Walker
Cruel Biologist
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: An unusual species to keep around the galaxy
- Image Credit: Kowakian monkey lizard
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Kowakian monkey lizard, The Persistence Lab, Vash Walker, Anzati, The nature of creations, alchemy
- Name: Kanyirk Monkey Lizards
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: Vash Walker in The Persistence Lab
- Average Lifespan: 40-110 (Variable dependent)
- Estimated Population: Rare (mostly spread thinly over the galaxy)
- Description: The Kanyirk Monkey-Lizards are almost completely externally indistinguishable in appearance from Kowakian Monkey Lizards, being some mixture of an alteration and an ‘infection’ to their genetics. They are small, bipedal, spindly creatures, with beaks and tails (if they are full blooded) and often a range of colors. Although not as noticeable at first glance, a professional dealing with Kowakian monkey lizards my find the Kanyirk mildly more dense in muscular structure.
- Breathes: Type 1
- Average Height of Adults: 0.7 meters (Tail not included)
- Average Length of Adults: N/A
- Skin color: Browns, greys, reds, yellows, greens, blues, and rarely black, purple or white. Some patterns may emerge. (Mostly the same as Kowakians)
- Hair color: Black, browns, white, greens, blues, reds, purples, and oranges. (mostly same as Kowakians)
- Distinctions:
- Kanyirk are one of the few smaller sentient races, possessing rather sticklike limbs, abnormally shaped heads, and a range of colorations. They typically have high pitched voices and are seen to be quite fast. Although there are differences between the males and the females, they can be a little hard to determine at times.
- Races: No genuinely distinct races. While it is possible for a Kanyirk to breed with Kawakians, it generally just produces another of one of the two, rather than a true mix. This is typically decided by the mother, but it’s about a %30-70 chance based on the Kanyirk involved. Their color variations are not perfectly predictable either.
- Force Sensitivity: All
- The Kanyirk possess essentially any advantage of the Kawakian monkey lizards, with some minor improvement on their muscular abilities. Allowing them to be shockingly fast, mobile, hard to hit, giving them exceptional hearing, and fairly sharp talons and beaks.
- The Kanyirk can fit in fairly easily, as there are almost entirely indistinguishable visually from Kowakian monkey lizards and bear many inherent similarities.
- The Kowakians intelligence was amped up to sentient levels, although not any stage ahead of most sentients, their baseline is around human.
- Possess an incredibly powerful dietary system, though it could not process anything like metal any more than any other race, it holds up far better to eaten poisons, allergies, or toxins. They can eat very large quantities at a time, and wait long periods between meals if needed.
- Though almost universally force sensitive, their force sensitivity mostly lies only in a singular ability based off of the Anzati. They gain a form of strength by eating recently, or still, living organics. The more strong in the force they were, the more it strengthens the Kanyirk. This primarily invigorates them and lets them go longer with less other needs of eating, drinking, or even breathing (to a more minor extent, longer holding of breath), but with a sufficient enough amount can increase their own force sensitivity. Doing this also slows their aging, but only by so much.
- Can be extremely noisy for their size, it becomes even worse the more there are.
- Most possess a prehensile tail.
- Though technically all capable of force sensitivity and sentience, most would not feel like that to force sensitives. As most Kanyirks are too weak in the force to make a difference, and take on their roles as semi-sentient at the front of their mind, require a user to dig deeper to see truth.
- Due to their identical appearance to the Kowakians, a Kanyirk could have issues getting any kind of respect. The Kowakians are often seen as silly and cruel, and are usually only deemed semi-sentient, meaning the Kanyirk might even be a choice of dinner for someone.
- Though strong for their size, able to do fairly well against the strength of something perhaps three times their own weight, the Kanyirks are also so small that most things vastly outmass them. And even a somewhat small human could easily outclass them in strength.
- The Kanyirks ability to increase their own force sensitivity is somewhat limited, as aside from their ability they are actually not that much stronger in the force than most species. They merely possess the capability to grow to such levels. A Kanyirk could be born strong, but most would be the same as any other human or Kowakian if they do not eat recently living organics.
- The amount of organics a Kanyirk would need to eat is actually quite high to make an impact. An average Kanyirk would need dozens of human sized, recently deceased or living, meals in order to just reach the same level that something like the Jedi Order might accept as being even capable of becoming a Jedi. An average Kanyirk eating a Jedi as an only meal would make a good dent, but would not bring them up to nearly the same level as the Jedi was at. It also provides no additional skills in the force, though by reaching such a point in force sensitivity low precog, faster reflexes, and so on might kick in, actual skill would not develop on its own.
- Although their dietary system is excellent, they are only mildly more resistant to other toxins, drugs, or other forms of influences. But this is offset by their very small size allowing for the same amount to still affect them as it would larger races like humans.
- While durable for their size, a Kanyirk could be pretty easily damaged if hit. A human could likely tear their arms off if they really were brutal enough to do so.
