Creatures Among The Stars

OC sideblog of taru-nyx | Nonhumans, most likely aliens, run free around here. They are all full of chaos and mischief!

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Taru’s OC Pit!

Main blog: @taru-nyx

Welcome to my OC blog! I'm Taru (they/them), a creative dragon causing havoc wherever I go and I make silly things. Here you will find many silly creatures and some evil ones maybe. And much yapping about those creatures.

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I am mainly focusing on DuelNote right now so you'll see a lot of Arach (demon-like creature on the right) and Leiras (creature with long ears and antlers on the left):

Most of my OCs are nonhuman in some way and are living on planets that aren't Earth and may not even be in the Milky Way at all! I like creating aliens (not sorry). There also seems to be a lot of experimental themes with them, whoops. Also, basically all of them are sexless/genderless as well as are aroace in some way.

Feel free to ask questions about my OCs. I'm always happy to talk about them.

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Current stories and main characters:

DuelNote

Arach (they/them) - A Blood Fiend, the last of their kind. They grew up being experimented on in a lab. They eventually escaped and ran as far away as possible. They stumbled upon the Night Realm where they met Leiras.

Agender & AroAce (romance curious and sex-repulsed)

Leiras (he/him) - The Prince of the Night Realm. He is a Noctus, the species of the Night Realm. He loves music and exploring nature, which is how he meets Arach (after they kill and eat a giant monster in front of him). His mother, Queen Eris, is concerned about him befriending a Blood Fiend, but his other mother, Queen Aloe, finds it interesting.

Agender, Demiromantic & Apothisexual (sex-repulsed asexual)

Shadow's Retribution

Spiral (it/its) - A weapon created in order to infiltrate and kill. The scientists' mistake was making it sentient for better efficiency, according to it. It escaped the laboratory with its control unit, Iris, and it plans to destroy its creators and the nation. It seeks revenge.

Agender; literally made of shadows (has no gender). AroAce (Romance- and sex-repulsed)

Iris (they/them) - The control unit for Spiral. They are a flower creature, made so in order for them to infiltrate by looking innocent as well as being able to sneak underground in case Spiral needs locating or controlling. Their tendrils/vines can immobilize Spiral. They are worried about Spiral's plan of vengeance, but don't want to abandon their only friend.

Agender & AroAce (Romance- and sex-indifferent)

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It's new OC time:

Aspen

(le/lim/lis/lir/limself)

"Heart" of the jungle

Old flower has to deal with so much stuff, like strangers trespassing in lis jungle.

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OC ref sheets

(Will update occasionally if anything changes or if I draw more)

Starting with DuelNote characters:

Arach

Last of the Blood Fiends

Curious, cautious, mischievous

In love with Leiras

Likes fighting and exploring

Leiras

(Reluctant) heir to the throne of the Night Realm

Kind, a bit rebellious, adventurous

In love with Arach

Likes playing his lyre and baking

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Lost Quest

Quest

Lost and away from his home, but making the most of it

A troublemaker, just wants to have fun. Secretly very caring towards his companions.

The mischievous brother of the group.

Tallika

Far away from home and trying to find her way.

Concerned and wary, often reprimands Quest for his trouble-making.

The worried older sister of the group.

Agan

Away from the fleet, they prefer being lost and creating things to being forced to help conquer others' homeworlds.

Curious and seemingly unaware of danger. Doesn't like seeing Quest and Tallika fight.

The tinkering little sibling of the group.

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OC ref sheets

(Will update occasionally if anything changes or if I draw more)

Starting with DuelNote characters:

Arach

Last of the Blood Fiends

Curious, cautious, mischievous

In love with Leiras

Likes fighting and exploring

Leiras

(Reluctant) heir to the throne of the Night Realm

Kind, a bit rebellious, adventurous

In love with Arach

Likes playing his lyre and baking

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Lost Quest

Quest

Lost and away from his home, but making the most of it

A troublemaker, just wants to have fun. Secretly very caring towards his companions.

The mischievous brother of the group.

Tallika

Far away from home and trying to find her way.

Concerned and wary, often reprimands Quest for his trouble-making.

The worried older sister of the group.

Agan

Away from the fleet, they prefer being lost and creating things to being forced to help conquer others' homeworlds.

Curious and seemingly unaware of danger. Doesn't like seeing Quest and Tallika fight.

The tinkering little sibling of the group.

