Ideas for how gloinks work cause I've been thinking about this for a while and want to put all this somewhere:
The gloinks seen since the pilot are like shapes with eyes attached to them but no complex form and nothing like the gloink queen. So you could imagine my confusion as to how they go from baby gloink to big gloink. I then ended up making a system I headcanoned with how their life cycle works, how their civilization functions, and what its like to be a gloink.
I based this on canon events that happen in the show as well as some biological features of animals who make colonial hierarchies, mainly insects like ants. It seems like the queen is the one who gives birth to all the gloinks as she said in episode 4, so I'm thinking she's like the queen bee.
In that case I have the chart here where I go into the basics of what life cycle gloinks go through and I'll explain it alittle further too.
The gloinks seem to all come from underground as shown in the pilot with many details hinting to them living in a cave-like environment.
I imagine that deep within them their civilization works like an ant hill or a very complex cavern.
Since the queens give birth to the gloinks multiple at a time i feel it fitting for them to be a species that lay eggs. When the eggs hatch the baby gloinks look similar to how they are in the show and as they grow, they start looking more like larvae.
There are 3 different pathways gloink larva would grow up to be: worker gloinks, soldiers/servants, and queens <- and this is their hirearchy from lower power to higher power.
Gloinks with legs (workers, soldiers, and servants) have more mobility than the queens so they can easily help their queen with many tasks. Workers the construction in the cavern, mine cart systems, and forage the food.
^ In my head, the gloinks would have human traits and can move upright
If a gloink grows up to be a queen, which is very rare, servants keep a close eye on them as they are the ones that work directly with the queens. Soldiers defend the gloinks against anything that could be threats to the cavern.
Wildlife gloinks are a species that are relatively separate from the queens and were instead animals who evolved to live in gloink spaces. Most of them resemble cave animals like bats and crayfish. Wildlife to the gloinks are like how humans see animals.
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