#monster evolution

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🧠 4.54 BILLION… IMAGINE COUNTING TO THAT? (Scientific Horror File)

🧪 INTRO: YOU CAN’T COUNT TO EARTH’S AGE

Let’s clarify the title. If you tried to count to 4.54 billion -- aloud, one per second, 24/7 -- you would die before you reached halfway.

How long would it take?

144.1 years. Nonstop. No sleep. No pauses.

You wouldn’t make it. Your great-grandchildren wouldn’t either. You'd pass down the count like a curse -- and still fall short.

That’s what 4.54 billion seconds looks like.

Now imagine that in years.

That’s how old Earth is.

And here’s what you need to understand:

We weren’t here for 99.9999% of it. Your existence is not only recent -- It’s statistically irrelevant.

📉 PART I: FOSSIL RECORD -- 99% MISSING

Everything you know about life before you comes from less than 1% of what ever existed. Not a metaphor. That’s the scientific consensus.

The fossil record is a shattered library missing almost every book. Most species left no trace.

Let that sink in.

Entire ecosystems, predator hierarchies, global dominions -- never written down, never seen again.

They happened. But Earth forgot them.

And that forgetting is normal. You are the anomaly.

🌊 PART II: THE DEEP SEA KNOWS MORE THAN YOU

The deepest part of the ocean is 36,000 feet down. We’ve explored less than 5% of it.

In 2025, researchers confirmed thriving ecosystems at 31,000 feet: tubeworms, mollusks, unknown microbial structures. No sunlight. No photosynthesis. No humans, ever.

The ocean’s pressure would flatten you instantly. But creatures live there -- in networks. Entire biological systems operating without our knowledge for millions of years.

That’s not theory. That’s fact. And it means one thing:

You are not the apex. You’re just the most recent visitor to the surface.

🦠 PART III: MICROBES OLDER THAN YOUR SPECIES

There are bacteria in Earth's crust estimated to be up to 500 million years old. Still alive. Still replicating.

Microbes have outlived:

Every extinction event

Every climate reset

Every supervolcano

Every oxygen fluctuation

Every species you’ve ever studied

They are Earth’s default lifeform. You? A late-stage experiment in instability.

☠️ PART IV: EXTINCTION IS THE DEFAULT -- NOT THE EXCEPTION

99% of all species that ever lived are gone.

Let’s repeat that.

99%. Not endangered. Not in decline. Extinct.

Wiped out by:

Temperature shifts

Oxygen drops

Fungal blooms

Asteroids

Continental drift

Radiation pulses

Atmospheric poisoning

Viral conversions

Predatory dominance

Mass extinction is not the anomaly. It’s the rule. We’ve had five already. We’re probably in the sixth.

And you still think life is “rare”? It’s not. Survival is.

🧬 PART V: YOUR DNA IS TRAUMA SOFTWARE

You flinch at shadows for a reason. Your anxiety isn’t abstract. Your nervous system is a memory vault.

Fight or flight wasn’t designed for traffic. It was encoded during 100 million years of running from creatures you’ll never meet. Teeth that sliced your ancestors into genetic suggestions. Apexes that didn’t leave bones -- just corrections.

Fear is inherited. And every cell in your body remembers something worse than your imagination.

Because imagination didn’t invent monsters. It tried to explain them.

🔬 PART VI: YOU ARE BUILT FROM SURVIVORS -- NOT WINNERS

You exist because someone, many generations ago, ran faster than something that would’ve erased your lineage.

Your family tree is a filter of the afraid. Not the strongest. Not the smartest. Just the ones who hid well.

Bravery isn’t encoded. Survival is.

So the next time you think you’re fearless -- realize you’re standing on a pile of bones who weren’t.

PART VII: MEMORY IS STORED BELOW CONSCIOUSNESS

What gives you chills? Dark water? Cave mouths? Unidentifiable noise?

That’s your amygdala reacting to ancestral signals. You don’t recognize the threat -- because you don’t have to.

You inherited the software update without ever seeing the original predator.

Instinct is data. And your instincts are tuned to creatures that no longer exist — or worse, never left.

