#charrots

[anony-mouse-writer]

it is the nature of hermits, when unable to find proper parrots, to inevitably turn to charrots

[iamthekaijuking]

The event had happened several years ago, but it’s still fresh in my memory.

I was a lone cattle bug rancher at the time. There wasn’t usually anything that deviated from my daily routine of managing my cattle bugs and keeping charrots off my property.

But then I started to notice that some of my cattle bugs went missing, only to show up the next day. I blamed it on the charrots pulling pranks on me. I decided to stake out the night with my rifle to catch them in the act.

That night I watched over my cattle. Nothing happened initially, and I considered going to sleep, but then I saw something in the moonlight.

It was a huge tentacle ending in four fingers. The tentacle seemed to go on forever into the night sky. I watched with my jaws hanging open as it carefully picked up one of my bugs and retreated into the night sky. I staked out the next night to see what would happen, and the same tentacle came down and returned my cattle bug to its herd.

Over the following days, things grew increasingly weird. I often saw a giant sphere in the night sky with four of those same tentacles hanging off the bottom. Sometimes I’d see strange green and purple lights dancing in the sky at night. There were lapses in my memory, and sometimes I woke up feeling violated. There were giant footprints all across my ranch, with trees and hills seemingly flattened by giant elusive feet. Sometimes at night I’d feel massive vibrations, as if some giant entity was walking nearby. Things got so scary that the tribe of charrots that lived on my ranch even came knocking on my door. One of them came up to me and spoke in my language, asking if they could hide in my house. Apparently the same things were happening to them. Charrots usually seemed so fearless to me, but this was the first time I’d ever seen them afraid. I let them stay inside my home, because quite frankly I was getting scared as well.

Several of them would stand guard at night, and after that nothing much happened. Until the night we decided to go out looking for it.

We all spent the first hours of the night patrolling my ranch, and for a time nothing happened. Until we felt something massive land behind us. As we turned around, what we saw became engraved into our minds forever.

A giant silhouette stood before us. Three rows of purple glowing spines with three green tips ran down its back. On its underside were eight glowing green membranes. On its head were two long tentacles that were the same color as it’s spines. It’s two blue eyes stared us down, and appeared almost curious.

What really stood out though was it’s size. It was bigger than anything I’d ever seen before, and it dwarfed the biggest buildings I’d ever seen.

Then, as soon as it appeared, it unfurled two giant wings and took off into the night. It moved faster than anything of its size had any right to.

After that, everything went back to normal. My cattle bugs stopped disappearing. I no longer woke up violated. Interactions between me and the charrot tribe became less violent, and we eventually just casually acknowledged each other when we met.

But I will never forget what happened that month, and I will never forget those blue eyes; seemingly filled with unending knowledge that I’d never be able to comprehend.

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Here’s 2 adult charrots hangin’ out. The coastal one is annoying the polar one.

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Here are some ideas for Charrot racial clothing. The mountain Charrots probably wear the same clothes as polar ones.

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@iamthekaijuking has been telling me to post more of my art and he’s right so I’ll be queuing some up. This is a naked jungle charrot

[a-beepbop]

25 prompts of atago #4: memes This is a simple Atagoan political meme. It depicts an unflattering image of the politician ovulod, and the text on the image makes fun of the hypocrisy of their racist arguments against Charrots. The idea that Charrots deserve equal rights is new, and the idea that they are not inferior is even newer.

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An early Atagoan farmer threatening two charrots with a spear. The Atagoan is herding their flock

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Species of The Atago Project

RADELOPES Radelopes are mammal-like, radically symmetrical, antelope-giraffe analogues. They got an early start to space travel, and quickly set up colonies on many inhabited and uninhabited planets. While they added amazing interstellar infrastructure and communication, they have a reputation of being controlling, heavily taxing, and to some, slavers. They communicate through chromatophores on their leathery side ‘shields’ FUNGALS Fungals are a inseparable symbiosis of a fungus, which performs sensory, reproductive, and nervous operations, and an animal, which performs muscular, respiratory, and digestive operations. They evolved on a low-gravity planet, so they tend to need support equipment to go on most planets. They allied with the lobsters early on. When the Radelopes met them, they were considered hideous and unnatural even to a spacefaring society, so there is a grudge between the two races. The fungals, partly because of the grudge and partly in an effort to save other races, found the Atagoans and colonized their mars-like sister planet with the lobsters’ help. They are determined to be the first ones to make contact with the Atagoans and protect and guide them. They communicate through sign language and organ-like tones from their reproductive ‘smokestacks’ LOBSTERS Lobsters are large crustacean-like creatures that evolved to dig colonies underground. They made first contact with the Fungals and are closely interwoven with them. They evolved in a high gravity environment so due to the high liftoff cost from their home, most Lobsters on other planets are descended from the first lobster lunar colonists. They communicate through pheromones and sign language. ATAGOANS Atagoans are amphibian-like creatures that require a humid environment. They have waited quite a while to travel to other planets because they know they are not alone, from fallen pieces of stray satellites that crash landed on their planet. They are responsible for the Black Spot, and have a history of genocide and racism against the Charrots, but they are getting better. They communicate through speech and some whistling CHARROTS Charrots are mammal-like creatures evolved to a great number of environments, including trees, coasts, tundras, mountains, and deserts. They have less advanced technology than the Atagoans, and were hunter-gatherers for an eternity until they were slowly let into some atagoan cultures. They do eventually achieve access to atagoan interstellar travel, but it takes awhile. They communicate through speech. THE BLACK SPOT The Black Spot is an ecosystem of robotic creatures with varying intelligence from plant-like to super-intelligent. It was created by and for a consciousness in a supercomputer built by Atagoan scientists, when they accidentally let a artificial intelligence simulation get access to the facility’s robot factories. The researchers quickly withdrew and, realizing the intriguing nature of the breach, left the private facility to be forgotten by society for several decades. It was only rediscovered when the growing ecosystem of robotic organisms was big enough to be seen on satellite imaging, looking like a black spot. They quickly become spacefaring due to their extreme adaptability and intelligence. They communicate through non visible light spectra.