Biology

.... I never in my life thought I'd be trying to learn how to draw backgrounds (I thought it'd just be character designs for me.)

And surprisingly enough, I think once I get decent at it, I might enjoy it.

But for now... I have the half-passable this:

I feel like 1-2 color pallet is 90% of it? For me at least...

ALSO IT'S SO HARD TO DO CELLULAR BACKGROUND ART KDLJFKLDSJ

It's that the basic sciences seems like rules and logic and everything running in perfect synchronicity.

Until you get to advanced sciences and realizes all the rule-breaking and the wacky stuff and how for everything that happens there's a million and one fail safes and still stuff goes wrong. It's extremely messy and tangled together and science tries to untangle the yarn and wrap it around spools, so they can understand the different colors and how the threads weave together... but any person who works with yarn will tell you how hard untangling yarn is.

To the point where one might as well cut at the tangle and yank out another yarn from the bundle, tying a knot. Who cares about misinformation when no one will see the extra lumps?

Microbiology + time travel (because I love time travel and it was the only way to get me excited about this story. Now... as someone who wants things to be as scientifically accurate as possible... it's... slightly tempting to see if I can figure out a way to have a semi-plausible explanation for cellular time travel but that's probably impossible sooo) 

And how it works is that we have a CDK-1, took part in mitosis, thought it was the height of their fulfillment, the most self-actualizing thing they could ever do, and they were wholly and entirely satisfied. 

Until, after mitosis, the daughter cell they ended up in had a DNA mutation, so time to destroy the cell! 

And to the CDK-1 this is an ultimate betrayal of the DNA (cytoplasmic proteins more or less sort of 'worship' the idea of the DNA and its instructions for every possible scenario,…

(I promise there's doomed siblings and all sorts of different doomed relationships... that I still have to develop... but alas my brain cycled over to being in a shippy mood)

THEREFORE, THIS IS A CASPASE-3 AND A CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1

Now, if my art hadn't failed me last night I would've done a side view sort of thingy like alien stage round 5 mizisua but alas. The art failed me.

Also this line comes after a whole discussion on whether the caspase-3 should 'kill' (technically the term is 'cleave' but THAT SOUNDS SO WRONG WHY) the Cyclin Dependent Kinase 1 before the caspase-3 initiates DNA fragmentation because the Cyclin dependent kinase 1 basically worships the DNA and their all-knowing instructions for every scenario. And the Caspase-3 wouldn't want to destroy something the Cyclin Dependent kinase 1 liked so much while the cyclin dependent kinase is still aware of it.