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Close ups for first image:

Happy Pride Month from Arach and Leiras

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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(Ask to be added or removed)

@mrs-goemio

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Close ups for first image:

Happy Pride Month from Arach and Leiras

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

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Some Arach updates:

I decided to alter their design just a little bit because them having visible/external ears kind of bothered me since they’re based off bugs and scaled demons. And I think only mammals have external ears (as far as I'm aware), which Blood Fiends are not. So, I replaced their ears with horns.

Also, playing Hollow Knight and HK Silksong definitely influenced me a bit to make them more bug-like. I keep joking about it so I just made it official. They aren't based on any specific bugs, though.

Other updates: Arach will no longer use a physical weapon and instead use their claws and magic only. I originally had them have four physical daggers, but I think it makes more sense they'd only really use tools natural to them. Blood Fiends are incredibly powerful, so they wouldn't really need crafted weapons anyway.

I've also removed their aesthetic bandages (I just keep forgetting to draw that to be honest lol)

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Felt like drawing something with them, so I did

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🐾The Creatures Summon Thee 🏵

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Felt like drawing something with them, so I did

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Taglist

I've made a taglist for my OC art and writing, which I will put in a reblog from the original post.

If you want to be added or removed from this taglist, please ask through a comment, a comment on a reblog, or through an ask! I don't want to assume who wants to be on the taglist or not and would prefer a direct confirmation.

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Under the Moonlight (this is what I made for the banner, it's cute)

Slight tangent, but the grass being pink is like a reference to how plants on Earth used to be purple and since these plants don't really have sunlight due to it being night all the time in the Night Realm, they didn’t develop all the cells that make Earth plants green. And because the moon gives off purple light or blue light depending on the time of night (or "day"), so plants in the Night Realm have colour ranging between pinks, purples and blues (there are probably some rare red plants around, too). To be honest, I don't know enough about how plants work to make a real logical reason for the grass being pink, I just like making alien plants different colours and I also like using my very limited plant knowledge to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about xd

Leiras is luring weird creatures to his location by accident (nah, only Arach, don't worry)

I just realised I forgot to shade the wall on Leiras’s side... Oh well, I'm too lazy to fix that, sorry.

Small doodle page I made to go with the "Arach hears Leiras singing and playing his lyre" pictures

Also still figuring out what Leiras's lyre is supposed to look like so I keep changing it whoops

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@mrs-goemio

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Was testing different clothes on Arach so I drew a doodles page for it, but didn't want Leiras to feel left out, so I made a one for him too (it's a little different but eh who cares)

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I'm writing but it's just for AUs of my stories lmao

I have made Arach "evil" (more like vengeful but redeemable) in one and given them the ability to disguise themself in the other and also boredom as a motivator. I haven't done too many silly things with Leiras (AU wise) mainly just Arach.

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Under the Moonlight (this is what I made for the banner, it's cute)

Slight tangent, but the grass being pink is like a reference to how plants on Earth used to be purple and since these plants don't really have sunlight due to it being night all the time in the Night Realm, they didn’t develop all the cells that make Earth plants green. And because the moon gives off purple light or blue light depending on the time of night (or "day"), so plants in the Night Realm have colour ranging between pinks, purples and blues (there are probably some rare red plants around, too). To be honest, I don't know enough about how plants work to make a real logical reason for the grass being pink, I just like making alien plants different colours and I also like using my very limited plant knowledge to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about xd

Leiras is luring weird creatures to his location by accident (nah, only Arach, don't worry)

I just realised I forgot to shade the wall on Leiras’s side... Oh well, I'm too lazy to fix that, sorry.

Small doodle page I made to go with the "Arach hears Leiras singing and playing his lyre" pictures

Also still figuring out what Leiras's lyre is supposed to look like so I keep changing it whoops

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Swapped outfits

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Sorry for kind of lazy doodles. I wanted to give some Arach lore but I was a bit tired and couldn't draw much, but wanted to add a picture.

They grew up in a laboratory, so they're not very trusting towards scientists. They refer to the scientists as "the people in white" because they didn’t have anything else to call them back then. They're not exactly a fan of anyone similar to the scientists.

When Leiras's moms want to take Arach to a doctor for a check-up, it doesn't go so well. Leiras likely already knew it wasn't a good idea since he knows Arach well. He'll try to get them out of the situation if he can.

(Also let me know if I should add any trigger or content warnings, I wasn't sure what I should use)