The Val Salian Regional Field Guide, Entry 7: Yinglets Revealed (Part 2/2)
Apr14
Yinglets are instinctively driven to stay in groups, which results in the formation of many “mini-families,” regardless of whether or not there is any romantic interest involved. Even if a group only consists of 2 yinglets, their survival rate is many, many times higher than one moving alone.
This is one of the reasons that people tend to leave yinglets alone if they’re not being annoying; one of them is near-powerless, but two of them (if armed) are a considerable threat, and three or more is almost impossible to fight without sustaining some deep puncture wounds (from spears that are frequently coated in rather nasty stuff).
With so little body mass and arm strength though, where do they get the power needed to puncture flesh effectively?
That’s actually one of their few advantages as a species when it comes to strength!
Their forearm/foreleg muscles have long since evolved to pack a spring-like forward thrust, first as an advantage to the ability to catch their species’ prime source of food just below the waterline, and later highly reinforced in breeding selection by The Great Leader during his reign.
Plus, with a sharp enough point, it does not take much force to pierce skin. Even light or medium clothing would be pierce-able. If the target was in leather armor or heavy leather clothing, then things get a bit more tricky as then the jabbing Yinglet would need to find a soft spot in the armor to jab at.
Now all they need to do is develop effective evasion techniques to evade an attack to reduce the mortality rate of combatants involved in this style of group combat.
One word : Joints
So unlike life in Prison where GenPop has more privileges, in yinglet life it’s rather the opposite. What happens to yinglets who don’t tithe to the enclave? Is that further demotion from citizen to denizen, or makeep them persona non grati (if not outright killed) if they’re seen as a nuisance?
Sorry, Autocorrect doesn’t like English OR Latin apparently. *or make them… *persona non grata…
It is indeed kinda like that! They do perceive their populations like a large extended family, and the enclave the “parents,” so those that continually cause problems for the family and/or distance themselves from the rest, tend to receive less support from everyone, to the point where they are shunned.
If they’re doing something that makes the enclave a target (like going around setting random fires to human settlements), they’ll get straight-up “disappeared” in the night, and/or smacked around and delivered to the human authorities to demonstrate that the rest of the yinglet population has nothing to do with this jerk.
I’m… i’m seeing this like Yinglets dragging a bully to the principal’s office. See teacher lady? Not ours. Stick his head in the toilet so he knows how it feels.
On that note, what are the more common prevailing attitudes of Yinglets towards humans or other kaiju-like beings? (Humans are totally Godzilla to anything small. Like guinea pigs. Or yinglets. Or yinglets riding the larger guinea pigs. Capybara, I think).
Other ramblethought: what were the disasterous results of Yinglets trying to domesticate animals for riding, because they saw the humans do it and it seemed like fun?
….totally need to see a yinglet riding a guinea pig now.
I wonder if you could teach them Wu Tang style
While that might be possible, their impediment to human speech could make it difficult to achieve the dankest of rhymes!
How often do you update this comic?
Is it a weekly or just whenever the next page is finished?
Also, really enjoying this comic, got my vote TWC and I’ve been recommending it to freinds.
Ey, glad you’re enjoying it; many thanks for recommending it to others, as well!
Ideally I update it once a week, but since taking on some extra real-life work a few months ago it’s been updating on average once per 2 weeks. Thankfully I’ve been getting more and more time to draw recently, and I’m currently inking the next page at the moment.
I like it when the cultural heroes have multiple titles, and especially when one of the titles is “The Best One”.
A warrior yinglet fighting one on one with a human or gorilla would be so cool- like a caveman battle in old movies!
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Its what they say: Even few train soldiers, might not be able to exceed the number of many soldiers. The Yinglets its indeed a curious race and I curious to see more about them.