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I have a question who is this moon mite? Like why is he tall and different and what’s his backstory? This oc get me intrigued and interested!

This mite is Caedmon, a solitary soldier living in the ruins of what was once one of the most powerful super colonies of the Moon Cluster. He wasn't a leader, not even a soldier (as a role and as a caste), just a humble little worker who spent his days letting his artistry run wild. He'd read the oldest of mite literature, he'd write the thoughts that ache inside, he'd paint visions, skulpt futures, and play songs that combine them both. He was an artist, which is another way to say he was a complete loser. Even in a colony full of artists, he was the odd one out, teased and bullied for his creations. Somehow, amongst losers, he was the most loser of them all, far too eccentric for their tastes, but even then, he wouldn't give up on his craft. The bullying would be the smallest of his troubles when his colony and another went to war. Conflicts between colonies are common, wars especially, but a war between super colonies is a devastating event, practically two entire moons going after each other while endangering any colonies settled on neighboring moons. This war would force all of Caedmon's colony into the front lines, workers forcibly turned into soldiers and butchers as their numbers dwindled, in the end, his colony fell. Survivors would flee to neighboring moons, but Caedmon would stay.

Despite the devastation, Caedmon has never been happier to have the ruins all to himself. Though many structures were crumbled or half buried underground, it was no issue for him, he rebuilt the structures around his little home (which is even deeper underground) and kept whatever remained of his moon tidy. He'd preserve the literature he can find and continue his craft as if nothing had changed...

But then, a new colony would find themselves settling in the ruins, very small in numbers and visibly inexperienced, likely having left their own colonies with the goal to start their own. A village would be built where the most intact ruins stood, and seeing them move things around would bother Caedmon enough to suddenly and rudely intrude. He'd scold them, threaten them to not ruin the ruins, he's instruct them on the purpose of the structures they begun to occupy, what a colony should and shouldn't prioritize, and so on. Caedmon didn't care if his barking chased them off, but he'd be caught by surprise when it had the opposite effect. His commands and threatening stature would make the village see him as a potential leader. They would begin to seek him out for advice on how to build up their young colony, and in his insults and spitting, caedmon would begrudgingly guide them. Though he doesn't show it, he his happy to see the husk of his colony filled with new life, as if his colony never fell... with new occupants, he, of course, takes the opportunity to show off his art as well as condescendingly explaining certain mite literature and philosophies to the new village. Despite having a new crowd, they also think his art is dogshit.

As the only soldier and honorary leader (despite not ever agreeing to that role), he protects the village from raiders when the time comes.

He's still pretty antisocial, almost to a violent degree, so the village avoids bothering him if they want to keep their limbs... but sometimes the threat of losing a limb or two isn't enough for them to prance into his home to demand stuff from him as if he agreed to the responsibility of the village. It's a tense relationship, but a relationship regardless.

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This may have already been stated but are moon mites sapient like humans? Or do they just exhibit sapient traits (like apes & crows/ravens)?

Moon mites are sapient but have been mislabeled as "feral" or "primitive" by larger societies for unknown reasons (there are many conspiracies in universe to what could've possible led to such mislabeled, the most common being to covering up their severe mistake of selling moon mite eggs as easy pets)

There are many species who are mislabeled as primitive (those forced into intergalactic society far too soon or even at the start of their societal evolution), and they're often fighting to be recognized as sapient by larger societies. The stigma of moon mites being wild continues to go without protest due to the fact there are no known moon mites who are actively fighting it, always seen acting as street pests, pets or creating a false identity as an "unknown alien species"

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Concept of some more livestock!!

All of them, of course, are harvested for their blood, milk, pelts, meat, and bone, but some offer more highly valued product by quality and quantity.

Runt Livestock - valued most for their "eggs", a mutation in their ovaries has cause some of those dormant eggs to get engorged like a pimple, but instead of puss it’s a unique mix of proteins and fats, resembling yolk. These inflated eggs get rejected by the ovaries and forced into the unused uterus, collecting until it basically starts to trigger contractions to expel what is essentially a hoard of tumors. A cycle of their bodies endlessly growing and expelling red, squishy, mildly transparent, delicious, cancerous tumors. Their meat is very soft and their milk sour, used mostly for strong cheeses. They can choose to nest anywhere, no matter how inconvenient, they'll defend those spots like their life depends on it, even if those spots are on the backs of bigger livestock, butchee livestock often being the target, which unfortunately leaves their fur matted in blood and sticky eggs.

