#the wildman

[itberice]

Star Trek: Voyager I Elogium

[alienlowlife]

pink! pink! pink!

[ollyrewind]

The stars tell us of a great king. They rise, the pole star will ascend the heavens with the constellations of the king's namesake upon the higher cycles of the Earth, foretelling his rise and the golden age that he will bring. His age will go on and on and reach its peak in the far future when the pole star comes to occupy the truest central position in the heavens.

Like Every Tree Stands on Its Own by wonderful @mightybog

[isagrimorie]

Voyager is our Home.

[serpentface]

Two Wardi 'unicorns', the hippegalga and the scimitar deer. These are distantly related ungulates who both happen to produce a single horn

The hippegalga is a tiny antelope, about the size of a hare. It has a very broad range and can be found across the region and beyond, settling mostly in shrubland, savannah, and wooded areas. Unlike other closely related species (these are basically dik-diks and exist elsewhere in the setting) they form large, loosely structured herds and breed rapidly, commonly producing four offspring at a time.

The horn is a permanent growth, and occurs directly in the center of the skull. It develops in both males and females (though is much smaller in the latter) and serves some practical function in scratching at bark to mark territory (in addition to scent deposits- rubbed directly into scratched bark from the eye gland, and left as piles of dung).

Their horn is worn as an amulet in many parts of the region (either intact or carved into a phallic shape) due to having strong associations with male fertility, as well as apotropaic functions more broadly associated with imagery of genitalia. One Wardi slang word for the penis is derived from this animal's name ('galga').

They experience hunting pressure for their horns, and their meat is regarded as a delicacy, but most populations are stable. They adapt well to densely populated and developed areas, breeding prolifically in ecosystems depleted of predators. A large, stable population exists in the city of Wardin. These particular animals are semi-tame and frequently fed by humans, and are socially protected from hunting (believed to be living good luck charms and just SO charismatic and cute). Their only real day-to-day threats are the city's (much less beloved) population of feral dogs.

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The scimitar deer is the only native deer to the region, and exist in two major, isolated populations (remnants of a wider population from when woodland and savannah spanned across most of the region's north). One population exists in the wooded regions of Greathill in the northwest, and a larger population in the oak forests to the northeast (and beyond).

Their singular antler is shed seasonally and grows bigger, longer, and more curled with age. The antler grows asymmetrically on one side of the head (usually the left), though this is only slightly off-center on the skull and does not significantly impede balance (outside of old bucks with very large antlers). Some bucks grow a set of two antlers as a mutation (with one side being substantially smaller than the other) but this appears to be unattractive to females and such animals breed at a decreased frequency.

Bucks in rut may clash antlers by interlocking them at the fork, but these battles are low intensity- their antlers are relatively fragile and not well suited to prolonged shoving matches. The antler is a visual display first and foremost. A buck will show off to does and intimidate rivals by tossing and bowing his head at an angle to display its size and length.

In Greathill, traditions widely hold that these animals are supernatural in nature and herded like cattle by the mountain's 'wildman' fae-folk. They often appear in folktales as prized, magical herds, with stories centering on great raids of the deer as the ultimate and most valuable livestock (being immune to disease, able to be milked like cattle, ridden like khait, and capable of plowing fields with great speed).

[razzaroola]

Candi in the G3 style ^^

[pushing-daises]

[cheerclaw]

family 1/2/?

[bumblingbabooshka]

The part in 'innocence' where Tuvok hands a scared 8 year old a gun and leaves after giving her instructions which are literally JUST "aim like this and press here to fire" is so interesting for his characterization because it isn't ILLOGICAL (she needs protection from a potentially life-threatening entity and he needs to leave for a moment) but it's also something that I don't think most other characters would think to do because. You know. It's giving a phaser to a child.

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER // S2E21 Deadlock As strange as it sounds, Captain, according to these readings, another Voyager is right here, right now, occupying the same point in space-time we are.

[grissomesque]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER 5.14 Bliss

[itberice]

Seven of Nine & Naomi Wildman in Star Trek: Voyager

[tea-earl-grey]

thinking about how since Samantha Wildman's husband was stationed on ds9 it would have made sense that she was stationed there too until getting an assignment on Voyager so let's just imagine for a second...

you're a xenobiologist and you and your husband are assigned to a turbulent space station recently freed from an oppressive colonial government. you think "well this post might have some problems but it'll be alright" and then you find out that your immediate boss is a 300 year old worm, your Commander is maybe a god, the station's 'community leader' won't stop trying to scam you, there's a magic portal to the other side of the galaxy, there have been multiple terrorist attacks and political insurrections, there are giant voles in the Jeffries Tubes, and one time all the senior staff got trapped in a fucking board game. so after two years you've just about had it and put in for a transfer to a nice plush starship to get some Real Science done and who knows? maybe your husband can join you soon. maybe you can start building that family you've always talked about. and then you end up on fucking Voyager for 7 years where the crew has all stopped boldly going and instead started punch cards to see how many neuroses you can develop in 75,000 light years.

[trekdaily]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995-2001) - 1.15-16 • "Dark Frontier"

[andy-clutterbuck]

Rick’s Twitchy Snarly Face | for @andysoulmate

[the-ghost-fangirl]

Who would call Captain Janeway “mom”

Harry Kim: completely on accident and apologizes like 97 times.

Tom Paris: definitely of purpose and plays it off like a joke.

B’Elanna Torres: would sarcastically say “Okay mom…” under her breath when leaving the conference room.

Seven of Nine: Does not understand why someone would call her “mom”. -has mommy issues from the Borg Queen-

Tuvok: Would never call her “mom”, thinks of her like a reckless little sister, but probably never admit it.

The Doctor (EMH): She is not his mother, he doesn’t have one, and he’d never mis-speak, he is a top of the line Emergency Medical Hologram after all.

Neeilx: Wouldn’t call her mom per say but does think of her like the mom of Voyager.

Kes: Does think of her like a mom and thinks she’d make a great one someday, Kes has told Janeway this and she teared up.

Naomi: Thinks of her as one of her Aunts (the coolest one) and has accidentally called her mom more than once.

Chakotay: Hasn’t called her mom but would like to be the father of her children…. Wait did he say that out loud??!

Q: Calls her Mommy (yes in that way).