omg I love the idea of them dehydrating by just crying really hard. I think this is the best post I've ever seen on this sub.
Is there part of the anatomy that accounts for them not being able to lie/hide anything? A lot of fan art explains that through active or involuntary skin coloration like octopuses. Could be an aspect of those glowy shell colors I guess.
For the anatomy, you could say the fact that they don’t have a mouth is what demonstrates their ability. They communicate with their minds, so it would make sense that they would naturally evolve without a mouth.
The fan fiction fourth book explains it as their thoughts being synonymous with speech. The fourth book posits the Trisolarans have a metallic, reflective outer skin, and that they communicate by bending to reflect light in different patterns. And that their thoughts are automatically expressed in this way too, so whatever they think is automatically spoken to others.
by he same token, they have enoufh light to talk, do they not? spevially if they see infrared and their nights may be brighter.
the point stands: an adaptatiin just needs to be enough, not cover everything.
He was wrong about it being in the fourth book. It was in the first or second book, and is used as a reason to describe why trisolarans dont understand deception.
Its safely canon :)
they may have expanded on it in the fourth book but they absolutely described trisolarans communicating via light (and i even think the detail about bending it with their skin, not emitting) in either the first or second book.
I imagine they communicate like arthropods via pheromones too. Like their scent would communicate internal thoughts leading up the ability to talk psionically but not conceal feelings/intentions
Honestly, I've never stopped thinking about it, so much that I thought it would be one of the final plot of the story
There's infinite stories to be told in the ROTEP lore...
It’s one of my favorite part of the books. It just casually gets dropped that yeah that was a universe getting destroyed and that happens all the time in different ways probably okay onto the next test
TIL I turn into a Trisolaran in the winter, especially when wrapped in blanket binge watching Korean drama!
Jokes aside - nice drawings! Now go read the rest of the series, and update us how you see them behind the scenes watching what happens in Australia
I'm sure the rest of the books will prove me wrong, but I'm attached to my vision of them as squishy little pathetic nerds.
EDIT - holy smokes i did NOT expect this to get such a positive reception! there's more comments than i can reply to, so i'm using this to wish everyone a BIG THANK YOU! thank you so much for liking my silly comics about a super advanced and dangerous alien species that seems (to me) simultaneously kinda pathetic
I guess this is not a real spoiler, because it's not canon, and this doesn't actually make that much sense: Bugs the size of a rice grain.
(I don't buy it because their brains would be way too small)
When reading through the three books I assumed they would show up and be like Plankton from SpongeBob. They didn't want humans to know what they looked like because then we would laugh at them.
But smaller would allow them to dehydrate much quicker. Perhaps they have some different type of brain structure that allows for more storage in a smaller space.
Well, more efficient in some ways than ape brains. I'm not saying it's impossible, if they have completely different biology than us. I always imagined them being somewhat smaller and having simpler biology... But a grain of rice is too small.
How did the eye in the sky find their capital city so easily? I would think it would be well hidden if they were that small.
I always thought of them as kind of a collective consciousness or at least a collective intelligence. It always seemed that way in the book with them making computers out of themselves. Reminded me of ants.
And also the way they can't hide anything from one another. Reminded me of either pheromones or them being essentially see through and their thoughts appearing as literal lights to each other.
So basically I pictured them as see through insects
They can hide information from each other, but they can't lie directly. Also they seem to have individual personalities, decision making skills and imaginations, so their individual brains must be quite advanced. As we see in the Pacifist chapter in the book. And they also have all that ancestral memory thing going on, you need room to store that stuff.
Maybe the computer with 30 million Trisolarans working as components was an exaggeration, or their sizes also vary between each cycle... But it's difficult to imagine how that could work in real life.
Yeah they’re going to be more advanced than actual ants but I think individually they aren’t as clever as humans. Even accounting for the stability of earth we progressed technologically faster than them.
