#storm hawks bird oc challenge

[happypanda101]

“You can’t escape the sight of an owl, dear….”

My character for July’s bird month! @far-side-skies

Meet Pitta Gurney, Cyclonia’s odd gothic medic. A retired archer with damaged eyesight. Though, just because her sight wasn’t what it was, doesn’t making her any less dangerous. She now takes her terror to the medical wing, scaring unruly patients into submission.

I wanted to try and play into the bird lineage idea, and once I picked an owl, I really wanted to bring ito out into the design. Hence the creepy big eyes and beak like makeup. Thanks to @ashe-alter for the inspo!

She’s the type of person that would tell you that she watches you in your sleep, and you don’t really know if you should believe her or not cause she’s creepy enough to do it lmao.

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WIP of this month's bird OC! Colours just need refining a bit.

Spitfire is a member of the 3rd Degree Burners; their best pilot and secondary Sky Knight. When he first joined as a teenager, he had no interest in being a Sky Knight and preferred to compete in races with other squadron members. He grew particularly close to a young Suzy-Lu and Lightning Strike's co-pilot in that time, right up until the betrayal happened.

In my lore, the Sky Knight Council covered up the fact that Lightning's co-pilot was responsible for the fall of the old Storm Hawks, and branded the Dark Ace as a random rogue operative who'd come out of nowhere to win his place in Cyclonia's ranks by killing the team. Spitfire was one of the only people brave enough to contest this decision, and proceeded to spend the next few years believing that some semblance of his old friend still remained in Cyclonia's Champion.

This conviction literally came back to bite him in an incident that cost him an eye. By the time the show events come about, Spitfire has completely abandoned all hope in his old friend.

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Ryder!!! He looks so good, and I love the little patterns on his sleeves 💜🩵💜

This month's challenge character for @far-side-skies is Ryder Dieder, the Talon Austry's younger brother.

He is 14, and yes, looks a lot like Aerrow.

Ryder lives in rural Cyclonia with his parents and twin sister, Chi. At first, he had no interest in the war and wanted to grow up to be a racer.

However, after an incident where he and Austry are captured by Atmosian forces and left to the chief interrogator, Ryder decided he wanted to fight. He never wants anyone to suffer the way he and his brother did.

Austry and his mother don't think he should fight. So, to compromise, they let him join the the storm hawks reserve team.

I'm sure that sounds a bit odd, but the reserve team is largely full of double agents, lead by Lynn.

[todayis-snowy]

this month's entry for @far-side-skies' bird oc challenge!

except this is no bird, Gabriel Pelangmarah hails from the far south of Atmos and was the proud medic of the former Storm Hawks.

The oldest member at age 40, Gabriel was a field medic part of Atmos' main army during the War of Burning Glass before he decided to semi-retire into life with the Storm Hawks as their on-site healer. His mantra of "Do some harm, take no shit" extended to his fellow members, that staff of his packed a punch, especially when he was mad at them for pulling stupid stunts and walking out with stupid injuries.

Any and all times he went out of the Condor to help in battles he usually turned out unscathed, mainly because nobody wants to deal with 2.5 metres of an angry elephant with a thwacking stick charging at you.

Despite all of that he was still a softie, anyone who needed a nice chat could come into his room or clinic and they'd be greeted with calming tea, and grandma candies and walking out with lighter shoulders and a pat on the back.

Shame about him dying first...guess that means no one could have addressed...the elephant in the room....

[stormseclipse]

Here’s my entry for @far-side-skies oc challenge!

You get a two in one this month :b

Names: Astennu, god of death, and Femi, goddess of life

Home terra: Terra Shezmu? Or all of Atmos

Bio: About 5000 years ago, a group of humans sought to create a crystal that could give them unimaginable power and longevity, they succeeded but at a great cost. They were transformed into animalistic monsters who could only drink blood. Those that survived the rampage quickly tried to destroy the crystal to prevent this from ever happening again but it began to heal itself, pulling the pieces back together except for one shard, which was taken and hidden somewhere deep on Atmos.

Since the vampires, as the creatures came to be called, could not be killed, they were left to roam Atmos, soon turning more humans into one of their own. As their numbers grew, the gods of Atmos created new gods to govern them, one to bring them death and one to bring them life.

Astennu was created first to bring order to the land, giving the vampires their mortality and their weaknesses. Modern vampires describe him as quiet and stern, he rarely chooses to intervene on mortal affairs, choosing to focus on his main job of making sure the cycle of life and death continues.

