Rambling about OCs
cause i don’t think i put those up here yet??
So! They’re a crew of salvagers for abandonned spaceships and sometimes mercenaries. Not exactly legal, not exactly illegal, but hey, that distress signal’s been going on for a WHILE by the time they usually get there, and the local government‘s pretty quick to lay claim if they’re interested
We’ve got:
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Hijinek
She/her
9′8
~30-35 years old
Nightshade
Bi
Hijinek is the salvage crew's muscle/infiltration. She's basically a bunch of ooblek clinging to a skeleton, which is then stuffed into a space suit for humanoid lifeforms. Her 'hair' is more akin to anemone strands with slight bioluminescence, and her eye glows in the dark slightly, for dark vision. On top of the solid (the normal one) form, she has a liquid and gaseous form for infiltration, escape, and unpredictable movement (the arm, made of nanites, and mask follow, but not the rest of her stuff!)
Yes the mask is her actual face and not flexible, though she can technically remove it (the face under that is mostly teeth, so big she can barely open her mouth, not that she really needs to). She's missing her right arm (now has a metal one!) and eye (the mask/face closed up over where it was, but there's still the big gash across it). She comes from a death world, so while she's great at combat, she's actually pretty awkward with strangers! It generally comes off as intimidating instead, though
Though her outfits can vary a lot, she always has to wear a skintight suit underneath or else she'll leak all over the place. Also, don't believe her cool outfit. It was absolutely picked by her friends and she just wears it all the time ‘cause she knows it’s supposed to look cool. She is the absolute worst when it comes to clothing and can't coordinate colors, function or textures worth shit.
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[Incomprehensible hissing noise and pheromones], nicknamed Bob
He/Him
8'4 normally, 12ft when standing on hind legs
~30-35 years old
Azelian, a lizard centaur
Demiromantic Ace
Bob is Hijinek's best friend, and the crew's tech expert and communications guy! As an alien lizard centaur, his first 4 limbs are arms/hands, so sometimes he stands on his hind legs to type on 4 different keyboards like some corny 90's hacker. for someone so lanky/with so many limbs/real fucking heavy, he’s surprisingly fast and agile. He can stand his ground pretty well though he’d much rather talk people down. Azelians communicate with the help of pheromones, so while he gets more insight into people’s emotional state, he gets pretty confused/mixed signals from artificial scents like strong perfumes on them
He's pretty cheerful/a glass half full kind of guy, and what he lacks by being kind of oblivious, he makes up for with sheer enthusiasm. (does that make him a himbo? he's sort of a himbo, just with niche knowledge i guess?) He has a wife, Ana, also an Azelian, who he loves very much, and they have 3 lil hatchlings
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Madeleine, nicknamed Cadet
She/her
5'2
~25 years old
Human
Pan and poly, in a happy polycule of 4
Madeleine's an ace pilot capable of getting the crew through the roughest environments. She’s a zero gravity girl, which means that she always moves as if in very low gravity, floating and flipping around as if she was in space or water, but having to land and jump again from time to time.
Her hair's always covering her eyes. She's cheerful and fun-loving, witty, and always down to have joke around! She's also smart, observant and fast-thinking, too.
she has most of the crew’s sense of color braincells, so she gets the cool, funky outfits, and sometimes gently bullies them into also making an effort (I mean come on, guys, you’re gonna let the crew look bad?? No don’t answer that)
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Joff Chkkrt (it's a cricket noise)
He/They
6'4
~35-40 years old
Bug Man (shh i didnt name them yet)
Bi and poly
Joff is the crew's navigator and quartermaster. He’s bug alien whose design is inspired by crickets and grasshoppers, but with orchid mantis colors (for now. still tempted to do something like seasonal/molt-dependant coloring schemes gfjkldf). He's chronically sleep deprived and grumpy/exasperated, but not mean. He's a good dad to like a bunch of grubs, along with the other members of his hive/den. Sometimes he has a second pair or smaller arms and sometimes he doesn't, oops! He’s much stronger than he looks, too, which makes moving shit around in the storage much easier
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Poppy Houx, gotta write her later when its not 3am. shes a plant lady and depending on the timeline shes Hiji’s girlfriend, thats important
The captain, gotta write them also when its not 3am but ill be literally coming up with it on the spot
