#narfart

fuck it. nightmare metroid fanfiction

the towers were kinda like, green solid plates connected by grey connective tissue that could seal up or expand a bit. the one i saw had a bunch of fake "flowers" they would grow near them that would routinely bob their head towards the body and had various colorful patterns on them. they would like. change though. like holographic pokemon cards or a cuttlefish's skin or something. it was like the tower kind of knew what a flower and what a sign and what an usher was but didn't really get that something in the middle was just kind of strange

my family were researching and had investigated a floating island for a while. i thought they couldn't possibly eat enough to sustain themselves but reasoned they would only eat very occasionally and mostly used smth else. kinda like a mix of a bromeliad and a pitcher plant? they generally supported an environment of various inhabitants inside them but like a carnivorous plant they really needed a small amount of a trace vitamin they only got by eating occasionally. i think that for some reason they needed at least some "intelligent" prey or their magic wouldn't work

i think ultimately it was usually not a bad deal to live in one once a map of it was established, but it was good form to let it eat all the corpses b/c otherwise it'd start trying to eat people at random every so often.

floating islands were weirder, i think they were very closely related but they didn't have a stalk. they got wider at the bottom like a round mountain and spent more of their time with plates locked together, whereas towers would often expand and contract based on the day and temp. they would land on a regular basis and then spend time traveling. people would want to take control of them bc they were powerful for movement control. having to feed it people was an acceptable downside for air power

track i made about being chased across the desert by a horrible dragon machine