work is kicking my butt so i need to gush about SOME oc to stay sane
so back then I really wanted a multi-tailed oc but I did not want a kitsune! i wanted a different animal with kitsune-esque traits, and then ...yanno I really had a craving for an African Wild Dog.
SO BOOM! Ophiue was born! And because she turned out really pretty I just haaad to make her a mainish character in the space story. Who would have known that would lead to her being the main antagonist. She has a complex and simple version with her ref but I'd probably use the complex for paintings and the simple for comms.
Originally I had a character named Fickle and I was designing some woman she would be doting on. But I kept failing at trying to design something matching. As you can see, theres a star charm on Fickle! It was supposed to match her gf. So for Ophiue I was like "why not make her purple?" So now Ophiue has a matching charm! It worked out really really well.
Space War Crime Girlfriends. I'm still surprised I haven't drawn them together, so that may be on my trello list.
Their love isn't secret, they just have different mission objectives so they aren't able to interact as much as they'd like to. Ophiue killed the former leader of their little sect in cold blood (in this world people bleed stardust) and became the new leader, wanting to lead them in a different direction. They are constellation killers, wanting to get rid of the current hegemony and the power they currently hold. Ophiue's name comes from Ophiuchus the serpent barer, and a "forgotten" 13th constellation of the zodiac. So her plan is to kill the other constellations and get 13 tails.
Really excited to get into that more for her because now I have a reason to design more constellation characters!