#Orbona

[honeyharedude30]

[autumnalfallingleaves]

Since I’m currently in a Star Wars phase, I was thinking…. How about a WondLa trilogy AU set in the Star Wars universe?

:D!!!!

It wouldn't be me if I didn't have a crossover or a couple for things I'm currently interested in, so I absolutely have a few, lmao.

I've been thinking of a post-WondLa canon SW AU wherein SW isn't in our past; rather, it's in the future and is currently set in the Prequels/Clone Wars era (my favorite :) ). I'm fudging with both canons a bit and putting WondLa several millenniums ahead of where it is in canon to fit in with the SW timeline and also saying that the galaxy is not far, far away. It's the Milky Way. SW humans are from the humans that abandoned Earth via the Dynasty Corporation and affiliated and just. Never came back.

(Continued under the cut because this got long lol)

It's been three or so years since the Battle of Solas, so Eva is around 16. My thinking is that Orbona is out in Wild Space, so it's been lost to charts and maps for a while, thus explaining why the people of SW don't know that the human home planet still exists, or even that there is a human home planet. During the War, the disaster trio (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka) end up crash-landing on Orbona on the salt flat near Lacus and find themselves trekking from the now-broken Twilight to what they can see as the nearest civilization, which seems to be a mix of species, most of which-- barring humans-- the Jedi have never seen before. Let's say, for consistency's sake, that the aliens who ended up colonizing Earth/Orbona where from farther out, potentially the galaxy Ezra ended up in, so they're not present in the SW galaxy. Thus, the Jedi can't understand them. They, of course, manage to encounter Eva and co. and, since the humans speak Basic (or English, as the humans of Orbona know it), manage to get a rundown of where they are. (Obi-Wan's nerdy ass is incredibly excited to learn that Orbona/Earth is the planet of human origin. Think of the fossil records.)

And thus, through a series of shenanigans, Orbona is introduced to the larger galactic stage. A selection of beings from Orbona is chosen to go to Coruscant in order to present their planet to the Senate. This includes Eva, Vanpa, Rovender, and maybe Huxley? And others. Redimus is protection.

The Jedi have no idea what to make of Eva. She's extremely strong in the Living Force, but it presents itself in a way none of them have ever seen. I think she and Yoda would get along very well, to the horror of everyone else. She and Anakin would also eat bugs together.

One of the things I've been thinking about the most for this is Eva and the clones, because she, herself is also a clone, just of someone else. I can imagine they bond over that fact as well as personhood and being a second-class citizen in a place that doesn't really care for you. (Say what you want about New Attica, but Eva's status as a clone and her unique experiences were totally brushed over by the Atticans and I don't think she was super happy about that.) I think the vod'e would hear that Eva is still using her designation as her name (Earth in Vitro Alpha, ninth generation) and encourage her to find a name for herself, if she wants to. Eva Nine thus becomes Evelyn "Eva" Kitt :)

This somehow leads to Palps getting outed and ousted because I am all about fix-its in this house.

Other ideas I've had are SW characters in the WondLa setting, which I think is also very fun, but I've thought less about. For instance, the "Eva" would likely be either be Ezra or Omega due to the "naive little kid sees the world, grows up, and develops some pretty serious skills while also finding a family" thing. Ezra works thanks in part to already having similar powers and his relationship with his mentor/dad figure is similar to Eva's. Omega also works because of weird-little-girl-ness, vibes, being a clone, and a similar arc of losing a loved one and having to learn how to move on, though, in this AU, I feel like the person she loses- her caretaker- would have to be Nala Se and not a brother. (You can also insert Batcher in as Otto quite nicely. Maybe Ezra could get a Loth-Wolf?) Hunter is the Rovender, though I'd make it so he had a falling-out with his brothers instead of them being dead and that's why he left.

This also means that it's easy to insert Emerie as the Eva Eight figure, but also means that, in order for Ezra to work, there'd also have to be a bunch of Ezra clones running around. Lmao.

[isawiitch]

deciding to refrain from wondla posting till it drops haha... I need to reread my nda but I have so many things I wish I could say >__>; ....

[celestialmacros]

Broad-headed Sharpshooter (Oncometopia orbona)

March 21, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

A good day of bug hunting on this first full day of Spring

[noiselessbuck]

@sneakboots

[clownzaf]

D’ya know that there is a Roman Goddess of orphaned kids? Her name is Orbona and she’s 100% the Batfamily’s patron goddess

[ladyanaconda]

Dorcean Headcanons: Hunting

Hunting has great part in their culture. Unfortunately, there's many misconceptions about their view on it.

