Help! Ive designed an half human half not human oc and now i need to figure out how the pureblooded people of the nonhuman species work
So i have designed an oc, she's a digitingrade but with human feet(and some other features as you can see in the image) but now i need to create her nonhuman side's species.
Where im running into problems is the digitingrade feet, im unsure on how to proceed with designing the fullblooded species, obviously they have to take it a step(or multiple) further, but how would that look? What would a species look like for it's offspring with a human to result in this girl? Would their limbs be even less humanlike? Would they have taken it a step further and be more like horse feet? Standing on the tippytoes? Would the torso, or the other limbs be any different? I would very much like ideas and tips about this!
For other information on the species: they are native to the socalled "abyss", i havent really figured out more about it other than me wanting it to generally be very hot, but have both arid and humid biomes, the place having both "hellish looking" landscapes but also forests, plains and such, it generally being pretty much a suicide trap for anything not native to there, and there being a sort of supernatural extreme winter every so often, and there not being any sun or real "sky".
They have extreme regeneration, and blood that is made up of many many tiny so called parasites that can kinda act like a hivemind? i havent really fleshed out the details, but it would allow an individual of the species to control the body of those who have consumed the indivuduals blood(it's based on the chinese witchcraft esque concept of Gu poison but turned into blood and minus the insects).
Critiques, ideas on how to connect these concepts, tips and tricks are all very welcome! Even for these other things about the species and not just the limbs situation! And if you're curious it's based in a xianxia setting, but i would not consider it overly important for anyone coming with ideas to be familliar with the genre.