The Pitch: Pacifistic, fuzzy, tri-legged, low-tech, creepy, huggy, tentacled, straw-mouthed, in-the-background, desert-homelanders. Detailed Snapshot: Biology Fur: The Cepillo Inodoro have thick, 2 inch long hair on most parts of their body except for their face and their limbs. The fur is usually thick, and hard to get to the actual skin under the fur. The fur comes in a range of colors but tend to stay browns, blacks, and grays but can uncommonly be light/dark oranges, reds, yellows, etc with the rarest being white fur. The Fur naturally becomes lighter through time like black to dark gray to gray. It can also be quite flammable. The fur grows back after 1-2 months (if shaved or removed). The fur is also very warm like a bunch of sweaters, however the Cepillo do not really mind the heat. Skin: The skin is usually always tan and has cracks, scrapes, and is callus ridden on most Cepillo. It is highly durable, being very thick skinned and resistant to high temperatures by adapting and evolving to their desert planet homeland. Skeleton: They have some bone-like plates in their bodies spread out and held together with their muscles to protect themselves from many harsh beatings, falling from large heights, etc. They also have a normal humanoid skeleton with a spine, skull, etc. but just with an extra leg and an altered hip bone to accommodate the three legs. Body: 7-11 feet in height as an adult (2-3 feet as a child and 3-7 feet in teenage years) but females are usually shorter than males. They usually live to around 122 and the ages go by, 1-6 years being a child, 7-22 for teenager, and 23-122 for adult years. The main reason why they are tall is They have 2 extremely large lungs nestled inside the rib cage and have basic organs such as a liver, brain, heart etc. They have three legs, two tendril like arms that have a very strong grip and are about 5-8 feet long, and night vision. They also have a metal straw/whistle mouth (made of tin) they use to communicate with one another and drink liquids. They communicate with whistles in different pitches, among other sounds, and form a small amount of words one could make out. The silver whistle mouth is formed when a Cepillo is in the womb, where the silver in its blood condenses into the mouth shape. Compared to human eyes, their eyes have farther placed sockets in their skull. Diet: Their diet is many things, usually liquids. They stab their straw-like mouth into fruits, vegetables, or the broad range of cacti that have a good source of water. Mainly herbivores in diet but some in other areas prefer blood from its iron content, which strangely gives their skin a slightly darker tint. Reproduction: The Cepillo reproduce by having two Cepillo wrap their arms around each other in a hug for about 2 months. In that time their skin becomes very soft and their arms begins to fuse to the body of the other to transfer genetic code. The male code fuses together with the female's genetic information to create two fusions that will then intern become 2 children when born. The female will start to look like she has two growths on her, when infact it is actually the two babies being formed. After 2 months of this they pop off into little fuzzy children. This also leaves two bald spots onto a female. The whole process leaves both mates extremely vulnerable and sometimes hire other cepillo (or other organisms) to protect them during this time. Culture Home: The Cepillo Inodoro live in mud/rock/sandstone homes that can be on the sides of mountains, some rocky surface, or any other sturdy area. Homes are not needed for some even stand in the sand for long periods of time. Here is a reference image; Usually with some dry grass for beds or soft dirt. Pets are usually a variety of sand creatures. Other Cepillo that have moved on from their natural homelands of deserts can be found living in city alleyways, in the cargo bay of large ships, small caves, deep into the woods, but basically these guys can be found in tons of places, in the background, if you look close enough. Clothing: Some Cepillo wear clothing such as cloth wrappings around their bodies, goggles, or sometimes they hand stuff in their fur. They also wear feathers in their fur in a variety of colors. Technology: The Cepillo have seen how advanced other races are but don't really care about all the shiny and chrome things, they instead prefer the simple life of mediocre wooden furniture, their loved for sticks, and sometimes they go more advanced of small light bulbs and locks with keys. Healthcare is basically bandages, cauterization, and Naturopathy, which is a form of alternative medicine employing a wide array of "natural" modalities, including homeopathy, herbalism, and acupuncture, as well as diet and lifestyle counseling instead of chemicals extracted and put into pills that we have today. Interaction With Other Species: Human - Cepillo Inodoro think of the humans as just weaker apex. Runts of the litter. But they do most of their trading and work with Humans. Thinking of their Runtness as a good reason to trust and work with the Humans. Maybe not the best logic though. Apex - The Cepillo see them as high horses, too interested in technology when the simple things are just as good. Cepillo often stowaway on their large high tech ships and spread through the galaxy that way. Cepillo somewhat relate to the Apex because of their furry, fuzziness. Floran - Cepillo don't like how most Florans are so violent and often are weary of them and keep their eyes on them. Florans and Cepillo do share a common aspect of tribalism, living in villages and using primitive