This lora started out as my experiment in attempting to solve what I always saw as an issue with sci-fi alien designs. A reconciliation, if you want, of my long-standing love for the look of long hair, regardless of who is sporting it, with my inquisitive scientific side. Consider it prejudice, perhaps, but I didn't like how almost all alien designs wind up doing one of two things: looking bald, or simply plopping human hair on species which are meant to have evolved fully separately from Earth's biospheres and are most often not even likened to mammals in any way shape or form by the very media in which they are depicted, and which hair is a signature feature of. Sure, I'm not saying hair that looks sorta human couldn't have evolved elsewhere in the galaxy, but to just give aliens typical haircuts just so they don't look bald(which I admittedly also don't find very appealing for an entire species, really not intending to offend bald people here, some of y'all rock the look really well, but not everyone can pull it off) always stretched believability in sci-fi, for me. So a solution gradually formed in my mind.First I thought of fabric. Humans shrouded/veiled or hooded in it can sorta look like they have hair, even when you can't see their actual hair at all, like in many types of historical veiling, from medieval europe to the middle east. But then another solution gradually took shape in my head. The gorgeous, gelatinous forms that you will also see in my lora, combined with the more fabric-like look of some of the veils. Now this was all happening in my writer's head as I was coming up with a species for a project of mine, and said species gradually acquired many traits that both explained and, in turn, changed their appearance as I thought about them. This is the product of many months of me attempting to capture at least some facet of their somewhat nebulous(no pun intended) concept in art-format. I am not planning to reveal the actual name of my species until the project is done, as it would spoil things, so I went with a placeholder instead. It would probably take far too many pages to explain in full the rationale behind a lot of the choices I made about their character design, and it would most likely be pointless anyway as most people wouldn't care to find out anyway. That said, do keep in mind that this lora was originally mainly intended for my own personal use, that I figured it could do no harm to share in case other people want to have some fun with it, but as a result, fidelity to concept is treated as a higher priority than ease of use in the way it's designed.If you don't care and just want to have some quick fun with the lora, the trigger words are either Emeratam's Veiled Aliens, Veiled alien, EmeratamVA, or simply EVAZ. If you care to control the output a little more precisely, I shall include a short guide to some of the tags used so you can make the best of it. I regardless recommend having EVA_halo, halo, (as in an actual angel halo, not the game), and eva_magic, or terms like spellcasting in your negative prompt, as well as eva_tail and tail(ai has a tendency to give my aliens these even when told not to) as due to certain particularities of me attempting to get this many images of the species that portray its overarching figure correctly these things kind of sneaked in, so I included them specifically for negative prompting, as the lora will likely have something of a preponsity towards them, even though they are unwanted. Other than that, here are some guidelines:EVA_perfect OR EVA_male_perfect ------ these are the tags used for the outputs closest to my original vision for the speciesEVA_veil_long, EVA_veil_medium, EVA_veil_short -------- somewhat self-explanatory, how long you want the veils to be if you don't care about the texture of them(more fabric-y/clothing-like vs more gelatinous/slime-like), if you do then feel free to use the tags belowEVA_innerveil_long, EVA_outerveil_short, etc: --------- you can combine these any way you want, with the innerveil generally being more gelatinous/slimy and the outerveil being more fabric-y. If you want one but not the other then useEVA_veil_unobscured(for innerveil/slimy one only) EVA_innerveil_obscured(for outerveil/fabric-y one only) or EVA_innerveil_partially obscured(if you want both, goes with eva_2veils and eva_layeredveil, note you can combine this with the separate length indicators for the two veils to change their report to each other)Several tags for the texture of the veil and overall style: --------- EVA_gauzyveil, EVA_slimeveil_curled, EVA_fabricveil, EVA_hooded, EVA_slimeveil, etcFor other anatomical features we have tags like: ------------ EVA_alieneyes(For the distinctive eyes), EVA_neongrooves, EVA_scrollwork grooves, etcEVA_glossy, EVA_gelatinous --------------- these are style tags getting it to lean towards a certain.. well, style.EVA_exoshell_heavy, EVA_Exoshell_light, EVA_jellycore_heavy, EVA_jellycore_light --------------------- these tie into how the aliens were originally meant to be structured, with an inner gelatinous amoeba-like permeable membrane through which you can see their bioluminescence, and an outer shell made up of multiple closely(or less closely, in some examples) jointed dry plates for protection, floating on the surface of the inner core like tectonic plates. I was never quite able to get a perfect mix of the two layers to their skin as I would've wanted, an area you can definitely expect to see improvement and refinement on in later versions, but the proportions of one to the other do change the look of the characters a fair bit, have fun with it and see what you like.EVA_smallbreasts, EVA_largebreasts, EVA_mediumbreasts, and EVA_bulge --------------------hehe, pretty self-explanatory, figured people would wanna know it's thereEVA_clothing, EVA_clothing_perfect, eva_clothing_male_perfect, eva_clothing_male, and eva_character sheet, eva_multiple perspectives ----------- trained on a pretty diverse mix of outfits that I thought fit their culture and design quite well. These beauties(regardless of their gender) don't always reveal their inner gelatinous veils to outsiders or those they don't trust, as the patterns and colors of the bioluminescence reveal their mood and feelings, so outer coverings are considered basic decency regardless of gender, that is, unless they're in... spicier company, or simply don't care in a particular social circumstance.Have fun! I'd also like to take a moment to thank the creators of some checkpoints for making this lora possible, as well as whoever it is that set the character limit so high for civit and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://yodayo.com">yodayo.com</a>, I really couldn't have made all of these source images that formed my dataset without constantly abusing that poor character limit! The prompts were getting unmanageably long just in order to describe the basic anatomy of my characters, so I made this lora. That being said, even then results weren't really what I wanted them when I originally tried the long-prompting approach with just any checkpoint. As things currently are, now you can probably use any checkpoint you want, but in order to get the dataset images down, the most helpful resources by far were these, so go check them out and give 'em a thumbs up if you like this lora:Ocean3's Plant Milk Model Suite, particularily Walnut and HempAndCrody's Nova Anime checkpoint

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