Serena Inverse

Someone to be brave for.

excerpt is from chapter 29 of the novel.

I wanna see the unbridled joy on the faces of human schoolchildren who get to meet the first Eridians who come to visit Earth. I wanna see the Eridian ambassadors insisting to the humans that they get a chance to meet their schoolchildren, because they themselves were schoolchildren when a human teacher came to their planet and inspired them to become astronauts.

I wanna see humans getting permission to set up a small embassy somewhere in the Eridani System, possibly even giving a very elderly Grace a chance to see humans again. I wanna see how surprised the humans are that he doesnt want to come home to Earth, but also see them quickly realize just how amazing it is to live, study and teach on an alien world.

I wanna see Humans & Eridians joining forces and creating a massive space program with the goal of inoculating every star in the Milky Way that has been infected with the astrophage. I want to hear them say "the fact that there are three Systems with life this close to each other implies that the whole Galaxy is likely teeming with life- probably even whole civilizations. And none of them deserve to go through what we went through. Screw any ideas about a 'prime directive.' We CAN help, and we WILL help. Lets spend the next 1000 generations saving the galaxy, together."

I wanna see more of this world, generations after these two planets were saved by a pair of alien scientists who became best friends, and who each risked everything to make absolutely certain that the other's world was just as safe as their own. I wanna see these two great peoples coming out of this horrible generational trauma, coming together to celebrate the life that they all get to live with their newly-found cosmic neighbors.

More Spacecraft au, waiter!,! Except I’m the chef and I do what I want.. and just because I could, I changed his head design, I wanted it to look more owl-like (aka the cats of the sky, so I think owls fit him nicely among other reasons) and when coloring, the red visor was always throwing me off when comparing to the rest of the design 🤨

I also wanted a bit of a.. warrior look to him? Knight, gladiator?? Mostly cuz it’d look cool but also to pay homage to Prime Soundwave having been a gladiator, and Cybertron Soundwave being a warrior from his home planet. Along with Cybertron Soundwave there’s the . Symbol that he has on his. Collar area?? That was taken from his triology design. I haven’t yet decided if Soundwave should be from Planet X or from Kaon in the au

Someone did mention his vents(?) on his head does kinda look like false eyes which I think is cool! I also saw it but I wasn’t sure how obvious it was, I’ve also have been debating on whether I should put some actual practicality to it but I’ll probably just leave it as is.