#lactobacillus

i can’t say off the top of my head if there’s like, a significant or even quantifiable immune difference, or if it’s more of a general theory. but. yeah! that’s how vaginal birth babies tend to have “kickstarted” immune systems in comparison to c section babies!! very glad you asked. i will jump at any chance to talk about bacteria. ahahheheheheheheh

So I know that lactobacillus/lactic acid guys is what those squishmallow looking things were in canon, but I wanted to see what they’d be like if they filled more of a sophont niche, so I just started from scratch completely, plus the elsewhere fic I’m writing has a lactobacillus as the MC. I don’t know where most of these ideas came from, but one of the things I didn’t include in the ref was that their claws can extend and reveal tiny lactase channels, for instance the green one does that for a living where they stab their claws into the lactose and it melts it. I should design more germs idk who to do. Maybe streptococcus