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ntls-24722 · 15 days

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An ancestor to the Zebrapeople!

Partial stripes, mostly brown, and kind of sapient! I don't know how to explain their level of intelligence, but like... they have stone tools, but they currently can't create language, so imagine the setbacks from there. They're also mostly octopodal, and are only hexapodal for short bursts.

Zebrapeople actually have the facial problem that we have with the rest of their genus, where smiling is actually seen as a threat for everyone else. Or at least, the way they smile. The teeth being out bothers them, but not compared to how much the gums being exposed do.

Zebraelves evolved slightly tighter lips to have their teeth slightly out gives them a background sense of order since the baring of teeth, like in our primates, is a threat, and it also made the baring of gums a lot more dramatic. But as the species began to coagulate into one giant supercolony, the baring gums was recontextualized into the basis for most of their facial expressions.

Also; the origin of their spinnerets.

Hagfish method, baby! It's gross and works! Quagga-elves originate from a much wetter environment, so they could afford the water loss when making gross protein threads inundated with the stuff. But as they moved to more arid environments, the slime got drier and eventually was repurposed as silk... in the females.

Originally, male zebraelves were supposed to have venomous spurs, but I thought it'd be better for them to still have this basal trait. Partially because they need it more!

Fraternities are a treacherous journey and male zebraelves aren't maintaining nor with their subcolony for most of the time, so it's more useful to have a gross-out factor that keeps from from being food to literally everything than to have a durable building tool/textile.

And speaking of how treacherous the journeys of fraternities are;

This queen's boytoy is no longer a boy, she's become a worker after losing her hearing due to getting an ear infection because disabilty accommodations in fraternities are, no hyperbole, nonexistant, for a combination of the unfriendly job environment and fucked up eugenics reasons! I really did try to avoid the kind of real life problems they have, partially because I didn't want to give fictional little guys the same societal burdens we go through, but also because if I talk about shit like music man eugenics i sound 10x more insane than I already do. unfortunately it becomes a reoccurring thing when making fictional societies.

Her relationship with the queen is looked rather down upon - neither of them care very much, especially the queen, who finally has someone she can talk to who gets it, to put it plainly. The two reproductive sexes in zebraelves are very policed, which is a rather large problem in zebraelf society.

Also; Bipedal bugs! The best predator against Debu.

Their method is to use those two arms to latch on and just rake their sickle toe-claws against the skin as hard and fast as they can which is very effective against Debu, who, despite their brute strength, have very sensitive, weak skin! They're small, but fast, and they do a lot of damage really quickly, which is the problem, since they'll tear through already open wounds and deepen them, even leading to infection.

Sindeer often has to deal with them, since she's a large target as a lone huntress.

i forgot her back fur. dont look

Also: today was my last day of class! Which, paradoxically, means my account is actually going to slow down? All of the almost daily music man posts are actually class doodles, and now there's going to be no more class for me to get bored in and make music man. But that means more digital artwork, which is generally higher quality, soooo???? double edged sword

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eldritchocs · 5 years

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|===D come and get y’alls juice!

#open rp #lepite #KIND OF LMAO ITS BASED OFF A CONVERSATION I HAD EARLIER FJSJFJDJF

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ntls-24722 · 7 days

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the bride and the ugly ass other bride and groom

fashion breakdown below cut

So, I've decided that Serendipolis debu, or at least the founding ones, were actually badlands debu! Their culture rapidly changed in this one city where they had all these new resources (the mountainous, harsh area may be good for mines) and this whole new cultural exchange with the two species that they usually don't really meaningfully come into contact with. Now I'm thinking that serendipolis's very grand body mods are an extrapolation of badlands debu body mod goals, where they're trying to mimic the badassery of a bunch of scars and piercings by having these big sweeping ones, and how the saddle-caparisons could be used as actual saddles for passing zebramen and zebraelves like how in beastars, larger animals let smaller ones hitch a ride on them in hallways!

I could go on but the important part is that the entire dress has the template of Badlands wedding dress, but the designs within are very reminiscent of Valley debu.

