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Sessaris' Violin Studio

and Kit's Painting Pool

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Kit and Sessaris are humanoids from the planet Becca. No one knows why their world has so much variation in the number of limbs people are born with, but their society excels at accommodating all sorts of body configurations.

Sessaris has only one arm and one leg, and Kit has only arms. Both of them use an assortment of prosthetic limbs, which can be switched out as needed. Kit is a painter, and Sessaris is skilled with the prosthetic violin.

Their shared home consists of two connected cubes on different floors of the building: a dry upstairs, and an aquatic downstairs for swimming with fin prostheses.

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Drawing of the apartment cube occupied by Sessaris, a humanoid woman in a skirt, about half the height of the cube, who stands near the front, playing a violin. She has no hair and has a coil-shaped decoration on her head. Her left leg is machine-like, clawed and digitigrade, and the violin is attached in place of her missing right arm. The room is fully open in front, although a bathroom cubicle protrudes from the right wall, partly covered with a curtain. Behind it is a door with a rounded top and windowed upper half. In front of it is a shelf containing food cans and a small microwave. Behind Sessaris is a stilted bunk bed, under which the floor is open with a ladder leading down into it. In the foreground, a laptop on a tiny table. On the walls, an assortment of framed pictures and spare prostheses, some mechanical and some realistic limbs, hanging on hooks.

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Drawing of apartment cube occupied by Kit, a humanoid woman about half the height of the cube, who floats near the right side, painting a picture of a starfish on a wall-mounted easel. She has no hair and a coil-shaped decoration on her head. Both her arms look natural, but a mermaid tail has replaced her legs. The room is open in front, although the bottom half of it is behind a clear wall and seems to be filled with coral, rocks, shells and water, in which Kit is swimming. On the left side, a ladder leads down from the ceiling. On the right side, above Kit's easel, are shelves containing various jars and boxes. On the walls, an assortment of spare prostheses, some mechanical and some realistic limbs, hanging on hooks.

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Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. Sessaris, standing under the bunk bed, is made from a brown-skinned miniature princess doll, with her prostheses made of steel wire. A plant made of green yoga-mat foam grows behind her, planted in a plastic bottle cap filled with a dried mix of glue and ground coffee. A tiny red rug that I crocheted from embroidery floss is beneath her feet. In this version, a realistic prosthetic leg made from the doll's own leg, and a prosthetic arm with a robotic claw made from a jeweler's lobster clasp, hang in a miniature picture frame that stands behind her.

Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. This angle shows more of the center of the room, revealing a light fixture made of beads, and a large red hair roller protruding from the floor, which, in this version, forms the tube that leads into the downstairs half of the apartment.

Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the closed side. This angle shows that the cube's outer back wall is shiny red, decorated with copper wire and red beads around the edges. A window is set in a small gold picture frame. A black-framed door, made mostly of clear windows, opens on a hinge also made of copper wire and red beads.

Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. This view focuses on a shelf of food, including several cans made from desiccant canisters, a muffin and a bottle-cap pie made with clay and beads, and a pill-blister carton of clear yellow eggs.

Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the back, This view shows another potted plant, similar to the first one, seen through the open door.

Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the back, This view looks in through the door and around the corner into a bathroom, which in this version contains a toilet with a lid made of a scallop shell.

Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. A more closely zoomed-in copy of the first photo. Sessaris, standing under the bunk bed, is made from a brown-skinned miniature princess doll, with her prostheses made of steel wire. A plant made of green yoga-mat foam grows behind her, planted in a plastic bottle cap filled with a mix of glue and ground coffee. A tiny red rug that I crocheted from embroidery floss is beneath her feet. A prosthetic arm, with a robotic claw made from a jeweler's lobster clasp, hangs in a miniature picture frame that stands behind her.

Photo of the sample mockup of Sessaris's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. Another view of Sessaris, standing under the bunk bed, showing more of the bed from above. It is made of plain off-white mattress foam, and the sides of it are decorated with black rope. This angle shows that the cube's front is also decorated with copper wire and red beads around the edges.

A close-up view of the spare prostheses that are visible behind Sessaris. A realistic prosthetic leg made from the doll's own leg, wrapped in steel wire, and a prosthetic arm with a robotic claw made from a jeweler's lobster clasp, hang in a miniature picture frame. The picture frame is pewter-colored and decorated with images of hearts and roses.

Photo of the sample mockup of Kit's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. Room is dominated by a large cylindrical glass container, filled with marbles and shells, and topped with clear plastic to suggest water. Decorative seashells flank the outside of the container, and spare prostheses hang on the wall near it. A ladder from the ceiling leads down into it. A window is visible behind the ladder. Kit is made from a plastic doll like Sessaris, this one light-skinned, missing both legs, and having both arms. In this version her mermaid tail is made entirely of steel wire, and she is floating on a purple raft instead of swimming. She holds a palette and a book of paper in which she is painting.

Photo of the sample mockup of Kit's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. This view focuses on the right-side wall and the assortment of prosthetic limbs that hang there: a pink-skinned realistic leg wrapped in wire with a yellow shoe, a similar leg painted completely silver, a brown-skinned arm wrapped in wire, and a skinny metal leg with a large, bear-like clawed foot.

Photo of the sample mockup of Kit's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. A zoomed-in, cropped copy of the first photo, focusing mainly on Kit in her pool.

Photo of the sample mockup of Kit's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. This view focuses mostly on the ceiling, showing that the walls and ceiling are shiny red and irregularly shaped, and the ladder leads to a red tube made from a hair roller, which is designed to join up with the similar tube in the floor of the unit above.

Photo of the sample mockup of Kit's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the top. This view shows that the roof is made of brocaded red fabric, and the opening to the tube is hemmed in brown embroidery thread.

Photo of the sample mockup of Kit's apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the back. This view shows that the cube's outer back wall is shiny red and black, with only a window in a decorative white frame, and no back door.

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