#ra'ad

[jemmamaas]

Andromeda 5 and their Youtube channels

[whatudottu]

"You said you can read minds, yes?" The question was emphasised by the tilt of a head, neutral expression flat on crystalline face. "You've mentioned it's pretty overwhelming, you can't control what you hear?" "Yes, yes, and no... not really..." Came Ra'ad's reply, his attention diverted to focus on the corner where wall meets ceiling. Reviewing the biopsychology notes Chio had on amperi, a frown shifts his jaw just enough to be noticed. "If it's not too much to ask," Chio shifts, eyes flicking over his own handwriting to focus in Ra'ad's general direction; he's met by a brief flick of eye contact, "Could you tell me what I'm thinking of now?"

Haha magics and mutants au Ra'ad gets diagnosed as a psychic :P let's hope this neurodivergent old man gets the ability to stop having unwanted voices broadcasting in his head :)c

and a coloured Chio my beautiful therapist 😌

[sweetpeaches666]

Can I get more story time of how Ben met each of the Andromeda aliens? (Pandor, Bivalvan, Andreas and others?) I just really love those aliens.

I know. Me too. The Andromeda five will be shocked when they learn they have a son on Earth and they all share him. It will be hilarious.

Most of Ben's first meetings with his Andromeda fathers almost the same. Naturally, Ben is curious to get to know them a little. However, he does want to help them to get home.

Bivalvan - He's surprised to see a teenage version of himself and will realize that his son is the result of the Omnitrix. He'll be a little impressed by Ben.

Galapagus - He becomes overjoyed to know that he has a son, who's a hero that helps people. He instantly welcomes Ben into his life and wants to pass his knowledge down to his son.

P'andor - As soon as he finds out that Ben is his son, he immediately tries to get off of Earth because he's not paying for child support. But he does eventually warm up to Ben. Unfortunately, P'andor tried to recruit Ben into his criminal lifestyle.

Andreas - Instantly gives Ben a bear hug and cuddles him, much to Ben's embarrassment. Andreas is extremely protective of his son and will fight anyone who hurts him.

Ra'ad - Doesn't know what to think of the whole situation. But he does find himself becoming attached to Ben despite just meeting his son. Ra'ad constantly worries about Ben and tends to read his mind to know where he's at, not knowing that it's an evasion of privacy.

[theomniversealiens]

The female Dopey (The Very Important Thingy) has a crush on Bivalvan.

Of course he doesn't know how to react to this XD. The female dwarf is on Ra'ad, even he is upset to be used so she can see Bivalvan.

[thelouddwarfs]

Umm ra ar about the crush thing you know a simple no would have been Fine but it’s ok I’m just glad to have you as a friend

Happy: Say something, Ra'ad!Ra'ad: I will not!

[whatudottu]

When your psychic husband finds out he might have natural magical talent and your radioactive ass wants hugs-

I was gonna fully colour this piece when I realised that I've never actually fully coloured P'andor's deer centipede before so I chickened out :P lmao the composition is suffocating but I guess Ra'ad is also being suffocated so it fits heh-

[sweetpeaches666]

It's nothing just Ben and his many animal like father's just immediately protective when someone decided to say shit to there son like (Jason, Amphibian, 775, Galapagus, Andreas and many more.) Well I know Galapagus would not immediately just attack but I know he'd make an exception when it comes to his Ben who is just looking confused and sad why they called him a freak all of a sudden

Yes. I can see Ben's more animal-like dads being protective of him. Anyone who shits on Ben will end up learning why you shouldn't mess with an offspring of an animal.

[whatudottu]

Hmmmm if Annie fell and how would the Andromeda 5 react :))

Like what, she tripped? Fell out of bed? Jumped off a cliff?

Annie while being an adopted daughter to 5 aliens that don't know humanity inherently, she's a 16 year old who's first introduction to the 5 was through P'andor which I will state (if you're a long time follower, this is a reminder, if you're new, this is some context) she was immediately trying to mug him with a knife. He also probably looked like his human ID at the time which is... well, the picture of a large Slavic man who takes no shit.

But I'll indulge, I'll indulge, but prepare to be underwhelmed.

