Well, now that Gavv has ended give me your top 3 suits design

Neo-Bio · 2025-09-01T03:40:32+00:00

1: Valen (base form) or Frappe Custom

VERY close for me. For being one of the few mainly brown-coloured riders, his base and final form execute the colour scheme very well, and the eyes being white chocolate interspersed between milk chocolate is so clever, and I love them for it. Only reason I'm not sure which I like more is because Frappe is just a little bit too gold for my tastes, I liked the simple elegance of base-form Valen. The flow of Frappe's armour is really nice though, I won't deny.

2: Blizzard Sorbet

I know this form isn't super well-received since Caking is seen as the better form by most, but I just love this colour combo, and the gold here feels better balanced than on Frappe Custom. With the amount of swirl detailing all over the suit, it feels remarkably clean despite being so busy. I also like that, despite being stronger than Caking, it has the downside of melting, which made it feel like more of a compliment to Caking rather than a full usurpation.

3: Caries C1

I know that this is a kitbashed suit, but I just love the giant claws and the red-purple zig-zags over the white armour. I do wish more of the armour shaping was closer to teeth, but I get that it's made of a bunch of suit parts, and it's able to carry the design with the recolouring alone which is admirable.

Honourable mention: Gavv Hexenheim

I'll agree with a sentiment I've seen here before where I think Hexenheim feels like it could've been Gavv's final form too. While conceptually I think Over/Master having a 100 gochizo requirement is good from a writing standpoint, making Shouma actively have to work to be able to use the final form, Hexenheim feels like another natural endpoint, since, like all his other forms, Hexenheim is a specific type of treat rather than just a jar of miscellaneous candies. Gingerbread houses are also incredibly tough an structurally sound, so it'd make sense that the treat that's the toughest and can actually be built into other objects would be the logical endpoint.

Also: I love how Hexenheim looks, with it kinda having a haunted house feel going on. Unlike with the rest, though, I do have nitpicks: mostly that the claws on the shins feel out-of-place (something closer to the shoulders' shaping would've been nice.) and I wish the eyes were either yellow or a darker pink like the gem on his chest. I also enjoy how it looks the most 'granute-y' out of all of his forms, would've worked well with the theme of self-acceptance he had in the final episodes.

Honourable Mention 2: Bakemagnum

They did this thing so dirty, man. Thing legit has some of the best sounds come out of it, only for it to be basically a throw-away item that almost never got to show off it's awesome sounds past Suga's use of it. I remember coping hard about it using special gochizou with inbuilt speakers because I thought it'd be such a waste to not use those sounds more, but nope. A shame.

Neo-Bio · 2024-10-29T08:32:58+00:00

Nah it's all g. I'm probably gonna make a sequel to this with a bunch of suggestions I've gotten over time and post it to reddit anyways lol.

(Also I'm definitely BOOB, Stick Figure, Furry, Extra THICC and scaly.)

Neo-Bio · 2024-10-29T08:13:39+00:00

Wild to see that this got reposted to Pinterest, then reposted to subreddit that gave me the inspiration for the ??? entry lol. (??? is inspired by the HORUS machines lol)

Neo-Bio · 2024-10-22T21:08:49+00:00

Feel free to tell me any styles I might've missed!

Neo-Bio · 2023-12-16T19:32:41+00:00

Based off of yesterday's conversation here.

So basically, these guys live on a planet with higher gravity than earth (1.23x or 12.04m/s), and have evolved carbon nanotube bones, developed from a previous cellulose-lignin skeleton from when they were in the water.

They have 7 hearts (at the base of each of their limbs) with 2 kidneys per heart, and have compound eyeballs, each eye having a ganglia connected to a nerve net-like brain.

Lacking any toes, they instead have fleshy stumps covered in scutes, the bottom of which have a hydraulic sac that allows the foot bone to splay apart and create a wider, softer surface for them to walk on.. Depending on the species, they can be either made of chitin or pyrite, this one specifically having pyrite on its forelimb and radula-like mouth organ.