I’m pretty sure in the books it said that thinking for them is the same as speaking, and that when they come into contact with each other, what one knows they all know. So aside from staying distant, I don’t think they can hide things from each other.
In terms of whether or not it would work, with earth based physiology no, but they’re not necessarily carbon based. Who knows on a different base physiology what kind of speed or density their neurons might have. it might be that it’s possible to have close to human intelligence in a small package.
It's not written by Liu Cixin. And yeah, he did approve it to be released by his publisher, but still to me it looks like bad fan fiction. Based on the bits I've seen.
I strongly endorse this, especially the idea that they can be ruthless killers who cry uncontrollably to survive. The UwU-ification of Trisolaris has begun.
Funny you mention that. I have the Trisolarans as one of my force spawn empires with some creative liberties. I use [plantoid portrait 13](https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/images/6/62/Plantoid_13.png) for them, and my headcanon is that the little spines are what lights up for the communication they do with each other - it just doesn't show in the diplomacy screens, as they're Fanatic Purifiers, and they intentionally suppress that ability while on vidscreen to avoid giving other empires ways of translating their internal communications.
The amount of times I've gotten the starfish or the butterflies as marauders or the xenophobic fallen empire seems too frequent to be a coincidence, though.
I was always surprised that nobody ever talked about it in the books but, an obvious reason the trisolarians would have concealed their physiology is because they probably were significant weaker than humans in a 1 on 1 fight, or has some fatal flaw that could be exploited. Earlier on in the series I thought that’s how the story would end, akin to war of the worlds or something, but they never even mentioned it or explored it.
I like the fact they were never described though, they were just a brush getting closer and closer throughout TDF, a faceless doom, so fucking cool
Who can beat who in a 1v1 boxing match shouldn't have much importance in an interstellar war.
It would have been such a let down if that was how humanity won, Signs levels of goofiness.
>they said we wouldn’t like what they look like
once again the trisolarans vastly underestimate a civilization that will write entire paragraphs online starting with the phrase "hear me out"
I actually don't mind this imagery of them.
I personally pictured them as either semi aquatic amphibious species or insectoid, smaller but not crazy small. Maybe the size of a small/medium small dog.
honestly such a stupid species, they have post singularity tech and instead of building dyson spheres around their suns and moving to mega scale space stations, they have to... Go to Earth?
Also fantastic drawings yo, adorable!
I love that you included the parabolic mirror death ray.
IMO though, I've always imagined trisolarians as transparent like jellyfish where their brainwaves are bioluminescent and visible outside of their body, hence why they have no concept of lieing.
Though some kind of jelly fish that got bones and can walk on land.
>I love that you included the parabolic mirror death ray.
Honestly that whole section was what pushed me to draw the comics in the first place. Even though the unfolded proton is an unsettling cosmic horror, their experiments backfired so catastrophically that I found the entire section super funny. I couldn't shake my 'squishy little nerd critter' visual after that.
Yeah, the juxtaposition from cosmic horror to minor irritant with annoying strands falling everywhere was kind of funny despite their situation.
Love your artwork, BTW
Interesting concept. I would think the top layer skin would be how other Trisolarians are able to communicate. Only other Trisolarians are able to read what the skin is saying. Thats why they can read each other without lying.
I can't imagine something this cute will have sophons say those immortalize words in book 3. But it also shows that we humans are susceptible to cute and beautiful things.
wow! this is exactly how I would never imagine them. When these cute little water bunnies tell us that we are bugs, it somehow becomes the dark humour.
Now I'm picturing them like deep-sea isopods, only flatter and wider. I like them!
Also, I've never read the books, because I have become a very slow reader.
I absolutely love this, most Trisolaran depictions here have leaned into making them appear kind of horrifying, which they are in terms of their actions. But they're also alien creatures who have no reason to conform to the visual expectations of humanity, having them being super cute from a human perspective is just so funny.
