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STALEMATE SHIFTER: the argonian tronics and archangel tronics

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tumblr intro: the kelxverns are not the only shifters created durring the stalmate wars; amoung the "big three", there are the kelxverns, argonian tronics, and triffinoids. today, we talk about the argonian tronics.

THE BACKSTORY

Now, would you believe me if the kelxverns weren't the only shapeshifter or experimental beings during the time they were made? Well, During the “stalemate war” of the 2420’s (The war where the center kingdom had missiles in swuada), the kelxverns weren't the only ones being created. As a matter of fact, the kelxverns, tronics and triffinoids (all dubbed “the stalemates” [stalemate shifters, or in this specific case "the big three]) were all developed and made at the same time. All three were supposed to have some usage in warfare, and all three had their documentations burn away in a fire (some more than others), in a desperate attempt to try and hide everything from the public (and more importantly, the pukanis).

Whilst they were being developed by three different groups, all three of them were working together to try and create the same thing: a super-“Human” being that's able to use their shifting capabilities' during combat.

The Argonian Animatronic Elkinets, abbreviated to A.A.E’s, are also just called “tronics” by everyone else. Of all of the three stalemates created, they have the most information to them, having the arson only take away a fraction of the documents about them. As a matter of fact, the pukanis learned about how the stalemate trio’s creators were connected because even the exchanges between all three were safe from the fire.

However, not all was safe from the destructive flames: several documents pertaining to “the archangels” were lost, more than likely on purpose due to why they were being created. However, everything else was safe, which not only help the pukanis learn about the tronics themselves, but also bits and pieces about the other stalemates created (because again, they’re all connected).

Perhaps a very shocking thing to the pukanis was the fact that the people behind creating the tronics wanted to try and get as close to recreating the punaki’s and their powers. While seemingly impossible, the animatronics already had some pukani DNA inside them, and as they’ve learned from the mangleoids, it’s entirely possible to activate a good deal of those abilities.

So now that we got down the backstory, we can begin talking about the tronics themselves.

THE TRONICS BASICS

The general basic tronics are derived from the nevardian animatronics (my take on the fnaf animatronics), and what are essentially animatronic versions of aircraft. They are predominantly biological, with the exception of their engines and a small microchip (More on that later). They have much of a mixture of the same biology as elkinets and other types of tronics (and to an extent even the pukanis). Some of these traits This would include the following:

-dead-ended digestive track consisting of only a mouth, throat and stomach (tronic/pukani) -black-colored blood (tronic) -functioning engine that help with oxygen intake (elkinet) -flexible, highly dexterous wingtips (elkinet) -bizzare reproduction (tronics) -segmented, robot-like body (tronics) -lays eggs (elkinets)

There’s probably more that I can list, but these are just a few examples. However, there are alot of things that are more unique to the tronics:

1-mouths

The mouth shape can vary depending on the individuals. There are three mouth type: prong-toothed (prong-like outer layer much like that of the pukani’s), tronic-toothed (lips covering the teeth), and mouthless (no mouth, or even throat). The mouthless variety, for obvious reasons, are unable to consume food normally, so they rely on their tendrils/tentacles to eat, which conveniently leads to the next thing…

2-tenticals/tendrils:

All tronics have what are known as “digestive tentacles/tendrils” that are concealed on their back. A normal tronic has four of them, and with kelxverns they remain as part of the body even in their non-elkinet form. These tendrils are segmented (like most of the tronic), nearly the entire length of their body, and are tipped with four claws which are used to tear apart food. The very end segment where the claws are attached also has taste buds. They are directly connected to the stomach, and through the power of a mucus lining and muscle, help bring the food down. However, only the mouthless variety or those heavily damaged are able to eat out of the tendrils. When it comes to the mouthed tronics, the tendrils' “throats” are closed off. However, the tendrils are not totally useless; the claws are extremely dexterous, and they are still used for things such as holding/grabbing, manipulation, and in general being another set of “Hands”. However, if a tronic where to get a severe mouth injury that prevents them from properly eating foods, then within a week the tendrils will open up and become those extra pair of mouths.

3-claws

Whilst some tronics still have the fingerless paws (wingtips) of their elkinet brethren, some also have actual fingers or claws on their wingtip. These don't present themselves as an issue when it comes to flight. However, because they have dexterous digits, they lack the stenae that other elkinets have on their paws, thus they’re forced to actually use their fingers/claws to hold things.

4-the "brain chip"

The brain chip is a small microchip that all tronics have. It is located at the base of the head where the head and neck meet. This chip contains all of the tronic behavior, memories, and basically acts as a backup save for the brain and whatever abilities they have. This can only be accessed via surgery, and it can be placed into any sort of tronic/robotic being that’s compatible with it.

[tumblr note: it's very, very rare to remove the chip and only done in emergency situations by tronic specialists with consent]

5-abilities

Not all tronics have any of the “superpowers'' that the creators wanted to add in. However, their creators managed to not only get a decent amount of the powers from the pukani DNA, but also add some of their own. The powers would include the following:

-super strength: while the tronics themselves are slightly stronger than a normal elkinet, a tronic with super strength is able to handle things that are 3-5 times their size. Even kelxverns are able to use these super-strength when not in their elkinet form.