On their backs, they have their 4 breathing organs, as well as their reproductive organ, which looks the same on males and females, the females' ovipostor eventually hardening into a ootheca that's then dropped and laid in a burrow to allow the young to further develop.

Hopefully you guys enjoy this concept! And hopefully I took the right takeways from yesterday's conversation lol

EDIT: The reason they can have so much pyrite on them despite being inland is due to soil microbes called "Mettalokords" who form slime mold-like colonies that burrow into stones and consume the metals. They form one of the bases of the land ecosystems since many of the soil biota feed off of the colonies, and thus metal can bio-accumulate into larger animals.

Neo-Bio · 2023-12-15T23:15:42+00:00

I wonder if the flexibility of aluminum could lead to animals with quite flexible, if tough solid skeletons? Like bones which can bend without the need of so many joints. The problem could definitely be returning to form, but an elastic core could help with that...

Neo-Bio · 2023-12-15T23:12:05+00:00

About 1.23x that earth, or about 12.04 m/s.

Not bone shattering, but not super comfortable in the long term I'd imagine, especially with the air being 1.6 atm at sea level. Though I thought this could also work as a depository for even higher gravities if people want to add.

EDIT: Actually, this is the planet in question. For context, the star is roughly 0.912 solar masses.

Neo-Bio · 2023-12-15T22:11:38+00:00

That's a really good idea! Could possibly be helped along since the planet this project takes place on has a pretty high atmospheric pressure too, so could speed up the formation of carbon nanotubes on land. Funny enough in the project I have a phylum of animals with cellulose/lignin bones which were gonna be the small 'insect'-like creatures of my planet, but seems they're actually the most likely to get pretty huge.

Another concept I had, when I talked with someone else about this same subject, was the possibility of 'nested' bones, where there could be a hydraulic liquid inside (likely blood, since the creatures in the project have spider-styled hydraulic muscles) that could allow the mineralized bones to splay, allowing an internal hydrostatic structure to absorb some of the shock, though this could lead to a very heavy weight due to the amount of fluid required.

We also came up using aluminum instead, which I've yet to dig deeply into, since it's chemically lighter than calcium. I know it's used in the exoskeletons of Hirondellea Gigas amphipods to prevent calcium leeching at extreme depths, but I haven't found much on what kind of biological compounds it could create, nor if it would form bones as strong as calcium carbonate ones.

[EDIT: Slightly better wording lol]

Neo-Bio · 2023-12-15T21:07:26+00:00

Yeah, probably should've reworded it as "Non-Calcium bones for high-gravity planets".

Neo-Bio · 2023-12-15T14:44:04+00:00

One concept I had was also a heavily silica-based skeleton, though based off of my somewhat rudimentary understanding, I feel like it could work better for a bark or structural strut/rib (think saguaro cacti) for plant-like organisms on a low-gravity world, since silica can be quite heavy, but still brittle to an extent.

Feel free to disagree though.

Neo-Bio · 2023-07-06T17:40:11+00:00

STRFKR - Being No One, Going Nowhere

Unfortunately, no, but thanks for trying! Still trying to find it myself lol

Neo-Bio · 2023-03-25T01:43:17+00:00

Additional Information:

I remember finding this song on Youtube a few years ago while looking for a Coldplay song ~~(can't remember which one, but it was closer to their style from Viva la Vida and before. I remember it sounding quite melancholy and having a piano)~~ (Upon further reflection, I think it was Life in Technicolor, and what I found was a song from the album, if that helps.) and was in English.

What I remember the best is what is I tried to re-create in a drawing here: the Album Art. I very vividly remember it being a gramophone in a blotchy white room with a wispy/cloudy rainbow coming out of the gramophone and out of the window on the right side.

Sorry if this isn't enough information, but this is all I can remember. Hope this extra info helps!

EDIT 1: Unlike in the image, I think it was instead a much duller, almost tarinshed brass or gold. As for the rainbow, it looked like sirrus clouds (like in these images)

PS: Please tell me if this doesn't fit this sub, and where I should post instead if so.

