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RyunoOhi — Arcosian Reference Sheet - Female
Published: 2012-12-24 06:05:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 19046; Favourites: 118; Downloads: 172
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Here's an early Christmas present to my DeviantArt watchers & fellow Frieza fans!Huzzah, we now have girls. Download for full view, please.
First, please note that the models used here are just that: generic models. They're not O.C.s, they're not re-colors (technically), they're just meant to demonstrate the main types of species coloration found among Arcosians (I even tried to scientifically explain the drastic differences between some individuals' coloration!). Second, these are just the females - the male sheet is here.
I would like to personally thank many people for inspiring me to keep up this project, & for helping me speculate & form my theories. So, here's the short list of TOTALLY AWESOME people without whom I would not be able to exceed my own limits:
These are just the people who have sent me notes on DeviantArt, so if I haven't listed you, know that I am saying "thank you" to you as well.
If you have any questions about my designs, or would like to use this basic character design, please feel free to Note me! If you utilize this design in making O.C.s, writing a character in a story, etc., I only ask that you link back to my DeviantArt, & link me to your creation.
Now, for the next installment of this series, I would like my Watchers & DeviantArt friends to suggest to me what to draw next. Will it be:
Female Reference Sheet? DONE! 
Ages & Development From Birth to Death? (5 votes so far)
Overview of the Planet Arcos? (3 votes so far)
History & Mythology? (3 votes so far)
Language & Etiquette? (3 votes so far)
Skeletal Structure & Basic Physiology? (1 vote so far)
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Comments: 101
Not all the Arcosians in my story can transform; it's a very rare thing for them. Ergo, it wouldn't be practical for me to do a whole sheet. I might do individual profiles for characters with higher forms, though.
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I theorized that, much like in nature, the males of Frieza's species are more colorful than the females
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Yep, that's exactly my thought on them.
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Another species query: I wonder who, besides humans, Saiyans could breed with. I mean, considering Saiyans are monkeys pretending to be apes and humans are balding apes, there's probably a lot they can interbreed with. My headcanon is that Frieza cockblocked the Saiyans to prevent hybrids, and sent Vegeta to weird-ass brothels
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I don't like amateur fanfics where every species in the universe can screw each other. That's not realistic, biologically. I see humans & Saiyans as distant but related ancestor species, & other than humans, Saiyans can't interbreed with anything else.
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Biologically, it's not realistic for so many aliens in DBZ to be humanoid
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Convergent evolution disagrees with your statement. There's only so many successful body plans, & only some of those are hard-wired for intelligence & sentience. I find the idea of extraterrestrial bipeds with binocular vision highly plausible.
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That's rather anthropocentric. I don't think Toriyama thought much about "shared ancestry." Much like in DC and Marvel comics, he thought that "hey, they're both human-like, so they can probably breed." We know from Tien that a race of three-eyed aliens were his ancestors(yes, really). I imagine that humans, Tuffles, Saiyans, Jeice's race, and all the Frieza soldiers who look just like humans can breed
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I couldn't help but notice that the recessive, purple arcosians seem to have less defined stripes.
The more dominant gened ones have very neat and complete stripes while the purple ones have some sort of irregular ones.
Apologies if I missed an explanation in the text, but is there a particular reason for the difference in stripe patterns? Does it have to do with camoflauge? That would make sense, actually, considering the difference in environment, these arcosians being more designed for amphibious nature and the red ones leaning more toward a jungle habitat.
In any case, just wondering if you had a particular reason in mind.
EDIT: Oh, additionally, I'll vote for Language and Ettiquette. Good luck with the sheets and good luck with SoD!
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Yes, the dominant phenotypes are linked to thinner, more uniform striping, while the recessive morph has more broken stripes, which can be thicker. Some individuals even have what appear to be elongated spots in place of stripes, like my O.C. Murai. In different environments, different patterns help break up Arcosians' outlines, making them harder for both predators & prey to spot. I really need to just draw a bunch of background character Arcosians to illustrate the different appearances & body types they can have.
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Ah, okay. Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense.
I do have to say, little details like that really make your canon interesting.
More arcosians is always a neat thing to see! ^^ Body types do make me wonder. Is there such a thing as a fat arcosian? Big boned, perhaps, but I would think that excess fat could be dangerous in the sense that their armor is only so flexible and wouldn't stretch to accommodate it very well.
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Have you seen my O.C. Hufeh? He's definitely not svelte. Arcosians' armor will gradually grow to accommodate their bodies, but it's probably harder for one to trim excess fat than it is to bulk up, because their natural armor can't shrink.
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Oh yeah, now that you mention it I remember him, back when you mentioned Kaji.
Yeah that makes sense, haha. Little physiological differences like that are so fascinating.
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And I just noticed that you draw the females horns very well in all directions. well done.
