To the surprise of no one, I'm obsessed with the raptor bugs. Still struggling a lot with their head/face anatomy, but that hasn't stopped me from making More.
Really long under the cut
First up is Sunless, a melanistic Sundyne who used to be the favorite novelty of a particular clan until some jealous members beat the everloving shit out of xer and they kicked xer out because xe wasn't the strange beauty anymore. Went through a huge period of depression and existential terror before finding a group of other "Defective Cerest" and settling in with them. Due to her overpigmentation and missing antenna and Anxiety, she has trouble communicating with most people, but Sign and speech implants help. She now makes a living doing freelance translation work, since xenolinguistics was her passion during the time she had nothing to do except be pretty.
Next are the Gay Boys. Rudo was an engineer who had a pretty charmed life as Dorest go--until he started being Weird/acting too much like a Rox: protective and aggressive where he should have been quiet and submissive. He's a tech guy and a Dorest; why should he be so loud about protecting other adult Dorest and even Rox? Inappropriate. Banished
Fridu was a farmer, content with xis quiet life. Not sure yet what got xim banished beyond maybe getting caught smooching another Dorest? Xe's the most calm and level-headed of the group, and also the most buff (Farm Lyfe ftw).
Prax was a decorated soldier until their autoimmune disorder made itself known, and they were kicked out. Small for a Rox and sickly-looking, with sunken eyes and pale flesh and scales, they didn't know what to do with themself for a while, but now they help take care of their group and also try very hard to befriend birds.
Sohrab is the only one of the group who was born outside the Empire, a Muttreazik with a very bright and lively personality. She was thrilled to meet another Rox who didn't fit the ideal image, unaware that that was a very sore spot for Prax. She is naive about a lot of Empire-flavored things, but she means well, and is very open to learning and correction.
Jora was a respected religious leader with years of experience who had begun to question the doctrine. They're outwardly a shine, but seem to be intersex, or at least have some kind of hormonal abnormality that causes their horns to split. It was easy enough to hide everything before, but things seem to have fallen apart all at once: their religious doubts strengthening, their horns outing them as Different, and them getting caught being cozy with a Drecu (arguably very innocent, but far too close than any Sundyne "should be" to any Drecu). Xe feels lucky to have just been banished; xe doesn't know what became of the other person.
ANYWAY THEY ALL FIND EACH OTHER AND MAKE A VERY WEIRD FOUND FAMILY UNIT AND I'LL PROBABLY MAKE MORE LMAO
The creator of Wreck Hounds kindly drew my Wreck Hounds OCs, which reminded me that I have more drawings of my Wreck Hounds OCs. Thanks again, @b1asho !
More of my big sad Sundyne. Jora having different flavors of existential crises, being maybe-intersex and questioning the religious and cultural aspects of the only society xe ever knew. "If I was made like this, lived this way, gained this position, then surely there must be a reason. Right?" Then hanging out and gossiping with Sunless like only two people who spent their whole lives being looked on with respect/admiration/fear who were suddenly no longer welcome in that world can.
(APPARENTLY I LOST THE PAGE THAT TALKED ABOUT JORA CAREFULLY CUTTING/FILING/SOMEHOW COVERING THE HORN SPLITS WHENEVER THEY HAPPEN? Xe probably stops once xe gets settled with the found unit, but it was a daily stressor for xim before.)
SNORSE GIRLFRIENDS! Hanging out and showing off more of their cute clothes. I still don't know how clothes work but they're doing their best. Ven previously chose clothes based mainly on texture/freedom of movement, but Viima, for whom fashion is a mode of both expression and safety, has been helping her get into things she likes the look of, too. (Though Ven is just as happy just letting her girlfriend pick what she thinks looks good on her.)
The pro gamers! Mostly Tui. I'll never draw its markings the same but I'm using the excuse that it constantly paints and repaints them okay. Its Muttreazik traits include 2 extra limbs and some little useless feathers. It knows other Kixeli but has no real connection to any particular culture, so its clothes are just materials it likes or was gifted (most likely by Merad).
Tiger being a big buff tiger (not a problem) and seemingly straining their worm-brain-eye (problem). They're in the process of going from red to orange, but don't have a good grasp on their limits.
More of the gay boys! I was going to do pages like this for everyone to get an idea of their clothes, but it didn't work and I gave up lmao (Still no clothes for Sohrab, though Blasho gave her a super cute outfit)
Fridu pretty much dresses like a camp counselor no matter where xe is or what xe's doing, be it relaxing at home, going shopping, or tending to the large garden xe started for their little found unit. Meanwhile, xis boyfriend has a pretty varied wardrobe now that he's allowed to: loose, comfy athleisure type stuff for hanging at home, some cool sleek security uniform for his cool new security job (it's different, and allows him to explore some of the more assertive/protective behavior that got him kicked out), and whatever brightly-colored thing he decides to leave the house in.
I think Tui and Merad were the first ones I designed?
Tui is an Arasit Muttreazik who grew up in a multi-species orphanage with a lot of hexapods and hexapod media, so its brain worm decided that it also needed to be a hexapod. It has many other friends, including other Kixeli, but its BFF since early childhood is Merad, a Prectikar. It loves to climb on Merad, and Merad loves to be climbed on. They play a lot of video games, and maybe make a career of it? Idk
Tui can't really glide and I'll never draw its patterns the same but it paints itself all the time so w/e
Tiger is here again, alongside their siblings, Metrodora and Berossus (their parents probably also named Tiger after an ancient scientist but they like the silly nickname better). Fun fact: their stripes aren't from the Muttreazik changes but from residual splice genes.
Tiger uses their Mancer abilities and big cat muscles to do building/demo work. Dora doesn't use her Conduit abilities much, focusing instead on legal work to improve treatment of and accessibility for Muttreazik, especially those with less congruent bioplans. Bero does something I'm sure but I dunno what yet lmao
