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World Building- Omens- General Overview

     So I’m working on a species and I need a place to throw out ideas. The species in question are called Omens (for now, I am beginning to hate the word cause I type it so much), and they’re a solitary nomadic race of ‘reapers’, so to speak. They eat the energy of dying creatures as sustenance. Not sure how that entirely works yet. Basically, their powers/abilities include: 

Shape-shifting: They can shift to mimic the physical traits of a different species (Omens will stay on one planet for years at a time before moving on, they live for quite a while). They longer they mimic a species for, the better they get at it. If one gets particularly good, they can change internal organs to match those of the other species. The only thing that none of them can change is blood color, which will always be blue.

Time-sense: Based off of the one from Doctor Who. Since Omens deal with Death, they needed a way to tell when a creature was about to die. So, they can sense timelines. It’s nothing fancy like in Death Note, and it’s not absolute either. So, to explain, timelines in this context are when a person is most likely to die next. It’s a divergence in a creature’s timeline specifically at times when the wrong decision means death. It plays into the butterfly effect just a little bit. I still haven’t figured it all out yet, but I wanted to keep the aspect of free will in with the idea of being able to see someone’s death date. A little build off of this is an Omen’s ability to know the Time anywhere in the universe. This is usually non-linear, so it makes little sense to humans, who use and measure time in a linear fashion, but they make good stopwatches. 

Unlike Time Lords, though, Omens have no control over Time and cannot travel through it or change the past.

So, that’s a very general overview. I’m having a lot of fun trying to build my own species from the ground up! I want to flesh out the entire society of the species, including their own planet! I have a character from this species named James. I love him with my heart. I should probably go to bed.

Because this is relevant to my last post, this dumbass is James. He's based loosely off of like 7 different birds, but mostly vultures and condors. He gets into fights all the time but is really a sweet dude. Click the pic for bettter quality, Tumblr makes stuff look fuzzy

HOLD UP

Y’all haven’t seen my boy before, have you? This is Oliver, my absolute oldest oc! He’s a harpy that got cursed to turn into a phoenix, which basically means he’s a ticking time bomb weapon of mass destruction (but without the rebirth). He’s trying to rid himself of the curse before it kills him and causes an explosion big enough to level a country.

DAMN, you could fry EGGS on this little motherfucker!

pov youre getting followed thru the woods by some guy who really wants you to join his emo band

it’s ollie time again baby!!!! this time i redrew one of my favorite old pictures of him. his design was very different back then (he was still a red-shouldered hawk) and his clothes were the result of a re-fixation on httyd. as you can see the original was from 2018, so i think i’ve improved a lot since then!

wanted a ref for Oliver's coloration! the cursed feathers are black until he summons fire, when the magic etched into them reveals itself

pls click for high quality :]