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A commissioned idle animation of 's Libellus!

This commission was Tier 2!
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A character for a story I eventually hope to get to - a musical band of space refugees on the run from terrifying invaders. They try to warn and salvage the cultures on other planets, but they want to see the sights and have some fun while doing it.

My segment of this ol thing   which was a lot of fun to make!

Commission for ! These OCs of yours were so much fun to draw gosh!!!

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Maybe I should clarify: I'm pretty much completely broke. If I can't make this month's rent on time I will literally end up in the streets and not be able to make any more art. Really, anything helps.


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-DISCOVERY-

Ever since the middle ages, legends had been told of Vikings that found a distant land of savage beast-men and horrific monsters, monsters like spear-fanged cats and hairy, powerful giants with noses that could fell trees. For 500 years, these were widely regarded as entertaining fables.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed upon the Bahamas... finding empty islands untouched by Man, he and his crew restocked their ship and turned around with news of a pristine New World. Upon his third trip to the New World, however, he mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, John Cabot returned to Britain from the Canadian coast with tales of being haunted by a scourge of shouting devil-men from the shores.

It wasn't until 1511, however, that Hernann Cortez returned to Spain with captured devil-men.

-SIMS-

These wild simian humans, or Sims as they came to be known, were the indigenous people of the New World mainland. It's apparent at a glance that Sims are not quite like Men. Though they are of identical stature and height, a Sim is covered in thick hair and their heads seem apish; while their teeth are human in appearance, their brows are jutting ridges of bone and they lack foreheads. To hunt they would use clubs, or sharpen stones and throw them with deadly accuracy. They knew the importance of fire and used it well, but only knew how to maintain it once found rather than create it for themselves.

In spite of their wild nature, the utility of the Sims as laborers and servants was not lost on the Europeans that found them. It was soon discovered that Sims in captivity could be raised to be docile and obedient, even capable of understanding human speech, but physically incapable of speaking it themselves. Instead, they could be taught to be fluent in sign language. Sims are very fast learners, but unable to imagine or build upon what they know.

Sim-Human offspring are possible, but an extremely taboo topic that has always been the stuff of vile rumors.

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This is fan-art of Harry Turtledove's series of alternate history short stories, A Different Flesh, in which the Americas are discovered to be populated by a more primitive proto-human species instead of human natives as in OTL.

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