Reference Image of a young humanoid fish girl with blue skin.
Text reads: Iolana "Lana" Iona
Lana is a young, apathetic adult woman and is from the planet Aquid. The primary intelligent species of the planets are called Aquidians; an amphibian race of humanoids who inhabit the entire planet.
Lana is part of the "Upper Aquidian" race, meaning she is more suited to living on land.
Pixel art profile drawing of Lana
While the planet (Aquid) is primarily covered in bodies of water, there are several small continents as well. A majority of them are covered in swamps and rainforests, but there are a few mountain ranges and temperate forests found on the planet. The poles of Aquid are a snowy tundra where very little native life lives, though many foreign species have set up trading posts there. The average climate across most of the planet is warm and tropical, but there are a few regions, mainly at higher altitudes where it’s a little drier. Aside from land, the oceans of Aquid are large and deep and also happen to be where most of the planet’s life resides
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Upper Aquidians live primarily above water and are primarily found living in swamps and rainforests, but they've been known to occasionally settle in drier climates if they're able to find another body of water to survive off of. While they prefer to live above water, this subspecies is the most adaptive of the species and can be found almost anywhere on Aquid. They're the most recently evolved of the 3 species. Due to them being more suited to living above water, their tails have shrunk to only a few inches long, and their skin (similar to frogs) is covered in a thin layer of mucus to keep their skin hydrated.
Lower Aquidians almost exclusively lives underwater, mainly in oceans and seas. They have spent centuries developing tech to create towns and cities that can exist in the middle of the ocean, above and below water and have adapted to being able to withstand quick changes in atmospheric pressure that comes from living at deep sea levels. Due to evolving to live in colder waters, most saltwater variants find it difficult to survive on the surface. They're also the largest aquidian species, having much more fat and long, muscular tails. While they can breathe above water, they have visible gills and need to be near a body of water at all times to refresh themselves.
Deep Aquidians live almost exclusively in caves, below the surface of aquid. Although they've evolved to be bioluminescent, their eyesight is still much poorer than the other races. To make up for this, their hearing and sense of smell is much more developed. Though there have been reports of some living above ground, very few are known to leave their caves, mainly living in small communities in underwater lakes. They're the smallest of the races, due to their need to maneuver through sea caves and caverns. Due to their near complete separation from the rest of aquidian society, only about ⅓ of people in the outer societies speak or can even understand the deep dialect.
I made this girl, Lana, for a space rp server that never really went anywhere. I still love her a lot though <3
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