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<blockquote data-quote="afroakuma" data-source="post: 9172535" data-attributes="member: 6685775">The former most definitely. While I enjoy the whimsically clockwork version of modrons, my image of them has always been a more Sinister Geometry approach; organic and disturbing, luminous and perfect in a way that mortals cannot help but perceive as alien - just like it would be very disturbing to see an actual mouse that looks like Mickey Mouse, an actual pyramidal being with insectile limbs and a fleshy eye on each face would be tremendously unsettling, especially when it locks its gaze on you and nothing close to a human emotion can be discerned when you look back. Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls would be a particularly outre and chaotic evil cognate.As far as slaadi, I'm as amused as anyone by &quot;giant frog&quot; but I think they should really look more like chaos - swirling, starry, shuddering voids of Somethingness that possess relatively consistent &quot;limbs&quot; and &quot;claws&quot; and a wide &quot;mouth&quot; and luminous &quot;eyes,&quot; such that one could look at an image and conceivably say &quot;wow, that thing with the eyes sticking out and the strange flesh that doesn't seem smooth or regular in appearance at any point and the wide mouth kind of sort of resembles a humanoid frog.&quot;On the AI art point, I have ethical concerns with it as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="afroakuma, post: 9172535, member: 6685775"] The former most definitely. While I enjoy the whimsically clockwork version of modrons, my image of them has always been a more Sinister Geometry approach; organic and disturbing, luminous and perfect in a way that mortals cannot help but perceive as alien - just like it would be very disturbing to see an actual mouse that looks like Mickey Mouse, an actual pyramidal being with insectile limbs and a fleshy eye on each face would be tremendously unsettling, especially when it locks its gaze on you and nothing close to a human emotion can be discerned when you look back. Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls would be a particularly outre and chaotic evil cognate. As far as slaadi, I'm as amused as anyone by "giant frog" but I think they should really look more like chaos - swirling, starry, shuddering voids of Somethingness that possess relatively consistent "limbs" and "claws" and a wide "mouth" and luminous "eyes," such that one could look at an image and conceivably say "wow, that thing with the eyes sticking out and the strange flesh that doesn't seem smooth or regular in appearance at any point and the wide mouth kind of sort of resembles a humanoid frog." On the AI art point, I have ethical concerns with it as well. [/QUOTE]

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