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had no cell service (went camping!!) for the past two days so i’m a bit late but here it is! missed the announcement stream too but im a fan of the teams this year :) had a hard time settling on one!

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happy pride from dusk, dawn, and ray!

(the flags are bi and trans for dusk, lesbian for dawn, and aroace for ray)

technically spoilers? maybe. however the sexuality/gender of my characters is usually either talked about or hinted at pretty early in their stories so I decided I don’t care <3

happy pride to all! hope my queer friends out there are doing as well as we can be. things will get better! I hope some of you can see your stories told in my doofy little characters somehow :)

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creature…

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I just realized that in this chapter Dawn and her mom have some new face patterns. Is that royal make-up (lol) or something like that? It’s a cool design thing and I can’t believe I didn’t notice until this page.

i mean you kind of said it yourself, heh—it’s like a royal ‘makeup’ or face paint that the royal family wears on certain occasions to sort of separate themselves from others. i haven’t fully figured out what different designs mean but they wear different paints on different occasions, we’ll see others throughout the comic :)

in my head it’s flower-based and washes off pretty easily but is probably pretty ‘expensive’ (in quotes because there isn’t really currency)

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The gods of the Kingdoms

the style was inspired by the lineless lasso tool jumalanpelko style! love the comic and the art and wanted to try a version of it :)

lore time below if you’re interested!

these are the four gods in The Dark in the Dawn. They are present in myths throughout the story—meaning we will be learning about them in the comic too dw

basically each god is connected to each Kingdom. there were four kingdoms (Fire Earth Sea and Sky), with Fire being the strongest and biggest. things happened that I don’t want to spoil, and now it’s a bit different. TDitD takes place in the Fire Kingdom after said Things.

each god corresponds with their element and Kingdom. Arsu (top right, pronounced like ‘are-soo’) is the god of Fire, and is worshipped the most in the Fire Kingdom (all Kingdoms acknowledge all four gods, though) Arsu in mythology is the eldest and strongest of the four, who are siblings. she is said to be stubborn and quick to anger but not unjust, and her followers tend to reflect those values. the other four are Ugren (top left, pronounced like ‘oo-grin’) the second oldest and god of Earth, Torris (bottom left, pronounced like ‘tore-is’) the second youngest and god of the Sea, and Elysus (bottom right, pronounced like ‘uh-lee-sus’) the youngest, god of the Sky.

cats who live in each Kingdom have at least a small amount of power (called Blessing) because of the patron god of their Kingdom. these are usually pretty weak but in the case of those with royal or noble blood the powers can get a lot stronger (they are based on genetics—it was bred in to powerful lineages. if a cat is half-Kingdom or Kingdomless they have no blessing) Dawn’s power is the most extreme example, called fireborn. that will also be explained in comic.

if you read all this i hope it makes some semblance of sense! trying to leave some stuff out too so if you don’t quite get it don’t worry

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my bestest boy!!!!!

the joy that this brought me i cannot- thank you for drawing him! you captured his vibe very well :)

Ray from @icyb1ue’s comic @thedarkinthedawn!

I LOVE the designs in this comic, they’re so . . . shape . . .

Ray was a challenge for me given he’s pretty smooth and I can’t resist drawing floof. But I love his color palette and his vibe so here :)

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Can I make Ray fanart? :)

oh always! I would love to see that :0

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