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Thank you! There are both biological & stylistic reasons why the horns point backwards, of course, but it's a nice defining feature, isn't it?
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Never. At least, not until I actually finish these. It's an extended timetable.
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Oh. But when does one get made?
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Whenever I have time & inspiration. Currently, I've got two jobs, & I'm writing Savior of Demons, so my time is...kinda taken over by that. Good news is, some of the things I reference in-story are relevant to this project.
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Awesome, I'll make a note of it, though Savior of Demons is my main project atm. Some of this stuff has/will show up in there, though.
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cuute! so you call em arcosians?
and i'd assume her boobs are covered by that armor shell stuff.
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Ahaha, they don't have boobs. They're not mammals, which is the general prerequisite for having MAMMaries. O.C.s of Frieza's race that have big racks, hair, etc...they're really silly, in my opinion. From what we see of their species, they look reptilian, if you can even compare them to an Earth species, as they're aliens. I'm a bit nitpicky about my alien biology in fiction - it's one of my pet peeves.
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ok. i see em as mammals myself. lol
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OOooooooooh A shiny frieza! I have a masterball with his name on it.
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Silly human, everyone knows Shiny Mewtwo is green. Besides that, these are female, & as far as Pokemon videogame canon goes, Mewtwo is still listed as genderless. Any Arcosians would probably be confused & annoyed that you're throwing things at them.
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Let an inferior lifeform have his fun.
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And another great piece of work to add to my growing collection of design notes for my long-planned and sadly unlikely-to-ever-be-made DBZ RP Game. Between Bringer of Death, Lisalu's Red Dragon Tetralogy, and you i'm going to have a fully functioning DBZ World that will live and breathe even before any players step into it.
~Much love and respect.
PS: I'll throw in my vote for the Ages and Development details as well since it seems a fairly bygone conclusion at this point.
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Aha, someone else who has read the Red Dragon Tetralogy. That was my first real taste of true world-building beyond canon in a DBZ fanfiction, & though I disagree with a LOT of the biological aspects, I fondly remember that story as inspirational. If someday you do make an RPG or write a story, be sure to credit all your sources; I'd love to get a heads-up to see any finished product.
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Nothing remarkable has happened in the Solar System in the last 2,500 years but...
Since this is kind of related to xenobiology and to the dragon ball legend you may find this creativity-inspiring:
www.thunderbolts.info/pdf/01.1…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EAlT…
saturndeathcult.com/the-sturn-…
saturniancosmology.org/tab.php
Food for thought.
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"They´re sexually dimorphic because so" or "they have chromosomic or genetic differences because so" wasn´t the answer I was looking for. I understand straight that anatomy and strategy go together but, why aren´t bulky females behaving "macho" or vice versa? For some reason this reminded me of homosexuality. Or, are they? Looking at the males sheet the bulkiness is similar but that just makes any strict separation harder to justify. Why aren´t all "machos" or all "gals"? What about gender-roles swapping? Is it an ESS? Is ones carrying the load (pregnant) and others "living la vida loca" meanwhile the key or what? When looking for a mate, what are the typical preferences? Presumably external signs of health, quite evident or subtle. Can strategies be affected, for instance, by testosterone doping or by a female raised like a male (or vice versa)? What about cheating? As a general rule, the more parental care the offspring needs the less often cheating.
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Ah, my bad, I misunderstood your original question.
So, you're inquiring more about cultural gender roles, right? Well, that's a little different, & not something I've done as much research on (the in-universe explanation is that Arcosians don't like being "studied" by outsiders, so I the xenoanthropogist only got so far in my research).
There's nothing preventing a bulkier female Arcosian from having a more violent, aggressive fighting style & mannerisms, & vice versa, it just isn't the norm. As for swapping gender roles, that...would be very difficult, given how sexually dimorphic they are. Up until they hit puberty, you could raise a female as a male or vice versa, but once the horns start coming in & other aspects of their sex become apparent, it would become very confusing very quickly, to both the child & others around them. On that note, Ratsura is the only character in my mythos so far who displays deviant sexual tendencies...& he has a rather long list of Freudian excuses. He's the exception, not the rule, generally speaking.
For some of your other questions, & more details on what I answered here, please Note me, so we don't write a wall of text in the comments.
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Positively surprised by the non antropomorphic alien female, negatively surprised by the no comments on the competence for the "best" male/female. I´m not quite convinced about the "broadswords&rapiers" business but maybe you can clarify. I think human males are bulky and females slim due to sexual selection: females prefer musculous guys because voluminous muscles are a reliable indicator of nourishment capacity and males preferred fatty girls (sharp contrast with today beauty standards!) which means energetic reserves for the newborn. Were muscular strength or speed a necessity human females would have extinguished. In general, animals don´t fight, much less hurt, each other unless there´s something worth at stake. When arcosians fight each other, what for? What´s the point of sleeping-state in space? Float away forever and ever? I think Freeza meant he can fly and all that in the void. Because I am so original my vote goes to physiology.
