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Tad, leading a battle against the shanes, but unable to stop himself in front of eli. "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
What would make the whole “Eli and Tad being incomprehensible” thing even better would be if slugterra and the surface had different languages (like I think the alphabet implies??) and Eli and Tad just insult each other in surface language (probs just English) and refuse to translate. Doubly funnier if they meme at each other in English and just bust out laughing after shouting. So from everyone’s POV they just watched the Shane and Blakk yell angrily at each other in a mystery language before breaking into laughter at something that NO ONE will ever know about because they will not translate ever
(Context)
Yes, absolutely, and it causes much confusion because
Guys- you're supposed to be enemies??? What's with the secret language and inside jokes?!
they have absolutely recited the entire avatar intro together at least once, especially after they tell tad about the elementals.
I like to think that if/when Eli and Tad have to duel, they always delve as deeply into being incomprehensible to terrans as possible by speaking in quotes from the surface
E.g.
Tad: “[sigh] I miss my wife Eli. I’ll be back”
Or
Eli: “did you know you have rights? The constitution says you do”
Or just the whole “buying clothes at the soup store” argument
Note: they have both mutually agreed to never actually give away info on the sun or the sky or the surface in general. This started entirely as a slip up from Tad that Eli just doubled down on. It started out with one quote per duel until months down the line they’re both simultaneously recounting the entire eggman announcement (minus the moon) word for word in perfect harmony
SNAPCUBE!
An individual of culture i see-
Honestly Anon, best take on Eli and Tad ever-
Eli, for an entire year, has and no one to meme with till Tad showed up, and it's absolutely hilarious for the two of them, and hella confusing for everyone else!
Also the agreement on staying nothing about the Sky is amazing because they're going to have to fill it in with something different and leads to outlandish statements lmao
yesssss! also keep in mind that, like alot of times they do things in the show, its because 1) the calls are in remote areas that wouldn't be under jurisdiction of a cavern authority, or 2) (the big one) the cavern authorities can't do it/can't be trusted to do it. Think every time w blakk, or the game master, or Munch and CC respectively who scared off all the locals, or Futuria cavern, where quentin possessed new tech they couldn't beat; and even in the later era, and in the east, they fought off general bad actions, but especially those that were evil on their power level (dai fu, emperor, goon, the crystal monster, and so on). they're like, special operations/the rebels against the evil political force lmaoooo
aaaaaaaand, if you ever need a historical reference for how law is kept in this lawless outlands, look up stuff about the american wild west. It think theres alot of great comparisons with how small towns/counties operated in the 19th/early 20th century to how the caverns do in slugterra.
thanks for mentioning me i feel so famous :)
i always wondered, shane gang but a murder mystery? i mean, there is alota crime realistically people could be dying, if not them, who handles that?
:O
This was actually rambled about briefly before, and I'm kinda exploring it is a fic I'm working on rn,
But i think the general idea is that each individual Cavern Authorities deals with it.
If the Shane Gang where to happen on the crime, either the aftermath or as it's activity happening depending on the crime the outcome would be different as to how it's dealt with.
Petty theft? Don't worry! Shane Gang is on it!
Kidnapping? Depending on the situation, they would work with the Cavern Authorities or be on standby if needed, though unlikely.
Murder??? report what they know and offer assistance in dealing with the case until they are no longer needed or have to move on to the next mission. But still keeps tabs on it.
Serious offenders being shipped off to Stalagmite 17
Ultimately though, it's heads or tails, remember the Unbeatable Master was technically murdered by Blakk and he faced no legal repercussions for that.
The Caverns, as my good friend mrros-e would say, is a lawless outlands.
Each settlement has its own rules and regulations that are enforced to various degrees by those in charge.
So the Gang can take down a murderer, but it would ultimately be up to the Caverns legal system and Authorities to deal with the aftermath.
you know, i've been saying eli and the gang make their money/living by being slugnet influencers, plus kord's actual job as a field tech...I think Kord's family could be helping out too. Like, sending money when things get tight, and maybe being part of the reason why the Gang eat so many snacks on screen in the hideout. Not to mention, their supplies could have been a major godsend in the Bandoleer of Brothers era where the Shane Gang could barely even move across Slugterra safely.
