Fanpro World Mechanics: Fanpro DNA, or something like that
Yeah so introducing new sub category of this blog, Fanpro World Mechanics, in which I basically babble about how my Fanpro world even functions.
So, in part 2 of the Creation Myth I mentioned Fanpros "multiplying", and while you could take that to mean an increase of their population, I meant it quite literally.
The basic idea behind it is this: Pi created the prime numbers, which are the base templates for all the Fanpros. Every single Fanpro can be linked back to them, they are their very first ancestors. The very first prime numbers created were those under 20 (which was the first batch of fanpro designs released, as you guys know), and after a while Pi began adding more and more prime numbers to the mix. But that's off track. I'm here to talk about how this nonsense works. And hopefully actually have it make sense to other people.
When one prime did the deed with another prime number for the first time, it created the first multiple. So, say, two and three had a party and ended up with a new kid, six. Six's appearance is now based off the fanpro design number six. However, the templates for two and three are still a part of it, and get passed on to its kid with say, idk, 5. Six's and Five's kid possesses within itself the templates for Six, Five, but also Two and Three, while its appearance is based off fanpro design number thirty.
So, every new fanpro "multiple" has inside it the templates of its ancestors. In a sense, the factors of each fanpro is its DNA. Hence the title of this monologue.
However, sometimes shenanigans occur, and the child of two fanpros doesn't end up as a multiple of its parents, but rather it "reuses" an older template from its DNA. So 22 and 31 have a child, right, but instead of it being 682, it ends up as 11 (which is a factor of 22, and is thus part of its DNA). As a matter of fact, this actually happens quite often within the Fanpro world. New combinations, or multiples as I've been calling them, are relatively rare. It is more likely that the kid of two fanpros (or more, I don't judge) will "reuse" a template from its DNA than create a new one. Which is why 679 and 23 can have a kid that's 176, assuming the design 176 is somewhere in their DNA. Or, 32 and 3 can have a child that's a toilet. Fun, right?
