#zoanite

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I have a new character concept in mind, one that takes a lot of inspiration from these anime tomboys in particular. I haven't got the design drawn yet, but I know what I want;

Dark Skinned

Tomboy

Cat Girl

Braids and Tail

Big eater, loves meat.

Hotheaded, loves to fight.

Martial Artist

Punch Girl

I think I'll call her Lygrah, or Lysha. I'll get the design down soon. I already have the backstory in mind.

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owl, boar, dragon / wisdom, power, courage

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Lysha, a melanistic tiger zoanite and a student of the Rending Claw style. She is spunky and hotheaded, loves to eat and fight. Lysha is the granddaughter of the leader of the Panthera clan, who is also the grandmaster of the Rending Claw. She is the daughter of Sundiata, the exiled rebel if their clan, and rival to Sundiata's own disciple, Tynan.

I'm really happy with how this design came together. I took a lot more inspiration from Street Fighter's Makoto than I was expecting, but also plenty from Aisha Clan Clan from Outlaw Star as well as a bit from Elle Ragu from Shadow Skill.

Here's a height chart including Ibunet, Tynan, and Lysha.

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I have a new character designed for my original story; meet Tynan Cloudfoot, zoanite type therapod dinosaur. He's based on medium sized carnivorous therapod dinosaurs, ones like Nanotyrannus (you can tell by the name) and Condorraptor. I had thought of basing him off of raptors like Utah raptor, but I thought that might be a touch too edgy.

Tynan is replacing my liger OC Lygron as the protagonist of Kingdoms of Gaia (I might rename it Lands of Gaia). I thought in a world of human/animal hybrids that a dinosaur would be more unique. Even in the setting, dino people are extremely rare. Tynan's parents are both bird people, and him coming out as a dino is a bit of an anomaly. It led to Tynan not fitting into his quiet little village, and he eventually ran away and become mentored by the mercenary lion/leopard zoanite, Sundiata, in the way of the Rending Claw.

Tynan hopes to someday find others like himself, and believes that the dragon zoanites that rule the Golden Empire could have answers. In addition to the claws on his hands and feet, Tynan also has spurs he can grow from his elbows and heels, and his tail is strong enough to use like a bludgeon. Despite being a dino, he's only average height at 5'8".

I've had Tynan on my mind a while now and it's good to finally get him out. I've been obsessing over dinosaurs lately and it has led to this. I might use Lygron in some other way, but right now I have another tiger zoanite I'm itching to design as Tynan's rival.

Here he is shirtless;

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Black Tiger Suma

Since it's the Year of the Tiger, I decided to do a quick sketch of one of my Kingdoms of Gaia characters; Suma, a black tiger zoanite.

Suma hails from the reclusive Panthera Pride deep in the humid jungles of the Southern Continent. The Panthera Pride are practitioners of the Rending Claw style, which her family are masters of and which she has inherited.

Shortly before Suma's birth, her father was crippled by a fellow pride member who went rogue and challenged the authority of her family's leadership. Out of love for her father who trained her, Suma vows to take revenge on the renegade to restore her father's honor.

The rogue pride member's name: Sundiata.