#and skull looking like a mix between a wolf and a crocodile

[llamagoddessofficial]

okaayyyy soooo …. I may or may not be making fanart of your Forest God AU.👁👁 ( and possibly a spin off sorta AU story?? self indulgent ramble thing) and I was wondering if you have any examples of the boys antlers / horns ? My guess is that Sans has basically deer antlers but bigger and branch-like, skull has moose antlers but they’re misshapen and twist up in an odd way ( like that story that said they extend up like hands reaching out ), and red has caribou antlers. like a mix of deer and moose because I feel like he’d have the pointy parts of deer for fighting ( and general edgy aesthetic) but the shape and width of moose. I’m bad at explaining so i’ll just add an image. ignore the face shapes tho because I haven’t figured out how I want to really draw that yet and didn’t have examples ;-; it was all rushed hhh

That's absolutely perfect! You've nailed it. But just for the sake of it, here's the reference images I used when writing about the forest god boys' horn structure.

Sans - elk/stag

Red - Caribou/reindeer

Skull - moose/irish elk

Hope this helps!

[chloe-gayzer]

all of them for mitali (and adora, if you're feeling ambitious owo)

okay this was a lot but i am NOT weak and answered them all for BOTH

Mitali:

1. Age, Birthday, Star Sign

She’s almost 33, born April 20th, 2005. She’s a Taurus.

2. Gender Identity

Cis woman!

3. Orientation and Relationship status (single, taken (by who?), crush (on who?))

Lesbian, eventually taken by another OC, Savannah Wright

4. Race and Ethnicity

Mixed; Scottish and Indian.

5. Height and Body type

5’7, fit af

6. Headcanon VA

Haven’t terribly considered anyone but…… Claudia Black, with like, a scottish accent, would be Good

7. Occupation

Captain of Security

8. Weapon of Choice(?)

Bow and shotgun, for more “distance”. But fuck she loves her knifes.

9. Hometown and current residence

Bo’ness, Scotland. Prosperity.

10. Do they have any markings, piercings or scars?

Probably has her fair share of scars (newest one being from that gd crocodile). No piercings to speak of. A tattoo on her back that’s a dahlia and a transvaal daisy. They were each of her mother’s favourites.

11. Do they have any notable features, like horns, tails, or so on?

Not really, ha. Maybe her hair? It’s really long.

12. Own any pets?

A dog and a pig! She loves both Timber and Horatio.

13. Have any kids?

She wants to.

14. Can they cook? Can they bake?

She can cook pretty well but she usually doesn’t have the time. Baking, she hasn’t really been able to try. Not in a long time, at least.

15. Can they sing? Can they dance?

She can sing! Pretty well too! One of her moms was heavy into music and taught her a couple instruments. During their time in the bunker, she was taught a whole lot of songs on guitar. Might know a few dances.

16. Can they drive?

Yup! Best driver in the business ha

17 Can they fight?

That’s her main talent ngl

18. Have any special keepsakes?

She’s got her mother’s wedding rings tucked away. She never lets them away from her.

19. Hobbies

Nothing actually firm. She likes to read and there are times she likes to play music, but it can be sort of bittersweet for her. Hunting maybe, but that’s another survival thing.

20. Clothing/Aesthetic

She likes button-ups and to layer a bit. Enjoys soft blues and deep reds.

21. Fave food(s) and drink(s)

She misses salt and vinegar chips so much. Pretty partial to cider-- not the alcoholic kind-- but it’s harder to get.

22. Fave Color

Purple

23. Fave Genre

Romance lol

24. Fave Season

Fall!

25. City or Country?

Country

26. Guilty Pleasure

Tbh??? Finding someone to fight just to get some anger out.

27. What’s their family like? Who’s in it? What’s their relationship with them?

She had two mothers until she was around 16. After they passed, family wise she was alone for a very long time. Now, the Ryes treat her as family and, at some point, Savannah would be her wife. She’s close with Kim and she’d never let anything happen to Carmina. She’s fast friends with Nick when they get him back-- she’s always glad to see a good man who has no issue being soft or saying “i love you”

28. Are they literate? Did they go to school? How long? What level?

She went to school up until shortly before the bombs fell, and her mothers did their best to teach what they could in the bunker.

29. What was childhood like?

The first 12 or so years were in Scotland. She was pretty healthy and well balanced. She enjoyed music, knew some instruments and got voice lessons. She was pretty athletic too, planning to do something military-centric when she was old enough. She and her mothers moved to the west coast of the states when she was twelve. It was maybe a year before the bombs fell.

