#touch on the hypodermis (i.e. face) is understandably and kinda obviously an intimate gesture in their society as the equivalent is in ours

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So interesting ^^ most definitely not something I would’ve come up with. Please write more biology things cause they’re fun lol. I also liked that one time you mentioned bombers having tadpole tails when they’re young

hey, gladly! i do think that they have tadpole-esque tails when very young as a result of evolutionary atavism - they're not structurally developed to the extent that the rest of the individual's body is, even at that young and quite literally tender an age, and are either absorbed back into the body for nutrients or shrink until fallen off during the formation of the protective epidermis

which probably requires some explanation in itself, because i've been thinking that the various colored parts we see on jetters bombermen are different layers of skin development on their body, with the three primary layers being hypodermal (visible only on the face, where much of it is adapted to become spongy and semiporous in order to imbibe food and drink), dermal (seen on the limbs and antenna, often either white or a similar color to the hypodermis), and epidermal (frequently brightly-colored, covers the torso and resembles a jumpsuit)

the hypodermal layer is by far the most sensitive and malleable, allowing for emotive facial expression but a liability to have exposed on parts of the body less necessary for social communication, while the dermal layer is an in-between mainly just doing the everyday work of keeping an individual safe from infection and minor, mundane physical harm. the epidermal layer is specially adapted to withstand heavy damage like could be sustained through bombs - typically explosive or incendiary - and is much less sensitive than the layers underneath, with enough effectively dead tissue at the surface (think like human nails or hair) that it can be used to attach things like pins or brooches