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Some character prompts for BYG!

For existing characters: What's their living condition, what does their room look like. Who's the best at cooking? Characters' fav item (clothes, weapons, misc...)? What crimes have they commited? What did they look like as children?

To create new characters: Gentle giant. Small but feisty. Scrungly down-on-their-luck. No nonsense leader.

What about space jobs? Space pirate. Spaceship door to spaceship door salesman. Mech mechanic. Asteroid field clandestine racer. Alien doctor. Space priest...

Feel free to take inspiration from any of these (I might draw some of these myself)

I'll pick who's the best cook because that one's easy: Donelja is the best cook because they're the only one who cooks. The Appex spaceship the trio live in is Rutan's ship, but it's a ship that was built to accommodate delorix the most comfortably, so Don is the one who's the most ergonomically comfortable in it, which includes the use of the kitchen and food storage. Don can actually cook with fresh ingredients when the ship make pit stops to locations that provide them.

The other two pretty much make do with freeze dried, canned and other foods made to be stored long term. Rutan is an obligate carnivore who's comfortable eating one huge GMO (made for zrai) vegetative aquatic animal sausage per week, containing all the necessary muscle, fats and atrophied organs for balanced nutrition. Vertex is a herbivore who technically needs a balance diet of various foliage species, but when he first starts living in the Appex, he kind of just ends up eating TV dinners Rutan gives him from his personal collection. Ru likes to collect colorful nedal foods he can't eat because they come in cute and colorful packaging, often featuring his favorite mascots on them. He's had them on his shelf for years. It took months to reach their next pit stop, so eventually Vertex was able to get actual fresh food, but until that point he had to put up with old junk food that was stale as hell.

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zero gravity alien spaceship TV dinner

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In the Spectrum Solar System in Broken Yolk Galaxy, three roommates travel from planet to planet on the spaceship Appex (x)(x), for work and misadventures.

Rutan was born and raised in a zrai community on a space colony that broke off from an older zrai colony that was uplifted by the sophant space faring nedal centuries ago, which chose to recreate ancient zrai traditions. He was brought up to follow his ancient ancestors’ culture, but grew up ostracized due a skin condition that makes communication difficult and leaves him with difficulty socializing. It also didn’t help that he was more interested in nedal culture, and that the art he wanted to make didn’t follow his cultural norms. So when a pair of nedal ambassadors recognize his artistic prowess, Rutan made the tough decision to move abroad on-planet to study art in a nedal university. With the accommodations he received, he was able to graduate in 3D modeling and animation. He works for a while in animation before going solo.

He acquires the spaceship Appex and decided to pilot it around the solar system traveling to new places. He does this at first on his own, and still does so now with his roommates. Rutan is sociable and energetic, though his lack of close friends throughout most of his life left him prone to being clingy and naive to being taken advantage of. He greatly enjoy the company of close friends, but because it’s a rarity for him, he’s adapted to his favorite hobbies which he mainly does alone, such as urban exploring overlooked infrastructure, surfing ancient websites that are centuries old, and artistically recreating his dreams.

Donelja is a delorix who’s from a moon colony that’s cohabitated by delorix and masakas. The main landmark of the moon colony is an expansive national park that they’ve dreamed of working in since childhood. Biology is a life long passion for Don, but earning an academic certification in it has been a life long struggle. Only being able to graduate in general studies, Don tried various volunteer work in the nature preserve instead, living year to year in various leased board housing, but was never satisfied doing ‘grunt” maintenance when they wanted instead to be a scientist.

It wasn’t until Don met Rutan visiting the moons’ national park, offering more permanent room in his ship, did Don see an opportunity to work more closely with the preserves’ scientists by hauling their bio samples off-moon to the neighboring planets’ laboratories. Don became more satisfied working more directly with the scientists they admired since childhood, though still laments not being to do their work directly. Don has pathological anger issues, and resents their lot in life. It’s been an uplifting opportunity to have a friend like Rutan as support in their career and emotionally. They both bond over journaling, while Rutan journals about cities in their travels, Don journals about the nature they come across.

Vertex spent several months on the run as a hobo before Rutan offered to take him in, something Donelja was never on board with, but ultimately whatever captain Rutan says goes! Ver doesn’t like talking about where they came from, and is emotionally closed off. They’re constantly taking about moving out of spaceship to live on their own while in the middle of six month interplanetary trips, yet can never find a “good enough” place to do so. Their home planet, the only place in the solar system that would easily make room for them, they consider “crummy” and “off limits” for some reason.

Vertex is closed off and uncooperative, which irritates Donelja, and is easily forgiven my Rutan. Ver spends most of their time borrowing Rutan’s tablet, so at least they’re quite and out of the way for the most part.

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Disgruntled platonic couple.

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Quick overview of the main characters from BYG since I haven’t thought of them nor talked about them in a while. It’s not everyday you come across an interspecies cohabitation in a small trailer spaceship, even in a solar system as diverse as Spectrum System. This is an overview of the threes’ relationship around when they first got together, they get along better over time.

original template by @gladiolusly and edited from @m-oshun ‘s edit.

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Vertex is one of the three crew members aboard a small spaceship along with Rutan and Donelja. He's the third member on board and he's the lazy bum of the spaceship who doesn't want to contribute to any chores or upkeep, instead preferring to spend all day watching screens and nag at anyone who asks him to help around the ship.

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Aye yo I met my goal of 6 ref sheets in time for art fight boo ya. I've got more OCs I'll make ref sheets of, but I'll prioritize them after art fight and they'll be ready for next year. If you're still interested in seeing my account, view it here!

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This solar system is the main setting for the spaceship alien roommates Rutan, Vertex and Donelja. This is a draft I've been working on the past few months that's set in stone for the most part, but potentially could get some future adjustments. The planets don't quite have names yet.

To put the image summary in text: The Spectrum Solar System is the home to Rutan, Vertex and Donelja. It orbits a main sequence star that’s a bit larger and hotter than Earth’s Sun, and exists within the nebula where both galaxies of Broken Yolk impact. It’s a colony system with a higher population and sophant diversity than the average system due to having two Goldilocks zone planets, easily terraformable moons, and an abundance of metals to mine from two asteroid belts. Many immigrate here from neighboring systems into terrestrial or space colonies to enjoy the system’s abundant resources and rich multicultural societies.

A Rhodo Nation-inhabited sol system rich in resources often has continentoids, which are dwarf planet sized supermegafauna bioengineered by Rhodo scientists, because populating the universe with as much life as possible is a common and prominent core value of theirs. They are mostly found in the Goldilocks zone orbit or closer, in order to maximize access to starlight for photosynthesis. There are unique species in this system, and they’re the charismatic face of this system to the wider galactic community :)

For the trio of roommates, they usually take their ship to and from the Rhodo Nation colony to one of the Igneous Nation moons for Donelja's masaka taxon environmental conservation work. They also make trips to the Aurora Nation for reasons I'm not totally sure of besides Rutan likes traveling in it's metropolitan cities. Vertex mostly tags along complaining the whole time and wanting to hoard knick knacks.