So if Annie fell (in the tripped context, maybe she fumbles a dance or just falls ass over teakettle on something), P'andor already has the impression she can take tougher shit than the ground. Might bark a short laugh especially if she gets right up and brushes the dirt off herself, depending on the dramatics of the fall he might jokingly award points for style, but not unless she got genuinely hurt P'andor does the quick 'You good' and move on when Annie starts walking as usual. Bivalvan would disapprove of P'andor's dismissiveness but less out of instinctual parental response and more from the fact he's grown up as a species with an exoskeleton, and Annie being human she has an endoskeleton which the soft fleshy bits on the outside. He takes a glance at whatever skin deep lesions Annie gets and puts in a bit too much stock than necessary into them, but his big main problem with that would be that Annie damaged the parts of her that would have been well protected under armour that humans don't have, and trying to associate the damage to scrapes in shell is building up his ability to cope that Annie would know what hurts or not.

You might expect that Galapagus would immediately baby Annie, but I don't think that would be the case. Aside from having the same instinct as Bivalvan (squishy shell-less human got skin damage), as a species with an unconventional method of flying, that being literal air propulsion, well there's a little bit of his cultural mentality that views children as baby birds or what have you. You could piff a geochelone aerio child (not in the least because they can be held in one human hand like Earth turtles and tortoises) and while still being an asshole, not an irredeemable bastard, the shell doing a lot of lip service (it's built in naturally to compensate for a fall, especially with all the weight of the shell itself contributing to the intensity of said fall) thanks to the inherent learning curve of 'oh yeah you're going to have to fly' children are gonna fall over anyway and heck, an adult too who would be much heavier is going to inevitably drop out of the sky like a rock. Not to say Galapagus wouldn't at least still hover over Annie for a hot sec or too, but if anything given that geochelone aerios have at least some areas of endoskeleton, so long as Annie isn't actively bleeding or straight up broken a bone he's not going to get too worked up about it.

The person that will really get worked up about it would be, of course, Ra'ad. Having absolutely no bones to actually break (his gladius doesn't count and his beak is hard to break at all) you might think he's the most prepared in dealing with skin lesions, but this is the man that grew up in an ocean and lived on land floating around like no one's business, people just don't get hurt by gravity! Not to mention, injuries in the sea are bound to attract predators, or injuries in stagnant water are bound to attract infection, or injuries are (in his culture) the first sign that you will be the next to die and dying isn't a thing his people are concerned with WHY AREN'T THEY CONCERNED WITH DEATH! It's only really his mind reading that tells him to stop right before he panics over Annie ensuing she dies... from embarrassment. If she fell and she's fine if slightly humiliated, Ra'ad will suppress his anxieties and kind of explicitly change the subject to hopefully make it clear he isn't thinking about her falling anymore (if it works it works, if it doesn't well...). And if she's legitmately hurt, Ra'ad would be actually the first to clock it since Annie like to be tough and infallible even if only for herself instead of being someone's stone, so if mentally she's wincing and grumbling etc Ra'ad will be the one to ask 'Are you actually okay?' and attempt (keyword: attempt) to be as low key about it as Annie is.

And finally I think out of all the Andromeda 5 I think Andreas is the only one who has experience with children, both in raising them and with the [alien] to human comparison to what a child is. I've mentioned my piece a whole bunch about making talpaedans ant inspired, and part of that is because Andreas would be the 'male' of an ant colony or the tradie of a talpaedan, which would mean Andreas grew up learning to parent the children of the colony's Queen and other architect/tradie pairings, expecting to in adult do the same in the colony Andreas had been married to if Aggregor didn't cause a divorce instead. So unlike Bivalvan who would claim with 100% certainty he was a father but only because he's a broadcast spawning species, Ra'ad who would claim complete opposite else he'd be actually dead to a herd of zooplankton young, Galapagus who would really be in human translation in his early 20s only remembering being a child, and P'andor that doesn't even know what sex is because prypiatosian-bs literally don't have sexual reproduction, Andreas would have nearly a life's worth of knowledge of childhood development (which is still only the equivalent of being 25ish years old, it's just Andreas being essentially a male ant) and have the most experience with a child falling over.

Which - because Andreas has experience - Annie falling over is not a big deal and if in arms reach, Andreas would lift her back up and brush her shoulders a little bit before letting her run off again and move on from the whole thing. The worst thing any parent can do is coddle their teen like a toddler and damn, Annie falling over is not as bad as what happens to talpaedan youth, it's a breath of fresh air.

This is hardly a 'P'andor exposes Annie to radiation' moment, but I did use this as an excuse to shoot forward some brief biology and culture headcanons about the Andromeda 5.