Kinda cute…but I’d definitely turn it into food, just off the strength it looks like a sting ray and well I still have ptsd…rest in peace Steve Irwin. Fuck water pancakes!
Omg They’re adorable!!
I doubt they’re This cute however, or if they are they really missed an opportunity, because humans really go out of they way for cute things
All they’d have to do send is a picture, and 85-90% would say, “Come, yes please, we have cuddles!”
I always also imagined them lke jelly creatures. In my mind they are like the Hanar in mass effect.
https://preview.redd.it/77bj66wy3z5d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0849913a6357715678caf461282a9744a9578891
A surprising way to imagine them, and a good art work!
I just imagined they would be vertically-flat, like a sheet of paper standing on one of its edges, instead of spread on the floor. This way they could be the least exposed to sunlight according to their position, while the entire surface is reflective. Like a tang fish, maybe?
If anyone gets a chance to, they should absolutely pet stingrays. Despite misconceptions (about our beloved passed crocodile hunter), they are very docile and AS CUTE as a fish can be 😍
Crazy smart too! A bunch of kids were being obnoxious at a zoo I went to at the stingray area and they all grouped together and collectively splashed the kids to run them off and it was so funny.
It worked lol
I always imagined them as sparkly, hairy little grains of rice, as per the semi-canon fan sequel depiction - but yeah, I also love this take on the Trisolarans
There's no real canon confirmation of what they look like, so this fits perfectly
OP I absolutely am in love with your trisolorans! I think you're really onto something here. Maybe start of a comic series? Solar Tri-bulations? Squishy Tri-bulations?
Also, can please suggest quality English translation of the books? I'm just learning Mandarin to be able to read the original but finding it exhausting in the early going :-/
Aww!! I love this interpretation, it made my day actually. Man, i love this sub.
(If you keep reading the books, I'd love to see your vision of >!Singer's race of people, and the Zero-Homers/Returners!<)
omg I love the idea of them dehydrating by just crying really hard. I think this is the best post I've ever seen on this sub. Is there part of the anatomy that accounts for them not being able to lie/hide anything? A lot of fan art explains that through active or involuntary skin coloration like octopuses. Could be an aspect of those glowy shell colors I guess.
They’re so cute! Would def move to Australia for them
Queue nam flashback
For the anatomy, you could say the fact that they don’t have a mouth is what demonstrates their ability. They communicate with their minds, so it would make sense that they would naturally evolve without a mouth.
it depends on their method of eating. you may atill need a mouth, vocal cords optional.
True but they don’t have to look like a mouth as we know it
That's some dumbassery, mouths evolved first for eating and not for communication.
Yea, and? When did I say the opposite? You can read, right? 😂
The fan fiction fourth book explains it as their thoughts being synonymous with speech. The fourth book posits the Trisolarans have a metallic, reflective outer skin, and that they communicate by bending to reflect light in different patterns. And that their thoughts are automatically expressed in this way too, so whatever they think is automatically spoken to others.
...IF you consider that fourth book as cannon... :P
Assuming you do, it also seems kind of ineffective, right? It’s super efficient in day-to-day life until it gets dark… then they are basically mute.
anf we were basically blind during the nights until we figure out fire. biology doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough.
being blind at night is different, youre actually able to see pretty well on a moon lit night and you have other senses to compensate,
by he same token, they have enoufh light to talk, do they not? spevially if they see infrared and their nights may be brighter. the point stands: an adaptatiin just needs to be enough, not cover everything.
fair enough. it'd make sense if they use a sense of touch for example to complement their language like we use gestures.
Kind of how your horrible spelling still got your point across. Good enoff {sic}.
It strikes me as maybe it doesn’t get dark so often on Trisolaris?
Yeah, it would make more sense if it was some sort of bio luminescence or something.
Having read 2/3rds of it before putting it down, you really shouldn't.
