#had to nerf the ability for cranky funky and asari tbh

[im-captain-basch]

I think the little ways in which certain aspects of my standard Kong designs translate into gijinka are really fun. My favorite part of figuring how to make one work in the other is the hair/head fur and certain things I've done does fucking parkour in my head sometimes to get to where it is today.

Like, for instance: being in middle school and really into anime influenced DK's hair and the subsequent introduction of hair floopies (cowlicks) to other characters in gijinka when I first started drawing. It later made issues arise when trying to figure out how to make it work in the standard design. I didn't know it at the time, but g!Cranky's hair floopy wound up being the key.

He and Wrinkly both got theirs from accidental strokes of the pen when I'd ink drawings, and I made the joke that they're where DK got his from since at the time I was going with them not being his grandparents. (Eventually this morphed into the thickness of the cowlick coming from Cranky while the general shape came from Wrinkly.) When trying to draw the Kong's with non-gijinka forms, I wanted to still incorporate them somehow for the guys and that's why Cranky has that weird chonky flattened piece of fur on his head.

Where this comes in to play with DK is when I decided I wanted to settle the matter of how to translate his hair into his fur. I realized I could give DK the same chonky lock and then combine it with old g!hairstyle ideas to get what he has now and it still work as a silly internal reference to make me laugh.

Is any of this making sense?? I feel like I'm going insane. But I like sharing little thought processes like this!