#Dearg of Ib-Wa

[rjalker]

apparently I also never posted the reference for Flyssa and Dearg's house. So. here's this a year late.

Here's the short story they're in.

[ID: A digital diagram of a hexagonal house in Flatland, seen from above, surrounded by identical copies that are greyed out. The main section of the house is a square that fits inside the hexagon, creating a large central room, with smaller sections on the top, bottom, and sides. On the Left side is the foyer, separated from the outside and inner room by two wide doors, which a purple Equilateral triangle stands inside. At the lower edge of the foyer is a small gab labeled rain drain. On the top is a children's room, with a narrower door. On the right is a storage room, with a thin door at the top. On the bottom is a bedroom where a Straight Line and very thin Isosceles are, with a very thin door. Between the bedroom and the storage room is a very thin door leading outside. End ID.]

This story is specifically set in a different country to where the original Narrator lives.

[rjalker]

The characters in my short story with their internal organs included, next to eachother for Official™ scale. Flyssa's detailed werestar form is symetrical because I had to get up early this morning.

[ID: Two images. The first shows four two-dimensional Flatland original characters against a white background, each with their internal organs visible on their insides as though we are looking down at them from above. All of them have grey exoskeletons and internal organs in different shades of pink and purple. The first is a line labeled, Flyssa. The second is a very acute isosceles triangle labeled, "Dearg". The third is an equal-sided triangle labeled "Lieutenant Kellite". The last is in the shape of a starburst with twelve points, labeled, "Flyssa's werestar form - Not Accurate: Symetrical because the artist is lazy.". They are all lined up on top of a thin red line at the bottom of the image. The next image is a much more simplified version of the werestar, with a black starburst against a white background labeled, "More accurate representation". The lines on the points are thinner, there is a point missing on the middle-left, and an extra smaller one on the right. Each of the points are of slightly different lengths rather than mirroring the one across from them. End ID.]

[rjalker]

Flyssa, Dearg, and Lt. Kellite in stylized form.

You can read the short story they appear in here.

Other "fun facts" about the characters are that Lt. Kellite is in his late 40s, Flyssa and Dearg are in their 20s. There's a "high turnover rate" for being one of the lower classes in Flatland due to the...well, all the things.

They don't have clothes yet, since I design them first without clothes and then make their clothes separate. I have to figure out what a police uniform would look like for Kellite.

[ID: Three stylized characters from the setting of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, drawn in a humanoid form. Each has two arms and two legs, with a single large eye, a heart shape in the center of their torso, and stripes around their wrists and ankles, as well as rib-like stripes on their torso below their heart. Beside each of them is their name, and a black geometric shape showing their literal Flatland form. The first is labled "Flyssa", with the pronouns, "da/dar/darl/darkling". Flyssa has a dark green body, olive green markings, and a yellow eye. On top of darl head is a thin spike like a unicorn horn. Flyssa's stripes are pairs of chevrons, one thin, one thicker, on each ankle, wrist, and on darl neck. Flyssa's literal Flatland form is a Line. The second character is "Dearg", whose pronouns are "phi/phim/phis/phirself". Dearg is dark blue, with dark red markings, and a bright red eye. Phis stripes are two thin curved stripes followed by a thicker one on phis ankles, wrist, shoulders, and neck. Phi has the same kind of spike on phis head as Flyssa, with phis slightly wider and shorter. Dearg's literal Flatland form is an extremely thin Isosceles triangle. Flyssa and Dearg are standing next to eachother, holding hands and looking in opposite directions. The last character is "Lieutenant Kellite", whose pronouns are "he/him/his/himself". Lieutenant Kellite is desaturated purple, with brown markings, and an orange eye. His stripes are two thin upward curved stipes on each ankle and wrist. The top of his head is taken up by a large point matching a triangle, so that his face shape is teardrop shaped rather than round with a spike like the first two. His literal Flatland form is an Equal-sided triangle. End ID.]