They have an honor code when it comes to hunting, which is taught to them from a young age. It consists of three simple rules.

Never lay claim to another hunter's prey.

Always perform a clean kill.

Nothing goes to waste

And now, some trivia on this aspect of Dorcean culture, as well as some analysis about their honor code.

Not all Dorceans are hunters. However, it is a preferred career.

Even at his most desperate during his two-year hunting, Besteel never broke the honor code.

Hunting is a dangerous job, and there are days when even the most veteran hunters return home empty-handed. As such, no matter the circumstances, taking an animal from someone else's trap, AKA stealing, is frowned upon, if not utterly vilified. And yes, freeing the animals counts. No wonder Besteel was so mad at Rovender!

As many hunters point out, they hunt 'for sport' because they're hired to do so. In fact, Vamphyr himself once said non-Dorceans would rather have them kill Orbona's animals because they're too cowardly to do so themselves—a sentiment shared by most Dorceans.

Hunters will often decorate the walls of their homes with trophies from their most challenging quarries.

It might not look like it, but hunting gliders require high maintenance. As such, only veteran hunters can afford to have one. And they take very good care of it.

As mentioned before, a hunter will sometimes return home empty-handed. As such, when they make a kill, they will take everything that can be used from the carcass, leaving nothing to go to waste. Hunters who do so are often inexperienced.

They will never use poison—not out of morals, but practicality. Poison can potentially ruin the carcass's quality or, at worst, make its meat inedible. As such, Cassiora's unorthodox use of poisoned or drugged arrows to bring down prey was looked at with disapproval.

When they kill an animal for survival reasons, Dorceans have a small rite that involves thanking it for its sacrifice in their language. If the animal is agonizing, they put a quick end to their suffering.

While Dorceans make their first kill at an early age, they're not considered fully-fledged hunters until they've undergone a rite of passage at 14 years old. They're taken to the Heart of the Forest and left there with a time limit of 24 hours; they cannot return to the village without killing something.

Needless to say, Besteel's kill was exceptional for his young age: an adult vipanther, a deadly predator from the Dorcean homeworld that can give even veteran hunters a run for their money. This was such an impressive feat that the entire tribe threw a celebration in his honor.

Redimus, on the other hand… Well, let's just say that everyone could see he didn't have the character nor the cold blood to be a hunter—something he and Thalyss were quite content with.

Mammusk hunts are held yearly to replenish the tribe's food supply for winter. This is a social event in which most, if not all, of the tribe's hunters take part.

Dorceans have plenty of songs that focus on hunting activities, extolling the strength of a particular hunter, a particularly fearsome creature—such as Broken Tooth. These may be sung in many contexts: before or during a hunt, before battle with external forces, and during social events.

Btw, I imagine the vipanther looking like the tobi-kadachi from monster hunter.

…Without the elemental attacks that is.

[crevicedwelling]

Some friends I found, ID optional. I simply wish to share

(Finger for scale on the centipede)

big female Scutigera coleoptrata,

Enchenopa binotata group (not sure what it’s eating, but there’s no names yet for the different undescribed species that specialize on different foods),

and a juvenile Oncometopia, probably orbona.

[alcnfr]

A Broad-Headed Sharpshooter (Oncometopia orbona), a type of leafhopper, on a Magnolia stem...

[sneakboots]

WONDLA PROJECTS COMING SOON

This is for you, WondLa enjoyers! 🌳🌱

-Eva Eight fic - first chapter anticipated to be 15k+ words (will slowly be posting updates)

-fanart featuring aliens, “ships”, robots, landscape studies, redraws, Nine as Dorothy and more. So many WIP’s

-short comic that got postponed because my device crashed and deleted my file (I cried over it, it’s fine and I am normal)

-New Attica Vogue issues

More ambitious projects ⬇️

-WondLa digital stickers!! (That you can download for free!!)

-Orbona Alphabet book (characters, creatures and places)

I really want to bring past present and future WondLa enjoyers together by making as many things as I can in hopes of bringing a little more activity for this series on this site! Let’s make the wondla tag a little more active!

[dracocheesecake]

In the books, do the aliens have any devices for long distance communications? Like, their own version of cellphones or radios?

Actually...not really? Or at least if they did, it's not really addressed or mentioned in the books- and in fact, the closest thing they get to this is the usage of the human's omnipods in a few select cases (which I won't spoil here because it involves a few plot-crucial twists).

