Tykes in Space

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I rarely do traditional art but most of the time my art does start out with a paper sketch before it gets scanned and done up digitally. Yet another character I think could do with a revisit sometime.

"Hi there! I'm Wes! Wes Keldin. This is my lil buddy Pix, he's a Personal Assistive Care Intelligence. PACI for short! If your curious I'm a Tyke. We're neotenous humans and we have a couple of habitats to hour name! We're small and child like by the standards of other humans but don't let that fool ya we're just as clever! We just know how to have fun and not be boring and why give up some of the best things of being little when you don't have too? I mean bottles and sippy cups are great and especially in low or no gravity! As for diapers well their awesome! Whatever your doing you can stay and go at the same time. Besides if you do vacuum work you'd be wearing em anyway! Well Ok some of us do use the potty. Personally I don't get it but to each their own! Oh and if your looking at us and wondering how we erm...multiply. Well we aren't body breeders as it were. When two Tykes love each other very much they visit a clinic and get their genes spliced and 9 months later have a bouncing baby Tyke! Oh well that and Converts. There's lots of big people out there around the solar system who like the idea of what we are and what we have! So we get lots of big crinkly tourist all the time to come and relax and live like we do! Sometimes they move in to stay! Some stay as they are and others decide to get gene tweeked to be like us! Now if your wondering if our size makes things harder the answer is yes and no. Yes when we travel but on our habitats everything is made with us in mind! Granted also accommodations for big people but still. And even when we travel we have help! That's what PACIs are for! Right Pix?"- Wes

"Correct Wes. PACIs like myself are AI which opted to take on this role by choice. Some of us might have been designed for it while others simply came to it later and found it fulfilling. We help Tykes live their lives in comfort and assist them with daily task. Though the relationship is symbiotic. They are very creative beings and spontaneous. Their thought patterns are radically different from our own which is good. We balance each other and do things together that neither of us could on our own. One will come up with an idea the the other will help make it work! It is a wonderful existence and I would not trade it for anything. Oh! Your probably wondering about my features! Well I have two multi-manipulatory arrays that allow me to interact with objects. Which includes changing diapers. I also have a matter energy buffer allowing me to store all manner of items that might be needed. I have a full sensor suite and am hyper mobile with an anti-grav unit. Beyond that my forward shield can fold back and I am capable of producing a hard light form around myself. Many of us do this to take on a more substantive form for the care of our little ones."- Pix

"In Short Pix is great! Oh and if your curious about me and what I do. Well aside from play and draw and write for fun I also do design work for habitats for all kinds of people. Specifically I help plan out the biosphere for the habitat and figure out what they'll need and how to make it work! I also advice about our own Habitat's biosphere and make suggestions and fine tune things. Maintaining a habitat's biosphere can be a lot of work but it can also be really fun if you like critters and like critters I do! I'm good with the big picture and Pix helps with the nitty gritty numbers. It's good work and I enjoy it. I love my life here and wouldn't change it. The only thing I'd change is probably my diapers now and again! Hehehe. But that was a little bit of info about me, about Tykes, and about our Habitats! If your interested your always welcome to visit us! Until next time though remember to have a little fun every day! This is Wes and Pix from Kinder Habitat signing off!"- Wes

Well I hope you guys liked the pic and this lil blurb. ^^

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