Patrick The Skunk

Commission made for @patricktoonskunk! Enjoyed this hehehe

There's plenty of dust around these halls, but it seems this passerby has saved the janitor at least a quarter of the job!

Ava

Basics:

stone gargoyle who guards the praglyn library on 5th & st cloud. nonbinary, they/he

Physical Description:

ava is about 6'4 at full height, but isn't often standing straight. he is extremely well muscled and powerfully strong. his snout and mouth, legs, short mane of hair, and ears are boarlike, while his nose and wings are batlike, his horns are straight and goatlike, and his tail is impish and spade tipped. the rest of them is vaguely humanoid.

ava is slate grey. they're rough textured but there's some give to them, like the rough pawpad of a large dog. during the day, they are completely solid stone.

ava's voice is very deep, and resonant to the point of almost being echoey.

Personality:

Ava is extremely warm and loving, insightful, intelligent, protective, and loyal. they're extremely polite and well-mannered around most people, especially if they don't know them well. they are more familiar with those they're closer to.

when he's on the job this all vanishes behind a stoic, professional veneer.

ava loves to read, and often pauses to pick up a book while on his nightly patrols. their favorite subject is philosophy.

History:

Ava was initially constructed for a large stone church in Kollenkessel. it fell to the first great mage war long ago.

ava lost everyone they knew. their beloved priests, the rest of their gargoyle family or flock. all either died, were destroyed, or had scattered and fled to sanctuary wherever they could find it, like ava did themself.

they flew as far as their wings could carry them that night before sunrise. eventually, they found a stone building in a quiet town called praglyn, and roosted up for the day there.

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ava eventually came under the employ of leonidas khrƴsídēs as a guardian, confidant, and protector, and leo looks after the building and its stone sentinel, ensuring both are and well maintained and have everything they need.

Extras:

like all gargoyles, ava can hear everything that happens in and around the building they're attuned to, their home building. they need to roost up on an exposed stone part of the structure to maintain this connection, and it's also primally instinctive to do so.

similarly, they need to roost up someplace high and outdoors, for similarly instinctive reasons. if they're cooped up indoors for too long they get incredibly restless and their patience starts to falter and fail.

ava can fly at incredibly swift speeds and with enormous grace and quietness despite being a stony creature.

they eat mostly moss and lichens, and they need mineral oil to keep themself limber and hydrated. occasionally they may have some fungi as treat, but eating too much at once or too frequently will cause them to grow lethargic and distractible.

Snz Info:

as a gargoyle ava can't help but sneeze out torrents of water.

this is noticeably worse when he's sick. he gets sick in bad weather if he isn't given the opportunity to dry out thoroughly. depending on how much it's been raining and for how long, this could be the sniffles to a full on raging cold.

the inside of their snout is also dramatically sensitive, and when they're sick this extends out to the surface of their nose, too.

ava is also allergic to flowers.

we've been making so many "he had to sneeze" jokes on the voice chat after playing The Finals and me collectively destroying every building within a five mile radius, maybe my wolf should be able to wreck down as many buildings with a sneeze/huff and puff and blooooow

"HHHIIEEEACCHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Quemarropa ❤️‍🔥 /

Point-Blank Range ❤️‍🔥

Disponible en FURRegios

Sábado 04 y domingo 05 de julio, 2026, en CINTERMEX.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.

Can you believe this game. Like. How dare you tease me about the BIG MAN with a SNEEZY FACE. Anyway behold, rare humanoid shenanigans

I kinda HAD to draw it for my own sanity, I hope i did well and if not idc fever was killing me i just needed to do something (dw tho the pills did their job im fine rn)

Anyway if you want a real one... Yeah me too i need him to sneeze at me aughgg

I know i never draw covered sneezes but this time i feel like i can reasonably headcanon him just forgetting

Commission for @symphonious-wind!

Dude this design is cool as hell, I wish I had more practice with rendering because man is that a striking color scheme this fella has going on lol. Thanks 4 the request!

here for my 200th post, a thing from a few years ago. More playing with dark background and strong light visualisations, oh me oh my. Eventually I would like to try more of these, but I'm caught in the vicious cycle of "bad with light and colour" -> "do not draw with light and colour" -> "do not get experience with light and colour" -> "bad with light and colour"

This fox fella really doesn't cover well, does he??

I decided to split it into two pieces, because everything didn't fit on one