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Mazerunner posted:butt towards enemy, with eye stalks turned to provide vision Or lordosis position, get their head down so they can have better reach and not get themselves. Or running slashing attacks.
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StashAugustine posted:The thing that always bugged me is that I could never really picture how they fought with the tails in a way that makes sense the tails were supposed to be wicked fuckin long, like stupidly so, but everyone drew them not that long
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There's always a challenge with child soldier stories of how you make the 'child' part at all relatable to the target audience of "kids who are going to school and shoplifting and crap." Cuz having child soldiers in your child soldier story live in the sorts of scenarios that actual child soldiers do - that is to say, living in an army camp that is in all likelihood even more dysfunctional than usual, to put it very minimally - is no good, or at least makes a very different sort of story. So having them fight a shadowy conspiracy where all the major players have an interest in keeping it under wraps, or at least low-key enough that the basic civic life of things like high school, is a decent enough solution the problem.Psycho Landlord posted:the tails were supposed to be wicked fuckin long, like stupidly so, but everyone drew them not that long so like how iguanas whip things with their tails?
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Feb 8, 2021 03:31
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For the record in the books Andalites don't actually "eat," the grass with their foot mouths, when they run over grass and crush it they absorb nutrients without actually ingesting the plant matter. Although I recall they actually DO drink through their legs so they've got some kind of piping in there.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Now that's what I was talking about with needing thicker legs to fit the ingestion equipment! Although I never thought of how horrifying footmouths would be. Weird that if the writer had a more deerlike idea in mind they never tried clarifying with the publisher and whatever artist that was hired. The footmouths were a weird thing. Because there are multiple times where the fact that andalites can't control what it eats is an important plot point with attempting to poison visser 3. They were almost written less like a mouth and more like a membrane. Speleothing fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Speleothing posted:The footmouths were a weird thing. Because there are multiple times where the fact that andalites can't control what it eats is an important plot point with attempting to poison visser 3. I have a memory of it not being that they couldn't control it, just that it takes a conscious effort so most of them time they wouldn't be controlling it.
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Tulip posted:so like how iguanas whip things with their tails? yes but with a katana superglued to the end of it
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Feb 8, 2021 21:53
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StashAugustine posted:The thing that always bugged me is that I could never really picture how they fought with the tails in a way that makes sense I thought they stung like a scorpion, stabbing over their shoulder
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Feb 9, 2021 02:47
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Sanguinia posted:that was a different alien. It’s some weird rc car alien elfangor fights
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Feb 9, 2021 10:44
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eliimist cronicles fuckin slapped
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Feb 9, 2021 19:42
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BiggestBatman posted:eliimist cronicles fuckin slapped "My civilization was destroyed by aliens because we twitch streamed a game of Spore."
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:So do earth animals exist on the andalite homeworld? Also if they are already horse people then what's the benefit of turning into like, a deer or a dog? I feel like a horse can fight as good or better than most animals. Especially as a horse person would avoid some of the normal pitfalls of idiotic regular horses like "saw a lizard and died" nah but they had weird alien birds and stuff. they mostly used it for steath and infiltration, because their big horse bodies weren't exactly sneaky
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Who What Now posted:I thought they stung like a scorpion, stabbing over their shoulder Just exactly liked the Bartholomew from Reginald's awful comic strip in Nedroid.
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StashAugustine posted:The thing that always bugged me is that I could never really picture how they fought with the tails in a way that makes sense andalite tails are kind of bad weapons. you have to present a huge profile to your enemy to get enough range of motion even if the tail is significantly longer than usually depicted. but they are probably more for fighting other andalites so it didn't matter, evolutionarily. Speleothing posted:The footmouths were a weird thing. Because there are multiple times where the fact that andalites can't control what it eats is an important plot point with attempting to poison visser 3. they can close their hooves and the poisoning visser 3 thing was a plot hole. some of this, i think, is because KA was all about the animals and michael grant was all about the aliens; there are more animal fact mistakes in the grant books and more alien inconsistencies in the KA books.
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As an evpsych thing and also as a kid-lit thing, what you have to understand about the terribly impractical weapons-attached-to-bodies-of-the-baddies is that ultimately they are penises. Now, like these weird scorpion tails, we can all agree that nobody loving knows how penises work. Even if you have one! They just kind of explode and kill people and that is why no one likes you. I am not a girl nor do I endorse being a girl, but I also have to imagine that having male appendages being exploding things is a real experience and lots of gushing and gross poo poo being a normal and expected part of puberty being another part. Weird goat fucks make sense in that context.
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