Oc Species - Blog Posts
Here’s John as Betelgeuse! Happy (late) Halloween!
Davekat week Day 5: crossover
not sure if I’m allowed to do this but I made Karkat and Dave into one of my OC’s species! (Check my pfp for reference, OC: John)
Next I’m gonna draw John Egbert and John bloodweaver (my oc) together just chilling!
Dave is an actual (I don’t have a name for the species) while Karkat is the troll equivalent of it
my slimmi drawn digitally
Slimmis
Instructions:
A slimmi is a small creature the size of an adults hand. They come in several different shapes, sizes, and many many designs.
Each week, i will give a prompt and you must draw a slimmi that matches the prompt, with a matching name! slimmi guide
normal body - common, short neck - uncommon, long boi - rare
any/all colors allowed!
Body types -
Normal - common
Doll (stitched) - uncommon
Spotty - uncommon
Glass - rare!
toy - super rare
feathered - mutation
be sure it matches the main appearance, though you’re free to draw in your style!
SLIMMIS ARE FREE TO MAKE!! DO. NOT. SELL. THEM.
MAKE SURE YOU REPOST THIS POST WITH YOUR SLIMMI INCLUDED!!!
The Dram
A slight redesign of one of an older design, in color this time. These are the Dram, a mammal-like sophonts from an very earth like planet. On the left is a female and the right a male. They're the closets your going to get to a "humanoid" alien in the known galaxy.
Some bits on Biology
I call them mammal like but their not like placental mammals, they're really more akin to marsupials and monotremes in that young are hatched very underdeveloped and are nurtured in a pouch. While not depicted accurately here male dram are considerably larger than their female counterparts, and are around 2x times their size on average. They're feathers are display features which are used to express mood, and in mate selection. Oh and they're also venomous, they've got two fangs in their mandibles which in ancient times they'd use on their prey. They're aren't exactly immune to their own venom, but they are resistant to it.
The average global temperature on the dram home-world is considerably cooler than earth is while they are capable of regulating their own body temperature they do terribly in temps greater than 80 degrees fahrenheit, and often find room temp uncomfortable. When working in environments of other sophonts they tend to wear refrigerated chill suits.
Some bits on Culture
Dram family structures are similar to lions, so polygamy is the norm and their societies tend to be matriarchal. Their home-world is currently in its glacial maximum stage of their ice age so the northern hemisphere is largely covered in permanent ice sheets. Due to over industrialization by nations in the south their planet is unfortunately dealing with gradual global warming. The effects of which were much more intense and immediate due to their planets larger axial tilt than that of earth, so as you can imagine they're dealing with a lot of issues as a result. They were contacted by aliens , ~20 years ago and interacting with the wider galaxy has only added to their list of political and socio-economic problems.
In terms of tech, they're a little more advanced in some aspects and behind in others but they've got a comparable tech level to 21th century humans. (so us right now!) And they've already made crewed missions to other neighboring planets in their star system.
I really like the idea of the sort of role reversal, where instead of humans getting contacted by aliens its the other way around. Like I can imagine the dram equivalent of SETI discovering human ship or message and all the shenanigans that would cause. Would be a cool story i think.