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Mass Effect OC - Seelki Tsik

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A drawing session with Turoel happened once again! During the same session (well, two sessions), he drew this: www.deviantart.com/art/A-lucky…

This time, I visualized a Mass Effect original character that invaded my mind in one point during this autumn. I actually came up with ideas for a swarm of characters and an assortment of scenes in which they could appear. I'm almost tempted to make some kind of fanfiction about these guys, but I don't have a fully-formed plot idea :'D So they may just creep around inside my head, hah hah.

This lady is Seelki Tsik, a drell police officer. Her story is set 10 years after the end of Mass Effect trilogy, and she is now 23 years old. (According to Bioware info, the drell appear to age somewhat similarly to humans.) Seelki lives and works in Kahje with her family (one living parent and two younger brothers) and strives to do her best to help her community with her input.

For the tastes of the fellow drell and especially for those of hanar, Seelki is a rather hotheaded individual who rather goes against what her superiors say than against what she thinks is wrong. (I want to try to make her avoid resembling too much Garrus, though...) This eventually leads her to an investigation that risks a lot of her life and career. The adventure involves a stowaway quarian, a false accusation, and a galactic minibus. 

I had my share of trouble when trying to design her, since we don't really know much about the varieties of the drell. Therefore, Seelki's exact design may vary later. An early thing I came up with was that I wanted her to be yellow with green markings, and to have fittingly green eyes.

My headcanon of the female drell does not conform with the Mass Effect: Foundation comics (reasons: a) boobs are not needed by species who give birth to babies who can instantly eat solid food, and b) Kolyat is not orange), so I needed to think what female drell look in my opinion. I didn't get really revolutionary ideas, though. She is mostly human woman-shaped, minus mammaries.

Another trouble was that I wanted to make her distinctive-looking enough to make her recognizable and memorable, but in the same time I didn't want to make her look like a drell super model or anything. If Seelki was a human, she wouldn't look very striking (clashes with the design goal #1?). She would be kind of a young woman who looks attractive to some people and plain to some, like most people I know.

...if I ever draw her again, I WON'T draw all those spots again. I tried to come up with a reasonable way to illustrate her scales, but this went WAY too burdensome xD

Funny enough, Turoel's drawing (link above) was apparently inspired by my ramblings of the story ideas I had. "...and there is also a minibus that the heroes use... wait, is that an alien minibus you are drawing? Hey, that driver even slightly looks like a salarian, like my driver!" He haven't played Mass Effect, though.

Mass Effect franchise belongs to Bioware.
Seelki Tsik is a Mass Effect fan character created by me.
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Kelm1th's avatar
*gasp of delight* Mass Effect!

Been trying to figure out an ME OC myself. It'll be a turian, but that's all I know so far.

I do recognize the difficulty of making some of the ME species' members stand out. I'm especially thinking Hanar and Elcor here *shudders*. But I think you've done well enough to at least make her look female.