Once more influence from sir Gold's bubbley races, I rather felt mused to make of one myself for his realm heheh.

BubbleBugs: Native to the same realm of the bubbletail bunnies and neko's, BubbleBug are semi human race of insect women of varying hair skin and eye colors. The primary physical features that help them stand apart are their antenna and Bubble Chitin shell like armor along their backs, thighs, shoulders, ankles and hands. The Bubblebug's seem to be bubble humanoids based upon Pillbugs, their bubble armor is rather durable in comparison to other bubbles, but only when not inflated to their full peak which given its higher grade means a rather large bubble, but they prefer to keep things a bit 'small' unless needed. Despite being small insect type breeds, they are rather energetic and combative, its rare for a BubbleBug to 'not' know some fort of close ranged to hand to hand combat art of sort. Even with this though they do not use it to harm people, thanks to their shell armor placement they effectively 'bop' people with every blow and they seem to prefer rather close grappling maneuvers that sometimes leaves one to wonder the true intent of their combat instincts.

Like other bubble kin, BubbleBug's love to 'capture' people within their bubbles, but they lack a true bubble breath like others. Instead though, they can 'expel' their Chitin bubble's to create more upon contact, for every 'bop' of their fists, feet or so forth, a bit of bubble remains upon the person struck which gradually fuses with other bubbles left upon the person's form until they are fully encased in one large mass of insect grade bubble. For those with the preference to the art of grappling, the effect is rather the same, only as their bodies rub and squeeze around the persons form their shells simply inflate quickly around the subject. This is actually a faster tactic then strike bubble encasement, but BubbleBug's love for challenges causes them to prefer to use it the least.

Their more prominent skill of bubble making from their form, is their 'rolly bounce' as they seem to dub it. Like a pillbug, the BubbleBug's simply curl down to a point and their bubbles will naturally expand then fuse to one larger bubble completely encasing the BubbleBug. This has several features, the bubblebugs use this for a means of transportation, to sleep, for surprise strikes and to capture in turn being their more faster method and saved for when they know targets are not much a challenge in a fight. They capture with this skill by gaining speed, then 'crash' into the person they wish to capture. When they collide, the bubble naturally 'moves' from the BubbleBug's body onto the target and holds them tight. Even without their crashing technique a BubbleBug can easily just 'walk out' or uncurl from their bubble shell when they wish, or even just 'pop' it back into its smaller parts.

While lacking a real bubble breath, BubbleBug's are able to inflate bubbles via kissing and blowing air into them when separate. When the bubble is still a part of their shell, they can naturally inhale deeply to send the gathered air directly to their shells. However they can not 're-inhale' the air back into their bodies so this tactic is not useful if one wishes to go for a deep swim.

BubbleBug's capture people for one of three reasons. A trophy for a tough challenge or winning a fight outright, creating a 'bubble sparing partner', this means the person trapped within the bubble is usually left to being used as a 'punching bag' for the Bubblebug. Though no injury has been reported caused by any strikes used on them thus far only injury reported in known social rings of BubbleBug's is when a poor girl bounced into sharp set of shrubs. The final reason is for mating purposes which is known to be the more 'dangerous' times with a bubblebug. While once more no real injury has been reported from the act, the mated partner's are known to be a bit 'worse for ware' then even being used as a bubble sparing partner for days. Given the BubbleBug's brawling nature its possible they simply get 'to wild' when mating.

While brawlers by nature, BubbleBug's are not antisocial or tyrants by right. They are playful and seem boundless with their energy and hate the idea of 'picking a fight with the weak and helpless'. Its do to this mindset that, surprisingly, they do not target humans as first choices in mates trophy's or challenges, they prefer larger, stronger bubble creatures like Neko's and even Bubbletails and the likes. The more skillful or strong the other bubble kin appear the more it drives even young Bubblebugs to want to take them on. In most of those cases the young bubblebugs find themselves as their bubble kin's trophy instead, usually its not till the middle or later of their teen years do they actually pose a fair fight against other bubble beings. That is not to say BubbleBug's will 'not' target humans, if a human has skills that they can see or 'feel' from their antenna, they will see them as not helpless and more then love to brawl. If a human does manage to win a fight, the bubblebug will willingly trap themselves in their shell to be their trophy if so the human wished, if only to 'play fair and square'. Also should a human actively want to be 'beaten' by a Bubblebug they are more then happy to encase them in their bubble to play with, many Grapplers adore these people the most as it gives them reason to work upon their grapple bubble technique without feeling it a cheat to the fight, as well as reason to just snuggle and curl with the subject outright.

Also whilst preferring the art of brawling, BubbleBugs are also rather skilled at crafting with their bubble chitin, most commonly creating items for brawling such as bubble boxing gear, practice dummy 'bubbles' and even footwear which many bubblebugs wear to give a bonus to their agility and motions in a fight.
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As for whom this little Bug tis, her name Mona, she prefers a boxing style of combat and is a spry little thing by most comparison of BubbleBug's. She loves nothing more then to get up close and 'cross counter bubble' her sparing target. One of her favorite things to do with her trophy's is have them float about like a balloon through the day and pull them into her shell tightly to a snuggle at night. Thus far she has no interest in mating of yet, but if the right lady came about who knows.

'Bubble Kin' races and concept ©  GoldLinaric
BubbleBugs © Myself