Also, how does this translate to when Junjie comes into play? Are they just like "omfg A SECOND CHILD TRYING TO BE AN ADULT???" and they send him books on Western Cavern culture and spirituality and slinging history and also more treats and a little money because he's gotta make a living somehow in the West while trapped and he has nothing to his name??? like. Damn. these peeps should be important side characters!!!
Seeing your last post how much you want to bet Kords family( even if we never got to know or see them) would try to adopt Eli,Trixxe, and maybe pronto ( might be a little stretched)
Because I feel Kord would go on and on about his teammates whenever he got a chance to contact his family and seeing that makes them feel happy knowing their son/brother is doing well.
What do you think?🤔
Honestly, I think the chances are pretty high, especially for Eli.
Like imagine
"Hey ma, pa, sorry for not calling,"
"No worries Kord, we saw the news"
"So it's true, your out slinging with Will Shane's son!"
"Yeah, yeah! Trying to take down Blakk and all that"
"What's Eli Shane like son?"
"Oh, uh he's a good kid, little odd, but that's given for a Shane."
"How is he?"
"What?"
"Kord Zane! That boys father is dead and he's stepping into the man's shoes to try and fill them! Did you seriously not ask if he was okay? Or offer your condolences???"
"IM SORRY!"
"That's it! What's the address of this Hideout? I'm sending that boy a care package!"
Trixie is just happy to be there, talking with Kords mom and dad, they remind her of her own
While Eli is just trying not feel like he's intruding. Boys got major mommy and daddy issues. And he does not want to project but after a hot minute he relaxes.
I would like to think Kords parents send the gang individual care packages every few weeks.
Pronto would probably get the weird uncle/family friend treatment tbh
one of my first takes on tumblr was "kord knows CPR" and im so glad we circled back around to that again
Besides doc being able to heal them, if doc is not present who would be likely to have the most experience medically? Like doc has to have limits too cause he couldn't heal the master it seems
Kord would probably be the most experienced medical wise, and then it's Pronto then is Trixie and then Eli with the least medical experience once to take away Doc. But not my much
Kord, and every other Cave Troll typical end up working with machine's. While Cave Tolls have thick skin, I would imagine they still have safety protocols in place, and expect you to know about bit more than first aid, especially if any other resident of the Caverns that isn't a Cave Troll is involved. They are very aware not everyone is as durable as they are, and want to make sure they are prepared in case of an emergency. I wouldn't say Kord has like, 'doctor' level training, but he would count as a civilian medical aid, by that i mean, he is training to provide assistance in medical situations to the best of his ability so long as consent is provide by the patient.
Pronto is the king of Molemound and the tracker of the team, I would expect him to know some basics, and have knowledge on plants that are both harmful and beneficial.
Trixie is a Slinger, and knows basic first aid same with Eli, but she has more experienced than him simply because she's been Slinging longer than he has.
I would assume when Doc became a Gardian Slug and temporary left the team, everyone picked up medical training and are good with it to various degrees as there are different types of first aid training you can get, I should know, i did Emergency First Aid, CPR-AED-C training.
I'm not expected to know how to stich someone up, but I can help someone going through an OD or heart attack, and bandag wounds to help slow down bleeding till first responders arrive.
But yeah, I would think Kord has the most experience with medical stuff
okay so i know NOTHING about how illnesses work. However, would the Shane family's genetics probably stemming from both slugterran and surface humans effect disease tolerance? for all we know, maybe his genetic make-up from both slugterrans and surface beings in his bloodline make him resilient to certain stuff we'd consider potentially harmful to him.
not to mention - eli hasn't been walled from slugterra bacteria his whole life. Will went back and forth, and his slugs did, too! Maybe Eli got all the slugterra sicknesses on the surface when he was a kid and Will and Jimmo had to come up with clever excuses to doctors to not let the secret out.
Quickly circling back to the one post about Eli having to go to the Doctor
I just remembered a fun fact about diseases.
