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Getting off my butt (maybe)
8 years ago
So, I'd recently gotten some ideas, and I'm wanting to start writing again. I'm thinking of probably starting with an introduction to what a xi'lahsi is, and I'd like to do more than just show a single sketch (even though I do like said sketch). Kind of like the article "An Introduction to Chakats,"
So, really, I'd need to know what questions to answer, and I'm going to need to figure out what sort of order in which to put the various topics, as far as flow goes.
Also! I'm working on a chakat character, which, consequently, is part of how I wound up creating my species in the first place around ten or eleven years ago, but more on that later. So far, I decided to name hir Oddball, give hir a clouded leopard's pattern with a snow leopard's colors, and have hir be a bit of a goof, and maybe not have hir be an adult just yet. Or, maybe, if I actually write a story, have it take place when shi's in hir teens or early twenties. I'm open to suggestions for things like what shi would wear (if anything), and hair color and style. I'm thinking, for a chakat named Oddball, that a habit of dying hir hair weird colors would be apt, and maybe some interesting markings, but I don't want to go overboard with the markings.
I'm also considering, for hir back story, to have hir either be part of a family that runs an old, piece of crap cargo ship (and maybe call it the Rust Bucket), or have hir parents be in Star Fleet/Corps, and be on one of those ships that would end up taking family of some of the crew along. I'm wanting to keep everything regarding hir and hir back story to be able to fit in with the existing chakat universe canon nicely, but not necessarily be canon itself, especially since I'm intending to have hir be one of the first chakats to encounter a xi'lahsi face to face.
As far as my own species goes, I created it because of an inability (at the time) to think of anything that I felt was interesting enough for a chakat character, and I'd also been curious about scaly taurs, which I hadn't seen at that point. Originally I had their tech level be mid to late bronze age or early iron age, and later opted for some early steam technology, but now I'm thinking of maybe be the equivalent of Earth between the two world wars or even the middle of the Cold War, with only the earliest examples of unmanned spacecraft.
I'm open to suggestions, if anyone has any.
So, really, I'd need to know what questions to answer, and I'm going to need to figure out what sort of order in which to put the various topics, as far as flow goes.
Also! I'm working on a chakat character, which, consequently, is part of how I wound up creating my species in the first place around ten or eleven years ago, but more on that later. So far, I decided to name hir Oddball, give hir a clouded leopard's pattern with a snow leopard's colors, and have hir be a bit of a goof, and maybe not have hir be an adult just yet. Or, maybe, if I actually write a story, have it take place when shi's in hir teens or early twenties. I'm open to suggestions for things like what shi would wear (if anything), and hair color and style. I'm thinking, for a chakat named Oddball, that a habit of dying hir hair weird colors would be apt, and maybe some interesting markings, but I don't want to go overboard with the markings.
I'm also considering, for hir back story, to have hir either be part of a family that runs an old, piece of crap cargo ship (and maybe call it the Rust Bucket), or have hir parents be in Star Fleet/Corps, and be on one of those ships that would end up taking family of some of the crew along. I'm wanting to keep everything regarding hir and hir back story to be able to fit in with the existing chakat universe canon nicely, but not necessarily be canon itself, especially since I'm intending to have hir be one of the first chakats to encounter a xi'lahsi face to face.
As far as my own species goes, I created it because of an inability (at the time) to think of anything that I felt was interesting enough for a chakat character, and I'd also been curious about scaly taurs, which I hadn't seen at that point. Originally I had their tech level be mid to late bronze age or early iron age, and later opted for some early steam technology, but now I'm thinking of maybe be the equivalent of Earth between the two world wars or even the middle of the Cold War, with only the earliest examples of unmanned spacecraft.
I'm open to suggestions, if anyone has any.
