This is directly in relation to my previous post.
Squishy Nefarious (2016) is unique, as in we never see anyone as the same species as him. Obviously Kerwan is not his species homeworld. (I don't subscribe to the theory that he's the only one of his kind. It just feels boring.)
What does that do to a person as they grow up? To go your entire adolescent life where the only people who look like you are your family, and everyone else around you are various alien species. When everyone in school, everyone in university, everyone in work, is an alien. When you don't look like them and they don't look like you.
My Nefarious never visited his people's homeworld, and his only other point of reference is his mother. He grew up surrounded by aliens.
What does that do to a person's sense of wider identity, of a more larger belonging? Of their self image and self esteem. I don't imagine young and ranger Nefarious being the most socially confident of people. I can't even really imagine what his self esteem must have been like growing up amongst aliens with different values and ideas of things like beauty.
Does he know how handsome he is? How would his own people see him, welcome him? He'd be average to some, handsome, maybe easy on the eyes, to others. Ranger Nefarious has a bit of a baby face in his work photo, do his people too see him as quite young, only a fledgling? What would it be like to go your entire life thinking you're only average or so-so, to go somewhere where not only the people are like you, but some of them are even quite into you?
Why am I only interested in things I can't possibly have a definitive answer to? I suppose that's the fun of building your own interpretation of things.
