Notes: Their "ears" are actually feather tufts since they're not mammals. Their hearing is better than ours but not as good as a dog or cat.
The 'antenna' are actually feathers with symbiotic fungus that act similar to moth antenna. Helps pick up vibrations and improves hearing a bit. And some other fun special things. Don't touch, it's rude
Luna moth source [Here]
Feathered thorn moth source [Here]
First rukemi headshots by @nycroshears and tweaked by me
AAAAAAAAA OH MY STARS CHANGE GOD CRAB LOBSTER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa HOLY SHIT THE NOISES I MADE SEEING THIS ARE IMPOSSIblE TO EXPLAIN
like holy crab i was feeling down and self conscious about this AU for a few days and then I get fanart of rukemi Loop out of nowhere when I haven't even posted the first chapter and AAAAAAAAAAAA
commission for @kiloueka of their original species! i really loved doing this one. anything with bird features is my favorite. and coloring like a eurasian jay means it’s even better.e
i’m still open for commissions! please send me a message if you’re interested.
Well hello there, Stardust! I feel like I'm in a bit of a predicament and something tells me it's your fault｡:✧˚*:･｡
-Releases another dragon(adjacent) Loop into the wild-
I commissioned the lovely @nycroshears to draw Loop as a Rukemi; one of my OC species that I'm shoving in an AU I've been working on! An AU that started out as a scene that popped in my head when I was falling asleep of a rukemi grabbing Siffrin by the scruff and making them confess to their family...which turned into a massive AU I've been outlining for weeks now.
Rukemis as a species idea are nearing 20 years old at this point! I think it's past time I debut them in more than a few commissions thrown into the uncaring void of tumblr every few years. I'm not going to talk too much about them now; that'll be revealed in the AU itself!
Some more info about Rukemis + closeups below. (ISAT SPOILERS)
Fun facts about rukemis!
They're from a parallel Earth where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs glided past harmlessly.
They're descended from troodonts about 67-68mya who had a whack mutation that caused their front limbs to duplicate. They were very useless at first but others of the species found them SO ATTRACTIVE they ended up thriving and the wings over time evolved to be functional. So they are theropod dinosaurs, like t-rexes, velociraptors, and modern birds.
They evolved sapience not long before humans did after a smaller extinction event wiped out biodiversity in habitats adjacent to their native range.
Before they were relatively unassuming small tree-dwelling creatures similar to primates but with the bonus ability to fly. But with the new free real estate some of them branched out and rapidly evolved much larger sizes and intelligence comparable to our own. Now, they're roughly the size of small horses and stand about as tall as us when they're standing on all fours.
Now, parallel to our Earths, they exist a few hundred years more technologically "advanced" than us.
Their societal development was similar to ours at the start, including the destruction of their Earth's ecosystem, wars, oppression, and other fun things. But after ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ and ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ they managed to rise from the ashes and build a ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮.
It was after they got their collective ▮▮▮▮ together that they gained the power to travel to other parallel Earths, manipulate elements, heal wounds, and ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ their ▮▮▮▮▮ into ▮▮▮▮▮ sophonts upon ▮▮▮▮▮.
Now, many rukemis spend their lives trying to ▮▮▮▮ other ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ not ▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮ up like ▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮.
Their designs were based on ▮▮▮▮ from ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮ and originally looked like your standard middle-schooler's white wolf rainbow wings + horns OC that you can see (here), but after 20ish years of workshopping they're now their own dragon dinosaur species (and are much, much gayer). This design is the most accurate and all others in the link are older versions.
They have three main sexes that are impossible to tell apart at a glance and have a much looser and queerer relationship to "gender" and family.
They generally live in family units of 3-8 adults + their children (now, often including humans and other sophonts) and have a much more relaxed & shifting hierarchy than humans generally do.
They are nice, and soft and warm.
Enter Loop, just a normal rukemi who just wanted to live a normal life as an astronomer working to discover extraterrestrial life on other planets (because finding life on parallel Earths just wasn't cool enough for them). After an ▮▮▮▮▮▮ by a ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮▮, they were thrown into the world of SASASAAP and eventually runs into Loop Siffrin struggling through their time loops all alone.
Originally, I created a random rukemi to aid ISAT Siffrin through the loops and join the family after they broke free of them. But after developing it for a while I realized I had no idea what to do with Loop so I just fused the two into one and tossed them into the Start Again world to help OG Siffrin instead.
(Sorry yall, this Loop doesn't sparkle as they are made up of flesh and blood and not pure craft energy. They did get some cool "tattoos" some time before coming to SASASAAP world looking like a celestial being, though! They look like the 2nd image to Siffrin. If they had more time they might found some glitter to make a more theatrical entrance.)
Check em out @eggr0ast @starlitmeadows @chipper-smol @dasnercaret @iknowicanbutwhy @morva-doodles @malwarechips @skibblesnek
