@littlest-lily
You know cat pictures? I can assure you, if SWs were common, the internet would be full of pictures of sleepy SWs napping on beds or pillows or whatever, with people dwwing all over them.
SW stretches and turns over in her sleep, yawning slightly
The World: OMG SHE’S ADORABLE!!!1!!
I store my micros with the simple knowledge that I am the best chance they’re going to get.
She is smol and cute and while she’s a bit harsh at first, actually grows to like you a lot. She also likes soda.
@miss-lillipants
Like I said, I’d easily see a Tiny Hunter doing all this to advocate, like, that tinies are people too (look at the clothes they made for themselves! Such detail, such craftsmanship!), emphasizing the family and communities they make, while showing how peoples actions are endangering their ‘habitats’ (communities; maybe focus on a tiny village somewhere that a city is trying to get rid of? Or a tiny town that is literally living off someone’s scraps?)
@littlest-lily
It’s basiclly two different takes on the same character, but from the view of the camera man and one of the tinies.
@Olo
…Not that that’s bad (from what a quick internet search showed me, anyways), but I’m picturing a sort of catch and release set up, where though the big picks up the woman, exams her, maybe films her (look at stitching on these clothes! They’ve made such an advanced society, right under our feet!), and then let her go afterwards.
Spiritual energy of Steve Irwin.
(yeah, no idea what to title this, lol)
So I was looking around tumblr and I saw this.
Specficlly, this:
And, honestly? This feels like a gentle (if chaotic) GT/sw kind of mood.
GT: ‘Look at this little thing! It’s so smol! Smol and CUTE!’
sw: existential terror and confusion, mixed with futile attempts to escape from hands bigger than her entire body
GT: ‘pspspspspsps’
sw: ???
I’m now envisioning a sort of SW Steve Irwin, who (either as a giant visiting human towns, or a human visiting tiny/fairy towns/colonies/whatever) roams about, finding women, investigating them (look at this purse! Clearly it was made using the skin a vole, a frequent predator of the tiny woman population! Truly a marvel!) (rather politely for a someone abducting them) while being totally delighted, then letting them go.
The stories of this man. The myth. The Legend.
(Honestly, I find both versions hilarious; not!Steve Irwin as this advocate for protecting tiny women and their habitats just works, but I also love the idea of just… this giant. Only one giant. And he just rolls up, does this, explains nothing, and leaves.)
@littlest-lily
I mean, amusing naming coincidence aside… hmm. I’d say you’re right, but the phrasing makes it sound like he’d be giving away SWs, which isn’t really in his wheelhouse.
I think it’s more a mix of chaotic neutral and lawful evil when it comes to other Mins, especially with where the story was going.
Ian is True Neutral which is… actually really fitting.
@Olo
I mean, it’s very noticeable that shrinking men is default called good; it’s the same format in a lot of GTS stories, only put on a chart. The fundamental logic behind it is that shrinking men is good, and that denying men to be shrunk is fundamentally bad. If it was presented differently, I’d call it loaded language, but I’m not sure if that actually applies in this specific context.
Regardless, out of spite for both this chart, the overwhelming net dominance of GTS in general, and just because I like SW, I want to make a chart completely around SW only.
I mean, the obvious choice is to make our own version, because that is clearly built around GTS logic. So, why not have one built around SW logic?
…And maybe put something about sizes in it?
Xarnor has some great mouth content. I love that three way one where they break in the SW.
Yup. All islands, everywhere, are basiclly abandoned, since they’re too small to be effectively protected for how rare giants are. Antarctica is basiclly gone, and the containment zones mean large parts of Asia, North America, and Africa are basiclly cordoned off as de facto sacrifices for the various Mid-Sizes. Stuff on the water’s edge is theoretically protected, but it’s very ‘on your head be it’ levels of risk for those who live there (the spring break parties are even wilder in such places than they are now, since most of the beach goers are to some extent adrenaline junkies); ship based trade has dropped substantially, because out in the ocean is filled with monsters, replace with more air freight and less need to in general because of more advanced technology.
Compared to the current amount of people on land, it’s now closer to 2/3s or even a 1/2, I’d think.
@Olo
Vaugly ‘space energy’ or something. Magic radiation or whatever gives various living beings super powers. The portals are a person’s power.
Animals who are changed by that energy turn to Mid-Sizes or kaiju, or sometimes from Mid-Sizes to kaijus, while humans turn to rangers or titans, or on rare occasions rangers to titans; humans have a far lower rate of… infection(?), but tend to end up stronger; most kaiju don’t have powers while even rangers generally do. Most of the ‘infected’ animals end up fighting and killing each other in various wild areas, and only small amounts end up in the human inhabited parts.
Honestly, this setting low key went through an apocalypse of monsters and recovered.
On rare occasions animals gain human like intelligence (and usually end up turning into kaju) and humans gain super genius intelligence (with an even rate of growing or staying the same sized).