(That you weird obsession with the Medieval Era)
Eli Shane, should be getting sick.
Even if he's up to date with his shots from the surface, unless Will snuck vaccines for any diseases for Slugterra, Eli should be contracting some kind of illness exclusive to the Caverns.
On top of that, Eli also poses a risk to the 99 Caverns as well because, Chicken Pox, Polio, mumps- hell the common flu from the surface would wreck havoc on the Vitamin D deficient residents of the Caverns.
And this isn't covering, like potential allergies exclusive to Slugterra. I bet you there is at least one person who is allergic to slug's, or a specific kind of slug.
So with that context in mind,
While at the Doctors, they do a quick allergy test and, turns out, Eli is allergic to the vines/plants made by Vindrill Slugs, and a very specific deep Sea Cavern fish.
OOOOO, THE EAST! I was only thinking about the West, ur so right!!! I wish they went back to the East, though I understand the show's never been too big about dedicating episodes to culture alone (unless plot relevant).
Especially since the Eastern Caverns don't have a Shane-like figure that could upkeep some surface culture in their underground, I believe 2000 years is plenty of time for the culture to morph a little. Like, in a different environment underground, and mingling w cave troll and elf and shadow clan culture, I hesitate to mirror the Eastern Cavern culture directly with the Surface's Chinese/other Asian influences cultures, you know? Not to mention that the flora of the underground is different, so maybe the herbs trads had to adapt...and I really appreciate the show showing the audience that hey, slinging WAS inspired by previous religious practice! It's one of the cooler aspects of Slugterra lore for me.
Like, one little HC I have is that, when Junje speaks Cantonese in ROTE, he doesn't actually know what the words mean, or if he does, those are the only words he knows. Like, similar to how Christians/Westerners use Latin! Some words have passed on into the secular and/or religious vernacular (think "hallelujah", for example), and have been passed through time, in different cultural contexts than when it first became popularized. Junjie may know those words as Slug-Fu sayings primarily. I think we could HC so much about the East, because we really have artists choice on how their cultures has accustomed to the underground.
so long story short; I can totally believe they still have marriage, but I hesitate to say that with canonic certainty lmaoooo
horrifying thought for the day:
*takes big breathe* HOW DOES MARRIAGE WORK IN SLUGTERRA?!?
like, how do our religious and secular norms of things translate to down there? How does it legally affect couples in terms of owning property? And healthcare?!?
honestly, do they HAVE marriage as a concept legally? It's pretty anarchist/capitalist down there. Would they even HAVE a legal mechanism to tie 2 ppl together like that?
...genuinely, maybe they don't, or only some caverns do.
I BEG YOU TO READ HER WIKI PAGE
honestly, i only know her because in America if you look like a girl and can shoot well its our sacred tradition for the coach/range officers to call that girl "annie oakley" at least once a month and explain who she is to the unsuspecting kid lmaoooo, I was called annie oakley so often that its lowkey the only time I like being seen as feminine :)
and at a range her whole thing is being the best shot in american history (at least the best popular one) and thats all i knew till, like, a few years ago, where i read her wiki and like BRO HER LIFE??? very wack, and she kinda seems cool on a moral level too!
here's her young (age kinda debated)
also she was kinda adopted by Sitting Bull and supported Indian Land rights which is cool
and here's possibly her last photo, w her dog and her husband Frank E. Butler (who she met when he challenged her to a shootout and she beat him)
wiki is decent, there's also the Annie Oakley Center Foundation here: Frequently Asked Questions About Annie Oakley
...how did I make that Annie Oakley post not realizing Mario bravado is obviously inspired by Annie Oakley and
THEREFORE a fic of his convo w blakk would be like the perfect way to explore the Annie Oakley parallels w Slugterra?!?
brb, I have so much to write-
@temperance-sunlight and @a-sad-mage, u both make all fantastic points. I really like the idea of the non-nuclear family, and the importance of who raises kids over who has them, and no real world-wide custom in Slugterra! and like, religion is fascinating w the Shadow Clan. and omfg, no one tried to claim they were a shane!!! I chalked that up to maybe the ppl being suspicious of the Shane's and their secrets and skill and whatnot, so no one would dare mess with them, but yeah no what if property and stuff just doesn't legally operate so everyone would call bs on that immediately? We saw that eli had to prove himself over a long tournament.