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Wow! A nice long comment, hurray! I'll try to address all of your queries, in order.
What I meant by females being like rapiers & males being like broadswords refers not only to their physical differences, but also to their fighting styles. They're sexually dimorphic, so they'll have different ways of dealing with a threat, based on what's more natural for their body type. Fully-grown males are more likely to bludgeon an enemy to death, hitting with their arms, legs, & heavy tails, whereas a fully-grown female will prefer to strangle things with her tail, which is more flexible & useful as a constricting weapon. If males & females were martial arts styles, I suppose males would be "hard" Kung Fu styles like Tiger & Dragon, & females would be "softer" & less outwardly aggressive, like Snake & Crane styles.
As for what they fight over...the same things we do. Territory, the right to court a girl/guy, ideologies, honor, etc. It's usually not a "to the death" fight, but is more ritualized.
I'm sure that the suspended animation in space serves some purpose, because other animals from Earth, notably the tardigrade, have this ability as well. It allows them to survive unexpected expulsion from a spacecraft, but it could have evolved to allow them to simply survive harsh conditions on their original world. Frieza probably would have been able to create a bubble of insulating ki around himself to survive in space, but his biological adaptations uniquely allow him to survive while unconscious & injured, where almost any other organism would've been screwed.
I'll put down your vote, thanks!
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Put my vote under "Ages & Development From Birth to Death." I would vote for Skeletal Structure & Basic Physiology, but right now I really want to know how they grow up.
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Cool. That one's got the majority of votes so far, with 5. This project's on the back burner right now because of Savior of Demons, but it will be completed, so don't worry.
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Alright, there's something that I've been pondering, but cannot seem to puzzle out. If your comments I've seen here and there say as I think, then the Arcosians are ectothermic. If this is so, how could they possibly survive in space, as Freeza claimed he could? Even if they could survive the vacuum, I can't see how they'd deal with the utter lack of temperature. Can you give a logical explanation of how they survive in space? I can't figure it out...
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They are indeed ectothermic, but that just means that they function best in warm temperatures. In extreme conditions, such as being in the vacuum of space, they go into a state of suspension, like torpor or hibernation. That serves to keep them alive up to a point, but if they stay in such a state, they will eventually die. If you'd like a more detailed explanation, please send me a note! I'd love to share my theory in full, but it'd be a wall of text in the comments section.
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Could you possibly use a different font for the text in these? It's kind of hard to read.
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Ah, sorry for that. I was aiming to make it look like a handwritten text on a field-guide illustration. n_no It's too difficult to change it, but I will put a transcript in the Comments section.
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Well, I may be far more late in making the official comment to this picture than it would be advisable, but I still mean this wholeheartedly: this picture is great!
And, I love your conception of female Arcosians, and how you manage to make them look female without giving them human attributes, as it takes quite a lot of creativity to do that. Still, if not for the differences in the shape of their horns, I probably would be less capable of making the distinction.
Either way, congratulations on this excellent picture!
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The hardest part of drawing any alien species is refraining from anthropomorphizing them. That being said, we as a species tend to be very specifically tuned to detecting gender differences in each other...but in other species, it doesn't come as naturally. So, it's alright that you said males & females are hard to tell apart - that's intentional. 
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I all ways wondered what are the limitations with female Arcosian's.
Are female Arcosian's just as strong as the males or do the males have more raw strengh to tap into?
Or would female Arcosian's get more natural armor like a stronger Skeletal structure and a stronger physiology to make up with having less bulk and muscle mass?
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The analogy I use with Arcosians is that the males are like broadswords, & the females are like rapiers. Same function, but different specialty due to their shape. Males are powerful, plain & simple. They will beat you to death, strangle you, or gore you with their horns. Females are slightly more fragile, but just as capable of dishing out pain. They tend to favor using their tails to constrict & crush, & since their horns point backwards, they're more likely to headbutt you than stab you.
All in all, it really depends on the age & physical state of the individual. If a younger & physically smaller male picked a fight with an older female, she'd win, just by overpowering him. If a male & female are the same age & height, then technically the male will have more strength to draw from in a fight...but females are very quick, & more flexible. The only way you'd have a curb-stomp battle is if one opponent is very clearly outmatched in the stature department.
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I all ways pictured a Female arcosian be more defensive based like the males being the physical power while the female being more of the defensive power.
Like the males trade having more raw power but the trade off would be having a weaker base of defense like tiring out more quicker while using full power since the male arcosians would be pushing there body to fully offensive.
While females trade a percent of that raw physical power to have a stronger base of defense like being more nimble and faster and having stronger natural armor and not tiring out as quickly while using full power a more sturdy defense to counter balance the more raw powerful males.
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