[This Idea Has Been Rattling In My Brain And I Hadto Share It.]

[This idea has been rattling in my brain and I had to share it.]

I know we all love the ‘humans are space orcs’ concept… but imagine, onboard the new ship they’ve been assigned to, the human meets an actual space orc. A massive monster… fangs and tusks and scars and a battle-hardened stare, looming over all the other life forms on the ship in its thick indestructible armour it refuses to remove. It barely drinks, it doesn’t need sleep, its massive shoulders are heavy with the terrible things it has experienced. Compared to the squishy & delicate human body, this thing is a walking tank.

… Except instead of hating/ignoring one another, the human and the monster start bonding over both coming from death planets. The human is excited to find a life form who doesn’t quiver with fear at the vague description of a jellyfish and the monster is ecstatic to meet someone who understands the feeling of being bitten by a qua’lem (cats are pretty close). They sit together and compare dangerous animals and locations as the other aliens look on in confusion and fear… oh, you also have dense jungles of deadly hidden predators, boiling acid lakes, tamed predatory killers, and areas with horrendously high and low temperatures? Sick!! 

It doesn’t take long before the two of them become totally inseparable. The human loves not feeling like some kind of crazy outsider and the monster is overjoyed they’ve finally found an equal in this unkillable marshmallow.

Monster: When I was a youngling, a grol-lik stung straight through my armour. The pain lasted for approximately 16 human hours. Human: Oh yeah man, I get that. As a kid I got a wasp stuck in my shirt. It stung me like four times, it was awful, and all my cousins just laughed at me… Monster: [using their arm screen to research human courting methods] I see.

The Biology of Humans

Gnax, a Tsin, was leaning on a chair, painting his claws 'Pinking of You'. He paused thoughtfully.

"Is it not the day the Interspecies EMTs learn about human reproduction?" he asked of Dave the Human.

Dave, reading, held up a hand, one finger up the rest curled. Then he pointed to the auditorium.

On cue, there were multple horrified screams.

"Ah yes," said Gnax, "That sounds like..." he paused to listen, "... Section 17. Uterine linings."

Dave nodded. "Gets 'em every time."

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Because I read This about how periods and pregnancy is so very space Orc.

If you're in a doodling mood would you mind drawing what you think Karn looked like? You did mention him having long mud-brown curls and I do wonder what he looked like as a kid or before he shaved.

Turns out curls are hard to draw, so I made him more like a wavy-haired maker lmaooo

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