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"Okay," Jun whispered into his throat mic. "I'm down. What now?"The Oonkh evolved in much the same way humans did, when tree-dwelling omnivores found themselves stranded on a grassland during a time of global cooling.
"Boss?"
I could hear the tremor in my assistant's voice. Over his prone body, Whoopha(pop) reared up on two massive legs, clawed tentacles extended, apical sphincter frothing.
Oonkh civilization evolved in rambling herds of females, who eventually settled and began farming the grass.
"Oh my," beside me, the Concensuar breathed out a long sigh, fluttering the viel that hung over her lower body. Her eyestalks quivered in which I had learned to recognize as arosal. "So STRONG."
The males, on the other hand, remained nomadic, trapped by a quirk of evolution that drives them into murderous insanity during the breeding season.
"Just keep lying there," I said into my mic, "you're perfectly safe." I pressed mute and turned to Hmaa(tock). "My assistant IS safe, right?"
A male Oonkh in musth will kill any other male it sees, trying to take that male's harem of females, a behavior that doesn't work well in cities.
"As long as he maintains submission," the Eunuch rumbled. "The male will strut and display for the females now."
Accordingly, Oonkh males who want jobs and responsibilities get themselves castrated, leaving an ever more savage population of men to wander about the wilderness.
I looked around. The females certainly seemed to be appreciating the display. Eyestalks fluttered everyone.
The males form a community that needs special diplomatic attention.
The huge shaggy Whoopha(pop) settled back onto his forelegs, eyestalks swiveling. He was looking for the harem of the male he had just defeated.
"Now," said the Eunuch next to me. I stepped forward.
Whoopha(pop)'s eyes locked onto me, the female version of the rival at his feet. He snorted through his apical sphincter.
"Ugly," my translator supplied, "I will regret this, when I sober up."
The Concensuar next to me giggled.
"Nevertheless..." Whoopha(pop) took a stepped around Jun and started toward me. Under his shaggy belly, I saw the seminal tentacles uncoil.
"Oooh," said the female to my left, "my turn next."
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Next in my New Frontiers series, after [link]
These guys are based, very loosely, on elephants, and on Ka D'Argo, from Farscape
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Done in SAI while listening to: The Hippopotamus Pool, Arian's Alexsander the Great
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Comments: 22
bensen-daniel [2013-05-30 04:30:17 +0000 UTC]
Aha, I understand now. The oonkhs have evolved quite a bit since I drew this picture. The new cannon is this: [link]
The "seminal tentacles" have become the "hectacoctylar array," a branching organ like a fern, with lobes that break off and move under their own power into the female's pallial cavity.
So yes to both questions.
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WatcherInThePuddle [2013-05-29 15:09:36 +0000 UTC]
What would of happened if he cut off his wang at that moment?
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bensen-daniel In reply to WatcherInThePuddle [2013-05-29 19:10:23 +0000 UTC]
Who, the human's?
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WatcherInThePuddle In reply to bensen-daniel [2013-05-29 20:19:22 +0000 UTC]
Nah, the poor guy underneath :c
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WatcherInThePuddle In reply to WatcherInThePuddle [2013-05-29 20:22:33 +0000 UTC]
shit I mean the alien. do they even have wangs.
(dont really know why I asked this, Im a compulsive poster XD )
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OblivionJunkey94 [2013-05-02 06:49:18 +0000 UTC]
So the males go through a kind of pon farr like hornyness? Awesome
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bensen-daniel In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-05-02 08:46:23 +0000 UTC]
That would be this ([link] )?
Broadly, yes. The ancestors of oonkhs went into musth, during which time the normally solitary males sought out a herd of females and jealously defended the herd against rivals. Civilization has changed things somewhat, but oonkh men still experience musth as a time of heightened paranoia and aggression. The equivalent is human women becoming more irritable around menstruation, even though they don't go into estrus like other primates.
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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to bensen-daniel [2013-05-02 08:48:23 +0000 UTC]
Yeah it just reminded me a little is all, i really like the aliens youve created and the descriptions and stories you write are fantastic
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bensen-daniel In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-05-02 08:53:55 +0000 UTC]
Thanks Unfortunately I can't post anything about New Frontiers (or certain...other projects) until I'm finished and ready for beta-readers, but stay tuned!
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Zippo4k [2012-01-23 01:54:36 +0000 UTC]
Interesting story, and an excellent idea concerning the matters of their culture.
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bensen-daniel In reply to Zippo4k [2012-01-23 07:09:12 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. I didn't get a chance to talk directly about the females, who of course are attracted to extremely violent males, but whose society demands most males get themselves castrated. Then of course, the males who are left are the even more violent ones...
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bensen-daniel In reply to whalewithlegs [2012-01-19 14:41:44 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. I actually wanted something cleaner, like the pnamms one. I may go back and fiddle
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AmnioticOef [2012-01-19 00:10:00 +0000 UTC]
I love it. What a fascinating idea .
I wonder though, how does the Oonkh male read the two humans as male and female?
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bensen-daniel In reply to AmnioticOef [2012-01-19 05:31:05 +0000 UTC]
Facepalm.
I'll get back to you on that
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AmnioticOef In reply to bensen-daniel [2012-07-10 10:03:12 +0000 UTC]
Hormonal perfume maybe?
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A-H-R [2012-01-18 20:52:24 +0000 UTC]
The creatures look like these horror creatures from a manga called The Drifting Classroom.
Only these look less horror-like, and more cool.
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bensen-daniel In reply to A-H-R [2012-01-19 14:43:43 +0000 UTC]
Huh. I don't know that one. These aliens probably owe most of their bodyplan to...[link] this guy.
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