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Allow me to introduce my first character design attempt for my upcoming new OC for my story.

Dr. Keylah Livesey.

I searched around for such a name and decided to go for this one. I went to one of those baby name sites and typed in the meaning 'Healthy'. The one name that stood out the most to my eye was the Swahili name "Keylah" which means "In Good Health". Once I felt a liking to that name, I made the decision to make the character have African features since I always admired the beauty of African natives and African Americans as well.
I also felt that this could be perfect for her because I originally wanted her to be the same kind of species that was of the original design of Captain Amelia in 'Treasure Planet' before they decided to make her character a feline alien. Amelia's original design of a human like alien with long tentacles for hair. Seen here in the center images:
This way, I made Keylah with tentacles that look a lot more like actual dreadlocks than they do tentacles.
I was also inspired by this look a few months ago when I saw a very beautiful black lady come to our store one day and she had the longest, thickest, and most perfect dreadlocks I had ever seen. I loved it so much that I had to come up to her and ask her how long it took her to grow her hair out like that. She smiled and told me it took her almost thirty years. She said they are heavy as hell, but she had gotten used to it through the years. I told her they were beautiful and just perfect.

Therefore, I designed Keylah here mostly off of that lovely lady I met. This is what she basically looked like with a few changes here in there.

Now for Keylah herself.
Since the idea of Captain Amelia's original design is shelved, I made a few idea of the species.
The species name is called Tendrillian. They are a race that can live up to 500 years and even longer.
Keylah here is however part human. Her maternal Grandmother was Tendrillian, her mother was half human, and her father was full human. It was her father that gave her more human features in her face and of course she gained the tentacle hair from her mother and grandmother. With the tentacle, she has ten extra hands to assist her in medical emergencies.

She is 240+ years old and very wise through her experience of life. She has more than one medical degree as she wanted to be of medical assistance to many different species of the Terran Empire, including animals.
For my story, Keylah is an old friend to the Seadrift family. She was the doctor who delivered both Marina and even her own father years ago.
Dr. Keylah is very trustworthy as she took many oaths in her life. She does no harm and is very good at keeping secrets. However, she has always had a fondness of playing Matchmaker between her patients. However, even though she is a doctor who saves lives, she is also a good fighter and will do what it takes to protect others.

Now, as for her design. If anyone wishes to do it, I welcome all kinds of red lines and criticism necessary before I bring her into the written story. It'll be a little while until she arrives so there is time to do a few changes if needed.

Description
Allow me to introduce my first character design attempt for my upcoming new OC for my story.

Dr. Keylah Livesey.

I searched around for such a name and decided to go for this one. I went to one of those baby name sites and typed in the meaning 'Healthy'. The one name that stood out the most to my eye was the Swahili name "Keylah" which means "In Good Health". Once I felt a liking to that name, I made the decision to make the character have African features since I always admired the beauty of African natives and African Americans as well.
I also felt that this could be perfect for her because I originally wanted her to be the same kind of species that was of the original design of Captain Amelia in 'Treasure Planet' before they decided to make her character a feline alien. Amelia's original design of a human like alien with long tentacles for hair. Seen here in the center images:
This way, I made Keylah with tentacles that look a lot more like actual dreadlocks than they do tentacles.
I was also inspired by this look a few months ago when I saw a very beautiful black lady come to our store one day and she had the longest, thickest, and most perfect dreadlocks I had ever seen. I loved it so much that I had to come up to her and ask her how long it took her to grow her hair out like that. She smiled and told me it took her almost thirty years. She said they are heavy as hell, but she had gotten used to it through the years. I told her they were beautiful and just perfect.

Therefore, I designed Keylah here mostly off of that lovely lady I met. This is what she basically looked like with a few changes here in there.

Now for Keylah herself.
Since the idea of Captain Amelia's original design is shelved, I made a few idea of the species.
The species name is called Tendrillian. They are a race that can live up to 500 years and even longer.
Keylah here is however part human. Her maternal Grandmother was Tendrillian, her mother was half human, and her father was full human. It was her father that gave her more human features in her face and of course she gained the tentacle hair from her mother and grandmother. With the tentacle, she has ten extra hands to assist her in medical emergencies.

She is 240+ years old and very wise through her experience of life. She has more than one medical degree as she wanted to be of medical assistance to many different species of the Terran Empire, including animals.
For my story, Keylah is an old friend to the Seadrift family. She was the doctor who delivered both Marina and even her own father years ago.
Dr. Keylah is very trustworthy as she took many oaths in her life. She does no harm and is very good at keeping secrets. However, she has always had a fondness of playing Matchmaker between her patients. However, even though she is a doctor who saves lives, she is also a good fighter and will do what it takes to protect others.

Now, as for her design. If anyone wishes to do it, I welcome all kinds of red lines and criticism necessary before I bring her into the written story. It'll be a little while until she arrives so there is time to do a few changes if needed.