Femi was created second to bring prosperity to the new species of Atmos. She gives them their long life as well as their ability to transform back into their human forms, should they so choose. Femi is described as cheerful and loving, often granting gifts to the mortals and keeping a close eye on them.

Astennu and Femi are also mates, with their “soul mark” being a butterfly. Symbolizing their duties to the cycle of life and death.

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Hi! Here is my entry for January’s Storm Hawks OC Challenge (Great-Eared Nightjar) from @far-side-skies

Name: Jarita Loxia

Nickname: Jari

Age: 18

Sex: Female

Occupation: Hunter

Position: Sharpshooter and markswoman

Weapon of choice: Rifle, bow and arrows

Family: Carolina (mother, ✝), Garuda (father, 40), Garuda (brother, 22)

Background: His mother was a cyclonian refugee who escaped to Terra Coriolis when her family became political enemies, but her family didn’t manage to escape. At Vellum, Carolina met Garuda and fell in love, marrying a few years later. When she was 7, their mother died in childbirth. His brother Gam was stillbirth. This turned Garuda Sr. into a taciturn man. She learned to hunt with her father and Hirundo, but when her brother moved from home, she started to hunt along with their father, so they would sell the meat.

Personality: She speaks always straightforward but with empathy and care of her words. Her friends and family are the most important to her and she’ll fight for them and be unconditional to her loved ones. She’s quite an introvert, enjoying the days she spends hunting in the forests all alone, so she can come back to Velum, with her batteries totally charged.

Abilities: She’s the best shooter of her team (still she has a competitive relation with her brother when they’re training), using rifle, bow and arrows, but she prefers rifle.

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Aaaah this is cool! I love seeing more people come up with backstory for Aerrow's mother :3

Finally made a design for Ruby!!

For @far-side-skies challenge

Name: Ruby Burrows

Occupation: Nurse

Terra: Atmosia

A farmer from the outskirts of Atmosia, she often helped her parents with chores as she grew up, before moving closer into town for her job.

And it's at that very hospital where catches word of the legendary Storm Hawks coming in for a check-up.

Unlike most people, however, she could care less about them, especially about their leader, Lightning Strike. She knew that behind that mask of heroism was just a vain, vile, and misogynistic man.

Or so she thought.

After seeing him express genuine concern for his squad mates, and letting small children hop onto his shoulders made her realize that, maybe, she was wrong.

As time went on, she decides to date him, and Axel vows to keep their relationship away from the public, as she wished.

They promised to love each other, and future child, for all their life on their wedding day.

And so they did, until their very last breaths.

Thinking about adding some more tidbits about her after the comic's done

[akhumahx13]

My entry for the @far-side-skies oc bird, I had wanted to participate so much but for one reason or another I couldn't, I hope to be able to participate in future contests. I have been very inspired, well here is the info.

Name: Kirie

Age: 15 years

Race: Human

Height and weight: 1.62m 58kg

Terra of Origin: Sama, One of many terras that was thought to be uninhabited, but with a warm climate and good resources, mainly raw crystal mines, being invaded first by the Raptors but in the end being part of the Cyclonian territory.

Occupation/Position: Talon

Squad: Cyclonians

Description of his personality: Having the character of cheerfully obnoxious, dedicated, joker, he was a person who could relax the environment when they were not on duty, being a good companion but his high loyalty to Cyclonia became too dense to the point of going out of his way for the ideals.

Status: Unknown possibly deceased

History:

Born in a tribe in Terra Sama with ease, it was not until the age of 6 when the Raptors attacked his tribe, arriving by simple chance to find some warm place, taking the advantage because the people of Sama did not have great technological advances reducing The number of people was very large, not much happened until the word spread by reconnaissance of the island by soldiers from Cyclonia, when they came across the town they easily manipulated the people with promises of protection and progress.

And so it was the first weeks after the people were taken from Sama, some to the factories, others secretly thrown into the Wastelands and the youngest being instructed as Talons, among them Kirie, advancing impeccably, they spent years where they did the will of that then Master Anarchis.

Some time passed until new young people arrived for the ranks, being Fenix ​​a red-haired boy from terra Glockenchime with whom he would form a friendship to a certain extent, have a more relaxed season for both, have a bit of childhood in that military and dark environment, but As time went by, Kirie's devotion to Cyclonia, rude attitudes, even putting down lands and races, began to tire the redhead, he had a very different vision of the circumstances, even with the friendship that little fractured.

