"...The newborn, all in blood and mucus, raised its head and quietly squealed. Just like a hatchling that couldn’t break the shell by itself... and still started to grow just after it came into the world. David gently took him out freeing him from the afterbirth. A little cub – wet, limp and trembling. Not at all that perfect creature whose image boggled imagination... but it was alive. It was real.

And still, weak. He could hardly live long.

This was pitiable... but it was enough to continue the work.

David ranged his eyes round the room – one of the many rooms of the temple. There was a stack of papers on the stone table, crumpled and sloppily thrown into a pile. Failed sketches, unnecessary notes. He never got round to recycle them into blank sheets. However, they had a new purpose now – to become a nest for the newborn.

The cub curled in the papers, raising his eyeless muzzle and watching the android carefully. Lanky and gangly, but curious. David couldn’t help smiling even though he was not at all happy. The newborn started to chirr. Was that an answer or just a coincidence?"

The whole story here: https://hontor.deviantart.com/art/G.....nant-713191585

Proteus sketch (in the right in the upper corner - a shot from the film, where only his head was from him). Here such, however, he was in our version - clumsy, raspy, like a monkey-spider.
An unusually ridiculous, though touching, creation - all wrinkles, initially very weak and painful... Like all xenomorphs and their relatives, born "substandard" and left long after birth in hands, completely non-aggressive.
I really want to blind him (exclusively for myself, for our company and for photosets), but I can not decide - to do in one particular pose, or to try to invent a little poseable design from velvet clay...