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jayeatonart — Vrazi and Piawii
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Published: 2024-04-19 16:31:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 3850; Favourites: 109; Downloads: 0
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The two main characters of my short story Airsled, Vrazi the diver avian and Piawii the pygmy avian. You can read more about their species here. Vrazi is holding the cord of money they used to buy Piawii's indentured labor, and Piawii is holding Vrazii's tea pipe.
The tea pipe was a funny compromise that turned into worldbuilding, because Vrazi felt like the type of character to smoke a cool pipe, but avian lungs are too delicate to handle the high concentration of airborne particulates found in leaf smoke. Smoke inhalation has a lot more immediately deleterious effects to them than to humans. I split the difference by giving them a steaming hot cup of [insert additive stimulant here] with a pipe-like handle for drinking on the go.
This design got turned into stickers and put on the back cover of the new printed edition.