30. What was adolescence like?

The first couple years were in the “bunker”, which was barely more than a multi-roomed basement shared between her and her mothers-- their neighbor, who’d offered them the shelter, didn’t make it in. He hadn’t been home when the bombs fell. The food ran out maybe two years in and she got to spend a year with her parents above ground before they were killed. The rest of her adolescence was spent mostly alone, living in a small shelter in the woods. She rarely had contact with people, only ever to trade. Once or twice she’d lead people out of the woods. It wasn’t until she was nineteen or so that she joined Rush.

31. What’s their current main conflict?

Loooooooooooots of self-hatred. Sure, there’s the whole highwaymen deal, but her hatred of herself makes it hard for her to make friends because she honestly doesn’t believe she deserves to have them.

32. What steps have they taken to overcome this conflict?

She doesn’t, really, until after that whole deal with Joseph and the apple and the bear. She of the mind it was just a drug trip, but it did make her think about who she is. Made her afraid she really had become something monstrous. After a breakdown and some help from Savannah, she actively tries to be a better, warmer person.

33. How have they changed over time?

Her trying to change helps her a lot. She goes from being pretty quiet, pretty grumpy, and antisocial, to being a happier, more open, but still pretty quiet woman. She teaches Carmina some songs on the guitar and plays more often for the people in Prosperity.

34. What’s their room look like right now?

I mean idk how the rooming situation is in Prosperity, but if she’s able to have a room that’s more private, she probably shares it with Savannah, after a point. Might have some plants and her guitar leaning in the corner. If it’s a shared room situation, she probably sticks to the bare minimum as to not take up too much space. Maybe a trunk under the bed with her clothes and a couple trinkets.

35. What are they like as a friend?

Literally if anything hurts you she will hunt it down. If she considers you a friend, she’ll make sure you know it.

36. What are they like as a partner?

Romantic partner, I’m assuming, she’s loving and protective, but often restrained. She doesn’t like to overstep boundaries.

37. Do they have any phobias?

Water. She can swim but fuck does she hate the feeling of something about to get her. Selene’s quest did not help that.

38. Did/do they go anywhere special for vacations?

Her parents took her to Disney once, but otherwise no.

39. Your character walks into a cafe. What do they order?

Raspberry hot chocolate.

40. What time do they go to bed, usually?

Whenever she’s done with the work for the day and has the chance to crash.

41. What’s their morning routine like?

Wake up → unbraid and brush hair → get dressed → find out what needs to be done for the day. Food if she remembers.

42. What’s the dumbest thing your character’s done?

Go after Selene’s weed bag and get attacked by a crocodile, what the fuck, we can find you more weed, we can’t casually find Mitali a new arm.

43. What pokemon would your character be?

OOOOOOhhhhhh this is my kind question, I need to go look at pokemon lists. Oh fuck I’m back, she’s a midnight form lycanroc for SURE. Looks sorta scary, is cuddly, has the ability to maim.

44. What’s their pokemon team? Try to pick all 6.

I love these questions holy crap. Midnight form lycanroc because DUH. Houndoom. Pignite. Gengar. Yamask. Zangoose.

45. Theme song (and a playlist if you’ve got it!)

Wolf by First Aid Kit.It’s not a whole playlist but also: She Said Maybe by Steam Powered Giraffe. Lion’s Roar, by First Aid Kit. Ghost by Mystery Skulls. Thistles by Mumford and Sons. For Those Below, also Mumford and Sons.

46. If this character was in a musical, what would their motif be (what kind of instruments do you hear, what’s the tempo, ect).

Oh this is pretty hard.... Violin-centric, maybe. And the tempo would be different depending on which point of her life. A lively one for early life, a mournful one for like…. 16-32. Happier again after that.

47. What was this character’s biggest turning point in their life, something that changed them almost completely?

Her mothers dying for sure! She went from being a hopeful young woman to almost spiteful. Killing the men who killed her parents was what sealed the deal.

48. What was their lowest point? What was their highest point?

Yup parent death is still gonna be lowest point. It was sudden and painful and no one involved deserved it. Highest point is when she finally breaks free of that depression and realizes she doesn’t have to hate herself anymore.

49. What are some themes tied to your character’s story?

Forgiveness, redemption, hope.

50. What are some motifs associated with your character?

Wild animals (mostly wolves), death and rebirth.

