ALRIGHT! :D (Ok I know this comes really late and I apologize,V! First I was too busy to answer and then I forgot it Dx)
So, the ‘blue’
Short answer: It’s where the lil baby Vorta come from (when they reproduce naturally).
Longer answer:
I like to think that the Founders didn’t change that much about the Vorta like they successfully made them believe. Like their high resistance to poisons of all kind, their bad eyesight, their lack of a sense for aestethics and taste – it’s all natural. But the Founders told them, that it was their will for the Vorta to have these (and other) traits, to reinforce the feeling of absolute control.In (my) reality, the Founders gain(ed) their power over species not only through genetic manipulation, but especially through make-believe.
But where the fuck am I going, I’m
losing my train of thought (bear with me, I’m running on coffee, black tea and Little Richard, but it’s worth it!)
OH I remember, why I started this way – Vorta, naturally, don’t have different genders and sexes, they are all equipped the same way. Biologically, they are all capable of getting pregnant and of impregnating others.
There are two forms of reproduction.
1. If there is no suitable, compatible mating partner around, a Vorta is able to impregnate themself and create a clone of themself that way (I haven’t thought about the conditions, which are potentially necessary for a Vorta to be able to do that though).
The Changelings didn’t invent the ‘Vorta-cloning’, but used this natural capability of the species and manipulated it, so it suited their own needs before that of the Vorta. Additionally, they genetically disabled the Vorta’s second form of reproduction:
2. If two Vorta like each other very very much….
..and decide to have children, they’re doing the do and impregnate each other, creating two new, genetically unique Vorta. The Changelings destroyed this capability (because power and control and why would Vorta care about each other anyway, when they’re supposed to glue their eyes on their awesome ditto gods?). Though a doctor with extraordinary intelligence in his field might be able to recover what the Founders destroyed.
In both cases, the new life develops beneath the violet (or blue) belly, that caught your attention.
The ‘womb’ of a Vorta lies in front
of all other organs, right under the violet part of the belly. The
belly consists of the same tissue as the violet parts of their ears.
This tissue is at the same time especially flexible and resistant.
It’s on the outside of the womb to make it easier for the parent’s
body to grow together with the baby inside. The reason it is part of
their ears lays in their extreme growing in their first year. Vorta
are born (if that happens naturally) with pretty small ears, which
then grow much faster than the rest of the body, so that the ears are
almost completely finished in their development and growth after half
a year post birth. Vorta also have that kind of tissue in
their knee bends and crooks of their arms (though I always forget to
draw that, duh!).
More infos:
Vorta aren’t forced to press a whole child out of their genitals. You see the line under the belly? That’s like a natural Predetermined “breaking point” (that sounded better in my mothertongue). It’s like an opening of the ‘Vorta womb’, that is normally covered by another special kind of tissue, which is rather thin, but regenerates very very fast. 1-2 hours before the birth, it starts to rip open, so that the child can get pressed out of the 'womb’ through this hole. The ripping does hurt, but the rest of the birth is way easier, faster and less painful than that of humans. It’s super messy though. Because the child is sourrounded by a nutrient fluid, that fulfills a final purpose, when it drips out of the opening and makes everything slippery, so that the child slips smoothly out of the body (well, the parent still needs to press it out, but the fluid makes it easier). This fluid is of dark reddish-violet colour and people, who aren’t familiar with Vorta biology, might mistake it for their blood. So a Vorta giving birth looks like they were butchered, but ironically it isn’t half as painful as the process from other humanoid species.
As part of the dominion, new Vorta life doesn’t come into existence or
develops in a Vorta’s body, and they don’t grow up as children. And
although these organs and body parts became needless (in their ‘gods’
eyes, who taught the Vorta to see it the same way), there wasn’t really a
reason, to remove them. Maybe they kept them as a reminder of how far
they’ve come since their simple beginnings, thanks to the Founders. Or
maybe they’re only allowed to keep these traits, because they have no
purpose anymore, that might intervere with the Changelings plans.
I have more headcanons regarding the born Vorta baby and how it is raised (or was, before the Vorta became part of the dominion). Also they develop inside of the womb and get born in sth that resembles a soft eggshell. But I didn’t mention it in this post earlier, because that would’ve been too much for a single post. And I don’t want this post to become super long. So that’s it for now! :D
