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[portlandalites]

<An experimental badge type: fake Goosebumps covers!!

Morgit seems real eager for Jam to do... whatever it is he wants them to do to that poor guy in the jar.

This flopped on the subreddit a few months ago and I was so frustrated I wanted to cry, pls be nice lol>>

[portlandalites]

Any species yall are interested in seeing? 8=(8÷)

<< Got a Pentel Multi-8 pencil thing and wanted to doodle some critters- that was supposed to be baby Ax, but because of the limited colors, ended up looking more like an OC of mine. I like the giraffe body shape tho lol

And CHEE!! I've never drawn a Chee before but I want to do a whole mockup because I like em a lot.>>

[portlandalites]

《War-Prince Vecol, a very edgy lass and one of my favorite designs I've come up with (plus her development sketches).

She gets put in time-out by the Andalite Electorate and has to sit in the PMW corner to chill out.》

《Lore I had to rip from FA below:》

[portlandalites]

《Small Lohkel (One of the head scientists at the PNW-Colony facility) lore drop and baby-Jamilin! I imagine that Andalite fawns have less of a pronounced torso and as they age, their upper body gets a bit taller and varies highly depending on the muscles they use most!》

Lore under cut:

Jamilin's closeness with Lohkel is less outwardly-warm than their closeness with Carolii. Their understanding of each other is based on emotional management techniques . Though they are not related by blood, Lohkel sees a lot of himself and his neurosis in Jamilin, and doesn't want to have them end up as he has.

They are both incredibly hyper-empathetic, but Lohkel dealt with this by artificially severing his neuro chemical transmitters- in Andalite culture, this is viewed as a sign of failure due to lack of self-discipline of one's emotions.

He does his best to help Jamilin manage their emotions without considering this, and when they mature, is pleased that smoking or otherwise consuming cannabis helps. As a fawn, Jamilin needed guidance with managing stressor reactions and not literally projecting them/externalizing them onto their classmates.

[portlandalites]

<Jamilin's latest redesign!! Really pleased with the washed out plum-purple/icy blue pallet this time around. I've gotten much more connected to them after fleshing out the PNW colony with my spouse.

Due to working menial human jobs on Earth, they have crazy arm strength compared to most Andalites!>

[portlandalites]

<<One of a couple of Hork-Bajir I've got cookin in the PNW-Colony Canon!

I finally settled into a facial shape/style for HB that I enjoy- they're often described as 'snake-like', though their official art doesn't look that snake-y to me. I went with a viper head shape with a short beak and dermal teeth! I've got a much more complicated linework I used to hash it out, but it would be hell to color... so I have not done that. >>

Colony + Character Lore under cut!

Kresh and a handful of other Hork-Bajir are the only ones hardy enough to handle the harsher winters of the PNW. The Colony itself rests in a large half-park/half-complex nestled in the mountains. Locomotion from place to place is easy enough for Andalites thanks to human terraforming, and in exchange for access to fancy new xeno-crossbred plants, Kresh and company keep it that way.

He's younger for a Hork-Bajir, especially to have been a former Controller born into slavery. He saw only two, perhaps three battles, but tries not to remember much (Easy enough for some Hork-Bajir)- though the bullet has since been removed, he was shot with a 9mm pistol close to the spine, causing much nerve pain despite his species' hardy nature.

When the head researcher of the more reclusive PNW Colony, Carolii, reached out with an offer of 'experimental new body customization technology in exchange for immediate nerve reconstruction', Kresh was incredibly interested (after having the concept simplified to him by Randiri and Jamilin). He's the first fully-successful non-Andalite hide modification. He chose a California Red-sided Garter snake as his favorite pick for potential coloration, and though not the same make-up as the scales of Earth snakes, the conversion has gone quite well!

[portlandalites]

<Attempt 1 at a 3d turnaround to help me sculpt the Andalite tea pet! I wanted to evoke that one picture of the vaporeon plush getting water poured on its face>

[portlandalites]

<< Very hard to see because my phone camera is garbage, but both myself and my spouse work in 2 different buildings with pairs of red-tails living on them! They were enjoying the thermals yesterday.

Before I left, I heard a ruckus and saw that 2 crows were taking turns swooping at the female on the top ledge where she was chilling- she did not seem plussed. >>