#avians
Some outfit designs for Sirawit. Taking some inspiration from Chinese street fashion because that was the primary human cultural influence in the ice tunnel city Sirawit grew up in with their human adopted dad, Jing.
Still have to give the city a real name, but it’s a borehole in the icy crust of a gas giant moon similar to Europa. The city being long and narrow helps distribute the heat of the habitation more evenly and prevent catastrophic melting of the surrounding substrate.
PATREON|STORE|Runaway to the Stars
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Tiiliitian is an avian alien language where any vowel can form a two-note chord pattern. To speak it, Idrisah the xenotranslator uses a keyboard device that records her voice and plays it with an altered pitch pattern. The Tiiliitian alphabet has 16 distinct tonal forms for each of its five vowels.
(Finally taking the plunge on making this an actual conlang. Grammar is next. Wish me luck…)
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Brainstorming for the national symbols of Runaway to the Stars. Flags are a human-only thing. Avian polities are represented by written characters, and bug ferret groups use something more like coats of arms. The BFGC (Bug Ferret Galactic Community) crest pictured here is the outermost layer of the bureaucratic matryoshka doll of bug ferret politics. Neither centaursnorscuds have enough globalization to have a “standard” political symbol format (and scuds don’t really have nations, but that’s a different topic).
Luna gained independence post-WW3 and features a tailed spacer hand holding the exhaust plume of a fusion engine like a dart, a symbol of their essential role in transit between Earth and the rest of the inner Solar system. The flag has a vertical format by default, because there is no wind on Luna.
Martian flag not final. I am still deciding the fate of Mars post-WW3 but there is definitely more than one nation on there. The SRoM are the biggest proponent of Martian terraforming, though.
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A traditional-style pygmy avian dwelling, which is about 3.3 meters tall.
They’re constructed from woody and fibrous plant materials, a plaster of crushed worm tree shells, and as little rare metal as possible. The surface of the avian homeplanet is over 95% ocean and most settlements are on scattered islands, so extensive mining for metal ore or even stone is tricky. The round shape protects against strong typhoon winds, and the upper balcony is left open for ease of takeoff and landing. Flight is not required to access any part of the building, though.
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Miscellaneousavian alien worldbuilding.
There are two main kinds of vegetation on the avian homeplanet, black plants and blue plants. Blue plants are closer to what we think of as terrestrial plants on Earth, black plants are actually photosynthetic worms. They have trilateral symmetry, frond-like appendages, and a calcium carbonate tube that they will retract their limbs into when night falls or they are threatened. The tube may be underground in smaller species or young individuals, In larger individuals it’s usually a thick above-ground structure like a tree trunk.
The largest continent on the avian homeplanet is slightly smaller than Australia and is home to the biggest cultural group of flightless avians, the Hotsuuv. They propagate picture frame “orchids,” a kind of flowering shrub with complex, often landscape or symbol-like patterns on their upper petal/ovary structure. The colors and lines of the flower preserve well on the dried seed pod, and selective breeding to change the picture on the flower is common. Many Hotsuuv settlements have a distinct seal symbol, derived from the image on the local strain of picture frame flower.
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Avian aliens can see UV light, centaursandbug ferrets can’t see violet. Avian clothes look different depending on who you ask. (Featuring Sirawit in a cute little outfit)
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little two-page comic with some OCs from an older story… love drawing a character’s “oh” moment :’) ☀️ (she/her for both)
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