Heyo folks! Coming at you with a very very rare journal for an announcement I'm equal parts anxious about and excited for.

For the longest time I've been a huge fan of fandom-species, so I decided you know what, I'll make my own!

As far as the idea goes, this species, the Florepta, is formed from me sitting down one night and thinking... you know, hive minds are fascinating and assimilation into one is so often framed as exclusively a horribly negative thing... what would it take to make it kind, maybe even preferable? Thus I came up with the basic idea, and following through on that further, I reflected on what they should look like and came up with the idea of reptiles that are fused with plants!

Thus am I happy to introduce you all to the concept of the Florepta species through this google doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing

Doing a completely new species is a bit of an interesting undertaking for me, especially considering that I'm a writer, not an artist, just a commissioner, so I had to relay a lot of information exclusively in text and worldbuilding until I can put together plans for a consistent species sheet.

Like I say in the doc itself of course, I'm not claiming sole ownership of the idea of "you've mixed animal A with plant B", but rather giving people that are interested in following up on my idea some guidelines to work with. Being a planimal that's part of a benevolent hivemind following their cultural ideas is what makes a character a Florepta.

They are totally open to work with, feel free to make your own, even tweak the lore to your liking, just make sure you give proper creator credit if you do, that's all I ask.

And of course, if you see any questions, feel free to ask me, maybe you thought of a flaw or something I didn't.