oooo, the rabbit holes....
horrifying thought for the day:
*takes big breathe* HOW DOES MARRIAGE WORK IN SLUGTERRA?!?
like, how do our religious and secular norms of things translate to down there? How does it legally affect couples in terms of owning property? And healthcare?!?
honestly, do they HAVE marriage as a concept legally? It's pretty anarchist/capitalist down there. Would they even HAVE a legal mechanism to tie 2 ppl together like that?
...genuinely, maybe they don't, or only some caverns do.
horrifying thought for the day:
*takes big breathe* HOW DOES MARRIAGE WORK IN SLUGTERRA?!?
like, how do our religious and secular norms of things translate to down there? How does it legally affect couples in terms of owning property? And healthcare?!?
honestly, do they HAVE marriage as a concept legally? It's pretty anarchist/capitalist down there. Would they even HAVE a legal mechanism to tie 2 ppl together like that?
...genuinely, maybe they don't, or only some caverns do.
okay if we're both actively writing a fic about will shane jailed by judge logan and being young and fun while breaking out im gonna laugh so damn hard
I am currently working on something, and all I have to say for myself is this:
Will Shane is just a silly little guy, your honor! He's silly, very un-serious, and just wants to have fun before getting bonked with the trauma hammer
aww, thanks!!! That's one of my fav works I've made, I need to write more juneli :)
MIND BLOWN FOR THOSE WHO WATCH RAISE OF THE ELEMENTALS
THE SCENE WGERE KORD ASKS ELI
(this is based of a 11 months old memory)
“You’re choosing him, over us?”
GESTURING TO ELI SEEMINGLY CHOOSING JUNJIES ADVICE/HELP/PLAN OVER THE SHANE GANG
Now that is out there, look at it from a romantic perspective
Someone choosing their new partner over their closest friends. They’re only family left that they found and built connections to life multiple lifetimes.
HOW GUT WRENCHING IT WOULD BE TO SEE YOUR BROTHER BY CHOICE CHOOSE A NEW BOYFRIEND/LOVER OVER YOUR FAMILY.
Not that it was that serious (as in never discussed further) BUT MY GOD THE ANGST
I’m so rewatching Elementals because I need to rewatch the scene in this light
...how did I make that Annie Oakley post not realizing Mario bravado is obviously inspired by Annie Oakley and
THEREFORE a fic of his convo w blakk would be like the perfect way to explore the Annie Oakley parallels w Slugterra?!?
brb, I have so much to write-
my honorable brain rot buddy, I would like to brain rot some more on this.
one: I don't see tads mom as a plot hole; more like a plot Pandora's box. They could basically do anything with her. But without something...yeah, a bit hallow. I like your idea though. I find compelling the idea that, whoever Blakk has a kid with, shares some type of ambition, just on the side of exploration instead of power. Like a more cynic view of a gar revelle type character.
Two: this is what makes blakk's irrationally ONLY for Eli so good! He wants power and will stoop to any level to get it, but besides that, he's perfectly fine with the world being a fair and just place. This will get overshadowed by ambition (grown from trauma of course), but if it doesn't interfere, he's fine w a lot of things. It's where all the "blakk is a chill boss sometimes" memes come from, and actually contributes to my personal headcanon that he's fruity!
but Eli. Eli Shane. And will Shane, and jimmo Shane. All pretense of "well if they're not in my way it's fine" flies out the window. Their mere existence (after ep 2/3, like u mentioned) is a hinderence, so Blakk stoops to his lowest. And the animosity BUILDS. Like blakk in ROTE wants Eli to suffer so BADLY that he gives up his team's win? Just to keep him alive? so the full story of his character is: femenist as long as it doesn't negatively effect him. When it effects him, he rationally destroys the obstacle. And if your the Shane's...it crosses into an irrational hate, at some point, where the original ideal of "anything for power" crosses into the sadistic, how is this in a kids show, "anything for a power that would harm the Shane's". it's actually a good representation of how anyone can fall into evil. Be situational instead of steadfast with your feminism, and you excuse yourself for some bad shit. and when ppl don't like what your doing to them, you hold grudges, which situationally, are super logical to keep...at first...till suddenly, when you plan out what world you wanna live in, it literately MUST include the suffering of those enemies. It's a toxic pool to fall into. We see that constantly in the real world...
