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tp Races: Kikker and Oma
Kikkers are massive, obese folk who resemble frogs (colouring is similar to that of a white lipped tree frog). They are good-natured, but can be fierce if provoked. They have a symbiosis with another sentient race that came to their planet long long ago. This other race, called the Omas, is semi parasitical, in that the eggs have to grow inside and get nourishment from another living being, and they've found that the babies are healthier if the other living being is a Kikker instead of an animal. Eggs are always removed just before hatching, and moved to an animal in order to prevent injury to the host. Only the male Kikkers are used for hosts. The Omas say that Kikker women have their own babies to carry. Omas are a very long lived race, who lay more sterile eggs than fertile. These sterile eggs, when consumed, cause the Kikker who eat them to experience greatly increased life expectancy. The warmth of fertile eggs also improves the health of their hosts.
The Omas are a bit of a mystery, both in their racial origin (no one knows where the race came from) and in their life cycle. No one has ever seen a man of their race, though the fact that babies are not full genetic copies of their mothers clearly proves them to exist. Physically, they most resemble gargantuan millipedes (20ft high at the elbow, and 40ft from head to butt), with long, strong legs, thick, shiny armour, and mean looking pincers in front. Despite their nightmare monster appearance, they are very caring people. Kikker men who are hosts are raised by the woman whose eggs they will carry, a custom that the people started back when they first came to the planet. This also ensures the safety of those hosts: if you raise someone you love him too much to want him hurt.
It is known that the Kikker were low tech before the Omas showed up. They KNEW about technology. They were just really too lazy to wanna build it. So they were just a bunch of hippies who carried their babies around in their mouths when the Omas arrived. A bunch of fat bellies over little breech-cloths. Now they wear modern clothes in the style of what the fat tourists in the funny stories wear.
Kikkers and Omas are both fond of meat. Preferably cooked, and nicely dressed. Omas burn most their big dinners off in activity, whereas a Kikker compelled to do manual labour will complain good-naturedly as they work, and stop as soon as you're not looking, only to promptly start again once they're again under observation. They don't need to be forced to work, though, and they're proud of their physical strength.
Like many members of the families Ranidae, Bufonidae, Bombinatoridae, Discoglossidae, etc, Kikker women are larger than men. So the ladies would make better places for eggs, but yeah, they have their own to carry.
Most Kikker children are born during the monsoon season for whatever part of the world they live on. The birth of Oma children isn't really influenced by season. When the Oma babies come out of the remains of their last animal host they're perfect little buggies, active, energetic, and loving. Watching their mothers and already trying to take care of Kikker babies and each other, which means that having a Kikker child and a young Oma together will result in the little Kikker being fed everything in sight that's edible, and being very happy. Kikker toddlers would do nothing but sit and eat, if given their choice. The standard first word is a demand for food. Little Omas also make the little Kikkers chase them by waving food around and teasing, once they're old enough to understand that exercise is good for the fat babies. This results in much complaining on the little Kikkers part. Adult Kikkers and Omas find this complaining and the interaction between babies to be adorable. Growing up in this way makes Omas even more caring of their Kikker hosts. Once Kikker children have passed toddlerhood and started thinking more, then is the time of mischief, which often involve plots to gain large amounts of food and then eat it instead of going to school.
Planet is earthlike, but dryer. Winter for all but the poles is a time of monsoons, so the local architecture is built to be strongly impervious to wind, rain, and flooding. Flora and fauna of the world are variations of Earth types, with some species that have become extinct on Earth continuing on this world, and some which are still on Earth being fossils here. Sentient population lives scattered in cities, towns, villages, and farms that are usually near large water bodies or rivers.
There is a concern that the Omas might be dying out, as less and less children are being born to them. For all their scientific and technological knowledge, the Omas know nothing of the men of their race and no one in living memory can say they've seen one.
The Omas are a bit of a mystery, both in their racial origin (no one knows where the race came from) and in their life cycle. No one has ever seen a man of their race, though the fact that babies are not full genetic copies of their mothers clearly proves them to exist. Physically, they most resemble gargantuan millipedes (20ft high at the elbow, and 40ft from head to butt), with long, strong legs, thick, shiny armour, and mean looking pincers in front. Despite their nightmare monster appearance, they are very caring people. Kikker men who are hosts are raised by the woman whose eggs they will carry, a custom that the people started back when they first came to the planet. This also ensures the safety of those hosts: if you raise someone you love him too much to want him hurt.
It is known that the Kikker were low tech before the Omas showed up. They KNEW about technology. They were just really too lazy to wanna build it. So they were just a bunch of hippies who carried their babies around in their mouths when the Omas arrived. A bunch of fat bellies over little breech-cloths. Now they wear modern clothes in the style of what the fat tourists in the funny stories wear.
Kikkers and Omas are both fond of meat. Preferably cooked, and nicely dressed. Omas burn most their big dinners off in activity, whereas a Kikker compelled to do manual labour will complain good-naturedly as they work, and stop as soon as you're not looking, only to promptly start again once they're again under observation. They don't need to be forced to work, though, and they're proud of their physical strength.
Like many members of the families Ranidae, Bufonidae, Bombinatoridae, Discoglossidae, etc, Kikker women are larger than men. So the ladies would make better places for eggs, but yeah, they have their own to carry.
Most Kikker children are born during the monsoon season for whatever part of the world they live on. The birth of Oma children isn't really influenced by season. When the Oma babies come out of the remains of their last animal host they're perfect little buggies, active, energetic, and loving. Watching their mothers and already trying to take care of Kikker babies and each other, which means that having a Kikker child and a young Oma together will result in the little Kikker being fed everything in sight that's edible, and being very happy. Kikker toddlers would do nothing but sit and eat, if given their choice. The standard first word is a demand for food. Little Omas also make the little Kikkers chase them by waving food around and teasing, once they're old enough to understand that exercise is good for the fat babies. This results in much complaining on the little Kikkers part. Adult Kikkers and Omas find this complaining and the interaction between babies to be adorable. Growing up in this way makes Omas even more caring of their Kikker hosts. Once Kikker children have passed toddlerhood and started thinking more, then is the time of mischief, which often involve plots to gain large amounts of food and then eat it instead of going to school.
Planet is earthlike, but dryer. Winter for all but the poles is a time of monsoons, so the local architecture is built to be strongly impervious to wind, rain, and flooding. Flora and fauna of the world are variations of Earth types, with some species that have become extinct on Earth continuing on this world, and some which are still on Earth being fossils here. Sentient population lives scattered in cities, towns, villages, and farms that are usually near large water bodies or rivers.
There is a concern that the Omas might be dying out, as less and less children are being born to them. For all their scientific and technological knowledge, the Omas know nothing of the men of their race and no one in living memory can say they've seen one.