So, the dress is actually really skimpy, it's just about the equivalent to Debu lingerie with the placement of the cutouts, and the reason is is sort of the message to highlight the back hairs and behind area to be like "now that you're a part of the family, here's the goods." The back hairs in particular also have the message of both the impending motherhood since that's where baby Debu latch on, and also the highlight of the closeness between the newlyweds, since resting your head on the back hairs/back area is a form of affection that isn't... intimate but it establishes that you're very close to the person to have the same tenderness and vulnerability with them the same way a child does when it hangs on to those hairs.

The blue, and the frills on the edges of the caparison is a very Serendipolis part of the design, but the actual design on the caparison is very curvy, floral, it's geometric but very wavy which are generally the designs that Valley debu create. The bracelets are the opposite, though, they have very hard, straight edges and Badlands Debu love that stuff. The floral element next to her hump is both representative of Lepit and general growth and those light-colored thingies around the back are supposed to be whistles that represent Sindeer c:

I just have to make a reason for every damn little thing, huh

#ntls-24722 #djmm #dj music man #rinkalla #sindeer #lepit #(almost) daily music man #digital #homo mousike #speculative biology #worldbuilding

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ntls-24722 · 2 months

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Sindeer with her makeup done and after she's had a good bath!

Small thing, but debu don't have two toned lips anymore, because they would serve no purpose

The reason for 2 toned lips is to make your facial expressions more visible since the bottom, lighter lip is also the one that moves around the most when you talk, so making it stand out makes your words and expressions stand out - awful comparison, but it's the same reason why clowns have their bottom lip colored red. But Debu don't use their lips much - unless they're flipping their lips inside out to make their mouth-glow appear larger (and therefore, them, when they're in the dark). So, much like the Superb Bird of paradise, whose feathers actually evolved to absorb almost as much light as vantablack just to make their blue look more vibrant, their lips are just completely dark to make their white glow stand out even more.

Also, because of the locality of the mud, i made some hypothetical Debu makeup styles!

The hump and the neck are the best sites for makeup, so they're often left without mud to make it easier to add paints. The neck is wrinkly and holds in paint really well and the hump is smooth and is an equally good canvas

I don't have much lore for each other than where their colors come from - the coastal's white hue comes from ash, clay, and the white sand alongside the blue from crushed freaky "crabs," Badlands are using only the essentials of charcoal and ash, and the Valley Debu (where lepit, sindeer, and rinkalla are from) usually just use the reddish mud and ochre to color themselves.

However, the serendipolis Debu have some interesting stuff going on. They're very light colored because the good mud by riverbanks and lakes are taken up by crops from the other 2 sophonts, so they actually use plant oils and dust for sunscreen. Their facepaint is also from trade - The Zebraelves have been making the most vibrant dyes for the longest out of the 3 sophonts and now that they're together, they get to use the elusive yellows (and greens) that are not so common.

But the coolest is the paint on their mouths and behinds - it's glow in the dark! Their mouths emit ultraviolet light and the paint (derived from an insect) will glow under it once they flip the inside of their lips out.

#ntls-24722 #djmm #dj music man #fnaf au #speculative biology #worldbuilding #homo mousike #the glow in the dark paint is also seen on their ass because of Serendipolis Hoes #it's like one of those “↑two seater↓” shirts. just kinda unsubtly going “lick here”

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ntls-24722 · 3 months

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Cloud 9!

So - Sindeer is specifically a huntress and she and Rinkalla are the ones who venture the farthest from their home. Most of their clothes are made from plant matter/the same stuff as their bedding, but she's the one who's able to actually stitch it into something you can wear. Because of this, she can also stitch up a nasty wound, like she is here. Lepit got stabbed again

So on their planet there are the hexapodes and the octopodes - the octopodes' ancestor wasn't a fish that came onto land with 8 fins, rather it was just a hexapode with a modified bottom jaw that could Grab with 2 little claws like anomalocaris, or a dragonfly larvae. Those jaws eventually became extra limbs as time went on.

This is kind of an interesting route for me to take... it means the Debu and the Zebrapeople are as far apart evolutionarily as we are from bugs.

Speaking of evolutionary ancestors, here's what the Debu used to look like. Still ungulates, though their fingers were getting more defined. They still had snouts, but they were increasingly flattening so their eyes could be in the front and accommodate their tunnelling lifestyle, alongside making their mouths look bigger from the front, now that they evolved the weird mouth-glow.

A weird "bird. I might change the design, but what I am keeping is the tail - They take off by flicking their tail against the ground and propelling themselves upwards.