I love this show.
"Sad Mage, you fool, Dr. Blakk can't be a feminist he's-" [gets smacked with a pan]
"Silence heathen, you know not my reasons!"
♤
First, to quote a fic i read
"Im a businessman, not a monster" - Dr. Thaddius Blakk
And i have never agreed more.
Blakk is a horrible guy with little to no redeeming qualities, but here's the thing-
He's not like, a major d¡cƙ either.
Sure, he's a jerk to a lot of his employees, but he's not outright crule either.
Remember, Thaddius Blakk was once a traumatized kid who was to claw his way to the top. And probably witnessed a punch of messed up crap while Viggo Dare was still in charge.
And FYI a true feminist cares about men's problems
Blakk is equally himself to just about everyone he meets, you know what your getting into when you get involved with a guy like him.
Blakk does not care if you are man, woman human, elf, Moleinoid, Cave Troll, have money, or are a poor orphan on the street - all the man cares about is whether or not you're useful.
Feminism, at its core, is equality for women and men. To be on equal footing in every possible way. No discrimination. Just equal rights and equal fights.
[This next bit is kinda a tangent, tbh but i feel like it helps explain my 'Blakk genuinely dose not care' mindset]
Hell, he tried to convince Eli he wasn't all that bad when they first met, and had it not been for Burpy and the suddenly showing the young Shane that Ghoul Slug, Blakk might have convinced Eli he wasn't a threat had things just played out differently.
Blakk didn't officially become Eli's antagonist until Eli declined any sort of 'professional relationship' with him and then declare 'war' in episode 3. Because at that moment before being turned down, Eli Shane, was useful in some capacity. Even if that usefulness would have involved a lot of manipulation.
On top of that, he doesn't undermine Trixie either. While he may not personally know her name, he knows enough that Trixie Sting is an obstacle and a threat. And treats her as such.
And probably made sure his henchmen knew as much.
Then there's Dana
He went out of his way to higher one of the best Highered Marks just to track Dana down, get his blaster back, and get rid of her. Blakk, could easily not care about something like a Blaster, Blakk Industries makes them for crying out loud, he probably has a collection of them! But he goes out of his way to get that one Blaster back from Dana, and then make an example of her. Even went as far as to show up in-person to make sure.
A thing, he wouldn't do just for anyone.
Blakk's fits are rated E for Everyone
The man does not care who you are, prove yourself useful, he'll pull the strings to get you on his side, prove to be a nuisance, and you'll be dealt with accordingly regardless of who you are.
Hence me HCing the man as a Feminist.
You can stand on business, have upstanding morals, all while still being a horrible individual.
It's like Odalia from TOH. She doesn't care, Amity is into girls, she just doesn't like Luz and the rest of her daughters friends because 'their beneath them', and she wants to rule over the Demon Realm.
Same thing with Emperor Belos/Philip. The guy grew up during the era of witch hunts, yet two of his most trusted individuals were women(or female identifying). While he was going to ultimately pull off the biggest witch extermination in history, he didn't care who was working for him, as long as they were useful and fulfilled a purpose. He doesn't underestimate Luz for being a girl, just young and nieve, before getting bitch slapped with the reality this human is more resourceful then he was.
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Now to touch on something @mrros-e my brain rot buddy in crime mentions in the tags.
How Blakk being a Feminist effects his relationship with whomever Tads mom was.
Jokes on you, friend, because i hc Tad is an oops, baby.
Yeah, that's right, Blakk had a fling with a lady, and she got knocked up and didn't tell Blakk sht
I don't know where the idea of Blakk having to have been married or even a committed relationship to have a baby spawned from, but with as much networking that guy probably had to do while building up Blakk Industries it's safe to assume he met ppl and had a few casual flings.
