#unhee

[aroayr-shuk]

Chiss Officer: How...how many children do you have, sir?

Ba'kif tiredly: Biologically, emotionally, or legally?

[gloria-van-puncake]

Eli's dad. Harm this child over your dead body.

[twilekchiss]

As the Mom of quite the bunch of kids herself, how do you think Asha would get along with Soontir and Syal Fel? Would her kids get along with their six?

Oh, it's been so long since I've read anything Legends, but likely so! Asha's fairly amiable, I like to think, provided no one severely pisses her off. I admit, I can't remember the Fels too well, but when away from the Imperial court, Asha likes to make honest connections with people, especially people Thrawn trusts (because then she trusts them). So I'd like to think she'd get a long great with them. At least she and Syal would bond over pregnancies and motherhood, I think.

If there were, say, all in something like The Empire of the Hand, I imagine the children would see a lot of each other. And Asha loves children, so I could see her in the kitchen, counting heads as she makes snacks for all the kids running around her place, whether they're Chiss, Twi'lek, human, or some combination of any of those, lol. Or other, idk, she wouldn't question it. Random Mon Cal kid rolls up? They're getting hugs and food, too, lol. So adding the Fel kids into the mix? Asha wouldn't bat an eye.

What little I have of Asha's children, well, I can imagine there would be close bonds, but perhaps not always easy ones. Aden, the eldest, is very broody, and the second eldest, Azar, is competitive af. They butt heads with each other and probably any of them more strong willed Fel kids. Ariellis, the eldest daughter, is a bit stuck-up, I'd love to see her get humbled by one of the other Fel kids. She needs it. Thistle/Istlet is down for A D V E N T U R E so if any of the Fel kids wanna explore, she's the one who'd drag THEM around. Elrin and Erisse are quieter, more delicate, especially Elrin, and would prefer the more bookish Fel kids.

Un'hee I see a little more separate from all of them, not having grown up with them. A little more aloof, still haunted by her own past. Quiet. But, at the same time, she loves all of them just the same. They are her family.

Idk, this was a hard one 🤔

[yiliy]

Chiss biology

I've been thinking.

About genetic similarity between Chiss and humans. Other than eyes and skin color, Chiss look exactly like humans, but visual similarly is not a good indicator of genetic similarity (a pug and a great dane are same species, while rabbits and hares are not) 

Different species ⬆️

Same species ⬆️

In canon Chiss are a different species than humans, but have a common ancestor not long ago.

Usually, the definition of a "different species" is that they can't produce a fertile offspring (or any offspring).

Visual 

I checked and it seems there are no animals that can see thermal radiation. Some fish see a bit more into the infrared spectrum than humans do, but not enough to match Chiss vision. We have Thrawn able to tell quite subtle differences in heat inside a building when looking from outside in Thrawn: Alliances.

Interestingly, it seems being a warm-blooded animal would interfere with the infrared vision since the internal heat of its own body would overwhelm anything that one would see further away from the body.

I don't know how scientifically accurate we want to go in a universe where there is sound in space and gravity strong enough to walk in an asteroid inside a space slug, but if Thrawn is able to see increase in heat when humans have strong emotions, he would have to be a cold-blooded animal, like frogs and fish and snakes etc.

Speaking of snakes, they can sense heat with special receptors in pits on their head, but they can't see it, and they have to be quite close.

However, Chiss are not cold-blooded. In Thrawn: Treason Thrawn sees Un'hee and Vah'nya's body temperature increase.

Their hands are clasped together, the fingers white-edged from the strength of their mutual grip. Their facial temperature is elevated.

That's it. This post has absolutely no point.

[snailgrls]

can you elaborate on the sandwich analogy?

okay so im drunk. warning if i dont make sense of if im insensitive or if i make typos (sorry)

but i guess i get annoyed by the extreme idealization of violent acts when in my experience (as the victim btw) it has felt empty. nothing grandiose like a virgins first time. its just a depressing mechanical act like making yourself a sad lonely sandwich.

i guess, sure, with sadistic killers they get off of it. but the idea of "how does it feel to kill someone hehehe" just annoys me. youre mechanically doing something for your own benefit like making a sad soggy sandwich to satiate your hunger. i figure, since violence against your own kin has always been present since forever, it doesnt bring personal enlightmentment to a new sensation. the new "sensation" that is percieved to be felt is only present if youre a true sadist. you get off to it. which is a different discussion in its entirety.

but the act, is depraved, it smells, it floods your physical senses (i suppose. in terms of smell and texture and sight) but theres no magical physical spirituality hidden in killing someone. if youve had sex without being turned on i guess you can approximate your senses to what im trying to get here (i had sex this way, it was mechanical towards a "common" end goal which was climax. the end of the act. the death of someone that ends the act of killing. etc)

violence has always existed amongsnt each other, and i think the entire "fake deep" layers people add to it blinds us from the actual reasonsings that brings a human to kill another human (poverty, systems that motivate violence, etc. violence exists and it isnt a portal to higher spirituality.) if you hit rock bottom and has to kill to survive, in my best uneducated guess, it feels like making yourself a soggy sad sandwich. you waste physical energy in the making of it, cutting the bread, stacking the ingredients, putting the sauce etc, but youre doing it for your own surivival. so you dont stave

ig this is all to say i think the way most people talk about homicide is corny, and is blinded to the way real violence works ig. feel free to tell me if im saying incoherent bullshit (since im drunk) but this is something ive thought about for a while!! not saying its a developed line of thought ofc but... u know.. feel free to call me out on my bullshit

so thats why i make the sandwich analogy. you cut, you stack ingredients, you eat. you have to kill someone? you do certain acts and gestures to kill them and then its done. there is not higher enlightment waiting for you when you end the life of your kin. much like food, or any other activity you do to survive (or even in your daily life)

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