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I would be interested in hearing about the details that you put in your sonas design! 👀

It's always nice to hear about why people designed their characters to be the way they are now, and I never had the idea to actually ask YOU about the design of Ruckis until your post!

Tell me everything! ✨✨✨

THANK YOUUUU I've been waiting for the chance to talk about this for so long but didn't exactly wanna just post it on my own and seem narcissistic ^^ There's so much thought that went into even the little details that make it that much more special to me

Like for instance the fact that Ruckis is missing a canine is meant to reflect the fact that some of my teeth are chipped, with one of the most chipped up being a canine.

I don't have heterochromia but a lot of people do seem to have a hard time pinpointing the color of my eyes. I think its a blue grey most of the time, but I've gotten varied responses like blue, green, sometimes a bit of yellow in the green, but the most common response seems to be "blue-green". The blue and green in the eyes is a homage to that.

There used to be two earrings on Ruckis but the reason one of them was canned, aside from messing with the scheme a bit, is to reflect the fact that I can't wear earrings for too long. Because only *one* side gets irritated when I do, but the other side is fine.

Now, I've always been the smallest in my family. I was the smallest baby, I'm the smallest as an adult. Shorter than my younger sister by like a foot and then some even though there's a 6 year difference and she's still not done growing. But despite that fact I've always been one of the toughest. That's why Ruckis, while the size of a very small polar bear standing at 7 feet, is still considered a pygmy of her species. She's still tough but at the same time members of her species are supposed to be VASTLY larger. Like... size of a modern day elephant large.

one thing that I ended up adding as of recent was the two whisker dots near the right side of Ruckis' mouth, which is basically somewhat reflecting the beauty mark that I have, or a mole near the bottom of my lip on the right side of my face.

Ruckis as you've probably seen is a built, heavy character. And that would be because as a person I'm not exactly the thinnest either. I'm very much pudgy and my own personal heater. That's also why she's long furred, because it almost always seems like I feel comfier in a somewhat colder environment.

while on the topic of the fur if you've noticed how messy it typically tends to look all splayed out like that it's on purpose, because I have longer hair that tends to get messy and frizzy all the time. Doesn't seem to want to stay down all that much no matter what I do and it somehow only poofs up worse right after a brush.

The tear in the ear, and this also kind of pairs with the missing tooth too, is a nod to the fact that I'm a bit reckless and clumsy and I've built up a high pain tolerance because of it.

The color scheme holds semblance too! Because growing up I noticed we had a lot of pets with black and white fur, so when trying to come up with a color scheme I went with that. more specifically it was kind of inspired by my late dog Spots, which you can guess why based off of her name alone.

Ruckis was also designed to be a bit cuter and pleasing to the eye on purpose because as much as I hate to admit it I've been described as looking cute irl and it's not exactly wrong. Cute, yes. tough as nails? Also yes.

There's also the fact that sometimes I tend to draw her more slouched over, thats cuz I don't exactly have the best posture and I'm definitely more broad shouldered.

There's one detail that's never normally seen on model because you would have to push the fur out of the way to see it, but on the left shoulder there's a black spot on the fur that's usually covered up by the white. That's cuz I have a birth mark on my left shoulder

As for why I changed the og design from digigrade to plantigrade, its because it felt more simple and toony to me which is not only what I wanted to strive for in art and what I found was easier for me but also sort of symbolizes the influence that cartoons had and still have to me. Hits close to home and all.

Oh! And the fact that she also looks gender neutral if not male leaning on purpose. If not for the fact that it’s fun faking people out then because I too also look a bit more on the masculine side than not. Not only that but I am butch or a tom boy, so I take a weird sort of pride in being compared to a more masculine figure.

That's all the details I can think of atm! If there's any that I forgot I'll try and edit the post but I do think I got most of the details down. Thank you for letting me share! :D

#ruckis borks #oc talk #but seriously words cannot describe how happy being able to talk about this makes me #its something I take great pride in and is very close to my heart

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