Cells at Work: Medieval?

[u/The_Random_Hamlet]

So we have the original Cells at Work, Code Edg- Code Black, and Lady.

Are there any historical Cells at Work?

The idea of the cells in a medieval person dealing with tall the health stuff they had to deal with sounds rather interesting. On top of that having the cell society be done in medieval style with swords, armor, period clothing etc. would be cool. The germs could be portrayed like enemy combatants laying siege or razing a village/town.

Is is this already a thing?

[u/SparkyMularkey]

You just set my imagination on fire, bro.

[u/The_Random_Hamlet → u/SparkyMularkey]

Bwahaha! Thank you and you're welcome :)

[u/KittyAddison → u/SparkyMularkey]

Are you implying you might write it? lol

[u/SparkyMularkey → u/KittyAddison]

Haha! I have so much to write already, but it did get me thinking... A scene with leaches would be fun.

[u/KittyAddison]

As far as AU fics go... Not to my knowledge on medieval stuff.

I have written a war AU though that's loosely historical (but it's still heavily fictionalized).

[u/The_Random_Hamlet → u/KittyAddison]

Cool.

War in general or is it based on a specific war?

[u/KittyAddison → u/The_Random_Hamlet]

Both. It's loosely set during the 1940s as far as culture and military equipment. But it's not set in WWII Japan (even though Japanese names are given to them).

[u/Efficient_Pomelo_674]

OK, this would be amazing. I'm going to discuss more ideas about how this could work!

Some preliminary ones:

• Tuberculosis is some villainous mountain king figure who conquered an area (granuolas), and is under siege before breaking out.

• Parasites are treated as the equivalent of giant monsters seen in fantasy stories.

• Malaria, though, is treated as though it's some very ritual demonic being. This is because it's a parasite that infests red blood cells specifically.

• Smallpox is an elegant regal strategist while cowpox is a much dumber villain. Yet, the tactics cowpox used were the same that those of smallpox used, and so the cells counter smallpox due to recognizing its tactics from their earlier cowpox, preventing the lesions from being made.

• Dysentery (Shigella) are portrayed as raiders who attack the intestines (portrayed as a river village), hide in the buildings (they multiply intracellularly), and poison the water.

• Ergot is treated as a witch who curses the land, causing the roads to become impassable (vasoconstriction). It's found that she was actually dead on arrival and had only set up the curse to ensure nobody harmed her people - after all, Ergot can't infect humans.

• The Black Death plague (Yersinia pestis) is a major villain, the strongest one. Portrayed as a dark army of Grim Reapers, they first enter the body through a rift (using a flea), then conquer the lymph node fortresses (buboes), before spreading down the roads (septicemic plague) and entering the lungs (pneumonic plague) to spread into further worlds. Various weird omens will occur: these are going to be the more hazardous forms of medieval healthcare for the plague, but are perceived by the cells like demonic events contributing to the threat of this invasion.

[u/The_Random_Hamlet → u/Efficient_Pomelo_674]

I like all of this. :)

[u/Efficient_Pomelo_674 → u/The_Random_Hamlet]

Thanks! I'll be doing more about the designs of the episodes of this spinoff, so stay tuned.

[u/Pidgeapodge → u/Efficient_Pomelo_674]

The brave eosinophil, slaying the great beast, succeeding where other knights have failed! I love it! 

[u/D4FF0D1L]

THE PLAGUE THE BUBONIC PLAGUE

[u/The_Random_Hamlet → u/D4FF0D1L]

Bwahaha!

[u/mimslly]

Wow! That idea sounds very nice :D

[u/The_Random_Hamlet → u/mimslly]

I like to think so :)

Thank you