📚 PART VIII: HUMAN HISTORY IS LESS THAN 0.01% OF EARTH’S TIMELINE

All of it. Every war, every civilization, every god, every textbook. From the Sumerians to AI -- is a dust fleck on the edge of the Earth’s lifespan.

To Earth, the Roman Empire was a cough. Your entire national identity is a hiccup.

And yet you walk like you’re the final chapter.

You’re not. You’re not even a footnote. You’re an unsaved draft.

💀 PART IX: MOST CREATURES LEFT NOTHING BEHIND

You assume the past was simple. That ancient life was brutish, ugly, slow.

But the truth is, we don’t know what existed. Because most of it didn’t fossilize.

Soft-bodied creatures? Gone. Anything that lived in acidic environments? Gone. Anything that evolved intelligence but didn’t build with stone? Gone.

They lived. They evolved. They were complex.

And we will never know them.

🚫 PART X: YOU AREN’T ALIVE -- YOU’RE ON BORROWED TIME

You are not permanent. You are not the goal of evolution. You are not protected.

You are a data cluster of carbon-based code running on a wet planet that has hit reset multiple times.

You are temporary. You are vulnerable. You are, statistically, next.

The only question is how quietly it will happen.

Will it be an ice sheet? A fungal wave? A gene slip? Or just the sun reminding you that stars don’t care?

FINAL FACT: YOU ARE NOT THE CROWN. YOU ARE THE CREASE.

Your body contains:

Ancient bacterial mitochondria

Viral code remnants

Pre-human reflex wiring

3 billion base pairs

4 billion years of inherited trauma

You are not one thing. You are a stack of dead things held together by heat and ego.

And none of them know who you are. They’re just trying not to die.

Reblog if you’ve dreamed of things that never existed -- and woke up afraid they did.

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Time to make up for the missing context in the original postings of these charts.

Starting Idea

I was randomly remembering how some people wanted Sprigatito's evolutions to remain quadrupedal and that thought had sort of fused with some thinking about Trials of Mana's class change system, and I started thinking about what a game built around that would be like. I went with light being more human and dark being more beast, but then had the idea to rename them to civil and feral. Feral would focus on power while civil would focus more on versatility and customization. I even came up with a general plan for how each evolution would go and some actual names for each generalized form. I was also kinda thinking about smashability

The Forms

Base/Animal = Basic creature that is rather simple and perhaps cute.

Feral/Beast = More animalistic and fierce. Maybe given some special ability or element.

Civil/Standing = The big thing is that they are now bipedal. Given ability to equip things to somewhat customize their stats.

Fer-Fer/Monster = Make it monstrous/mystical. It should obviously look more intimidating. It goes all in on its special traits.

Fer-Civ/Divided = Obvious division between human and beast parts. Something that doesn't fit a levels of furry scale, like a centaur, a sphynx, or an animal that is able to create a solid illusion of a human. They'd get the ability to use extra actions, some of which could be affected by equipment.

Civ-Civ/Human = Human with ears and tail of base form and maybe differently colored skin. Might use for various fantasy almost-humans like elves, dwarves, gnomes, and maybe even goblins. Would have three character classes that they could swap between with maybe some ability to mix class features.

Civ-Fer/Furry = Pretty much a typical furry. It would fuse the three classes of the human evolution together.

What's Up With The Sword One?

I wanted to try it with something that wasn't an animal and decided to go with an animated flying sword (playing Palworld's Terraria dungeon at the time was certainly a factor).

I considered the idea of its feral ability being the ability to be wielded by other characters, although taking up a character slot while doing so. I felt that having its base form basically be Excalibur stuck in the stone provided a good enough reason for why it can't be equipped until it evolves.

After that decision, I felt that the idea of the sword becoming a sword-wielder made sense for the civil evolutions. Its magic would seep into the stone it's stuck in to animate it into a sort of golem it could pilot. Once it evolved again, its human form would either be the sword having separated and transformed into a humanoid with maybe metallic skin who would get sword-wielding classes (planning to go with Fencer, Paladin, and some sort of weapon enchanter class), while its furry form would basically be its consciousness transferring completely into the stone to turn it into a more humanoid form as its original body is now wielded by its new body.