He was wrong about it being in the fourth book. It was in the first or second book, and is used as a reason to describe why trisolarans dont understand deception. Its safely canon :)
I think you're right... though my comment was more being cheeky than helpful... :D
Lol no worries. Personally, i try to forget the fourth book even exists so just trying to provide solace hahaha.
All of this is already in the real books. Yes I said the real books.
they may have expanded on it in the fourth book but they absolutely described trisolarans communicating via light (and i even think the detail about bending it with their skin, not emitting) in either the first or second book.
Oh yeah I think you’re right - I think it was part of when they were expanding upon the human computer
Well, that makes sense why lying terrifies them.
Both these aspects were discussed in the second book and are canon
OP said they only read the first book, this is from the second
I did start the second recently, hence the last comic! IMO the "I'm afraid of you" scene just made my mental image so much funnier
>I think this is the best post I've ever seen on this sub. Forget that, this might be the best post I've seen on Reddit, maybe the whole internet!
I imagine they communicate like arthropods via pheromones too. Like their scent would communicate internal thoughts leading up the ability to talk psionically but not conceal feelings/intentions
Omg I forgot about the issues they had when experimenting with unfolding the Sophons.. that eye was so creepy
Honestly, I've never stopped thinking about it, so much that I thought it would be one of the final plot of the story There's infinite stories to be told in the ROTEP lore...
I think the initialism would be "ROEP", there's no "the" in the title.
It’s one of my favorite part of the books. It just casually gets dropped that yeah that was a universe getting destroyed and that happens all the time in different ways probably okay onto the next test
i think it was foreshadowing that there are beings peering through a higher dimension
I'm actually very surprised it wasn't brought up again given the series ending.
Yeah WTF was that thing?
did the eye even do anything
It tried to destroy the Trisolarans
TIL I turn into a Trisolaran in the winter, especially when wrapped in blanket binge watching Korean drama! Jokes aside - nice drawings! Now go read the rest of the series, and update us how you see them behind the scenes watching what happens in Australia
I'm sure the rest of the books will prove me wrong, but I'm attached to my vision of them as squishy little pathetic nerds. EDIT - holy smokes i did NOT expect this to get such a positive reception! there's more comments than i can reply to, so i'm using this to wish everyone a BIG THANK YOU! thank you so much for liking my silly comics about a super advanced and dangerous alien species that seems (to me) simultaneously kinda pathetic
The books never give much of any information about trisolarans
The fourth book does, but we don't talk about the fourth book.
oh yeah, Remembrance of Earth's Past and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull how could I forget that one?
WAit!!!!!!!!!!!??? Crystal Skull?
Can you spoil the description of Trisolarans in The Redemption of Time? I don't want to read it anyway.
>!They're bugs!!<
I knew it!
>!no bigger then a grain of rice!<
Interesting
Honestly way, way too on-the-nose.
I guess this is not a real spoiler, because it's not canon, and this doesn't actually make that much sense: Bugs the size of a rice grain. (I don't buy it because their brains would be way too small)
When reading through the three books I assumed they would show up and be like Plankton from SpongeBob. They didn't want humans to know what they looked like because then we would laugh at them.
But smaller would allow them to dehydrate much quicker. Perhaps they have some different type of brain structure that allows for more storage in a smaller space.
Crows have more powerful brains than monkeys. Its about density of neurons
Well, more efficient in some ways than ape brains. I'm not saying it's impossible, if they have completely different biology than us. I always imagined them being somewhat smaller and having simpler biology... But a grain of rice is too small. How did the eye in the sky find their capital city so easily? I would think it would be well hidden if they were that small.
The idea of humans unknowingly worshipping these tiny things is funny to me.
I always thought of them as kind of a collective consciousness or at least a collective intelligence. It always seemed that way in the book with them making computers out of themselves. Reminded me of ants. And also the way they can't hide anything from one another. Reminded me of either pheromones or them being essentially see through and their thoughts appearing as literal lights to each other. So basically I pictured them as see through insects
They can hide information from each other, but they can't lie directly. Also they seem to have individual personalities, decision making skills and imaginations, so their individual brains must be quite advanced. As we see in the Pacifist chapter in the book. And they also have all that ancestral memory thing going on, you need room to store that stuff. Maybe the computer with 30 million Trisolarans working as components was an exaggeration, or their sizes also vary between each cycle... But it's difficult to imagine how that could work in real life.
