Close-up of Jaguar cat coat (Panthera onca)

Photo by Staffan Widstrand

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Jun's unused intro dialogue with King 😭🤍

Theo Ref - Full Version

Finished Commission for Theo!

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omg i just had a dream about a beastren girl named milly who had lost her family and only had her very young baby brother left.... she became part of kind of a boardwalk community and she had a little floating stall but someone bad was looking for her so she had to untie her little boat/raft from the rest of the dock to flee and just pray for the best.... the girl in the shop next to her was her friend and attached their boats together?? too so she wasn't traveling alone.... but then her baby brother fell overboard on one stormy night it was so upsetting.... but in the dream that was all in the past and in present day she had a shop that was a pet grooming service....

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I say that the reason I live in constant fear of being wrong is hubris, but the truth is that in my whole entire life, not once has saying "I was wrong" made any difference. I'd say I was wrong and people would continue to attack me till they fizzled out. I'd say I was wrong and my family would mock me for years. I'd say I was wrong and my friends still left me. It's never admitting that I was wrong that's a problem. It never has been.

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Got to draw this lovely spotty gal as a gift for a friend of the client! \o/ They were v. generous and patient with me so I tried some fancy-schmancy new things that I'd like to do more of.

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Happy Birthday Jaggy!

Gift Art for my friend, Jaggy <3 Hope you had a great one! Featuring my our pals Maskelyne (Magicat) Radix Panther and Mr. Clever ^-^

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Theo Ref - V1

Commission work for Theo the Jaguar. This is just part one, there is a clothed version still missing. Coming later <3

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Incoming Marble Sky theory about the Marmors' origin planet and more! Spoilers ahead!

I think if we ever get to see their original planet, it might be a dark place (literally and metaphorically), with hives or cities built within ant-like cave systems. Their society also seems to work like those of ants with a queen (Moon), workers and drones.

I think the fact that the Marmors use a form of ecolocation rather than our traditional eyesight might imply that on their original planet, sight as we know it is not a viable option. Their planet might either have little to no light, making eyes redundant, or too much, which would also cause the same problem. I think their fur coloring might also be proof of this, as they seem to display bright colors with no patterns. (Patterns usually help animals, especially predators, blend into their environment, because a blotch of a single color is usually easy to spot). However, there is also a possibility that their coloring might be a result of them becoming the dominant species: We see this with domesticated animals- think cows or cats, with white patches of fur, that make them easier to spot. When colors no longer affect their survival, new color variations tend to pop up.

I also think the fact that they are bipedal (with tails) also tells us that like humans, they might have started walking on all fours and then went up. This allows the brain to become larger, because the neck can hold up more weight, boosting their intelligence. Animals that walk on all fours are usually limited in this aspect because the neck muscles do all the work, so their heads can't get heavier.

The existence of tails might imply that those are still required for balancing purposes. Humans used to have tails but we kinda didn't need them and they went away, but the tail bone still exists. The fact that Marmors still needed them might imply that they still had to climb a lot in their original planet - maybe they live on trees (there's some ants that build their hives hanging from them! Super cool tbh) or they build their homes on cliffs/mountains.

I personally think them living in mountains or cave systems is the more likely option. In the comic we have already gotten the comparison with ants, who tend to build their little hives with tunnel systems going in all directions. This would make their tails useful for climbing, as well as their special eyesight and connections useful for navigating the hive. I mean, a connection like the one we have seen in the latest update is not only useful for hunting but also for their hives, as they can quickly figure out where more "manpower" is needed vs where there's already enough of them in one place.

Also, they have both sharp claws and teeth. Obviously those teeth are stylized in the comic, but they seem very very sharp. Definitely made for ripping and shredding. So it's very likely that the Marmors are obligate carnivores, meaning that, unlike dogs or bears, they can ONLY eat meat. I mention this because those claws would also be useful for hunting and disabling prey BUT connecting this to the cave system theory: Those claws are big and sharp, whoch might also be useful for digging. The giant anteater, for example, has some seriously sharp claws. This thing does NOT hunt other animals, besides ants and termines lmao, but uses those sharp claws to dig into the really hard ground. And those claws are SHARP, boy. They use them regularly to wars off and ERASE jaguargs. Yes, jaguars. So maybe these sharp claws might be tools AND weapons for the Marmors, useful for deleting your prey and digging into the ground!

Going back to the ant comparison: ants society usually has a queen, her simps, and the worker ants. The queen lays the eggs. If those are fertilised by the male drones, they become female workers but if not, they become male drones (the simps lmao). Ecliptica mentions that she is tall because she is a female AND the center of their network. Obviously these are aliens, but I think we can draw parallels: she might be their queen, the only one that reproduces -which would also explain their "children belong to everyone and noone" attitude"- while the rest might simply be the workers. I say workers, even if they are male, because I think the drones might actually be something else. We have seen smaller Marmors like Shepherd's assistants. Now, they might just be small or younger, BUT they could also be the lower ranking drones.

So, to sum up: I think Marmors come from a planet with little light, where they build their hives/societies in ant-like cave systems, digging into the ground. They might also have an ant-like society, that revolves around their queen, the workers and the lower ranking drones, where everyone but the queen is a male.