-morphic recognition: some tronics are able to recognize individuals in different forms. All they would need is to be able to see the individual in question once, and they’d be able to identify them regardless of what they turn into. It is, however, not without it’s drawbacks; kelvxerns who’s elkinet form has morphic recognition often have a harder time keeping in one form, since their brains struggle to recognize that they’re changing without some kind of outside indicator, such as a mirror, change in surrounding area’s size, or even a piece on non shifter-friendly clothing they wear. morphic recognisers, however, do feel "auras", bassically a form of "something feels off". it is their only way of recognizing anything is wrong with themselves or others.

-telekinesis & levitation: with the tronics, their telekinesis and levitation is pretty limited. With telekinesis, they can only hold things that aren't over 10nth of their body weight, where any more and they begin to struggle (this is regardless of super strength or not). They also cannot hold themselves in levitation for long, so it’s only used to get to a higher vantage point before flying/gliding back to the ground.

-selective Telepathy: the tronics in general are capable of a simple, short-ranged form of telepathy, which is most commonly among the mouthless for obvious reasons. However, some tronics do have a kind of “selective telepathy” where they’re able to telepathically communicate to only other tronics, and even specific individuals.

-empathic abilities: on some occasions, a tronic can be an empath. This means they’re able to tell a being’s mental or emotional state, even when one tries to hide it. Tronics that are empaths are often able to tell one has some kind of intentions, though not know what said intentions are. Unfortunately, though, many empathic tronics find this a curse, as to them it makes it even harder to blend into normal elkinet society

-Size-shifting: some tronics are capable of limited size changing. Technically, all matters of size-shifting has its limits (even for the pukanis), and it’s no exception to the tronics. A normal tronic capable of sizeshifting is able to change between 6xs their original size to 1/6th of that. For reference, that’s the equivalent of a 6ft human being able to change between 36ft to 1ft. Tronic Kelxverns also are able to size-shift, too, but only in their elkinet form.

Once again, not all tronics have these abilities. Only about 15% of all normal tronics have even one of these abilities, and they only have up to three of them.

Now, notice how I've been saying “Normal tronics”. That’s because they’re not the only other tronic, as we’ll see next…

THE ARCHANGEL TRONICS

The tronics weren't the final results of their creation. During the peak of the stalemate war, they completed the trial and test runs of the tronics, then moved onto what was known as “project: archangel novaltus”. Exactly what the intentions for creating the archangels is not 100% clear due to most of it getting destroyed, but based off of what was left of the documents and on the archangels themselves, it was perhaps a means of one last ditch effort to try and end the war once and for all, by having a much bigger and powerful being take over and divert the issue away from the missiles. It would seem that they had a more malicious intent based on how powerful the archangels are, though due to the project being cut short by the looming threat of the pukanis discovering their plan, it is also entirely possible that the archangels were only an unstable or unfinished prototype of their final product.

Whatever the case, the archangel tronics are a much powerful kind of tronic, capable of sizeshifitng and shapeshifting, among many other traits. The archangel tronic has two forms it can shift into:

-“regular” form: their regular form is, for the most part, the same as a normal tronic, that is to say for the small, furry vestigial wing and only having two tendrils. All archangel tronics have thick claws on their wingtips, and a pronged mouth.

-archangel form: no surprise, their archangel form is drastically different from their regular form. By default, their archangel form is bigger, at least twice the height of their original size. Their neck and tails become longer, their mouths sprouting large fangs that stick out from their facial prongs. Their claws become longer, and they sometimes grow horns and keratinous growths that are much like that of ceratopsians and members of bovidae (ram, bull, antelope, ect). But perhaps the biggest changes are to the wings, as they grow immensely in order for powered flight. The wings have two small claws, and have three to four primary “feathers” (technically a long, flexible, highly-derived scales), with a leathery membrane that fills in the rest of the wings.

Because the creators couldn't 100% get a pukani out of the animatronic DNA, they had to settle with adding several different kinds of animal DNA into the tronic’s, which mostly includes several species of birds and non-avian dinosaurs. Archangels were clearly meant to get as close to replicating the shifting powers that the pukanis had as possible. That's not all, though. Most archangels, by default, have telekinesis, levitation, selective telepathy and super strength. However, they also have several unique powers to them, as well as modifications to the already existing powers:

-sizeshifting: unlike a normal tronic, they have a much higher limit to their size which can vary between individuals. In this case, they can change at a maximum between 50xs or 1/50th their original height. Once again, that’s like a 6ft man changing between 300ft and 1inch. Unless trained not to, they always change into their archangel form when they change sizes.

-size transference: the archangels don't just change their own size. They’re also capable of size transference, aka size stealing/giving. So long as the receiver is a tronic (kelvern, archangel or otherwise), the archangel can “Give” or “take” one’s size, effectively shrinking/growing them towards the same limits as the archangels have. This power comes from their claws, and can only be done if said claws have physical contact with the receiver’s skin (it’s most effective when grabbing one’s wings or neck). There is a cooldown of about 30 minutes before they can do it again.