Being a confrontation against the Sky Knights, the fight was close, however, Kirie's Switchblade began to fail, taking out smoke going into a tailspin, the boy managed to jump for Fenix's Skimmer but in the attempt to climb the ship he had a struggle that It ended in a direct blow to Kirie's face, letting go of his partner's unexpected attack, trying to get his parachute out but it didn't open, he just looked up seeing his friend sabotaging his own ship, jumping out of it and surrendering to the Sky Knights, only the screams calling him a traitor could be heard until he was lost at the bottom of the Wastelands.

[happypanda101]

Finally got around to finishing up my character for this months bird challenge! @far-side-skies

Delphus Dove Cyclonis, the second born and first son of Piper and Cyclonis for the next generation era stuff I got going on!

While being a mix of both of his mother’s, Del takes more after Piper. Being the more responsible, calm and a bit nick picky one out of his siblings. He still has her excitement for crystals though lol.

He’s a little bit shy and can come off as a know it all sometimes, but he really does mean well. He has to be my favourite design I’ve done in awhile!

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Spitfire is finished! Super proud of this one, I put a lot of focus into making him look like a cohesive member of the team as well as his own individual character. Super interesting team lineup to work with.

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💜💜THEM!!💜💜

This bab was so much fun to work on with you Grimm!

I hope you guys love them as much as we loved making them!

This months a collab character for @far-side-skies oc challenge with @far-side-skies

Their name is Jewel and they are very rare hybrid of Nightcrawler and Dawnrunner. The two species are natural enemies and despise one another despite many similarities between them.

Jewel was born (hatched) in a traveling circus and has no home terrar.

Their father, Romeo, is a Dawnrunner and has raised them on his own with the help of their cirus.

Their mother, Juliet, is a Nightcrawler, or in far-side-skies' lore a night elf queen.

No we were not subtle with the names.

Jewel is the main trapeze performer with their father being a strong man and knife thrower.

They love preforming and their giant weird family.

Check out far-side post for more info and an awesome mini fic!

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Entry for @far-side-skies art challenge, this month we were assigned the splendid sunbird and I had some fun with the colors..may have used the purples a bit too much but i regent nothing XD This was from a stomhawks next gen thing I thought up of years ago and never went into much detail for any the characters in it XD

~info~

Name: Ozul Nickname: Oz Age: 16 Height: 5.8" Race: Human/Bird experiment (no feathers yet)/Clone of the Dark Ace (doesn't know that yet) Gender: Hermaphrodite Sexuality: Unsure Home Terra: Farside - New Cyclonia Region Skills: Sky-fu, basic sky and ground combat, Crystal mage trainee

~Story~ When the floating terra of cyclonia fell and Master Cyclonis fled through the portal, she fled with a few loyalist but one wasn't among them ..the champion known as the dark ace was gone.

Being the Impatient women she is Cyclonis ordered Nikolai to get to work on bring back the dark ace. With not much of a lab set up this annoyed the scientist, but rather then risking his masters wrath he did as ordered and began the long process of cloning. Years later after a few failures, little Oz was the one that survived into his first stages of life, but as he grew his body wasn't holding up as it should have given the lack of Dark Ace's DNA to help build it back up Nikolai had to use what he had on hand, which was the DNA's of a bird and the masters to stabilize the boy. Around the time Oz turned five he was wondering around the farside boarder between when he bumped into a young Shang Akagiyama of Terra Kistune royal family, the two boys grew to bond and this gave Cyclonis the idea to use him as a pawn to get an alliance with the Kitaran. This then made her take the boy under her wing and removing him from Nikolai's care.

Growing up Ozul slowly learned just what type of person his mother was and what happened when she was made upset or disappointed. The burns on his left arm will be a permanent reminder of those lessons. Weirdly enough all Oz wishes if for her love and approval and thinks her coldness and harsh punishments are merely an act she puts on, to showcase her standing as ruler of New Cyclonia, so he pushes himself to study, train and practice in hopes of achieving that.

Having Shang for a friend definitely made Ozul feel less alone, hell the Kitaran was his first and only best friend, his mother forbid him from ever leaving the palace, not truly caring about his needs at all and just wanting a weapon to keep by her side, In the early morning on his sixteenth birthday Shang got him to sneak out and took him to Atmos. One glace of the sky and clouds, was all it took and Oz fell love with it, the duo continued this habit of sneaking over to the other side and not wanting to get caught Nikolai had a special outfit created for Ozul (he caught Oz sneaking back in one night but kept it hush hush) that would hide his identity; the armor on it would react to his crystal binding abilities and actually amplify them by a small percentage, thanks to the metal it was forged out of.

