seeing the best, but they compensate for it with a big eye like a giant squid.

Ones and Zeroes engage in a sort of symbiosis. The One will act like a surveillance tower and then alerts the Zeroes crowding around them. The Zeroes will then go on the defence.

Zeroes get an early warning system and ones get protection.

No object is treated equally with size. I’d say that’s a pretty apt statement. Objects in their ‘standard’ size already vary in height significantly, I mean just look at Golfball and Tennis Ball. Yeah.

Fig 1: Joyous balls

But what is the size limit to that? Well it’s hard to really say, for the most extreme in size can extend to cosmic levels of scalingy. Take for example, Black Hole.

And yeah this a blog about BH’s anatomy, I’m railroading things now because this has always been the case.

Anyways, let’s learn about Black Hole?

How big the black hole?

According to its biography on BFDI’s Official Character Guide, he is 20 solar masses. That gives him a Schwarzschild Radius of 59.08 km (36.71 miles). That’s ~1,397 blue whales if they were at their max length of 30.5 m. That’s a lot of whales.

Keep in mind this is Black Hole BEFORE he’s crushed down to an “infinitely smaller size” by Four.

Why did BH’s species get so big?

Assuming its ancestors had evolved to live in space (or were early offshoots of ancestors to all objects*), they simply evolved to get so big to avoid predation. And when your environment is literal space, there isn’t much limit on how much you can grow…besides the square cube law but ehhh.

As they gotten bigger the instability of their structure grew stronger. It would eventually reach a point where their bodies would collapse into a black hole itself due to all that mass. A cheap trick to avoid such a dead end was by abusing their organspace to heck and back, fitting in all systems in there.

Which gives a perfect segue to…

The inside of Black Hole

Fig 2: Yeah

Basically all of Black Hole externally is just that, a Black Hole. But at its centre is his singularity, the ‘core’ of his being. There it basically is the storage of all those organic systems tucked into organspace. That’s how he can talk and see and hear, although probably not well since his species is hard of hearing.

It actually does make sense as sound is hard to even hear, if at all, in space due to a lack of a medium, such as air, for sound to travel through. Black Hole’s ear would be heavily reduced and only is developed enough to hear other words being said.

His digestive system is probably hypotrophied in comparison to make up all that matter Black Holes love to consume. All to break down and yep yummy!

If I remember correctly, you've covered how you think Puffball, Lightning, and Cloudy fly, but how do you think they move?

They don't have visible wings. The only person with limbs is Lightning, but it's unlikely that he uses them to move. All three can fly upwards with no problem during a somewhat windy day in TPOT 1.

Thank you for answering my ask! :)

No problem!

So Lightning is the easiest one to explain. Because of his constant electrical charge, he can use it to induce a magnetic field around himself to counteract the pull of gravity. Now I explained that’s how he can suspend himself in the air, but there’s no other need for an additional mechanism. All he’s gotta do is move in one direction by manipulating his magnetic field to push or pull him.

As for Puffball and Cloudy, the best I can come up with right now is by using holes in their own surface and then forcing out air like a jet, thus creating a pushing force. These holes have to be all around the body.

Being a biologist studying these guys must be like heck for them, eternal torture for choosing to study living mathematics.

Because there are only a handful of algebraliens who are outside of their home world and they’re only capable of going outside because they absorbed the power from a space rock. Meaning these individuals have a biology that’s not like a regular algebralien’s, so they are stuck on their home planet and no one else knows about where their native planet could be. And it’s probably already light years away!

Buuuuut…

…let’s talk about a trait I believe is left relatively unaltered between those with and without power.

This!

Fig 1: Cross-section of Four’s ‘numeric membrane’, as it appears in BFB 16

Four’s numeric membrane, a term coined by…Coiny from BFB 17 if I believe the wiki, appears to be one membrane that envelops this fluid with a bunch of multi-coloured rings in it. What those rings are? Maybe vessels! But I wanna talk about the other things.

To me, the fact the numeric membrane is structured this way is because it acts as a pseudo-exoskeleton in a way, going with a headcanon that algebraliens don’t have bones (but they do have a skeleton, just not one you and I have).