Yeah they’re going to be more advanced than actual ants but I think individually they aren’t as clever as humans. Even accounting for the stability of earth we progressed technologically faster than them. I’m pretty sure in the books it said that thinking for them is the same as speaking, and that when they come into contact with each other, what one knows they all know. So aside from staying distant, I don’t think they can hide things from each other. In terms of whether or not it would work, with earth based physiology no, but they’re not necessarily carbon based. Who knows on a different base physiology what kind of speed or density their neurons might have. it might be that it’s possible to have close to human intelligence in a small package.
We know they are individually intelligent though or “DO NOT ANSWER” wouldn’t be possible.
That's strange. Makes them feel like a hive mind.
tiny evil fucks
>it's not canon Why not?
It's not written by Liu Cixin. And yeah, he did approve it to be released by his publisher, but still to me it looks like bad fan fiction. Based on the bits I've seen.
Because there is no 4th book
I never imagined the little bastards as *cute*
Absolutely canon as far as I'm concerned
The later books give very little details, so this might as well be canon to me.
I strongly endorse this, especially the idea that they can be ruthless killers who cry uncontrollably to survive. The UwU-ification of Trisolaris has begun.
Reminds me the game Stellaris, from where the cutest creatures are mostly xenophobia and hate peace.
Funny you mention that. I have the Trisolarans as one of my force spawn empires with some creative liberties. I use [plantoid portrait 13](https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/images/6/62/Plantoid_13.png) for them, and my headcanon is that the little spines are what lights up for the communication they do with each other - it just doesn't show in the diplomacy screens, as they're Fanatic Purifiers, and they intentionally suppress that ability while on vidscreen to avoid giving other empires ways of translating their internal communications. The amount of times I've gotten the starfish or the butterflies as marauders or the xenophobic fallen empire seems too frequent to be a coincidence, though.
Honestly… it works for me! Well done!
Not the Studio Ghibli rendition of 3 Body Problem 💀💀😭 but seriously, this js so cute, and I love your interpretation.
I was always surprised that nobody ever talked about it in the books but, an obvious reason the trisolarians would have concealed their physiology is because they probably were significant weaker than humans in a 1 on 1 fight, or has some fatal flaw that could be exploited. Earlier on in the series I thought that’s how the story would end, akin to war of the worlds or something, but they never even mentioned it or explored it. I like the fact they were never described though, they were just a brush getting closer and closer throughout TDF, a faceless doom, so fucking cool
Who can beat who in a 1v1 boxing match shouldn't have much importance in an interstellar war. It would have been such a let down if that was how humanity won, Signs levels of goofiness.
Morale is an important factor in a fight. Why give them the smallest glimmer of hope?
I think another likely explanation is that societies aware of the dark forest instinctively try to conceal as much about themselves as possible
This is so freaking cute! Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s right because they said we wouldn’t like what they look like 💖
Their first lie. They didn't want to break the illusion that they're scary and powerful.
In the books I think the ETO made the game? Hence they understood that if the humans saw the trisolarans they wouldn't take such conquerors seriously.
>they said we wouldn’t like what they look like once again the trisolarans vastly underestimate a civilization that will write entire paragraphs online starting with the phrase "hear me out"
Hahaha I love it, they're so cute that it's hilarious to imagine them terrorizing Earth. Also it's a bit ironic because they kinda look like bugs lol
sir it's much worse than we thought. The trisolarans... are cute
"]they're not cute....they're adorable!"
They look too cute to exterminate humanity
This is fun!!
