So fun thing I was working on earlier this month on my writing for my OC universe and characters. It's still in rough draft, but if anyone knowledgeable in microbiology or biology wish to add any tips to help flesh out this conceptual "alien life form" study, feel free to add your insights, I'm eager to read your thoughts and willing to discuss to find a way to incorporate them! #CreativeWriting #SciFi #Fiction
So to add to that rough draft already up in the screenshot: The tirikan basically have two hearts, a major, and a minor. The minor is closer to the seat of their hips and the major roughly the same place as a humans heart is placed. The major is perhaps double in size of what a human heart average is while the minor heart is slightly smaller and the vascular system of their tails actually help with moving the blood through their bodies, regulated as well as for expression in body lang.
Their ears and tails actually provide a way to cool down their body temp to be more tolerable as they do have a higher base body temp than humans do as well as higher blood pressure due to the viscosity being higher than that of human blood and plasma is.
@PaganMother While having more DNA can lead to more successful varieties and combos (think many compatible versions of the species that don't necessarily look alike), and such repair mechanisms can cover for a lot of issues, when things go wrong ,they can go spectacularly wrong.
A ten note chord can sound nice or it can sound like someone sitting on the keyboard.
One idea could be ring species: A can breed with B, B can breed with C, but and and C are not compatible.
@sheseala Oh yes, mutations are expected in every generation! That's one of the fun quirky things about this concept species, no two are the same. They do have some issue with hybridizing with fellow quad helixed species, one set of coding trying to domineer over the other.
@sheseala But with the way their DNA structure is designed, they are able to pass on basically a "how to survive" guide encoded in the DNA itself as a form of genetic memory, which is one of the reasons why they carry so much information in their DNA. Least how I would explain it anyway.
@PaganMother Not really related but it made me think of a weird species of salamander that while only female and mates with males of other species, they'll only take "useful" genes from the males and retain their species defining genes, and only have female offspring. Kleptogenesis is the term
@sheseala That's awesome! Huh, I might use a bit of that for the concept!
Something my LDR partner said, he added his own microbiology insights while we were talking about what the study the characters are doing might result with.
LDR Partner — 06/15/2024 5:45 AM
I mean yeah they are magical, but at the same time you want them to be visceral , real. Like you could imagine one standing right before you. Feel the wind when they flap their wings. Share in the unease when one sways their tail in an agitated motion.
(Oops, didn't mean to put that on blast w/o the thread)