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I've mentioned in some previous posts of mine planning a space opera that also serves as a love-letter to fantasy and science fiction in various ways. Then we get into an interesting place with the main antagonist who is instead based on a Soviet scientist's alleged attempt to create an ape-human hybrid super-soldier.

It is complete nonsense, of course, but it makes for a good story.

As a fan of the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the character is essentially half White Martian and half White Ape, though I am giving him only one set of arms. He is eleven feet tall, has a face more reminiscent of an orangutan, but you get the idea.

Now, I am thinking of taking a bit from the film "The Primevals", part of this whole love-letter to fantasy and science fiction thing. If you haven't seen it, the yetis in that film being "genetic packrats" with banded hair for camouflage, feline teeth and muzzles, able to live of ruffage if they have to and have canine ears. In other words, products of transmutation.

It may sound like a lot, but I don't know.

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The origin of an iconic suit.

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I did some thinking and if I am planning a space opera that pays homage to both science fiction and fantasy then I want the ships to be like the ones from "Treasure Planet", but different. I want my solar-sail triremes and Viking longships, damn it.

Oh, also clockwork Terminators that are essentially the skeletons from "Jason and the Argonauts."

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I don't know why, but when I was out on my walk today I had this scenario going on in my head about how Nintendo has just been so damn inconsistent with Samus' height. First she's 6'3 in the suit, then she's 6'3 out of it (or whatever the order is), then she's the same height with our without, then she's significantly shorter without and anyway, it just got me imagining a scenario with all the Smash characters and Samus' height changes frequently. She'll just walk away 6'3 and will walk back 5'6, walk away again and be 6', you get the idea.

I just imagined her and Mario having a conversation, Samus is called away for a moment, she comes back and Samus is immediately a different height and Mario is like "WTF?" with his facial expression.

It might sound stupid to everyone else, but to me it just sounds hilarious.

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In my Princess Samus story, I envisioned Samus as wearing a minin-dress like Dejah Thoris there. I didn't mention it, but I just didn't want to be picturing Peach or Daisy's dress in the zero suit's colours. I'm weird like that.

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Memories of a simpler time.

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Dear God, the costuming in the original film might have been typical Hollywood, but it was modest compared to this!

Just for comparison, this screenshot from the original film:

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In my head, I always imagine Samus looking up, a bead of sweat dripping down the side of her face as she wonders if the space pirate is going to look a little bit further.

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I remember thinking this was supposed to be a security camera.

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I don't know why, but I once had a scenario going on in my head of Gummigoo getting his memories back and saying to Caine "You gave me a backstory, but was there ever a point the players were actually going to learn about it?" It's like, what was the plan exactly? What was supposed to happen if that glitch never happened? Was there supposed to be some face-off where Gummigoo explains his motives?

And then it would just turn into Gummigoo demanding better roles for NPCs.

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Sometimes I wonder what things would be like if the Zero Suit segment had the other slots filled with something.

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I've been thinking of the "Princess Samus" scenario that has been popular for a while now, but I've been thinking of a way to shake it up a bit. Now, I love the film "The Prince's Voyage" and the titular Prince has his name styled thusly "Prince Laurent, King of the Laankos."

Thus, our change to the "Princess Samus" scenario. Instead of just "Princess Samus" she is "Princess Samus, Queen of the Arans", a leader in her own right, the leader of a clan or a tribe, whichever one wishes to look at it.

As queen, the possibilities open up, the roles increase. The warrior queen for instance.

Probably sounds stupid, but that's what I have to say.

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It is a tradition for me to head canon at least one character in a franchise as a Hatebeak fan. What is "Hatebeak?" It is a death metal band whose vocalist is a parrot.

Now, we turn to the Super Smash Bros. franchise. I head canon Princess Peach as being the fan of a Hatebeak equivalent. Why? Would you expect Peach to listen to death metal music period? No, it is unexpected and that is why.

This has just caused me to imagine a scenario where Samus, who I head canon as listening to a wide-range of musical genres, asking if she can borrow Peach's... Whatever it currently is people listen to music on mobile-ly now. Like I pay attention, is it just their phones? I've listened to Spotify on my phone a few times, but the ear phones lost energy so quickly.

Anyway, you get the idea. Samus has lost her music-listening device and asks if she can borrow Peach's while she goes to the gym. Of course, I'm not sure which is funnier now, because I have two different versions.

Samus starts on the treadmill, just immediately starts listening to Peach's playlist and the first thing she hears is this death metal music followed by the parrot squawking.

Samus has been on the treadmill for a while, listening to Peach's playlist, hears the death metal music, doesn't think anything of it, then hears the parrot squawking.

The point is that while Samus listens to a wide range of music, she has not listened to anything that involves an animal as a vocalist and she's just like "This is Peach's playlist, right?"

Sounds stupid? Probably.

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At her most vulnerable.

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I was thinking Ragatha looks like Molly Coddle head-wise? What am I? Insane?

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Before danger strikes.