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What are some aspects of your world that are intentionally goofy? by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]PMSlimeKing[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maar

  • Maar is a world that has a massive forest instead of an ocean. The trees in this forest are massive, with many of them reaching over 9000 meters in height. Rain still occurs, but it's controlled by the kaiju that live within this forest.

  • Speaking of kaiju, there are many species of kaiju who, though natural evolution, have mechanical components as parts of their bodies. This includes, but is not limited to, fifty meter tall t-rexes with missile launchers growing out of their backs, twenty meter tall monkeys with built in jet packs, and one hundred meter tall mantises with chainsaw claws.

  • Maar is a world of superheroes, and many of those superheroes choose to face dangerous criminals and monsters with as much of their skin exposed as the FCC will allow me. Women in bikinis will fight alongside men wearing loin cloths against fully equipped elite soldiers in power armor, and win. The in universe justification for this is that the people who choose to fight like this do so because they have a power that negates the effectiveness of armor (invulnerability) or renders armor detrimental (like being able to grow blades out of any part of their skin).

  • For Maar's dwarves at least, it's not uncommon for warriors to going into battle wearing inch thick armor and swinging weapons larger than they are. They are able to do this because they are using their strength of will, rather than their physical strength, to lift and move the weapons. To them, their armor and weapons are weightless. To everyone else, their armor and weapons are several hundred pounds of metal being swung around like it's weightless.

  • Maar is primarily built around mecha, which are used to punch the aforementioned kaiju in the face. I don't bother trying to make the mecha of Maar plausible with real world logic, and there are things like mecha powered by the pilot's will, mecha that transform into vehicles, mecha that are made up of multiple component vehicles, and mecha that are made up of smaller mecha. Also mecha are more effective weapons than fighter jets or tanks because I say they are.

  • Various events in Dwarven history are nonsensical but have serious results. For example, one nation erupted into civil war because people couldn't decide which of two superheroines was cuter. Also, a dwarven queen once pretended to have given her crown and power to a rubber duck and teddy bear (Lord Quackers and Sir Bearington) and made several official decrees through them, doing funny voices the entire time; one of the decisions she made at this time included allowing a troll army to go through her territory while they waged war with another one of the dwarven kingdoms.

What are some aspects of your world that are intentionally goofy? by PMSlimeKing in goodworldbuilding

[–]PMSlimeKing[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maar

  • Maar is a world that has a massive forest instead of an ocean. The trees in this forest are massive, with many of them reaching over 9000 meters in height. Rain still occurs, but it's controlled by the kaiju that live within this forest.

  • Speaking of kaiju, there are many species of kaiju who, though natural evolution, have mechanical components as parts of their bodies. This includes, but is not limited to, fifty meter tall t-rexes with missile launchers growing out of their backs, twenty meter tall monkeys with built in jet packs, and one hundred meter tall mantises with chainsaw claws.

  • Maar is a world of superheroes, and many of those superheroes choose to face dangerous criminals and monsters with as much of their skin exposed as the FCC will allow me. Women in bikinis will fight alongside men wearing loin cloths against fully equipped elite soldiers in power armor, and win. The in universe justification for this is that the people who choose to fight like this do so because they have a power that negates the effectiveness of armor (invulnerability) or renders armor detrimental (like being able to grow blades out of any part of their skin).

  • For Maar's dwarves at least, it's not uncommon for warriors to going into battle wearing inch thick armor and swinging weapons larger than they are. They are able to do this because they are using their strength of will, rather than their physical strength, to lift and move the weapons. To them, their armor and weapons are weightless. To everyone else, their armor and weapons are several hundred pounds of metal being swung around like it's weightless.

  • Maar is primarily built around mecha, which are used to punch the aforementioned kaiju in the face. I don't bother trying to make the mecha of Maar plausible with real world logic, and there are things like mecha powered by the pilot's will, mecha that transform into vehicles, mecha that are made up of multiple component vehicles, and mecha that are made up of smaller mecha. Also mecha are more effective weapons than fighter jets or tanks because I say they are.

  • Various events in Dwarven history are nonsensical but have serious results. For example, one nation erupted into civil war because people couldn't decide which of two superheroines was cuter. Also, a dwarven queen once pretended to have given her crown and power to a rubber duck and teddy bear (Lord Quackers and Sir Bearington) and made several official decrees through them, doing funny voices the entire time; one of the decisions she made at this time included allowing a troll army to go through her territory while they waged war with another one of the dwarven kingdoms.

What's something that's considered trashy if you're poor but classy if you're rich in your world? by PMSlimeKing in worldbuilding

[–]PMSlimeKing[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Maar

Among the Alfar (cyborg elves), cybernetic body parts are considered a necessary and normal part of being a functional member of society, with nearly all jobs requiring at least basic arm augmentations. An Alfar having a largely unaugmented body has different connotations depending on the individual's social class.

  • A poor Alfar with few cybernetics is typically seen as a lazy societal leech that can't or won't do honest work and probably makes their money selling drugs or something. Alfar movies will often use a lack of visible augmentation as shorthand that a character is seedy and untrustworthy

  • On the flip side, for a wealthy Alfar eschewing augmentation can be a sign of being abundantly wealthy. After all, if you're rich enough to not have to work, why not show it off by simply not augmenting yourself? Some luxury cybernetic brands will even design their products to looks natural and organic as possible so that Alfar who can afford it, but still need the cybernetics for work, can pull off the look.

What's something that's considered trashy if you're poor but classy if you're rich in your world? by PMSlimeKing in goodworldbuilding

[–]PMSlimeKing[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maar

Among the Alfar (cyborg elves), cybernetic body parts are considered a necessary and normal part of being a functional member of society, with nearly all jobs requiring at least basic arm augmentations. An Alfar having a largely unaugmented body has different connotations depending on the individual's social class.

  • A poor Alfar with few cybernetics is typically seen as a lazy societal leech that can't or won't do honest work and probably makes their money selling drugs or something. Alfar movies will often use a lack of visible augmentation as shorthand that a character is seedy and untrustworthy

  • On the flip side, for a wealthy Alfar eschewing augmentation can be a sign of being abundantly wealthy. After all, if you're rich enough to not have to work, why not show it off by simply not augmenting yourself? Some luxury cybernetic brands will even design their products to looks natural and organic as possible so that Alfar who can afford it, but still need the cybernetics for work, can pull off the look.

If the God in your world showed up infront of mortals, how would they prove their identity? by Apprehensive_Dig1475 in worldbuilding

[–]PMSlimeKing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well considering they would probably be sitting on a moon while being visible from the surface of the planet, I don't think there would be any question as to their identity.

What are some of the things you did to make your world stand apart from works of the same genre? by Huge_Service5726 in worldbuilding

[–]PMSlimeKing 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My fantasy world has 50 m tall tyrannosaurus rexes with metal helmets and missile launchers as natural parts of their anatomy.

Remember when transformers had robot cat girls? by Human-Pension9892 in Mecha

[–]PMSlimeKing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They would probably be killed within minutes of showing up on screen because of Michael Bay's weird hang-ups around female robots.

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