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Wow that was a lot to type, hope it wasn't too allover the place XD

[todayis-snowy]

fun little entry for @far-side-skies' bird oc challenge this month!

Anther Talon is renown amongst the ranks as one of the first and most successful Cyclonian assassins. Trained and a friend of Scimitar, he was given the codename "Kingfisher" to compliment the efficient manner in which he'd neutralise targets.

To the Atmosians, he does not exist, much in thanks to his distant methods of carrying out missions. With a success rate rivalling even Scimitar's, he is held in high regard by the Elites as a model worker and key agent in winning the war the dirty way.

Apparently, there's a rumour that he's on close terms with even Elite-General Snipe...but what would such an aloof agent of Scimitar be doing with someone as boisterous as him?

bonus art:

someone put aptornis out of her misery.

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It took me a little longer but my entry @far-side-skies for this month 

I always find something difficult to do because a lot of ideas XD Info Name: Aruma

Race: Agamid Subspecies of Raptor

Age: Unknown, possibly many years

Height and weight: 1.85m 79kg

Terra: Bogaton

Squadron / Alignment: None / Good

Status: alive

Personality: Even with a serious countenance, he becomes an understanding and even empathetic person, but he will watch over the well-being of those he loves, he breaks down in difficult moments but tries to divert all thoughts before doing something foolish.

History: Growing up in the rivalry of which race would lead the terra if the Adamid or Raptors, a young Aruma would train and be curious about the crystals, beginning to sympathize more with the Terradons among which Gikno would become a close friend and later a partner.Although there were conflicts between the inhabitants, things changed after Repton controlled everything together with the recent alliance with Cyclonia, sending Terradones to fortify the earth and the Adamid to fight against celestial knights.

Aruma and Ginko continued to see each other the few times they could, secretly keeping the nest of future offspring, Adamid tried to have the profile of just a simple civilian who would not be of much use to them, it was not until others confessed through threats that she had knowledge in crystals and fight, she refused to participate having a very hostile attitude towards Repton and the others, it was not until the destruction of the nest and loss of her young, already dejected, she joins the ranks to fight for cyclonia.

With the loss and even more with not being able to see Ginko again, he began to release his anger in battle spending a long time until he received a message from his lover with a plan for an escape having the help of a few also fed up with everything. Bogaton became, although it did not come out at first, they did not tire of trying to sabotage the defense system from the inside, while Aruma along with others made a distraction and fought against guards to then defend the escape ship.Arriving at a small terra forming a town,

 Aruma allowed himself to be captured by a celestial knight named Rook but she released all the information she could gather as long as her now home was also protected and that it was not a trick, there was even some mistrust Being locked up until everything he said was verified, some time later Aruma returned to his home already with the certainty of having the celestial knights on his side

Extras: there are very few Adamids that follow Atmos, they are almost always mixtures with other species such as terradons or raptors

Aruma is related to Onoga (part of the Ibis squad) ; she would be like her great-great-grandmother.

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Oh my god this?? Holy shit and you got it done in a day.

This looks absolutely amazing! I'm honestly beyond words.

Holy hell, I got this beauty done in one day woooo! now my arm and hand hurt XD worth it (4 hours of work). These two badass’s are Chieftain Lupin of the Leperi race (custom race by one my friends, Thanks Grace!) and his trusty and ‘terrifying’ Wyvern Da’gar, and they are for @far-side-skies monthly bird challenge

Race info (currently wip)

The Leperi (or Leperians) are a semi tribal people of anthropomorphic bunnies and/or hares known for their bond with the noble Wyvern and their skilled archery. They are agile and quick thinking but prefer to keep to themselves. Living peacefully in the mountains far away from everyone and everything, they rely on the natural resources the land provides. They live in mound shaped burrows in the snowy mountains. Appearance Females are smaller with droopy ears and fluffier neck and chest while the males of the species are larger, have erect ears and less fluff on their chest and more on there face, resembling facial hair.

[stormseclipse]

Hello hello~

Meet Sawyer! My entry for this month’s bird challenge.

He actually didn’t start off as part of the challenge but I needed a color pallet so here we are XD

Occupation? Pirate, thief, casanova, whatever suits his fancy in the moment. Sawyer is the sort to do whatever he needs to do to survive and that includes stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, which includes himself.

He’s a bit of a neutral party, doesn’t care for the war, just wants to live a comfortable life no matter the winner. Often spends his time on Tropica or the surrounding islands of Aquanos. Knows a great deal about ships and the temperament of the sky because of this.

Smooth talking, cunning, and a bit of a pain in the ass. Sawyer’s a lovable rogue ;3