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Windy Day

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Jojo

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Chibo and Jojo

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Box Cat

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Big flying bugs

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Coloration that strays from their element doesn’t tend to proliferate in a choro population, for reasons both social (they prefer their elemental colors) and magical (it’s rare for a mutation to override their magical coloration.) Without their elements, most choros would be a more natural brown or gray like their flying ancestors.

Rain however, have actually evolved some bright colors outside of their element. This is partially due to them being more genetically isolated than the others, and partially due to them being weaker in element overall. During flood choro conflicts with lava choros, the weakest in power among the floods were sent away in order to survive the devastation. These fugitive flood choros became the ancestors of all modern rain choros.

Magic Privileges Revoked

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Magic Privileges Revoked

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Work in progress turnaround of my sister’s original superhero, Veil. I am not experienced drawing humans so I started with just the legs.

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i also feel like those ducks could've been listening to unwritten by natasha bedingfield ("feel the rain on your skin (feathers) / no-one else can feel it for you") <3

If I ever go back and redraw the car shots I might make a version with that song instead. Both work pretty well imo.

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how would a gold syrsin with backwards horns be viewed?

The odd combination of features would probably draw mixed reactions, but overall I imagine the rarity of it would be seen as special, and might even overshadow the negativity of backwards horns. If such a syrsin achieved any notoriety in life it would be easy for them to become a patron (a legend, or pseudo god to syrsin).

This also greatly depends on the personality of the individual, and the culture of the herd they are born into as well. Mars’ herd does not discriminate against those with horn deformities, for instance.

I think I mentioned in some other post that orange is not an attractive color to syrsin, despite the positive association, and backwards horns are also not a conventionally attractive trait. So the combination of features would not be pretty regardless of what other feelings it evoked in their fellow syrsin.

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Syrsin Infographic 2020 vs 2025

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Notes on Syrsin Horns

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Forward facing horns are the ideal, but the angle of growth can vary, with one or both growing sideways in some cases

Thin, straight horns are considered a weakness, and may break more easily

Short horns give the impression of a baby-faced or feminine male

Backwards horns are considered unlucky, dangerous, or even a sign of a bad character

"Gold" syrsin are considered a blessing to their herd, it is a rare color mutation

Horns can have varying levels of freckling, sometimes forming stripes

Horn colors range from white to black, with many shades of red in-between

EllieJayBird May '25

Redraw of this from five years ago.

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2025 Species Ref

fire choro, lightning choro, rain choro, syrsin, oppy

I drew the larger of each sex, so female birds, male mammals. Male fire choros are significantly smaller than females, lightning are about the same, male rain choros are slightly smaller. I might make a choro specific ref for their wing detail and sexual dimorphism.

Grauls still exist I just haven’t felt inspired to draw them in a long time and still don’t feel up for it

Edit: fixed the lightning choro’s head

Edit: Minor changes to everyone, mainly to make the syrsin higher contrast.

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little unfinished sketch of Roup from Hunters Unlucky, sweet sunshine kitty

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The c in running runs in the family.

I drew my chao, Awawa, they have many children and very average stats.

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*Flashing images warning*

🔵 Sonic ⚡ Shadow 🟠 Decided to colour and composite my earlier rough animation. There are some things imma go back and improve (the backgrounds 💀), but I'm glad I got this much done and now I need a break lol

Sorry for the low-res gifs, you can also watch this on Youtube here