Worker Livestock - valued most for their accessibility. Even the most youngest and weakest of colonies are able to alter one of their own into the role of livestock (knowlege of the most advanced engineering and sciences are instinct to all mites, even if they aren't consciously aware of it. This skill is another reason they're regarded as ancient-bioweapons to many of the galaxy). They can still contribute to a colony as fellow worker (many who didn't get a choice in becoming livestock are often the ones who live as workers) but their creation is intended to be fed, pampered, milked, drained and harvested over and over again, their regeneration keeping this cycle going for as long as the livestock is still kicking, the moment they are brain dead from the pampered life, they are harvested COMPLETELY.

Soldier Livestock - valued most for their leather, blood, and bone. Their meat is the tough, their milk in particularly low supply and bland, but their blood - practically an aggressive drug that mites use as a stimulant before or during combat. Their leather often used for common mite attire and even armor, their bone also being quiet the valuable material for its ability to withstand insane levels of force. Aside from their product, they are utilized especially as guardian and draft animals (despite still being v e r y sapient), guarding livestock, pulling heavy carts, and being ridden into battle. Though all mites of any caste - including those not livestock - are also used as draft animals, soldier livestock is preferred due to their ability to work and run for days non-stop, pain or anger only making them that much more rabid compared to the average soldier.

Butcher Livestock - Valued most for their rarity and IMMENSE quantity in product. The sign of a powerful colony that is capable of feeding a butcher enough to be livestocked, their soft coat, and damn near adamantine tusks add to their value. Their meat is the toughest of all variants, but the most juiciest teaming with so much flavor that consuming it raw still brings satisfaction. Their milk is extraordinarily nutritious and sourced in such large quantities its often fed to other livestock. Now, their bones, they're not only an especially valuable material, but their bone marrow is to die for, and many do! Harvesting butchers are always bountiful, the only possible downside being their inactivity, always sleeping if not searching for new places to sleep. This inactivity, unfortunately, has made them content to neglect their coats, farmers needing to keep them clean and groomed, ESPECIALLY when runt livestock enjoy matting the sleeping butcher's coats with their sticky eggs and fluids.

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Hiii!! just had a question about meeks. Since we know that besides for fighter meeks, color matters, where would black and white go? I’d assume white is valuable due to the kitsune thing, but what about black?

Despite colors like dull browns, beige, olive greens, greys and similar shades being looked down on for meeks, melanistic meeks are of very high value, black fur and black skin are pretty in the eyes of collectors and meeks alike, esbecially with the added bonus of a natural glaze on their fur, making them shine a subtle rainbow with the right lighting. They're just as rare as albino meeks and, like them, have the risk of getting killed the moment they're born for having eyes like a kitsune.

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Decided to make it a bit cooler lol

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Out of curiosity, do Mist Meeks adopt spawn that isn’t theirs?

Does it depend on the spawn?

Does it depend on if the Meek is pregnant/ready to have spawns/is already taking care of spawn?

Or does it not matter and Meeks don’t typically adopt?

It depends on the meek themselves! If they feel sympathy for lost spawn, they may adopt them or, at the very least, look for another meek better suited to care for them. Cruel meeks may adopt but only to have something to torment or use as bait to flee a predator or to lure in other meeks to rob, but they often just kill lost spawn that isn't their own.

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i have to wonder- are there mites who feel sad/resentful that they can no longer have kits? have like- families? or is the concept just completely foreign to them... given that the ancient times are long gone history, that and well- neotenies exist... maybe other non-mite beings who know that history feel any sympathy for them in that regard?

There are indeed mites who mourn not only being unable to have kits but having not experienced being one themselves. This has created a bit of a new dynamic amongst mites, those who yearn for comfort and protection from other mites as a kit would, and those who yearn to comfort and guide mites as if they were kits.

