May 29
everybody be niceys to me i am playing with my tuoys
#ocs#furry#WOE BE UPON YE. furries them for fun and profit#TWAS AN EXERCISE IN FINDING ANIMALS THAT ECOLOGICALLY FIT A RELEVANT NICHE#and it was fun#liliana and reiji were the easiest#and for everyone thats animal-like in their canon designs i deliberately did NOT just make them that animal bcause thats too easy#and not even accurate when you think about the role those animals play or the FEELING of the animal#liliana. her ass is NOT a deer. she's not skittish or largely solitary or a prey animal#reiji has nothing to do like feelings-wise with a crow or a raven. scavenger? nay. problem solving? never#milo is the only one that's kinda close. though fauns are more goat-based than sheep-based#i knew he was a sheep it's just that i didn't want to make him a domestic sheep#because all the others are wild animals and using a domestic animal for only one felt weird#and would carry a weird connotation with it that felt out of place. because how do you pick a specific breed#if they don't have an ecological role... im doing it ecology style#but he CAN be a wild species of sheep. and bighorns have those big ol' horns. sniles#OH and i forgot to put it in there but the reason I chose bighorn specifically was because they're mountain sheeps. he's a mountains faun#i think he's my favorite YES because i like sheep but he's also the only one I gave hair. because it felt weird on all the others#but his hair is such an integral part of his character AND design that it felt really wrong to leave it out#i didn't lend a lot of effort to properly like. fursoning them? because that's not really what i cared about#i focused more on the actual look of the animal and. again. the biological role of it. in the coloration#which is why reiji is not a melanistic hare. because hypermelanism is normal for his species in canon#but is not normal for a hare. so translating a normal reiji to a normal hare would be a reddish-brown hare. not a black one#YES making him melanistic would look more like If Reiji Had A Fursona but eh. i dont care. im more concerned with the Animal#and the niche it occupies.#ALL THAT TO SAY. watch me play with my tuoys :]