Yes, Codelizard DOES sometimes have her clothes fully on. Shocking, isn't it?

Here's Code and her younger (by a whole two minutes) sister Ari'kha, or just Ari for short, stopping to snap a selfie after getting off from work and lectures respectively - Ari is partway through a Master's in Chemistry.

I designed Ari a lot more recently than Code, hence why there's been no mention or pictures of her - until now. I've been fiddling with her design and their backstory a bit. And yes, FA, you'll see them in red-bordered stuff sooner or later. :V

Art by  nikkyvix, both characters belong to me.

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Backstory stuff!

Code (Kh'tall) and Ari'kha hatched from the only two viable eggs of their clutch - clutches are usually 6-8 eggs in size but most of them are not viable and will never hatch, instead supplying nutritious albumen to fresh hatchlings for their first meals. In bygone times hatchlings were on their own from day 1, and siblings would work together to survive, never knowing their parents, and instead forming tight bonds with each other. Even as they became tribal, family lines weren't tracked, so not even the parents knew which eggs were their own, and they were raised communally.

Fast-forward to the modern era and this is still in practice in a different form; lizardfolk communities will have something akin to a daycare center, except with permanent stay, operating out of someone's home or, in larger areas, a whole building. It's almost like an orphanage except the children aren't there because they lost their parents, but because they never knew them to begin with. And it's not tragic or saddening (at least not to them) because that's just their way of life - a consequence of the fact that they go into seasonal heat (though it can be suppressed with modern medication), that they don't have live births, and they lack parental instincts that mammals have. They also have a heavy population imbalance - 3/4 of eggs produce males, 1/4 produce females, and about 1% of eggs produce a 'whitescale' - where a mutation causes partially incomplete development, resulting in an infertile hermaphrodite whose scale coloration never comes in, leaving them white their whole life.

The result of all this is that, without any parents to form ties to, sibling bonds become stronger and much more important, with the siblings essentially forming a family from the moment they hatch. That said, the intimate closeness of Code and Ari is not common - most siblings are essentially very close friends, as they were initially. And even though Code is only a minute or two older (by hatching time), the way the two interact would suggest to an age gap to an unknowing observer - Code is very protective of her sister, and Ari looks up to and idolizes her older sister. They don't live together any more, but visit each other often.

While Ari is also a student of the sciences, it's a different science - she's not entirely sure what to do with her Chemistry degree once she earns it, but she enjoys the field. She's also an awful tailor, and couldn't repair a hole in a sock if her life depended on it. And compared to Code, she likes to go outside a lot more, even if she's not quite as outgoing (read: not as much of a tease). She likes going to the bar for a drink, and unlike Code, knows how to dance. She also reads, watches the occasional TV episode, and enjoys swimming, sunbathing, saunas, surfing (though she's bad at it), jet-skiing (she's much better at that), and scuba-diving. She also wears more traditionally feminine clothing compared to Code, typically skirts and T-shirts in warm weather.