51. What were some inspirations for your character (people, movies, games)?

Big surprise but….. Mitali was definitely inspired in equal parts by Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross (so Lost Legacy, in a nutshell). Also some great wolf related aesthetic pictures.

52. How are you and your character the same? How are you different?

Well this is an unexpectedly deep question that I’m going to avoid due to my own self-worth lol

53. Expectations vs Reality: what did you expect and what did you get with this character?

I expected to have her be very heavily military, but I ended up with a woman who only really wants to be a wife and just love the woman she marries with all of her heart and she wants to raise a kid and just have a good and happy family.

54. What does your character want, and what do they need?

She doesn’t know what she wants but she needs love. Any kind. Platonic, romantic, whichever.

55. What’s your character’s core trait? What’s their best trait? What’s their worst trait? What happens when these all interact with each other?

Protective to a fault. It can be both their best and worst trait, but their real worst trait is her self-hate. The two things interacting usually lead her to cutting herself off from friends so they’re “better off without her”.

56. What’s your overall goal with this character? Will they get a happy ending or will they succumb to their faults?

FUCK I want her to have a happy ending so badly. I’ll have to see how New Dawn ends first, but end goal is her marrying Savannah and eventually having a kid or two. Maybe twins???

Adora!!!

1. Age, Birthday, Star Sign

23, October 22nd 1994, Libra

2. Gender Identity

Cis woman

3. Orientation and Relationship status (single, taken (by who?), crush (on who?))

Lesbian and taken by Jess as soon as she possibly can be

4. Race and Ethnicity

Mixed, Brazilian and South African

5. Height and Body type

Lil bit on the shorter end maybe 5’4, and she's got a swimmer bod for SURE

6. Headcanon VA

Don't have one yet

7. Occupation

Deputy to Sheriff Whitehorse

8. Answered previously!

9. Hometown and current residence

Cascade Valley, Hope County

10. Previously answered!

11. Do they have any notable features, like horns, tails, or so on?

Her hair is big and curly, lovely afro. Other than that, maybe her newly given WRATH scar

12. Own any pets?

She left her pet cat with her dads when she moved, but now she's got a cougar, a dog, and a bear. Peaches is her favourite.

13. Have any kids?

in the future, she has a daughter named Masha!

14. Can they cook? Can they bake?

She's not the best cook, but she can bake pretty well.

15. Can they sing? Can they dance?

She's not a great singer but she dances well!

16. Can they drive?

Yup!

17. Can they fight?

She's really scrappy, and a pretty big threat tbh

18. Have any special keepsakes?

Her dads gave her a star of david necklace before she left. she never takes it off.

19. Hobbies

She loves to fish!

20. Previously answered!

21. Fave food(s) and drink(s)

She's 100% here for pumpkin pie and loves pink lemonade

22. Fave Color

Gold!

23. Fave Genre

Rom coms

24. Fave Season

Fall!

25. City or Country?

Depends on the day, leans towards country.

26. Guilty Pleasure

Taking a break to fish when she should be doing something else. Also taking her hearing aids out when she doesn't want to listen to someone.

27. What’s their family like? Who’s in it? What’s their relationship with them?

She's got two dads! They're an older couple who are very loving. One is deaf. Recently I gave her a brother named Adam! He’s a cool dude. Bi and lovable.

28. Are they literate? Did they go to school? How long? What level?

She finished school up to get her degree! Finished at 22

29. Previously answered!

30. What was adolescence like?

She went through a lot of emotional issues during her teens, but her dads got her in therapy and were supportive and loving. A lot of who she is today comes from the love she got then.

31. What’s their current main conflict?

Joseph fucking Seed decided to mess around in lives he should've left alone and now she's gotta clean up after him and try to protect her new friends.

32. What steps have they taken to overcome this conflict?

In the words of the lego movie: “shoot shoot shoot bullet bullet gun”

33. How have they changed over time?

Probably the biggest change was early teens to late. She was angry and spiteful and pretty depressed.

34. What’s their room look like right now?

Her room at home is covered in posters. But her room during 5 is… a bunker she found and claimed. She keeps it stocked, managed to put up a lesbian flag, and brought in the comfiest pillows and blankets she could.

35. Previously answered!

36. What are they like as a partner?

Over affectionate to the max, both with romantic partners and her work partner Hudson. A bit protective. Jealous when it comes to romantic partners.

