squishy leaky human no. 2483

The last week has been me switching between writing and drawing Bloodmary.

This guy!! He's so smart!

... this also really explains why he said "how many times are you going to use me before you let me go?!"

So assuming the theory that Rocky in the movie is just a freak and the other Eridians wear clothes and feel icky about eating in front of others like in the book...

Species swap Rocky, with this theory, would also be a freak! Yippee!!

Cheeks out on a Tuesday (probably only wears clothes when it could be physically harmful to not be)

The eating thing is easy enough to transfer in this AU (guys, pooping is beautiful in human culture, what are you talking about!)

Idk probably other human specific freakster stuff too, just had to mention this.

book grace: rocky would you still love me if i were a worm

Eridian speculative biology time!

Erid is a very big planet, very very very big planet, twice the size of earth in fact- and divided by oceans, perfect conditions for populations to remain and develop separately and for long enough to create diferent species. So, unlike us, Eridians are a Polytypic genus: there's more than one species of sapient eridian, All of them sharing a common ancestor in the form of a small, 5 legged ambush-hunter land carnivore, all share common traits taking only slightly different evolutionary paths

Divers- get their name from living in semi-flooded caves, their high small vents allow them to be partially submerged without drowning and their long arms allow them to grip things easily underwater, similar to a sea-horse tail

Climbers- similarly, they get their name from their living enviroment, living in very high caves, their long thin arms allow them to grip and climb very steep rock walls, kinda like goats in a way

Drills and Stompers get their name from the shape of their arms, they both developed closer to the surface compared to the others, their arms are like that for dealing with sandstorms, while Drills "drill" themselfs in place, Stompers use their body weight to keep themselfs down

Blocks are very similar to Stompers, but they live in caves much deeper down, so they're quite compact

Common traits between all species: all Eridians can thrum, all Eridians organize in "colonies" like ants or termites (tho the specifics of how each colony works varies), all Eridians are True Carnivores(can only eat meat) and all Eridians are unisex

In theory any one eridian can procreate with any other eridian, between the 5 species there are 4 fertile hybrids and 3 infertile hybrids posible

note: tho each species has a more broad vague shared culture between themselves, none of them are a monolith, all of them have vastly different culture, language, texture, practices and even phenotypes between different colonies around the world

note 2: the fact humans are a monotypic species (there is only one in our genus) is really fucking weird to them

And it’s almost all necessary.

Threw this together, and totally forgot the suit so it’s a skin - carapace - tight suit that is invisible.

I might go back and redo the colour at some point but idk