Sometimes, this manifests in a healthy way, with mites bonded together like a family within large loving colonies. Other times, this manifests in an unhealthy or downright deadly way, with stronger mites torturing weaker mites into near brain death to emulate a defensless kit completely dependent on their tormentor, or wrathful, gluttonous mites forcing others to care for it like a cuckoobird who doesn't stop at one parent.

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Loving your art and seen the updated reference of the moon mites

But I gotta ask

What are mist Meeks?..are they like servants for the moon mites or..something?

Mist Meeks are artificial "pets" that were made to compete with Moon Mites during their rise as a popular instant/easy pet franchise (waay before the moon mite outbreak)! As a brand, they have outlived the moon mite franchise and remain as the tyrants of the "living toy" business, many consumers being children, adults who want a companion or hobbyist who collect, breed and sell meeks with specific traits. With many strays breeding and infesting unkempt areas, they're bound to come across mites that are hiding in the shadows. Mites, in a way, also partake in the meek hobby, training to be servants or breeding and selling them to other hobbyists.

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Mites are very flexible. They only look so scrunched and ridged because when they stand upright, they kinda compress themselves a little

Imagine a slinky

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Ts cult pmo

The colony regularly cycles through leaders through elections, Am's leader status having passed on to more charming faces that had won the vote. Even with the front of a fair and balanced colony, all still operate under the belief system Am had established and continues to uphold.

This colony is settled on a small moon that orbids the Cluster, a lot of their efforts spent trying to "rehabilitate" mites, make them into model citizens that have the potential to live amongst other alien societies, particularly that of the Galactic Federation. Despite their peaceful front, they're very armed, defending their colony from raiders and core mites regularly. Though small, they hold settlements across many occupied star systems in their mission to make mites part of civilization, their most successful work being mite involvement within black markets, specifically the creation of the moon-mite-script-translator.

Like a cult, they target vulnerable mites, convincing them to become a part of their movement and way of living. The indoctrination is especially grueling, damn near torture to fully reshape mites into "model citizens." The colony's populace split between Haven neighborhoods and massive hospitals filled with drugged out mites still undergoing their indoctrination. Deeper in these facilities are mites that had been straight up abducted, experimented on in order to find the perfect method to turn even the most rabid of core mites into humble civilians.

Haven Colony, to other colonies, are seen as stuck-up snobs that flinch at meat and preach abstinence in nearly everything mites do on the regular.

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The updated mite ref sheet is done!

An absolutely chunky meal so I sliced it into digestible pieces too

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Hi there😼

I’m currently on a Moon Mite (and aliens in general) brainrot rn and honestly, I want to try to make a Moon Mite OC like some others have! So just out of curiosity, I have two questions.

1. Could Mites have mutations in their fur color? Like spots or something?

2. Do you have any suggestions for making OCs accurate or mostly accurate to Moon Mite lore?

Thanks!

Mites can absolutely have mutations not only in their fur color but form as well. Some workers can have the pelt of a butcher or straight up the pelt patterned like a tiger or zebra, more complex patterns usually influenced by what they first ate as a neoteny to mutate. Imagine xenomorphs and the variants that come out based on what the facehuggers latched onto, but it's a lil random. Say, two neotenies ate a cow, one may mutate as a normal looking mite whereas the other will mutate as a big ol spotted mite, maybe even grow some horns and a whip-like tail. If you tried to replicate it, both mites may just come out normal. Hell they just might eat a normal mite as neotenys and mutate into bizarre forms regardless. Random stuff, but if lucky, the mite will stand out by a lot!

With mite lore still being in the works as well as it being chaotic in nature, I think almost anything can go. To make sure their lore doesn't go *too* out of wack, the only rule I can give is that mites are always born adults, kits no longer being possible to conceive is why mites reproduce how they do now. Hybrids are extremely rare, only possible through genetically modifying said hybrid during conception or when strapped into a fucked up machine and painfully modified that way.

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…. Do albino Meeks exist? If so, how rare is it and where on the scale does it land in “most desired…?

Albino meeks definitely exist, pale white coats with very raindbow-like eyes (since their blood is raindbow-y).

