#iralbe

[papermonkeyism]

This particular sketchbook lets Copics bleed through like crazy, yet I keep using them and end up with pages of smudgy blots of colored ink that aren't fit for clean drawings. Still good for messier drawings, though! Hide the gray Copic stains with intentional watercolor stains. Win!

Anyway, here's Morri and Iralbe hanging out.

[crowned-ladybug]

Third time’s a charm, right? Considering this is the third time I’ve tried drawing fanart for @papermonkeyism and this time I’m actually okay enough with the result to post it.

Anyway, here’s Hafmar (left) and Iralbe (right), two of my many favourite characters from Paper’s comic “Wurr” though I have so many favourites I dunno what that even counts for

[papermonkeyism]

Aaaaand 1/2 of today's update pages is online! We have a new page of Wurr!

https://www.deviantart.com/paperiapina/art/Wurr-page-266-834720707

[papermonkeyism]

Everytime I think about how odd it must be for Iralbe to cronch on food when your eyes are in your tongue... but after a lifetime like that you probably don't think twice about it :')

Yeah, they're used to it. Also the eyes flatten out when they close (there technically aren't eyelids, there's like slits on the tongue, and filling up the eye pushes them open). They feel more tongue than eye to them.

[papermonkeyism]

I mean, there's nothing really stopping Morri from realizing she's a girl now, right?

I just really don't know how Morri would possibly not know from the beginning. The hound culture knows gender is a spectrum, he grew up in a culture where intersex and nonbinary genders are commonplace (I'm pretty sure he has at least one trans sibling) and where there's no stigma against being a "whispering one", as they call it. Other than the leaders' rules (a pack should have a head person for each gender, or at least male and female, so everyone has someone to turn to in times of need. The symbolic parents of the pack) but even that's just guidelines instead of actual rules. His bestest friend forever is non binary and intersex!

I have no idea how to write a sudden self discovery like that without giving Morri his own character arc focusing on it. He's supposed to be a supporting character, the plot is already pulling in so many directions I don't know if I could pull off yet another one.

Stupid mutt being all gentleman. >:(

(the speech bubble says "Ladies first")

Feel free to headcanon them either way, though!

Actually, now that I think about it, there's nothing stopping him from being nonbinary in canon. I mean, this is canon:

(analyzing dog culture, from the last sketchbook, January 2018)

I'm not well versed in gender vocabulary, so I don't know how Morri would identify in modern terms. I'll leave that for your headcanons for now.

I really wasn't a good writer back when I started. I really went and defaulted to the whole "default gender" bullshit back in the day. :(

[papermonkeyism]

Iralbe is 100% nonbinary floof!

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Inktober #5

Today’s inktober is sponsored by how my sketchbook spawns random Niavels whenever I get frustrated with stuff. 

I was forced to pretend to be a graphic designer. I am so not a graphic designer. I’m pretty okay at drawing, there’s no such animal I couldn’t draw and I have no problem going full fantasy or even photorealistic if needed (I don’t enjoy going photorealistic, but I can do it), and can use pretty much any material one can draw with. But graphic design? With fonts and composition and stuff? Hahaha nope. 

She’s channeling my frustration right there. With sympathy hand pats from Iralbe.

[papermonkeyism]

Apart from being a Whispering One, and having heat sensors/eyes on tongue, does Iralbe have any other mutations?

The heat sensor eye holes and eyes on the tongue aren’t actually related. 

But aside of that, there’s lots of minor things almost every other hound also has, some invisible (like immune system variations not found in dogs, stuff like that) and some others just barely noticeable. Iralbe is bigger than a dog, has solid, pale silver coloring (that comes from a mutation back in their family line), and like all hounds shown in the comic they has nails covered by tooth enamel. 

(You can go back all the way through the comic, but all the hounds have white claws while dogs have black ones. Aside from Nightclaw, who had standard black dog claws instead.)