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Transgender community, please please please do NOT use this product! It will kill you if used, please do not use it whatsoever.

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Decorator Crabs are multiple species of crabs who use corals, sponges, urchins, anemones, sea fans, and other marine organisms as self-decoration. This (glamorous) camouflage allows them to blend in with their environments and avoid predators.

And that’s not all! some of these dapper fucks have learned to use camouflage as weaponry, draping themselves in glamorous green boas toxic foul-tasting seaweeds, or arming themselves with stylish anemones, urchins and even jellyfish that give predators a nasty ZAP! Some species have even figured out how to hunt this way.

in conclusion, this delightful little dandy is wearing a sea sponge as a sombrero!

When we used it it was to balance out the mouth feel of different products. We wanted a nice sharp bite to things like lime or raspberry and used citric acid to get it as opposed to a smooth buttery mouthfeel of say a caramel.

Cheap energy drinks are probably already using a fair amount of citric acid to give you the mouth feel and flavor profile of a lemon lime beverage or slightly beyond to make you feel like you just drank something potent. So... adding a spur candy that is ALSO using citric acid but crystalized on the outside and then dissolved sugar in the gummy bits (which won't dissolve as readily being trapped in the gummy) will overload your senses with too much acid and trigger a "poison don't eat this" response from your body.

In my mind he still would’ve been given the name Robert Robertson regardless of his assigned gender at birth. Partially because I find the inherited family & hero names very emblematic of this “inherited identity” Robert is shadowed by growing up; and partially because MM Astral strikes me as the kind of father who would not prepare an alternate name for an unacceptable alternate outcome. So Robert Robertson the Third is born, no matter which universe, as Robert Robertson the Third.

But I also don’t see Astral as a particularly open minded man lmao. Obviously. Even with the name Robert would still ‘be a girl’, a ‘disappointment’. Astral would just “have to make do”. And he wouldn’t be very subtle about his thoughts on the matter. So Robert’s AGAB would just serve as further incentive for Astral to be really hard on him growing up (“Be a man” x100). There would also be excessive pressure around specifically not revealing this particular “weakness” to anyone else, and a lot of scrutinizing/nit-picking at Robert’s mannerisms and composure, how he carries and presents himself in public.

This constant undercurrent of treating Robert like he has some kind of inherent inadequacy would in turn further fuel a lot of adult Robert’s incessant restlessness. He always has to be better, he can’t take a break. Don’t cry, just get up.

Then Astral dies. It’s bittersweet to take up the mantle of Mecha Man. I think Robert would only realize he likes being referred to as a guy through his debut and further interactions as MM Blue (banting with villains who assume things, hearing about himself in the news). I think there’s something to be said about the socially-informed nature of a person’s sense of self.

Names, titles, and gender are all arguably results of social perception. They are descriptors other people use to recognize “you” as “you”. In isolation, do they even exist?— Does it matter to have a name that no one calls?

I think a lot about the fact that canon Robert probably wasn’t called by name at all for 15 years. For his entire young adulthood ‘Robert’ didn’t exist to anyone. I’m sure that didn’t help with the personhood issues. Robert really doesn’t afford himself much of it during the game’s events.

But anyway, the gender realization in late adolescence. A real, “i’m probably trans but I have a job so idrc abt that rn” type of situation. Luckily, presenting as a guy was already the path of least resistance now that Robert’s MM more than he’s Robert. In canon being in the mecha modifies his voice a little, so I’m sure it’s possible to set up more extensive modification to make it sound deeper. He typically binds with tape to keep from having visible lines in his suit & to have better mobility. I could also see him using those compression tank tops as a binder while working out or something since cis guys also plausibly wear those.

(Musing on whether Robert would bind or have top surgery was actually what started this whole headcanon train.)

I don’t personally think he’d have had top surgery pre-SDN since even before the financial ‘ruin’ I don’t see him being able to justify putting himself out of commission for that long. And then once he started having to choose between food or suit repairs, any thoughts of surgery would just be totally out. Besides, the surgery would be a *for-Robert* thing more than a *for-MechaMan* thing, and we’ve seen how much Robert is willing to invest into his personal comfort. (Looks at his apartment.)

the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm

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