#was wanting to do them separately... draw a gray-haired kathryn :3

[baylardo]

imma word vom out all my threshold au kazon and seska episode brain wormies ive been stockpiling as im concept designing them I GUESS!!!!!!!!!! (sorry for the kazon (derogatory) remarks to all the kazon stans out there in advance U____U) I DONT EXPECT ANYONE TO READ THIS ONE HONESTLY HAHAHA and i appreciate my friends for listening to me flounder through this kiss kiss

ive been like discreetly starting to dabble with designing them, obviously diverging in a lot of areas from the source material, theyre a very frustrating base to work with in that theyre like, generic, basically klingons, they all have the same hairstyle, etc etc,,,,, IM TRYING TO MAKE THEM MORE UNIQUE WHERE I CAN WITHOUT LOSING READABILITY. one thing im taking more of a focus on in their appearance is their vulture/rooster inspirations,,,,, like probably making their "ridges" more pronounced and rooster crown-like :) ummm BUT WITH THAT i was thinking maybe they'd be slightly feathery im various places like their neck and arms and maybe have tail feathers (very much thinking they'd be turkey-like and have a big arrangement of them, bigger = stronger in their culture??? more dominance???). and i was ALSO thinking that similarly to birds maybe young kazon have an initial plumage they they grow out of,,,,,, and that visually accompanies them coming of age to earn their adult names,,,,,,,,,

ummmmmmm AND WITH ALL THAT every so often i fall down the Seska in Threshold AU rabbit hole and its interesting to kinda timeline out the episodes and how it surrounds Threshold. :) which likeeee, Seska is revealed to be a Cardassian in season 1 and goes to the Kazon obviously before Threshold,,,, and like,,,,,,,, Maneuvers where pregnancy reveal happens is ALSO before Threshold,,,, and then Threshold happens and Kathryn has her three triplets and is hyperevolved and everything. SO LIKE,,,,, Chakotay sees Seska turn Cardassian and reveals she's pregnant with his kid, and THEN Kathryn becomes amphibious babygirl and has her three kids,,,,,,,,,,,,

INTERESTINGLY..... Investigations would be the first time Seska sees TOM hyperevolved but she goes the episode not seeing Kathryn which means that reveal and likely the triplets would come later. maybe seska' inquires of tom what happened to him and he's like "wouldn't you like to know" or something evasive like that lol. i always have to note too that Chakotay's in his HECK TOM!!!! HATE HIS FAKE A** arc in season two and i always like to think that anger is incorporated in with tom having kids with kathryn and kinda slinking out of responsibility. (always love taking note of whatever episode it is that Tom shows up late and is remarking on how he was helping Samantha as she goes into labor or something and chakotays like visually looking like he's gonna clap Tom)

AND THEEEEN literally the next thing is Basics!!!!! and so like, i guess you could imply maybe Seska GLANCING at kathryn at the beginning of the ep when she sends the fake distress call to chakotay (looks more like a recording to me imo but go off lol), and then literally at the end of the first part when they take over the ship is when they'd really see each other face to face for the first time. :) and i like to think shed BULLY KATHRYN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maybe remark on how much more cardassian or reptilian she looks now lol. just an epic cringefail moment. NOW,,,, idk when exactly seska would find out about the TRIPLETS,,,,, because chakotay and kathryn are both on the bridge when the kazon take it over and invade,,,,,, so presumably maybe theyre with neelix or something when it happens. there's a scene when theyre kicking the crew out where janeway's like frantically searching around,,,, IMAGINE,,,,, imagine shes looking for her babies,,,,,,,,, U___U <33333333 and like,,,, ive talked about this before but its so fitting Basics is literally RIGHT after Resolutions 'cause its like, janeway and chakotay fittingly taking the lead when theyre on the planet like theyve been through this before and everything. and chakotay helping samantha carry baby naomi bleeegh. i think janeway would SUPER like drop the avoidant act and pick up the mom mantle with the babies in this scenario because its very Survival Mode now. AND AND,,,, and naomi gets sick on the planet, i think ed during Resolutions would get sick and so kathryn's very calm in how she approaches dealing with sick baby now. ALSO,,,,,, everyone having to resort to eating eggs and bugs on the planet, its season 2 so like. maybe kathryn's been super avoidant of her instinctive cravings for insects by this point but in Basics she's like aight WE BALL WITH BUGS. makes everyone eat them, hahaha shes normalizing it for herself. :) ANOTHER THING TOO IS LIKE,,,, its an arid planet so kathryn tom and the babies would SUPER not vibe it and be grouchy and uncomfortable in the head and dryness of the environment. <3 BUT ANYWAY kathryn and seska dont really have any scenes after that. and when theyre placed on the planet only Culluh's down there. so maybe culluh perceives the babies, or a grunt reports back to him on their existence. he'd tell Seska about it. sadly that resolution kinda STINKS like i dont think she even talks to chakotay after that point either. but i bet she'd brood on the fact that like, idk maybe theyd found the infants in chakotay's quarters or something hehe. :3c

my Sessen (seska's son) canvas art is very incomplete rn as im like,,, working through silhouettes and everything. designing Sessen involves designing Culluh which involved designing kazon ITS A WHOLE ORDEAL HAHAHA