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[portlandalites]

Any species yall are interested in seeing? 8=(8÷)

<< Got a Pentel Multi-8 pencil thing and wanted to doodle some critters- that was supposed to be baby Ax, but because of the limited colors, ended up looking more like an OC of mine. I like the giraffe body shape tho lol

And CHEE!! I've never drawn a Chee before but I want to do a whole mockup because I like em a lot.>>

[portlandalites]

<<Pick a pallet + a character/alien/etc and feel free to send em in!! I love limited pallet challenges!>>

All my color palettes! Feel free to use these colors, and tag me if you’d like.

[portlandalites]

<Jamilin's latest redesign!! Really pleased with the washed out plum-purple/icy blue pallet this time around. I've gotten much more connected to them after fleshing out the PNW colony with my spouse.

Due to working menial human jobs on Earth, they have crazy arm strength compared to most Andalites!>

[portlandalites]

<<One of a couple of Hork-Bajir I've got cookin in the PNW-Colony Canon!

I finally settled into a facial shape/style for HB that I enjoy- they're often described as 'snake-like', though their official art doesn't look that snake-y to me. I went with a viper head shape with a short beak and dermal teeth! I've got a much more complicated linework I used to hash it out, but it would be hell to color... so I have not done that. >>

Colony + Character Lore under cut!

Kresh and a handful of other Hork-Bajir are the only ones hardy enough to handle the harsher winters of the PNW. The Colony itself rests in a large half-park/half-complex nestled in the mountains. Locomotion from place to place is easy enough for Andalites thanks to human terraforming, and in exchange for access to fancy new xeno-crossbred plants, Kresh and company keep it that way.

He's younger for a Hork-Bajir, especially to have been a former Controller born into slavery. He saw only two, perhaps three battles, but tries not to remember much (Easy enough for some Hork-Bajir)- though the bullet has since been removed, he was shot with a 9mm pistol close to the spine, causing much nerve pain despite his species' hardy nature.

When the head researcher of the more reclusive PNW Colony, Carolii, reached out with an offer of 'experimental new body customization technology in exchange for immediate nerve reconstruction', Kresh was incredibly interested (after having the concept simplified to him by Randiri and Jamilin). He's the first fully-successful non-Andalite hide modification. He chose a California Red-sided Garter snake as his favorite pick for potential coloration, and though not the same make-up as the scales of Earth snakes, the conversion has gone quite well!

[portlandalites]

<< Very hard to see because my phone camera is garbage, but both myself and my spouse work in 2 different buildings with pairs of red-tails living on them! They were enjoying the thermals yesterday.

Before I left, I heard a ruckus and saw that 2 crows were taking turns swooping at the female on the top ledge where she was chilling- she did not seem plussed. >>

[portlandalites]

<One one hand, I agree with this takedown! On the other hand, I am slapped across the brain with 'this was written like a TV show, with shit just happening, because Goosebumps and shit was popular at the time' every time I try to brain-tunnel about it because I know that's ultimately what the answer is.>

"We have two real live aliens," Rachel said. "We could take them to the media. How can you deny there is a Yeerk conspiracy when you see those two?" <There is already a real, live alien among you,> Ax pointed out. <Me. But I have learned about human society. Humans invent all sorts of things that are not true. I have seen photographs of aliens in human newspapers. Do most people believe them?> "Those aren't real newspapers," Marco said. "No one with half a brain believes those supermarket tabloids." "And how do we know which newspapers and which TV networks are already infiltrated by the Yeerks?" Cassie said. "We could end up handing the Hork-Bajir right back to the Yeerks." p. 71-72

Oh, Marco, you sweet, naive 90s child. No one with half a brain believes tabloids. Marco, not only do people believe those, they believe worst.

But the true meat of this passage. Why haven't the Animorphs just had Ax do a press conference? Because they don't know who in the media that they can trust. The same logic applies to the two newly freed Hork-Bajir. Its why they have been looking for a major way to reveal the aliens.

One or two aliens can be explained away as a hoax. Probably just one spaceship could also be explained away as a hoax to be honest. They need something big.

[portlandalites]

<Attempt 1 at a 3d turnaround to help me sculpt the Andalite tea pet! I wanted to evoke that one picture of the vaporeon plush getting water poured on its face>