One of which resulted in Tad.
(And this is not me discrediting/bashing the hc of Blakk having a wife/romance partner, I think its an interesting concept and adds onto Blakk still being a human even though he may act like a monster, a concept i very much so like and will champion because i love complex villains like Blakk. But for the sake of this particular narrative and the limited clues given in cannon, lets pretend otherwise)
The woman, somehow leaving Slugterra and to the Surface, is a plot whole (let's be real, it is). But ignoring it, and just assume the lady was a Surface dweller who would sneak down to Slugterra for fun, and met Blakk by chance.
And when she did realize she was pregnant, she had a choice, and at first she wanted to tell Blakk, he was the baby's father after all, but by then Blakk had developed his reputation, and when she tried some probably thought she was after his money or something.
You know, because people suck.
So by the time Blakk learned of the pregnancy, the Lady had returned to the Surface and swore off coming down to Slugterra ever again. (For reasons)
Blakk probably tried to track her down, but was stumped because there where no records of her ever exiting in Slugterra, and then he remembered bits of their conversations, and how it sounded like she wasn't from Slugterra but the mythical world above.
Thus, his obsession with Shane Secrets begins.
I have a completely different post in my drafts I'm working on, but it relates to this a bit, and the gist of it is, Blakk would have support the woman who was pregnant and any decisions she made, but also given Tad everything he didn't have as a kid.
Again, absolutely horrible individuals can have completely, perfectly normal morals and standards. You can have a monster, give them a humanizing trate, and still be irredeemable.
Dr. Thaddius Blakk is a villain of the highest degree, but he has standards damn it.
This was an incoherent rant of a Mage in desperate need of sleep
Peace ♤
so i made a slugterra youtube channel
uh. here i guess, just uploaded this thing on it.
YALL
I'm rewatching slug fu showdown.
and I realized - the flute part pronto plays during master shanai's funeral? It's actually played twice in the show.
the second time? THE FIRST SCENE OF JUN TEACHING ELI.
BRIAN CARSON I LOVE YOU IM CRYING THATS BEAUTIFUL.
It transforms from a sound of loss; for life, and for Eli's education and knowledge of the world...into wonder and hope, because he's found a new teacher, and a new friend. That's BEAUTIFUL.
the demons continue fighting. meanwhile, i have delivered more bad content.
enjoy the first 3 hours of piss poor crack video editing i have ever done. i am sure there will be more of dubious quality.
there is 2 demons inside of me. One wants to finish SGH. The other, despite complete lack of editing experience, wants to make a will Shane anti-hero AMV.
I will never know peace.
3k into Shanes Get Hurt
not alot, im sorry.
But I have a new idea and i'm getting excited to write it because of that.
You all down for me low-key rewriting about 30% of slug-fu showdown? I promise you, shanes'll still get hurt. just...with some better villains. Hopefully. I've mostly stuck w the canon so far, and im still broadly following the canon timeline. especially once its portal time. These changes will just feel more extreme than some of the others' I've made.
also, fuck it we ball, i added a mario bravado cameo. thank you, tumblr!
I finally made it.
oh I made another graph as well, very relevant to that first one as you will see
cross-examining this totally accurate to canon data charts will lead us to some marvelous conclusions
And please note that eli's mom, burpy, and the goon are not factored into the data, simply because we do not have enough data to place them anywhere concretely.
Also note that I tried to stick to canon - we all have our own theories about those three, and maybe different opinions of the vibes of those depicted above, but I attempted to keep all HC's out of the charts. Feel free to make your own headcanon chart about his situationships, or leave a comment here, i dunno, lmao why did i spend an hour on this, im kinda proud of this but also like, why did i do this-
...What happened to Shane men drafted during the military throughout the 20th century
like actually? I feel like, because of the secret, the Shane Family would always be sure to have a big family; siblings, cousins, grandparents, the like. But they don't! Not that we know of, and if we don't know about them by now I don't think they would help Eli or Slugterra that much at this point.
could family decide to cut contact over their Slugterra journeys? Maybe, but that wouldn't explain how the family basically windled down to three.
