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==Naming Conventions== | ==Naming Conventions== | ||
Traditional phytosian names translated into a Latin alphabet tend to be a simple four letter name that often has one or two vowels, either creating an open middle or open end to its pronunciation, often both. In the language of phytosians, the species from which a podperson derived from is often lumped and attached to the front of their name. However, in translation, this becomes "of [species]". In most cases, however, phytosians simply take some simplistic plant name for their new identity, be it a fruit, vegetable, grain, or vine. Fresh phytosians created from other humanoid species might retain the name they had in their previous life, or adopt a new one entirely, or combine a plant name with a surname they held before. Tendencies highly vary among individuals as the physical and emotional trauma of metamorphosis tends to linger in their psyches. | Traditional phytosian names translated into a Latin alphabet tend to be a simple four letter name that often has one or two vowels, either creating an open middle or open end to its pronunciation, often both. In the language of phytosians, the species from which a podperson derived from is often lumped and attached to the front of their name. However, in translation, this becomes "of [species]". In most cases, however, phytosians simply take some simplistic plant name for their new identity, be it a fruit, vegetable, grain, or vine. Fresh phytosians created from other humanoid species might retain the name they had in their previous life, or adopt a new one entirely, or combine a plant name with a surname they held before. Tendencies highly vary among individuals as the physical and emotional trauma of metamorphosis tends to linger in their psyches. | ||
== Culture == | |||
Familial and parental structures are completely alien to phytosians. Individuals are expected to be independent and relatively grow on their own, though Confederacy officials will often quickly scurry a fresh phytosian into re-education centers, to teach them of their own sapience and humanoid nature if they were not before, or to explain their new condition and genetic bond to the rest of phytosians. To be rebirthed through lazarupela vitalis is a sacred moment, where one casts off the old chains of death and mortality to be ever-living, eternally. It is a condition that loyalists seek to perpetrate, though they're cautious in their enthusiasm, as murder is typically frowned upon by the galactic community. As being podcloned means a convenient loss of one's memories before their rebirth, some actively malign phytosians take advantage of this when able. | |||
Celebrations do not generally occur on Mulvoda. Society is organized into disciplined, systematic sections of production and work, where each phytosian can labor for generation after generation to ensure the continuation of their species. Both the Great Wildfires and the Razing are cited constantly by the Confederacy as need for discipline, strength, and absolute moralism in the face of a threat to the continued survival of their kind. Fire is still highly sacred and utilized for those most loyal to the collective regime. Even the fiercest criminals are kept alive in goat pens to be torn asunder again, and again, and again. | |||
As their own lives are generally worthless in their eyes, only a glance of the fragility of other species comes into phytosian's minds when making decisions at an individual or national level. In their minds, for the very few other organics that exist within their empire, their demise could easily be solved by podcloning and re-education, often turning them into more productive workers as a result of their newfound immortality. In the few years that the Gukdem Confederacy has interacted with the galactic community, however, this part has become known, and very few travel to live in their lands because of the danger. It is mostly scientists and xenobiologists that go, and considering the radical utilitarianism that the Confederacy practices, the sciences are much more highly valued than the arts. As a result, these "intellectual outsiders" are given far more respect than the average cattle. | |||
Despite massive warnings of fire and fearmongering used to incite discouragement of executive structures where one individual holds the power, the Tunx Church is still surprisingly permitted to exist. Fire is a central image of that which can inspire and sear the flames of ambition, though it's capable of destroying the wielder if they are overzealous or unworthy. As a result, it becomes a cautious, divine relationship for most phytosians, who may pray to the cinders for strength in their duties ahead, tinged with a request that they can continue their endless work, that they only move onto the Kilnplains once they have earned their proper rest, which will only come about when the Work is finished. | |||
This goal of the "Work" is the mass conversion of all living things to phytosians, so that all may be united under eternal life and prosperous safety, to lift the material world into a kind of heaven where all creatures can exist and frolick as they see fit, undisturbed by individual need or desire, to fulfill their wants and wishes over as much time as they need, choosing to leave the world when they have finally earned their time to lie down and rest. | |||
For obvious reasons, this plan is a tightly-kept secret by the Confederacy, only to be shared with the most loyal of their subjects. | |||
==Lifespan and Health== | ==Lifespan and Health== | ||
The average lifespan of a phytosian body is very short, about thirty years, though they are fully grown once their form emerges from a pod of lazarupela vitalis. Their leaves are fragile, and they're overall highly susceptible to any source of flame or heat. As their leafy exteriors provide little insulation, it's not uncommon for heat to simply cause massive internal organ failure, as their blood can boil from exposure to heat that would only burn the flesh on other species. Fire, as a result, is widely addressed with fear, but also a kind of fascination, as fire is unique in its ability to consume the body whole and evaporate the blood therein, providing phytosians with a lasting, permanent death. While this dual-nature tends to balance out in most phytosians, they are far more likely to display symptoms of pyromania or pyrophobia. | The average lifespan of a phytosian body is very short, about thirty years, though they are fully grown once their form emerges from a pod of lazarupela vitalis. Their leaves are fragile, and they're overall highly susceptible to any source of flame or heat. As their leafy exteriors provide little insulation, it's not uncommon for heat to simply cause massive internal organ failure, as their blood can boil from exposure to heat that would only burn the flesh on other species. Fire, as a result, is widely addressed with fear, but also a kind of fascination, as fire is unique in its ability to consume the body whole and evaporate the blood therein, providing phytosians with a lasting, permanent death. While this dual-nature tends to balance out in most phytosians, they are far more likely to display symptoms of pyromania or pyrophobia. | ||