technology while stealing other races technology. Some even live together and trade with slightly higher than normal tensions. Hylotl - Cepillo see the Hylotl as utterly confusing, with their weird letters, strange neon lighting, and even more strange TV 'game shows', but that's just why they like them. Feeling close with how strange and different both are, they find a likeness. Some Cepillo can be found in the alley ways if big Hylotl cities, near restaurant dumpsters for probably some scraps. They can also be seen trading with Hylotl merchants for shiny or ancient things. Glitch - The Glitch remind them of cargo ships with their metallic bodies and bright optic lights. Intrigued by how a ship can manifest into a walking, talking being like themselves. Loving to watch Glitch villages for days and looking at them interact with one another, usually hiding barns, haystacks, or trees as they do not want to disturb them too much. Avian - Reminding the Cepillo of vultures, desert owls, and other fowl that roam the hot days of their desert homelands. They think they are just like those animals and try to offer food to them, bread, crackers, etc. by holding it near their beaks. Poor, unaware Cepillo. Cepillo also enjoy touching their shiny shiny red rocks and enjoy their softness, often hugging them as a sign of respect for nature. Nova - The Cepillo like to watch the Nova (much like the Glitch) but interact with them more. Seeing them as fun time having, adorable, light guys. Liking to physically pick them up and set them a few feet from where they were. Sometimes even prodding them with their sticks to see if they are alive or poking their brands. Both can relate with each other from their mysterious nature of not many people knowing of their past and what not. All in all, the Cepillo have many aspects about them that can be related to nearly every core species. Further showing how they can be found anywhere and act normal (normal for a Cepillo) without being freaked out, or out of place in their minds. Leadership/Military: The Cepillo tribes have one Chief, known as the Jefe (Hefay) and wears a extremely large feather atop its head. It is usually the largest of a Cepillo tribe but this is not the only factor in picking a Chief. A Chief must show great wisdom, be very helpful in the tribe, and great control of their tribe in order for all to respect them. The Chief usually has a stick with a shiny jewel or object on the end used to show royalty and is often used in ceremonies. Guards, Watchmen, and Scouts are the three militaristic categories of the Cepillo. Guards bearing many small feathers in their fur, very bulky and wide in body proportions, and with large and sturdy sticks used to poke at the people who enter the tribe. They make sure the area is protected and no petty thievery or loligagging happens. They must be sturdy and keep in their place if attacked to show strength in the face of the enemy. Watchmen usually stay at vantage points and high areas around the tribe, keeping watch of threats that may or may not come near the tribe. They bear tribal masks that may look like birds, wolves, fish, or any other creature and usually have a more light tone of fur and very tall. They have long sticks with a dull shiny rock on the end or sometimes a small piece of fabric used to signal other Cepillo in the tribe. They must be perceptive incase of anything that comes near the Tribe or they may face dire punishment. The final militaristic category is the Scout, usually more slim or shorter than other Cepillo. The Scout has a stick with a split on the end that looks like a "Y" and is used to inspect things of interest. They are mainly used to check out an area, either for resources, new things, or how dangerous an area can be. They must be quick and ready for anything that may surprise them at any moment. There are many other jobs that are less militaristic such as gatherers, herbalists, nurses, artists, sculptors, constructors, and so on. Combat: Cepillo in war, or battle, will most likely try to make a treaty, make peace, or appease the enemy. Cepillo will also most likely never use weapons to kill or wound things and prefer using their tentacle-like arms to wrap up the enemy and wait for them to calm down and stay where they are standing. If the need arise, they will try to flee from great danger but usually just take the damage and wait for things to cool back down. Religion: If you cannot already tell, the Cepillo have a great fondness for sticks. Given a small stick that is most likely from a nearby tree at about a week old from birth to create a bond between the Cepillo and the sticks. Sticks are used in nearly every aspect of life in the Cepillo; cleaning, cooking, work, or even in games. Most Cepillo worship a Goddess that embodies nature with animals and wood. Offering shiny objects and other things of wealth and value to a worship tree, surrounded by rocks on the ground. Some Cepillo pilgrims travel with a sack of stones on their back, with runes on them, and place them around the bases of trees around the galaxy to spread their religion silently. Other Pilgrims would wear a giant stone tied to their backs with runes spread all on it, to symbolise the heavy burdens we all carry, and to show hope and pride within Cepillo who see them around the galaxy. Language: Cepillo produce different notes as a normal voice. Whether it be an A note or a D note. Lower pitches are mainly used for seriousness and/or mournfulness. A higher pitch is about happy things and good news. While the base pitch each Cepillo has is usually used for normal