#im going to rewatch the man who fell to earth one day and make notes

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What did alien Mick look like when he was in his alien body? Can you describe it? Like what would be different?

ok, I had to think about this for a while…but here’s what I got. so first off, I personally don’t think aliens have the same proportions as humans do. they do come in different sizes and all that, but I think their body type is essentially the same. they all have long torsos, long legs and long arms. you might think that makes all of them really tall, but there are plenty of short aliens on mars. they just happen to look a bit more goofyish with really long arms that almost touch the ground and legs that should look shorter and stockier but don’t. (other aliens usually call the shorter ones “chicken legs”) their heads are also a bit bigger than humans, and they can have either neon yellow eyes, or bright blue ones. their skin is typically a bluish gray. they don’t have hair, so all aliens on mars are bald. they also don’t have genitalia so it’s hard to distinguish male from female…usually aliens just wait until the other speaks so they know who they’re talking to.

so, for mick, he was at an average height for a alien (probably 6’3”). he had neon yellow eyes and really long fingers. some aliens have long fingers, some don’t. long fingers are actually seen as a sign of intelligence. blue eyes are also more common, so yellow eyes really stand out. his head also wasn’t as big as other aliens, and his bluish gray skin had a bit of a glimmer to it (most aliens of importance have a glimmer to their skin). he was like the beauty standard on mars and everyone wanted to look like him (in the sense that they wanted the yellow eyes, glimmery skin, long fingers). so i guess you can imagine his disappointment and anguish when his human body is nothing like his alien form.

(he would be so unused to having hair he wouldn’t even know how to take care of it, like the boys would have to show him how to comb his human hair)

i hope this makes some sort of sense. im still trying to figure things out in this au…so if it just sounds like a bunch of nonsense yall can tell me!