Hi! I love your xeno ideas for inklings and octolings. I was wondering if you have any xeno stuff on salmonids and/or jellyfish?
Aahhh thank you! And yes, I do for both actually!
I threw these together in like 5 minutes so pardon the quality haha
I tend to draw Salmonids kind of seal-like, with chonky proportions. The men are the ones that turn red during Runs, whereas women are usually silver or copper-coloured. This guy here is an adult Cohock, most Salmonids don't make it to adulthood so you could say he's pretty experienced.
Salmonids have both gills and a labyrinth organ, allowing them to breathe air so long as their gills stay wet. Since they have no legs, these fish are pretty clumsy and rely strongly on water to get around and to, y'know, breathe. There are some wheelchair/skateboard-like contraptions that have been used roll around on land though.
I tend to keep jellyfish pretty similar to how they look in-game, only pronouncing the bell a bit better and also changing the arms to resemble the oral tentacles of real jellyfish. This fellow right here is a harmless Moon Jelly, however other species can have stinging nematocysts in their tentacles which makes for a pretty killer handshake.
Jellyfish entirely lack the ability to speak at all so they have to rely on either nonverbal/sign language or TTS machines to communicate. Also, their mouths are underneath their bodies. It's really weird.
I’m in the process of redesigning a handful of marine people, and jellyfish are so weird, this person literally be transparent 💀. their ‘crotch’ region is in fact their mouth, this is canon i did not add this feature by the way
Also shoutout to the pretty sea slug, i’ve made her look like a silly dinosaur person haha