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Nashie

"Artist"

Ethan loved to make letters for his mum. They were full of collages, drawings, texts, and glitter (Kenyan didn't like the mess, but bought it anyway because Ethan asked).

Unfortunately, he was bullied because of his "girly behavior". He has an earring because of Martra's culture (check the meaning on the post "Piercings"), long hair to hide his ears and long eyelashes. Beyond this, he sometimes paints his nails with Kenyan (he thinks it's cool and beautiful), wears colorful bracelets, makes cute art... So the other kids and their parents talk behind their backs, judging especially Kenyan for "raising his son as an aberration, just like her".

Kenyan tried to brush it off as ignorant commentary, but when it annoyed Ethan she wouldn't let it go easily. For this reason, she didn't have many friends on Earth, but still engaged with the neighbors so Ethan would have kids to play with.

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When you magically learn perspective>>>>>>>

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Lukai vonako Nimaba

"Protect your family"

That's making my heart warm ❤️❤️ I guess it's the first time I drawn them happy— IT'S SO CUTE 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

That's Kenyan and Ethan when he was 8-10. She had left Martra to raise Ethan on Earth when he was a baby, so he has no idea that Martra exists.

To fit in, she's using magic to disguise her ears (some people can see its true shape if not looking directly at her/side-eye), hiding Ethan's ears with his hair and painting his hair brown. She didn't paint her hair cuz on Earth adults can paint hair, young children not.

It's sad that I can't explain every single detail, but all of them have a meaning ❤️ if you’re curious, you can guess their meanings based on what I already posted, or you can ask me; I’ll be glad to explain :)

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Enough with the angst, I’ll do something happy and cozy. Ethan and Kenyan’s life when he was a kid ✨✨

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In case you think I'm making things up with those weird words, I actually have a short dictionary of Martrakoji ☝️🤓

Most the words are really just a bunch of syllables that sound great (in my head), but at this point, when I need a new word I put together words with similar meanings and create a new.

Like, rest is “tsuru” because “tsugemo” means time and “maru” means destroy. So “tsuru” means something like “destroying(spending) useful time to rest”?

Sometimes I forget that a word exists and I create another (”fona” is coward, but I used “xoju” in the last post cuz it means cowardice); just ignore it ✨

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Xoju yôu Fusha

"Coward or Brave"

Ughhhh I wanted Kenyan to be the protagonist so badly, but it wouldn't work 😩 so I gotta keep satisfied with the unending drawings and spin-offs I create for her...

From left to right, Hiélo (Kenyan's guard), Kenyan, and Sylris (Kenyan's husband). If you manage to understand what is happening here, please explain to me cuz I also don't understand. I mean, the action is clear, but her expression and feelings are confusing even to me?

Geez, she's so pretty 🥺❤️ marry me. Actually, no, don't marry me. She's too much of a mess. I congratulate those who need to deal with her every single day (poor maids and Hiélo).

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me as a writer

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Tsuru

“Rest”.

Being Maivtre is too exhausting (the Lewies are always demanding things and the Dawies want to do some unethical experiments). Being Maivtre under Sylris' control is a thousand times more exhausting.

So Kenyan takes breaks on Nixies’ territory. The air there is better, her wounds are healed and the Nixies love having someone to talk to. But Kenyan has this self-destructive tendency and her concept of “resting” is a bit odd.

Well, you can see in her gaze that she’s not in her sober mind—that grass on her mouth has some effects. And Auvies aren’t supposed to be under the Sun, it burns their skin and eyes. Also, having moving things over their skin is overwhelming, and the Nixies gossip a lot (they talk by touch). To finish, she’s heating herself with her powers since she left the castle—she needed it before, but now she’s in the Sun, warming her body much more than she should.

Anyway, ain’t her eyes beautiful? 🥰 The Nixies are so cute, don’t you think so? 🥰

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Nixies

Nixies are like fairies. They’re born from flowers that survive Shizores’ rain/acid, not having any sexual or romantic relationships, only friendships. They also don’t have gender, having androgynous appearance.

They can’t talk (verbally), so they use gestures and touches to communicate. For this reason, they stay in groups to facilitate their interactions. A minority of them know how to write in Martrakoji, but they’re clumsy with it because they’re tiny, making it quite hard to talk to another species.

They don’t eat, but need to drink loads of water. They also don’t live for too long in a single life (when they die, they go back to dirt and may reincarnate in the future with some memories).

Their function is to protect plants and attack anyone who dares to destroy them. They clean the air, too, making it easier to breathe by breaking down heavier gases and increasing the oxygen saturation. Some of them have the capacity to restaure dead plants, or release a pollen that enhance airflow and heals living beings who passes there.

It’s always amazing to walk in their region, you can feel your lungs getting happy at breathing their air. You just need to be careful to don’t hurt any of them or the plants. They will chase you down with poison, diseases or block your oxygen until you die. 💚

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Execution Mode

A badass queen ready to execute people ❤️ Kenyan doesn’t play in the job, even if she doesn’t really want it.

