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Fadura-lotti — Headless Monarchy

Published: 2009-10-04 20:12:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 424; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 11
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Description Frecardians are basically like giant space cockroaches. You cut off their heads and they still 'live' as insentient, walking zombies for another three months. If they're fed and taken care of, the headless ones can pretty much live indefinitely. Since their CNS is a very, very strange thing, they can still do complicated tasks and sometimes (depending on how the head is severed) communicate in a manner that makes them seem sentient and emotional.

As such, Frecardians have very peculiar ideas as to what 'dead' means. It's perfectly normal to find headless people in Frecardian society. Headless soldiers or workers are often taken care of and made to work. Headless princesses and queens still sit in their thrones and are allowed to wander the palace with body guards to accompany them.

Info dum aside, more marker fun and some extra sketches wherein I try to figure out how to arrange the leg armor.

Art (c) me.
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Comments: 10

ryuzo [2009-12-30 07:03:47 +0000 UTC]

Very wicked idea, something I NEVER would've been able to imagine!!!!!!!!!!

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Fadura-lotti In reply to ryuzo [2010-01-02 00:59:31 +0000 UTC]

I didn't either until I spent three hours reading into cockroaches one day. o_o

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lonemaximal [2009-10-06 08:32:59 +0000 UTC]

I love the fact that headless people are considered a common occurrence.

And that colour scheme is gorgeous!

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Fadura-lotti In reply to lonemaximal [2009-10-06 17:52:29 +0000 UTC]

Outside of simply dropping powerful explosives on them, Frecardians are the least armored around their necks so the usual method of harming them is to aim for the throat.

Color scheme... I'm still not sure about it. I think the soldiers ought to be grey and queens need to be a combination of colors, more like.

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Kelonerd [2009-10-05 18:50:03 +0000 UTC]

Freaky, but the idea is very original. Will we be seeing more of this?

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Fadura-lotti In reply to Kelonerd [2009-10-06 17:46:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

And most likely, although that'll be in a several years at the very most, story development and planning considered.

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Lunatron [2009-10-04 23:16:33 +0000 UTC]

Do the dead princesses and queens still have babies?

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Fadura-lotti In reply to Lunatron [2009-10-05 15:19:05 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes, although by constraints of tradition, queens don't have babies as they're the ones in power and have a lot of responsibilities to deal with.

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stripedwine [2009-10-04 20:40:17 +0000 UTC]

I strongly approve of this idea.

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Fadura-lotti In reply to stripedwine [2009-10-05 17:42:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very kindly!

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