#Rinkalla

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Sketched some new stuff, and realized I never posted any of the old stuff. Behold: the backlog of sketches I forgot I had.

Homo mousike stuff! featuring an unnamed very grumpy Debu who accidentally became a zebraman village's white elephant in the first 2 pictures (not white elephant in the metaphorical burden sense, white elephant in the literal "i became their prized holy animal"). Said Debu came to one of the few sessile zebraman settlements when she was at the absolute bottom of the barrel attempting to eat their crops and was promptly taken in and showered with everything she could ever need, alongside gifts, makeup, clothes, and jewelery. However she can no longer leave. Both parties slowly figure out that the other is actually sapient and both begin to actually form a bond, stockholm syndrome Beauty and the Beast style (Debu as the beauty, mind you) - grumpy Debu starts to like and protect the zebramen and the zebramen have a religious and morality crisis because they realize "oh shit, Debu are just people and we just KIDNAPPED someone. have we been just kidnapping people."

though, i think the debu worship would still actually stay lmao... the zebramen's reasoning is kinda sound ("you're the biggest, strongest thing around and you literally change the earth with your bare hands. if there's a god i think they're one of you"). just, yknow, keeping in mind Debu aren't like their other cows, they're people,

Also, lip flaps and nose-speak. I dont think the lips would flip out vertically like in the pictures, but rather in all directions. Also, a better way to show off nose-speak/have nose speak, where you can see the muscles moving inside the nose as they speak instead of just the nostrils opening and closing (though, they can do that too).

(NOT TO SCALE. fritz is TINY compared to comet.) The OG submarine comet and zombie fritz doodles that actually kinda went hard as fuck. Zombie Fritz was also originally supposed to have bioluminescent dotted lines around him kind of like the Na'vi to show his tie to Comet, which was badass, and now he needs a slight redesign too to incorporate this.

Here was the updated Comet, a lot more squarish and OG Comet-ish. Chin. I moved the baleen onto the sides of her tongue, which I think is a weird, cool move, I like it better than me trying to make it into a mustache. The frontmost teeth are straight and regular but the rest of her teeth are t-rex murder bananas. Need to add a bigger root to them though...

also, see where her nostril is? I didn't put it there just to make the nose structure more nose-y, THAT'S WHAT PUFFIN NOSTRILS LOOK LIKE.

???? THE FUCK

Bonus: I dont think I ever posted sketches of the ponified Fritz and Comet.

Comet is a changeling who can't be reformed/metamorphized due to her being made neurologically and magically being unable to, as an analog to OG Comet's invasive brain surgery. She does, however, often shapeshift as a zebra that mirrors both her human form and, with the placement of her stripes, pigeons, in order to scare people just a liiiittle less. Fritz is a freaky, weird, earth pony chariot mechanic, and is both her personal foodbank and boyfriend.

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a good way to keep your morale up while you go on long journeys into the wilderness completely nude to get attacked by lions

i love this post

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the bride and the ugly ass other bride and groom

fashion breakdown below cut

So, I've decided that Serendipolis debu, or at least the founding ones, were actually badlands debu! Their culture rapidly changed in this one city where they had all these new resources (the mountainous, harsh area may be good for mines) and this whole new cultural exchange with the two species that they usually don't really meaningfully come into contact with. Now I'm thinking that serendipolis's very grand body mods are an extrapolation of badlands debu body mod goals, where they're trying to mimic the badassery of a bunch of scars and piercings by having these big sweeping ones, and how the saddle-caparisons could be used as actual saddles for passing zebramen and zebraelves like how in beastars, larger animals let smaller ones hitch a ride on them in hallways!

I could go on but the important part is that the entire dress has the template of Badlands wedding dress, but the designs within are very reminiscent of Valley debu.

So, the dress is actually really skimpy, it's just about the equivalent to Debu lingerie with the placement of the cutouts, and the reason is is sort of the message to highlight the back hairs and behind area to be like "now that you're a part of the family, here's the goods." The back hairs in particular also have the message of both the impending motherhood since that's where baby Debu latch on, and also the highlight of the closeness between the newlyweds, since resting your head on the back hairs/back area is a form of affection that isn't... intimate but it establishes that you're very close to the person to have the same tenderness and vulnerability with them the same way a child does when it hangs on to those hairs.

The blue, and the frills on the edges of the caparison is a very Serendipolis part of the design, but the actual design on the caparison is very curvy, floral, it's geometric but very wavy which are generally the designs that Valley debu create. The bracelets are the opposite, though, they have very hard, straight edges and Badlands Debu love that stuff. The floral element next to her hump is both representative of Lepit and general growth and those light-colored thingies around the back are supposed to be whistles that represent Sindeer c:

I just have to make a reason for every damn little thing, huh

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ok i know i havent gone in depth with debu beauty standards but i love that rinkalla, sindeer, and lepit being together is really funny

like if we are going off of just idealized unrealistic beauty standards Rinkalla litearlly looks like a barbie doll. she was fucking loaded and famous in the Big City and she proceeded to move to Nowhereville with these 2 hicks who look below average at best

redraw of this impending. also i get to make debu wedding attire

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rinkalla drew something on lepit once and he liked it so much he didn't bathe for 2 weeks and he had to be dragged out of the cave and all the way to a lake so he could wash up because he was stinking the tunnels up