"The ref for a avali char of mine that I made for a Starbound RP server a while ago. The concept for an avali (cyborg?) based in the solarpunk/frutiger aero aesthetics really spoke to me, and figured why not!

Kyroa here was originally a stock "flesh and blood" floofer with a knack for xenobotany before an unnoticed exposure to an alien fungi on a backwater tundraworld silently colonized his nervous system, mimicking his DNA . With it being a unknown lifeform that has extensively infested him upon its discovery, it was decided to remove his brain before it too was compromised.

Installed into a neural interface within a frame of the "Thallatica" series, Kyroa has enjoyed an extensive broadening of the worlds accommodating of his scientific ventures. As such he now regularly interacts with the other races upon them, assisting the avali in coming to terms with his new identity.

He can often be found deep within the reaches of uncharted oceans, permitting himself a recharge in the open sun, or mercifully permitting outsiders to use a wide array of accrued nicknames in conversation.

His "flesh" is actually a medium of energy storage composed of liquids and sugars obscuring his synthetic workings, having the consistency of ballistic gel. On the contrary his plates feel of polished ceramic to the touch. The size of his frame has been made substantially larger than organic avali do to much of his time being spent with taller races, to more comfortably live amongst them for extended periods of time."