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Gelatinoid by LordDominic

Gelatinoid

LordDominic

Squish



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Several months back, a friend and I were chatting and the subject of one of their characters being a slime came up--I had some questions about the biology of it, like how it would have areas that were distinct colors and shapes from the rest of the body, things they hadn't given much thought to, but I was interested in making a slime creature that felt grounded in reality.
Of course, I forgot about doing so when other things came up, but when my roommate started watching an anime about a slime character in early August, it reminded me of my interest in designing one...


Meet Squish, the Gelatinoid.


As slime creatures, Gelatinoids could be best thought of as giant amoebas, with an overall fairly formless body containing various free-floating organelles it can rearrange within the gelatinous, slimy mass that makes up its body as needed.
They lack a central brain, with the whole body making up a neural net not unlike a jellyfish, and they tend to instinctively form "ears" to house some of the sensory organs related to vibrations (and by extension, sound) and electromagnetism, and they typically form a pair of "eyes" that they will either spread out for a wider field of vision or move closer together to offer more precise binocular vision.
Additionally, this one seems to have formed a "face" by accumulating digestive cells around a point it has decided to make its mouth, while the "nostrils" are probably masses of chemical receptor cells that offer some rudimentary version of a sense of smell.


They likely reproduce by fission, much like amoebas, when they reach a certain size, with each half quickly forming into a complete (but smaller) Gelatinoid.


I am considering these creatures actually inhabiting the vacuum of space, native to asteroid fields and comets. Being virtually unaffected by the vacuum of space and capable of some form of photosynthesis, and leeching nutrients from the asteroids and comets they inhabit while ingesting any suitable food they may chance upon, it's quite possible that they have spread throughout the galaxy over millions of years just by drifting from star system to star system. Being fairly primitive and brainless, they aren't likely to get scared should an impact dislodge them from their asteroid home and send them adrift toward a new star, or get bored during their trip--they'll simply go dormant, and hibernate for the potentially millennia-long journey to a new home, reawakening if they land on a suitable new object and carrying on as though nothing happened. It's likely that innumerable asteroids, moons, and even planets have established and distinct gelatinoid populations as a result.


In more recent times, it's likely they've hitched rides on interstellar ships, sticking onto the ships as they navigate through asteroid fields or stop to collect asteroids and comets to harvest for resources, and may have even been taken as pets by space-faring explorers or somehow survived atmospheric reentries well enough to form populations on various planets.


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