Sent off a commission request for my alien implantee catgirl Hladolet, and now I've got that "Calvin waiting for his propellor beanie" feel, checking my DeviantArt notes every five minutes...

I've been sheepish for the last couple of years about doing anything with Hladi because her origins (inspired by "Erotica Ann," a sexdroid from Elaine Lee's Starstruck comics) seemed a little sexist and dated, and I'm not proud of some of the ways I played her when she first hit TapestriesMUCK.

But I think I've figured out how to redeem her, by emphasizing she's NOT a sextoy, she's an transcenda, and emphasizing the "spooky alien emissary" aspects. Less goddamn Galaxina or Sorayama fembot, and more V'ger—or the False Maria from Metropolis. Still adorable, friendly, and pettable... but oh, yeah, you are DEFINITELY gonna disappear and wake up working in a factory on Saturn.

I should wake up her "sibling" Kayamanu, too—basically the same model of hypnosquidded cyborg, but a fluffy skunk DMAB enby, with red droid-livery instead of blue. I've never gotten any art of them, and I should really fix that. The world needs more cute, fuzzy enbots.

Not to mention, it's been something like 17 years since I started playing her, so I think it's definitely time for her to get a promotion. When she got started, she was a single receiver node for Saturnian commands, the equivalent of a single portable radio.

By now, I figure she's assimilated enough other mammalian lifeforms to have some serious rank and status, rebroadcasting to many thousands of subnodes—more like the kittyborg equivalent of BBC4. _:3