#leothin

I don't know about purring. They can do a kind of cooing. I think most of their non-speech noises are throaty and vaguely bird-like.

They can learn human language, but their faces aren't made for human words so they're very into hand signs where spoken words fail. They have their own language (words/sounds/gestures), but it's not something they share with outsiders given the history with Empire Eutharious.

1. When Leothins are angry, threatened or displeased, do they growl, snarl, hiss or screech, or none of those?

2. If a Leothin comes across a human who is truly kind towards them, will they warm up to them and trust them?

3. Are Leothins able to use the arms on their chests to give a hug if a human hugs them, or are they unable to do so or are they not too fond of hugs?

Hiss and screech probably. Whatever noise you think a barracuda would make if it were a land predator, I'd wager.

They're intelligent, if you're willing to treat them nicely they'll probably return the kindness. As much as the other races in the empire messed them up on first contact, they're not about to hold a grudge, necessarily. They'd just prefer to be left alone to heal and rebuild, and to do life at their own pace.

(if you do, then I have some! Ignore this if not)

What kind of range of motion do those secondary/manipulator arms have considering the way the front walking ones are a bit in the way?

A compliment with this as well, the colors and patterns you designed for them are also sooooo fun to look at, do you have any others you wanted for them but decided against for any reason?

Those long antennas (?) look a bit stiff/don't seem very flexible, is this a on purpose for their design or just how they ended up looking in the drawings? Is comparing them to moth antennas accurate to what they do?

Thanks very much and have a nice day! Your art continues to be amazing and you are so good at conveying the feel of motion in otherwise still images (especially your locks moving around in their natural state, they always look like they're moving through spaces the same way eels move through water, it's gorgeous to look at!)

Thanks for the lovely words!

Range of motion - they can reach forward a bit, down a lot, back decently, and up a bit. I'm still in some design limbo, trying to decide if I want those arms to be the main dexterous limbs or the main fishing utensils, and that may impact range of motion. Need to do more sketches and think about things.

I'm pretty happy with the colors and patterns, I really love the cinder/jungly stuff. Reds and pinks against black in cryptic patterning. It's been a while since I've done any of those, I think I got stuck on the darker colored northern guys for a bit and never got around to the tropical patterns that I was dying to do.

In the original design the head deelybobs were semi flexible and I've stuck to that. Initially, I think it was a cross of sensory organ and display since they do a lot of things via gesture. I designed the Leothins back in '05, maybe '06 - a few years before Avatar came out. I've wrestled with addressing the antennas, since. I can't really get away from the similarity but... I did it first. :I

I am ready and so excited. This year's Art Fight is going to be a blast! Left to right, back to front: Anetolie the sphinx (Pathfinder 2e) Loam the enderman (Minecraft) Tsuru the hylotl (Starbound) Nemosyne the atavian (Aetolia) and last but very not least, Gurashi's selfish stinky little partner in crime occupying the front and foremost of everybody's attention: Bizirik the leothin (Lusternia) You can find my Art Fight profile here!!

"I Wish..." (2022)

"I Wish..." Epilogue

A comic about my good boy, Gurashi, and what it is they've always wished for: to Love, and to Be Loved, without a doubt.

Cali belongs to my beautiful birbwife @sadbutuwu! Cheliyi is my wonderful e-daughter @marathefallen! Vaevaya is an NPC in Lusternia and Lusternia is a game owned by IRE.

God I love making comics. And I MISS making comics, so I'm gonna do more of that this year.

(2019) I spent months saving up in-game currency to afford a beast companion. I couldn't find anything that worked remotely well, but then as if destiny intervened, I discovered leothins by Allison Theus/BeastofOblivion (crispyfishsticks here, go check them out). Definitely the best decision I could have made, because Bizirik became a staple in the realm for a while. My little shrimp-obsessed egomaniac. Stinky little doody face. Her ears were shorn by the time Gurashi found her so she couldn't communicate with other leothin but Gurashi's psionic abilities allowed them to 'talk' to one another well enough.