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Artfight 2025 attack #9: A Mass Attack on Speculative Biology characters/species! Featuring the following characters:

(Counterclockwise, starting in the front centre:)

@/Earthstar 's open species, Velai

@prettycoolducks 's character Murphy

@gallusgalluss 's character Whistle

@rosywave-art 's character Gwain

@castadnova 's character Her Holiness Missus Trebuchet

@ikrutt 's character Virak

@/PumpkinPelt's character Clade

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Pepper Thief, 2025 Art Fight revenge on Clawswipe

An homage to the famous textile pattern Strawberry Thief by William Morris. Reading about the making of the original textile print is very humbling and makes my struggles with this pale in comparison!

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24 Karat Kittycat, 2025 Art Fight attack on @w0nderous

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The Secret of Lidian, 2025 Mass-attack on several Hunters Unlucky fans for Art Fight

DRAMATIS PERSONAE under the cut

FELOI the ferryshaft, our scrappy protagonist. Hobbies include rapping, quipping and getting into trouble. Character belongs to @lostfox

BRUTUS and KOSITT, our creasia comic relief pair. Brutus has a short fuse, Kositt enjoys playing pranks on her. Slapstick ensues! Character belongs to @lostfox

CHIBO is creasia cat team mom. She finds Brutus' and Kositt's antics endearing and merely giggles at the most violent of scuffles. Character belongs to @elliejaybird

MOUSARA the running gag curb. Her efforts to build a trap is constantly and unwittingly sabotaged by the other characters. Character belongs to @peculiurperennial

MONBREIR and FRAY the gay coded ferryshaft herd leaders. Monbreir catches birds and acts like a cartoon dog and Fray poses dramatically on top of cliffs scouts as if his life depended on it. Monbreir belongs to @vveedwart and Fray to @bookshelfpassageway

KIRO the adorable ferryshaft foal. He tawks wike dis. Character belongs to @bookshelfpassageway

SEETHE the blind telshee. With scars like that, 80's movie villany was all but guaranteed. Character belongs to @swordsandspectacles

ACRISS the mystical sparkling flying jellyfish. Purpose unknown, but they sure look hella cool! Acriss and the entire Hunters universe belong to @alhilton

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Dawn on Bald Mountain, 2025 Art Fight attack on @meiniann

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Neither Snow Nor Rain, 2025 Art Fight attack on @typelikemad

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No Means No, 2025 Art Fight attack on @crawfordtheturtle

Sumac, a god that punishes male violence towards women.

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An artfight attack on @ikrutt of Virak

A sort of dry brush garden

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Disintegrate, 2025 Art Fight revenge on @lucky-fydraws

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I did an ArtFight!

Here's an attack on @ikrutt of their character Morkant. Because look at all the shapes on that face! So much fun to draw.

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Aubade, 2025 Art Fight attack on @merionic

Heavily inspired by the sunset paintings of Chris Long. The soundtrack to this was Maria Kannegaard's Nå on repeat.

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Terrified Pterosaur and the Mean Marker Monsters, 2025 Art Fight attack on @nambroth

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Happier Times, 2025 Art Fight attack on @srarlight

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Off Vibe, 2025 Art Fight attack of @stiavest and @olimnia

Telshees are creatures from the xenofiction novel Hunters Unlucky by @alhilton

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Royal Flush, 2025 Art Fight attack on @iguanodont

Some useful context--

Ahab is munching on a sea urchin

Barnaby is an octopus in a human mask and costume

I chose spades because I could give them lil fish tails

The appearance of the two sea hags might or might not be mis-remembered and/or obscured by glamour...

I drew everything from scratch, including the ten and the back of the card

Beach pebble textures from Texturelabs

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The Incident, 2024

Adreas and Ma-Vireva go on a date.

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Historians, 2024

Ma-Vireva and a slightly more grown up Virak hang out and get excited over a book or something. Nerds!