Well, I must say, if any question could work more like a black hole than ‘why,’ I don’t know what it is!
For this kind of a picture, I hesitate to give advice–the human mind might only see something like TanCred representationally.
If that’s what you’re going for, I might recommend that you PM Snail-Male. Otherwise, I’d have made the star’s rings brighter–bright yellow, white, etc.
–hey, is he nourished by answers? And do people remember them after he feeds? 
