#deerwood

[schiachperchten]

a new 2024 ref for dru, whos had a facelift to both her lore and her design. i feel like the faun/deer girl concept has been done to death, and i want to make her feel a little different and actually be interested in drawing her

sorry for the silly censoring, im so inconsistent with it but i just dont love the way community labels work atm lol

[elvisomar]

We spent the weekend up in Central Minnesota, along the northern shores of the (almost) redundantly named Lake Mille Lacs. Only my Minnesota followers and friends are likely to understand just how prevalent the giant fiberglass figure is in our home state, but here are the ones I saw. The giant walleye in Garrison is fairly well known. The human figure is Robin Hood—mascot for the Sherwood Forest camper resort. The stag can be found in the welcoming town of Deerwood, where they were having some kinda days. A very relaxing time with @mommylap and her parents.

[restrictedareas-pr0ject]

1360 Deerwood Dr, Madison, GA 30650, USA

[andpierres]

@deerwood

.............cwussy

[minuecharm]

Requested by @princefawns

Your little flag for the town of Deerwood

[stateric]

Me updated him!

[stateric]

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and descript lore❤️ (am saving this link for pinned postle)

Deerwood’s past was very strange. He became lost in the woods as a child and couldn’t find his way home (he was around 5 or 6 years old, his name was Carter then), and a winged ancient mew found him. She felt pity and they became close friends. After a few days, he became quite hungry, and the ancient mew was tired herself after spending days trying to find his house. That night as he slept, she thought that if she gave him her winged powers, he would be able to fly and find his home (she had tried to fly with him, but he couldn’t find the way, even after days). If his wings couldn’t carry him there, he could use his new powers to locate his house. She was also tired and eager to go back to her realm, so she did it. It seemed fine at first, but something messed up, and Carter woke screaming. Nothing had changed- the transformation was cut off by something. She didn’t tell him what she did, but he knew she had done something, so he lost trust in her. She felt guilty, but he ran away, so she left and went back to her realm. The news was spread to other ancient mews so they could hear of the strange power cutoff, then to ugly mews, and then to mewtwos. During it all, Carter was scared and shaken. He tried to find somewhere safe, but he stayed lost and hungry. Days passed and he somehow never starved, yet something odd was happening to him. There were wings and antlers growing off of him.

Weeks later, Carter’s fingers had become sharp and pointed, the same with his feet, and even his tail had become raggedy. He knew little English, yet there were still a few words left in him. Years passed and he become wild and confused, and he could fly and cut through the air with fast speeds and sharp claws. People and twos call him “Deerwood” because his color and antlers were often mistaken for a deer hiding in the woods. It is not fully known what happened to him, but his parents, who had found out everything and mourned greatly, were uncertain about something. Deerwood had been diagnosed with a strange disease that made his immune system very vulnerable, and he had to eat small amounts and try to stay out of the sun his whole life. From what they heard about the winged ancient mew sharing its powers, they think his body reacted to it as a threat and tried to get rid of it for the next weeks, but his body failed and the powers took over, unusable now due to the amount that his body got rid of, but his wings had grown, and the antlers were a strange mutation. Deerwood only comes out at night to stay away from the sun, and he only eats few things, just like he always did. As sad as all of this is, the creepiest part would be the sightings of him carrying an ancient mew in his jaws.

[schiachperchten]

How are characters or people? That are mixed race (like kobold x unicorn, minotaur x unicorn people) looked upon in your oc world?

i swear you guys Know i just queued art for the next day, i always get these asks right after finishing stuff

well, all "manfolk" can reproduce with one another but not all "beastfolk" can. and manfolk and beastfolk cant reproduce at all. so you might see an elf/human, or a minotaur/faun, but not a kenku/tabaxi, and certainly not a kobold/harpy. in my lore notes i called these offspring "of varying commonality," so sometimes there are types of people you would almost never see. i imagine the unibolds of the good end au are exceedingly rare. honestly based on my logic they probably shouldnt exist at all, but aus are a canon of their own

there are many ways that peoples lives can suck in this setting - and TRUST ME, peoples lives DO SUCK - but being of mixed parentage would not greatly contribute to this. one instance where this would not be true is with the unicorns of lafossa, where youre expected to be a necromancer and if you cant hack it, your social rank decreases significantly. minocorns (unitaurs?), unibolds, and the like would not be capable of necromancy and would like. probably develop a complex over it. great job orchidee for having ten neurotic kids who youll have to marry off to noble houses if you want them to maintain their standard of living

societies are generally very well mixed. you would rarely find a town or city made up of all the same species (notable exception being cybeles kobold village. oh shit. oh shit i just got a story idea i gotta go write this down), so manfolk or beastfolk of mixed parentage would not necessarily suffer from a perceived lack of community. i am loosely basing this setting off of dnd logic, but i dont want to replicate the "fantasy racism" that i find so incredibly corny and that i also neglected to include in my earth c worldbuilding for the same reason