#<- no they're not they're not even pantherines

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In which Pounce's panic attack is interrupted by my FAVOURITE LITTLE GUY!!

U will learn more about him in part 2 uvu

Fun fact, I was gonna have Pounce stalking a giant pleistocene Pika but literally cannot find any reference to how big they were.

And then i realised pika are just,,, insanely tiny,,, so i used a marmot instead. I like marmots now, they're so chunky!

I drew Pounce with proper sabers by accident, big cats have milk teeth until they're 1yr old, whoops! Let's say it's uh... an effect... from baring them... being stressed out... yup

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WE GOT EM, BOYS

The baboon looks like his hair is silver poopy and I think that's pretty funny. I love them all so much.

While it did bother me at first the lion doesn't have a mane, not all male lions even do! For example, two very famous lions - The Ghost and The Darkness - were man-eaters and didn't have manes! They were from Tsavo, a region of Kenya.

They were two male lions who hunted together and acted as a pride. They killed several dozen people, counts going into the 100s - if they're to be believed. They're two of the most studied pantherine cats because of that! One had dental issues, which is widely believed to be the reason he turned to humans for prey. I don't understand why though. Humans are probably just easier to bite into and incapacitate than wild animals.

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I am sure other heroines could be found to bind themselves up in Conan's tigerish thews, unless they are wolf-like thews, it varies between stories, honestly. Possibly heroines with tigerish thews although if I remember right they're more often pantherine.

I can believe Thoth-Amon as a neo-Blakist. If there's any treacherous mystic who would seek with endless schemes and devilry the throne of the already shaky- rule dictated by the sword, or 'mech, after all -Aquilonian Annex, it would be a ComStar renegade seeking to bring about the kingdom of Blake even before the Jihad kicked off. Thus, Conan is forever contending against whichever puppet Thoth is sending- cyborgs, bandit kings, mercenaries, false prophets, cult leaders -to undermine his kingdom, while Thoth himself probably sits out on some decrepit HPG station past the edge of known space brooding over his next move.

I also think that the tri-mega-faction can be helped if the Raven Alliance is joined to the Annex instead of just a small psuedo-Periphery faction. So there's Clans - Dominion - Sphere, Clans - Alliance - Annex, and Sphere - maybe the Hanseatic League - Annex, giving a bridge faction that kind of straddles between each one.

Conan of the Periphery: A BattleTech/Pulp Fusion World/Storybuilding Project

Well, y'all voted for this, so here it goes.

For reasons I don't quite understand, we mostly ended up discussing King Conan, and realized that we can't quite make the Canon version work, since there's no way for Conan to end up running a Successor State. So we decided on him making a new state in the Periphery. Which led to someone suggesting:

I'd suggest Star's End over the Marians anyways, because you have something that really matters (a JumpShip yard), and an environment that plays to the strengths of a Conan-style character; not so much civilized, but personal prowess is very important fighting across a thousand tiny fields of battle. Plus you get to have Susie Morgaine-Ryan draping herself across Conan's lap during the invasion, and she's absolutely a Conan character with her combination of vamping and stabbity.

So, this image, of Conan fighting the Clans with Susie Morgraine-Ryan draped across his lap became a centerpiece, and from there we decided on Aquilonia being formed from some combo of Star's End, the Barony of Strang, the Oberon Confederation, and and least some of the Chainelane Isles.

What we settled on is that Conan leaves Cimmeria, a marginal planet in the Periphery and begins a career as a wandering MechWarrior in the Inner Sphere in the 2950s, earning substantial fame and renown, etc. before settling down after semi-inadvertently carving out a kingdom for himself in the Coreward Periphery in the 2980s.

When the Third Succession War officially ends in 3025, he decides to retire, abdicating the throne in favor of his son Conan II (henceforth, Conn) and going exploring. Subsequently, Conn very much gives the FedCom a kick in the teeth after they decided Aquilonia becoming a bit to strong for their comfort. Nothing to major just a small raid that goes very wrong and the peace talks after have Conn cement themselves as a grand Statemen and a Ruler of the nation that demands as much respect as the other Major periphery nations do.

Meanwhile, Conan gets stuck in the California nebula and encounters something that slows, stops, or reverses his aging, and then somehow manages to contrive to escape with a Royal SLDF 'Mech that's been tricked out with weird CalNeb tech, and shows up just as the Clan Invasion gets started.

Aaand that's where we hit a wall.

So, ideally, I'd like to do two things:

-Backfill Conan's history.

-Figure out how the history of the Inner Sphere unfolds differently from the Clan Invasion onwards.

Any thoughts?

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Telling Lie-lacs?

Meet Bat!

He has an edgy af design which is immediately counteracted by him having 1 braincell he is now sharing with Dart

His mum seems... hmm... (u get a cookie if you can guess the gist of the conversation between her and Lilac- it's not nice)

Also Bat is a little bit based off a kid I taught who was missing a leg. She wore a prosthetic in the pool and one time stood up mid-lap holding it over her head and said "my leg fell off!" and i was like "oh... what do you normally do when this happens?"

Kids can adapt to anything and I think that's cool.

Oh yeah u can read Kindred of the Mammoth on Comicfury btw!

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Im so torn on how I feel about these colours. They're very bright and I can't decide if it's pretty or garish cx

Poppy and Lilac get to have a chill moment though, I think that's nice c:

I wish I had foreshadowed this better but yeah Poppy was always planning on leaving once she was well and the cubs were big enough. Now she's not, which is good bc I like drawing her uvu

Begging people to teach me how they draw characters interacting with each other. I feel like mine always look like they're clipping through each other's mesh and bouncing off, rather than being organically close >:/

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So... Snakespots seems nice :)) This is fine :))

Sorry for the death fakeout! I usually hate them but this was too much fun to pass up! Burnet gets to live, and I'm sure there will be no cost to this >:3

I gave this a lot of thought but decided Lilac gets to cry on screen bc-

*checks notes*

-full realism is boring, characters who don't emote are not fun to read in a visual format cx

Oh yeah i binged House MD while doing this page and finally finished all of it and now i need to find another silly medical drama to watch XD