#ghalla

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The softest place in the world

Sno has a big weak spot for soft textures and gentle smells, and Maria is (to him) the softest and the nicest smelling person ever.

Happy Valentine's!

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Strike a pose!

In the modern age AU Alexendrei (Sno) spends most of his time on his homestead far away from all major cities. He sometimes helps out the local tourism office by following along with the surface tourist groups to make sure everyone is safe, since he knows the local landscapes and fauna very well.

Maria met him on one of these tours and just wouldn't leave him alone. To make up for all the times he's kept her and her friends safe, she's invited him on a 'city tour', where she just shows him her favorite spots for sweet treats and cool things to do. The end of the tour ended up being her showing him her favorite TV show, since he doesn't have his own. However, she didn't account for him being completely unused to any sort of touch and closeness with another Ghalla. Poor dude kept that pose for a scorching hour out of fear of breaking her somehow. I think he likes her....

I like to imagine her as having a ridiculous taste when it comes to furniture and such things, since she suffers from the 'lives alone for the first time' syndrome. She should invest into something lest prone to breaking. I guess the designer of the couch didn't account for nervous titans.

The gist of this AU/timeline -> CLICK ME

Honestly, this AU/timeline exists solely because I feel personally responsible for making sure they have a 'materialized' happy ending and a good life, no bumps from their actual timeline.

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I've been working on this fun Eraden lorepiece for a while now, slowly chipping away at it. (scroll to see that poster only!)

Some background: Since the upper half of the continent has very harsh climate and even harsher wildlife, most Arabeleans live in subterranean tunnel-cities. The original tunnels were dug out by syllks, an apex predator with a semi-hivemind structure of conscience. Syllks tolerate Arabeleans as long as they don't try to invade the tunnels they frequent or their hunting grounds. This wasn't much of a problem throughout history, as it was quite obvious visually which tunnels are animal-made and which are artificial and designed for Ghalla.

However, in the modern age with the rapid expansion of Ghalla populations there are some hiccups along the way. Namely, idiotic tourists from the southern half of the continent tend to ignore the graphic warning posters that decorate the civilian-use tunnels, which gets them mauled, or more often than not, killed. The southern half of Eraden doesn't have as aggressive or large animal species, so the awareness of the genuine dangers posed by syllks and other Arabelean wildlife still isn't as prominent as it should be. Arabelean authorities have stopped trying to prevent the deaths by closing off the so-called "black tape" tunnels, as it inhibits the movement of syllks and other animals and causes more problems that it solves. Arabeleans are happy to let a couple tourists get eaten from time to time if it means appeasing their syllk allies.

Fun fact: the "tourist" on the left is my best friend's ghallasona! Tentativelly named Geed (Ghalla+weed), she is a silly in-world self insert that I used here so that I don't have to design a dummy character just for this illustration. The guy is a dummy non-character character, but he was adopted by a person in one of the art servers I frequent :)

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Lore time: 47 has a bad habit of not leaving his office until he is kicked out by his superiors, once they realize he's been there for 3 days or so. He often gets focused on fixing a stupid IT issue that was never meant to be an issue in the first place, and time just slips by. And so do eating and showers. 47's lifelong paranoia and restlessness have led him to the logical solution that he'd be the most safe if he works as a data analyst for the Stigmata corps. In his mind, knowing everything about everyone but nobody knowing anything about you is the ideal state of being (feds don't stalk feds, obviously). The problem is, he is so good at his job that it pays off more to keep him around and tolerate his eccentricities than to get rid of him.

No matter how much his colleagues beg him, he refuses to get a haircut, heavens know why. Besides avoiding haircuts, he is very talented at eating the most bizarre foods and food combinations, as long as they're 'nutritious enough'.

Also: He is a very dramatic person and hates being called anything else but 47, which is the part of his work ID number. His name has changed so often throughout his life (either with foster families or his own identity fraud), that he refuses to connect with any real name anymore.

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I live I promise! Uni and general screen-fatigue have left me not drawing as often as I'd like, but there is still progress nonetheless!

This is a WIP that I plan on finishing very soon, for my Eraden worldbuilding! More specifically, it's about what happens when you don't listen to warning posters :)

Fun fact: I posted this wip in a server I'm in and another user loved this guy so much that I just gave him away, since he's not rlly an OC but an improptu character design for the illustration :D

This one will be an image-in-image-(in image perhaps, depends on how i finish it :3)

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Alexendrei's ref!

In short, after a wrongful murder conviction he was sentenced to exile as a teenager(around 13yrs old). His jailers quickly sold him to Syllkheret poachers and he changed "owners" and "jobs" a lot. From mines to plantations and house service, he finally ended up all the way south in Auritas. During his forceful relocations he just kept growing*, which gave his final owner the idea to put him into the Auritas underground fighting pits. There Alexendrei fought for his life against both Cerulean and Arbelean opponents, enslaved or free.

Eventually Maria and Andromeda snuck into the fighting pit while he was scheduled to fight, and Maria decided that she MUST have him. After a terribly bloody and messy escape, he ended up as Maria's bodyguard/pet in the White Palace. Andromeda had to use all of her capabilities to win a debate against Maria's parents, the Emperor and Empress, to let her keep him around "for her health".

He repaid Maria's genuine kindness and care by swearing to make sure she stays healthy and happy as long as he's alive. He took on most of his care during his stay in Auritas, and the both of them eventually developed an unbreakable bond. It took him way more than it should have to realize just how much he loves her, and that in fact she loves him too, and isn't just being nice :D

Maria at first couldn't pronounce his name so she named him Sno. Kinda terrible isn't it lmfao

*when I say growing, I mean growing beyond any normal rate for his race. At the end of his development he is 3m tall, which is a peak of any Arabelean cursed with titanism. He has to keep in shape to prevent himself from collapsing under his own weight. I'll make a size chart soon.