#ihopesonas

Thank you, anon! The icons are by my bff, Roxi, you should absolutely check out her work and commission her if you can! And that new lion is Sweetorange, my new IHopeSona! Me and Cat have this whole cave lion thing going on where we have characters based on the extinct American cave lion and they all have cool but outrageous plant names. I got a design using one of the generators and boom - it was love at first sight. lol

I have a folder for it on TH right here which pretty much explains everything and has the relevant characters.

THE IHOPESONA CONTEST IS NOW OVER.

We'd like to thank everyone for their amazing entries. While there's going to be no official announcement of winners, we WILL be adding characters as we go and tagging the chosen cameos once they appear, so y'all will know who won eventually!

Ahh, thank you so much. I'm super happy with her and I'm stoked you like her, anon.

And that was Cat who got me into that. It's interesting to find out that cave lions were actually solitary and did not normally form prides so I felt a cave lion IHopeSona suited me better. Sweetorange actually hails from one of the "first prides" but ultimately decides to be on her own as nature intended because they suck.

Do you guys have any tips for writing a story taking place in this universe? It's very important to me that I get the right story beats and vibe, things like that

I don't think you'll have that hard of a time with it. The only thing to bear in mind with our world is that we don't have sexism, homophobia, ableism and such so you have to come up with other ways to inspire conflict. And I always say never be afraid to fall on cliche if you wanna. My whole backstory for Pepper is that her pibling murdered her mother, she was framed for the crime and had to bail. Literally a TLK-style plot because I wanted a bitchy character called Meadowsweet who has delusions of grandeur and falls in with a evil Lord, Nightshade, to achieve her goals. Too bad it just had to be Pepper's home life she messed up.

The only real thing that comes to mind is that our lions do not use accessories like feathers, earrings and so on. Our lions don't really interact with humans so there's no real way for them to wear them anyway. At least not permanently. An exception to this rule is flowers and leaves that they may stick to their fur for a short time with saliva or w/e but that's about it.