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haha, love it! Ur so right. I'd just like to add a brief HC;

so I'm a rifle instructor at a gun range for a junior club. At the end of our sessions the instructors pick up the shells - only the ones to be reused or sold as scrap, though. It's possible that depending on the material (being biodegradable or valuable) slingers would just leave it there.

furthermore (this is probs wack to the average person oops) a lot of kids like going into the firing range (WHEN THE RANGE IS COLD) to help clean up the shells, and it's not uncommon that when a kid sees a cool looking one (it's big, it's dirty, it's dented, it's neon pink, it's green, it was rare ammo, it was EXPENSIVE ammo, the shape is funny) they'll pick it up and keep it as a keepsake. I got a few from my own junior days. (Just please, please wash you hands after touching ammo shells. Cold water. Must be cold water. 30 seconds. Soap. Orange Non-lead soap if you can. Lead exposure is NOT FUN.)

so....new hc, I think kids in Slugterra pick up shells for fun, plus they are useful when getting older and they're learning how to shoot. But if they're really well-working or expensive, or could be sold for scrap, the slingers themselves go through great lengths to get back their shells. (Not to mention - the rarer the gun (like Eli's), the less compatible the chamber is to the average shell., unless shell and chamber sizes and blaster force have been following a set standard across blaster shops for decades already). They would not be laying on the ground for long. You would not believe how obsessed range officers get at their scrap metal deposit side-hussle...the janitor stole the lead my coach was gonna deposit one year...

This has been bugging me ever since I got into Slugterra: Where the hell do slug shells even come from? Do slingers pick them up after duels? Is there a limit to the number of times a shell can used to sling? I have my own ideas but I like hearing other people.

Im dumb when it comes to technical stuff, but for me, these three Slugidoes help when having to think about this kind of thing

[SI-2 Blasters and You]

[SI-6 Slug Retrieval]

[SI-14 A Bried History of Slugslinging]

I SWARE there was a Slugidoe that explained the Shell/Berrals thing, but I might have hallucinated it, or it was explained in an episode briefly-

But the long of my take is that they are manufactured by Balster manufacturers and are used to house slugs while on the move and for loading them into a blaster.

Before Blasters Slingers(and slugs) would use just about anything to help a slug reach their Valosimorph.

The Shells/Berrals are reusable, and depending on the type of blaster you own, it will determine how much of a mess you make in a duel lmao

For instance, there are Gatling typ blasters but they don't fart out Shells/Berrals like a Gatling gun would after firing, the Shells are hooked to the blaster, like a revolver, and rotate, allowing a Slinger to shoot multiple slugs in quick succession, and reload multiple slugs as once, at the disadvantage of it being heavy, and take a bit longer to load.

One Shell/Berrals Blasters, like Eli's typically have you pushing out the previous shell to load in a new one with a slug in it already, but I believe it's been shown a slug can be loaded into a blaster with a Shell already in it and fired.

Over all clean up depends on the situation.

Tournament? Cleaning crew most likely.

Duel against an enemy? Probably collecting them after the fights over, or there probably staying on the ground, see the Episode Bandoler of Brothers for an example of that.

Probably a whole job to go out and collect them.

Overall, Shells/Berrals are a reusable resource, with the only limitations being how many you can carry on your person at a time and what's needed for the model of blaster you own!

I also like to think they are customizable!

Blakk Industries makes red Berrals, though they might just be stained from Dark Water lol

Slugterra Holiday Gift Exchange!

I had interest on Discord and Instagram for this, so I'm posting it here too! I'm hosting a Slugterra holiday gift exchange. If you're interested in giving/receiving fanart/fanfiction, fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/rvcGYpDFUkFECujA6

The form will close at 11:59pm EST on Monday, November 25. Gifts can be given at any point whenever it's December 25th in your time zone! I've pasted the details from the form in the read more. If you have any questions, let me know!

Gift Exchange Details! READ BEFORE COMPLETING THIS FORM!

This form doesn't send you a copy of your responses at the end, because that requires me to collect your email addresses, and I don't want those. If you think you made a mistake, or want to see what you submitted, contact Cyan to see!

This is a gift exchange to celebration gift-giving around the holidays hosted by Cyan! Join other Slugterra fans to create and gift fanfictions or fanart!

What Do We Give/Get?

Slugterra-related fanart or a fanfiction.

Your giftee will provide three gift prompts.