Which is honestly funny, because you'd assume that a coalition of alien races that invented large-scale interplanetary travel, perfect translation technology (including nanobots that actually go into your throat, so a little biotech there), hovering transportation, sound wave weaponry, and a FRIGGIN LIFE GENERATION VIRUS THAT CAN AWAKEN DEAD PLANETS, amongst other things, would have something akin to radio or video calls before the humans, but...no- save for one instance where it mentions Besteel was "in communication with someone" from his campsite- which would have been complicated, if he didn't have some sort of device for it. Also in the shuttle the cearuleans used in book two the pilot mentioned "making contact with Solas" so I assume that hints at some sort of radio communication, accessible from the shuttle.

Also they use actual physical people (little alien rabbit looking dudes) as messengers at one part in book one, so despite all of this highly advanced tech, they're still somewhat 'behind' humans when it comes to long-distance communications, we assume from what the books tell us.

So overall: maybe something akin to it in a very few select cases (maybe Zin might have given Besteel something to communicate with him in case he captured unique specimens, but again, it never delved too far into that so we don't know). So they have it sort of, but it isn't very widely used (now that I think of it, that's probably because only that small part of Orbona is populated so they have no real serious need of long-distance communication).

[autumnalfallingleaves]

I have been rotating this girl in my head since July and I have FINALLY gotten enough spoons together to make an actual sketchdump of her (traditional, because digital stuff has been too many spoons as of late) 🫠 Introducing my newest OC, Dorothea "Theo" Kitt!

If you're thinking, "But Bean, isn't that just show!Eva?", sort of! Theo exists in book!canon WondLa, but, since all the Evas and Evans are clones, I chose to borrow show!Eva's appearance and use that clone model for Theo-- she was initially Eva Six of Sanctuary 602, but our Eva (taking on the surname Kitt post-canon because she got adopted proper :) ) found her as an infant in a sanctuary that was on the verge of shutting down and rescued her, deciding to raise her herself.

In broad strokes because I want to start expanding on all this, Theo is confident and outgoing; she would be punk if that concept ends up being reinvented in the time period Orbona exists in. She's a graffiti artist and a mechanic and her most beloved possession is a motorcycle-styled hovercraft she calls the Flotsam. (I'm still working on finalizing her coat colors, but the gist of it is that it's a Cærulean coat she modified and painted.) Her best friends are a surly Halcyonus named Mælegra (Mæ to her friends but absolutely no one else) with mad scientist tendencies and a Dorcean with anxiety named Bohlaan, who would rather learn textile-making than continue the hunting traditions of his clan. Theo absolutely adores her family and friends, and would do anything for them. Runs in the family!

I really want to work on some more stuff with Theo, so that'll happen at some point :)

please do not repost my art

Bonus: tiny troublemaker-in-the-making

[zuzsenpai]

Zuzu's Bug-ventures: Home Edition!

Found an Oncometopia orbona (broad-headed sharpshooter) the other day. Sadly it was dead, but I had never seen one before! It's a LOT smaller than it looks here. But the pattern reminds me of Mead Composition notebooks.

[spacefinch]

Finch rambles: WondLa series

Ep 1

Baby Eva is adorable.

Also: her space/galaxy themed bedroom is AWESOME!!!

Eva's hairstyle in the show reminds me of Princess Leia!

"Hi, fellow humans!"

Eva, I wouldn't activate that visual signal if I were you.

Great. Now you've gotten an alien hunter after you.

"We got this." No. We do not got this.

ON THE SURFACE!!!!!

THE RINGS OF ORBONA

[geekcavepodcast]

WondLa Trailer

After living her entire life in a bunker, Eva feels ready to venture beyond her walls and meet other humans. An attack on her bunker forces Eva to the surface of the Earth...now inhabited by non-humans, covered in alien-looking fauna, and called Orbona. Eva is joined by new friends as she searches for other humans, her home, and her destiny.

WondLa, based on Tony DiTerlizzi's The Search for WondLa book series, stars the voice talents of Jeanine Mason (Eva), Teri Hatcher (Muthr), Brad Garrett (Otto), Gary Anthony Williams (Rovender), Chiké Okonkwo (Besteel), D.C. Douglas (Omnipod), and Alan Tudyk (Cadmus Pryde). Bobs Gannaway serves as showrunner and an executive producer. Animation is by Skydance Animation. Other executive producers include DiTerlizzi, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, Julie Kane-Ritsch, and Skydance Animation's John Lasseter, David Ellison, and Dana Goldberg.

WondLa premieres on Apple TV+ on June 28, 2024.

[bottomseareef]

If My Tav Was A Companion Romance Scene Poll (Tav 2 Name)

Finally finished that list of names for Tav 2 so here we go. Found out polls only have 12 answers so some got left on the cutting room floor so these are just the ones I liked the most