Oh man. So, my beloved main Karragul character is Efrier, but she was made years ago as an Invader Zim fan character of all things, and I've been struggling to adapt her to the world I have currently. But I will do it, I swear! I need to see her!!

Efrier's original story was that she, and another Karragul, were kidnapped as children to guard a rich alien's house. When I was no longer an edgy 15 year old, I changed it to her being accidentally kidnapped to be an exotic pet, by a human hunter of alien big game. Once he realised she was a sophont (Karraguls and co all look like indistinguishable little wiggly things as babies), he kept her because he would be super arrested if he came forward. She spends years watching and waiting, learning to speak English as well as the lay of the house, routines etc., until she eventually busts out and kills him.

I also have/had Hathsha, who was made for a sandbox setting and is a grandma detective a la Miss Marple. Not much to her but conceptually she was quite sweet, it would be nice to fit her in somewhere too. She had one (1) child that she kept in a fishbowl.

Ok so instead of formal and casual speak, horizontal text is now indicative of an urgent situation (as it would only be seen in a threat display or while flying) and vertical text is “other”. Those are their two tenses really, urgent (present) and not urgent, meaning usually past tense. They don’t have a strong grip on future tense as they have no real need to - where they live has no seasons and the food supply is fairly constant all year round, so they don’t need to plan ahead or discuss the future. The one exception to this is when they have bebbies bc you’ve got the nest preparation, hatching anticipation, and bracing the inevitable wave of Constant Anger you gotta deal with for a few months.