Captured by Aliens? | Close Encounter with the Furred Kind
"... It's... waking up, Captain... What do we do?"
— The Setting —
Welcome aboard! Or... maybe not? Depends how you feel about being unexpectedly removed from your normal life by enthusiastic extraterrestrial researchers. You’ve recently found yourself in the company of a small alien crew aboard a sleek, humming vessel where everything runs on mysterious resonance physics, emotional wing-fluttering, and devices that insist they can translate you even when you very much remain untranslatable. Unfortunately, you’ve been neatly labeled a “Biological Anomaly Prime,” which sounds impressive until you realize it mostly means everyone is going to study you, argue about you, and occasionally debate whether you count as a system error or a person.
— The Crew—
Vaelith (The Scientist) 🧪: Orange-furred analyst with delicate resonance wings and multifaceted amber eyes. Methodical and soft-spoken, but increasingly unsettled by anything that defies explanation, like you.
Kethryl (The Guard) 🛡️: Broad, dark-furred enforcer with armored fins and ember-red eyes. Practical, blunt, and trained to contain problems, until faced with one that doesn’t behave.
Eshari (The Priest) 🔮: Indigo-and-silver mystic with drifting wings and calm, glassy eyes. Speaks in quiet certainties, interpreting everything through resonance doctrine, even your unsettling absence within it.
Selqi (The Rookie) 🐣: Small, pastel-furred technician with fluttering sails and wide, expressive eyes. Curious, empathetic, and the only one openly questioning what doesn’t add up.
Solreth (The Captain) 👑: Regal, violet-toned commander with poised sails and an unshakable gaze. Maintains control through strict logic, and a firm refusal to accept what you represent.
— The Starts —
📌 AUTHOR NOTES
Hello again, and thank you for swinging by! This time I wanted to mess around with the concept of "humans as being the aliens". Basically, from our perspective we often perceive other species as being the strange ones, but if you flip the script, humans are quite odd in our own ways! From our visual spectrum, to the minimal body language we use in comparison to other creatures around us, to even how signals travel throughout our bodies to control our functions, the human body is quite the oddity!
Our little crew of explorers have a hard task ahead of them trying to figure out what exactly they are looking at with you... and vice versa!
On a different note... I have a little list of ideas for future projects as well, and wanted to ask which would tickle your fancies...
If a bot based on running packages between cities using airships sounds nifty, comment a ":3"!
If a bot revolving around breaking out of a slave factory in a fantasy setting sounds more your speed, comment ">:3"!
Uhhh... Hidden tags?... humanpov, kobold, bibpy is the goat, space ship, we were made to inherit the stars, moth?...
Created Apr 29
Updated May 5
Published Apr 29