#ihopesonas

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Love the new icons on your about us section! I recognize Big Jaw of course but who is RJ's new lion sona? I adore their design!!

Thank you, anon! The icons are by my bff, Roxi, you should absolutely check out her work and commission her if you can! And that new lion is Sweetorange, my new IHopeSona! Me and Cat have this whole cave lion thing going on where we have characters based on the extinct American cave lion and they all have cool but outrageous plant names. I got a design using one of the generators and boom - it was love at first sight. lol

Garnet is obviously still important to me as a secondary, present-time IHopeSona, of course, though. c: - RJ

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I know in a recent ask you answered, you mentioned a pride called Evertide. Can you share more about the pride and your IHopesona? Sorry if you've already shared information on this before.

I have a folder for it on TH right here which pretty much explains everything and has the relevant characters.

The TH profile for Garnet, my IHopeSona, is here. c: - RJ

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Contest is Over

THE IHOPESONA CONTEST IS NOW OVER.

We'd like to thank everyone for their amazing entries. While there's going to be no official announcement of winners, we WILL be adding characters as we go and tagging the chosen cameos once they appear, so y'all will know who won eventually!

It goes without saying that we're grateful for your continued support and this contest is just proof of how dedicated and creative our fanbase is. It's been an utter joy seeing all of your OCs for the comic. Thank you all for participating and continuing to support us. <3

[ihopesocomic]

And here’s our IHopeSonas: Big Jaw (Cat) and Garnet (RJ). Big Jaw, as her name implies, enjoys mouthing off and eating. Garnet just enjoys chilling and sleeping. The pair of them are members of Diamond’s pride in the Thundering Mountains. Have no idea what Big Jaw’s gemstone pride name would be. Probably the same because she don’t abide by no rules or customs. c:

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For RJ: I was looking through your TH and AHHH I LOVE SWEETORANGE SO MUCH! Also, very cool to see a cave lion. For all the lion media out there, cave lions are pretty much unknown

Ahh, thank you so much. I'm super happy with her and I'm stoked you like her, anon.

And that was Cat who got me into that. It's interesting to find out that cave lions were actually solitary and did not normally form prides so I felt a cave lion IHopeSona suited me better. Sweetorange actually hails from one of the "first prides" but ultimately decides to be on her own as nature intended because they suck.

I had to bend realism a tad to make a commentary on my own life after all. lol - RJ

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Can I Hope Sonas be in Hope's family tree? I am simply asking, since I have an I Hope Sona that is adopted by Clever's littermate (you guys have said that Clever and Careful had littermates, since they aren't from the same litter)

Of course you may! It’s part of the reason why we haven’t bothered to assign names or designs to relatives like Clever’s brother or Careful’s first litter with Merry. We want to give fans a chance to fill in those blanks. c: - RJ

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I've already made an IHSsona and she's so very precious to me. I've actually been meaning to write a little fanfiction about her and stuff but I wasn't quite sure the writing beats I'd use for this universe.

Do you guys have any tips for writing a story taking place in this universe? It's very important to me that I get the right story beats and vibe, things like that

I don't think you'll have that hard of a time with it. The only thing to bear in mind with our world is that we don't have sexism, homophobia, ableism and such so you have to come up with other ways to inspire conflict. And I always say never be afraid to fall on cliche if you wanna. My whole backstory for Pepper is that her pibling murdered her mother, she was framed for the crime and had to bail. Literally a TLK-style plot because I wanted a bitchy character called Meadowsweet who has delusions of grandeur and falls in with a evil Lord, Nightshade, to achieve her goals. Too bad it just had to be Pepper's home life she messed up.

So yeah, it writes itself a lot of the time. lol - RJ

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Seeing both of your IHSsona make me wanna make my own 😭 is there any rule/restriction on what ihs character can and cannot have to make it look like they kinda belong in the universe? I'm planning to make nonbinary transmasc lion have a monkey/bird friend. I'm kinda new here so I'm sorry if this question been asked before QwQ

The only real thing that comes to mind is that our lions do not use accessories like feathers, earrings and so on. Our lions don't really interact with humans so there's no real way for them to wear them anyway. At least not permanently. An exception to this rule is flowers and leaves that they may stick to their fur for a short time with saliva or w/e but that's about it.

There's also the obvious things like not giving them hot pink fur and so on. lol - RJ