The fluid inside the membrane is the important part. I feel like this fluid is typically hardened and ‘frozen’ to act as extra support for muscles in tandem with a rubbery skeleton. When external pressure is applied to the ‘skin’, however, the fluid softens and becomes more liquid, having the membrane squish around the external force to reduce impact.

The fluid also becomes more liquid when an Algebralien tries to move its body.

What it is that much of the eye is covered in a thin layer of muscle and skin, though only an oval shaped portion of the pupil is left visible due to a hole in this layer.

An object can pull back this layer to reveal the full extent of their frankly large eyes, like a camera lens opening up. This is mainly used for expression, showcasing to others eye health and protecting the eyes. Of course the caveat is more poorer vision with highly covered eyes, even if a lot of light can get through the thin layer.

let’s explain Lightning’s weird lightning powrds

first thing is that lightning is not actual lightning, just hang onto me for this. Lightning is composed of two layers:

The electric layer

The rubbery layer

The electric layer is where all the electricity stuff happens, it’s all made of electrocytes pigmented yellow for warning displays I guess. These electrocytes are a little more violent than their real word counterpart because they’re so many of them! Anyways yeah you get a nasty shock if you touch this area.

The rubber layer is the protective coating to all of Lightning’s internal stuff, and also is a protective ring around the eyes, where the limbs connect and also a protective coating around the mouth and gums. It’s so that lightning doesn’t end up burning his CNS to char, cuz woo boy that’s a lot of volts. I’m assuming so because I’m not looking at the wiki right now, because my head hurts.

So what about the lightning he makes? The lightning strikes.

uh

watch this

Throughout Lightning’s body is a series of thin tubes made of Silica, all connected to this ring that most CO2 diffuses into from blood vessels, still some CO2 is breathed out but is very little. The CO2, now a gas, is left standing in these tubes and this serves as a medium for light, produced by a highly powerful version of luciferin and luciferase. This bright light produced is focused through the silica, the silica acting as a lens.

Basically lightning just made lasers and these lasers leave the tubes and escape into the surrounding air, ionising particles. These straight lines of ionised particles act as channels for electricity, discharged from nearby electrocytes, to travel along and thus produce a lightning strike. Much of this idea (the whole laser to lightning part) I got from a reddit comment about firing biological lightning.

All of this is happening in milliseconds mind you, probably faster.

Also some food for thought:

Lightning’s species, or most likely ancestors or ancient species of lightning, probably hunted mainly objects composed of conductive metals. Since their prey had a shell of conductive metal, they were basically wearing armour that would fry their CNS to bits. Maybe they were easy prey because of that.

Also that thing cheesy did in s4e5 lol

Compared to the rest of their bodies, an object’s face is softer, much more flexible and has a musculature alike to a human’s, so very complex. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to express the way they do, now would they?

This point is useful for an object’s nostrils. An object’s nostrils, in my eyes, would have to be like finely thin slits, so fine they don’t look present when you look at their faces. When air is taken in through the nasal region, the nostrils open into a circular shape.

How their nostrils are always staying closed if they’re not breathing through their mouths is a…post for after this one. I’ve got a bit of talk on just BFDI about objects and their ability to survive in space without breathing though needing to breathe while underwater.

…

Soooo….

But they don’t have pinnae! Pinnae are the external structure of the ear, basically just look at the side of your head or most mammals and you will certainly find them.

So what would their glasses look like? Well, they’d probably look the same with two differences- perhaps made of a bendier material to fit around objects with convex or bumpier face, and the lack of temples. Temples are the name of those extended bits of the glasses that fit onto your ears.

Here’s a couple of ideas:

Fig 1: Different types of glasses for objects

The most common design is the use of those suction cup things, which cause the glasses to suction to the face. They work best on smooth surfaces though.

More material-specific glasses include the use of Velcro for fabric and magnets for magnetic metals.

Yeah I don’t have much else to say but these are only a few examples and there’s a wide variety out there, even in shape and stuff.