So uh anyone else gone through the whole thing of feeling super awkward and weird about messaging your friends who like the same things you like about a thing all of you like? Anyway you guys get to hear the thing I’m too awkward to message my soldiers about :]
I GOT TO WATCH PROJECT HAIL MARY YESTERDAY AND OH MY GOD I LOVE IT AND HAVE ALREADY ORDERED THE BOOK!! Ahem hem. This gave me an idea, which I was trying to decide the details for which was why I messaged the soldiers and then backtracked immediately because the conversation topic changed. ANYWAY. The idea I had, and spoilers btw for the movie, was Baldric being the human sacrifice guy sent off into space even though he fought tooth and nail not to go. And Oran being the silly alien creature that he meets, detail I wanted soldiers opinion on; and gradually one by one meets the others too? Don’t know how I feel about that idea.
It would kinda be like the Alien au I made a while ago, but I want to change the species lore I set up and how they look too. Baldric of course would adamantly refuse to help Earth and would send out the two corpses of the people he was supposed to be stuck with accompanied by a middle finger. Even if he doesn’t remember who he is or why he’s in space I can assure you he would definitely remember how much he hates people :] of course as a chemist [closest thing to an alchemist] and a college professor, he gets to work trying to figure out what’s going on. And so would already have a good amount of info before he comes upon the location of the planet connected to the only sun not dying. Of course immediately being concerned when Orans ship tracks his.
I think Orans ship would be more nature based, a mix of metal and wood shaped as if they’re liquid to make a sustainable ecosystem enclosed in a… you know those black holes with the edges that stretch out to the sides? Like big circle with a dash through it? That. It’s shaped like that, with the back of the ship being a shorter dash shape than the front. And more specifically I think Oran would have an environment rich with oxygen and with a lower gravity than Earth, I’ve already thought out the others too! But let’s see that aside.
Now, how does he look? Well like I said I want him to be more alien, still distinctly Oran but still like ‘what the FUCK is that thing??’ When Baldric first looks at him. Large eyes of course, flatish nose with the beak shaped teeth I gave him in the MythCreatures au and no visible ears, think like an owl. With a more bird like hand with two thumbs and three fingers, the other arm of course being a wooden prosthetic melded into his body. Which is what he uses to write on papers as it leaves a mark like charcoal. His skin is thin, but not Toucan thin, just easy to cut as you can only really see it on a Strixs stomach and thighs, as that’s similar to certain birds that pluck where eggs are supposed to be beneath. The rest of him has feathers mostly, with his legs and arms having the pebble looking skin of normal birds and his face having normalish skin that’s a little thicker than the skin of his stomach. And because this is mostly self indulgent like most of my rambles are; he gets a long tail with a fan of feathers.
This post is long enough with all my biology yapping, but it will be continued :D
