Ikuyid

**Ikuyids** are a demon-like humanoid specie that mostly inhabit high-pressured atmospheric planets with mostly warm weather. They are often considered a more passive variant of a demon specie due to their peaceful nature and introverted lifestyle.

## Appearance

Ikuyids look like a humanoid but with a variety of features relevant to demons. An average ikuyid would have two horns extruding from their head either at the front of their forehead or at the side of their head just above their ears. Their skin is usually different shades of red but there are ikuyids with orange and reddish-brown skin due to different developments of genetics. Their eyeballs are black but their iris colour has the same colour range as their skin and most common iris colours are red, orange and yellow. Their hair colour is always naturally black but there have been records or brown hair and oddly enough, blonde hair. An ikuyid's facial and body features are directly related to a human but the only noticeable difference is that ikuyids have pointier ears.

The average height of an ikuyid is 5'10" for males and 5'8" for females which is slightly above human average height and due to their demonic genetics, they have a far greater life expectancy reaching around 280 years. They also stop aging at around 27-42 years old which makes it impossible to determine whether an ikuyid is incredibly old or rather young.

## Biology

Despite the fact ikuyids share noticeable features from both demons and humans, their genetics are composed of many different species who have had their fair share in creating the ikuyid specie.

Their genetic code is mostly composed of standard demon species and standard human species but ikuyids also share genetics from kurvvan, mayts and numerous human sub-species from polar regions. It was first recorded that it was the kurvvans to have first produced a mix breed of both human and demon specie after they had decided to create an entire new race to try and get rid of their muscular-eroding genetics, however, the outcome still looked more demon than human and still shared the poor genetic combonation. Kurvvans left the particular specie to the demons after realising it was a failure and ultimately, got them into huge conflicts with multiple demonic factions. The original ikuyid race was brought up by demon species and they looked significantly different from demons thus easy to tell apart. They soon became independant but it wasn't long until they were captured by maytians and kept the entire specie under slave control as well as taking control over their lives to which a lot of unconsented sex occured. This occured several times as the newer ikuyid specie would escape and be recaptured soon afterwards by a completely different faction. In the end, the ikuyids developed incredible strength, pain control and speed after picking up genetic after genetic to which no-one could control them anymore and ultimately all died due to the ikuyid's powerful uprising. Their strength was so abnormally superior that even the original demon species had feared to what the human species had created.

They soon built up their own civilisation and some travelled to other planets to seek a new life. An entirely new and powerful demon specie was created through human greed but they still carried the bad omen that the kurvvans had which was muscle erosion. Even though the traces of that particular genetic was small, it still impacted an ikuyid. At any point during their life, any limb will start to erode away and this can't be pre-determined by the ikuyid themselves as it's random and can happen at any time. Luckily enough, only one limb will be lost but it's unkown to the ikyuid to how much is lost, sometimes it's a small portion or the whole limb itself.

However, the wait can be skipped as any limb that has been removed from events like surgery or an accident can tell the body that a limb has already been lost and therefore the muscle erosion doesn't need to occur. This is the reason why ikuyids often celebrate when they lose a limb from a particular event that they have suffered.

## Relationships with other factions/species

Although ikuyids have gone through a significant amount of suffering through their history, they still try to maintain a healthy relationship with other species whether being human or not. Ikuyids have the best relationship with demon-species considering they share similar traditionalities, culture and physical atributes.

However, ikuyids have a love hate relationship with humans considering they are sometimes discriminated in certain areas and planets but at the same time are also accepted into human civilisations and adored upon. The strongest relationship they have with humans is the Zythian Empire civilisation as many ikuyids were brought there due to conflicts with other human factions and unconsented Jenchi Foa experiments. Most ikuyids will also get along with other alien species as they have never posed any threat to them in the past nor in the present.

## Tradition and Culture

Ikuyidian tradition is mostly adopted from demon culture as they felt comfortable with it and it is also what they grew up with when the specie was first created. Most traditions are spiritual and ikuyids would often dress up in very oriental clothing with many rich accessories and jewellery consisting of different rare metals and gems. Religion-wise, ikuyids have faith for the God Deima to which the demon race can confirm, exists just like Nvoskay. There are certain days within the year where they have traditional festival days and often do these celebrations with other demon-related species and sub-species as an act of inclusivity. There is a common stereotype that ikuyids do demonic rituals as a part of their tradition but not once has this ever been confirmed yet even occured.

In terms of culture, the social-behaviour of an ikuyid is often portrayed as rather calm due to them being very patient and forgiving even during the most stressful of times which often misleads a lot of people due to their very intimidating looks and body structures. Although ikuyids often dress up in very traditional aspects, they are incredibly keen on technology and robotics mostly because at some point in their life, cybernetics will come into place as well as loving it in general.