Some more :) @comicaurora

Found Family Tournament Round 2 Part 11 Group 52

Propaganda and further images under the cut

Taragang: Tara Duncan, Fabrice, Sparrow, Fafnir, Robin, Cal

Floof Squad: Kendal, Alinua, Erin Ruunaser, Falst, Tess Ruunaser, Dainix

Taragang:

I prefer the book series but you won't find official art for it

Floof Squad:

Floof.

Dear @comicaurora I would humbly request that you consider my proposal of giving your babies a break.

Sincerely, a fan who wants to see them go sleepy go cozy

Now, I know Red said no beach episode but consider:

got hit with The Brainwaves <33 anyways @comicaurora floof squad (and possibly a pip?) in the puyo puyo style because i cater to myself forever <3 peace and love

wh. well hi. I uh. return

(the lyrics are from Orbit by flipturn) these are... also very Kendal lyrics. to me

girl im- I genuinely don't know where all the motivation came from but. yeaj, kendal my guy the ever <3 (@comicaurora)

How does everyone in the floof squad still have spell slots it's been so long since they rested

It's so interesting to look at the new page (2.0.3) as compared to chapters 14 and 15. We know that Alinua is trying not to level city blocks and to keep people safe, and Shrike sees her restraint as cowardice. It's like someone not acting in their full power offends her.

The positioning of the characters here versus in 1.15.9 and 1.15.12 (group shots, with 1.15.12 panel 3 being the closest line up of characters to Shrike's flaskback on 2.0.3, but very different stances) is very interesting. On 2.0.3, we've got edgy loner Falst (I saw a comment on the page how this reflects Shrike's view of ferin which was interesting), Erin looking like he would unironically do the haughty noble lady laugh (also those eyebrows what), many others have pointed out how different Alinua's stance here is- it's designed to reflect the "hanger-on" and "coward" that Shrike sees, just a scared elf, and big buff angry Tess, with the lightning scar, muscles, and serious face on display. In the sequence from 1.15.9 to 1.15.12, things are different. We see Alinua, Falst, and Tess making a plan, and deciding to throw subtlety out the window. Falst and Tess, while ready to fight to buy Alinua time, soften and smile when Erin appears. Alinua does not have the same panicked expression as Shrike remembers, instead quickly enacting the plan- we see on 1.15.10 that she's already started growing vines. Erin looks less smug and more serious. He isn't smiling, but instead cutting to the heart of the matter ("Are you done pretending this is about the law?").

Comparing more with 1.14.11-15, the sequence in which Shrike first interacts with Alinua and Falst. In 1.14.11, Alinua used the melon seeds to keep the hunters off Tess, even with Falst trying to convince her to leave, and seeing the apparent danger. Alinua looks a bit panicked between 1.14.12 and 1.14.14, but nothing like Shrike remembers. In these pages, the hunters notice the two, Falst gets shot with the arrow, and the two are almost arrested. The arrests get averted when Alinua (panels 8 and 10 on 1.14.14) goes all glowy green eyes and, using the melon seeds from earlier, makes a wall of plants, entangling some of the hunters (just barely missing Shrike) and allowing the trio to escape. First- very cool epic magic. Second, comparing 1.14.14 and 15 with page 13 makes it look like Shrike wasn't too far from Alinua. The plant wall barely missed her. All Shrike says to that is that "the elf" is a "heavier hitter than [she] expected."

And yet. Yet 2.0.3, Shrike calls Alinua a coward for seemingly not biting back while being chased. As the audience, know that, had Erin not intervened in ch. 15, Shrike would have seen more of Alinua's abilities. With the destruction of the prison, and Zuurith rebuilding with Vash's words in mind, Shrike's whole world and way of life has changed, leaving her with "a new victory to want," as Trusk puts it. If Shrike tries to fight Alinua on her own, to not let this new power walk away, then she will likely see just how much the area of Zuurith was holding Alinua back (people in buildings that could be hurt, rules restraining everything, no good dirt). Shrike's character is both fascinating and irritating all at once. She has seen the bad of Zuurith, been in the arena, and found a way to make a profit. As she says on 1.15.7, "My dream is to win. And I have. I played their game and now they let me do whatever I want." On 1.15.19, when Trusk asks why she isn't pursuing, she says that arresting a foreign dignitary isn't fun before admitting that the city makes her tired. Potentially, after the events of the past chapters, (a night in comic time), Shrike is trying to wrestle with her world being torn open. So she follows the person who broke it, with the line "and here I thought I knew what winning looked like."

