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Why is it that whenever we make anthropomorphic flower people, we almost always use the blossom for the head/face? That leaves the reproductive bits on full display! It would be so much more stylish to use the blossom for a skirt or dress.

Also, we don't need the plant roots to be included in the feet. We could easily incorporate them into the character design as hair. Can you imagine some green skin girl with a dress that looks like a flower blossom and plant root hair that she buries in the soil when she lies down to go to sleep?

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I was just reading the wikipedia article on Telling the Bees and I can't help but imagine a Dungeons & Dragons druid or ranger that is themed around being an information broker that uses magic that lets them communicate with plants and animals to allow them to hear the newest gossip from bees, little birds, and through the grapevine.

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Fallout Idea: The next time a Fallout game takes place in California, they should include the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department as a location and have some group there that revolves around the Centennial Light. I like the idea of such a group revering this bulb due to it staying lit since 1901 and that it survived the nukes. It'd be some sort of light of hope to them. If it can stay lit, perhaps they too can continue to survive. There would of course be a quest about the possibility of it going out. Either the player has to repair/replace a backup generator to ensure continued power to it or they might be trying to get the group to leave by cutting power to the bulb to rob those people of hope.

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SCP Idea: Standard JRPG protagonist that escaped his game.

He is contained by having someone with no combat capability stand at the entrance to his cell and basically act as an immovable NPC.

His backstory is that he was in some old generic RPG videogame and some wondertainment game console resulted in him switching places with the player. He gets attacked by the player's father who believes him to have broken into his house, and this leads to a series of fights that this JRPG protagonist interprets as random encounters until the SCP Foundation has the bright idea of handling things peacefully. The console probably got damaged before he was captured, leaving him unable to go back and a game cartridge that someone is trapped inside.

He'd be easy enough to get along with. Just don't threaten him and you're pretty close to safe, but generally, the closer you are to an NPC around him, the less likely you are to get into physical combat with him. Also, he's the type to take on every side quest available, making it very easy to get him to do just about anything. Just frame it as a quest, and he'll do it for you. One thing that could get in the way though is him being a silent protagonist, which makes it difficult to get explanations for any of the anomalous behaviors and abilities he shows.

I imagine him having some of the usual JRPG mechanics apply to him like having a leveling system and being able to get strange things to drop from defeated enemies. This of course leads to tests on what he acquires from defeating D-class personnel and some byproducts of various SCPs. Also, the file on him starts with a name and his current level (no one trying to write about him can resist including this at the top of the document), making reference to the idea that recording any sort of file on him gets treated as saving his game progress. He even often shows some degree of knowledge of the future that gets more precise the more recently his file has been updated. The inevitable attempt to level him up to 99 and pit him against SCP 682 would have 682 simply carve some runes in the floor. The moment 682 does this, the JRPG protagonist SCP goes into a panic of trying to escape. Upon doing so, he seems intent on having his file updated by one of the researchers as soon as possible. The updated file reveals that his name has changed and he is now level 1.

I really like the idea of him interacting with SCP 261 due to how much I enjoy the test logs for it where B yen, mon, Wadōkaichin, or some other non-yen Japanese currency is used. Just the thought of him putting in some sort of JRPG currency that he gets from fighting and getting generic JRPG items like potions in return. He'd at some point be witnessed somehow managing to sell one of his weapons to it by sticking it into the dispenser.

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Both vampires and mosquitos are repelled by garlic...

Would even a non-garlic-based mosquito repellant work against a vampire?

There is just something hilarious about imagining some aristocratic Dracula-flavored vampire cornering a woman in an alley and what he first assumes is pepper spray turns out to be some spray on mosquito repellant that she begins to apply to her neck.

"Vhat vas... YOU DARE COMPARE A MASTER OF THE NIGHT TO A MERE INSECT?!"

And what annoys him the most is that it actually works and he can't stand to go in for the bite. And then the woman just starts using the mosquito spray as if it were the pepper spray that the vampire initially mistook it for.