Her mask is made of bones because bones need extremely high temperatures to burn, like 1292 degrees Fahrenheit, or 700 degrees Celsius.

Well, when using her powers on living beings, no bones stay, but she wears that for the meaning (“Maivtre can’t get burned with her powers”, which is a lie everyone believes into). People also aren’t worthy of even looking at her face, so if she catches somebody gazing at her when she’s not wearing the mask, they burn immediately 💀

I didn’t stop to think how her powers work exactly, but I’m imagining something like agitating the molecules of a specific place. No, she doesn’t have fire coming from her hands, the target just gets hot really fast and then the fire appears.

So, if she makes some hand gestures in public, is just to make it dramatic. In reality, she just needs to focus a bit in something and it will burn. I love her 😝

Ah, and in this specific moment of the drawing, she’s not using her powers. You can notice it by checking if her halo is visible or not (which is also how Hiélo catches her self-harming…)

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Crying as if I have rivers on my eyes because none of them shouldn’t had live that.

Somebody, please, hug the 10-years-old Ethan. Some other, please, help Kenyan to fight for them.

And someone, please, get Sylris and pull him off a cliff—

I’m unable to write my main story, so I keep thinking about their backstories with Chatty (ChatGPT). Of course, I won’t publish it cuz it’s not my writing, but I wanted you guys to feel it as deeply as I feel; as if everything is going on so wrong, but you know she didn’t have a choice, that she did what she could. And Ethan had to deal with the consequences, even if what she always wanted was to give him a normal, happy life.

She failed so hard while trying her best. It breaks me with how hopeless this is :(

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Hiélo Garoh

Yes, I made him furry. He has a bestial form too, but I don't want to draw it (lazyyyy), so you can imagine a green wolf.

I know I posted a drawing of him before, but it was annoying me that he was technically a lot-haired man with a dog nose, tail, and ears on top of his head.

And I was watching YouTube (that’s why they say you should be careful with what you watch), and I saw a video of a person making furries commissions. And it was cute and cool at the same time, perfect for Hiélo.

It was my first time drawing furry, so I struggled a bit with the face shape, but I guess I got it the way I wanted. The shoes are a bit odd because I was lazy and didn’t look for references. And can you see how SMOOTH his fur is? Like, I understand Kenyan now. He's like a walking blanket for her.

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Behite Tanonea

“Death arrived”

This drawing caused my throat to get tight. I also cried with Kenyan. Maybe she could have done better, thinking a bit more, fighting for them more. However, life is not always at our side, and you have to do something to survive it, no matter what.

That’s her, burning down all the Auvies. Elders, children, families, friends, loners. All of them were dead, and she had to keep looking at each one wailing and begging in agony, their skin tearing apart with the fire she started.

She only sparred Behati, who was 12, and Yuno, who had been born on that day and was crying in his sister’s arms. Half of his small body was burned while Behati ran across the debris. They almost got hit by a tree, but Kenyan saved them.

Behati was terrified by the woman in front of her. Was that the goddess who protected them by millennials? Martra’s ray of hope? Their savior? No way. How did this demon dare to do that? To kill her parents?! To kill everyone she loved! To hurt her brother!!

Before she could do anything against Kenyan, she touched their cheeks and they screamed with the burning. They couldn't notice yet, but it was a curse that took away something that they would need in the future. Behati lost her magic, and Yuno gotta be constantly ill.

Having done this, Kenyan opened a path amidst the fire and pushed them to run away. It wasn't what she should have done. Everything could fall apart because of this mercy. She broke part of the accord, even if the children would be permanently harmed. She was pathetic, and now she didn't know what to wait for.

Kenyan couldn't understand the concept of an almighty, invisible God, but, for the first time, she implored that He helped her. That He protected Ethan in her place. Because there was no coming back on this road she went.

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Martra’s kids live in hardcore mode

Actual parent: Kenyan (can’t take care of herself, much less of her son)

Wine dad: Sylris (gives alcoholic drinks to the child; his intentions aren’t clear)

Great at babysitting: Hélio (the child wouldn’t be alive without him)

Mediocre at babysitting: Yuno (eats raw meat and offers to the child)

The house is on fire, god is dead: Behati (took the child to an execution and tried to kill the goddess)

Is the child: Ethan (he’s unable to understand how they survive like this)

The only ones following Martra’s culture is Hélio and Yuno; the others are plainly traumatized and traumatizing. Still, as an Earthling, Ethan is horrified by all of this ❤️

(Hélio would sacrifice himself for Ethan; it’s a rule that all the children are extremely important and have to be cared of to protect their innocence. He still sees Ethan as a child.)

(Auvies eat raw meat; has an intense sweet taste, according to them. Yuno pretends the blood is juice.)

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flowers 🌼

This is actually a bunch of weeds that I saw on the street and thought were cute. U gotta find beauty in the minimal things, right?