37. Do they have any phobias?

Most boil down to the death of loved ones

38. Did/do they go anywhere special for vacations?

She used to get to pick a vacation spot once a summer when she grew up. Had to be reasonable, but she got to go to some great campgrounds, a couple good concerts, and Mammoth caves

39. Your character walks into a cafe. What do they order?

A white tea and cookies

40. What time do they go to bed, usually?

Depends on the day.

41. What’s their morning routine like?

Wake up → try to sleep longer → eventually be convinced out of bed (either by herself or by Jess) → try to manage her hair if she didn't braid it → give up on that and wash face → get dressed → eat → start day

42. What’s the dumbest thing your character’s done?

“I won't get hurt jumping from that height”

43. What pokemon would your character be?

Whisicott! But shiny

44. What’s their pokemon team? Try to pick all 6.

I seriously love these questions. Whimsicott! Of course! And a sylveon. Gardevoir. Shinx. Rapidash. And Cinccino!! She’s fairy-centric.

45. Theme song (and a playlist if you’ve got it!)

Dance Apocolyptic by Janelle Monae.

46. If this character was in a musical, what would their motif be (what kind of instruments do you hear, what’s the tempo, ect).

Hmmm… Piano. Something upbeat, most of the time.

47. What was this character’s biggest turning point in their life, something that changed them almost completely?

Therapy in her early teens. It helped her cope with the fact she suffered under her birth parents and realize she’s worth so much more than they tries to make her feel

48. What was their lowest point? What was their highest point?

It’s still gonna be centered in her abuse, but it could also be the grudge she holds on the Seed family (minus Faith). Highest point is probably something to do with Jess.

49. What are some themes tied to your character’s story?

Healing, unconditional love, leadership.

50. What are some motifs associated with your character?

Water, guilt, death, freedom

51. What were some inspirations for your character (people, movies, games)?

Adora is named after She-ra! Her brother too. Physically, I’m not sure. Mmmmaybe a little Nadine Ross, but even then, their hair is really the main similarity, and even then Adora’s is more afro than Nadine’s

52. How are you and your character the same? How are you different?

We’re about the same age? We both love Jess Black. That might be where the similarities end.

53. Expectations vs Reality: what did you expect and what did you get with this character?

I expected to have a gal who was nursing a crush on her partner in the force but instead i have a gal who’s a hundred percent in love with an archer she found locked in a cage by religious zealots.

54. What does your character want, and what do they need?

She wants some goddamn rest and the ability to go on a proper date with her girlfriend. She wants to see her dads again. She wants to be certain she won’t wake up and find herself kidnapped again.

55. What’s your character’s core trait? What’s their best trait? What’s their worst trait? What happens when these all interact with each other?

Is “sunshine” a trait? She’s a happy sort of person and likes to show it. Smiles a whole lot. Best trait is her willingness to trust. Worst trait… she can hold a grudge. For a LONG time. Holding a grudge can keep her from mending bridges, so it doesn’t act terribly well with happy & trusting. And when it does, she’s happy to hold a grudge lol.

56. What’s your overall goal with this character? Will they get a happy ending or will they succumb to their faults?

My goal is her to eventually have a happy life. She gets her “happy ending” in the shape of being with Jess until the day she dies, and even taking in a little girl to raise. She passes away in her sleep a long way down the line.

[problems-of-immortality]

Some significant info on the cities and races in my world under the cut.

Humans are the dominant race as of the current era- about a thousand years after the country was founded by the dragons and elves and the Forgotten War happened. They live in villages scattered across the country’s western, southern and northern edges- with five major cities. Potentially, humans can live until at least a hundred in my world, if violent death or illness doesn't catch them first. They start to slow in appearance age slightly, after they hit 40. The five major cities are the Capital, the port city of Akairo, the northern temple/castle of Ao, the merchant hotspot of Midori and the city of nobility known as Murasaki. They're each named for a Japanese color. Villages, post-War places, humans and elves have Celtic/Germanic/Greco-Christian names- but dragons and older locations have Japanese names.

The nomadic elves traditionally living in the plains live to between seventy and a hundred. They age slow in appearance but have a high death rate because they regularly hunt the tengu birds for bones and feathers, as well as a delicacy meal cooked in Dragon's Bane during special occasions. Tengu are super dangerous and a nomadic elf is supposed to kill one when they come of age. Killing more than one puts you in high esteem, and often they take trophies in the form of skulls and the blue head plumage. They don't have body hair except for their heads. They don't use tattoos but wearing tengu feathers show status and they paint their stags.

