Minettes

The Minettes are the main protagonists of the Minette Expedition Series. They're a group of small creatures that live on a far away, yet easy to travel to planet called Exo-Ero.

## Behaviors

Minettes spend their day thriving on their planet, increasing their population number, or trying to avoid falling prey to predators such as Sackits. Minettes usually are passive, and non-aggressive, often not attacking threats nearby, even if they're threatened. However, if danger is severe, then they get aggressive and attack their attacker. When it comes to raising their numbers, they look for a special fruit called borna berries which grow on. They come in three different sizes, small, medium, and large, with the largest ones being the rarest. Minettes harvest these berries and take them back to their mother ship called the Pod for reproduction. Depending on the area, Minettes will spend their nights in their Pod, or in special nests that they create.

Minettes are able to remember things for only a day. The next day, they forget anything that happened in the past one.

When idle, Minettes will either lay down, exercise a bit, or clean themselves. They might also take a brief nap, only to wake up shortly after. Minettes are hard workers, and they won't stop working on tasks until they're completed, even if one is to do it by itself.

While they prefer not to endanger their lives, they will attack predators that may threaten them, even if it does cost some of their lives. They also will repeatedly attack enemies if ordered to without hesitation, showing that they're brave when they need to be.

Minettes don't talk, but they make small vocal noises for communication. They can understand each other's language, even if they're different types, but other people can't. Another thing that makes their language unique is that it can't be translated.

Minettes that can swim in water, or are immune to it, won't drown. Others can only stay in shallow water.

## Types

Minettes come in various types. Each type has its own group that separates the types into the different variety of them. Most of the Minettes have different abilities and immunities, but somrtpatrially share traits. There are a total of ten categories of Minettes.

#### **Planties**

Planties have different types of plant-related things on their heads, which they use to attack enemies. All of them are immune to pollen, which other Minettes are allergic to, and they can't be eaten by carnivorous plants. Planties start off with a basic plant, and then they will grow into a newer, stronger one if they drink Power-Up Honey.

Leaf/Turnip: Leaf Planties can grow vegetables, and they do this quicker when they grow into Turnip Planties.

Bud/Flower: Bud Planties have the ability to make flowers bloom. This process can be sped up when they grow into Flower Planties.

Seed/Berry: Seed Planties can grow fruits, and are also slightly stronger than other Planties. They grow fruits much faster when they grow into Berry Planties.

Lily Pad/Seagrass: Lilypad Planties, they are fully capable of entering bodies of water and growing underwater plants. They swim mainly at the surface of the water, but sometimes dive underwater. When powered up into a Seagrass Plantie, they can fully swim underwater water as well as walk underwater. They never go to the surface.

Snowball/Snowbell: Snowball Planties have the ability to throw their flowers like snowballs (and they have the same elemental properties as one)

#### **Repellets**

Repellets each have an immunity to a hazard. Others are only partially immune to the other hazards.

Red: Red Repellets are immune to fire, and are capable of swimming in lava.

Orange: Orange Repellets aren't affected by ice. They're capable of freeing Minettes who are encased in ice. They have cyan stripes on their bodies.

Yellow: Yellow Repellets are resistant to electricity. They can even transfer electricity with their bodies.

Green: Green Repelets are immune to acid. They're able to swim in acid pools and are the only Minettes that can walk in acid rain.

Blue: Blue Repellts are immune to water hazards and can swim freely in bodies of it.

Purple: Purple Repellets are resistant to poison or anything toxic, and are sticky. This enables them to

Brown: Brown Repellets are indigestable, so they can't get eaten by enemies. If one attempts to, they will spit the Brown Repellets out, and possibly any other Minette that was on the verge of being swallowed.

#### **Glownuts**

Glownuts can glow in the dark and even reveal invisible enemies.

Cyan: Cyan Glownuts glow in a wide radius. They're more effective when in groups.

Magenta: Magenta Glownuts glow very brightly for a period of time, but this slowly fades until they something that glows.

Yellow: Yellow Glownuts glow in a way that it's more narrow. This means that they are better and glowing in long dark tunnels.

Star: When thrown, if they hit an enemy, they may flash white and stun the target.

#### **Shapelobs**

Shapelobs are capable of shooting projectiles at their foes. This makes them the only ranged Minette type.

Sphere: Sphere Shapelobs shoot projectiles that don't go as far as the others, but they can shoot them twice as fast.

Pyramid: Pyramid Shapelobs can shoot from a longer distance, but their attacks are weaker.

Cube: Cube Shapelobs throw much slower than other Shapelobs, but their projectiles are much more powerful.

