#sa ref

[swiftfootedachilles]

ian being so great at sex and knowing exactly what his partners want because at the club he just needed the money and wanted to be left alone so he learned how to make johns finish as fast as possible

[ghostfiish]

i was wondering what if space au tucker had a cool probably-sentient AI person to help him out so i tried thinking if there were any characters from dp that we havent made designs for and becca said maybe pandora

and i was like hell yeah so i whipped up some designs for that shit

maybe theres just a bunch of iterations/colorswaps of the same general AI program that space corps has, that they lend out to different teams/corps members as needed. pandora gets assigned to tucker, but she takes exactly none of his shit and knocks him down a few pegs right off the bat. nobody messes with pandora.

the designs i drew here are based on pandoras canon design (i couldnt really settle on a palette) so these colorswaps would be some of the technogreek models (hehe) but theres definitely other AIs are named after other figures of myth/legend from various other countries/planets that i wanna try drawing out because that just sounds like a fun concept in general

space au has turned into my own personal design and redesign project and im ok with it

[ghostfiish]

sophie said ryan finn should be dannys medic who keeps his secrets and stuff and i was all over that like you wouldnt beLIEVE

so with chrissys blessing, here we have space au ryan finn, extraterrestrial enthusiast

but because of the uniform he cant have stupid mismatched outfits so i compromised by saying hes got dyed hair and an office full of alien themed nicknacks and clippings and stuff (haiju said maybe hes done shady dealings with freakshow to get his hands on precious halpha artifacts and then he somehow ends up in jail for a bit. maybe HES the one who blabs about freakshows secret operation lol)

[ghostfiish]

A NEW PLANET im so excited about this one guys. inspiration credit for a gem species goes to ghostinabluebox but i thought it needed some fleshing out, so i tweaked some stuff and ended up making and an entire planet out of it. oops. (excuse to worldbuild? excuse to worldbuild)

the idea behind this planet is that the ENTIRE PLANET is mineral-based. there's two main types of 'crystal'--living and nonliving-- made out of similar substances to quartz, ruby, etc. im calling the planet 'czochra' (pronounced vaguely like 'chakra'), and the species is lazulite(s). again, those names are probably not what the locals use, but its at least something humans can pronounce. well, sort of. those names are a bit of a mouthful arent they haha

so starting from the outermost part of the planet/atmosphere, which is extremely vapor-like, the environment condenses as you move closer to the planets core, basically going from gas to a liquid mineral solution to solid crystal at the center. different species of lazulites live at different layers, and are generally more complex as you get to the core. most species look pretty aquatic, because most of the planet is in a liquid state. found at all layers, however, are the sea monkeyish things seen in the left side of the second pic. they collect/grow waste or nonliving mineral material on their fins, and then eat it using their 'hands'. most czochra 'eat' this way (when they dont eat each other). but these little guys function kinda like those snails that eat algae off the side of aquariums. pretty much all sentient species come from what are basically seed crystals, and grow essentially like crystals, evolving from a simpler state to a more complex one. some of them, while still crystalline and hard, are a little softer, and have a little give/flexibility to them like they were made of some kinda cross between jelly and sand or something. helps with swimming.

the lazulites have two options for reproduction. the first is by laying a seed crystal 'egg', which will float towards the outer atmosphere to hang out with other, simpler species until it starts to grow/mature. the second reproduction option is to directly create a 'copy' of themselves at present. this takes longer than creating the egg things and leaves the lazulites incredibly vulnerable, but takes much less time overall than waiting for a seed crystal egg to grow to maturity and make its way back to the core as a mature adult. the copy, while already fully mature, is not exact because the environment influences this process heavily. when a lazulite grows to maturity it is generally impossible to tell which reproductive process was used to create said lazulite. sex/gender is not a thing for lazulites. dying is more of a process of being unable to hold structure any longer, and so when they die they dissolve into the atmosphere to become nutrients for other living species. theres a balance between the amount of nonliving and living crystals held together by the living crystal species' life cycles.

some of the mature ones are space corps members, but the ones that are dont really wear uniforms- its more of a badge-sticker thing since even though they are kind of amorphous and can change their structure to some degree (like miobes), they are a lot less fluid so the uniforms are not practical enough to work.

lazulites have a highly nonverbal culture, and though they can read/write they mostly communicate by gesture (even if humans etc cant really understand), and occasionally writing. they make noises, but only from shifting/moving around--not for vocalization. for this reason (and many others), ive decided that there arent really any dp characters that would actually BE a lazulite, except maybe, say, the ectopusses, and others of the more animalistic ghosts.

another important note: czochra runs on a different sort of logic than most other places in the galaxy; lazulites have a different understanding of geometry and the universe at large, and the way their planet works kind of reflects that. certain laws of physics are sometimes bent a little bit and perceptions of non-lazulites are often skewed. theres even plenty of nonliving gems on the planet that have incredible (sometimes hypnotic) effects on the minds of foreign species; some are more susceptible than others. we hypothesized that this is where freakshow got his reality gems in this au...

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sophie and i collaborated for this next part: say freakshow went to czochra, found a way to harvest some of the non-sentient crystalline material without it dissolving upon breaking free of the atmosphere (which the nonliving mineral species usually do once removed from the super-pressurized environment). or he just takes some of the liquid to mess with later. anyway he experimented on it (probably using a method something like this) in order to make a supervaluable gem to sell, but accidentally creates a less-potent version of the reality gems- which i would imagine induces a dangerous form of hypnosis and suggestivity (ie doesnt ACTUALLY warp reality, but the people besides freakshow dont know that, right away anyway). for example, he sometimes uses his earring to control lydia. maybe you gotta let the crystal charge between uses or something. theres more about this but ill make it a separate post later on maybe.

[ghostfiish]

some outfit refs! more to come later. explanations/descriptions under cut; theres some background info for danielle and vlad in there too.

ok for the first pic is p straightforward; people on terra ii (humans or otherwise) tend to wear crazy clothes with obnoxious colors when they go out shopping or to party or whatever (ie recreational stuff) but if theyre doing business or running important errands the stuff is more low-key to look at. the first two drawings are expansions on a concept i drew a while ago and stole for space au, and the second is some guy with yzma coattails idk

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second we have vlad and danielle, in one of their cloaks they wear when theyre planet-hopping. they dont want to take the chance that people discover theyre halphas (they dont know how far the news has spread that their planet is extinct and would rather not draw attention to themselves). so they always cover their faces with their scarves (the only thing they make sure to never leave behind), and then bundle up over their leotard things even more with a cloak of some sort. they travel light and take what they need when they have to, but its danielles self-imposed rule to never steal from those she meets, has conversations with, knows by name etc.

some alien species they meet are hospitable, and since i felt like space au was majorly lacking in non-humanoid aliens i took the liberty of designing a one-off species not affiliated with the space corps (there are LOTS of those and looooooots of planets trust me):

so anyway since danielle grew up off-planet (ie away from the nutrients halphas are used to), that prooooobably isnt healthy at all so shes a little underdeveloped physically (i wanted an analogue to being unstable in the show) so shes skinny as heck and not as tall as she should be. shes also extraordinarily bad at making friends and generally interacting with people from growing up around her grief-stricken father and no one else. she knows halpha language and bits and pieces of other languages like her dad, but is quicker than vlad to pick up english in particular. more on them later maybe