Nomadic elves have a reverence for only one of the original five dragons, though they know the others through oral stories that are kind of mythic compared to the actual records hidden by their reclusive cousins. This dragon is neither Ryota nor Shiro but is important and currently absent. They haven't made an appearance yet, but I have them in development. The forest elves are reclusive, skilled in magic, and hide a city deep in the forest, protected by magic, the very forest itself, and a guardian dragon, specifically Ryota and before him, Shiro. They live between two and five centuries and contain most lore thought lost in their city.

Dragons were believed almost extinct, until Shiro and Arian started the Rebellion, by killing the current Emperor. Now, half-breeds and pure-breeds alike are coming out of hiding- after Shiro and Arian destroy swathes of Murasaki in a fight with the main character, Ryoku. 

Full-blooded dragons have far more control of shapeshifting. While they can't control what they look like in dragon form, they can with a human or elven form. Aside from the permanent tail, a purebred can completely control their appearance if they're clever enough, from hair and eye color to gender. Shiro's rather good at it, but with his vanity he sticks to the same rather unique appearance and has since he woke up, about 46 years before the story started. 

Even pure-blooded dragons like Shiro can show dragon characteristics in their human form uncontrollably if they are too angry. Scales and claws form on their hands and feet, while their eyes take on a reptilian quality in response to adrenaline. And eventually, they have to shift back to their true-form if they stay out of it for too long- or the shift happens forcibly and painfully.

Pure-blooded dragons have an average lifespan of 5,000 years, if unnatural death does not take them first. They can hibernate for long periods, but dragons over at least a thousand that hibernate for too long start to show signs of memory loss.

Half-blood hybrids can shapeshift into full dragons for a limited period. But both of their shapeshifting appearances are fixed by genetics.  Half-breeds can will themselves between forms easily if they do it frequently, but the less they do it the more painful and emotionally-driven the change is. 

Hybrids age about the same as their mother species. As most of the dragons revealed so far in my story have been male, hybrids like Ryoku and Arian will live the life spans of a human or elf.  

Dragons mix better as half-breeds with elves due to their deep connection to nature and magic, but all half-breeds and dragons have anger issues. Shiro and Ryota have a tight hold on theirs, Ryoku's temperament fluctuates, but Kyouhei had a bad temper for a dragon. Humans and dragons don't mix very well. Their tempers/aggressive tendencies clash with one another, and the few half-breeds of that kind either die with their mother on birth, or end up like Arian. Arian is human/dragon, and when his human mother died giving birth to him, Kyouhei tried to kill his own son after losing it in grief. Shiro was there trying to help and he wound up killing Kyouhei accidentally.

Some animal species of note-

Tengu are a species of bird in the plains and forests both that are super aggressive somewhat cousins to dragons. Picture a bird like creature resembling a raven with black feathers and a blue feathered crest similar to a cockatiel. Except each said bird is the size of a horse and has a serpentine tail, with a beakful of teeth and noxious saliva. They're also capable of basic speech so they're even creepier because of it. They'll argue over corpses and kills with voices that sound like they swallowed glass, yet their phrasing tends to be basic and almost childish. Their bite is poisonous and can only be cured with a flower called Dragon's Bane. The flower is intoxicating to tengu and dragons.

I have a very large species of stag with feet resembling paws instead of hooves and two sets of antlers. The more nomadic elves consider them companions and they live on the plains.

One of the creatures I still have in the drafting stage exists in the mountain ranges of Nijiryuu. Picture a creature with the body of a mountain lion, covered in fur, but the head of an owl, and it screams. They hunt hares and mountain goats, and sometimes livestock. They're scary but about as normal in the north as one would consider a wolf or an actual mountain lion. They’re called banshees. I picture that their head/beak/eye structure is similar to that of a barn owl but with fur instead of feathers, and actual ears much like a cat's. Their neck is somewhat long to add a degree of reach, and they have long claws to rip apart prey as well as to dig out hares in the snow or mud. Their beak is small but can easily tear tendons off of bone in thin strips, and a lion's tail for balance. The screaming is their vocalization for mating as well as being territorial. 

They vary in size- most juveniles are the size of a leopard but they can get as big as a full grown lion the more well off they are. It's either desperate juveniles or bold veterans that go after livestock and occasionally stray villagers.

They are aggressive and solitary- luckily banshees stick to the north and tengu to the south. Aside from them and the deer having paws and two sets of antlers, most of the other animals include regular hare, foxes, horses, and livestock. Snakes, turtles and crocodiles are normal near rivers, and regular birds are common.