Her face is just as strange as the rest of her.
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Talita starts to take of her suit in front of the staff lockers. She twists off the air hoses to her helmet, undoes the latches at the base of her neck, twists the neck seal open. Human crew members walk by, their heads barely taller than her lower torso. She pulls off the helmet to reveal her face. Her neck is tiger-striped with an integument somewhere in between fur and feathers. Her owlish face tapers into a short slender trunk with lips at the end, and a larger mouth in a more predictable place has two round, dark patches of skin on either side of the lower jaw. She picks up a pair of rectangular glasses on top of the lockers.
25 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 10”
jjsanguine
I’ve been following Jay Eaton’s work since they collabed with Ewa U for worldbuilding notes so the author’s note about Talita’s face looking odd had me like “?” for a moment because I’ve been familiar with it for years. I remember when rtts centaurs didn’t have scale teeth haha
dokki
right?? I’m so used to her face that when I read this, I went back over a few pages and tried to imagine I wasn’t yet.
Waitwot
Still can’t get over how Talita has that proboscis like mouth
dokki
not a mouth, nose
SpaceDragon
I mean, it is kinda both. She speaks through it after all I’m pretty sure.
Hyratel
Vocal Nose. Mouth is for eating with
SpaceDragon
I’m aware of the fact that the nose is only for speaking, which is why I had said “Kinda both”.
Origamigryphon
The woman, the myth, the legend
Guest
I wonder if her helmet lens is prescription
Jay Eaton
Yeah, she doesn’t need to wear her glasses in it because the helmet viewport assists her close-range vision.
Skrymer
Hello Talita!
(ha! she puts her glasses on top of the lockers because she’s the only one who can reach them. :D)
Jay Eaton
Correct :^]
Random Clod
Yay! We can finally see her gorgeous (and spec-bio-wise fascinating) face!
dokki
taking in each page absolutely scarfing down the details. I never noticed that talita’s vertical eyestripes leading down to nostrils were concave.
I enjoy how softly rendered the humans are in the second-to-last panel indicating their proximity.
Fallingfeather
THERE SHE IIIIIS!!
Also, I love the tiny detail of her needing to press with two fingers on either side of the snaps on the helmet to undo them. So if something like, hits her in the neck it’s not going to accidentally pop a corner of her helmet off. Safety!
Joysweeper
she!!
I’m so happy to see this project coming so far, I’ve loved your worldbuilding and characters for years.
bwooom
THERES MY GIRL!!
Viashino_wizard
*audience applause*
Brushfeather
Talita!! Also, love the careful details put into her suit.
Jellex
Talita!!! Also, as a huge spaceflight nerd, seeing a non-humanoid take off a spacesuit realistically is so so cool.
Tumorhead
her!
TotallySomebody
Talita!!!!
R
God she’s gorgeous
AnormalADN
Wahoo it’s the her!
Amanda/OwlBear
Woot! unobscured Talita Face