- Ironically, their desire for a very fresh life is a pretty noticeable indicator of being somewhat abnormal, as many Kowakians actually may go for rotten flesh. Though not a certainty.
- While most Kanyirks would not be sensed as having the capacity for force sensitivity, due how most would start out the same way as most sentient races like humans, or perhaps togruta's, if they grow stronger that will eventually be recognizable if not otherwise hidden, which is not a talent they inherently possess.
- Due to the nature of how the Kanyirk's gain their strength in the force, their ability to maintain high levels is also reliant on feeding. Although the proportions and frequency is lowered, were they to go from having eaten enough to be on par with a jedi's force sensitivity, but then stopped. It'd take a mere month for them to return down to normal. Practicing with these abilities regularly slows the loss. In order to retain the gained amount, they would have to have about a fifth of the result taken each month. Any less, and it's likely to start reducing.
- It may be very hard for a Kanyirk to grow stronger in the force on their own, since their reletively smaller and less inherently deadly design would cause attacking sentients to be more easily noticed or defended against. As a result, they may require help or traps which mean far more work is involved.
- Force nullification or limitations would prevent the creature from gaining any of the sensitivity it normally could get from eating a creature, as long as it remains for most of the duration of digestion. However, maintained nullification around the creature would hasten its loss of the gained abilities, regardless of that it can't use it anyway during that time.
- Diet: Prefer insects, worms, and rodents like their Kowakian cousins. However, they can eat almost any organic material they can swallow. The best is something that was recently living due to their growth from the force, dependent upon that creature's connection to it. Naturally, this puts most sentients higher on the list.
- Communication: The Kanyirk do speak a language of their own which greatly resembles the sounds of Kawakians, but are very capable of mimicking other languages or noises. High pitched, and often very loud, sounds and visual cues are their primary form of communication.
- Technology level: The Kanyirk are almost all somewhat experienced in basic technology. But have no inherent advantages.
- Religion/Beliefs: Much like previous creations of Vash Walker, the Kanyirk were designed to believe in him as some sort of god or father, the choice of which seems to mean rather for either party. Obedience and some level of respect is ingrained into them. However, aside from this their culture often varies, but does tend to resemble the curios and somewhat disturbed nature of the Kowakian Monkey Lizards.
- General behavior: The Kanyirk do not really have any universal values. While they do possess a drive to increase their population, it is not much more than most races. They do heavily resemble their Kawakian brethren however, with a great desire for entertainment and mischief. Though this can present itself in a number of ways. They are also somewhat known to be rather selfish, though they are very eager to cooperate to get to a goal, once there that cooperation sometimes goes downhill, falling somewhat short of outright killing or maiming their allies/friends. Most Kanyirk will keep their sentience to themselves, but since they resemble Kowakians whose intelligence is often shirked as semi-sentient, and who already show many signs sentients do, they don’t need to do much work to hide it. What the Kanyirk do not tend to do is enjoy too strong of an order, cooperation in some sense is ok. But there seems to be a dislike of anything that puts control and order before needs and desires, this mainly applies to them however, much more than anyone else.
The Kanyirk aren’t a particularly old species, they were created artificially based primarily off of DNA and materials from the Kowakian Monkey Lizards, so much so that they are still able to breed with them, and were given only rather minor tweaks to most of their biology to increase their intelligence, give them a minor muscle boost, and a particular trait somewhat resembling that of the Anzati. While mostly biologically involved, some force alchemy was used in order to replicate the initial effects of the anzati's abilities, but which became built into them. After enough were produced, they were eventually released into the galaxy in small groups, often in locations with Kowakian monkey lizards, whether to join or just blend in, allowing their numbers to continue to grow. With their high similarities to the Kowakians, it’s likely many of them would barely even make a change, at least for a while, simply appearing and remaining to appear very close to their ‘cousin’ race perhaps into death. Others may be a little more inventive, maybe making changes as they go. And some may simply end up as someone's meal. They were expected to blend in very well, and that changes would mostly be slow, possibly over multiple lifetimes. As it’s very possible plenty of the Monkey Lizards will not live much longer than age 40. They are a part of Walkers feeling of a need for immortality and creation as a god. Not for his own body, but that by creating species that live on and thrive after his death he'll cement himself as some form of god. If not in history, in the biology of what he's made. The Shekti are cattle and rabbits, fast to reproduce, utilitarian, but stupid. The Voran are meant as a sort of apex being. The Kanyirk are meant as the symbiotic creatures. Alone they mean very little, they are not extremely skilled or powerful, nor have advanced intellects. Instead they are meant to seek out cooperation and niches that they can fit into, using others to strengthen themselves, but often by working with them in the process. By appearing like a common creature that can be passed off or overlooked, they can go almost anywhere with relatively little stopping them, so long as they have someone to let them do so.
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