Do caterpillars know they'll turn into butterflies? - Nature's weird

[Cat tit bingo]

Do the weird wiggly worms know one day there skins going to fall off and that they'll have to sit in a cocoon and turn into a big flying bug? Do they just feel fruity one day and decide to change or does it just happen? If they see other butterflies do they even realize thats one of them?

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

I don't think they think much more than "eat and procreate"

 

[dick brain]

I don't think they think much more than "eat and procreate"

Same

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

We all must reach a certain personal apotheosis, the zenith of character growth. Some people might see this as a physical, or mental change, but me personally, I believe it to do solely with the soul. What greater example of spiritual enlightenment than the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, to rid yourself of your base instinctual urges that confine you, and emerge something inspiring, beautiful, and divine.

To answer your question OP, no they don't fucking know, they are caterpillars what do you expect.

 

[dick brain]

We all must reach a certain personal apotheosis, the zenith of character growth. Some people might see this as a physical, or mental change, but me personally, I believe it to do solely with the soul. What greater example of spiritual enlightenment than the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, to rid yourself of your base instinctual urges that confine you, and emerge something inspiring, beautiful, and divine.

To answer your question OP, no they don't fucking know, they are caterpillars what do you expect.

As somebody currently going through that apotheosis it's a terrible metaphor. It implies you burst forth fully formed, beautiful and capable of flight, but in reality it feels like being the first amphibian to crawl onto land, leaving a comfortable world in which you excel to fumble and flop around and barely function in a world antithetical to what you're suited for.

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

As somebody currently going through that apotheosis it's a terrible metaphor. It implies you burst forth fully formed, beautiful and capable of flight, but in reality it feels like being the first amphibian to crawl onto land, leaving a comfortable world in which you excel to fumble and flop around and barely function in a world antithetical to what you're suited for.

To be fair butterflies do not come out immediately ready to fly, their wings are all shriveled up and they fumble around trying to dry them out and pump fluid through them. Though my waxing philosophical shitpost definitely is not accurate to real life, as real growth and change is uncomfortable , messy, and full of failure and errors.

 

[dick brain]

To be fair butterflies do not come out immediately ready to fly, their wings are all shriveled up and they fumble around trying to dry them out and pump fluid through them. Though my waxing philosophical shitpost definitely is not accurate to real life, as real growth and change is uncomfortable , messy, and full of failure and errors.

Is there any body horror where a person starts normal and ends as something beautiful/glorious but the process in between is slow and painful and horrifying? I'm sure there is but I can't think of an example.

inb4 BBL says Tusk or Human Centipede or something

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Is there any body horror where a person starts normal and ends as something beautiful/glorious but the process in between is slow and painful and horrifying? I'm sure there is but I can't think of an example.

inb4 BBL says Tusk or Human Centipede or something

The only one I can think of is the Evil Dead 2, losing your hand to a demon but replacing it with a chainsaw is pretty glorious if you ask me. Other than that, I feel like its something that hasn't been done before, at least to the extent you're describing it.