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Slimes...

A friend who loves making up fictional settings for potential stories wanted to make a fantasy setting where a group of monsters live in peace outside the warring Human Kingdoms and Demon Realm, and she asked me (as a slime) to come up with a slime character or culture or something for it.

I then immediately banged out this little writeup of a cool slime culture that I really love and am proud of :3


Largely independent creatures, most slimes live out their lives as ambush predators in forests and caves. They can also take in algae and mosses for a symbiotic relationship, though this alone cannot provide enough energy for frequent locomotion.

Those who enjoy companionship, however, can intermingle to a degree unfathomable to most other races.

A small group can combine into a single entity, for strength and community. Larger groups may become entire ponds of slimes. These slime ponds typically live on symbiotic algae and nearby plantlife.

Slimes occasionally find their way into other communities as well; their abilities can give them a special place in a community, though many also simply enjoy their company~


Instead of more traditional reproduction, slimes generally spawn, well, spontaneously, when the right mixture of water and select minerals and organic substances come into contact with high enough concentrations of magic.

This rarely happens outside of known slime spawning grounds (mostly swampy wetlands and particularly wet and magic-filled caves), but after a heavy rainstorm it isn't uncommon to see one or two new slimes having appeared.

Slimes can also "reproduce" via a process not unlike mitosis or binary fission. However, this will result in a new slime which is (for lack of a better term) a genetic duplicate of the original, and will also have some of the original slime's memories as well. This process takes a lot of energy as well as mass, and is not very common to do.


pinkbun
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I also had an idea for a character to have in the friend's story directly, which was a slime character who is actually five slimes in a trenchcoat (they're all girlfriends)

They live together as a rainbow swirl of slimes. A slie-die slime girl :3


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