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Hocotatians: hamsters

Koppaites: mice

Shepherd, collin, russ: probably actually canine to be honest

Bernard: gerbil

Dingo an yonny: guinea pigs

Pom: squirrel

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Can i say something... all rodents

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Coming back to pikmin 2 after not playing it for a few weeks while being literally knee deep in the dream den is like opening the game and getting immediately punched in the teeth

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misc pikmin doodles from before 4 released..

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Hi Pikmin yuri nation.

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I like looking at people trying to make sense of the hocotatians/koppaites/etc unique traits, especially their more cartoony ones. It goes with the spirit of the games really trying to sell a weird and unrecognisable, but still functional ecosystem with species not totally separated from reality (in most cases *eyes the gatling groink*)

On the other hand though i equally like that the koppaites funny cartoon-logic eyes are just kind of unexplainable in earthly terms. They contrast with the realistic natural scenery in a way that really tickles me and they even look different to a lot of the species of the planet, and thats with some creatures like the bulborbs still not obeying 100% realism logic in their designs either. With bulborbs its ultimately like okay i will believe this is a fucked up animal in the distant future when our planets atmosphere and environment turned so hostile to our native fauna that everyone turned fucked up looking in response. And STILL the koppaites look like they definitely did not evolve in the same conditions as the bulborbs

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The Koppeyes

Okay, so you look at them, and what is the biggest difference between them and Hocotatians?

That's right, those eyes. Compared to most vertebrate eyes, they are very unique, which is why I decided to cover them first. No irises yet they can still dilate and constrict, seem to be completely immovable and rather large. What could be the purpose of such kooky peepers?

Part 1: Irises

As we discussed, they appear to have no irises. However, they would have to have irises, as they can still dilate and constrict, and in most animals the irises do that. As for examples of their eyes doing that? Take this comedic image of Alph.

As you can see, compared to the images above, Alph's eyes are constricted, presumably from shock after scrolling on r/pikmin for a nanosecond.

Now, if Koppaites can constrict their eyes without irises... How? Actually, the white of their eye is not their sclera. THAT'S the iris. I believe their eyes are structured more similarly to that of dogs than humans, very large irises with normally non-visible sclerae.

Part 2: Immovability

If you watch some cutscenes and pay enough attention, you may be able to see that they don't move their eyes, rather they tilt their head around in order to look around. Hocotatians can indeed move their eyes, as you can see from Louie freakishly glancing around in the Pikmin 2 intro cinematic.

If you look at them in the above images, their eyes bulge out which leads me to believe they indeed have eyeballs instead of eye tubes like owls, an example of animal with mostly immovable eyes. However, owls can move their eyes at least a little bit, while Koppaites cannot at all.

As a result, I believe their eyes are just stuck in their skulls via being incredibly large, ocular muscles being vestigial from disuse. Alph's eyelids are not obvious due to the fact Alph keeps his eyes wide open thus his eyelids tucked behind his eye, the same applying for Brittany, while Charlie's eyelids do not due to his eyes not bulging as much as the rest of the gang.

However, there is an aspect that makes them even more freaky with their peepers.

Part 3: Eyemotions

This one makes them seem even more messed up... You see, their eyes, uhhh...

This is most disturbing.

Is their pupil actually through their whole eye and the iris is more a covering that push back, thus creating this? Very, very weird, as you can tell from these images. I saw a similar situation with the Bloons monkeys, but at least that's a more cartoony artstyle. Pikmin 3 being the least cartoonishly stylised game in the series, this certainly has freaky implications.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed my first real biology post here on this blog, it was a real blast to analyse ingame footage to find all I can, speculate about the different aspects of them and put this post together!

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Bulband (and bug)

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Not even brittany or louie like bitches with a voracious appetite. They dont like to share.

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“Brittany is just louie if he was a girl if brittany was a guy you guys would defend her to-“ to be fair people hate louie too. They very much dont like louie

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two very normal human truck drivers

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Ok it might be somewhat of a skill issue though it really bothers me that its so difficult to do twilight river/garden of hope p2 in single days, because they give u just slightly more than u can reasonably do all together. Maybe its cus i commit to getting all the fruit too much before i come back with blue pikmin idk though i find it Really Hard to get to scornet maestro in 1 day and thats only on normal difficulty

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The worst joint on PNF-404

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Oatchi >>>>>> shepherd i forgor him sorry

Shepherd >>>>>>> all of the otherrescue corps members sorry shes babygirl

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Shepherd >>>>>>> all of the otherrescue corps members sorry shes babygirl

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Captain Erma Shepherd and Oatchi

Space Dogs' #1 Fan

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*forces olimar to join your colony, turning him into one of your own possibly by giving him the parasite that turns bulborbs/rocks into bulbmin/rockmin* *BUT youre super cute* awwwwww

*takes sleep-stasis olimar and makes a little bed for him and loves him and dotes on him and protects him from other aliens that wish to take him for who knows what* *BUT you look weird* HELLO HR

The pikmin and the plasm wraith r literally flirting vs sexual harassment