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Vilous | “Plants” on Planet Tal [+Creator Insights!]
🕑 Added 2020-05-25 19:05:10 +0000 UTC
Today we’re going to discuss a very important point and an often overlooked fact of the Vilous Universe within fan artworks which are themed and contain Vilous elements, such as Sergals, flora or fauna of varied types.
Oftentimes, folks will try to draw artwork that depicts their own interpretation and view on the Vilous universe. However, sometimes, they might just outright adopt Earth’s natural environment or rather similar ones to that of Earth's as surrounding plants featured in scenery pieces, instead of the real, common forest scenes, which can be seen on Planet Tal, within the realm of the Vilous Universe.
To be strict, you still can find green plant life that is similar to that of common plants on Earth within the Vilous Universe. However, they are actually contained in rather rare sights, very few in number, growing in very limited areas.
Because Planet Tal is a truly alien world, common plant life and natural scenery look quite exotic, totally different from those of Earth.
Talyxian Biome, the majority of flora on Planet Tal. Talyxian plant life functions akin to primitive animals, not containing any chlorophyll like the plant life of Earth. Due to the lack of chlorophyll, these are not commonly green, but rather exhibit hues in the purple, red, pink, orange, blue, or monochromatic scale. The especially-reddish toned organisms exhibit meaty, fleshy alien features, often looking like bodily organs, muscles, or blood vessels. The grayish- and white-toned organisms tend to look more inorganic, appearing solid like bones or corals.
In addition, today's mini-update, we would like to give an appeal for how general conception and definition of "Plant Life" in Tal is different and far from that of plants on Earth.
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Sessile Organisms
Sessile Organism (着生生物, also referred to "Settled" or "Stationary" type creatures) is a major classification of biology on Planet Tal, which includes both Eltus and Talyxian organisms.
They feature an ecology that is stationary and remains in a fixed location for the duration of their life. This definition allows folks to distinguish them from every kind of creature which is mobile and free to roam around.
In Tal's biology, all of these "Sessile" type organisms are considered to be 'plants'. Under this classification, 'plant life' on Tal both include the Talyxian sessile organisms that do not have chlorophyll, technically falling under an animal label, and the Eltus sessile organisms that do appear like Earth plants with chlorophyll.
This definition includes remains of massive corpses or fossils that form a shape that looks like a plant. As such, Tal's biology defines the difference of animal or plant, based on their superficial behavior and situation rather than actual biological and inner difference; dynamic or static. Due to this, Eltus plants which have a similar biology to common plants on Earth, they as well fall under this umbrella term, "sessile organisms".
Areas within Talyxian biome, common floras in Tal, are technically a place where it is occupied with a colony or flock composed of them. Eltus folks call these areas while referring to how it looks, such as "forest" or "plain".
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The origin of the concept of Talyxian meaty plants
Some people may wonder how Mick got the inspiration for the visual concept of Talyxian meaty, fleshy plants.
The visual origin is based off of nightmares that she saw in her childhood: A lot of grotesque meaty lumps, strange man-eating blobs or slimes, and some kind of liquid creatures were encircling her. She often had these types of nightmares, these visions had remained in her mind as quite a sharp memory.
As time went on, the design of general Talyxian biome forests had been completed while reflecting the visual inspiration originating from the nightmares. Meaty, grotesque, wriggling red trees, and they often can be very aggressive and threatening towards people.
And nowadays, Kiki and Mick are trying to find out more deep viewpoints from these "meaty forests that eat people." After considering plural elements surrounding those, Kiki and Mick are having a hypothesis that they are related to the primitive structure of a neural organ that humans own. Reflexive and emotional reactions that people share. The deep and core concepts of Talyxians are related to various negative feelings that humans can have, especially Red Talyxians reflect mentally inflamed and intense responses from these types of feelings into their ecologies and behaviors.
The progress of creators' consideration of how they view the core structure of Talyxian organisms, it would explain more why Talyxians are so grotesque, and threatening towards people.
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