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ANOTHER SENSATIONAL QUESTION!! i have conferred with the xenomorph coalition and have answers.

firstly: the reaper emperor is a biotic. all xenomorphs are born from the reaper emperor's black tar. thus all xenomorphs have latent biotic abilities. i'd like to think they use them to some degree, but nothing huge. little things like moving objects away from them, bringing nymphs closer to them, enhancing their frequencies and songs. some of them use their biotics during the hunt, but only to play with their victims, their toys.

i also think they also use biotics to enhance their influence and frequencies when they choose to eggmorph a favorite toy. because i like to envision the process has not just xenomorphs producing a special resin and saliva with enzymes and hormones that enable them to take control of the person's shape, but their frequencies, their songs, the influence over the person's mind is an important element. for their favorites, they want to keep playing with them, keep them safe, hunt them whenever they please, enjoy them whenever they please. they want to keep parts of their identity, while making them realize how much they need them, how joyous it is to be loved and consumed and hunted by perfect beings. it is their version of indoctrination, learned from their mother.

but one of these days there's going to be a generation of xenomorphs with like subject zero/jack level of biotic abilities. that's really the next step in their development.

secondly: yessssss, xenomorphs born from asari have more elaborate crests and even slightly different colorations depending on the host. most xenomorphs take on some of the characteristics of their hosts be it coloration, markings, or crest design. i've always loved the crest that praetorian xenomorphs have, i'd like to imagine that's what most xenomorphs born from asari have. there is a hive on thessia and i'd like to imagine that queen's crest has an even more elaborate design. (yoinking the alpha's design to use it for the thessia queen xenomorph who was born from an asari matriarch.)

as of right now in the canon there are really two distinct categories of xenomorphs.

xenomorphs - xenomorphs born purely of the reaper emperor's material all have the standard xenomorph design, but they also exhibit the most diversity in the variations. they take on some different colorations based on their hosts or from the reaper emperor's influence. their design is also fairly standard with some notable exceptions like the scorched xenomorph (the eldest drone, possibly born inside a reaper, hence her more mechanical design), xenomorphs born from asari (more elaborate crests and slight blue-violet tone in their colorations). variations in design in color are also determined by which queen they are born from. there are seven original queens: sarah, miriam, deborah, hannah, abigail, huldah, and esther. and the queens from them also take on similar characteristics. i'll be introducing a new queen later on, zipporah, the queen of margot's hive. margot has a very unique chest pattern that's different from other xenomorphs, similar to that of the inside of a spider's molt, which would come from her queen-sister. and there are many more queens all over the milky way galaxy, each of them served by the rachni. (the reaper emperor hasn't allowed them to form hives in andromeda yet.)

celestial xenomorphs - xenomorphs born from a union of the reaper emperor and nyx's materials. there's very little diversity or variation in their shape no matter what host they are born from. these xenomorphs are typically of a violet-black coloration, the ridges of their biomechanical shape are gold, and within them are portions of the ultra deep field. the reaper emperor provided the template for her wife to shape them to be the perfect daughters, daughters that will bring her joy. every one of them is a reflection of the love between the reaper emperor and nyx. they are also nyx's way of archiving parts of the universe. there is one main queen: nycteïs, the true first daughter of night and extinction. the pleiades are seven queens that serve the nycteïs, they are: maia, electra, taygete, alcyone, celaeno, sterope, and merope. there are three more queens, the hesperides, that produce a caste of especially hostile xenomorphs that help protect the ziggurat, they are: aegle, erytheia, and asterope.

thirdly: while we know that all asari children become asari regardless of the donor species, but i think that with a xenomorph, the child will always be a xenomorph. and the mother would not survive, because hosts/vessels are not meant to survive, their purpose is to provide the ideal environments for embryos to grow and development until it is time for them to enter the world. and all viable organic life is meant to become hosts/vessels to bring forth more of the reaper emperor's daughter. it would destroy the host/vessel's body and mind.

importantly, i think the dominance of the xenomorph's genetics and strength over an asari's is the black tar, the material of the reaper emperor. it is the material of extinction itself, it is potent and it is dangerous. it is her genetics, it is her thoughts, it is her blood, it is her dreams. the black tar changed the golden ichor of nyx, consummating their eternal union and love. the black tar was used by david to wipe out the engineers and transform their world into one that is beautiful but devoid of life. a drop of the black tar can destroy entire planets. it is annihilation, every molecule the building blocks of an extinction event.

and it is also laced with azathoth's sound and shai-hulud's spice, the elder siblings of extinction intertwined and connected to her in an endless feedback loop.

and the more i think about this, the more i think about liara possibly wanting to go through with this when she feels her time is done. melding with a xenomorph at the matriarch stage would not be difficult, asari can technically have children at any stage. (in mass effect 3, liara says she's only 106. the asari matriarch stage typically begins when they're 700 years old. so benezia could have been at the end of the matron stage when she had liara, but it's implied that benezia is very old and very renowned matriarch in mass effect 1.)

