#hereunder

A couple of pics of @kaypier‘s characters!  The first is farm!Petrisse and the second is a commission of one of her newer boys, Annemieke.

And the human system is bad and wrong for pretty obvious reasons. Even though Petrisse is small and has a scapula that's behind the shoulder joint and Baptiste is large and has a scapula that's on top of the shoulder joint, doesn't mean they have distinctly different social qualities or even physiological qualities outside of that. Where social and physical changes do come in is the Gods Tongue, which is a sort of like... tangible manifestation of charisma [2/??] 

The Gods Tongue is passed on exlusively through consumption and feels like heat and coercive pressure and those who held it (and were able to actually use it, 'cause that's its own issue) were historically influential figures (not necessarily rulers), for good or for ill. It's its own corrupt and broken topic in felic history, but it's been relegated to annals since the Gods Tongue has become all but extinct in the underground... sorta. Humans tried to wipe it out thinking [3/4]

the Ikalu had it exclusively, having literally no idea about felic physiology. The issue isn't of it not existing in the underground, but nobody knowing how to actually use it. You see evidence of the Gods Tongue everywhere--Petrisse and Roy both have it--but it's wild and unfocused and yeah... adept possessors of the Gods Tongue can move the masses, turnover eras, cave in the earth. but it's a lonely existence. it's often a one-man social sphere because power is so alienating. [4/4!]