More Aliens

Ohhkay, alien dump coming right up.

Let's start out slow with some Seans and Jims. *cue appropriate music*

I still am not sure whether Jim or Sean is the main character. Maybe they both are. Maybe it depends on the person reading. Maybe I should finish writing the story before I start worrying about main characters.

Here's some figuring out sketches of Ondlae. It got me thinking more about how these aliens work in general.

So I drew some kid. He might be kid Ondlae, I'm not sure. Anyway, hnlue (that's them) are born with these tentacle things down their face and all over... but for centuries their custom has been to cut them off. It used to have tribal/societal meaning. Now it's more of a fashionable thing. Also hnlue are big on appearing as human as possible, so they usually get the face one's trimmed.

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Also an old daente.

OKAY ENOUGH OF THIS HOW ABOUT A NEW CHARACTER? C:

His name is Aien. That's pronounced like you're describing a guy named Ian. "A Ian". He's a full daente, like Sean would be if his mom were less of a slut, and hugely into gaining civil rights for him and his species.

Err basically a big issue with this universe is that its different species have begun to interact relatively recently, and the problem that pops has to do with determining which peoples should be included in the formation of government and which are too primitive to handle it. Daente are somewhere in between... that is, they're not full citizens (only seven or so species qualify as full citizens, btw), but they're certainly considered sentient and treated as people (albeit stupid ones) more often than as animals. They're making progress, though. It was very recently made illegal through most of the galaxy to eat daento babies. Apparently they're very delicious.

Anyway, daente for the most part are content to remain separate from foreign society, but Aien and his weirdo daento friends want to be CITIZENS. D:

Race will kind of be a big-ish point in this story.

BTW, Sean is not a full citizen, although he could test to become one thanks to his human half. He just doesn't want to.

BLAB BLAB BLAB here's Aien without a shirt on. His markings are extremely feminine, I want to change them. :I

AND SOME HEIGHT COMPARISONS. Daente are pretty small, and Aien's the smaller breed of small. He's somewhere around four foot on the right there. Next to him is a lady who's probably one of Sean's siblings... they're a different race than Aien is and are bigger (also colored differently but you can't tell here lololol). And on the right is Sean looking probably as tall as he ever will; he's half the taller daento, and half human, so he mostly just looks like a sortashort human. c:

Yeah, I got really into the height thing, so I drew the shortest character with the tallest. Lol Nad you're huge.

NRRGH OKAY that's enough rambling for tonight.