Bella Bella

vil schoenheit:

half peacock beastman (and does exhibit the traits) and has albinism (both of which one would know from my family headcanons post). otherwise, not much is different from canon. i made his nose sort of beak-shaped, but it's very subtle. idk if it's canon or not, but my hc is that the purple ombre is dyed. (she and jack dyed their hair when they were younger. vil decided that he liked the look and kept doing it, but jack didn't redo it after it had all grown out.)

idia shroud:

honestly they pretty much look the same. more grayish skin, and no visible pupils (so as to up the spook factor. how can they see without pupils? idk magic [the actual answer is that there is a pupil, it's just the same color as the iris]), and they're pretty gaunt, but that's about it.

leona kingscholar:

i gave him his melanin back. also locs. i let him keep the ginger tips though (that actually is a thing lions can have—mane colors range a good bit from blond to dark brown, and rusty colors are on that spectrum), i just made them more obvious. i let him keep the braids too. his eyes are no longer highlighter green, thank the stars. also, scars like his seldom leave no other indication of injury, so nerve damage be upon thee. also cute kibby nose, as i do with mammalian beastmen and some fae. (not pictured are his big naturals, because this man does not bind and would never bind even to save his life. trans leona ftw)

malleus draconia:

i made their skin less saturated (and a tiny bit more melanated, as one does) and gave them green blush (aka green blood) because in folklore, fair folk usually don't have red blood. their scleras are kind of greenish/yellowish. they have some scales on their neck (and elsewhere on their body), and their scales and horns have a purple sheen to them. the same natural dark pigment on their lips, i also put under their eyes. also they regularly wear earrings because i said so.

Okay, so we all know that scene where Orange and Green were originally infected,, but how come there was only one hatchling?

It’s likely only ONE crew mate was actually infected here. This leads my to my crackpipe theory that’s somewhat plausible,, let me cook here:

Mira HQ purposefully sent an impostor aboard the Skeld—and that impostor was likely Orange.

I know it sounds crazy, but hear me out here. Mira HQ was already aware of the aliens, they were literally shipping

ORE PLUS EGGS (ore + eggs)

But why would they send an impostor on board? First, step back and think:

Why not send an impostor on board? Look at the crew from Mira’s point of view.

Red isnt exactly a good leader, theyre a coward that once caused a large scale nuclear meltdown

Purple openly wanted to expose Mira HQ for negligence and was also on site for the nuclear meltdown

Green was an unpaid intern with little work experience and a poor background

Black was a geologist with zero interest in researching, studying or inspecting the “valuable ore”

Cyan was a GEMologist who got their job from a budget cut

Yellow and Brown unionized and leaned rebellious against Mira HQ policies

Lime was “unambiguous” and a major conspiracy theorist, a total nut job

White did not work for Mira HQ and only lucked their way into a trip on the Skeld

Hell, even Blue needed to run an entire test to find White’s cause of death and even if they were actually dead! There’s nothing on that printout besides a skull.

All of these crew mates could be seen as weak links or liabilities from a professional Mira HQ standpoint. Paired with how Mira HQ has made it incredibly obvious they do NOT care about their employees, it stands reasonable they would leave them with something as dangerous as the impostor eggs.

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This next part is a bit of a stretch, but I also think it can be reasoned that Orange is the impostor Mira sent on board—and Green happened to be an unaccounted for accident.

my main perspective for Mira HQ’s motive for sending an impostor would be to weed out and sift for loyal employees who could handle injury or even death by their policies.

Notice how Orange, even to their death, put emphasis on Mira’s rules?

“Fun reminder: per Mira you are required to take a group vote before ejecting any crew mates into the endless abyss of space. I can’t authorize my death until I hear a vote!” isn’t it strange Mira HQ had rules for BASICALLY EXECUTING a crew mate in the first place? That death had to be AUTHORIZED?

It’s almost like they were preparing their employees for such a task because impostors could become more common as Mira experimented with them. (Because it’s also thought that Impostors take many thoughts and traits of the crew mate they possess, it could also stand to reason that exemplary employees, like Orange, could become infected impostor prefects that specifically uphold Mira HQ policy.)

and so, Orange could have been sent by Mira HQ to weed out any less-than-ideal employees. That could also be a reason why Green claimed they were too stupid as a teammate. Although the impostors worked together, Orange was generally the lesser of the two. Because Orange wasn’t killing like how a usual impostor would, they were killing as Mira HQ wanted them to.

Notice that their only kill, Lime (rip my goat), acted less than professional, and even crafted a weapon! Orange also didn’t panic or react when the crew caught them in the act, they instead listened to Red, who also went exactly by the book!

“Rule no.5, soften tough blows with a crew wide pizza party?” / “How about some pizza to celebrate your not-death?”

now, compare this to Green, who sabotaged O2 once Orange was gone, who went for the jugular, who was generally more aggressive towards the cast. It would make sense that Green wouldn’t care about Mira policy, because they were a new hatchling who only recently Infected a crew mate!

this also adds up with how quickly the events unfolded. When Orange and Green tumbled out from behind the boxes, Orange was able to quickly answer Blue’s question about the rest of the trust balls and help seal the hole in Episode 1. At the same time, Green stayed incapacitated behind the boxes. During this window of time, Green was likely infected by the hatchling, and was adjusting to the new change.

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TLDR: Orange was sent by Mira HQ to kill bad employees and teach the good ones how to deal with impostors, who would become more frequent as Mira experiments with their eggs.

of course, my argument does hold many holes, I’d love to hear y’all’s thoughts about it in reblogs and replies ^_^

after all it’s just a theory…….a……..

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I have my own head canons/theories, I will make a post about later.

i really, REALLY! fucking LOVED this show. it had no right to be this good, but it was!!!