Space Explorer ☆ DTAE

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☆ Hello!! This is my entry for Space Explorer! I love this design so much, she's so cute I wanna (gently) squeeze her!☆ *+ bio +* ☆ Name: Altaira ☆ Age: 17 ☆ Occupation: Space explorer! ☆ Personality: Curious, level-headed, exciteable, clever, and kind ~*+☆+*~ Altaira was born from a shooting star of the same name. She has always felt a strong pull towards the sky, knowing that something is out there, and wanting so desperately to see it. Every night she would gaze out her window at her adoptive parents' house, watching the stars and moon, hopping that perhaps one day she could go there. Every night she would turn away, convincing herself it was silly, and go to sleep to dream of bright light shooting through the galazy... ☆☆☆ When Altaira was thirteen, she stumbled upon an abandoned, crashed space ship. While her friends were convinced she'd put it there herself, and it wasn't an ACTUAL alien space ship, they helped her fix it up. Much to all of their surprise, someone accidentally hit a switch of some kind and the ship buzzed to life with Altaira still on it. Before anything could be done it shot into the air and disappeared into the endless sky... ☆☆☆ Years later, Altaira travels the galaxy to explore new worlds, discover alien civilizations, and study the flora and fauna of planets so different from yet so alike to ours. ~*+☆+*~ *+ design & character notes +* ☆ I had a lot of fun playing with color and shading for this one! I've never really known how to properly shade but I'll get there. The difference in color is just lighting and shading, not additions to the actual design. I did add blue sparkles, but that's just for effects and can be removed :) ☆ The blue with stars in the scarf, inner ear, and her tail are remnants of her shooting star body! Around her neck it's sort of like a fur tuft that connects her head and body, but she covers it with a scarf to keep her head from floating around all the time. ☆ She does occassionally use her goggles but most of the time she uses them to keep the longer fur fluff on the top of her head out of her eyes. ☆ The ship she found was not an alien ship like she thought, instead it was a lost government-operated prototype. ☆ "Altaira" is the star "Altair" but I added an A to the end. Not very creative but I thought it was pretty ^u^