#starward symphony

[carnarachne]

sometimes all a girl needs is a tail approximately 1-1.5x her size and she'll be okay

[carnarachne]

made a family tree for may! she's one of my few characters where her family is important to her story so it was about time i solidified them a bit. also in doing this i canonized something which i find very amusing: may and angie are cousins despite not knowing the other exists! petra's mom's sister is angie's great grandma ::]

[carnarachne]

the last thing verdan quarter guardians see before they're blown to smithereens by hidden explosives (original)

[carnarachne]

another new girl ::3 she's a goddess of reality to the veka'ya, who are a sizable dalsah-exclusive culture. one thing i've had in my mind but never fully decided on was the idea of gods having "divine names", branded into them when they are created/ascend to godhood. some gods, like lisa, tend to adopt a proper name either to replace their divine name or to use in specific circumstances. some gods that used to be human, like nousha, will keep their proper names and either forgo their divine name or use it in specific circumstances. this is yuliana, a dalsah who ascended to godhood and was branded with the name kuer'rena, though she saves her proper name for those she's close to

[carnarachne]

i haven't talked about it here at all but basically every character in starsym (minus catherine and most psychoforms) is human. there are human "subspecies" of sorts that aren't actually genetically different from your average human in any way, but somehow completely diverge from human structure. i have a handful of subspecies currently listed out, a few of which you can see through existing characters, but there are some that currently aren't represented. i'm hoping to draw more basic examples of others in the future, but currently here are examples of:

the dalsah, which are of course humans with traits drawn from spiders

and the berril, which draw traits from chondrichthyan fish

if i make more examples i will add them to this post Later

[carnarachne]

i dont think ive posted priscilla here before. that means its 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱✨woim time✨🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

[carnarachne]

kyra time! i initially just wanted to change her outfit but honestly this is just a full redesign. which is fine because i highkey did not like her old look at all i just kinda made it so she could exist outside my head but now she's here in a presentable state!

[carnarachne]

new default fit for angie ::3 i'm thinking clothing is probably a passive way for her to sort of retaliate against her upbringing, and she chooses dark, relatively flashy, and heavily asymmetrical designs specifically to counter the design trends of enni clothing that she was forced to wear in her youth. also im slowly cementing starsym clothes in my head as just being modern clothes but kinda weird instead of just being super alien like her old fit was

timelapse under the cut (which is mostly just for me i love watching my own timelapses but i always forget to record them)