...what would, is the 20th century. Up on the surface, there were plenty of surface wars (regardless of what country we think the Shanes lived in) that they would have automatically been drafted in. And being good marksman before the drafting age...they would be on the line of fire. And maybe be as heroic as they thought of themselves to be in Slugterra.
One uncle lost in 1916, a sibling lost in Vietnam; not to mention the Shane woman, who probably offered their services too.
like sometimes I wonder what complicated family plots happened for the Shane's to be so lacking in numbers, but then I remember that, you didn't need backstabbings to die in these wars . A lot of deadly things were happening the past century on the surface, especially to a family used to combat and would maybe feel obligated to help the surface out.
Sorry this is a gruesome and out of left field thought. I just think that the wars of the 20th century couldn't be avoided by them, and perhaps that contributed heavily as to why, in the shows time, Eli's got not much family left.
I love this and make a humble HC request:
Trixie would think about punching Will Shane, but decide instead to, when he lives with them, not tell him anything as payback. "Oh, the WiFi password? It's written down somewhere. What did Pronto make to eat? Have a taste to find out. What is it like in the Eastern Caverns? Alas, you must wait to visit them yourself...tragic"
"Kid, this is really not necessary and not efficient."
"...bummer."
Shane Gang head cannons #2 Electric Boogaloo
- part 1 -
Hero worship be damned, Kord will punch Will Shane
There are multiple stashes of snacks in the Hideout. Some are booby traped
There was a moment in time when Eli was so sleep deprived, he wore his clothes backwards and inside out, and no one said a thing
The Hideout, being rather old and not having been in proper use for a handful of years, needed quite a bit of repairs and upgrades. Yet, no one has bothering to fix the gutters.
There is a rat that lives in the Shane Hideout, it's name is Randy, and no one acknowledges him outside of saying 'hi' when the rodent is spotted.
Fun fact, there was a mouse in my house like three years ago, i also named him Randy. Unfortunately, Randy is now dead :(
The Slugs of the Shane Colony have had trials,
like actual 'court' trials.
Burpy by default is the judge unless he is to take the stand as a defendant, prosecutor, or witness, and in those cases, Doc or Stinky become the new judge.
Trixie has tried (and failed) to film Eli singing
Eli hated mushrooms pre Drop, now they just remind him of chicken when cooked right
Hero worship be damned, Pronto will punch Will Shane
Kord likes romance movies
Eli likes action comedy movies
Trixie likes horror and just well shot movies in general
Pronto also like romance movies, but well done rom coms are also good.
Eli brought his mp3 player from the Surface, it's filled with a bunch of his favorite songs,
If he's having trouble falling asleep, Eli will pop in his ear buds and listen to music form his mp3 player
Don't worry, the Slugs make sure to take the buds out when their Slinger falls asleep
Pronto insists on cooking with bugs, he says it's for extra protein.
He's, unfortunately, right.
Trixie has filmed and posted a bunch of videos to the SlugNet. It wasn't until she joined the Shane Gang that her channel gained more traction
Trixie has a prank compilation on her channel that is just a compilation of all the pranks the team pull on each other that she is able to catch on Camara
The most popular Prank video is just the rest of the Gang referring to Eli as anything but his name for a whole day. And the Shane is slowly losing his mind.
Once, while undercover, Eli got mistaken for a kid skipping school and was forced into a classroom at the local school
Eli, being Eli, didn't say anything until the rest of the team had to come pick him up.
This actually led to the discovery of an underground ghouling ring.
Apparently, one of the upper class men found a berral of Dark Water, and after some trial and error, found out how to ghoul slugs and started selling their ghouling services for illegal dules
When Junjie joined the team, it was extremely awkward
For a week, Junjie was on bed rest before feeling comfortable going out on missions with them.
Junjie has so far been the only one to eat Prontos cooking with no complaints about there being bugs in it.
Junjie gets hooked on Kisses From a Hoverbug, but dose not admit it
Everyone has tried to prank Junjie, key word try, no one has succeeded.