I am very excited for this potential confrontation. I am also excited to see how Shrike handles her changing world view.

A bit of a meta question, but do you happen to know where the name floof squad comes from and how long it has been around? Is it just because they all (kinda) have fluffy hair?

Okay so, the term was original coined by Discord user Canine, the original owner of the Fanserver way back during the first few pages of Chapter 6. It was noted that all of the main characters had really fluffy hair in Red’s style, and thus the name was born.

It’s continued to be used since basically everyone that’s joined the gang after that has had great hair too.

Have you noticed how Z*tara stans wanna come for KatAang shippers for Katara and Aang's age gap (12/14) meanwhile Zuko and Katara also have an age gap?? (14/16).

Intriguing.

They've legit admitted so many times that they think it's okay because Zuko is a guy😭😭😭Show your cishet ass ig

I know it’s about a week late

But we were all thinking it, let’s be honest

@comicaurora

Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 25 Group 123

Propaganda and further pictures under the cut

Floof Squad: Kendal, Alinua, Erin Ruunaser, Falst, Tess Ruunaser, Dainix

Sea Fam: Chongire, Elda, Dr Numeri & Butler

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Floof Squad:

Floof.

Sea Fam:

They're a villain team working for a sea witch under the ocean and live together in a mansion, where they all have their respective house chores and jobs. Three out of the four of them are always unmotivated and depressed af and Butler is just trying to have a functional thing going on.

They may sell each other to the devil for one corn chip in order to avoid being the one tasked with the evil work, and steal each other's food from the fridge, but when push comes to shove, they look after, take care of, support and protect each other, and even when ultimately defeated, they never even think about splitting, because in their mind they're a unit, cannot be separated. Also, they vibe together a lot, have one single braincell between all of them (if Butler isn't present, it just bounces between the other three) and pick up phrases from each other as the show progresses and it's adorable. Both Chongire and Numeri have a soft spot for Elda, while Butler very clearly doesn't know how to interact with a child.

One of them turns out to have manipulated and lied to the rest, and may or may not want to commit world genocide (the rest of the fam included), yet once everything is settled they just pick them up and go back home together without even a second thought bc what are they supposed to do? That's their buddy.

Kendal! Thanks to @comicaurora, I have something to look forward to for the new year!

@somerandomdudelmao thank you for creating this awesome comic!

so got your Dino squad au, Jack and Ivy could be Podokesaurus holyokensis, but those are pretty small dinosaurs( about the size of a dog) , Oviraptor(for the extra sneak), or maybe Carnotaurus(for the extra muscle)

but honestly I have no idea, what do you think

YOOO GENIUS! I was literally thinking about this like. yesterday??

I originally thought maybe oviraptor for Zack, cos stealing food, but the name oviraptor actually ended up coming from a misunderstanding! Turns out the fossil the name came from was guarding its own nest, not robbing someone else's lol. So then I was back to square one.

Anyways I did some googling on Podokesaurus, and omg?? Official dinosaur of Massachusetts? PERFECT for Zack!!! Also the first few pictures I saw of them had spots, so it'd work with his freckles :)

Tbh I'm not super worried about the size of the irl dinos, given that both troodon and pyroraptor are only like 3 feet tall lol. I just sized em up so they're about the same size/slightly bigger than human form. I figure its easier to gain mass than it lose it. yk. science. in the story where 5 teenagers suddenly mutate dinosaur powers lol

AAAA carnotaurus Ivy!! idk how I forgot carnos existed lol. Perfect for Ivy! She and Gray are in the tiny arm club together lol. Ironic the 2 engineers got the tiniest arms. luckily they don't do mechanics/electrics in dino mode.

Can't wait to draw these guys!! I still gotta make a ref for Jules too. added to my infinite list of projects for the summer :)

AGGh thanks for the help! I have literally been racking my brain for dinosaurs trying to figure this out for months haha