#soan

so! the very basic premise is all in the name pretty much. it's set in space, with a few of the skeletons being regular space farers (or pirates in some cases) and a couple that are eldritch beings.

in particular, there's Nightmare (Space), Dream (Time), Ink (Matter), Error (Gravity) and Reaper (Death).

Nightmare's group is a band of space pirates that was initially (and still occasionally) lead by Killer. it consists of Nightmare, Killer, Dust, Horror, Dagwood (ht papyrus) and Lust. (as well as a couple sonas that got picked up for the ride or are traveling alongside them for a time)

Dream's team is lead by Blue, and consists of Dream, Blue, Stretch, Ink, Colour and Red. Ink doesn't always travel with them, and will sometimes choose to instead board with others for a period.

There's also a very quiet space station that houses @/owl-bones' outerhorror boys Alyr and Orion.

Reaper travels alone. He has a job that he takes very seriously, but he has a soft spot.

and then there's Error,,, skdjfhsdf

Error resides on a planet whose colony seemingly abandoned it, using their systems to order deliveries for anything he sees fit. the planet is rumored to be haunted and many ships refuse to land on the planet or even accept the orders to it.

Kyr is a delivery pilot who ends up taking on an order and ends up stranded on the planet. luckily they know their way around their ship and can salvage what they need to fix it, but things keep going wrong.

exposure to the eldritch is not to be taken lightly, and someone has taken a keen interest.

art by @owl-bones

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The bracers, shin guards, maroon belt, and useless little arm-things are all taken from his official transformed artwork. There are a few differences between the game CG and his Cipher card, so I just picked whichever version of each item I liked better

His face markings are also taken from his transformed version. I decided he keeps the large one on his forehead but not the ones over his nose and cheeks (like Skrimir does)

All the lions have straight hair while transformed, even if they have curly hair normally, so it’s hard to tell what texture Soan’s hair would be. I decided to keep it straight and (relatively) short like his mane, but added hair ties for more interest. I made it a brighter green—more like Stefan’s hair—than his official art because I thought that looked better with his color scheme

No known lions are shown with tails untransformed, but I thought he should have one, so here we are 🤷‍♀️

The outfit is based most closely on Caineghis’s, but I tried to make it look less “kingly” (i.e. shorter tunic, no cape, etc.), as I imagine this is before he founds Gallia. The pattern along the bottom of his tunic and the abundance of tassels are inspired by Altina’s design. The eye-like pattern along the purple trim is also on Altina’s outfit, and the same motif is present in Sanaki, Sephiran, Light Priestess Micaiah, Ashera, and Yune’s designs

It’s noted that beast laguz have excellent night vision, but rather poor daytime vision compared to the bird laguz, suggesting that they have a higher ratio of rods to cones in their eyes. So to them, light/dark differences would be more apparent than color differences. I considered that when coloring Soan’s outfit and made sure it would be readable in grayscale

his hair and skin tones ended up pretty close though :/