oh my, i'm about to go down in fuh-laaames!

Anime North Studio Orange Panel, 2023

*Initial question that spurred the discussion of Plant lore by Studio Orange.

MusEq Meg: My question for you is something I noticed about the plant markings and the character design... and I'm wondering if you guys based that off the Chladni's plate experiments and the vibrating frequencies to communicate with the plants?

Watanabe: I need to re-look at the original source material, not the source material, the design works that we did. We had a sci-fi writer basically develop all the plants. How their development was, scientific approach, to develop that technology. Organically, plants actually started out from being excavated on Earth. It was actually mummified. They thought, they called it the "angel mummies," but it was a very fragmented mummy and... they basically from there, they excavated genetics. And we engineered them as plants. So they actually don't, humankind actually doesn't know how this technology works, but it works. So that's how they use the technology of the plants.

For the resemblance of plants and and actual (Chladni's) plates, there's actually a lot of thoughts that went into... I actually don't remember off the top of my head how that exactly was was so let me look it back and post it on Twitter or something."

Source: @museqmeg on tumblr. Source twt.

Momocon Studio Orange Panel, 2024

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There was supposedly an old interview that Nightow had discussed something similar to this, but I have only heard about it - have not found the source, yet. Source twt.

We learned nothing from Jurassic Park. Source twt.

This fits with the idea that plants are organic but also production plants. Source twt.

*I’d just like to add I had a theory there was stem cell research involved and this sounds similar to:)

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This fits with an old post from Nightow’s website blog, Electric Flier. The blog is no longer available, but the post is archived on Trigun Wiki - Plant Physiology.

"The plant can control Planck -like uncertainty and manipulate energy, materials, and dimensions, but it can also collapse and create causality, extending to the multiverse including all time axes, and even higher dimensions.. What can be called the origin of the plant is the higher dimension itself far above the multiverse, and the beginning of everything itself.."

Nightow says Independents are natural to the evolution of Plants.

Are the independent species naturally occurring?