To be fair though, the stuff she puts in her hair to get it that spikey is pretty harsh on the sinuses if you’re not used to it.
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Well, now we know why zhere is a lack of Yinglets with zhe black shelltoozhs, and why de Patriarch likes Chakki zo much when he can have de feemales. He can have any feemale but de one he truly wants.
Yuck, dude.
I did mean Zeska, and not Zally as de source of the good Patriarch’s lament. If a Feemale does go rogue, the Patriarch of hunting may be tasked to hunt her down, and return her, dead or alive.
Perhaps that depends on if she wants him (and vice versa) and whether she’s on her breeding schedule. Do we even know if there’s a taboo against familiar mating? Field Guide 6 suggests that mutation is already a huge factor, so I’m not sure the possibility of expressing recessive genes would make much difference.
With Yinglet genetics giving each contributing male parent only a fractional contribution, inbreeding probably wouldn’t be such an issue in this case. It’s not so much like father-child mating as it is cousins. Mother-child mating, on the other hand, is no different from familiar human genetics. I’m sure that all Matriarchs are trained in this subject though, and surely have formal rules regarding what is and isn’t allowed.
It appears to be somewhat unusual for a yinglet to even recognise another individual as their father. I notice they only do so in private.
Zhat is true as long as de Feemale in question seeks out ozher males for filling her spermataphore pouch where the genes get mixed. For a Feemale who wishes to choose a single male to sire her eggs, it is possible for only a single male to be a sire.
It does make sense for feemales to seek multiple mates, as de more varied the genetics, the less likely a harmful trait becomes de dominant one. Males are not objecting to zhis, generally as it is better to be part fazher to fifty healzhy Yings, zhan sire clutch of unhealzhy ones, and be labelled as a unfit partner.
That hair of hers truly has me wanting to see Zally fronting an ’80s-style yinglet punk band.
…I am surprisingly okay with this.
So..freakin…cute.
Awww. ^.^ I think this is the first time I’ve heard two yinglets actually refer to each other as being family members.
I’m also wondering who Zeska is/was.
One assumes it’s the “she” they’ve been refering to for the past four pages.
“I’m so proud of what you’ve accomplished, what you’ve endured. There’s no way the leaders of this enclave can ever thank you enough for what you’ve done. You’ve given all of us eggs. Who knows, maybe even saved the yinglet race. That just makes the rest of this even harder. Every youngster will look up to you, and want to emulate you. And then what? You’ve laid us, but you’ll kill us. I’m sorry. You’re a nympho… and you have to leave.”
I always just assumed her hair was naturally spiky. When she wears it “down,” does it look like her dad’s, or could it be super straight? If she gathered it in the back and put on glasses, would she look like the “nerdy librarian who’s really cool underneath” trope? Could she pull off a mullet? Pigtails? One of those chopstick buns? Slicked back like a gangster? Somebody find Feeeena and Chakki, because we’re gonna need a makeover montage to answer these questions.