u/Mortal_Mantis

>!I ship 'em!<

These three plants are from my red-podded pea breeding project. The initial cross was made in the summer of last year, with the F1 plants being grown indoors that fall. For spring of this year, I grew the F2s indoors to procure a handful of F3 seeds for planting in the summer. That is where we are now.

Only 3 plants turned up with red pods, and have developed varying colors as they matured.

Plant 1 is the brightest star among them, with pods that have stayed red well into maturity.

Plant 2 was red, but gradually turned purple. It also has constricted pods, a possible sign there is little in the way of chewy plant fibers. That makes this plant one I'd want to keep seeds from, and I may cross it's offspring with Plant 1's to eventually get a pretty and edible red pod down the line.

Plant 3 was also red, then turned purple as it aged. The pods are like Plant 1's, the plump form is likely due to there being fibers throughout the pod. Something I don't quite want, as I'd like to have a variety where you can eat the pods whenever.

Took some time to awaken, max condense, and get the passives: GoD, TEHB, Immortal, and Idiosyncratic on this Pal. He hits like a truck, and probably would look like one too.

So, I drew him.

Green, yellow, red, and purple. Green is the most common color, with yellow and purple being somewhat uncommon. My favorite has to be red, which is the rarest color.

This is one of my pea plants with acacia leaves. It has leaflets in place of tendrils, a trait inherited from it's great-grandparent that was a Parsley Pea. It did not inherit the hyper-tendril trait from them, but that is fine with me. The other great-grandparent was a yellow podded pea, and it's showing the yellow-podded gene's other characteristic of plants with yellow stems (yellow podded varieties typically have yellow stems, sepals, and tendrils too). I think this plant is pretty, and there are at least two specimens with this morphology in my garden. The other plants from this cross have random combinations of the following morphs: hyper-tendrils, yellow pods, dwarfism, and the depicted acacia leaf but with green stems.

This mod adds some head sliders to get your parafolk to look more dragon-like. From the snout and ear-be-gone slider, to a selection of horns and head spikes in another slider. The spikes change to match your para's hair color, or you can recolor it to something else using the overlay in the face freckles category.

Here it is on the Workshop.

I haven't added in the tails, but they are planned.

So are the wings, but that mountain can be climbed after the tails.

I've implemented two tail shapes and they have a handful of sizes between them. There is also the fur located on the sides of the jaw and head, this added a nice profile to them and their profile icons in-game. Also, all these werewolf assets work on multiple life stages. Hence the small werewolf. This latest version can be found on the Workshop and Nexus.

This was a bit difficult to implement due to the limited texture space Parafolk have to their models, but I made it work eventually with a 18x25 texture. I wanted the ability to still use all accessories, and not have to sacrifice them just to add in a tail. As for customization, the tail will change it's color to match your Para's hair. The mod is on the Workshop and Nexus.

They're White Campion (Silene latifolia). I learned what they were after seeing their blooms for the first time and looking them up. In my garden beds, there are many seedlings that pop up year after year. If it weren't for their prolific aromatic flowering from spring well into fall, they'd have been scrapped. I make it a point to thin them out, and a few years ago they had a surprise for me. Variegated plants.

It should go without saying I kept the variegated plants where they were, and removed the basic green plants all around them. Cut to two years later, and countless variegated seedlings are popping up everywhere in the garden beds. Over the span of 8 years, I grew to adore these plants that have turned out to be a nice investment with a surprising return.

My future plans involve crossbreeding the variegated plants with the native Royal Catchfly (Silene regia), in hopes of getting the fuller flowers from S. latifolia mixed with the deep red of S. regia. Along with the variegation, the hybrid ought to look amazing.

A bit of a continuation of my other doodle involving these two. I like to believe Kai finds the farmer approachable, due to having a serious fear of participating in a conversation or event and being met with adversity of the verbal kind. Maybe, just maybe... He'd find the prospect of getting his winter coat brushed out by the mute protagonist not so bad... Why is he smiling?

(Silene latifolia) These seedlings are some catchflies I have growing in my garden, and they look so much brighter than their pampered siblings growing indoors. I think the harsh sunlight may have contributed to the outdoor sprouted plants looking this vibrant. I have dozens of these guys growing everywhere, and finding them is as easy as it looks. I'm currently in the process of selecting these variegated plants and moving them around my garden beds to flourish, the last couple years of doing this has promoted the variegated trait. First image has the seedlings in color over a greyscale background. Second has the regular cropped image.

(Pisum sativum) The contrasting colors are starting to show more as the plant has continued to grow. The 5th set of stipules have developed a large patch of yellow-green, and the 6th set of leaflets in the last image are showing a splattering of variegated tissue against the regular green of it's leaves. The plant has continued to grow normally, and once it has flowered I plan to take some pollen from it. There is a pea variety I think would look nice with the trait, and I thought it would be cool to test if a new set of genes affect the intensity of the variegation itself. As the trait would be recessive, I'd have the results once I get to the F2s.

In the latest update to my Werewolf Parafolk mod, I stumbled upon a condition system where you can have things equipped if a slider's value meets specified conditions. This is really cool, you can have items baked into a slider and not have to sort through multiple menus to equip them! The mod is here.

I felt like the muscles and arms could use some adjustments, and decided to check out the built-in modding tools. They were a lot easier to grasp than I initially thought, and I made this mod for those Parafolk that are extra buff.

I haven't played a game in this series before, but I absolutely loved playing Bubsy 4D. I drew this out of appreciation, and to remember what a challenge 9 Lives mode was. (I also freakin adore Baaptiste, and wanted to draw the two here.)

Just felt like drawing, and then thought of this guy. lol

I had catchflies or campion (Silene noctiflora) growing in my garden for years, since I love how year round they keep flowering. The bees also seem to love them, and I like that about them too. Last year, I noticed dozens of seedlings with variegated leaves popping up out of the ground. With a few mature plants showing the same variegation, and it clicked I had struck gold (variegation, lol).

What's unfortunate, is that my catchflies are a species that have male plants and female plants. The fortunate side of this coin, is that a handful of plants both male and female had expressed variegation. And these individuals I had my eyes on.

I saved hundreds of seeds from one of my variegated plants, and these are some pics of her variegated offspring growing alongside their normal siblings who should be carriers of the trait as well.

For context, I was searching for a variegated pea seedling (Pisum sativum) by growing out large numbers of seedlings in trays until one shown promise. When I first noticed the light green/yellow streaks, it had the first two sets of leaves. I waited a week to see if the new growth also had the variegation, and those leaves did. It's not super eye-catching, but it's good enough considering the sheer amount of seedlings I've sorted through over the last year.

What inspired me to do this is seeing some specimens online with variegated leaves, and the apparent difficulty in keeping variegated peas alive. With accounts of pests eating them, sunburn, etc. I personally would have liked to get a few seeds from charitable individuals, but as stated before, these plants tend to expire before doing so. Making my effort to brute force obtaining one the best avenue I can think of.

So far, this little guy is doing fine in a sunny windowsill. And has been growing at a normal rate, no apparent issues have arisen. If all goes to plan, I should get some seeds just over a month from now. And then I can plant a portion of those seeds to see if it's heritable, and get more stock to work with if it is.