They'd absolutely be rare, not only for them to be born but for them to survive moments after birth. They have no other defects other than some vision problems, but their own mothers can be a threat to them, killing them for their resemblance to kitsune meeks.

Just like breeding for a kitzune meek, you have to keep an extremely close eye, ready to swipe the baby when born so they aren't killed by their mothers.

For sure, they could be of high value, but it may depend on the breeder and what they're after.

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*clicks pen* If most Meeks are overly horny, does that mean certain people would have them fixed? I know their species' main reason for existing is to create the perfect meek and then make more just like it, but what if the owner doesn't want to let the meek reproduce because it's not one of the pretty ones? Or they don't wish to turn the meek into a critter for breeding because its a "family pet", yet it keeps humping things. Would getting a meek fixed kill the critter??

Fortunately, fixing a meek doesn't immediately kill it no matter what other unfixed-stray-meeks claim ^^

Their temperament will improve but it's a 50/50 on whether that fixes their excessive humping, if they don't stop then they've been doing it out of spite and will need to be disciplined.

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neotenies laying eggs, you say? 👀

Yessirr!! Tiny lil eggs that look like grains of sand.

For them to lay eggs, gotta get them as content as possible with regular feedings (solid foods). They're basically neotenies that refuse to mutate and would rather convert the protein and sugars they've consumed into eggs, the eggs hatching into neotenies who will either mutate when fed or decide they also aren't about that life and poop an egg. Fully developed mites take advantage of this to have breeders on standby since it takes waay too much energy and blood to extract eggs from developed mites.

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I forgot to add a more shady side to the O'glai

As obligate carnivores and natural-born cultivators, for sure the shadier crowds would dabble in the farming and cooking of sapient meat. Cherub, Bluáfia, Human, and even other O'glai, if it's self-aware, it's delicious. Abducting unfortunate species who are fated to be prepped as meals, no matter how long it takes. Some O'glai are more impatient than others, but regardless, they strive to make high-quality products.

It's common for G.Fed folks sneaking into shady planets for partying to take note of butchery stands displaying human and alien meat.

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The biggest threat to Ancient Mite's cult Community of Rehabilitated Mites is surprisingly not The Core or Mite Raiders, but Timid.

She fits in well, perfectly even, a gentle, social and incredibly intelligent mite has become incapable of having berserker fits (only fainting fits, like a goat), the kind of mite AM has been working restlessly to create. Her wisdom rivals that of AM's, some might even say she surpasses him but is holding back out of, well, timidness. Her abilities, her behavior, her very nature always left AM breathless, having a newfound admiration he never thought he had for a mite... but that admiration turned into complete dismay when learning of how she became that way and where her beliefs lie.

Hell cannot even begin to describe the torment she had endured in her past, the closest thing to measure it to would be the era of enslaved mites. Experimentation after experimentation, death after death, torture after torture. Wronged time and time again yet was seemingly left with no malice in her heart... at least that's what AM believed, until she'd share to him what she believed of her predicament.

She believes all sapient beings are evil, mites included, it's inevitable. Unimaginable chaos and torment is the natural course for sapient beings, to waste your lifespan seeking peace in a haven is utterly pointless. Found havens, built havens, they always end in hell one way or another. It's a treat to live in a haven while it lasts, but finding peace in hell is the true path to contentment.

Very morbidly positive nihilism that goes against AM's beliefs and purpose of creating the community - to guide mites to higher teachings without the exposure of horrific evils. Though at first he saw Timid's jarring morals as a quirk to subtly indoctrinate out of her, what came to scare him out of his wits was learning how much influence she had in his community being that he wasn't the only one Timid shared her beliefs with. The community would devolve into chaos, mites fighting to survive as others relapsed completely, all the while Timid continued tending to her little garden without a care in the world, in peace.

Indoctrination camps would be overwhelmed to the point the community just had to cut their losses, banishing massive numbers of mites, Timid included. She was compliant, understanding, leaving with a gentle smile and wave that brought only dread to AM.

He was conflicted beyond belief, but could not stand to be near Timid for another second. He couldn't dwell on the past, not for a second, otherwise, it'll drive him mad, otherwise, he's no different than the Core Leaders. There's no peace in hell.