#merimutt

session zero for a funny little heist! featuring:

@merimutt's tabaxi rogue Renard

@artsy-dragoness's owlin bard Otzara

@concord-and-cliches's elf monk Jake

@aistrial's dryad druid Xafarr

my dragonborn artificer Jackie

@maxmmpow's orc warlock Macee

Rainbow Mood by Merimutt

First commission of 2023~

Say hello to my chatty little baker~

He loves old romance manga and pop music and giving away left over pastries at the end of the day 💕

(fluttering my eyelashes) hi~ did you know I like star trek? because I like star trek. like a normal amount. so please allow me to infodump for a minute:

this is my half-vulcan oc Spock Izvak! he's a lieutenant commander on a research vessel, and he is the most repressed person in space :)

I had sooooo much fun learning about vulcan language while I was developing them. for a start, their name is a portmanteau of izh - meaning "snow" - and svai - meaning "flower" or "bloom" - with the common vulcan name suffix of k and of course that traditional 5 letter structure. so his name basically means snow flower!

I also learned the vulcan word for "albino" is fam-kursu - but I also feel as though vulcans would have a more derogatory term for it, because they are mean, petty bitches. alachya or "white hair" is what I chose, and it is what Izvak is often addressed as by rudeass vulcans.

I applied the same kind of logic as his given name to the name I gave to his little hair ornament too. I always think about T'Pring's look in her TOS appearance and I really love how her hair looks, so I wanted to bring some of that feeling to Izvak. the only thing is, despite trekkie dedication to detailing fandom minutia, I couldn't find any information at all canon or otherwise about the thing she wears in her hair. I guess realistically it's just a meaningless accessory but I feel like it should at least have a vulcan name! so I took it upon myself to make one up: isachvayek. another portmanteau, this time of isachya - "hair" - and gluvayek - "display". as in, "hair that displays status". there's no indication that it originally displayed a social status when T'Pring wore it but to me it is shiny, pretty, ornate... and it's being worn at an important ceremony. not to mention how intricate and complex her actual hair is! these things to me imply some significance. I'm making a thing out of it.

(disguises mlp content by posting my pony oc as a human)