Wiki Wednesday #167 - D.SUE / ディ·ス

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Wiki Wednesday #167 - D.SUE / ディ·ス

D.SUE is a man of unknown age that often goes by Dee. He has a really cute design.

Who is D.SUE?

official art from bank

"Supposedly" fictional Chia here.

Stories like Paosin are personal. It would have hurt no one for her to stay in her moss cocoon. Maybe if I had found a way to bend the rules to let her grow some moss in her room, she could have powered through.

But then there are the stories of prey species.

Just because you're sapient doesn't mean you're the top of the food chain. 

There are easy cases. Prey species tend to hit that spot in the uncanny valley where their differences from the typical Union body make them adorable. As soon as I see their case files, I find them placement. Any place where an affable face is useful; a nurse, a teacher, a counselor… 

That's wonderful for them if their predator isn't sapient. The Union will survey their planet. If an animal seems like a useless specimen, they'll put a few in zoos then exterminate the rest. If the animal is useful, they'll create fortified areas for the prey species. The prey species may not be able to leave their city, but they'll be safe.

The Union isn't completely heartless. Any sapient being that asks can be taken to a refugee colony. Even if the prey species can't make it into the Union, they won't be condemned to be dinner. They'll lose their land and culture, so many don't see that as a solution. 

Licorice wasn't adorable. She was actually shocking to look at. She was lithe and had nearly transparent skin. Her blood was completely white, which made her look ethereal. Her eyes were sunken and entirely black. By that point in my career, I knew my options almost instantly. If the council was feeling kind, contact lenses and self-tanner would work. Worst case scenario would be tattoos covering her body and face. 

She tried to be silly and fun. She picked a food as her name as a conversation starter.

I put her through the paces, and she did well. As long as she was possibly fine with tattoos, her people would be saved.

I asked her about her history, and she explained her people's history.

You remember dinosaurs, right? Those big, dangerous lizards and birds? Her planet was similar to Earth in that behemoths like those grew and thrived. On Earth, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. On her planet, the dinosaurs never died. Simply, a cataclysmic earthquake sped up the process of plate tectonics. Small, fuzzy creatures were left on islands. Those small, fuzzy creatures grew and evolved on those islands. Without the threat of dinosaurs, their evolution mirrored the evolution of humans.

This was all wonderful for a long, long time. 

Would you ever guess that the dinosaurs learned to swim? Because they did.

The plate tectonics thing did play a part. The distances got shorter, but it was mostly the swimming thing.

Licorice's people were not advanced. They were able to send out radio messages crying for help from their caves. We heard the messages and investigated.

It was sad to hear how they lived. They once had cities. Then they were confined to caves with entrances too small for the dinosaurs. If the entrance became too eroded, the cave had to be abandoned.

Let me be personal: I felt bad for Licorice, but dinosaurs are freaking rad. I would pay good money to see one up close. (Yes, Jurassic Park is required viewing so that we don't openly admit that.) I convinced the council to admit her people so that we could convert her planet into a dinosaur theme park. We'd get tourism revenue and her people would get safety.

She gave me a giant hug when I visited the park. It was a very, very nice vacation.

How is D.SUE's bank?

This character is entirely indistinguishable from a female character unless you check the readme. If that makes you uncomfortable, now ya know.

I haven't seen him referred to as that really bad word, so there's no reason to say there was ill intent at all. It's just a cute lil dude who likes to dress up in cute lil outfits as opposed to a character that where not being cishet is the joke or… worse.

He has a one pitch romaji encoded CV bank. You will need to fix the OTOs for the vowels, but that takes like two minutes.

The voice is extra kawaii and thereby nasal, like Susuko or Haruka Nana. If you love those kinds of UTAUs, this one will be great for you!

Where can I download D.SUE?

You can download him from his Wiki page. He is a cute utau!