So... the update is out and we could take a better look at their new bipedal design XD. I kept the tail from the Kingdom version, made some color palette changes and made the arms longer because they were so short they actually looked goofy xD, but in general I like the bipedal design, I guess that's a consequence of being a furr-
The redesign wasn't justfied by the game and they were already depicted like that in petroglyphs, so even before the update was out I came up with a headcanon:
The quadrupedal version was their original dragon form, but they became so attached to cookies over the centuries and strengthened their bond with them so much that it ended influencing their dragon form during their reawakening, making it become bipedal and resemble more their Cookie form even as a dragon.
You know what? The bipedal version of Pitaya's dragon form looked chonkier, and I thought it could suit them to be plus sized. So have the same thing I did with Longan but with Pitaya :0
I work fast xD. Seeing Pitaya standing on two legs was too funny for me XDDD. I'm afraid is not partial bipedism, the ancieny painting also depicts them as a bipedal dragon 😔.
I like to think that they became so close to cookies over the centuries that it ended influencing their dragon form and became bipedal (aka more cookie like even as a dragon) because of that. It's cooler than assuming it's just a redesign decision xd
Congrats to Pitaya Dragon Cookie, now they can assert dominace harder than ever (? (yeah, they're bipedal in the season 9 teaser xd)
I wasn't active on Tumblr back in 2020, but that year I achieved creating a humanized werehog in regular werewolf format that screamed to me "THIS IS THE ONE" and I hyperfixated in my own design. The oh so many times I doodled him...
So thank you Tumblr people for finally daring to do it too, cuz you motivated me to give him the glow up he truly deserved. I'll leave the old version under this cut