I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!!!!! QAQ
I'm a horrible author for doing this, but it was necessary. And let's be honest, Cad grew up in a literal space ghetto (The Descent Ghetto on New Teyana). There's no way he didn't have a rough childhood. T.T
An illustration for my fanfic "Figment".
Read "Figment" on A03. <-click
*Note: the small green spots on his ribs are not wounds, those are oil sacs. Duros have these oil sacs which secret a foul smelling odor and act as an irritant. It acts as a defense mechanism against larger predators, an "evolutionary throwback" against larger predators on ancient planet Duro. I have as a head canon that these sacs serve a secondary purpose, but to have these sacs exposed in either purpose is seen as indecent to proper Duros society.
***EDIT: I uploaded a follow up scene illustration, after Cad's friend Soopan finds him in the alley.
Soopan's Appology <- click