Redrew an old Centaur OC from 2023(?) cause his lack of melanin was bugging me ehhehgahg
Meet Cyprus!! He’s from an original universe of mine where Centaurs, and by extension all centaur/style hybrids (cervitaur, lamia/nagas, etc etc etc) are considered a lesser species, and enslaved by humans; usually for physical labor
Cyprus is a Shire Centaur, who was kidnapped from a herd of free centaur as an infant and sold to an infertile elderly couple who owned a farm. The wife of the couple took a liking to Cyprus, and raised him as her own, with his work on the farm being nothing more than his chores. The other townspeople didn’t take as kindly to Cyprus though, and attacked the family’s farm and kidnapped him when he was around 12, selling him back into slavery to be “worked like he deserved”
Cyprus spent the next few years bouncing from farm to farm, not many people wanted to keep him because he had a streak of bad behavior and defiance, and attempts to flee. It took years to beat him down into submission, and it wasn’t till he was almost twenty that he stopped fighting as hard.
It was during that time, when he’d lost the will to fight and run, tending a field almost completely by himself, that Cyprus would meet his first free half-man, a Cervitaur that spoke no English, but was fascinated by the way he tended to his field of wheat every day. This would be the start of a friendship, and then a tedious romance, that would drive Cyprus to flee again, finding freedom at last with the deer boy
Or something like that I’m still working on the story ehehehehahahah
