Here’s the 2017 Beatfox Species Style Guide! A big thank you to Mortis for working so hard on all of these!
Beatfoxes are a species native to the Luxon Cluster in southeastern Morbit and often appear in our works-- but they are also an open species! We encourage anyone that feels inspired to create a beatfox character to do so, and to share them with us! We always love seeing the wonderful things that our friends and fans create. ♥
Also, feel free to think of this style guide as a loose overview of possibilities rather than any hard and fast rules. Cosmetic surgery and natural variations/mutations occur with great frequency on Morbit, so there are generally very few aesthetic standards to adhere to.
Transcribed text from the images and even more info are under the jump!
Species Name: Beatfox, often shortened to “Box” (plural: Beatfoxes, Boxes)
Height Range: 4′0′’~6′0′’ (121.92 cm ~ 182.88 cm)
Markings/Coloration: Typically darker markings around the paws and ears, and lighter markings around the tail, chest, and backside. Beatfox pelts come in virtually any colour.
Lifespan: ~100 years
Physiology: Beatfoxes are digitigrade canine bipeds with a variety of coat types and distinct dark eyes. Their ears are false-- the actual organ being small holes nearby. These false ears are mainly used for expression/communication. It’s theorized that a beatfox can sense music and sound more acutely than any other known species.
Variations: There are five major coat variations that beatfoxes are known to posses: short-haired, long-haired, wire-haired, fluffy, and soup (slime-based.) That being said, it’s not unknown for there to be further mutations and variations to occur when beatfoxes of differing coat-types have offspring with one another.
Short-haired: These beatfoxes have short, sleek coats of fur and are recognizable by their rounded features.
Long-haired: These beatfoxes have thick coats of fur and sharp, pointed claws.
Wire-haired: These beatfoxes have spiky, wiry coats of fur and are recognizable by their sharp, angular features.
Fluffy: These beatfoxes have fluffy fur, with tiny tufts all over its body and are recognizable by their soft features and often stubby tails and ears.
Soup (slime-based): These beatfoxes are slime-based and are commonly referred to as a “soup”. Soups are perhaps the most physiologically distinct of the beatfox variations, as they are entirely comprised of a wet, slime-like substance inside and out and lack a skeleton entirely.
Soups are born as amorphous blobs, incapable of keeping a bipedal shape and thus necessitating the use of bucket-like carrying containers for their young (this characteristic has resulted in Soup children sometimes being referred to as “Puddles”.)
As soups get older, they become more capable of maintaining a more solid form; but they also gradually lose moisture and become more stiff as they age.
Culture: Native to the Luxon Cluster of islands in southeastern Morbit, beatfoxes are mainly artisans and craftspeople, with the majority of their schooling done through apprenticeships. Beatfoxes form close-knit chosen families, focusing on finding one’s identity as well as safety.