Ghost: Ghost Shapelobs are much more different than their shape-looking cousins. Instead of resembling a shape, they look like ghosts and possess ghost-like abilities, such as floating and phasing through objects. Despite their stand-out appearance, they still have a shape on their heads, in this case being a star.

#### **Elementils**

Elementils are based on the four natural elements, and a semi-immune to the elements they represent.

Fire: Fire Elementils are fiery, and can melt snow with their fiery attacks. They aren't strong enough to melt ice, and can still get frozen, but they break out eventually. They get knocked back when they come in contact with fire.

Water: Water Elementils are water, and can douse lava with their watery attacks. They can't put out fire though, and can actually catch fire, but they cool down eventually. They can walk on water.

Air: Air Elementils are airy and very light. They can ride updrafts with ease and blow away clouds of dust. They can get knocked back pretty far when hit by a gust of wind.

Earth: Earth Elementils are rockhard, and can smash rocks and crystals with their solid bodies. They can't get crushed or impaled. When something rocky attempts to crush them, they get buried in the ground. This won't happen when it's something made of glass or crystal them.

Ice: Ice Elementils can freeze water. If enough are thrown at an enemy, they can freeze it.

#### **Fungattacks**

Fungattacks are great for combat, each with their own unique way of dealing powerful damage.

Puncher: Puncher Fungattacks attack enemies and obstacles with their two large fist-shaped hands. When thrown, they do a straight forward attack that's strong enough to crack glass.

Stomper: Stomper Fungattacks have heavy feet. They weigh as much as seven Minettes and can deal serious damage if they stomp onto enemies.

Bomber: Bomber Fungattacks both look and act like bombs. They are also immune to explosions.

Cracker:

#### **Animatts**

Based on real-world animals, Animatts have the traits that they do.

Puppy: These ones resemble Golden Retrievers, but have a small, ruby, diamond-shaped jewel on their chests. They also have blue eyes.

Kitten: The Kittens resemble orange cats, but are more tan with less orange around their bodies. They have green eyes and have a golden, circle jewel on their chests. Kitten Animatts can climb up walls. Like real-world cats, they don't like water, so they don't swim in it.

Bunny Egg: Bunny Egg Animatts can be thrown much higher than any other Minette. They also can jump high on their own. Their eggshells also give them a slight immunity to being stabbed. If something tries to impale them, they get knocked back,

#### **Insectalids**

Like the Animatts, Insectalids are based on real-world insects. All Insectalids have the capability of flight, and each of them have unique abilities.

Bee: Bee Insectalids fly faster than other Insectalids. In addition, they are much more aggressive. However, they can't fly as high as other Insectalids.

Butterfly: Butterfly Insectalids are able to fly much higher than other Insectalids. They fly slower than any other flying Minette, and even ones that walk.

Lovebug: Lovebug Insectalids don't have any flight strengths or weaknesses, but rather have a unique way of attacking enemies. From time to time, they'll release a cloud of pink powder, which can stun enemies for a little bit.

#### **Brushins**

Brushins are painting Minette types. They can paint objects and enemies alike. When they do this, their attack power gets boosted.

Red: Red Brushins are able to paint on gray objects. They have angled paintbrushes.

Green: Green Brushins can paint on white objects. They have fan paintbrushes.

Blue: Blue Brushins have the ability to paint on black objects. They have flat paintbrushes.

Gold: Gold Brushins have a lighter shade of green than Green Brushins. They paint gold paint and have round paintbrushes.

#### **Tooltops**

Tooltops have different objects on their heads. They use them to accomplish different tasks which require their tool.

Hammer: Hammer Tooltops can hammer nails into the ground When thrown, sometimes they slam their hammers onto the ground.

Drillbit: Drillbit Tooltops can tunnel underground with ease with their drills and screw in screws or bolts

Propeller: Propeller Tooltops are capable of flight, much like Insectalids. However, they mainly use their propellers to cut through strings or tethers.

Party Horn: Party Horn Tooltops are fluffy, unline their material-skinned cousins. They use their party horns to snag items from afar.

#### **Candilings**

**Knicknoids**

## Abilities

Minettes are well known for always attacking in groups when threatened, and they do so by smacking their head appendages into their foes. Glownuts and Animatts however use their hands and paws respectively, as they lack a lengthy head appendage like their rest of the Minettes.

## Trivia

* The Minettes are inspired by the Pikmin in the Pikmin series. But unlike the Pikmin games, the Minette games are action type games, whereas the Pikmin games are real-time strategy games
	+ In addition, the Minette's planet is more of a modern-day mixed with a fantasy-like type planet, whereas the Pikmin's planet is based on future Earth.
* Minettes have no real basis and are plainly just an example of an imagination going wild.