Wanderer_errs

also here's a doodle of roach emperor greg that i put 10930384 filters on.

Welp moving on, between choose whether to take a sleep (i havent slept in a day.) Or go on a 2 hr research binge about cocroaches of course i chose the later! And here are my findings.

My base assumtions of this whole thing is gonna be that gregor's main roach species is the same as pablo.

Okay so, generally between the 4000 species of roaches, theres a lot of em that can fly. The american roach, the german roach, australian roach and the oriental roaches are the most common around the world (wiki)

Now comparing the real life species of roaches to our dearest Pablo (i looked at all of the pablos.) i boiled it down to 2 options. The american roach or the smokey brown. Due to the shape of the throax and the head being a smooth upside down "U" shape from above, the smokeybrown had a lot more going for it due to pablo being depicted as more brown than brownish orange however the bottom tip of the wings are likely the shape of the american cockroach more.

Ngl my first instictual pick for gregor was actually the german cockroach. However pablo lacks the very distict 2 black stripes that run parrarel from the prothorax.

So pablo's main species candidate is the american cockroach! Its among the most biggest roach out there, both the male and female have large and developed wings. However the male have wings that cover and extend beyond the abdomen.

So, thats theres and done rigt? Hermann didn't infact inject her son with female predominant bug gene right??? I can go to sleep now right?!?

....sigh, no

So here is a sprite of the roach emperor himself, notice how the wing like part of his cape thing exibit a brainching vein kinda pattern. This pattern is very reminicent of gcorp gregor's wings. Wheather the roach emperor's cape thing is actually a pupa skin instead of nacent wings i am too sleep deprived to dig deeper into. (Wings do only appear on the final stages of moulting)

Compare to that, roaches have a different kind of flavour of wings or something cuz instead of a branching vein, they're more unform wave patterned

So its unlikely that grego's whole metamorphosis is just a species of roach. Rather it is a combination of different insects. It rather fits the original story of Kafka's metamorphosis because we never really know about what kind of horrible thing that book gregor really turned into.

Theres a whole thing to be said about the apple from the metamorphosis being an alegory to familial burden that embeds itself deep winthin book gregor's back and in the end it rotted and became the very thing that killed him.

Another especially funny thing i found while on this journey was this funny thing

German roaches, are apperently very particullarly sociable. Citing the word "greg"arious a lot. Yknow at first i just laughed my ass off at that because of the funny pun coincidence. And then i read more into it and came across this

Thats... thats just the metamorphosis ueueueuueue what the fuck i started this just because i was curious about if gregor was funny funny haha female roach gene but now im just hit by a balistic missile of sad.

Im gonna go sleep now bye (also forgive my tone if anyrhing is off here! Im very sleep deprived and went on a tangent of researching this whole thing for fun and hyperfixation fueled. I love gregor he is one of the two main charaxters that i love in this game and his future is scaryy eueueuue)

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach

https://www.colonialpest.com/2013/01/30/can-cockroaches-fly/

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Representative-examples-of-fore-and-hind-wings-in-different-orders-of-Insects-showing_fig1_8892390

https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/orders/blattodea.html

https://www.earthkind.com/blog/guide-to-the-different-types-of-cockroaches/

also sharing isn't caring OUSDFHJK GREGOR NOOOOO

why is there no joy for the funny bug man.....

anyways thank you for feeding me these interesting cockroach facts,,,, take this wip piece in return....

also here's a doodle of roach emperor greg that i put 10930384 filters on.

Welp moving on, between choose whether to take a sleep (i havent slept in a day.) Or go on a 2 hr research binge about cocroaches of course i chose the later! And here are my findings.

My base assumtions of this whole thing is gonna be that gregor's main roach species is the same as pablo.

Okay so, generally between the 4000 species of roaches, theres a lot of em that can fly. The american roach, the german roach, australian roach and the oriental roaches are the most common around the world (wiki)

Now comparing the real life species of roaches to our dearest Pablo (i looked at all of the pablos.) i boiled it down to 2 options. The american roach or the smokey brown. Due to the shape of the throax and the head being a smooth upside down "U" shape from above, the smokeybrown had a lot more going for it due to pablo being depicted as more brown than brownish orange however the bottom tip of the wings are likely the shape of the american cockroach more.

Ngl my first instictual pick for gregor was actually the german cockroach. However pablo lacks the very distict 2 black stripes that run parrarel from the prothorax.

So pablo's main species candidate is the american cockroach! Its among the most biggest roach out there, both the male and female have large and developed wings. However the male have wings that cover and extend beyond the abdomen.

So, thats theres and done rigt? Hermann didn't infact inject her son with female predominant bug gene right??? I can go to sleep now right?!?

....sigh, no

So here is a sprite of the roach emperor himself, notice how the wing like part of his cape thing exibit a brainching vein kinda pattern. This pattern is very reminicent of gcorp gregor's wings. Wheather the roach emperor's cape thing is actually a pupa skin instead of nacent wings i am too sleep deprived to dig deeper into. (Wings do only appear on the final stages of moulting)

Compare to that, roaches have a different kind of flavour of wings or something cuz instead of a branching vein, they're more unform wave patterned

So its unlikely that grego's whole metamorphosis is just a species of roach. Rather it is a combination of different insects. It rather fits the original story of Kafka's metamorphosis because we never really know about what kind of horrible thing that book gregor really turned into.

Theres a whole thing to be said about the apple from the metamorphosis being an alegory to familial burden that embeds itself deep winthin book gregor's back and in the end it rotted and became the very thing that killed him.

Another especially funny thing i found while on this journey was this funny thing

German roaches, are apperently very particullarly sociable. Citing the word "greg"arious a lot. Yknow at first i just laughed my ass off at that because of the funny pun coincidence. And then i read more into it and came across this

Thats... thats just the metamorphosis ueueueuueue what the fuck i started this just because i was curious about if gregor was funny funny haha female roach gene but now im just hit by a balistic missile of sad.

Im gonna go sleep now bye (also forgive my tone if anyrhing is off here! Im very sleep deprived and went on a tangent of researching this whole thing for fun and hyperfixation fueled. I love gregor he is one of the two main charaxters that i love in this game and his future is scaryy eueueuue)

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach

https://www.colonialpest.com/2013/01/30/can-cockroaches-fly/

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Representative-examples-of-fore-and-hind-wings-in-different-orders-of-Insects-showing_fig1_8892390

https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/orders/blattodea.html

https://www.earthkind.com/blog/guide-to-the-different-types-of-cockroaches/

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*Goopster took too long trying to find his fancy jacket...*