#rexlo

[thecouchmimic]

I can't get enough of these stupid gay idiots

Milo (Blonde) belongs to @voidandnull404

[thecouchmimic]

I have so many little guys running around in my brain space.

Some are in jars with little twigs and leaves for enrichment.

Some are in Pringle cans full of thumbtacks so that I can shake them around.

if you make an OC that you are genuinely insane over, like you are obsessed with this freak and can't stop thinking about them, then it will rub off on other people. the virus spreads

[natik-lore]

Rexlo are large, bipedal mammals akin to giant rodents. Rexlo is a Roktok word meaning "fast beast." While commonly eaten, they are also popular working animals due to their high intelligence and tameness. In the wild, they are generally tan or gray, but captive bred individuals come in a variety of colors and patterns. Their diets consist entirely of plant matter, though they especially seek out roots and tubers, which they dig up with their beak-like incisors.

[smackins]

🍓 Kitki & Kala?

THE BABBY, AGAIN! <3

Kitki:

She was the only viable birth from her clutch, and has spent most of her life among those much older than herself. She has a bit more of a mature perspective for her age, often questioning the decisions of her clan's adults. However, she still has the playfulness and wonder of any Nati child, and her favorite game is making dirt towers.

Kala:

Lmao this sketch has awful proportions and I just now noticed

Kala is the member of a species of Nati which is largely migratory. Her clan specializes as mercenaries, offering service to both their own and other Natik species. She has a unique bond with her mount, a Rexlo named Baki, whom she raised from a calf. She is deeply loyal to her family.

Bonus: Kala, though nuanced, is also a bit of a comic relief character. She was loosely inspired by Polnareff from Jojo.

[mandaloriangf]

Okay so like I'm not a rexlo but like that much hate on my dash is getting to be a bit much. Like you put in the tags "don't want to be an elitist" but your post was all about having to see everything in a Fandom for your ship to valid? Idk pal, the tags and post kind of contradict itself...

i haven’t posted about r/ylo in days

[thecouchmimic]

@voidandnull404

anyway thanks for thinking about our blorbos together another year it’s been a pleasure and a horror

[thecouchmimic]

Have the gay that I never posted during pride

[thecouchmimic]

Heheh if only it was this easy

@voidandpyramids

[thecouchmimic]

Sketch dump #3

I have so many. And many more to come

[thecouchmimic]

@voidandnull404

you know its bad for you when you start coming up with aus for your own ocs

[natik-lore]

What are the species youve created based on?

Whos your favorite oc in the natik lore?

Ohh! Good questions! 👌

1.) So the Nati family is very much inspired by scorpions and other chelicerates (the addition of silk is a nod to spiders). I like to think of these guys as "pseudo-arachnids," or (affectionately) as "space scorpions."

They do have some obvious differences from the existing animals, for example the lack of pedipalps which I scrapped because I was just too lazy to draw them and the clearly defined neck/head, but they have the trademark chelicerae (those pinchy jaws), 8 limbs, book lungs, and other features.

In their original iteration, "hymdromons" they were meant to be a sort of hybrid of "hymenoptera" and "dromopoda." However, in their final incarnation, very few insect traits other than the eusocial family structure persist, and I do not consider them to be "insectoid."

As far as pop culture inspiration goes, they draw some very loose inspiration from the Krogan and Turian species from Mass Effect as well as the Prawns from District 9.

Other species of their world are based on Earth animals as well.

The Rexlo, for example, are based loosely on rodents.

In this page of chapter one (full WIP on Patreon), you can see this Rexlo skull is somewhat similar to that of a squirrel:

Overall my intention was to make the species rodent-like, though you can't really consider them rodents; instead of having pairs of large incisors, theirs are fused into a single beak-like tooth. Originally I had designed them to be ungulates, but I quickly decided that was way too boring. The "rex" in "rexlo" is literally me pulling from "T-rex" because of their short armed, bipedal shape. They are also very loosely inspired by the Thomas(es?) from Trigun and the two-legged mounts from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (the Rexlo character Baki is named after Ralph Bakshi, because why not?)

There are lots more animals and even plants I could mention, but we'd be here for a long time. 😅

2.) Favorite OC is a very hard question to answer, especially since all of the main cast have traits that draw from myself, my lovedones, or some specific aspect of my life. If I had to choose, it would probably be Amto, Kitki, Sek, and Kos, in no particular order. Amto and Kitki represent aspects of myself, my childhood, and the relationship between myself and my older sibling, so in that regard they are very special. Sek was the third character I created for the story, and like the former 2 characters goes all the way back to the original concept I made in high school. She reflects a lot of my own anger and sorrow from back then, as well as the subsequent healing. Plus she's absolutely feral and cool and edgy. Kos is my primary antagonist and reflects a lot of my own insecurities and mental issues, plus I've always gravitated towards complex villains, so I've put a lot of extra love into her creation.

[natik-lore]

What kinds of games or sports do the natik play?

Great question! It varies between species and cultures, but the big thing they have in common is the vast majority of their games are team oriented.

A popular game among Katnat is "Stick Tower," which is kind of like the opposite of Jenga. Teams of four or more compete to build little towers out of twisty little bits of wood called "wobble sticks," which are designed to be awkward and hard to fit together. The first team to complete a tower using all of their wobble sticks, without causing it to collapse, wins. No set of wobble sticks is identical, so each team has to use a different strategy based on the unique sticks they have.

Retrok have a game called "Rock Pile," which is sort of like Hide-and-Seek but with teams. One team, called the "rocks," use their natural camouflage to blend in with their environment and try not to be found. The other team, the "rock-smashers," is tasked with finding the rocks. When a rock is found, the rock-smasher wrestles them. If the rock smasher pins a rock, they are out of the game. If a rock pins a rock-smasher, the rock smasher has to become a rock and switch teams. The game ends when either all of the rocks are out of the game or when all of the rock-smashers' original team are turned into rocks. More specific rules tend to vary between clans, especially when it comes to ties.

The Vaklotik have a game that's like a cross between dodgeball and paint ball, except it's entirely played on the backs of rexlo. Each team carries balloon-like balls filled with dye, each team getting their own color. If a rider is hit with a dye ball once, they're out. If a rider's rexlo is hit with a dye ball 3 times, they're out. The team with the most remaining members wins.

[natik-lore]

Rexlo and Skrakrali doodles at the laundromat.

[thecouchmimic]

@voidandpyramids

What if we made fictional gay men with incredibly tragic backstories. Then we put them through the most gut-wrenching angst, but they get to kiss a little :3

[natik-lore]

Word of The Day

Makatot: Literally "move tool;" a machine

A rexlo-drawn cart is an example of a makatot.

[natik-lore]

To Do List:

Draw caste comparison charts for each species

Post full character profiles

Post about color symbolism

Post species profiles for rexlo and skrakralik