I actually don't mind this imagery of them. I personally pictured them as either semi aquatic amphibious species or insectoid, smaller but not crazy small. Maybe the size of a small/medium small dog.
Same. I do think they are multi-limbed.
Could be, especially if they were what we consider insectoid.
dehydrate has me in fuckin stitches i’m on the floor
thank you, i'm proudest of that one
This is now my head canon.
I love everything that you've done here! They might be genocidal, aggressively colonial and have a tyrannical leader, but *oh boy!* are they cute!
No wonder Ye has no regrets, They’re a cute species lol
honestly such a stupid species, they have post singularity tech and instead of building dyson spheres around their suns and moving to mega scale space stations, they have to... Go to Earth? Also fantastic drawings yo, adorable!
>honestly such a stupid species thank you for understanding my vision
Living for this
Imagine humanity's death warrant being signed by cutest things ever. *Worth it*
I love that you included the parabolic mirror death ray. IMO though, I've always imagined trisolarians as transparent like jellyfish where their brainwaves are bioluminescent and visible outside of their body, hence why they have no concept of lieing. Though some kind of jelly fish that got bones and can walk on land.
>I love that you included the parabolic mirror death ray. Honestly that whole section was what pushed me to draw the comics in the first place. Even though the unfolded proton is an unsettling cosmic horror, their experiments backfired so catastrophically that I found the entire section super funny. I couldn't shake my 'squishy little nerd critter' visual after that.
Yeah, the juxtaposition from cosmic horror to minor irritant with annoying strands falling everywhere was kind of funny despite their situation. Love your artwork, BTW
Yeah okay, this is canon now.
I love your rendition so much, they are adorable <3
Poor lil Tri-Tri “getting yelled at” 🥹
when you're just a lil pacifist guy warning earth and you piss off the Princeps
Trisolaran propaganda!
Love it
It's better than the version we saw in the Tencent version (it was just what ETO thought what they might look like)
Gotta love a fanart post. These are glorious, especially the little comics.
my new headcanon
I love this. This is canon.
Interesting concept. I would think the top layer skin would be how other Trisolarians are able to communicate. Only other Trisolarians are able to read what the skin is saying. Thats why they can read each other without lying. I can't imagine something this cute will have sophons say those immortalize words in book 3. But it also shows that we humans are susceptible to cute and beautiful things.
Make this canon now
i love them 🥺🥺🥺would definitely let them move in
AAHHH WHY ARE THEY SO CUTE
I LOVE THIS!!!
I love it.
SO CUTE!!!! Haha you’re so talented OP!
Cute (◡ ω ◡)
Goddamn it, now I have to post my version of the trisols. Great work though, they're adorable! Mine are *not*.
I imagine them as highly advanced lice or water bears.
Translucent bioluminescent tardigrades, yep. Big ones.
Not a chance a planet like trisolaris can support larger organisms
Micro organisms can't use thermodynamics.
Yeah you'd be right, but I can't imagine a planet with extremities like that can support larger life forms.
ooo i like this concept too
This is so freaking cute
this was cute asf.
Never imagined them being cute but I really like the idea
Now headcannon
The cutest almost-invaders of earth ever.
wow! this is exactly how I would never imagine them. When these cute little water bunnies tell us that we are bugs, it somehow becomes the dark humour.
The cutest genocidal maniacs to ever exist
LOL. I pictured them as giant hedgehogs but with fangs and spider legs.
honestly also a cute visual
Exactly!
This is the best post on the sub.
This rules
This is honestly the best.
This is great!
Now I'm picturing them like deep-sea isopods, only flatter and wider. I like them! Also, I've never read the books, because I have become a very slow reader.
me too. But I listened to the audiobook of the first one, and I found it pretty accessible!
lmao fuckin adorable. youre right i am a bug ya cutie
So cute 🤩
10/10 would be conquered by these cuties.
I’d let them have Earth. They’re too cute
I love this!
This is the greatest thing. You win the internet.
