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these are from before the loop, before the Hatchling could even join the program

Shale is an astronomer and explorer, they love going places and seeing everything they can, they were childhood friends with several of the OWV members and so they joined in too. Unfortunately they died not long before Adakite and Basalt could start flying themselves, so they never got to see their children continue the legacy. They did, however, fly off one last time to escape their death bed.

Argill is a radio expert and helped with the radio tower, deep space satellite, and the communications radios inside ships. They spent most of their time in the observatory with Hornfels or out in a (by us added) satellite field. They are however very flighty and skittish, and after Shale ran away to die, they started distancing from everyone, kids included.

Basalt is a repairsman like Slate, they shadowed them since they were a kid and helped them out around their young teens, they built their and Ada's own ship, being the first two-person space ship. Being surrounded by OWV members their whole life they knew pretty easily what they wanted to do.

First, the general physical differences yes they have tails and digitigrade feet its funnier to draw them like that some of the characters (namely Chert right now) were however born tailless, or their tails fell off due to an injury after hatching we expanded the whole system by like 10x so more villagers means more variety with the idea that hearthians are very diverse and as youll see below literally colorful we also introduced actual polydactyly for Riebeck and characters like them, and the no-pupil look thats found in certain concept art

Then theres the color/detail differences i self indulgently added a lot of IRL mutations (albinism, point coloring, erythrism, leucism) and patterns because,,, it makes the guys look cute The patterns at the bottom are more general phenotypes of patterns and what they can be called, each comes with its asymmetrical variant and the large scales generally fall into the dark parts of the patterns I will be redoing these because i dont like the layout much anymore, live laugh

As a bonus, heres the hearthian sign language WIP! i only have numbers down right now because making 30 single hand gestures with 3 fingers to work with isnt as easy as i thought