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I took some time to think of suggestions for the different races. Sorry if some of these are too serious or unworkable in a story. I typed these in the absolute because doing otherwise was a hassle.
>Moon
They lack an EM field like Martians. Traditionally, the Moon is associated with motherhood, schizoid/overly calm and reserved behavior, shyness, belligerence, grammar, epilepsy, skin disease, female authority, and early childhood. Astronomically, it can't produce any light of its own without the Sun, and it has a constant "dark side" which it doesn't show the Earth. This gives me the idea that maybe the Moonites would be a very coddling race of orange witches who prefer to be called priests because of the associations of the word witch. They keep males docile by prolonging their childhoods and giving them cushy homes while doing things themselves and keeping a clean image but are total cowardly bitches to each other in the background.
I don't know if it's a specific internet archetype, but the feeling I have is the sort of girl who would be described as a non-athletic tomboy. She probably has autism of some kind, and she's the sort of girl that a nerdy guy lacking self-esteem would probably idealize. However, she's a total minefield and control freak when you get to know her and is willing to outwardly adopt the ideals of anyone if they treat her well enough. She might know about computers but is more performative about her being a girl and doing things than someone like Mercury or Saturn, and when talking alone with them, she'd probably say "girl power" with only some irony because she's uncomfortable with being a girl. In my idea, Moonite women aren't like Martian women, who legitimiately have social problems. They're more desperate, and that's why Mars is their sort of opposite. Martians are uncharismatic and uncouth but sincere. The two have an agreement to share technology, but only because they're the only races who both lack the EM field and engage in science. Moonite women are the kind who would cry or worse to appeal to emotion but wouldn't actually do anything fatal because negative emotions hurt their egos. They see Martian men like newborns, uncontrollable crying messes.
They tame platypuses and keep them as pets.
>Saturn
Traditionally, Saturn is associated with ideals, conservativism, fatherhood, nobility, meritocracy, virtue, destiny, productivity, endurance of hardship, being economical, working within limits, anxiety, boundaries, despair, agriculture, and time. It is held with the same regard as Jupiter. Despite their disheveled appearances, Saturnites are actually the most traditionally noble race. It just happens that their nobility centers around being assassins, rogues, vigilantes, etc. They spend their time honing their craft and obsessing over actions taken by Moonites and Solarians, weighing how these balance against their own sense of justice. Saturnite society is based on how big of a splash you can make and how efficient it is, as long as it doesn't break Saturnite values, those being that you can push to pretty much any limit to fuck with someone "weird" as long as you don't engage in weirdness yourself or help someone become even weirder.
Despite their moral pretenses, Saturnites are a
race of hypocrites, something their appearances
do reflect. They indulge in all sorts of anti-social vices, some more public than others, and develop cults of personality which dictate what morality is at any given time. In fact, a Saturnite's radicalism is typically proportional to his degeneracy, simply because of what he can get away with through spectacle. However, Saturnites are fun to be around if you can tolerate their edginess and the perpetual chip on their shoulder. The young ones, however, are
really volatile and tend to be misguided, not understanding the context around the issues they're fighting for and sometimes attacking the wrong people. It is common for older Saturnites to be torn to shreds by younger ones as morality changes.
Due to their inherent edginess, they have a fascination with military paraphernalia.
Male and female Saturnites exhibit the described behavior, but female Saturnites are more prone to being forgiven, having their personal problems overlooked, and forming cults of personality with high amounts of members of other races, usually male Martians. The opposite tends not to be true unless the male Saturnite keeps himself kempt. The thing is, nothing good comes out of Martians being around Saturnites. Martians are just too close to their eternal enemy, Sunners. Martians who follow Saturnites often hold misguided beliefs that Saturnites would be willing to betray their status by accepting their vices and infamy as Martians do, and, as everyone knows, Martians aren't good with non-Martians. Saturnites often willingly bring in heaps of Venusians to act as shields from criticism, and they revere them for that, despite Venusians typically not reciprocating their feelings. Having Venusians around can really boost a Saturnite's ego.
I think the archetype here is clear. They're raiders and brigaders, or at least e-celebs and internet users with these tendencies or are adjacent to them. Whether it's an IB, Twitter, Kiwifarms, etc, they pursue the enforcement of social norms in public, despite being in public very little. I feel a little bad about it since, despite having participated in raids before, I liked the design enough to want to suggest an association with video games. However, I really don't like the fluffy haired unkempt "goblin" girl archetype.
They're scared of Platypuses but sometimes use them to wreck the houses of people they don't like.
