I decided to play Phighting on a whim a few days ago because I kept on seeing it pop up on my dash, and I absolutely love it!! I wound up blasting through the comic a few hours after I first played and I'm still scrounging around the wiki for the lore, lol.

Anyways, I was wondering how Inphernal biology would work in-universe, especially in contrast to human biology. Most of these were vibes-based instead of science-based, though. I mostly just wanted to focus on making them and humans to be just that bit more alien to one-another, y'know?

(More rambling under the cut)

Also how they'd view eachother. Like how do certain cultures view the other species on both sides. This goes for anatomy, culture, religion, history, etc. I'm interested to see how to develop this. (No pressure, if it sounds like it.)

I think Subspace would consider us "dumb but find some things we've made interesting. Banhammer would look down on us, I know that with no doubt in my mind..

Anyways, I just had to get this yap off of my mind. Thank you for reading👍

WAHGGGG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Seeing long asks and comments like these make me smile sm :] Making all these little notes and ideas about how different or similar human and Inphernal societies are is super fun, and I'm glad to hear that there's people out there that like my yapping as much as I do :D

Humans and Inphernals definitely have some... strange interpretations of each other compared to reality. To an Inphernal, a human is small and squishy of course, but they can also extend that idea to them being stupid or gullible. It doesn't help that some of the old Inphernal fairytales have creatures described similarly to humans that were basically a bunch of cute looking idiots.

(As a matter of fact, several human fairytales include creatures similar to Inphernals, acting terrifying and murderous. Hm...)

Anyways, that can kinda lead to a lot of Inphernals sort of infantilizing humans, especially the more protective ones. That leads to the awkward (and kinda funny) situation where an Inphernal that thinks that humans are inherently "more innocent" learns about the grittier details of human history. It's like if you found out that Care Bares are real and host regular public executions.

Though, I haven't thought about their thoughts about religion until you brought it up. Like, obviously humans would be freaked out at seeing a literal deity in person, but I'm only now realizing how much funnier it would be. For some reason I have the really specific image in my head of an atheist human talking to an Inphernal about their beliefs, not knowing that they're talking to one of the Swords.

Also, yessss!! Subspace would probably find humans to be a waste of energy to deal with outside of their fascinating immunity to the crystals. I mean, outside of that one novelty, how else would they be useful to him?

But I do really like the idea that he can occasionally find something that we've made interesting. While the most obvious and in-character answers would be some sort of fascinating invention or scientific discovery, I just think it would be really funny if he was. like. an MLP fan or just really likes desk doohickeys or something, lol

Also while I do think that Banhammer would look down at us (professional human hater), I'm just SUPER fond of the idea that there's one (1) human that he likes. That's his ONLY exception. (Bonus points if that human is a child.)

Unfortunately for Valk, his title of "shortest man in the Inpherno" shall forever remain uncontested.

In full seriousness though, I've thought about this for a little while, and my current idea is that he's slightly shorter than the average human. Him hearing about this "super tiny and squishy" species hanging around and seeing that he's still shorter than most of them would definitely bruise his ego, he's still bigger than the shorter ones.

Honestly, I could see his smaller stature as being a sort of comfort to any humans that find themselves in the Inpherno. It makes him far less intimidating, especially when compared to the absolute Goliath that is his brother. That, combined with his overall friendly and playful demeanor, would probably make him one of the more approachable Inphernals for a human to be around.

Not pictured: The other twelve times that Subspace made them do this to verify.

(At least he's not vivisecting them...)

I do have some things planned in the future regarding human-inphernal stuff, though! The main thing right now is answering an ask that was wondering what each of the characters' thoughts would be on humans.

I thought that this would be a fun excuse to finally draw every character and work in an art style I've been meaning to experiment with for a while! I already made Sword and Skateboard's thoughts a couple weeks back, but I haven't been able to finish any others yet. I wanted to wait until I was done to show them off here, but I might as well do it now, just to give y'all a sneak peek :3c

(I still haven't figured out what to make the background for these be, rip)

I'm so sorry for dropping off the face of the earth like that y'all </3 It wasn't for anything big, just a mix of procrastination, school stress, and working on some of my own projects.

I am still planning on coming back to Human-Inphernal art and worldbuilding sometime soon, though! I still think about it a lot, and there are a whole bunch of ideas rattling in my head for it. I even have an outline written for a short fic with a disguised human, lol.

Other than that though, there's been a couple of other things that I've been up to while I was gone! Most of it is stuff with OCs over on EnterVOID, so I'll put my ramblings under the cut here.