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rebornofstars · 10 months ago

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Silly Game Time: Who are some of your favorite alien (non-human *and* extra-terrestrial) characters? And what do you like about them?

They can be from sci-fi or fantasy, from other worlds or dimensions or realms. All that matters is that they're not from Earth and that they're not human in any traditional sense (and, most of all, that you find them interesting).

MY FAVOURITE ALIENS. i've been a little bit in love with space since i was 9.

firstly for the definitely non-human:

the doctor. of course. and literally everyone from his show. the weeping angels. the sky fish. nardole. missy. romana. the ood. the list goes on

um. bumblebee. 😅

star wars creatures

estraven from le guin's the left hand of darkness.

d'lacey's erth dragons are from the planet ki:mera

those martians in the war of the worlds. i had a h.g. wells kick halfway through high school. this wasn't my favourite of his works, but it was fun.

and for the recognisably human, but still extraterrestrial, because i really wanted to include these guys:

mara of the acoma from feist & wurts' empire trilogy. she is one of my favourite fictional women ever. in the context of her own series, she's not an alien, but in the context of the riftwar saga (which was published first and contain more elements of feist's mainline plot than the empire trilogy), she is, so. i think she counts.

the mandalorian. i'm not immune to single fathers... or general badassery...

darrow from brown's red rising. born on mars.

todd from the knife of never letting go (book) / chaos walking (movie). i have fond memories of going to see this at the drive-in with a friend when it came out.

actually, this list is shorter than i thought it would be 🥺 there's a couple of other books/movies i love about space but they're all human-focused and mostly about astronauts. if anyone has any recs pretty please drop them below?

#i spent like a literal hour trying to answer this ask #i know you only wanted non human characters but... consider... i love the others too...#i do think i accidentally gaslit myself into thinking alien characters were more common then they actually are though. a couple of years ag #i made this fantasy world for a project and it stretched across a small solar system #so like half the species i created were aliens to each other and it was a whole thing. and i think maybe i started to believe that this was #a common way to do fantasy. like. expand the world out to other planets? idk #i wanted to add interstellar to this list but there aren't any aliens in that . it belongs in a list of good media about space instead.#which this sort of accidentally became anyway 😭 sorry about that #also - the loneliest girl in the universe by james lauren. not about aliens but a great space story #i can't think of anything else that i really know #there's like. E.T. and venom but i've only seen those movies once.#stitch from lilo and stitch but i've never seen it #ask tag #why is the silly game time always so thought provoking?#its fun but look at all this rambling i'm doing 😭 if you've read this far congratulations i love you

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