Fronds?

[RandallBoggs]

I agree with the standing out thing. I mean the shifting eyes, tail and scales are what you expect in a reptilian, but the pink tip fronds make him stand out more, especially since pink might be brave for men ^0^

He was bullied...just glad they weren't ripped off earlier...
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*nods* Yep, mood converyer too...which is something people need to pay attention to to understand how he really feels.

[DinoGirl]

I never thought Randall would get bullied for his fronds . I love that feature of him and I wish I had my own ;D. That's unusual with me.... I'm always into tails instead (after watching Disney's Dinosaur), but Randall's fronds are just hyperactive. I guess you could call them his eyebrows since they show emotions ;D.

Hmm... after we all suggested that his fronds were a mating display, the fronds would have a vibrant colour on the tips to show some type of dominancy. In this case pink! I suppose all of the monsters show masculine features from something like being broad, muscles...

[RandallBoggs]

Eyebrows ^0^

Unsure if the tint of fronds has impact....hmm...

[DinoGirl]

Well, I thought that because it did make Randall stand out alot more, by just having a different colour on his fronds. I would think this make's him more attractive ;D.

[tmazanec1]

I think his fronds make him more handsome. Picturing him without them...just not the same.

[DinoGirl]

Mar 9, 2009 23:20:27 GMT -5 tmazanec1 said:

I think his fronds make him more handsome. Picturing him without them...just not the same.

Hmm, I have to agree with BOTH statements. I think they do make him attractive, since we even talked about them being a mating attraction before on this thread. A draw in to the females. Randall wouldn't be Randall without his fronds. They make him more 'unique' as in say since I have never seen any animal with the exact same feature.

[Theophilus Hatta]

I agree with all previous points. Randall certainly is very attractive with his fronds, whatever they're there for. =D

I wonder, though, if the fronds might be connected to his 'blending'. You can see in the scene when Boo's whacking him and yanking on his fronds how quick he flickers between wallpapers... one change for every yank.

[RandallBoggs]

Actually that was mostly because it was Ran's head that was being bashed in (and I suppose Pitbulllady will refer you to the "third eye"). Ran considers it rather a bother that if he bumped into anything with enough force (at least head-first) he'd take on the colors for a moment.

[DinoGirl]

Yeah, it happens the same way when he bumps into Sullivan too. I don't think Randall was expecting Boo to pull his fronds anyhow .

[pitbulllady]

Aug 3, 2009 16:44:12 GMT -5 RandallBoggs said:

Actually that was mostly because it was Ran's head that was being bashed in (and I suppose Pitbulllady will refer you to the "third eye"). Ran considers it rather a bother that if he bumped into anything with enough force (at least head-first) he'd take on the colors for a moment.

I'd hardly call having a two-year bonk him with a plastic Whiffleball bat "having his head bashed in", lol! If Randall were THAT delicate and fragile, he'd never have made it as a Scarer, since he wouldn't have passed a routine medical physical! Randall's colors and patterns flashing randonly were those that were stored in his subconscious, and active memory, triggered by FEAR moreso than actually pain, although I'm sure it did hurt having his fronds pulled, more that the plastic bat. He was not expecting this to happen, so it took him completely off-guard, and I still think that at that moment, under that amount of stress, Randall forgot all that Waternoose had told him about human children NOT being toxic. All those old fears and horror stories he'd no doubt heard since he himself was a toddler just came rushing back to join forces with these new threats. It's sort of the same thing when he bumps into Sullivan and automatically flashes Sullivan's colors. It goes to show how preoccupied Randall's mind is with some things.

pitbulllady

[RandallBoggs]

Well it was both frond-pulling and bashing on the head, which counted for the multitude of changes.
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Again, I do doubt he was FEARFUL. I mean come on....Scarer, hello. Plus he was HARDLY nervous around her...

[pitbulllady]

Aug 5, 2009 18:39:44 GMT -5 RandallBoggs said:

Well it was both frond-pulling and bashing on the head, which counted for the multitude of changes.
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Again, I do doubt he was FEARFUL. I mean come on....Scarer, hello. Plus he was HARDLY nervous around her...

ALL of the monsters were fearful of human children, Scarers or not, remember? Randall had probably only recently been let in on the Big Secret by Waternoose, that human children really were't toxic, but of course, having grown up being told that they WERE, having had it drilled into him during his own Scarer training that they were, having had that misinformation passed down from generations after generations of monsters that human children were toxic, it's hard to just shake that overnight. I've used the analogy of myself having grown up being taught by people I trusted to tell the truth that all snakes were dangerous, then one day reading in a book at the school library that this wasn't true at all, but when I got bitten for the very first time, by a Corn Snake, a non-venomous species, that panic tried to set in again, those old stories came flooding back, and it was very hard to maintain self-control and avoid complete panic. Had the bite actually HURT-which it didn't-I am doubtful if I could have maintained my composure and let common sense and my third-grade education(I was eight at the time)prevail. It would have been too easy, if that bite had been just a little more unpleasant, for everything I'd recently learned to be flushed out the window and overtaken by what I'd heard and been taught by my elders for all those years, which was that every snake was deadly and could kill you! I still maintain that when Boo shocked Randall by jumping on him in the first place, everything Waternoose had recently told him about the whole "toxic children" thing being a lie just took off and left, replaced by what Randall had always been taught since he was old enough to comprehend it. It's hard to shake a fear you've had for your entire life, and it was not a fear of Mary, per se, but of human children in general, that same fear that all the Scarers took with them when they went to work each day.

pitbulllady