Please try to follow at least one of the prompts! Prompts can include canon, alternate universes (AU's), original characters (OC's), ships, situations, settings, etc.

The gift can be fanart for those artsy folks, or a fanfiction for those wondrous writers!

Gifts will be posted at any point on December 25 in your time zone! That way we don't have to worry about syncing up different time zones. Once it's the 25th wherever you are, go nuts and post your work!

When you post your work, please tag/contact your giftee!

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Fill out this Google Form! It will provide Cyan with all the information needed to assign your gifter.

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ALL gifts MUST be safe for work. This means no sexually explicit, overly suggestive, or gorey material. Ships, angst, and minor injuries are allowed, but nothing extreme.

Please provide 3 prompts for your gifter so they have something to choose from. To make things easier for your gifter, who may not thrive with ships or original characters, only one prompt can include original character(s) and only one prompt can continue a ship(s). That way, if there's something they may not be comfortable with or not confident with, nobody's worrying. This is meant to be fun, not extra stress around the holidays!

If your prompt requires a reference (like an original character reference), there will be a space to attach or link references.

Please put thought and effort into your gift, but don't stress about making a masterpiece! Just like real-life gift exchanges usually have a price range, we want to try to keep things relatively similar across the board. Take a couple hours, but don't do, like, a ten hour project that's got you stressing!

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Judge Logan and the Blakk Employee Gala

Judge Logan and the Blakk Employee Gala - Chapter 1 - Mister Rose (MrRose) - Slugterra [Archive of Our Own]

I really hope I'm following the event properly - hey yall in case you didn't know I'm Mister Rose on AO3 and I wanted to do something for this community thingy! Here's my take on it!

The Blakk Gala | Slugterra Community Event

by @ ariaterramoon

EXACTLY.

honestly, maybe he wants Eli to know nothing because of his trauma and wanting to bury it, but it could also be that he wants the Shane legacy to change and refused to rope Eli into it? Like, in a world where Eli knew everything, Willis heroism would be in this framework of upholding what the shanes want. Eli doesn't have that, so he's completely free to be in Slugterra purely to help people and find the truth. and yeah, another part of this is friendships. I get the feeling will, w the secrets, never embraced them fully; leaving him alone when the journey got tough. Maybe he also wanted Eli to feel more free to be a slugterran, to trust people, so his son doesn't go a little crazy like he did. Maybe he wanted to break the cycle, and this felt like the way to do it. Maybe that's another reason why wills clear Eli DOESNT have to follow wills footsteps in the letter; it's touching to give ur son choice when (or because) you yourself never had one, and it's another layer of "I did it for the family legacy, you did it to be a hero and feel connected to your father. THATS what the Shane's need to become."

that's the theory that paints Will as the most heroic, to me. He did so much wrong to pursue this idea, but he truly wanted Eli to not be saddled w the same trauma and pressure that was his own undoing.

Will Shane.

the character I am drawn to in this particularly anxiety inducing month of my life.

literately NOTHING is normal about him. Eli's mom? Had to leave somehow. Bestie? He and Tom Por had a massive fall out. Blakk? From what we gather from the master, they used to not hate each other apparently. Jimmo? Straightforward enough, but that leaves the question of what happened to wills parents! like he's a decent dude but also shady af and paranoid as hell and, WHY is he like that? Idk and it's fascinating?!? he's the definition of just being human, and I love him. He's got a complicated history and PLENTY of unsolved beef, because everyone associated w him's got a VERY different take on the guy and they all have changed their opinion of him massively at some point or other. Like yall I WILL write everything but I will especially write TomxWill and ThadxWill I need to explore his CHAOS

also never, NEVER forget, because I never will; Will KNEW about Blakk knowing about the surface right?!? Surely?!? He would find out, either w his son or with the alliance w dark bane?!? WHAT IS THE STORY HERE?!?

give me your headcanons, they lower my heart rate and stop my panic attacks from my executive dysfunction problems.

I CONDUCTED AND PLAYED PIANO PROFESSIONALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!

I made mistakes but I DID IT!!!

...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.

Eli's teachers in the staff lounge, laughing, in tears: "he's so smart and he does his work but he HAS to stop talking to his backpack and bringing a lighter to school!!!!!!"

I should have acted out in school more none of the consequences mattered actually

Eli before he left for Slugterra

the Slugterra alphabet, apparently

this was hidden in the pictures section of one of the random Slugterra fandom wiki pages and I adore it. Kinda a crime we don't talk about it more!