Bad photo because of the afternoon sun, but he is, in fact, green.

MY WIFE IS SO SMART AND TALENTED AND MADE ME THIS BUG

Staring into the distance.............................

Uhhhhhh... Yeah, that's not great. How old is this person, btw? Wondering if that explains their behavior at all.

Is this on the comm again? Idk, I think there's a good chance they do it because they've been getting away with it, since everyone is understandably tired as fuck of this kind of artist behavior.

We haven't made Solis yet because we have to figure out how to make a weird little freak, give him a humansona, or something in between (green human????), but in the meantime all our teenage characters have decided River is their best friend. Cool gay cousin vibes, I guess.

Maria/Esther in Tomodachi Life fell in love before even getting the "friend" status and then spent a bunch of time agonizing over this. It was very embarrassing to watch.

I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE MAKE THEIR NON HUMAN CHARACTERS OMG

I needed to draw him in teacher mode… [OCs]

You can always do a trade with your wife after,,,

(She angrily accepts River's help after all.)

Solis tries to be placating and offers to teach her instead, and he uses measuring implements, but this turns out to be worse because he'll do that thing where you overfill a spoon over the pan/bowl and then just go "whoops lol guess we have a little extra!" (Virtue nearly in tears.)

Ryan and I were talking about River trying to teach Virtue how to cook, and she would be mad about this because

a. she has a petty vendetta against him
b. "what do you MEAN you're not using MEASURING SPOONS how do you know that was two teaspoons when you just POURED IT IN" (anxious perfectionist)

Scrapped lore thing: I really wanted the sacrum (hip bones) to be the seat of the soul because some practices believe this and it seemed like a fun detail, but two of my three species categories (mu and entomon) don't have bones... And mu don't have a hip area at all......

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Solis is like "uhhhhh what do I do when a man is so beautiful my brain stops working. No one equipped me to deal with this type of problem"

solis you are going to go so fucking crazy once you get your footing on being gay, dude

River works out as a kind of gender euphoria thing (it makes him feel masculine in a way he likes), but he doesn't care about being like... shredded. He is also not giving up carbs ever. The result of this is that he has a nice shape + still has just a little bit of soft biteable tummy. (:

My RL friend started reading Astra a while back and we had a conversation like

Her: I hate the Saint. I hope he dies.
Me: If he dies, he just body-snatches his Apostle, though.
Her: ...Yeah, but they can stop that, right?
Me: (:

24 is riiiiight at the edge of the big emotional up and down period of the 20s, too, which was intentional. B) Get wrecked (gayly), losers!!! B)

Well, you have to remember I made Maria when I was around her age. The character has been around for a long time now.

And River is supposed to be in the early part of adulthood. (FWIW, Solis is physically like, late 30s.)

24!

Bug yaoi real soon.... River is deliriously in love with this guy he's about to have clumsy beginner sex with.

It's very funny to me that she holds Solis in such high esteem that she won't hold him at all responsible for the PDA he and River do right in front of her. All the blame is going to River. Isn't Solis complicit here? Not in Virtue's mind.

Virtue is going to experience a lot of platonic jealousy, and as someone who really values diverse platonic relationships in stories, I'm very excited to write about this.

Omg I just realized Maria and River are the same age.........

River is still very firm about his aesthetic stance of "I make myself pretty and/or hot for *me* but also if Solis likes it, too, then that's a bonus 💜"

I won't actually do this but it would be very funny imo if I called the relevant chapter "THIS IS THE BUG YAOI". I'll just tell you in the post or something.

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He's like the fish dude from the Sh4p3 of W4t3r. He's just totally flat like a mannequin until he needs to use The Goods, and then the bug d appears. And it is actually based on real bug d. The things I have had to look up for Astra, smh..........