sputnik_shanu | A visual aide!

This post is just to make it easier for people who aren't familiar with Farscape to get a better idea of what Sikozu looks like without squinting at icons or whathaveyou.

OKAY I'm going to try to keep the text to a minimum and use mostly pictures because tl;dr is boring. I will begin by saying that Sikozu is very orange. Her hair is orange, she has some orange skin, she's probably wearing orange clothes, too, because that's how she rolls.

LET'S START WITH HER FACE. She is mostly caucasian looking, like most gingers, but along her hairline, her temples and cheekbones, and either side of her throat her skin goes orange. Over the orange shades, she has some little gold scales.

You might also notice that she has barely any eyebrows. They're blonde, so light as to be almost invisible. In the case of Kalish like Sikozu, its the eyebrows that are the drapes to which the carpet is matched, if you get my meaning. Her pubic hair is blonde.

TO CONTINUE, a few other distinguishing features. Her eyes are bright teal, her eyelashes are impressive and also kind of orange, and her eyelids are orange like the skin near her temples and such, which gives her the look of wearing makeup only they don't really do makeup in her part of the galaxy, so that's all natural, kids.

She also has scales on her arms. They go with the ginger freckles she's got on there, too. She has scales on the outside of her hips and thighs very much like these ones on her arms.

A word about the scales. They're gold, they're a little bit shiny, but they're not really that hard. They're more vestigial than anything and they only feel fractionally harder than her normal skin, which feels pretty soft (though it is quite strong and difficult to penetrate). They're only slightly more than pretty markings.

Also she has fangs.

They're little and, like the scales, mostly vestigial, but they still show up from time to time. There's a little bit of animal in her, and when that comes out, that's when the fangs usually get bared. That's a good photo to also note that her lips are always really shiny. The Kalish have cornered the market on lip gloss or something.

She's got some orangeness and a few more scales on her chest, too.

Don't laugh, you'd make that face too if you were about to be dismembered by a giant spider.

You can see her "eye makeup" really well in this photo, too. Also, scary ex-boyfriend. Current boyfriend? Their relationship is excessively complicated.

The orange shading extends as far down as her hands, to the softest places in between her fingers (and similarly in the soft places between her toes).

And the gold scales form a thin line down her spine from the base of her tailbone just above her bum all the way up to the base of her neck and though the skin beneath these scales is not orange, it is one of the most sensitive spots on her body, aside from the more obvious ones. (Just ignore Princess Zerbat's Leia-buns.)

I'm still looking for a decent picture of the lighter markings on her abdomen (which come down to a V of slightly orange skin right between her thighs). That will be hunted down and captured in time.

And random things to know about Kalish! Anatomically, she is pretty much just like a human female, all the same working parts. Her blood is orange and there is not a lot of it, but her bruises are still purple. Also she is very light for a person-sized person, something in the vicinity of 40 or 50lbs. She's made up of slightly different elements than humans because Kalish need to be light in order to shift their center of gravity, i.e. walk up the walls. She's still quite strong, though, and she can use her gravity shifting ability to kick and punch harder than a 50lb girl should be able to. And she's not remotely fragile. Her skin is tough and hard to pierce compared to human skin (those scales are a hint to the ancestral reason why) and her bones are made of stronger, lighter elements than human bones, though given that her autotomic muscles (the system responsible for the clean severing and reattachment of her muscles) can break her bones on certain planes, it would depend how she was hit if normal force could do it. All of this makes her a pretty good fighter despite her size. She takes enough beatings in her canon to prove that.

AS TO MARKINGS SPECIFIC TO SIKOZU

She has some scars and stuff. The most evident is the one caused by a pulse rifle blast going straight through her. On her mid-back is a small circle that looks like a healed-up burn, about two inches in diameter. On her front, a few inches above her lowest rib, is a corresponding scar. The burn radius is smaller, but there are some scars from an incision made by an inexpert surgeon.

There is also some jagged scarring on the back of her left shoulder from where a transmitter was torn out, though that is older than the through-and-through, and some thin pale scars around the circumference of several of her limbs, but they are far less noticeable.

AS TO HAIR AND CLOTHES

Sikozu has two hairstyles that she likes, both represented in the earlier photos. One is leaving it down, long and curly and orange. This is how she's wearing her hair most of the time. If I don't mention a hairstyle, then this is how she looks. The other is what has been affectionately termed the Sputnik, thanks to Crichton, where she coils up her hair into like ten little twisted buns that even Princess Leia would be jealous of. This hairstyle takes effort so she doesn't do it as much, and she usually saves it for when she thinks she's going to be doing a lot of work where she'll want all that hair out of the way.

Then clothing. Sikozu is a sci fi character, so she dresses in a specific way in much the same way as cartoon characters often do. There are certain articles of clothing which she almost never goes without. Those are: little skirt, gauntlets, strappy top. She almost invariably wears leggings under her skirt and her strappy tops never have sleeves and almost never cover her midriff because she don care. She doesn't like to be all constricted. Her most conservative top is also her body armor, which looks like this:

But mostly she's going to be dressed something like this:

In Ariel, she has started wearing tank tops and mini skirts with cute boots or little flats (even though she's super short), wardrobe photo collection possibly forthcoming because why don't I just be really thorough.