>Jupiter
Traditionally, Jupiter is associated with healing, miracles, expansion, good luck, travel, religion, the law, gambling, kingship, mercy, excess, irresponsibility, and too much optimism. In astronomy, it protects the other planets by taking in asteroids and slinging them elsewhere. While they seem like the polar opposites of Saturn at first, Jupiter is as strict with the law and norms as them. It's just that with Jupiter, you
win, and they won't send platypuses to your house. Instead, you'll just be socially shamed until you admit that what you did is wrong. They'll even make a song about it. If you don't step out of line and start acting on what you say, you can get as crazy about your opinions as you want. They're peacemakers. They know every law on every book across every race and aren't afraid to let you know that you're breaking one, as long as the one you're breaking is one that they wouldn't break. Jupiterians like to travel and tell other people about it, and about themselves and their friends, through song.
Despite their rules-based system in which they won't step on each other's toes without making an agreement on it, typically behind the scenes, first, Jupiterians like to take
big gambles because they're convinced they'll either win or have to switch to a song they know their fans like for a little while. They're all friends behind closed doors, but your popularity determines which doors you know this to be true for. Failed Jupiterians are almost unheard of, but not impossible. They either literally become washups on the shores of other races, or they're relegated to background characters for more successful Jupiterians. When isolated, Jupiterians either win big and come back with a story or drive themselves into oblivion, self-destructing.
Like Martian males to Saturnian females, Venusian females tend to follow Jupiterian males. Jupiterian females attract Venusian males, but Venusian females are extremely territorial as established. Thus, Venusian men have to follow them underground. Many Venusian males and females follow Jupiterians of the corresponding sex for entertainment.
Jupiterian males and females have a strained relationship. While their Saturnite cousins can become almost Venusian in how they follow females, Jupiterians are almost Venusian in how they pair as pairings are almost unheard of in certain spheres. Many, many Jupiterians, despite their large followings,
never pair. In males, this is usually due to what kind of entertainment they provide being unappealing to Jupiterian females. In females, this is typically due to their fanbases. Saturnite and Martian males working together to completely destroy the careers of Jupiterian females is more common than most people like to admit.
The archetype here is extremely obvious. These are influencers, Redditors, forum users, and e-celebs in general. Entertainment obviously isn't limited to Jupiterians; they're just very good at it. They're not so good at fighting or direct confrontation.
They have strong EM fields and treat Platypuses like circus animals.
>The Sun
Everybody knows what the Sun is. It's life, masculinity, power, vitality, self-esteem, pride, leadership, authority, the ego, haughtiness, self-centeredness, forcing things onto others, and judgement. The Sun makes things happen. There aren't many Sunners, but they are the leaders at the table of any meeting with multiple races involved. When they aren't doing that, they spend most days working out or "improving their outerselves to match their innerselves," as they call it. This involves BTFOing the oddly huge flora and fauna in their territory. Platypuses in said territory are oddly huge by being slightly larger than normal.
They have really bad fashion sense but don't admit it, and they tend to keep to themselves. They used to lead grand conquests across the world and fight each other for dominance like demigods, but ever since the advent of Martian technology, something they don't like to touch or be around despite Martians revering them, using the mineral that they use in their clubs for their tech, and mainly keeping their tech to themselves and Moonites, they've settled down. Some elements of Martian society call for a return to tradition for Sunners, but they fall on deaf ears. The only times they get involved now are when disputes between races happen. Sunners actually get into some really niche hobbies, but reactions to asking about these are mixed, given their pride in musculature and strength. The interplay between Martians, Sunners, and Venusians is often the butt of jokes about homoeroticism.
When their egos are bruised or they really don't like something they see, Sunners are quick to direct violence, proving that the clubs they carry around aren't for show.
Sunner men and women mostly do their own thing, and this lack of interaction has made some older Sunners and members of other races worried that Sunners will die out.
The archetype here is a little obtuse. Sunners, in my idea, are a combination of Japanese people, what the "old internet" was, and internet moderators. It's not as coherent as I'd like it to be.
>Mercury
I don't have any sweeping ideas for them right now other than what I wrote before, that Mercurians are born as twins who decide which one lives or dies at adulthood, and that they have a
lot of bureaucracy. My idea for the Mercurian female is that she's very stern and rational and curious and shows little emotion, but she's the kind of girl who constantly compares herself to those around her. However, the only person around her is her naturally gifted dork of a brother who she overestimates and blames her own failures on, but, given the reality of the situation, she's just projecting her own insecurity onto him. All he wants to do is play around with his bow, learn, and make friends because his personality is decidedly average. Unfortunately, this could make an uneven ratio of Derse-to-Prospit dreamers.