#leafling io

Leafling Io 🌼

Oh baby, I'll carry your disease

that darkness that lives inside you deep

Oh honey, I'll put up a fight with death

he's never coming near my love again

hypnos - chelsea wolfe

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Ohhh, he did and more! How he spun me around and around... oh... I was seeing stars!

Strangely, I recall... a weird feeling, like, something familiar about how he carried me... like it wasn't the first time. It struck me as... odd. It was as if he were a stranger,... before? Befoore, what...

... Hm... that doesn't make sense, does it? No doubt, I swore it was the first time! Yet, before I could dwell more on it, Collin, oh, my love, he dipped me into such a passionate, romaaanntic, forever promising kiss that - ha! I forgot!

God Bless!

Copy that, roger, ten-four, and so on!

Little voices whisper, frantic, in careless unison: "Who is he? Who is he?" At the light, her body fell still; at the light, her breathing ceased.

As for fun facts about their CHILDREN :D one would beeee...that their children often go through their own bad hair day when their flowers begin to wilt! For... some reason... the hair underneath becomes curly, and Io and Collin are unable to tame it!

Oh!! I haven't, not yet at least! It keeps slipping my mind, but I'm so happy you asked! ;w;

Just in case! Pikmin 4, Leafling, Spoilers!

I've had this little concept doodle of Io as a leafling for a little bit and INITIALLY!!! I just thought it'd be cute if leaflings had tails...

BUT!!! I thought more into leaflings... Pikmin lore... and how the effects of becoming a "leafling" would alter one's body even after being cured and all!

So!! That got me storyboarding for what happened!

The battle with the Ancient Sirehound, Io goes missing following a scuffle with Louie!

(he's tired of the Rescue Corps following him around, so he gets rid of Io, the one chasing him around ... via... shattering her helmet to try and kill her WOMPWOMP...)

However, his Pikmin, feeling disheartened about the scuffle - they bring Io into the Onion, turn her into a leafling, and save her life! Undeterred by their decision, Louie carries on to prevent any more intervention from the Rescue Corps; doing away with her uniform, crushing her transceiver, her signal, and abandoning her!

NOW... upon her previous... err, suffocation... struggle...once she wakes up, she has no memory. All she knows is...a feeling... as if she's meant to run away - from what, she can't tell! However, any figure, any being of light, is all too reminiscent of a deep terror and chases her into hiding!

So, due to her skittish nature doubled with the Rescue Corps inability to track her, Io ends up being lost for QUITE A WHILE! Inevitably, the test of time results in irreversible effects to her body, such as sporting her a tail annnd an ability to breathe the oxygen of PNF-404!