#theyre fiiiiine though they cant feel it

[thejavavoid]

what happened to the boyss 😭 that looks like it hurts 🥺

you mean their injuries? theyree fiiiiiiine!

blue's got some bites and cuts from roughhousing, and sometimes fighting with purple. his shell crack is from being clawed at.

purple has a few accidental burn marks, as well as a repurposed prosthetic that he made.

orange lost part of his arm from simply decaying, and his scars are from either getting caught up in human machinery/garbage or from playing around. his plastron cracks are from falling off a roof. his leg is from purple chewing on it.

[isaacathom]

like. id wanna complete the fantasy trifecta and have dwarves in their own bubble somewhere. they are mandatory.

but then, we want 7 species, right? 7 sophonts, as it were. thats only 3. so, what are the other 4?

i like mermaids, and i like people with wings, and i like centaurs. im neutral to :/ on orcs and like, goblins and stuff? just because :| oh boy that shits loaded and i am far too pasty. i dont wanna get in there. i dont wanna touch it. i feel like, comparatively, mermaids and centaurs and angel/harpy thingos are like, Chill. its fiiiiine. orcs though? mmmmm. when i was working on podowta (god that fizzled fast) i had polar bears, which was... something. idk if im into bears again just because there was at least sooooome kinda intent with the 7 sapient species that they are all like. related. that fucker is a BEAR though. that shit doesnt work. you cant just fuck a bear. i mean. -.-

the point is that they are all humanoid, and humanlike. not all of them can interbreed, notably centaurs, who, I MEAN, god. the rest are free to try, and the elves are galactic sluts so lord knows they Will try (god bless em).

i could have the 7th be giants? which would also HANDILY disqualify them from interspecies romance because, i mean, god. god as my witness. and giants is a loose enough category that it can encompass a lot of stuff, which is nice. its not super confining in the same way that orc has a tendency to be. giant IS boring, but luckily for me, i dont have to worry about that, because they aren’t involved in SFY! ;)

so lets say thats our seven. Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Mermaids, Angel (ppl with wings, okay), Centaurs, and Giants.

so.

which of these folks (aside from humans and elves, who are discounted for SFY Canon reasons) is into necromancy. i feel like even if dwarves wereeee into necromancy, their predilection for staying underground would make the idea of exploring across the planar sea a Little weird? but idk. Angels would suit well for the idea of wanting to explore beyond their bounds because, yknow, Wings. theres also the thing with mermaids and the symbolism of the Planar Sea, which suggests that perhaps they would be better suited than any other sophonts to navigate it. they know the sea. the question for both becomes whether they would develop these desires to explore the cosmos independent of coming into contact with other sophonts via ghosts or not? and thats honestly a tough question.

there IS another factor, which is that whatever race is doing weird shit and manages to figure out portals and ends up contacting the human world ONLY contact a specific part of it. they are not found on Abravost. and while its possible the distance is just toooo far for the Angels to fly it, and there are no places to stop on the way, i think it would make more sense with the established mythos of SFY, that being that Abravost is surrounded by a huge fuck off dragon who eats everyone who comes near, that its the mermaids who did it. because the mermaids dont exactly have a choice about whether they travel by sea or not. they simply dont have the speed required to reliably get past the big dragon. they are effectively blocked from ever interacting with the area, and they are happy to just Not fuck with that. they might try to do some magic shit to skip the dragon, but the portals are interplanar, not intercontinental. for all their prowess, they have noooot figured out how to make portal tunnels through the planar sea do u turns. its complicated. and the distance, god, the distance, theyre probably operating in this other continent with like, Two portals and going ‘YEA THATS ENOUGH THIS SHITS EXPENSIVE’

yea? yea. im down for mermaids doing necromancy and learning portal magic from ghosts and using it to explore the cosmos. they might be the most widespread of the 7 ‘Children’ (these being the races born of The Mother, yall catching me) because of this, because, space oceans. hll yea