The Gondia

a species by Theia The Gondia (Mila)

(Gondia commission, drawn by Naja_Asherar)

Summary:
The Gondia are any human or parahuman that has been assimilated by the symbiotic alien plant Cerebrivinea Lacutis. They originate from the planet Aiden on the northern side of the M81 Galaxy. Their society started 800,000 years ago when ancient parahumans colonised Aiden. They are an all-female species that reproduces exclusively through parthenogenesis and is able to communicate with each other electromagnetically. Some factions desire to assimilate all of humanity/parahumanity due to a religious conviction while others just want to coexist with other species.

Appearance:

The Gondia look like the humans/parahumans they are assimilated from except they:

are all female

have extremely pale skin like an albino

have green hair with flowers growing in it (flowers can be orange, pink or sometimes purple)

the gondia have slightly more brownish blood due to them having plant cells in their bloodstream but their blood is still red

the Gondia often have a greenish tinge to certain parts of their body like their nipples, lips, eye shadow etc but this isn't always the case

have green eyes with their iris full of chlorophyll

have a retractable vine that can extend out of somewhere on their arm and they use this to assimilate others by injecting seeds into another person/animal

often wear clothes made from genetically modified fungus but not always

if you look at their skin very closely you can see green plant fibres under their skin and in their body

Origin:

The story of the Gondia starts with a species of parahuman known only as the Galls. Not much is known about them, however, they resembled Homo Sapiens to a superficial degree. They first colonised Aiden in an effort to mine protolythium, an element only found on Aiden which can be used as a room temperature superconductor as their experimental FTL system required it to work effectively.
During the initial colonisation of Aiden it became apparent to the Galls that the ecosystem of this planet was totally unique. All Terrestrial animals had been infected and subverted by an alien plant called Cerebrivinea Lacutis this altered the animals in a few key-ways, firstly all animals regardless of their prior lifestyle had become herbivores and primarily consumed the nectar of the male form of the Cerebrivinea Lacutis plant along with fruits and nectars from other plants. Secondly all the animals were female and reproduced through a form of parthenogenesis. Thirdly there was no species competition; all the infected animals seemed to cooperate and co-habitate. But by far the biggest change was that their bodies were not purely animal, and they had the female version of Cerebrivinea Lacutis growing inside them, they had flowers growing out of their bodies, visible chlorophyll pigmentation and vines which they could extend out of their bodies. Even more shocking was their genetics: the animal cells inside their bodies had been tampered with; the plant had in fact introduced new genetic instructions to the genome of infected animals which changed how their bodies operated.