-transference healing: anytime an archangel does transfer their size towards another tronic, they also end up healing any physical injury or wound the receiving tronic may have. They can heal it to the point where what’s left is nothing but a scar or mild pain, almost as if it never happened. However, this has it’s limit: for one, this only works if the injury is fresh or isn't close to fully healed. They also cannot regrow severed or disconnected body parts, only re-attached them to their proper place. The injury is only (Mostly) healed when the archangel has changed into their archangel form, or at least reaches the sizes in which it normally does. The archangel also cannot heal itself, and needs another archangel to do the same.

-Long-range selective telepathy: while a normal tronic can do a form of short-range telepathy, the archangel tronics in their archangel form can do this long-ranged form of selective telepathy. In their normal sizes, the range can go up to a couple hundred feet, and it gets farther the bigger an archangel is (Though it remains the same if an archangel were to become smaller than normal size).

-Radioactive absorption: connected to the size transference is the radioactive absorption, where some archangels are able to absorb super high doses of radiation (the amount that can cause harm or straight up kill people), and by doing so eliminating it in its entirety. However, of course, it causes them to grow and change into their archangel form, sometimes to their max size.

Archangel tronic can only have offspring with other archangels, and are incapable of reproducing naturally. Thus, artificial incubation is necessary if they want to have offspring. Another way for an archangel to come into existence is for a normal, non-shifting tronic to gain archangel powers. This is done through the very same process as the kexlverns do: the glass-like opaline “stone” premeerisite, though this time modified to specifically give archangel powers (which we get into next).

MISC INFORMATION

Now that we know what the tronics are all about, here are some other things about them

-tronics and society:

Tronics, sadly, tend to struggle to adjust and live in elkinet society. Despite being living creatures themselves, they’re often treated as if they’re machines, and many are scared of them because of their powers. Many tronics tend to stick to higher populations, and especially coexister civilizations with a decent shifter population since they find the diversity comforting and more accepting.

Archangel tronics especially find society difficult to live in. Often, if people aren't downright terrified of their existence,then they frequently take advantage of their abilities (This technically applies to any tronic with special abilities, but it’s at its worst with the archangels). Archangels find their abilities to be either a curse or mostly useless. Archangels only live in places known for high shifter populations, if not in the much more remote areas of argonus.

-Tronic kelxverns & “created archangels”:

A kelxvern can have their elkinet form be a tronic. The kelxverns, known as “tronic kelxverns” are’nt too different from that of a regular kelxvern, which includes transformation and all that. And yet, tronic kelxverns have a significantly higher chance of having the special abilities, which is especially apparent with created kelxvern (the ones create via the premeerisite). Tronic kelxverns also still have that dead-ended digestive track and lack any kind of genitalia, even in their non-elkinet form.

“Created archangels” are created the same way as the kelxverns, via a specially made premeerisite. The created archangels go through some of the same things as what a kelxvern would go through (as well as a born archangel) through their first transformation, including things like pain/discomfort levels and flu-like symptoms. However, they go through three phases of transformation:

-the first phase where they turn into their new normal form (with the claws and small wings)

-the second phase where they become their archangel form and grow up to 6xs their size

-the third phase where they shrink down to 1/6th their size

After the third phase, they change back into their new regular form and are unable to change for the next three days. Each phase can last upwards of an hour, and depending on the individuals the changes between each phase could be slow and barely noticeable, or fast and sudden. It all depends on the individual in question.

Archangels and kelxverns, despite their shapeshifting technologies being similar, are not compatible with eachother and thus no “archangel kelxverns” have been recorded. As for reproduction, once again tronics can only reproduce with tronics, and tronic kelxverns cannot have offspring unless said other partner is a tronic themselves. And, like all other kelxverns, the offspring has to be artificially incubated since all kelxverns are incapable of having children naturally.

-strange physiology and traits:

The tronics tend to have a higher chance of getting all the weird traits that elkinets have. A well-known example is the fact that there are more pygmies within the tronic population than the elkinets (at least 30% more than the elkinets), though this only seems to affect aircraft that have a much smaller amount of pygmies within their populations.

Another weird quirk are two pairs of eyes. Usually, for the elkinets, this is a very rare trait only found in trainer aircraft. However, it’s pretty common in tronics, regardless of aircraft type. Nobody knows if this was intentional, as none of the documents mentioned anything about this.

While tronics can take the shape of any aircraft, they are most commonly military aircraft, alongside military variants of civilian aircraft. born archangels go through the same things as a created archangel when it comes to their first transformation. most of the time, just like kelxverns, their first transformation happens at around the same age range. however, some archangels are unable to naturally go through their first transformation, and thus need assisted activation. one final thing about archangels is that they have a tendency to be "animalistic". some archangels walk on all fours either because it's part of their archangel form or because the extra weight of the wings force them to. they also make alot of those growls, screeches and howls that elkinets sometimes do, however they do it more frequently (sometimes exclusively if they're mute). this, ontop of their already overpowered abilities, makes them often feared and outcast from society.

Ok, i hope i got everything down. Also, fun fact: i screwed up the lc-130’s engines and didn't realise it until after i used my pen. So, now it’s a hybrid...

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