To go a bit more into Lonepower’s previous question, i figured i’d make a long (sorry ahead of time!) post with some examples (a good bit of these are test shots).

Just for a little backstory, i spent a few months in early 2021 trying to put together the most complete screenshotting tool set i've ever had for a game, because if any game deserved that, it's Botw. Using a combination of injectors (cam mods, Reshade, cheat engine), the highest graphical settings i could enable, and with a ton of game mods on top of that, i set off to start testing everything and then after weeks of that, finally started actually taking screenshots. I made it to the Lost Woods, and then real life got in the way and i had to put it aside. During this time, a hardrive died with a lot of the testing/tools/shots on it and then when i tried to start getting back into it with what i did have, a lot of things didn't work anymore since i updated Cemu (Wii U emulator) and Bcml (Botw modding program). *cries in Hylian*

More info/pics below.

fhgshgkshfgh thank you.

I appreciate the game's ambiguity about it because it's much more fun that way, but also, it has to be said: that man was DEAD dead, and the game is full of graveyards. the reason Jin survives being shot and being stabbed and falling off a bridge and being poisoned (twice) and being shipwrecked and risking his life during every waking moment is because you can't kill something that's already been dead. :) Inari's special boy. 🦊

Thanks for being patient about this ask!

It’s not really your Google skills at fault here, but rather your assumption that the Egyptians did have a specific term to refer to their language(s), which they didn’t. Certainly not anything as specific as “this is Middle Egyptian (as opposed to Late Egyptian)”.

Instead, they called the words they spoke to each other “speech” (ra). Any foreign language was referred to as ab-ab, or “babbling”, because the Egyptians were quite frankly massively xenophobic twats. 

Though there are two terms that come sort of close to what you’re asking after:

While the first one is included in the Wörterbuch, there is no textual attestation of it. mdw.t-km.t literally translated is “words (of) Egypt”.

The second one comes from the Tale of Sinuhe, and it is not spoken by an Egyptian, but rather by a foreigner. It’s therefore not a specific name that the Egyptians had for their own language, but a way a non-Egyptian refers to the Egyptian speech. ra-n-km.t literally translated is “speech of Egypt”.

tbh I haven’t come up with a satisfying way to conclude that yet oops After what they pulled, there’s no way Hermaeus Mora is going to just leave it be. He’s going to be a thorn in their sides for the rest of their lives. Nothing they can’t handle, of course— they already beat the odds by escaping with their free will and their sanity intact, but it’s hard to sleep peacefully at night knowing a Daedric prince has it out for you.

Rowan does introduce him to the dragons— Miraak definitely butts heads with Paarthurnax based on their ideals alone. As for the rest of them I think Miraak would try to assert himself over them as an authority figure and they would just… Not Be Having It, lmao. They answer to Rowan, not to him.

Afterwards? I meant to mention this last post but Miraak asks Rowan to help him hunt down the remaining dragon priests in Skyrim and Solstheim, putting an end to what remains of the old Dragon Cult (and thus giving him a lot of closure.) Then? I think they’d travel a while. Maybe get roped into a war or something (as leader of the Blades and over the dragons I think Rowan is too powerful not to get pulled into some political BS eventually lmao). Eventually they’ll return to Skyrim— their home— and raise a family together.

Another headcanon of mine is that Dragonborn live longer than your average human/mer already— and that lifespan is only extended as they absorb more dragon souls, so… they have a long life ahead of them.

Ghhh we really could have had it all, Bethesda.

(Disclaimer: I haven’t finished Nadia’s route (either ending) so this may stray from canon. I’m only including the four horsemen because I honestly don’t know what happens to Valerius in her reversed ending.)

Valdemar has no loyalties - their only loyalty to the former Devil was their deal with him, and now that he’s gone, I can’t imagine they’d feel the need to stick around. However, if they did stick around, it would be out of curiosity. Having known Nadia (to some degree) for so long prior, they’d be interested to see how her reign would differ from that of the former Devil. Their relationship would be fraught with tension, but Nadia tolerates their (occasional) presence. As long as they aren’t a threat to the MC, she lets them lurk. 

Vlastomil would feel neither the interest nor need to stick around, for potential deals or revenge. Having received his sacrifice from Lucio (though not at all in the manner Lucio would have liked), he’s content to go back to the South and live in comfortable solitude with his children. He’s a lot more hesitant to strike up deals with mortals, knowing how terribly annoying they can get when they don’t fulfill their end of the bargain. 

Volta would stay, if only because she has no idea what to do with herself now. Nadia removes her hunger curse and treats her a lot more kindly. Their relationship is almost akin to a master and pet. Volta acts as an underling and Nadia rewards her with food and scritches - she loves scritches. Right behind her lil’ wings - that’s the spot. Volta adores her beautiful, beloved, kind Countess!