base character info
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wanderingtentaclesName: Hushurrkx 'Hush'
Height: 151 cm
Gender: Female (well, comparatively)
An tentacled alien in a spaceship looking to explore. In more than one way.
Hush is a wandered and a provider (all wanderers are providers, to ensure hatchlings have appropriate food), curious and always open to new experiences. She does, however, tend to be kind of cavalier about how she treats other sentient aliens, something which lessens the longer she spends studying them - familiarity breeds not contempt (well, maybe) in this case, but seeing others as individuals and people. Not that she's necessarily cruel, but she puts herself and what and those she knows above any new person or species she finds, especially in the early stages of coming to know them.
(The 'kx' in her name is representation of a clicking noise made in the back of her throat, with a structure that's part of her glottis - a human clicking their tongue or making a clicking noise otherwise would be close, but it's not uttered in the same place and thus isn't the same.)
As a provider, the milk she creates isn't just for hatchlings - depending on how much she's filled a host up, the milk can be used as food that won't create any... waste, that needs to be disposed of.
The soft bumps/nubby flesh around the ovipositor is recessed tentacles, used to carry young when they've hatched (it's a place for them to attach to continue growing, and safely carry them while they're really small), though they can, of course, be used to carry other things and are often used in connection to sex as well.
The 'penis fencing' (so to speak, since she doesn't possess a penis, but an ovipositor) her species does between each other as lead-up to/as reproductive sex isn't just to decide who carries the eggs; the fencing is the way to determine genetic compatibility (since mating types are generally known beforehand, that compatibility is already known, though new compatibility variations are found every now and then), as various biological and chemical processes are triggered by the sex/fencing action which leads either to greater fervour if there is a suitable amount of difference/variation between the two, or a distinct cooling of the attempt (called 'heat' and 'getting doused' respectively).
Height: 151 cm
Gender: Female (well, comparatively)
An tentacled alien in a spaceship looking to explore. In more than one way.
Hush is a wandered and a provider (all wanderers are providers, to ensure hatchlings have appropriate food), curious and always open to new experiences. She does, however, tend to be kind of cavalier about how she treats other sentient aliens, something which lessens the longer she spends studying them - familiarity breeds not contempt (well, maybe) in this case, but seeing others as individuals and people. Not that she's necessarily cruel, but she puts herself and what and those she knows above any new person or species she finds, especially in the early stages of coming to know them.
(The 'kx' in her name is representation of a clicking noise made in the back of her throat, with a structure that's part of her glottis - a human clicking their tongue or making a clicking noise otherwise would be close, but it's not uttered in the same place and thus isn't the same.)
As a provider, the milk she creates isn't just for hatchlings - depending on how much she's filled a host up, the milk can be used as food that won't create any... waste, that needs to be disposed of.
The soft bumps/nubby flesh around the ovipositor is recessed tentacles, used to carry young when they've hatched (it's a place for them to attach to continue growing, and safely carry them while they're really small), though they can, of course, be used to carry other things and are often used in connection to sex as well.
The 'penis fencing' (so to speak, since she doesn't possess a penis, but an ovipositor) her species does between each other as lead-up to/as reproductive sex isn't just to decide who carries the eggs; the fencing is the way to determine genetic compatibility (since mating types are generally known beforehand, that compatibility is already known, though new compatibility variations are found every now and then), as various biological and chemical processes are triggered by the sex/fencing action which leads either to greater fervour if there is a suitable amount of difference/variation between the two, or a distinct cooling of the attempt (called 'heat' and 'getting doused' respectively).
