(HEY folks! Just figured I'd throw in a few characters and see if folks are interested in them! I also made up two species including a hive species. I'll put them in spoilers for those who are interested.<br/>My characters are mostly students, but they can wander the city easy.)<br/><br/>Species: Viophibian (Note: Original design, and pictures, and idea, belong to Slushy! i'm just playing with them, with slight modifications. Webbed hands and feet.)<br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><div class="inline-attachment">
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<dd> Size illustration... and fun.</dd>
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<dd> Ignore all of them except the big one!</dd>
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</div></div></div></div><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Viophibians are politely described as “powerfully passionate and primal.” They are <span style="font-style: italic">Impolitely</span> described as ‘huge, barely civilized nymphomaniacs.’ The latter is only a small exaggeration: As a whole, Viophibians tend to have strong hunting instincts, and are quite open about their enjoyment of their own and other bodies, in both savory and sensual ways. But they make excellent police officers and other protective forces because of these very same tendencies: they almost exclusively they prefer to catch and hold prey alive inside them. Viophibians are good at catching unwilling or dangerous targets because of their speed, agility and strength. (Original idea belongs to slushy! I’m just playing around with it!)<br/>Viophibians are LARGE sentient bipeds, mostly 10 to 15 feet tall (though they can get bigger). They can eat anything, but fancy fish and shellfish for sheer taste. Large meals make them slothful, and as such Viophobians like small snacks which digest quickly or easily while working… Living beings are more a pleasure than prey. It’s not uncommon to see a Viophibian swallow a cow whole on a weekend dinner before a movie.</div></div></div><br/><br/>SPECIES:<span style="font-weight: bold">Mantrusect</span>: Insectoid species that appears to be a combination of taurs, mantis, and scorpion.<br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">An eerie species even to other aliens, Mantrusects are communal parasites, meaning that while they feed off other beings, they also provide something that benefits the host. In this case, Mantrusects make incredibly versatile medicines and cloth from their own secretions, making them valuable trading and social partners. <br/>This doesn’t make their forms of reproduction and feeding any less disturbing. Mantrusects feed off living beings inside them without hurting their prey, only exhausting them. They consider digestion to be a terrible waste of life and resources… which is why Mantrusect’s tend to keep their prey locked inside their bodies for weeks, and sometimes months on end, healthy and only conscious if the Mantrusect in question wants conversation or squirming pleasure. The process is invasive and violating, no matter how gentle the Mantrusects always attempt to be, and as a whole willingness is a minor concern for them.<br/>They require hosts to shelter their eggs and give birth to the larva. The process is not fatal, and the queens, Guardians, and Workers go to great lengths to make sure the hosts survive the process without injury… which takes an entire year, and the queen uses psychic abilities to help the host ‘cope’, which could be anything from conversation, pleasant dreams, or outright mental alteration to make the host enjoy the situation. <br/>The Mantrusect Queen produces some the most potent healing substances in the known galaxy, and requires many prey/hosts to feed safely. The Mantrusect are extremely protective of their Queen and the Queen is protective of the Safety of her Hive… as much as Mantrusect’s stress the mutually beneficial part of their parasitic nature, they find unwilling hosts less complicated and easier to control. <br/>The Queen on Earth has implemented two methods of gaining hosts for her and her hive: The first is a highly monitored program that has many legal benefits, but requires intensive background checks to even be considered, and ends with an deep psychic scan that most beings consider to be too large an invasion of their privacy. <br/>The second is shameless abuse of the license system: The Hive actively seeks and kidnaps low license and unlicensed individuals, using them to feed or host their eggs. The Queen is pushing to make serving in the Mantrusect Hive an alternative to the prison system, the witness protection program, and even the foster care system… and while InterPol does work somewhat well with the Earth Hive, there’s no denying that at the moment, the Hive does not want to actually release the people they catch, good or bad. The Queen has frequently stated that while morally objectionable, the Earth Hives ‘anyone they can get away with’ tactics are needed at this early stage of Hive creation, as they are attempting to establish a stable output of the life-saving products that are being demanded of them.<br/><br/>Mantrusect’s have three forms, excluding larva:<br/><span style="font-weight: bold">-First Form, SCUTTLER</span>: The smallest form, appearing like a scorpion with only six squat legs and a short thick tail, the scuttler’s most disturbing feature is it’s human like face, between two large claws. Scuttler’s are the workers of the species, but larger Scuttlers sometimes go hunting outside the hive to bring back outsiders. Workers either swallow their prey with their Tail, or their underside, which opens up like a particularly disturbing fleshy ribcage. They can spit webbing from their mouths.