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Death 999
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In case you are not aware, Peeru had been continued on the SCDB for some time, reaching chapter 36 just today. It fell into inactivity as my 'real life' took its toll, but I expect a resumption of semimonthly updates.
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To untrained eyes and ears, within individual variation of a male one. A careful reading would reveal that no non-Druuge even attempts to guess the gender of an unfamiliar Druuge, and Zelnick at first mistakes Peeru for the (male) Faazur.
Druuge can tell the difference at a glance.
Females tend to have weaker legs than males, and stronger arms. In particular, their toes and knee-flaps are longer and better at manipulating small things, but not as strong at sheer grasping. Females were not frequent long distance travelers over the time-frame of the species' evolution, and did their work in comparatively friendly environments, so they do not have as many adaptations as males for dealing with awkward climbing situations.
Females' horns are more narrowly set but slightly longer (horns only begin to be prominent at maturity, when gender has been fixed)
Females not carrying young will have a smaller belly. Of course, with young, it will be substantially larger.
Females will have smaller cheeks.
The two less visible but more important differences are the simple sperm/egg dichotomy and that males' pouches are heavily optimized for safely transferring and rapidly feeding a growing egg, while the females' are more broadly optimized for keeping it safe from bumps and collisions, falling out, infection, temperature variations, etc.
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Let me think it through. I don't know of any evolutionary force that would encourage a differentiation in voice - high-low, for instance, doesn't seem needed - though I can't do the same for humans either, so that's a wash. There could be consequences of their differing psychologies, to the extent that that's reliable. Certainly I've written the non-Peeru females with relatively simple speech. Direct, to the point. A point was made that she was made to study language and is good at it, so she's exempt from that. But that's not the same thing as sound and tone.
Then there's the question of whether I take the druuge voice-acting to be canonical. I'm not familiar with it, really.
Simply to make them more alien, I'd go with the females sounding much like the males, differing only in style or manner - tentatively speaking.
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I also read through this a week or so ago... it's very good, though I think I recall some little annoying things such as sometimes not being able to figure out who's saying something.
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First, note that there is a lot more of this at the SCDB (I guess my note at the end of what's here made that obvious).
Second, CelticMinstrel, can you point out where that occurs? I guess any long alternating passages would be candidates for this to set in, but it'd help if you'd point me in the right direction.
Third, Meep-eep, it's not entirely cultural, but yes, that's one thing I was aiming for. I mean, consider the Stanford Prison Experiment. Those are humans.
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« Last Edit: February 06, 2012, 04:52:32 pm by Death 999 »
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It could. I'll do the looking, then. Don't worry.
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Eh, I'll still re-read it sometime and let you know if I find anything else. 
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