#sa danielle

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I just had a hilarious mental image of Dani showing Dhebbie the pic of the baby insect *DELIGHTED GASP*

or even better: dhebbi showing dani pics of HER tiny children (in response or out of the blue, you pick)

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Okay so I think I've settled on the 'Qin' for those space-au bug aliens. They're a primarily female species that are about maintaining community harmony with rigid castes and hierarchies, everything and everyone needing to be categorized and in it's proper place. I'm working on a draft where a close friend of Danielle's is an outcaste by the name of "Dehabilitated-Rustwright-Of-The-Crownless-Antoeci" but Dani just calls her Dhebbie.

(cy is helping me develop this species i came up with a while ago that isnt affiliated with space corps because ive been meaning to make more of those. figured id start with something i already had, when cy suggested an insectoid species and i was like, hey, ive already got one of those!!!)

some notes:

qin all kinda have these bell-shaped cloak things that they wear p much all the time, that have these holes for the wings. danielle helped dhebbie make that scarf. most qin don’t wear scarves. i still haven’t decided what they look like undern

i still need to come up with what colors to put where (im thinking mostly the browns/dull greens with some colorful spots as accents since a lot of aliens in the au so far are really really colorful), as well as species variation and stuff like that. but heres some initial ideas

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josi drew halpha dani in cute clothes so i got motivated to finish coloring over a sketch i did a long time ago of dani in corps workout wear or something

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I have it in my head that space AU Dani is gonna end up crashing in Valerie's apartment and one day Val is going to notice her tablet is acting wonky and yell, "DAMMIT DANI WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SITES HAVE YOU BEEN GOING ON?" "What? I'm studying alien anatomy! Human girls are really weird down there!" "OH MY FRAKING GOD"

HHFHHGJmmfgfjjjsssssss

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drew up some stuff for halpha holidays/events

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weddings: im gonna go ahead and do what becca did and repurpose my halpha royalty design into a wedding outfit for the bride/groom/etc to wear (its gender neutral. both parties wear the same outfit, each in their respective family color.) im gonna headcanon that halphas didnt have a monarchy but i like the idea of having it as a wedding outfit so it can still have a purpose lol. as for the attendees of weddings, they just wear normal clothes, but in two colors (representing the families being united) instead of just one. weddings are pretty casual overall. ceremonies are short and then everyone just parties their asses off. there are other events similar to marriage on the halpha planet, including being adopted into a new family or someone having children.

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in the center we have the harvest festival, which is a huge amalgam of several things, including but not limited to: japanese matsuri (summer festivals), farmers' markets, paintball/dodgeball/color runs, holi, and la tomatina. i would imagine the colorful pigments in this case come from non-edible plants that grow on the halpha planet, but basically function as weeds. halphas dont farm crops so much as forage for copper-rich food, so 'harvesting' basically just amounts to pulling weeds that get in the way of their food's natural growth. halphas just found a way to make weed pulling fun instead of annoying

the event itself works like this: each evening of the festival at around sunset (which lasts several hours for the halpha planet), halphas in the surrounding area gather around a designated market/festival area/etc (ie where weeds have taken over) and divide into two teams at random and try to see who can get others utterly covered in paint the fastest. you get someone 'out' by getting their hair completely saturated in colors, which is tricky because most halphas grow out their hair. the leotard things are easily cleaned, but the family scarves, which don't have to endure nearly as much chaos on a regular day, are left home until the morning after the festival has ended so they don't get damaged.

most colorful things on the halpha planet have some sort of bioluminescence/fluorescence (including the halphas themselves, though for them it's less apparent than the plants). so at night, after the huge pigment war is over and it gets dark out, the market opens and all the participants parade their paint-splattered bodies around in the dark, lighting up the festival area at the same time.

the festival lasts three days or so, or however long the residents can stand the stench of nobody bathing. halphas dont have to take full-on baths that often like humans do, but they do like to have a quick rinse off once or twice a day... it's somewhere between brushing your teeth and putting on deodorant. but anyway there's a different set of two colors for each day, so by the last night of the festival, the whole town and its inhabitants make a huge rainbow of colors. the next morning everyone takes a bath to wash everything off, and there's all sorts of nice soap fragrances floating around and everything just smells so GOOD and everyone just relaxes that day

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the last kind of outfit is for halphas that are attending more formal/solemn events, or just worn by people carrying out important roles in any sort of event including the previous two in this post. for this sort of situation, the goal is usually to remove emphasis on oneself and/or any specific ties you have to other people, and instead to create a sense of unity rather than dividing up into multiple groups in a way that would remove focus on the purpose of the event, which is to bring people together for something meaningful. so, white is the color of choice for this sort of thing. (funerals aren't overly somber, but out of respect for the departed, no one wears their family colors.)

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jose drew a thing of space au dani that got me thinkin about alien fighting styles and stuff so ive been drawing these for a while

so dani would clearly be a dance battler with ballet tendencies (because halpha leotards, and halphas being quite literally light on their feet hehe). even if shes wearing clothes too big for her she still makes it work somehow. and i think i mentioned this before in this post that paulina is a flamenco assassin so theres her too. (i realized partway through that canon paulina is probably latin american and not from spain so if this were a human paulina i probably wouldnt put her in an actual flamenco dress but for the sake of space aliens and flower dresses please forgive me this small handwave,,,)

more character fighting styles to come in another post later on, but for now heres these

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"...penny for your thoughts?"

epilogue of sorts for this fic by shrekronomicon. i love the way dani is written in these series of fics and her dynamic with the other characters is so goood hhhhhhh

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i said before that danielle and vlad mostly wear cloakish things, but that they swap clothing whenever they come somewhere new. so it would make sense that sometimes the native culture calls for dress thats maybe not quite so shrouded or concealing. or maybe how much fabric doesnt matter at all. like, sometimes its easier to blend in if you have loud patterns, and other times the dress code simply calls for 'beige, taupe, brown, and more beige'. so anyway heres some MORE OUTFITS YAY

i dont know how to match things to danielle's complexion or hair color alien fashion is weird and makes no sense

the first outfit on the left was designed by jose