<br/><span style="font-weight: bold">-Second form, MANTOID</span>: much taller, the scuttler’s legs have grown and shifted to make them appear like a hunched mantis, their face grown out of the body to become a true head. Their tail has increased in size. In addition to this, they gain tertiary sexual features, most importantly a vagina that they can use to unbirth prey below their chest cavity. In this form, their tails have stingers that produce a paralytic venom. Mantoids only use this stinger in absolute emergencies however, because they do not want to chance their prey having an allergic reaction. Mantoids are the Worker chaste of the Mantrusect species, but are also the more sociable class. They are often seen outside the hive, running errands, carrying messages, or even having relationships outside their species and hive.<br/><span style="font-weight: bold">-Third form GUARDIAN</span>: Few Mantrusects grow to become Guardians, and these large beings are rarely seen far from the Hive. The few that do travel often serve as the Queen’s direct voice, sometimes literally. The most powerful Mantrusect, Guardians are tied to the interests of the Hive, acting mostly as their name implies. However, Guardians sometimes are to live and protect places and people outside their homes, often to show that the area and its people are allies of the Hive and under the Hive’s protection… or that the Hive controls the area. Guardians are rarely sent to capture or eliminate large threats or enemies of the Hive (Or the peace and order of a world), except in extreme circumstances… They represent the entire hive. There are rumors of even scarier Guardians that protect the Mantrusect Queen personally, and never leave her side. As a whole, however, Guardians are creatures that are difficult to socialize with outside their species, as they have many duties that call to them, and keep them from pursuing other interests… that said, Guardians are capable of love and affection outside their species. If duty threatens to push them apart… Guardians have no qualms about keeping someone they wish to protect in a special place, just for them, away from any other duty. It just so happens that the special place is the Guardian’s womb, not their heart.<br/>Guardians appear a combination of a Scorpion and a Mantis, an insectoid, heavily armored tauric creature. A humanoid torso and head with a large skull plate stands tall above any human. Guardians Have long, almost spindly arms like a mantis, tipped with dexterous and long fingers instead of wicked scythes. These arms are quite strong, despite their apparent slenderness, and are just as fast as the insect they so resemble: in a blink of an eye, a Guardian can snatch up, disarm, then proceed to sting, cocoon, or swallow a human-sized being. <br/>The lower body closely resembles a Tauric Scorpion, but raised much higher on arched and armored legs. The Mantrusects Claws have become massive now, Thick and armored, with three grasping appendages that are almost bomb-proof. These claws are capable of ripping open an armored vehicle… or restraining a squirming child without injury. They are on either side of the Mantrusect’s signature eerie large rib-cage mouth/chest cavity, which reaches partway up the long mantis/human torso. Beneath that is the Guardian’s vagina, which is often clenched closed. The Guardian’s Scorpion tail is almost always coiled, but in reality is almost twenty feet long, and can strike in and flash.<br/>Guardians have the highest stomach and womb Capacity of their species outside their queen, and are capable of feeding from and sustaining prey inside them for long periods of time, and indefinitely if the prey is forced into a coma. The Human mouth, Ribcage mouth, and tail mouth all lead to their Armored lower half, which contains a main stomach that can unfold and stretch to contain twenty full sized human adults, tightly packed. In addition to this, the human torso can hold 5 humanoids, 2 closest too it’s top, and 3 in the passage to the lower stomach. The Rib-mouth can stretch to hold 6 more, and the scorpion tail, fully extended, will hold 12 in muscular, bulging pouches along its length. Their womb, underneath their armored bodies, will hold 15 humans maximum, usually for long terms. <br/>Guardians rarely utilize this large vore ability outside of attacks or emergencies: one Guardian on a sinking ship saved an entire section full of passengers thought lost, spending three months adrift. She freely admitted to putting off seeking help to enjoy their presence longer, as she was on vacation.<br/><span style="font-weight: bold">QUEEN:</span> Mantrusect Queens never leave the hive, and outsiders rarely see them… or, at the very least, never remember the sight. Queens produce the Mantrusect’s precious eggs, and are the heat, and ultimate mind of a Mantrusect Hive. They have a psychic connection with every member of their hive… and often anyone who enters. There are vague descriptions of a colossal being, swollen with glowing fluids and lights beneath a thick skin, and many bulges, with writhing shapes inside them, human shapes, some with swollen bellies, moans interspersed with gentle whispers.</div></div></div><br/><br/>(I'll put my chars in the next post! eheh...)