#ntls-24722 #djmm #dj music man #(almost) daily music man #sindeer #rinkalla #lepit #homo mousike

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eldritchocs · 2 years

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where we left off

( PREVIOUS )

in the cities of The Divide, the miles-deep hole that cracked open the earth hundreds of years ago, lie several sprawling cities built into the cavernous walls. tonight, we focus on two.

on the middle layer of The Divide lies the industrial powerhouse of Umbris. founded by the Albescu family and still run by it, Umbris was a city of invention since it's very first days. Now, it's filled to the brim with aspiring inventors from all around and is one of Hezal's beacons of progress.

not all is perfect in Umbris, as this city, almost always ticking like the gears of a clock, chokes on the smog of it's own inventors and the cities above it. over the years, it's become overcrowded, and with it came The Plague.

this disfiguring plague sweeps through Umbris, it's fellow kingdoms of the middle divide, and even the kingdoms of the layers below it. umbris itself is hit the hardest. it's lower to middle-class population is almost entirely wiped out. grieving families turn to necromancy to bring back their dead, causing a massive rise in the population of graveborn.

the west-most side of umbris is given the nickname "The Gravekeeper District," as a small amount of laborers living there are quarantined and forced to dig the graves for the mass amount of plague victims. necromancers flock the area, looking for bodies or spare parts to continue their work, of which is in high demand currently.

it is here in umbris we find Lepite Mortion, a vaguely familiar face. working as a mortician amongst the gravekeepers, lepite is more notably known amongst the gravekeeper district for his "miracle elixirs," with have been noted to be able to heal one of the plague, and most other ailments that one can befall-- even death itself! just a single gold piece!

trust him, he would know. he doesn't look it, but he's graveborn himself! ( its already hard to tell what race he was in the first place-- a fiendling and drow mix-- and even harder to tell that he had been dead! ) raised back up from the grave ages ago, staved off the decay and rot most graveborn experience with his own elixir!

just don't ask how he makes them.

( MORE ART UNDER THE READMORE! )

"why are you hesitating? you need to begin your search for mellot again immediately."

"i just had one more question about your son, lepite?"

"what about him?"

"what happened to him?"

"one of my patients killed him. he was a doctor here, just like me. she murdered him as she was escaping the asylum."

"oh..."

"even worse, after we buried him, someone stole his body. five days after his funeral, we found the grave desecrated and torn apart. empty."

"did you ever find his body again?"

"no. now if you are done pestering me on such unimportant matters, i suggest you get back to finding mellot."

"and what about veroni, sir?"

"it seems she's already failed her mission. kill her if she tries to intervene."

no one is quite sure where this plague comes from, but many have looked into it. quite a few people trace it back to an old asylum on the east side of umbris. this asylum is looked over by the brilliant drow man Dr. Kalill Stockam. Some suspect that he had a hand in creating it, but that would just be silly, wouldn't it? After all, Dr. Kalill and his young rabbitfolk nurse, Alma, worked very hard to create and release a cure almost immediately! sure, it costs an arm and a leg and only the upper class of Umbris can afford it, but that's just how it goes, isn't it? after all, dr. stockam has more motivation than just the money and fame his vaccine brought him! that's what the public says, at least.

those in the lower divide tend to silently disagree.

Mellot Mariam, founder of Miss Mellot's Sanitorium for the Mentally Alternative, poses for a portrait with her dear friend Veroni Harlow and their godson, Varian. The three of them are all survivors of this plague, and have been working on finding and making a cure that will be obtainable to all walks of life.

the kingdom of Evaria exists in one of the only habitable zones of the lower divide, as what little light reached this far down into the earth is blocked out by the cities above them and the smog they've created, and evaria is the furthest from these. the warmest and brightest of these barren, perpetually dark lands, evaria is a city founded by and filled to the brim with vampires. this kingdom is responsible for almost the entirety of plant life and sustains both itself and the two other kingdoms of the lower divide, who were unfortunate enough to get stuck living in the uninhabitable zones.

this is where a few familiar faces live. Mellot owns and runs her own sanitorium for those who need it, inspired by her own mistreatment at the hands of a different asylum. her facility is easily one of the most respected for it's humanity and proper medical practices, a rare commodity for mental hospitals in hezal in this time and era. she has recently re-united with a former lover of hers, also a victim to the previously-mentioned "different asylum." funnily enough, they were victims to this plague several years before it reached the public. mellot herself died from it, only escaping from the pits of bodies after awakening as a vampire herself.

