#cellfolk

I've had various ideas for my take on this trope but I'm going to start here with this silly critter I'm calling an "animalcule" (which is an archaic word for various microscopic animals - in this universe a plant cell would be called a plantacule, fungal cell is fungicule, etc. unicellular organisms are just referred to by their actual names. all these are collectively referred to as "cellfolk"). This one is a keratinocyte. I'm tentatively calling it 'Kera'. Kera gets lost inside the Self (the body it lives in) when a puncture wound from Outside causes it to get swept away in the blood. It manages to avoid the fate that usually befalls a keratinocyte and goes on wacky adventures with various other animalcules within the Self.

podocytes are another one of my favourite cell types, silly fellers

this is inspired by that textpost that's like "dude your [unexpected microbe] just fucking bit me but I can't remember what the microbe was so I can't even try to look up what it was. I found it in a collection of posts with the theme of talking like you own a dog but the 'dog' is is an unexpected organism very far removed from a dog. if anyone knows what I'm talking about please help

spermatozoon is kind of one of my favourite type of cell but this is something I can't say in public without getting weird looks because it's *gasp* involved in sex

lymphocyte animalcules have weapons which represent their unique antigens. Lim keeps its antigen wrapped to avoid causing harm to cells around it.

pretend the organelles are in there

it has a pet bacteriophage

Lim frequently uses its service because it still wants to protect the Self even though it is self-reactive, and a shard of calcium oxalate surely makes for an effective weapon