#cuz of the blue-white palette and four limbs

[arlenianchronicles]

Throwback to that time in high school when I wrote a science-fantasy alien-invasion story about an alien and a human boy forming a parent-child bond loll

Alrighty that does feel a little out of the blue ^^;;; After all my fantasy works, something sci-fi feels quite ... alien! loll But it’s science-fantasy in that I didn’t go into detail about the tech, and the invasion already happened years ago; I just wanted to focus on the relationship between the boy and the alien while the aliens have control over Earth.

Speaking of those two, their names are Crane and Ansen respectively! Ansen is the alien’s Earth name; his race, the Qaens, have a whole naming custom that allows them to have multiple names, but I’m not about to bore y’all with all of Ansen’s loll I think it’d be cool to have many names though, assuming you can remember them all! XDDD

The Qaens’ hair is also made up of feathers, rather like a bird’s wing. I know it doesn’t look much like feathers, but I was drawing it in the style of Aurelydan’s Firebird! ^^;;; I imagine that the male Qaens have longer feather-hair and brighter patterns than the female Qaens (similar to birbs, and for birb mating stuffs ... I don’t know if they’d do a fancy mating dance though hahaa)

Also, I never finished their story, but from what I do have, Crane is a traditional artist and nephew to the rebellion’s leader. He first encounters Ansen when the latter is captured on a reconnaissance mission (which was being done by both the rebellion and Qaen scouts). Then things happen, freedom and recapturing, cross-country travel, interrogation, escape and recapturing -- but most importantly, found-family bonding! :DDD