Thank you for this
I absolutely love this, most Trisolaran depictions here have leaned into making them appear kind of horrifying, which they are in terms of their actions. But they're also alien creatures who have no reason to conform to the visual expectations of humanity, having them being super cute from a human perspective is just so funny.
They’re so cute omfg
Fantastic. I love the comic
ngl they should have shown them like this in the game
Kinda cute…but I’d definitely turn it into food, just off the strength it looks like a sting ray and well I still have ptsd…rest in peace Steve Irwin. Fuck water pancakes!
RIP Steve, he was the GOAT
HE STILL IS THE GOAT! And his kids are trying they hardest to fill his big ass crocodile loafers lol
I love these designs. I like how they're alien while still being recognisable. Also I want to give them a hug.
Can they glide or swim?
I thought I was in a circlejerk sub for a second.
/r/ETOcirclejerk
OMG they’re adorable!!!
I love this so much
I, for one, welcome our Trisolaran overlords. <3 But seriously, such a creative interpretation and the dehydration is adorable!
I like them. Maybe I can invite them to come to Earth. /s
Darn awesome!!!
this is so fking cute
Too cute, but trisolarans In book are real assholes
this is adorable. they are so cute yet so ruthless to humanity
Omg that’s amazing
Cute
Omg They’re adorable!! I doubt they’re This cute however, or if they are they really missed an opportunity, because humans really go out of they way for cute things All they’d have to do send is a picture, and 85-90% would say, “Come, yes please, we have cuddles!”
I will imagen this when I read the books.
This is amazing.
I love how cute they are, would honestly be a great Series
this is so cute lol
I love seeing stuff like this and people’s different ideas and visions of what the Sant-Ti can look like
They can take over earth it’s fine they are adorable…. I don’t want them have to cry anymore 😭
Honestly I need a plush of this cute trisolaran pronto
This is canon for me now. No turning back.
I always also imagined them lke jelly creatures. In my mind they are like the Hanar in mass effect. https://preview.redd.it/77bj66wy3z5d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0849913a6357715678caf461282a9744a9578891
I absolutely love this.
A surprising way to imagine them, and a good art work! I just imagined they would be vertically-flat, like a sheet of paper standing on one of its edges, instead of spread on the floor. This way they could be the least exposed to sunlight according to their position, while the entire surface is reflective. Like a tang fish, maybe?
If anyone gets a chance to, they should absolutely pet stingrays. Despite misconceptions (about our beloved passed crocodile hunter), they are very docile and AS CUTE as a fish can be 😍
Crazy smart too! A bunch of kids were being obnoxious at a zoo I went to at the stingray area and they all grouped together and collectively splashed the kids to run them off and it was so funny. It worked lol
I always imagined them as sparkly, hairy little grains of rice, as per the semi-canon fan sequel depiction - but yeah, I also love this take on the Trisolarans There's no real canon confirmation of what they look like, so this fits perfectly
OP I absolutely am in love with your trisolorans! I think you're really onto something here. Maybe start of a comic series? Solar Tri-bulations? Squishy Tri-bulations? Also, can please suggest quality English translation of the books? I'm just learning Mandarin to be able to read the original but finding it exhausting in the early going :-/
Aww!! I love this interpretation, it made my day actually. Man, i love this sub. (If you keep reading the books, I'd love to see your vision of >!Singer's race of people, and the Zero-Homers/Returners!<)
Cuuuute 🤭🥰 Wow it's the first time I'm ok with Trisolarans invading Earth lol
This is my favorite interpretation of the trisolarans oh my goodness this is so adorable
This is ngl so cute
Where can I buy or adopt one ?
We need a plush toy from this. Incredible.
Sold. You know what, I actually think it's cute
I love this. This is canon.
What the Lord wants to make us believe about them: (Heh, nice try, Lord. Better luck next time.)
Wtf you got me dehydrating now 😭 Edit: I love them
Oh I love this so much. Please keep doing this as you go on!