[rjalker]

My Flatland characters size comparisons and the main scene in the short story.

Anyways. Flatland is public domain, so you can download it or read it online for free here from Project Gutenberg.

And you can listen to an audiobook version here on the Web Archive.

And here's another audiobook version here on Youtube.

There's a lot more audiobook versions you can find, those are just the first two links that showed up.

Do not give your money to Amazon or anything buying ebook versions of this book. They're literally free. You should only be paying money if you're buying a physical copy.

Anyways I had just typed out a whole nice summary of Flatland's social structure for those who haven't read it yet but tumblr just ate it. And I have to redo the image descriptions too. Sigh.

Anyways. Long story short: The wider your angles, the higher your social status Under the Current Regime, which is super fascist and that's the point. It's a dystopia.

The lowest class is literally called the Criminal class. It is made up of Irregular shapes, aka, disabled people, and polygons with angles of less than 10 degrees. They have no rights at all. Lets just stop there.

The second lowest class is made up of Lines, who are classified as Women. They likewise have no rights, and have a ton of restrictions placed on them to control their movements.

Just above Lines are Isosceles triangles, who are forced to be Soldiers, aka canon fodder.

The lowest three classes are routinely murdered en-masse to stop them from revolting, with many schemes in place to keep them in-fighting instead of fighting together against their oppressors.

The middle class is made up of equal-sided triangles.

The upper-middle class is made up of squares.

The more sides you have, the higher your rank, the more money and privilege you have, until you get up to the circles, who have declared themselves the rulers.

That's the basics. Anyways.

It's very funny to me that the Kel-lite official website uses a free font I use to make neopronoun pins.

[ID: An MS Paint drawing showing three characters represented by solid black geometric shapes on a white background. Each is pointed upward, with thin colored lines crossing above them to mark their relative heights. From left to right, they are: Flyssa, a line with sharp points on either end, with an angle of zero degrees, who is the shortest. Dearg, an isosceles triangle with an angle of three degrees, who is slightly taller than Flyssa. Last in Leitenant Kellite, an equal-sided triangle with an angle of sixty degrees, who is the tallest. Flyssa and Dearg's names are written in the font "Midnight", which is all caps, at a slight angle. Lieutenant Kellite's name is written in the font "Just Another Hand", which is thin and curved like casual handwriting. End ID.]

[ID: The same characters as above, now in a scene with a dark grey background. Rather than being solid black, their insides are now primarily red-purple, with dark blue and red lines and shapes for their stomachs and nerve endings. The rest of the drawing is in various shades of grey or black. Around the edges of their bodies are thin cilia like cells have. Lieutenant Kellite is sitting across a short table from Dearg in the center of the image, with Flyssa at the top, looking at Lieutenant Kellite. On the table is an almost-empty, knocked over bottle, and a half-empty bowl of fruit gelletin. Lieutenant Kellite is using his cilia to pick up peices of fruit and throw them over his "shoulder" so they fall to the floor at the bottom of the image. He is thinking to himself, "Who puts pineapple in pudding???". The bowl in front of him is half empty, with most of its contents in his stomach, where he ate two pieces of fruit before deciding he didn't like it. The wine from the empty bottle, and some other peices of food are also visible in his stomach above the dessert. Dearg and Flyssa share the same thought bubble, thinking, "There goes all our rations for the month…" Dearg's stomach has some food visible in it. Flyssa's is too small to see. There is a black border for a wall around the drawing, with a wide doorway leading off-screen on the left side, a very thin one on the right, and another thin one on the bottom right. End ID.]

Yes this is a very long post for two small drawings. I'm incapable of not explaining things.

[rjalker]

all the tags I have saved to a notepad so far for @accessible-flatland-art so I don't have to type them all out every single time.

The tags for mobility aids and stuff only get added to art that specifically shows the mobility aid so it's easier to search for them.

please copy and paste the image description into the original post when you get the chance no credit needed please also feel free to add in more details likes names or pronouns or fix any mistakes i made

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