/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>26583832
Ah fuck that's the good shit, there's something about Rosebud's speculative biology, it really hits the spot.
I imagine the butterfly metamorphosis inspired you in this? I remember reading something interesting about scientists wondering if the butterflies retained memories of their caterpillar days despite having a stage where they were completely dissolved.
Also, do natural rosebutas have mineralized skeletons like animals? Or do they have a sort of hardened plant tissue, like hardwood?
Now I'm wondering how this metamorphosis would interact with the unique Deadbeat biology... The skeleton uses iron oxides instead of calcium oxides as a hardening mineral, so the likely enzymatic process used by the plant to soften and dissolve the bone wouldn't work.
If the rosebuta skeleton is made of a different material, the hardwood skeleton and goethite Deadbeat skeleton would have to compete, either causing in a fatal rejection of the metamorphosis, or resulting in a composite, with the wood skeleton growing around the original, like pic related.
But if the rosebuta skeleton is mineralized like an animal's, the softer tissues and cells (marrow and skeletal nerves mostly) would end up being replaced, and once the bone's "cells" were fully rosebuta, the bone would probably begin growing according to this new genetic blueprint. But since it's re-growing the bones instead of softening and deforming them, the transformation would take much, much longer, weeks, maybe months...
What do you think?