Some side details for Apocalyptic Ponyo:
- Blurr doesn’t really know shit about animals and he knows he doesn’t know, which is 90% of the reason he hasn’t realized Swerve is fully sentient yet. Every time he sees Swerve do something smart it falls under the blanket of “This is weird but I don’t know enough to question it.”
- Swerve meanwhile has definitely come around to treating Blurr as effectively sentient, but doesn’t realize mers as a species are sentient. As far as he’s aware, Blue is an outlier and a magic fish man.
a) They haven’t seen any other survivors (minus the kids).
b) They haven’t seen any more bodies since the first night.
It is two different reasons. It will come up in a later installment.
- Spam is a very popular food around the pacific isles! I don’t have a real life location in mind but I generally think of the island the story takes place on as somewhere between New Zealand and Hawaii.
- People have caught on that Swerve is not doing so hot anymore, but Blurr is also developing health related symptoms from the extended stress.
- Flyts can brumate! Meaning they go into a sort of stasis when their core temperature drops and flyts can stay in this state for years at a time. This coupled with their fairly easy care requirements and friendly non destructive disposition makes them one of the few organic peta popular with cybertronians.
- Since cybertronians are effectively giant walking engines and computers, their ships are kept pretty cold. A room with an active cybertronian inside isn’t too bad, but an empty room with the AC running can easily hover near freezing temperatures.
- I’m a big fan of Humans Are Space Orcs as a concept, so outside of Cybertronians and quintessons, Humans are bizarrely dangerous compared to the rest of galactic society.
- Velocity hasn’t done anything “wrong” to end up on the Lost Light, she’s just very new to the medical field. One thing she’s gotten down pat is keeping a cool head. Velocity could crack jokes about Jazz being a “talking corpse” but internally she was going “What the fuuuuck. What the fuuuuuuuck.” The whole time she was examining him.
Imagine coming fresh out of med school and your first ever patient is Frankenstein’s Monster.
- Bluestreak is on the Lost Light because Prowl figured Elita would be the commander least likely to kill him out of annoyance and the most likely to make it quick if she did.
Thank you for the ask and hope you have a good day as well!
