#tha-garn

[yautja-lair]

While escaping from an organization of alien smugglers, a yautja of the Naghe-tih clan and a human from Earth end up stranded on a planet named U'lesyo. Rak'ne and Valka are forced to cooperate in order to survive these wild lands, one persisting to come back to her crew and the other in the hope of returning to Earth. Among dangerous creatures and bad bloods, feelings will blossom, bringing Valka to work hard to stay by Rak'ne's side. Even if it means sacrificing her humanity for it.

This is a cover art for my story. I wanted to announce the title of it with something nice.

The characters are (from left, starting from the bottom): E'ko, Hu'nri'a, Kajiy, GoldFang, Tha-garn, Veduri, Akre'i

So glad I finished it, I can start sort out all my tumblr draft for Ecdysis world building and organize my blog better.

woah this is a drawing that has been cooking for a year now, it started from when I still used the phone to draw and survived both phone and pc breakdown. Badlands definitely gave me the final push to add the final touches to it.

Close up

[demonic-lair]

Tha-garn was a bad blood from the Ossa clan; this yautja was known by some clans for experimenting a new kind of xenomorph to use during hunts or even sell to less expert people and see chaos develop by the buyers carelessness and greed.

However, no one knows why Tha-garn suddenly left everything and joined the rehabilitation program of Rak'ne.

Tha-garn follows the program, showing even signs of progress, but they get bored easily for how slow and "full of rules" it can be, so it happens they sneak away from their lessons and wander around the ship or camp.

Tha-garn tends to hang out mainly with Rak'ne or Valka, fascinated to see a yautja/human pair and a human that willingly mutated herself with impressive results.

They are very materialistic and vain: Tha-garn loves their gold more than anything and enjoys spending time decorating their hair and body.

Tha-garn is very chatty, but also highly observing of those around them, memorizing other hunters' routines and behaviors to their advantage.

Their flamboyant and mischievous character often makes Kajiy annoyed, and both of them end up fighting daily since Tha-garn refuses to take rehabilitation seriously with him.

However, all the bad blood need is an admonishment from Rak'ne or Valka and Tha-garn shows their best behavior, almost eager to please the duo.

Which makes Kajiy even more angry, and it makes him trust less and less the bad blood's intentions.

Hu'nri'a doesn't interact with Tha-garn much, yet she keeps a careful eye during the therapy sessions and medical checkups.

She can't yet figure out what goes in their brain.

Lancia prefers to stay with the Ra-taro and spends time training Valka, with Kajiy and Rak'ne busy with the bad bloods.

Lancia wants to see the best of others, but he is still on alert and making sure Tha-garn won't cause trouble in the long run.

The first months of rehabilitation, after all, are never too peaceful.

[yautja-lair]

Kajiy and Tha-garn are complete opposites, both in personality and clans

Laptop fixed, adjusted some more stuff for the board and doing lineart is more smooth now. Definitely happy with how i draw my yautja oc now

I now have also a bluesky if you want to follow me there too

[yautja-lair]

Giving yautjas a lemon

pick the victim

Tha-garn (bad blood) was the perfect victim, they need to be humbled sometimes

They don't handle sour taste well

[demonic-lair]

The Re-menda has a heating system on the ship, but I still like to imagine that Valka, out of nowhere, finds herself surrounded by all the crew, especially if they landed on a cold area.

Rak'ne on her laps, Hu'nri'a sitting with her back against Valka's, Lancia sitting beside her as he keeps rambling. Even Kajiy will stay nearby, between Lancia and Hu'nri'a.

All this because they enjoy the heat from Valka's body. Her mutation didn't change that, so she keeps being the only warm blooded in a crew of cold-blooded aliens.

Though she will start snarling at the rehabilitating bad bloods if they try to do the same:

- Tha-garn tried once to hug her to enjoy the warmth while they were camping. The bad blood ended up with a biting mark from Valka. Not that they were displeased by it, Tha-garn found amusing that a human would be bold enough to bite a bad blood.

- A'kre'y never dared to do that. He is rather fearful of Rak'ne but also respects Valka for her resilience, almost seeing her as an equal hunter. He prefers warm up with a pile of furs he owns.

- Veduri avoids Valka constantly. He doesn't seem to like humans at all, but he will sit by a fireplace or stay in a warm room with Lancia.

[demonic-lair]

I feel the more I develop them, the more I'm close to start writing the story I have in mind, though I'll need to learn how to use Ao3 first, fix some plot stuff...and find a title for it too.

Anyway, I got sorted out now also the age of my characters, or at least the main ones that will be involved in this story, who more and who less.

It's all in human year standards because I'm not sure how to convert it into yautja years, and I'm also very bad at math.

The age of my characters change of a couple of years depending on when the story is set, but overall, I stuck with these numbers when drawing them or writing one shots.

Valka, 32

Rak'ne, 34

Hu'nri'a, 34

Kajiy, 33

Lancia, 27

Tha-garn, 30

Veduri, 36

Eliana, 30

Ha'rcar, 38

N'rithe, 56

Dhe-hak, 59

Se'eit, died at 27, she would have been 57

I'm still doing some concepts for Veduri, a bad blood, and Se'eit, huntress of the Naghe-tih clan and ex mate of N'rithe.