After Her Crew Escapes Further Conflict With The Trickster Ship, Maaj Retreats To The Deckhouse To Try

After her crew escapes further conflict with the trickster ship, Maaj retreats to the deckhouse to try comfort the creature she took from the possibly-pirates.

While Maaj has only ever seen uniima in art, she believes it is up to her to protect this perhaps sapient being and take it to land. Why else would the gods leave this child to her?

The rest of the crew, including her partner Lteny, don't think a barely moving enigma is worth the jolly boat or risking their lives.

But behind the harsh words, Lte wants to protect Maaj from the pain the creature will cause with its inevitable death. She knows how desperate Maaj is to be a mother. It's better to end things before she sees it as her own. That can never happen.

"Its face and body are solid. It will look the same awake, asleep, and dead."

I've been wondering - what are the tiny arms on the slomen?

The limbs on the sloman back are somewhat vestigial since they are not necessarily but most will still use them for their intended purpose in some way.

The "chicken wings" are often attractive to slomen as they help with childcare. Having strong or flexible mid limbs can make expanding family easier (you don't have to buy carry-bags).

Men will carry the meat eggs (external womb) before it hatches. After that the women often take the main role in nurturing the slims, since they are the ones with "crop pouches" full of milk-like substance.

The chicks get tired easily so even after hatching, the wings will find use for carrying.

On top of that, women grow long textured feathers on their wings, very attractive.

Some cultures don't allow showing wings or chest pouches while others don't care or they have it status based.

The colors on the picture aren't realistic and are more meant to differentiate sections of the characters. Real meat eggs are darker and have feathers of the parent's color.

Random slug post before I finish my extremely procrastinated-on art.

But I have an excuse! (Christmas)

Kinda a slugsona design.

Gourmand but bigger and one that can barely even throw. Combat is 90% melee.

The claws are misleading, this slug doesn't scratch opponents as much as it crushes them and suffocates them.

It's also very slow if it doesn't roll (but can roll for veeery long).

Algaechh - follower of the "hand", master of speach and diplomacy (or at least that's what's said - they only speak like 4 languages).

They are from an island micro-state following the oldschool head rule. A strange mix of peoples down there on the landmass. The primary occupants are uniima c with Algea being one of the few exceptions, but faiths are more than varied.

In their community, they belong to the family/collective that rules this community with their "merchant power" which survives on the intercultural differences. Unlike most Foru states, this place uses currency in their daily lives, even when it starts clashing with some believes.

Algae doesn't spend too much time with their family, but they are loyal.

They just don't like their way of thinking.

Non-serious older doodle

This is so f good I'm exploding.

I LOVE HOMOSEXUALS

I hope to used the second image as a reaction image.

@yellosnacc i got you your gay aliens!

Sorry I'm late even tho it's just a repost. Happy valentine!

the blorbos

This took a while because I wasn't sure about some visuals but I love my blorbos and how they ended up.

For anyone new to my characters, on the left is Neal, the professor of acoustics, sound manipulation, and other physical stuff that people of this time period can't differentiate very well. He lives a simple normal sloman life.

On the right is "bio man" (I still need to come up with names for 80% of my characters even though I have had them for ages). He teaches everything biology-related in a small school in a completely different country. But he would rather travel and discover the nature of the world (which he does with Neal in the story).

If it's not clear, they enjoy each others company (or at least will). This picture is for me to feel warm and to show the different ways they look at the world. It's abstractly set in the future where Neal gets to have a basic fasion sense and more open feelings.