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Creatures · first: SO E2

Cerebro-slug

In the second episode, Brennan lists Cerebro-slugs among possible explanations for the Skipper's behaviour, alongside a change of heart, psychic influence and tractor beams, and adds that it could be anything SOE2·00:37:21.

Cerebro-slugs are slugs that take over bodies, and a tour guide at Fantanimalland calls them an extremely invasive species SOE11·00:21:31 SOE14·01:42:10. In the third episode Brennan recaps that some kind of Cerebro-slug has blasted its way into the brain stem of the captain, Norman "The Skipper" Takamori SOE3·00:00:52. In the fourth episode Melon addresses Skip as Prince Valdrinor, with character art of a green Cerebro-slug, and mentions his father, King Prilbus SOE4·02:45:03 SOE4·02:45:20. After a pug licks his eye, Brennan tells Skip he immediately thought the pug is a superior and its owner is probably another Cerebro-slug SOE4·02:49:51.

Brennan explains how they live: after about three days in a body is the hump, and they succeed as a species by convincingly being the person SOE6·00:31:33. In slug form they sense only nearby intelligences SOE6·00:20:26, and they are fluid and adopt the gender of the body they are in SOE7·00:47:48. Skip tells the crew he is "royalty among the slugs" and speaks of the Great Emhatchening SOE12·00:18:45, which Brennan says needs all the great lines and noble houses present SOE12·00:21:04.

Brennan says Cerebro-slugs latch onto the brain stem, kill the host and lay the eggs SOE14·01:42:10. King Prilbus shows Skip how they breed by taking over the base of the brain stem SOE15·00:44:55. When Skip rides on a hand as a slug, Brennan says he has no eyes or ears and senses a mind as psychic warmth SOE16·00:06:18 SOE16·00:24:50. In the seventeenth episode Barry Syx says "Barry slug" while the crew sort out which Barry they mean SOE17·00:18:05. He then apologizes to King Prilbus, and Skip says "Father" SOE17·00:18:07 SOE17·00:18:14.

In the finale Skip fights his father Prilbus for control of a host, takes over Loose Duke, sneezes Prilbus out, shoots him SOE18·01:55:58 SOE18·01:56:44. Skip then says, "The king is dead. Long live the king." SOE18·01:57:04. Gnosis then shows Skip many other Cerebro-slug communities that could live alongside their hosts SOE18·02:53:16.

By episode

SO E2: Rolling Up The Hill

  • Cerebro-slugs and tractor beams named as possible causes — 00:37:21

SO E3: Wrecked on Rec 97

  • Cerebro-slug — what the crew call the being in Skip's brain stem — 00:00:52

SO E4: Every Day is Our Wurst Day

  • Cerebro-slugs — "the pug is a superior" to the slug in Skip, the pug's owner "also another Cerebro-slug" — 02:49:51
  • Cerebro-slug — Prince Valdrinor, "green Cerebro Slug in its natural form" — 02:45:03

SO E6: On the Run In the Martini Nebula

  • Cerebro-slug — "the reason that cerebro-slugs are even successful as a species is their ability to convincingly be the person" — 00:31:33; in slug form they sense only nearby intelligences — 00:20:26

SO E7: Dying Tomorrow, It's a Pleasure

  • Cerebro-slugs — fluid; adopt the gender of the body; "they're here to pilot some bodies" — 00:47:48, 00:48:31

SO E11: Flee From Fantanimalland

  • Cerebro-slugs — "extremely invasive species" per the tour guide — 00:21:31
  • Cerebro-slugs — lime green slugs; asked how the worms get in, Brennan: "With the Skip it was nose." — 00:19:34

SO E12: Go Big or Go Home

  • Cerebro-slugs / noble houses — the Great Emhatchening requires all great lines present — 00:21:04
  • Cerebro-slug — Skip's species; "royalty among the slugs" — 00:18:45

SO E14: The House Always Wins

  • Cerebro-slugs — "latch onto the brain stem, kill the host, lay the eggs" — 01:42:10
  • Brain slugs — checked on the nuns — 01:22:07

SO E15: Face to Face

  • Cerebro-slugs — hosts: "to the slugs, a body's a body." — 01:07:50; breed by taking over the base of the brain stem — 00:44:55

SO E16: Jailbreak!

  • Cerebro-slug (Skip) — "You don't have eyes or ears. You right now are on, you're along for the ride on top of a hand." — 00:06:18; senses a mind as "psychic warmth" — 00:24:50

SO E17: The Luckless, the Abandoned, and the Forsaked (Part 1)

SO E18: The Luckless, the Abandoned, and the Forsaked (Part 2)

  • Cerebroslugs — Prilbus (the "Mentophagian Emperor") and his son Skip, addressed as Valdrinor; they fight in a shared psychic space that Brennan calls a "hall of power" — 01:28:17, 01:26:47