#caeill

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Just a little fan doodle of @birvan's giant, Caeill. For some reason I can see him with Salvador Sobral's voice... Give a listen here: https://youtu.be/oaaNNApdNx0

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Rather belated picture for Hug a Tiny Day because Caeill was being rather uncooperative. And in a prankster mood... *drew him with long hair as a payback*

Don’t worry, no humans were harmed in this hug. His (still nameless) friend was just caught in mid surprise with how fast Caeill can move his arms when in range ^^;

But his usual version of a hug (at this stage in life) is humans hugging his lower arm while he either hugs them back with his other hand or by pressing them slightly against his side. Only in really special and/or emotional cases he’ll lift the person and let them wrap their arms around his neck while he uses both hands to return the hug

By the way, speaking of physical contact, the older Caeill gets the less he will crave it, due to a biological trait unrelated with his ever growing size. His  kind are far less social creatures than humans after all, especially males

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Random Caeill anatomy studies. Although Evergrowers are slenderer in built than most giants (less weight to haul around later on) he’s still build like a brick wall on legs ^^; And don’t get fooled by that gut. It’s a mass of digestive organs covered by a thick wall off muscle rather than actual fat

I still have a lot to learn about drawing muscles properly, but I’m fairly happy with the results

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I hope I still made it in time, I literally didn’t have any free time these last few weeks DX

This was the perfect opportunity to show how Caeill would look like if he could afford to wear fancy clothes  Aaaaaand to sneak in a sneak preview of Mathias, Caeill’s best friend (he technically isn’t around Caeill’s life in this point in time, but the prom isn’t canon anyway)

Poor guy is super nervous about the idea of being surrounded by too many people at once. Thankfully Mathias is there to keep him calm

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Caeill grows up among humans, yes? Does he know about his own life cycle? How does he feel about it?

Yes, he will eventually learn about it (he doesn’t notice on his own because he can’t use size difference as an indicator of age when he already towers over everyone)

And it will affect him pretty deeply, especially as he gets older and starts seeing his friends dying out while he’s still in his prime. To the point everyone else avoids mentioning the topic anywhere near him, even if he pretends he’s alright 

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I FINALLY managed to finish this!!! *does not want to draw snow clumps anytime soon*

Beware, long post about Caeill’s biology below!

In my world setting there’s several different kinds of “giants”, but they’re actually more closely related to centaurs than to humans. The large majority lost their 2nd set of arms over time, as they got in the way of the mobility of the 1st set, but they still retain some vestigial muscles 

Caeill belongs to the Evergrower family line, the only type of giants that besides starting bigger than the rest, they don’t stop growing once they reach adulthood This is because they live exclusively in a forest jungle populated by enormous trees, so the taller they grow the more food sources they can reach (and their stomachs grow along the most out of all the organs, besides the heart and lungs, in order to digest a more plant exclusive diet. Reason why their torso becomes particularly long)

This dependency on plants as the main food source led them to develop an innate understanding of plants, which helps them find the best plants, avoid sickly ones and have a certain intuition on how to tend to them and avoid consuming too much. The name Tree Walker comes from this ability to tend to trees, the same way other giants tend to cattle

Caeill wasn’t born there however, so his growth is actually a bit stunted. But whenever his body has enough excess food it will convert it into extra growth, rather than store it as emergency body fat. That’s why starvation is a particularly big risk for Evergrowers and why they are extremely rare outside of their forest, as it’s the only place that can easily provide them with enough food

Despite all odds though Caeill will manage to reach an advanced age, mainly because of him being a dragon trainer. After leaving the Academy they help him find enough food during the meager months and his expertise is a valuable trading item for other giants and humans alike

Another problem Evergrowers face, because of their increasing size, is the amount of stress their weight puts on their organs and bones. That’s why they lose the ability to run and jump as they age and falls become a risk The body tries to compensate by thickening the legs and bones, slowing their metabolism and provide them with particularly long arms, so they don’t have to bend or move much in order to reach things. The particularly strong upper body strength also helps minimizing the movements of the rest of the body

With the slowing of the metabolism comes longer periods of sleep and thus more likelihood of dirt, moss and seeds to accumulate on the skin. And if they penetrate deep enough they’ll actually start to develop a symbiosis, where the plant roots obtain extra minerals and other resources in exchange for the energy produced by the photosynthesis 

This is a trait all giants share, but Evergrowers tend to develop it earlier and can reach a more severe state. Because the more the plants take root, the longer the sleep periods last, which can lead to muscle atrophy and potentially death from starvation (since they can’t get up when they do finally wake up to binge on food the symbiosis alone can’t provide)

That’s why when they reach this stage in life most other giants in the area congregate around the elder and tend to their needs (humans call this giant courts and the elder the king/queen), in exchange for nuggets of wisdom or stories from long times past, or to hear the mumbles of the long sleep, which are considered prophetic  Humans can find this behavior rather weird, especially coming from the larger giants, because the larger they are the less likely it is for them to form communities (a natural mechanism to not overburden the land)

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My second commission from @birvan, this time with my own characters Maira and her human daughter Leera! Leera seems to have found a new friend.. I'm still taking inked commissions! Email me at [email protected] for pricing and questions!

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Commission for @birvan of her character Caeill being reprimanded for some innocent destruction of property. Enjoy!