conversation. Different sounds like beeps, tweets, dings and etc are also used in a vast immense of things that each Cepillo uses, but a lot of them use an amalgamation of the sounds together in a way most Cepillo seem to understand. A lot of Cepillo have been slowly gaining the ability to talk in Galaxy Standard even though it takes them a lot of effort to do so. One Cepillo might sound like this; "Hellooo, hooow are yooou?". As you can see from this example, Cepillo drag out their "O"s when they try to talk in Galactic Standard and throw some other noises in there. An "S" or a couple of "S"s might make the Cepillo produce a whistle sound whilst an "-ing" could produce a ding sound. Hearing them speak, they scrunch words out, sounding fast. History The Great Awakening: Legend speaks of a single Cepillo who was enlightened one day, seeing the future the Cepillo could have and how to advancement the species for the betterment of itself and others. Legend also tells of how this great Cepillo, known as Adán, simply placed his hand on other Cepillos' faces and turned them to the great vastness of their homeworld to see what could be done to improve themselves. This is only legend but, ancient wall murals depict such a being as Adán teaching Cepillo how art, architectural advancement, recording history, gardening, etc. can help teach the future children of the Cepillo and advance further in the future. First Contact: The Cepillos' desert homeworld is home to hundreds of raiders. Raiders infact, name everything on the planet with broken spanish. The Cepillo Inodoros' name is even created by raiders and the Cepillo have adapted the name since they never gave themselves one. It is also worth to note that Cepillo also adapted spanish names to themselves when their past names were just a bunch of noises. Most have come to the planet via crash landings and are very, very dumb. The Cepillo first sent out a Scout, since the raiders started growing and growing in numbers. Using a telescope-esque device and watching them, inching closer and closer each day until they came across a blonde, human raider who was sitting on the engine/carburetor box of a chainsaw. The Cepillo did only the most logical thing to do in the situation, it raised its stick and poked the back of the head of the raider. The raider was then frightened and ran back to a raider camp, never seeing such a creature since most Cepillo lived in the high areas of the planet. Since the Cepillo was more confused than anything, it stood there and poked the chainsaw repeatedly for 2 weeks until it decided to take the chainsaw back to the tribe. The chainsaw was then studied with sticks for the most part, learning about pulley systems and different sources of power. 20 years later a large round ship crash landed into the planet that bared 3 men within; Derik Deringer, a rather bulky and strong looking apex with orange hair. Clint Sithey, a gray nova with dark blue trench coat who was a bit on the chubby side. Regal day-leaf, a blue floran who looked possibly like a miner. The men they saw were just businessmen out on a very large lunar cruise ship when it was about to explode, escape pods were used and they ended up here. Derik and Regal saw profit, while Clint saw expansion. Derik started to bring in construction workers and started work on a large Oasis Resort, two things plagued him however. One being sand that is a bad thing to build things on, the other was raiders, who killed most of his construction workers. Derik then went off on a more animalistic venture and left the planet with a few specimen of course. Regal stayed and started to construct mines all over the desert for some rare gems or ore before his death. Clint then started to construct a settlement for people to pull in with their ships and come and go as they please, the Cepillo were looked at strange by Clint but he helped get the community used to them being around and taught them about space travel. To The Stars: Soon after becoming integrated with the community created by Clint, the species noticed how giant metal beasts come down and give birth to people and then eat more when it rests on land. Clint told them about how other species live out in the stars and this sparked ideas and thoughts of exploration, within the hearts of normal Cepillo and even the more religious ones. Some Cepillo trade items to ticket sellers or currency exchangers to be able to travel in spaceships or the thing most other Cepillo do is hide in the cargo bays of ships. Differentiation: Since Cepillo have been seen nearly everywhere, changes have occured in how they look. Natural - The original Cepillo are gray furred and tan skinned as always. Blood - A common variant is the darker skin toned Cepillo who have a slightly red tint to their fur, which is likely caused by their high diet of blood. Snow - An uncommon variant is the Cepillo that live in cold lands, usually with alot of snow and/or ice. An interesting trait is the facial hair and leg fur they possess where most Cepillo don't have any fur on their face nor leg. They also have white or really light tan or blonde fur. Humid - Another uncommon variant resides in places like jungles and other humid areas have Cepillo with shorter green tinted fur and usually wear more bandages and sometimes wear goggles. Today: Today, Cepillo stick to their ancestral roots of low tech but don't mind how the universe is always getting more and more "Chrome", so to speak, and are spread far and wide in the galaxy. Whether it be their hot desert homeland or the alleyway of a hylotl city, they'll always be around, always watching.
