Shlorpians

The **Shlorpians** are a species of aliens originating from planet Shlorp. The most notable Shlorpians on *Solar Opposites* are Korvo, Yumyulack, Terry, and Jesse.

## Biology

### Plant-based physiology

* Shlorpians can taste the ground with their feet.
* Shlorpians do not appear to possess a brain.
* Shlorpians can come in a variety of colors and different shades of such color. This includes purple, pink, red, blue, green, orange.
	+ Green is the most common.
	+ Replicants can be different shades or colors than the parent Shlorpian.
* When a Shlorpian reaches full maturity, they turn into a wise old tree and if lucky enough, someone will use their wood to build a house.
	+ They don't go through puberty.
* Shlorpians reproduce by taking a clipping of their toe or finger and place it in a pot of soil which eventually grows into a replicant.
	+ Sometimes, if the clippings have trouble growing, as Jesse and Yumyulack did, the parent Shlorpians could put two replicants together to help them grow.
	+ While growing, they first start off as a flower. When they blossom, they're head first.
	+ The replicants, especially if they are like siblings or co-repicants, can exchange information by interlocking elbows which exposes magenta nutrient roots. This is caused by the trust between them; if this trust is irreversibly broken, then they can't do this anymore.
* If Shlorpians don't wash their hands enough, they grow a flower-like fungus on their heads.
	+ The flowers release a pollen which, when inhaled by another being, compels that being to like the Shlorpian.
		- Shlorpians themselves appear to be immune to the pollen, even if it is from another Shlorpian.
		- If pollen from two or more different Shlorpians mixes, non-Shlorpians who inhale the resulting combination enter a homicidal rage.

### Regeneration

Shlorpians are functionally immortal, as even the destruction of the head will just result in them grown a new body with all memories restored from the moment of "death." This is an extreme example of genetic memory, similar to that of Lepidoptera which retain memories possessed prior to metamorphosis. The only known exception to this was the destruction of planet Shlorp, presumably because planetary destruction eliminates whatever biomass is necessary for regeneration.

### Gender

Due to their plant-based physiology and complete lack of genitals, the Shlorpians are universally sexless and therefore choose the gender they wish to identify. However, Shlorpians do have a "mound" which has been evidently treated as their genitalia. The "mound" is to be cleaned regularly to remove gunk with a gunk wand, which the process tickles, or else it will attract giant spiders.

### Gooblers

When a Shlorpian becomes stressed, they produce tiny, mindless, purple creatures known as Gooblers from their heads. They can also be produced via diarrhea as shown at the end of Terry and Korvo Get in a Big Screaming Fight in the Taco Bell Parking Lot.

#### Red Gooblers

Every 100,000th Goobler produced by a Shlorpian is a Red Goobler, a larger, more aggressive variant with the sole purpose of causing as much stress to their Shlorpian as possible.

#### Super Gooblers

Super gooblers, like red ones, will try to kill the Shlorpian. Unlike red ones, they can represent any emotion and it takes time before they give into their homicidal urges. They do this for the sake of the mission to terraform a planet to create a new Shlorp by eliminating them so the team can continue. The rest of the team will then eat the corpse for nutrients.

##### White Gooblers

White gooblers represent a Shlorpian's repressed rage and will continue to grow the angrier the Shlorpian is. To destroy them, the Shlorpian must express their anger until they explode.

##### Green Gooblers

Green gooblers represent a Shlorpian's envy.

##### Orange Gooblers

Orange gooblers represent a Shlorpian's kleptomania.

##### Lavender Gooblers

Lavender gooblers represent a Shlorpian's lust.

##### Magenta Gooblers

Magenta gooblers represent a Shlorpian's binge watching of *Full House.* It will act like Kimmy Gribbler.

##### Blue Gooblers

Blue gooblers represent a Shlorpian's Criterian Disk.

##### Pink Gooblers

Pink Gooblers represent a Shlorpian's love of saying "Baby".

## Known Shlorpians

* Korvo
* Terry
* Yumyulack
* Jesse
* Kabronius
* Zelvod
* Tivo
* Damasculon
* Terri (possibly fictional)
* Vanbo (likely fictional)
* Funyulack (deceased)
* Lervus
* Captain Zarg (deceased)
* Trildo (deceased)
* Melbo
* Shlorpians chosen for the mission (desceased)
* Shlorpians from New Shlorp