I got the idea for this emoticon the other day in Biology class believe it or not. Our teacher was drawing on the board what happened when the immune system was activated. And the way she drew it, it looked almost like emoticons! So I went from there. If you don't know much about the immune system you might not understand some of what is depicted, so I would suggest reading below. :3

I've been working on this for hours and hours. At least 12 hours was put into making this. Three of which was just redoing certain parts. Originally, the Th cell (the silver one with the police light) just went up to the macrophage (the giant purple thing) and waved it's arms about. But I wasn't content with the way I animated that so I changed it. Also, the explosion was different originally--I had just copypasta-d the explosion from `bad-bloods tutorial. But it's now completely hand pixeled.

So enjoy! Critiques, comments, and favorites are greatly appreciated!

Okay so in case you are mentally ill, the orange emote in the beginning is a virus. It is exceptionally pleased because it now gets to infect someone with it's disease. D:

But then, the purple emote, which is a macrophage, crosses it's path. It's the job of the macrophage, a white blood cell, as part of non-specific immunity to sort of "eat" any pathogens. The virus is a pathogen. Each virus differs from each other due to specific markers called antigens. For simplicities sake, the antigens on my virus are those little balls coming off of it's body. Now when the macrophage devours the virus it displays some of the virus' antigens. Hence why it looks like it "grows" those orange things.

Then comes along a Th cell, or helper cell (which is the silvery emoticon with the police hat). Each Th cell is different and is made to recognize different antigens. So obviously this Th cell recognizes the antigens and sets off an alarm. This brings the red emote, or the Tc cell (killer cell) which is also specialized to recognize that particular antigen. Technically speaking, I'm not sure if it would destroy the macrophage or not, seeing as it's not really infected but I decided it would make for a better ending anyways. >3

And there is quite a bit I left out as it would be much too difficult to animate. For example, when the Th cell recognizes the antigen it actually clones itself which releases a chemical called lymphokine (I believe...). This brings B cells and T cells to the site of the infection. They each have specialized jobs but seeing as that doesn't have to do with the emote I won't waste my time explaining them.

But in effect after this occurs, the Tc cells go around and kill all the other viruses. Because, when you get an infection there isn't just one virus that attacks you. There are thousands.

So I hope you learned something today about our extremely specialized immune system. Unless of course you already knew all this and more, and can correct me if I made a mistake. ;D

Shading Emote Tutorial by `bad-blood
Emote Walking Tutorial by `CookiemagiK
Explosion Specifics by `CookiemagiK (yes, I do realize that it looks very similar but I do promise you that I pixeled it and just looked at his emote for reference :> )
"Suck" Inspiration by `LeoLeonardo
=MixedMilkChOcOlate and his bouncing emotes. :3

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