Japvas Gatber [Jay Gatsby]

Hi booooo jumpscgafe its me

I’ve been watching farrrr too much invader zim and starkid’s Starship and would you look at that I’ve got an alien with no lore so yoinkle spoinkle I took a few headcannons and stufd and turned them into this little chap

Alien gatsby!! Where’s he from? Whats he doing? Whats the other cast like!?!?! 1) I kind of want to keep his planet ambiguous, because he himself can’t remember it’s name or exactly where it is currently. 2) He’s observing life on earth! On a tour around a bunch of planets and making notes on their life and biodiversity 3) The rest of the great gatsby cast do absolutely have their alien counterparts! (only designed Daisy, Nick, Jordan, Tom and Gatsby himself but I’ve been rotating Wilson and myrtle in my mind so they might pop up with designs after my exams are over). Don’t be mistaken though, the events of the book dont happen to this lot! Love isn’t a necessity for the species so most of them are ace - some like the idea of love, but a large majority are aro as well as they simply don’t need it. The only reason he’s still considered a Gatsby is because of similar qualities in his physical appearance and personality, as well as all of his friends having matching aspects with their human counterparts.

They’ve got a job to do, no time to go fooling around with relationships and affairs 🙏

Yaaa the home planet, it’s basically a sleeping planet - everything is dead silent and they mostly communicate with the added “sense” the antenna provide. They don’t know why it’s silent, it’s something that just kind of happened over time so 1) my guy is veryyy overstimulated by the sheer amount of noise in earth and 2) is actively trying to figure out language.

The translator (before he ate it) was pulling some mega work, translating the silent communication back to him in a way he could verbalise and then translating the actual noise into English 😭 then he ate it to cut out the middle man - seems to be working for now.

Whyyyy do all his species look so varied you may ask?? It’s cosmetic altercations on a genetic level 🤩 several generations ago his ancestors figured out that tech, so each family tree kind of did their own thing while looking somewhat uniform to be identifiable against the rest of the universe (theyre all green and buggy eyed with antenna, but the length of antenna, shade of green, markings and eye colour etc was all modified into their inherited genetics ages ago. Why? Cause it looks cool, why do we do anything.)

Umm soo much of this is gibberish help. His home planet, he’s got a bit of a shit memory so he’s honestly a bit lost. Not ready to admit this to the world yet but it’s getting kind of horrifying for him internally like “uh oh shit where was that..” being stuck on a very overwhelming loud and distracting planet 😭 he’d be freaking out if jayception wasnt weird enough to assure him that earth must just have some confusion field to it.

Anyway, the “North Eastern xviennew stream” he travelled on is basically just a hyper specific way of saying which highway/motorway he took basically. His planet sits in a belt of other technologically advanced planets so they have different areas of space around the planets to indicate a sense of direction when all you can see is stars (they’re not on an orbit, so these streams don’t change.)

Similarly the “Plezvnaim time category” is a fancy way to categorise whereabouts on this belt his planet is - bit like earth time zones but on a much much wider scale, 2 or 3 planets per zone / category. The “Day” is determined by leaders of a planet based on schedule yada yada and how much needs to be done on average during a day, because the planets aren’t in orbit of a star, they determine day and night with artificial lights It’s mostly for aesthetic purpose but also because they can’t see well in the dark. The glow in the dark is meant to help them see objects they’re close to with reflections and that but it’s grown weaker through evolution and only looks pretty now, doesn’t actually help them much in the dark

Anyway, what is alien gatsby even here for?! The original pinned post said he picked up a signal to head to earth, but I want to change that now bc I came up with that on the spot while I was in a bus. He and Tom are here on a “Xviemper clearance” which basically means they were sent to complete observational work over a longer undefined period of time in the planet whereas a “Plirviret clearance” would be somebody who’s been trained to obliterate, destroy and conquer planets for whatever reasons may arise. They have the permissions to hurt the life on the planets, but Jay and Tom don’t. They’re basically scientific tourists visiting a wild animal species😭

All of the species are trained for a specific job pretty young (sigh this idea came from Starkid’s starship), so most of the main cast of the great gatsby were meant to be observers etc from birth (hatching?)

Annnd yes, they’re hatched from eggs. Their young are called hatchlings fittingly, but only for the short period that they’re unemployed before becoming a trainee and then eventually considered fully grown by the time they’re fit for a job. They don’t reproduce conventionally either, all of the eggs are artificial “template” eggs built of mostly their equivalent to stem cells that are purchased and then differentiated to match the DNA of parents or parent singular. Nobody knows where the egg templates come from, but they all get used and the population continues so,, (shhh I’m projecting my asexuality onto all of them and also bc thinking about anatomy and stuff makes me really uncomfy. They’re all built like cheap dolls. Any masc/fem traits are cosmetic choices.)