#oc:cinnarust

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Saw a few pictures of characters in this situation and I wanted to do it with these two because I've been obsessed with them lately

It can really go either way with them <3

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Dead once more, be born again

Predator trapped in the body of prey

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The duality of Cinnarust is that he is both an ancient eldritch being who has lived countless lives as both beast and man and neither, but he is also your average 20-something year old dude just trying to figure out life. He'll stare down a car coming straight at him on a highway and after the inevitable collision he'll wake up in his bed in his messy room and go buy frozen tater tots at the corner store that he will eat straight out of the package the moment he walks out

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Cinnarust appreciation post, because I love him very much 💖

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Oh dear, that's not a deer 💖

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" They saw it at the lake, the deer that's not a deer... might be good to avoid the area for a little while."

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Mother's day passed but time is fake so here is Rust with his Mom :D

She's ancient and spends her days roaming forests and old pathways, watching time go by. That gets awfully lonely at times, so she created Rust to follow in her footsteps - which he has never done, walking around and letting time pass is not his thing, but he still loves her and spending time with her.

She was never quite sure what she expected of him, but regardless Mom is very, very proud of her little long son and his antics and is always eager to lay down and listen to him - and Rust can always count on Mom to have his back ^^

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You go on a trip to the middle of nowhere, and you stay with a friend. You hear strange noises at night from the woods, and you feel like something's watching you, your friend says you just need to get used to being so far out from the city.

The property is isolated when compared to the hustle and bustle of the city, but soon you see you're not alone - your friend has neighbours, good and hardy folk who show up every now and then to check in on eachother - we need to lookout for our own here, your friend says, for there's no one else to.

You see strange things every day, birds and small animals that seem perfectly ordinary except they're not - the crows linger too long and rarely make a sound, the hurried footsteps of hares sound much louder than they should. The chickens that your friend raises refuse to leave their pen on some days, and on others they hurry back in at seemingly nothing. Their dogs are always alert, always wary, their ears raised at sounds none else can hear. One stray cat walks leisurely on a fence, and you get the feeling that it knows your fear.

Your friend laughs and says the animals are fine, they're all fine, you're just not used to the rhythm of the coutryside. You try to heed their advice, and stop paying so much attention to the animals.

After a while you begin to adapt, and the oddities of the rural area start feeling like normalcy. One day while driving down the beaten up little road by your friend's property, you spot a deer running along the fields. You excitedly point it out to your friend, who is driving, and they glance at it for just a moment - their gaze snaps back to the road and they grip the wheel tighter.

They tell you to ignore it - that it will go away. You are confused, and you risk another glance, only to feel a shiver crawl up your spine.

That's not a deer.

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Mmmmm thinking about Cinnarust tonight

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Halfway through sketching my brain decided this is the trans experience and I can't for the life of me figure out why, but here we are 🤔

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Diversity win! The cryptid terrorizing your neighbourhood is trans!

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In the context of a furry world Rust is like a feral child but instead of being raised by wolves or the like he was raised by an eldritch god and some bugs

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I kinda feel like taking on a real project, like a little story or maybe even a comic!

It would involve this weirdo and his friends, most of them are up on @furfruits but I feel like expanding or revamping the cast too, so we'll see :3

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So I made a new creative world in Minecraft called Nonsense Paradise which is where I mess around and do things and the things I decided to do is light worldbuilding

So I spawned in a birch forest that is neighbors with a dark oak forest on one side, there's a village right on the edge of it, a little further up is a little island filled to the brim with flowers and a little beyond that is a swamp and a taiga.

It's plain simply, the perfect world so far. So I built houses for Rust and Mantra

These two, my nonsense kids

Rust is a weird mix between local urban cryptid and forest creature so I looked up some tutorials and built him a house in the dark oak forest. There was a little clearing with a lake which I dried up and now there's a tall house and a fuckton of roses.

Mantra is a kelpie, so I built his house on the swamp. Same as Rust I looked up tutorials for stilt houses and made him a little lure house that looks pretty from the outside but has nothing in except for a hole that leads into the water.

Then I started digging behind the stilt house, underwater, and just dug a straight line until I breached the surface. It turns out the tunnel ends up kinda close to the isle with the flowers, which in turn leads into the dark oak forest and into Rust's house

So now thanks to my little creative minecraft worldbuilding session, I have decided that Mantra regularly comes over to Rust's place for naps because he's a weirdo who built a house with no actual bed or furniture or anything. Rust is barely home anyway because he's also a weirdo who prefers to sleep in ponds and dig holes in the ground that in an actual bed, and when he is home he can take advantage of Mantra's visits for cuddles. So, win win situation for both of them.

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Okay here some more Rust n Cinder

I think I caught his vibe pretty well! His favorite place in Azeroth is the Darkmoon Faire and his favorite pastime is being a clown on main ^^

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Okay so

Warcraft Cinnarust was supposed to be a highmountain moo but YOU KNOW HOW IT IS AND YOU KNOW HOW I AM

So now we have a cryptic lowkey divine monster deer but as a cryptic lowkey divine sand troll who will cause problems on Purpose and occasionally hand out prophecies that may or may not come true for 5 gold each. You may get a refund if your prophecy does not happen, granted you find him first :3

Also Cinder is an extension of Rust's self that manifests as an odd creetur so Warcraft Cinder is an extension of Rust's self that manifests as a certain particular curse who is not limited to just humans in my fanon :):):)