#kiiwah

[montydragon]

a common bugferret PSA, given different species temperature preferences

[montydragon]

Family portrait of an agrarian bugferret household, including their unofficially adopted avian (Rooturoo). By bugferret standards, the family is both small and strangely put together. More details under the cut!

This family manages a large farm in an avian/bugferret space station city. The current household makeup is relatively new. The oldest, Tanyirr, Swiitah, and Lyooi, are the last of the 'old guard'. The most recent member is Kiiwah, a spacer adopted after being divorced from a different family.

All the names displayed here are their nicknames given by Rooturoo. Most refer to avian homeplanet foods. The family in general speaks BFL-2 and Tiiliitian sign, so Rooturoo and Kiiwah are the only ones who speak vocal languages with any frequency.

Rooturoo occupies a very unusual space in the family. The bugferrets already ran a large portion of the avian agriculture in the city due to a governing quirk. Rooturoo originally helped out with the avian crops, being both suited to the ambient temperatures and an expert in xenobotany. Over time though... they became more than a colleague. They're now considered a member of the group.

The children are all very young. Their layer parents are Hshni, Oonruh, Uriimah, and Crriah (from oldest children to youngest). The rest of the ferrets are unrelated.

[montydragon]

Given how advanced Bug Ferret tech is, I'd wonder how hard it would be for Kiiwah to get a prosthetic.

According to some old prosthetic talk on Jay's blog, bugferrets (and humans) tend to get lab-grown limbs in event of traumatic limb loss. My current reason for Kiiwah not getting one immediately is medical bureaucracy, and the state of their forearm. Everything wrist-down was mechanically shredded, including nerves and endoskeleton, and they only received basic first aid in the aftermath. They... "parted ways" with their old family shortly after and couldn't apply for a new limb without a family name. Their new family, with Rooturoo, is looking into getting them a new hand, but the family as a whole is extremely busy. They're also pretty low on the totem pole as ferret families go and will likely be sitting on a waitlist for a few years.