#object worldbuilding

i've been thinking, and between the commercially available spaceships and the sheer amount of episodes featuring space in BFDI (31 😭) i think it's safe to say that objects are a pretty advanced spacefaring species. Race. Whatever. Even so, there's just so many random things in space that the only reason i can imagine is because of an early Space Race. Like in our world but with SO much more competition between nations.

Let's pretend there are countries for a sec. Each one would want to gain prestige as a spacefaring nation and, in their delusions of grandeur, each believed they should leave their mark on the universe which represented them. So the object equivalent of America might launch a massive cowboy hat into space; yoyleland launches a scale model of their most impressive landmark; a currency nation (i.e. where coiny & nickel & money come from) launches a mini planet full of bills, and so on.

now that I've got your attention, read my completely sfw /srs thoughts on objects handling the sunny weather

Was walking under the sun and my hair got really hot and it made me wonder how would objects handle heat. Especially metal objects (I'm totally not biased because my wife is one). Remember the metal slides at summer? they burn. now imagine that's how your almost whole body feels...

In objectified it's said that bestial objects who are respawned in a different district might change their assigned animal to adapt to environment. Terminals can also cause nerve damage so organspace is affected. So I like to think that, for example, objects spawned in Ankh are more heat resistant than those from The Rings or Fort Blanket (who would be better at handling coldness. it's a problem for metal objects too!). Well, technically their metal parts get heated the same way, but it doesn't affect their system that much and they can function just fine in the weather that would give a middle ringer a heat stroke.

Oh wait. Food objects exist and don't ever melt. I guess not everything should make sense in the object show world... - that's something I'd never say. Objects are made of cells. Their edible parts are cells too. The cells are living and renewing, so when some liquid from the glass object is spilled or evaporated, the cells multiply to refill it. Objects who would melt, like ice cream, are cells too. It has cell structure, not actual ice cream structure, so it might feel and even taste like ice cream but not melt like one. Yay!

Poppy:

Poppy: huh, that DOES work

let’s explain Lightning’s weird lightning powrds

first thing is that lightning is not actual lightning, just hang onto me for this. Lightning is composed of two layers:

The electric layer

The rubbery layer

The electric layer is where all the electricity stuff happens, it’s all made of electrocytes pigmented yellow for warning displays I guess. These electrocytes are a little more violent than their real word counterpart because they’re so many of them! Anyways yeah you get a nasty shock if you touch this area.

The rubber layer is the protective coating to all of Lightning’s internal stuff, and also is a protective ring around the eyes, where the limbs connect and also a protective coating around the mouth and gums. It’s so that lightning doesn’t end up burning his CNS to char, cuz woo boy that’s a lot of volts. I’m assuming so because I’m not looking at the wiki right now, because my head hurts.

So what about the lightning he makes? The lightning strikes.

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watch this

Throughout Lightning’s body is a series of thin tubes made of Silica, all connected to this ring that most CO2 diffuses into from blood vessels, still some CO2 is breathed out but is very little. The CO2, now a gas, is left standing in these tubes and this serves as a medium for light, produced by a highly powerful version of luciferin and luciferase. This bright light produced is focused through the silica, the silica acting as a lens.

Basically lightning just made lasers and these lasers leave the tubes and escape into the surrounding air, ionising particles. These straight lines of ionised particles act as channels for electricity, discharged from nearby electrocytes, to travel along and thus produce a lightning strike. Much of this idea (the whole laser to lightning part) I got from a reddit comment about firing biological lightning.

All of this is happening in milliseconds mind you, probably faster.

Also some food for thought:

Lightning’s species, or most likely ancestors or ancient species of lightning, probably hunted mainly objects composed of conductive metals. Since their prey had a shell of conductive metal, they were basically wearing armour that would fry their CNS to bits. Maybe they were easy prey because of that.

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briefly exploring accessories on objects, specifically pride accessories

like. you can put fridge magnets on metal objects (probably not wise to put on robot ones, but most metal objects arent robotic)

btw these are our fictives of them drawn here. I (Liam) have a big salamander tail

I could wear pins in theory hence why it's drawn here but I do not. but our Cabby does wear magnets

after watching object cringe i realised gravey must have had some HORRIBLE parents. Let's pretend for a moment that this is canon to object cringe. If so, his parents would have had to find a grave to *ahem* fertilise. They would have had to go to a graveyard and dig up a random headstone to make him, which is already weird considering recovery centres exist?? like what's the use of a grave if they can just come back to life?

anyways, what atrocities must they have committed for them to ""raise"" a kid so pessimistic that every waking moment he wishes for nothing more than the cure for breathing? All he desires is the sweet release of death from his eternal anguish.