#rodians

(Obviously for an actual game character customization one could have blue skin with yellow markings and green hair etc etc. but for the sake of time, I’m just doing this many)

I would love to read your fanfics (when I have the time) and maybe you have talked about it in them, but I was wondering what the lore is behind him.

How is a half rodian possible? What ideas did you come up with to explain it all? What traits did you keep/drop and why? I'm so interested!

I have been trying to create my own half rodian oc, but was struggling with the design so semi ditched the idea until I came across the fanart and thought I'd ask you about yours :)

What a lovely ask to wake up to!

Okay so when I created Dream for this au, I had just watched some clone wars episodes with Rodians and couldn't get around the idea that those eyes would be absolutely perfect for a jedi Dream (considering they look like little universes and that's how Dream's eyes are also described in the comics). So, I went down the route of how to make him still look like himself, but include that Rhodian bit, which landed me with a half-rhodian. I needed hair, so his skin couldn't be fully made up of scales. Instead his skin is that of a human, but scales are scattered across it on his hands, forehead and technically chest too. Kept the little antennas mostly because it looked adorable, but also because I remembered the one single inter-species couple I could remember from Clone Wars (Deserter; the clone and his Twi'Lek wife who also have two children who look mostly like Twi'Leks) and they kept more of the traits that weren't human, apart from the skin-tone.

So that's also why there are no nose and a mostly Rodian mouth and ears. We did change the hands mostly because it would be too complicated to draw honestly.

I did do some research into Rodian reproduction but couldn't immediately find anything that would disqualify them from partnering with a human (like. Laying eggs or something). And since they count as humanoid I just decided that it would work I suppose. If Twi'leks work, I don't see why Rodians shouldn't.

In case I forgot anything I'll just tag my darling @mid0khan who made this wonderful artwork for me, I'm sure he could probably tell you more about how he mixed the traits and why! I basically let him lose on the idea and he just resurfaced with a masterpiece some time later X)