Spent a while trying to figure out Kivea's appearance in the STO character creator last night with this in mind. Realized I have just. No image in my head for her appearance at all. Like. plz, I need smth brain, if I wanna write and get to know her better it would help to at least have an icon

digging through actresses/singers/etc just for ideas is one way to be like "Well, I don't know what she looks like. But I have so many ideas of what she doesn't look like." XD

by the power of exclusion that will eventually end up at a solution XD

Tried looking up athletes, but since she's trans I'm ending up with way more articles about struggles than names of athletes XD

i've somewhat given up on Day. blonde, blue-eyed, tanned boys are a dime a dozen. mongolian ones are nearly non-existent

and Republic was specific enough in their notes that i got hex codes for his hair, eye and skin color, so cant just ignore it

I'm not planning on fully using a ref. But when I have no idea, it's nice to have something to build off of

yeah, i got a pinterest board full of inspiration

Æn'kae just kinda... happened. I can't find a ref for him unless I stumble into it because I have a very specific appearance idea for him and even if I found one, I'd still have scars/ears/etc

lukas was all "how do i have his human body resemble an octopus?" so red, curly hair and freckles it was

XD

Pretty solid on build and hair, not entirely solid on the face but like STO doesn't exactly have the most nuanced character creator so it's as much to work off of as I could expect XD

That done I could at least have an icon each for Rrh'abil, D'kæh, and Kivea. So like. I am ready to write some more of my Romulans even if not to give them full journals yet XD

Made a journal for Rrh'abil. Because like, yes she's the less likely of the three for me to write, but the name was easiest. XD Struggling with Kivea's and D'kæh's right now. Kivea is Qowot Milat (so that gives some options but I feel like at first glance a lot of them could be mistaken for an Elnor journal XD)

Could tie it with Skisan's a bit since binding to that cause was a big part of them ending up with whatever it is they have going. His is Logic in Unity. Qalankhkai/Blade of Unity? Unity Through Truth? Or completely out left field - Sword in a Phaser Fight?

Sword in a phaser fight won for the lols. Just need D'kæh now. I may dig through past rambles on him for ideas.