The Symthians History: A parasitic race of slimes, on a distant planet, A long time ago, the Symthians were just animals, feral, lost in the minds of uncontrollable monsters, unable to progress until one day, a human humanitarian ship sent to colonize lands on the planet. Their landing made a beacon where the Symthians, in their primitive state, were drawn to the noise of the occurrence. when the colonists first saw them, they tried greeting and were met with an overwhelming number of Symthians who jumped from there current hosts to the colonists, killing them all in the process, but as they took over the crew, they began learning their knowledge, and their way of life, and then the Symthians, in their heightened learning state, found information about The 70's Era human way of life, and took it to heart. They then began to try and understand the ship they were in and the roles the crew played, as they have access to the memories of the host, and have shot into the stars to search for knowledge, and life to love. Technology: The Symthians have reverse engineered the ship they first discovered, and any tech inside it, allowing for space travel. They are not an old race, only coming into the wildlife on their home planet about 20 years ago. Hostility: The Symthians love all races, though they may not be able to make all races hosts, only humans and apex are suitable hosts, they want to spread love and themselves all over the universe. other races fear the Symthians due to them killing the host they take control of, but Symthians may only do this once in their life span, which is whoever they occupy. Symthians do not attack unless provoked but can be trusted by any race not Human or Apex, but if you are Human or Apex, they can not be trusted as you are there primary hosts, and Symthians need a host to live. Symthians love to learn, they are curious by nature, and love to find out everything about you, and they will not hesitate to ask you about anything, Discoveries: The ship that landed on their home planet was their defining moment to which they became a new race to the universe, they find friends among the Florans who have no taste for their meat, and the Symthians cannot make them hosts. Symthians learn faster than any race, even without looking into a hosts memory, they are few numbered too, only ranging in the 100 to 150 in population, since the Symthians only die and be reborn as a new Symthian, this number will remain constant forever, as if you kill a Symthian, it will leave its host, and most likely go after whoever killed it, unless it can respawn somewhere the host can. No Symthian with kill another Symthian because all Symthians are connected to the original, because Symthians do not reproduce. The original Symthian was bigger than any Symthian today, and it was primordial, but soon after its creation, it began to die, and get smaller, as it shrunk though, smaller versions came off, until nothing but its children remained, and thus began the race. Visuals: I will try to update and get a drawing or something on here, any takers on helping? open offer pm me. The Symthians can be described as a symbiote, who takes control of its host, changing it into the Symthians desired form, they have tendrils of slime as hair and can have claws, if they desire. Most Symthians can look absolutely terrifying, while others not so much, but all have the same mind set, learn, love, repeat, and will most likely not hurt you unless you provoke it. Symthians are smooth looking, and slimey to the touch, most symthians are black, but sometimes you may find a different colour, like green or white. They have no descernable eyes, just blank faces and sometimes spots of colours, to which they sometimes get nicknamed Spots or Dot. They move fluidly, knowing the step before its take, they take great care where they are and what they do. This makes them excellent at combat and can down any enemy easily. Let me know what you think, make this the best damn race EVER.
Backstory is just a touch too similar to the Florans: They are also a race of primitive but clever non-animals who stole and reverse engineered space travel. Other than that, the core concept is a bit...eh. Brain parasites. Doesn't seem necessary, and it races a WHOLE can of creepy worms I just don't think needs to be dealt with.
These are not worms in brain, think Venom from spider man, closer related to that, i hve to agree with the history though, as much as i hate to say it, ill work on a better concept and draw atleast something to go along with it
The problem is, any sort of symbiotic race isn't gonna work very well if they simply hijack the other race's appearances and whatnot. What I'd recommend going with is having a pair of symbiotically linked races, one of which is short-lived but highly physically capable and the other is near-immortal but is more or less a mass of immobile goo that has to integrate with a host to do anything. The Host species willingly gives their bodies to the Riders, who in turn share their technology and bring the Hosts with then to the stars. Play with that for a bit.
