User blog:Marlene38EE/Playing Goddess....

Creating a species is one thing, working with it is something else again. I have two to my credit, my Selinians and my Chimerans.

Of the two of them, Selinians are the hardest to work with because they differ from Humans in many ways, but are also very much like Humans in others. Meaning you have to think, steadily, when working with them otherwise you start leaving things out that they rely on, and start treating them as Humans--which is essentially ripping yourself off as a Writer when you consider all the work you've put in.

Chimerans are easier, created by humans to be the final word in BattleField Supremacy, they're quite a bit like Humans as the core of the genetics is Human.

Selinians though...

They have 150 millenia of steadily and accurately recorded history. They have a species-wide empathic/vaguely telepathic 'Gestalt' consciousness that doesn't invalidate their individuality and does-but-does-not make them a hive-mind. They have senses and emotional states Humans just flat-out DON'T. There's also much more to them that, an entire biology and physiology that Husband helped me with and all the research that went into such. Their cultures, the ways and reasons they do certain things, what kinds of creatures they have as pets and what their day-to-day lives are like. It's like having an entire world in your mind.

Try working with that sometime....

But, because they're such a challenge, they are fun to work with--although it's exhausting to do so, because you have to remian a Writer, relates things on a Human level, but also think and 'Be' Selinian. It does literally create the weirdest headaches becuase I force my brain to do things it's still learning how to do properly.

Marlene38EE 22:13, August 28, 2012 (UTC)