Aestheticism Aliens!

Description: Hunched over and low to the ground, Arnold hardly looks intimidating. He bursted out of a hopping marsupial, and his form is reminiscent of that animal. He walks with a slight hop in his step and some would say t hat his teeth are almost rodent-like in appearance. All in all, he isn’t a very scary look at the xenomorphic race.

Personality: Arnold is good natured but a bit on the clingy and... dorky. He means well, just can be a bit obnoxious every now and then.

Description: Alice is of average height and slim, having a finely polished exoskeleton t hat gleams in the moonlight. She isn’t built for combat, in fact, not built for much of anything beyond looking pretty. Pretty if you like xenomorphs, that is.

Personality: Alice is the nicest xeno you’ll ever meet. Sure, she bursted from a human like the rest of them, but she wouldn’t kill a human unless she absolutely had to!

Description: Airhead is tall and lanky. He looks like a fairly average warrior, but seems to always have a slightly dazed look on his face.

Description: Arrogant is a prime example of a xenomorphic warrior. He is armored all over in iridescent black and his claws are always sharpened to fine points. His very presence emanates confidence and… well, arrogance!

Personality: Like Airhead, Arrogant’s name is a good description of him. He tends to be abrasive to those that he doesn’t like and it is hard to gain his lasting respect.

Description: Alestra is smaller in size than the male warriors and at first glance she seems weaker. However, upon closer inspection, it is obvious that Alestra is just as suited for combat as her male counterparts. She is streamlined and compact, built more for stealth than brute force. Her tail tip is easily the most dangerous part of her,, curved and honed to be razor sharp.

Personality: Alestra is dangerous. She doesn’t mind killing at all, though won’t kill uselessly. She is a warrior to the core and lives her life accordingly. She is not someone you want to anger, though...

In the Aestheticism tribe, it was early morning. The double suns that orbited the world Aneress were just rising above the horizon. The xenomorphs, traditionally nocturnal, were asleep, preparing for the next day’s conquests.

Arnold stuck his head out over the foliage, looking around before taking a few gleeful hops into the area there. Lying curled up in a patch of leaves was another xenomorph, but this one asleep. “Hey, Arrogant! Arrogant! Wake up!” shouted Arnold gleefully, thumping his tail on the ground in his excitement. “Wake up! Wake up!” He shook the warrior’s back spines roughly, earning him a low hiss and a whack from the other alien’s tail.

“Arnold,” growled Arrogant, sitting up and baring his metallic teeth. “If you don’t stop that immediately them I’m going to be forced to kill you.”

Arnold shrunk back for a moment, but soon was in Arrogant’s face once more. “Hey! I haven’t told you what I found yet! It is really cool! You have to come see it! I think that we could seed some more bursters if we played our cards right!”

This caught Arrogant’s attention. Their leader, Queen Awe-inspiring, was always giving rewards to the xenomorphs that found ways to propagate their hive. The world of Aneress was their home planet, but as such they had converted almost all life there into their own. What was left was mostly vegetable matter and insects. Arrogant had hope, for even if the critter that Arnold had found wouldn’t be good for bursting it would probably be good for eating. If he had to eat another mouthful of vegetable matter, he thought he might puke.

“Fine,” growled Arrogant. He scowled up at the blazing sun above, but there was nothing to be done about it. He would have to lose sleep and deal with t he scorching light if he wanted to make a discovery.

When he stood, he easily towered above Arnold’s small form. He didn’t like the thought of the drone leading him around, but he would suffer it in exchange for the commendations and prestige he would gain from it. He stepped over logs that Arnold had to scramble over, and soon the two of them were on their way.

While walking underneath a spreading fruit tree, a black form seemed to emerge out of the bark. “Hullo!” called out a cheery voice. “Where are you two off to today, Arrogant, Arnold?”

The two of them looked up to see Alice, another drone, crawling down the tree trunk. She waved merrily at them, and quickly hopped down. She cocked her head at them and gave a slightly pouting look. “Hey, I thought I asked you guys a question! Isn’t anyone going to answer me?”

Arrogant regained his bearing the quickest, and gave a slight cough before beginning. “We were just going to investigate something that Arnold found.”

Arrogant stifled a groan. He hated the bouncy xenomorph almost as much as he hated following Arnold around. She was always being so… pleasant. He had the sneaking feeling that she was laughing at him behind his back. She had to be. There was no xenomorph that could be that happy about anything. Or, at least that was his theory.

While Alice pouted, Arrogant struck one of his many poses. This one involved carefully crossed arms, leaning against another tree, and winding the end of his tail around his ankles. It virtually radiated superiority, and he liked that. Well, he liked that until another voice reached his ears.

“Hey, dudes, why’re you bugging Alice?” The xeno sounded like he was half-asleep, very likely at this hour, but Arrogant knew who it was without second thought.

Airhead pulled himself up from behind a large rock and glanced between the xenos present. “It really isn’t cool, bugging the chicks, you know.”

If Arrogant had eyes, he would have been rolling them now. “Thank you for your input, Airhead. I’m sure that we’ll all keep that in mind for the rest of our lives.”

Alice seemed pleased by Airhead’s appearance. She bounced over and gave him a slight hug, grinning cheerily at him. “Thanks, Airhead! You’re the greatest!”

As Alice was giving another squeal of delight, Arnold hopped up and down impatiently. “Come on, guys! I’ve got to show you what I found!”

Arrogant’s tail twitched with irritation. “That is what he was about to show me. I don’t have any intention of letting you two tag along.”

Airhead raised his hands in surrender. “Dude, I’m just here with Alice, man. I go where she goes, so you gotta see what is going down with her to know my stuff.”

Arrogant turned to glare at Alice, who shrugged innocently. “Well, I think it would be fun to go with them! Arnold doesn’t mind, do you, Arnold?” She bent down and patted Arnold on the head and Arnold couldn’t help but grin back up at her.