Hahaha, excellent~  welcome to the staircase.

I think the vague science approach is leftover from my intense need to justify everything I do somehow, but I guess because it’s aliens, I’m suddenly interested in every facet of the thing and this is just one more of those.   

Plus, I think, the realer I can make something, the happier I am?  I don’t want to say ‘legitimize,’ but it’s close to that.  If I can take principles from real world workings and apply them to alien things, even if it’s just to say how they aren’t true in this case, then it heightens the level of reality in my scififantasy worlds, but in a good way.  Not in a ‘everything is brown and it is needlessly grimdark’ way.  It enriches the worlds for me to try to make sense of all the things that have been just made the fuck up. 

Also, I am beginning to suspect that with the right cuts and shapes, he will look good in anything.  Fur sequins pinstripes? Yes.   Tiara?  Yes.  Standard menswear? Yes.  Rococo frills? Yes.  Pajamas and pompoms? Yes.  

literally anything but white/cream/gold with ugly black dress shoes ugh kill me

I have to tell you guys the story of me and his boots later.  I was going to tell it during my liveblogging, but I was so emotional that I did not have the presence of mind to do it.