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ID: Four gifs from DS9, showing close-ups of Luaran talking. In the first gif, she lifts her headset from her face. In the following gifs, she glances down devoutly, with a smile playing around her heavily made-up lips. End ID.
Anonymous:
Hi I really like your head cannons about cardassians and ferengi! Do you have any other thoughts about other species, like the Vorta?
thank you, I’m glad you like my headcanon! Shamefully, I haven’t thought a ton about the Vorta, but let’s see…
I think it would be fun if they were evolved from nocturnal tree-dwelling creatures that relied more on other senses like hearing and smell, and feeling for vibrations along branches and vines, than on their eyesight. So even though they have those big ol’ eyes for night vision, their eyesight still isn’t especially good at any time of day.
The purple color of a Vorta’s eyes is also due to a trait that evolved for a nocturnal life. Pigmentation blocks light, so their eyes don’t have much at all, making the color of the eye’s interior visible through the translucent iris. Their eyes are very delicate, and while Weyoun can tolerate the low light on DS9, strong natural sunlight would be blinding and painful.
Vorta also have very limited color vision, which is another reason the Founders have to pick out all of their clothes for them. Although the Founders’ sense of fashion is still extremely dubious.
@vivcaprica asked me what a pre-Dominion vorta would look like, which reminded me how much I hate my old redesign; so here’s a sketch of a pre-Dominion Vorta for a new redesign, using their idea of something like a tarsier (although I went with loris and jerboa here).
idk how anything works i’ve not thought about it beyond this sketch, ha
“The Vorta used to be quite different from what we are today. We were forest dwellers. Small, timid, ape-like creatures living in hollowed out trees.” - Weyoun VI
So, then you mean…???
Anyway who has theories on what the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar looked like before the Founders fucked with them?
