#rukemi

[starly-amazing]

Well hello there, Stardust! I feel like I'm in a bit of a predicament and something tells me it's your fault｡:✧˚*:･｡

-Releases another dragon(adjacent) Loop into the wild-

I commissioned the lovely @nycroshears to draw Loop as a Rukemi; one of my OC species that I'm shoving in an AU I've been working on! An AU that started out as a scene that popped in my head when I was falling asleep of a rukemi grabbing Siffrin by the scruff and making them confess to their family...which turned into a massive AU I've been outlining for weeks now.

Rukemis as a species idea are nearing 20 years old at this point! I think it's past time I debut them in more than a few commissions thrown into the uncaring void of tumblr every few years. I'm not going to talk too much about them now; that'll be revealed in the AU itself!

Some more info about Rukemis + closeups below. (ISAT SPOILERS)

Fun facts about rukemis!

They're from a parallel Earth where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs glided past harmlessly.

They're descended from troodonts about 67-68mya who had a whack mutation that caused their front limbs to duplicate. They were very useless at first but others of the species found them SO ATTRACTIVE they ended up thriving and the wings over time evolved to be functional. So they are theropod dinosaurs, like t-rexes, velociraptors, and modern birds.

They evolved sapience not long before humans did after a smaller extinction event wiped out biodiversity in habitats adjacent to their native range.

Before they were relatively unassuming small tree-dwelling creatures similar to primates but with the bonus ability to fly. But with the new free real estate some of them branched out and rapidly evolved much larger sizes and intelligence comparable to our own. Now, they're roughly the size of small horses and stand about as tall as us when they're standing on all fours.

Now, parallel to our Earths, they exist a few hundred years more technologically "advanced" than us.

Their societal development was similar to ours at the start, including the destruction of their Earth's ecosystem, wars, oppression, and other fun things. But after ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ and ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ they managed to rise from the ashes and build a ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮.

It was after they got their collective ▮▮▮▮ together that they gained the power to travel to other parallel Earths, manipulate elements, heal wounds, and ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ their ▮▮▮▮▮ into ▮▮▮▮▮ sophonts upon ▮▮▮▮▮.

Now, many rukemis spend their lives trying to ▮▮▮▮ other ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ not ▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮ up like ▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮.

Their designs were based on ▮▮▮▮ from ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮ and originally looked like your standard middle-schooler's white wolf rainbow wings + horns OC that you can see (here), but after 20ish years of workshopping they're now their own dragon dinosaur species (and are much, much gayer). This design is the most accurate and all others in the link are older versions.

They have three main sexes that are impossible to tell apart at a glance and have a much looser and queerer relationship to "gender" and family.

They generally live in family units of 3-8 adults + their children (now, often including humans and other sophonts) and have a much more relaxed & shifting hierarchy than humans generally do.

They are nice, and soft and warm.

Enter Loop, just a normal rukemi who just wanted to live a normal life as an astronomer working to discover extraterrestrial life on other planets (because finding life on parallel Earths just wasn't cool enough for them). After an ▮▮▮▮▮▮ by a ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮▮, they were thrown into the world of SASASAAP and eventually runs into Loop Siffrin struggling through their time loops all alone.

Originally, I created a random rukemi to aid ISAT Siffrin through the loops and join the family after they broke free of them. But after developing it for a while I realized I had no idea what to do with Loop so I just fused the two into one and tossed them into the Start Again world to help OG Siffrin instead.

(Sorry yall, this Loop doesn't sparkle as they are made up of flesh and blood and not pure craft energy. They did get some cool "tattoos" some time before coming to SASASAAP world looking like a celestial being, though! They look like the 2nd image to Siffrin. If they had more time they might found some glitter to make a more theatrical entrance.)

Check em out @eggr0ast @starlitmeadows @chipper-smol @dasnercaret @iknowicanbutwhy @morva-doodles @malwarechips @skibblesnek

-Adds another "dragon" Loop to the pile-

[kiloueka]

im sorry how do you pronounce your username bc i keep reading it as cloaca;;;

...Cloaca

it's

Key-lo-way-ka

She's my OC I've had since like 7th grade

She's kind of a dick. And a main character of a book I'll probably die before starting

[rukemi]

Various references and whatnot.

Notes: Their "ears" are actually feather tufts since they're not mammals. Their hearing is better than ours but not as good as a dog or cat.

The 'antenna' are actually feathers with symbiotic fungus that act similar to moth antenna. Helps pick up vibrations and improves hearing a bit. And some other fun special things. Don't touch, it's rude

Luna moth source [Here]

Feathered thorn moth source [Here]

First rukemi headshots by @nycroshears and tweaked by me

[nierly-amazing]

Hi have too many fuckin bells on pocket camp and dunno what to do with them. Anyone want to draw Stinky or my OC species for me in exchange for some assload of bells? PM me!

References under the readmore:

By @tribute27

By @nak3d-snak3

By @meetthetank

By: @coloredcups . Paid 1m bells

Rukemis:

By ??? idk if he even has a tumblr anymore

By me

[kiloueka]

Rukemi donation commission drawn by @souperluminal

[kiloueka]

Rukemi: then and now

May 2004 (Then known as whitewolves):

June 2018 (Now known as rukemis):

[starly-amazing]

Oh an AU with a "modern" Loop? Well I have the AU for you, kind of, sort of, eventually. I mean it's the same basic premise of Loop getting thrown into ISAT SASASAAP world and helping Siffrin get through the loops. They have extensive knowledge of space, can see colors, and are beyond confused about craft and Sif's world's anomalies. Buuut they're also not human.

Anyway I'm inching closer to finishing my massive outline and hopefully will be able to start writing chapter 1 soon.

Check it out

I keep thinking about how funny it'd be if Loop and Siffrin were from entirely different universes. Like if one was from a modern AU where craft technically exists but has been forgotten over the years, and the other one's just from... In Stars and Time. Regardless of whether it's Loop or Siffrin from the modern AU, I can just imagine Loop trying so hard to act as if they have any idea what Siffrin's talking about at all times

[nierly-amazing]

Jasmin I'm too fucking lazy to go on anon tea

Jasmin tea: Can you draw / paint? Wanna show me something?

I used to, but I haven’t in forever because I hate myself :D