Official NSFW blog of the bugs of Coelary. All art by me (C. Inky-Cap)
unless noted. I will try my best to make this blog a safe space,
sex-positive and queer
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Here's my darling boy Tav both with testosterone and estrogen versions, plus hairy versions of both!!! Finally got around to updating his look and his ref sheet to the modern era and I'm so happy. Let me know what you think!!
In a previous ask from me, you'd explained how laphria change sex every six months, which leads to some neat gender implications - but what happens if they *do* successfully get impregnated? Does the cycle change, and if so, how? What if someone gets pregnant shortly before they begin to transition to a male form?
Breeding's my main kink but I'm also a huge nerd and like it when things make internal sense, so the explanation for Tav's genitalia was really cool to me - now I want to consider the shrimplications of his biology.
the whole reason why they were designed to switch sex was to increase the chances of producing offspring so yeah! If impregnated at any point while their setup can handle it, the body will stop all all hormonal flux and prioritize the pregnancy, and will not restart the sex change cycle until after they're done breastfeeding. and since that can be, like, over two years all in all (time pregnant plus time breastfeeding), it means that the total time of their life spent in hormonal flex will be extended due to this pause. so a laphria who has had a couple of kids may still find themselves changing sex until age 35 or later.
I'm not really into kinks like breeding or whatnot but I don't mind people playing around with Tav's possible sexual realities :) that's part of the fun of making up characters. i mostly like thinking about the anxious emotional reality of what it would be like to have your body changing like that all the time - I'm sure there's been a not insignificant number of laphria who get pregnant just to feel more stable in their hormones. and anyone who has been pregnant can tell you that that's really saying something
Hey, I'm curious: your two most recent sketches separately depicted Taz with a vagina and a penis, respectively. What's up with this, and how do you decide to use which part when?
Tav (short for Tavvox) is a laphria. in Coelary, laphria are hermaphrodites - they switch sex every six months from puberty until around age 30-35. they were designed this way to allow maximum chances for reproduction in case the population was threatened. the population is no longer threatened so now they just generally have a lot of interesting genders.
here's the relevant literature about this:
that being said: i change which equipment Tav currently has based on a timeline relevant to the canonic story, and also based on my particular gender inclinations that day. he's identifies as genderfluid. his gender matches up with his body less often than not.
thanks for the question :) i love this kind of ask!!