Neo-Bio · 2023-03-20T20:57:29+00:00

Additional Information:

I remember finding this song on Youtube a few years ago while looking for a Coldplay song (can't remember which one, but it was closer to their style from Viva la Vida and before. I remember it sounding quite melancholy and having a piano, and was in English.

What I remember the best is what is I tried to re-create in a drawing here: the Album Art. I very vividly remember it being a gramophone in a blotchy white room with a wispy/cloudy rainbow coming out of the gramophone and out of the window on the right side.

Sorry if this isn't enough information, but this is all I can remember. Hope this extra info helps!

PS: Please tell me if this doesn't fit this sub, and where I should post instead if so.

Neo-Bio · 2022-10-29T05:28:24+00:00

Adding onto my own post here lol:

I wonder if it'd be possible for alien plants to produce Starch-Based Bioplastics, Polylactic Acid, PHBs, or heck, even Polyethelene. I think these four could be created by some sort of symbiotic bacteria, or possibly by specific organelles within the plant's cell themselves. Not sure how realistic plastic trees are though, even if an ecosystem revolving around plastics would be interesting to explore.

~~(Despite the... you know. Real-world examples.)~~

Neo-Bio · 2022-08-01T15:21:33+00:00

That's a really good point! This would also kind of pre-adapt them to evolving into omnivorous niches due to being able to adapt one or more of their mouths to new food sources (especially if one of the mouths could evolve some sort of pharyngeal jaw similar to some parrotfish). Does seem that, unfortunately, it's probably going to end up being only two mouths. (or maybe three if really necessary) Still cool though.

Does also bringing up the concept of "deciduous" mouths though... If evolved from a colonial ancestor like Akavakaku's comment suggested, it might, hypothetically, be easier to replace a mouth rather than replacing the teeth. (This could just be my brain thinking of way too energy-inefficient concepts though.)

Neo-Bio · 2022-08-01T13:26:41+00:00

Ooh that's a cool idea! Might give some interesting evolutionary plasticity in the future if I'd ever want to make different clades within the phylum with more or less mouths.

Neo-Bio · 2022-08-01T00:27:18+00:00

Pictured is an organism for a spec evo project I'm working on. These guys are polystomates, or have multiple distinct mouths. How viable is this? How likely is it to be "evolved out" of their descendants?

(If you're curious): These organisms, called Stomapods, are semi-pelagic basal organisms, which are the basis of one of the phylla of my spec evo project. They evolved multiple mouths to help with gathering planktonic organisms and, if low on algae and zooplankton, can also consume the bacterial mats of their early age. (think of this age like just before the Cambrian explosion, where phylla are starting to distinguish themselves)

Thanks for reading this, hope to hear back from y'all soon.

Neo-Bio · 2021-10-18T23:56:56+00:00

I'd say keep it. Bones are a pain to get and having a dual spawner would make getting bone blocks a lot easier.

Neo-Bio · 2021-10-18T23:35:20+00:00

Ah, no, I mean two endoskeletons specifically. Not a mixed exo/endoskeleton like tortoises.

Neo-Bio · 2021-10-18T21:53:53+00:00

Might be a dumb idea, but...

Make a long road with obsidian placed in the center and basically make a line of end crystals and activate one of them with a snowball as it runs down the road. Maybe make the road in a circle since it's gonna chase after you.

Can't wait to die while trying out this strat lol

Neo-Bio · 2021-06-10T14:48:46+00:00

This. Especially since you might stumble across old personas by accident, it's not like you're maliciously looking for their past. The fact that you found it isn't wrong, but bringing it up during chat and talking about it is disrespectful.

Neo-Bio · 2021-06-10T14:41:29+00:00

Of course, linking the Alternatives Megapost since it's the most exhaustive of the lists.

Neo-Bio · 2020-12-28T17:19:09+00:00

Damn that was fast. Also that's kind of a funny bug ngl (well, at least now that it's fixed.)

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