Anonymous asked: Okay but, tits though.
senator-organa answered:
I assume this is in relation to Centauri tentacles.
Females appear to have breasts more or less similar to humans. (This is something that always bothers be about alien biology, but whatever, we’ll go with it.) We don’t actually see completely bare Centauri lady chests, but Londo has nipples, so it can probably be assumed they’re not all that different.
They do, however, apparently have six vagina-equivalents. On their backs. (According to the B5 wiki, JMS said this on a messageboard at some point, so take that as you will.) This raises all sorts of questions, too.
- Are they comfortable to lie on your back with?
- Are they very sensitive?
- Only sensitive inside?
- Does this have any effect on fashion?
- Hoop skirts?
- Do they usually just forget about them completely?
- Is there discharge? Because wow does your back seem like an awkward place to have discharge.
- They probably have specially designed shifts or something.
- How do they give birth? Do they lay eggs or something? The males do have tentacles, so who knows.
HEY, while we’re having alien bits time, let’s bring this over too!
I think about this frequently!
What are underwear like??? There is a scene somewhere (which still strikes me as not quite right and rings funny coming from him, but whatever, it’s there), in which Londo says something about people making sure they’re wearing underwear because of how surprising something is, and immediately my mind spiraled out of control like, wait… how does Centauri underwear even work? Is it all high waisted in the back just to kind of keep things comfortable back there? It seems like they’d be difficult to reach? Like it’d be difficult to just make sure you were clean if you weren’t super flexible? You’d think it’d be ideal if you were just able to kind of reach and maintain holes that lead into your internal organs.
Gravity probably takes care of discharge?? I kind of think they would have to have a sort of system that starts up in the lower back and continues downward for purposes of literally anything. Those all have to be connected to one single uterus thing, because there’s not just not enough space in those bodies for… any of the implications of six of those, and how the fuck would you give birth from there? It’d have to some other exit point - probably one more human looking. THere’s just SO MUCH anatomy and so little person, mostly. We don’t see the muscles that would be necessary to birth, like, up and backwards out of your back, wtf.
… and then back to underwear and things, I keep thinking of there being sort of pockets for tentacles sewn onto the inside of basic layers of clothes. Not like a sock, just like … generic breathable support and to keep things from chafing horribly everywhere.
QUALITY BLOGGING. Now you guys all know who on your dash will spend hours talking about alien biology (without a degree or any advanced knowledge in the area, but still, some of this stuff seems thinkable from even my layperson-y perspective).
