#zetakoth

The First Mate - Essentially looks like a bipedal crocodile with less crocodilian scutes and more leathery lizard skin; he’s big and beefy, maybe 7 feet tall or so, big and brutish and loudmouthed since he barks all the orders. He’s also more clever than he looks, being quite shrewd and perceptive.

The Cook - a mantis-like dude about 5-feet tall, has more of an upright build rather than the typical slanted mantis build (stands upright on his four legs and lacks the large abdomen of a normal praying mantis), has fairly normal human-like hands instead of mantis claws, and one or two sets of extra arms on his chest (but is missing several). Fairly mild-mannered, but nervous and twitchy, always on high alert-- might seem like he can be pushed around but he don’t take no shit except from Zeta. Has a son on board with him who serves as a cabin boy; also has like 20 daughters, but they’re female mantids, they can take care of themselves. 

Braintoad - Looks kind of like an upright bearded dragon or pachycephalosaur, but squishy and wet-skinned like a toad; instead of the pachy’s bone dome, he has a clear dome that his brain is visible through. The dome is bioluminescent and shifts colors when he thinks. He’s short, like no bigger than 3 feet tall, but buff as hell and can lift several times his body weight. Dour and pessimistic, a total sourpuss.

Bald Woodpecker - basically that-- like a woodpecker, no feathers, just gross, brownish-yellow wrinkly skin and a long, flabby tail. Huge eyes with several layers of bags that make him look sad or sleepy; a total sleazeball, always trying to start shit. Probably likes to eat humans and isn’t shy about letting them know that.

Pilot Squid - massive squid-like entity, like 20-30 feet, crammed into a liquid chamber that runs throughout the ship, from which he pilots it, presumably through telepathic means. A defector from his species’ military to become an arms dealer, he stole the ship and deserted, eventually meeting Zeta, where the two worked out the mutually beneficial relationship of pilot and the small, comparatively nimble boarding crew. Also speaks telepathically (has a thick cockney english accent), but appears to have no other telepathic abilities. Saucy and salty as all hell. 

Crab - the best character TBH. Basically just a huge crab, like six feet in diameter, but sentient; one of his arms got ripped off and he replaced it with an energy cannon. Speech sounds like ‘bloodle loodle loodle’ until he wears a translator (which usually he’s too lazy to do, and doesn’t give a shit about learning common languages), and then he has just the THICKEST french accent. A disgraced war vet with dozens of children, hundreds of brothers, and two wives (a pretty, elegantly-shaped and colored one and one who just looks terrifying and beat-up and monstrous-- she’s his favorite). Feisty and grouchy, but can be amiable.