Lack of information be damned Junjie will deck Will Shane
Two weeks after Junjie joining the gang, they have to go to Caverna Mall to get cloths and other things for him.
It goes as well as you would expect
This is also where Junjies slugs get their first real tase of not only junk food, but absolute chaos as well.
Joo-Joo becomes the fourth judge of Shane Colony court
Joo-Joo becomes a tyrant judge
Its a collective agreement to put the Infurnus in time out(in a shell) till hes cooled off.
All of the Slugs of the Shane Colony are protective of Doc
They just knew Doc was important long before their Slingers did
Rookie pranks Junjies slugs with his exploding ball things. It's funny damn it.
There is now a new tally next to Eli and Burpys. It's for Junjie and Joo-Joo, and how many fires they start
It's currently in the dubbed digits
NO ONE TALKS ABOUT "THE GAME MASTER"
"The Jigsaw wannabe" as Eli would say.
Slugmas Secret Santa - Mister Rose (MrRose) - Slugterra [Archive of Our Own]
Gifted to Justice! Hope you enjoy reading it, homie! Thanks again to cyansparks for setting this all up.
and MERRY SLUGMAS, EVERYONE!
like a good person, I was reading ch 2 of @a-sad-mage's "Champions of the West"
and now I have a new HC. Not a super real one, more of a crack one, but hear me out.
the Slugterra fandom wiki. Far better than the "official" one, but still, has its flaws. Most info is old, some pages have very little/wrong info, it doesn't make clear where the info comes from (the show vs the games), and the biggest pages come from the content regarding the first ten episodes of the show.
now, idk who the editors are irl. But hey, you know what's an in-universe explanation?!?
ELI SHANE IS THE MAIN EDITOR.
no, really. He had more down-time right at the beginning of the show. He was fascinated w Slugterra and maybe he thought writing everything he learned down somewhere would help him remember it all. But the plot kicked in and he had less time, so now most pages are short and to the point - and only written in Eli's perspective, not some historian, so some stuff is misleading or wrong. And he mainly used it before A Distant Shore - afterwards, he could just ask his friends if he forgot something. But it's still fun to update, so for anything big enough, he added a little bit to the archive. Eli Shane is the editor, of course he is!!!!! It makes SENSE!
okay, now w this headcanon, it's time to reread Eli's page, something tells me this is gonna be fun
Driving 10 hours tomorrow, let's cope by discussing Ghoul From Beyond
specifically, when the Goon implies Eli's a better host than Junjie.
now, this doesn't make much sense at first. Junjie is the more experienced fighter. He has wrist blasters. He knew a lot about the eastern caverns and thus had the information to steal about how to conquer them. But then...
and this is what got me to making this post. Junjie is super powerful and knows those caverns, so he was a "good host" and all. But Junjies main source of slugslinging proficiency is actually his Slug-Fu.
Something we don't see the Goon be able to do. Is it because it's impractical as he's mind controlling? Or that his chi isn't powerful enough? Possibly. I don't think the goon is able to do slug-fu, I think we would have seen him use it by now if they did. But the goon obviously didn't need it to cause damage to the east.
Now, into the west. Eli's powers were never spiritual or anything like that, they were all tech based. Blasters, mechs, slug biology...they amped those up for the war with Blakk. I think megamorphs were a thing in the east, but could only be made and controlled using blasters/experienced slingers (or at least that's what I'm rolling with, since it is admittedly hard to excuse the show for being so mute about the blaster tech in the east). so the goon controlled Eli and his ghouled bandoleer and shot his super good blaster and megamorphs and was like "omg, this champion has power I can more easily exploit! Score!"
and then the goon in ROTE is like "nah wills better, he's got Eli's blaster and junjie's level of knowledge about these caverns, this one's my fav"
and, onfg what would the scene if Will getting gooned looked like, what did his head look like, how did the goon taunt him, especially after meeting his son and Will not knowing anything about what's happened since he got sent to hell, OMFG DAMN IT ANOTHER PLOT BUNNY-
I love the little details of the show lmaoooo