the two women hold their tongues about what happened to them. they know what happens if they don't. they know if they bring the horrors they were subjected to by the hands of Dr. Stockam to light, he'd find them. he'd find them and use any means at his disposal to silence them.

so they build their case against him in secrecy. the discovery of Varian was certainly a huge break in the case, a child born of Dr. Stockam and another patient, who mysteriously died after giving birth and who's child vanished from thin air. sadly, the young wererat doesn't recall much from his past, but he does carry the plague with him, allowing them the chance to study it up-close and work towards releasing their own cure.

but these aren't the familiar faces you're quite looking for, are they?

how about...

does the name Whovyx Derati ring any bells?

tonight, this young fiendling inventor returns to his library after an... eventful night with another man named Verion. you knew him by another name, but their back-and-forth relationship is one you know very well.

tonight, whovyx derati returns home to his library to find his lovers waiting anxiously for him.

"o-oh. you're still awake... heheh... i thought you would have gone to sleep by now... this is kind of awkward..."

"we... we were worried! you said you were only going to verion's for a few hours! it's been three days!"

"...has it? heh... oops... i guess i've been walking around with this on me for a while, huh?"

"are you bleeding? what the fuck happened to you, whovyx? who did this? i'll--"

"we need to get him inside right now, he's delirious-"

"i-it's fine! it's not mine! heheh! i'm sorry, i probably s-should have started with that! i didn't-- i didn't mean to startle you, hehehe--"

"...whovyx, what did you do?"

"it's just-- i think-- i think you may have been right when you said zerion didn't really love me, haha..."

oh. maybe we should come back to this one a little bit later. they seem a bit busy.

how about... ah! yes! we did leave this one on a bit of a cliffhanger, didn't we? let's play a little catch up.

leaving evaria, and heading all the way down to the deepest layer of the divide....

this city was not even graced with a name. people simply call it "The Beneath." here is where dead things go to rot, where those who have fallen from grace wind up, where creatures who have never once before seen the surface world of Hezal make their dwelling. The Beneath is not much of a kingdom as it is much as a shanty city built amongst the sewer systems of the various kingdoms above them. It exists in pure darkness, but life here still booms-- albeit much more twisted and strange, as the very magic that runs through the earth itself leaks out through fissures this deep into the earth-- much like the deep sea of our own world.

here, a twisted circus run by a member of the fae court suddenly booms in popularity with the addition of two new members.

"the modern era of necromancy is just spectacular, isn't it? these poor things were found dumped into our water systems, bodies broken and nearly sawed in half. they weren't citizens of the beneath, either, so they must have been dumped there from somewhere above. gods know how long they fell."

"either way, it only took a little 'speak with dead' spell here and a 'reanimate dead' spell there, a few healing spells for good measure, and they're good as new! and yes, they insisted they stay connected! that's not the interesting part, though. they can tell your future! all you have to do is join them for tea!"

now coming to Lunaan's Spectactular Sideshow of the Strange and Unusual are two twin girls, conjoined at the shoulder. at least, they were, before they died, but the circus-goers don't need to be made aware of that fact. they quickly become a popular attraction amongst the people of The Beneath, who are fascinated by these two young girls with the power to tell one's fortune through tea leaves. people flock to the strange twins to say hello, grab a cup of tea and have their fortunes read.

the graveborn girls, named Lottie and Lollie, don't stay long at the circus, however. after only a couple of months, a triton man by the name of Sentry Terros shows up to the circus and rushes to their tent, revealing that he is their father, and that he had been kidnapped and held hostage by the same woman who had murdered them. thanks to his bold escape and the help of a clever detective woman named Peyton, they managed to track his daughters to lunaan's circus.

both the reunion and goodbye is filled with tears as lottie and lollie re-unite with their father, and bid the circus that had graciously sheltered them adieu.

what they don't realize is that at home, someone is there waiting for them. someone's who's been waiting a long time to re-claim what she believes is hers. when she found his home, she had originally intended to simply take sentry back, but finding miss peyton there, Skeela Albescu Vaiska Kiseleva decides to have a little bit of fun with the detective that stole sentry away from her before he returns.