Eat Your Crunchies

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Casper's an alien from planet Omero. Omerians have cat ears and tails because I'm into being self indulgent. They have many sexes that they categorize into male and female based on gamete ratio, not appearances. Just about whatever you're into and however you look doing it is normative for Omerians. There is no race, no sexual orientations, no gendered expectations, no religion, no gods, only Omero. Unity is very important to them but they don't use it for anything good.

Omero is an authoritarian, highly militaristic empire. They have advanced robotic technology and their government feels justified in all uses of it. Every Omerian must also be a soldier. A year of active duty is mandatory and they are forever on the reserves. Active duty can mean anything from combat to diplomatic envoys to being used in medical research. Omerians colonized a handful of planets hundreds of years ago, but the current government regards these planets and the inhabitants as failures. The Omerian diaspora living in the colonies have developed cultures that are distinct from each other and the Omerian homeworld. Their relationship with the idea that there is only Omero is fraying. Anti-colony sentiment is being pushed on Omero and the government's eventual plan is that the colonies will be destroyed as part of a pivot to a more Machiavellian model of conquest with no survivors.

It never comes up but they won't succeed in destroying the colonies, the empire will fall. Other things that never come up: terrible writers, terrible musicians, cannot even begin to construct a joke. Omerians speak two languages, New and One. One is the official language and is bare bones and utilitarian, New contains figurative language. Both sound like cats fighting in a car crash. They like tourists, they like traveling, they're total culture vultures and work hard to project a glossy, influencer ready image of their society. There are several species who think Omerians are great because they've never bothered them and Omero is a hot vacation spot with no crime and excellent food. Humans have never been bothered due to distance and lack of worthwhile resources. They are aware of the violence Omerians have done to other species, but they don't know specifics of their actions or much about their value system. Lots of humans quietly romanticize a false idea of Omerian society despite loudly voicing disapproval of them. Omerians are way more familiar with humans due to human's enthusiasm for exporting their own culture.

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Casper's from Omero, he has one real eye and one fake one and he shaves his fluffy tail down like a lion's to cut down on shedding. His body is similar to a human cis male and he has lots of scarring from the explosion that took his eye. He likes humans a lot, he grew up watching human television and taught himself several human languages that way. He's really happy to be away from everything he knew back home now that he's living on Freedom Eagle, an American city orbiting earth. He would do anything to avoid going back to Omero. Literally anything.

He likes container gardening, weightlifting, and expensive watches. His favorite human food is beef carpaccio and he loves wheatgrass shots. He has social anxiety and ptsd, but he has spent his whole life being taught social scripts to project confidence and stability. It is hard for him to think about himself as an individual, and anything he could do purely in his own interest feels wrong. He struggles when he needs to make a choice that would inconvenience others, especially one that would defy authority.

Some assorted early Girlee sketches featuring a really early Johannes & Casper

This blog is mostly a way for me to neatly organize everything I’ve written down for Retina Display so far, an adult comic I’m working on that should be around 50~ pages. Not like, gigantic but longer than any of my other stand alones so far.

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