#tyneen

Monkey Wrench I'm so sorry that I've slept on you for so long

(Episode numbers are in the alt tags)

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Starting with Tyneen, I did find one bg character in episode 4 that seems like a match. Also possibly this one from episode 1?

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I found one bg cat that looks like they belong to Scritch and Scratch's species (possibly also the other person at the table with them? Not too sure though)

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So for Kara's species, I've kinda just gathered a bunch of taller cats; some of them seem more likely than others so I'm sure some are just another separate cat species.

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Found plenty of Killix' species. At first glance they look pretty similar to each other, but there are subtle differences.

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Lythops... the rest only appear in episode 2 of course. ;-;

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I should add in the Agari, too, though none of them are really hidden in the bg. I also just wanted to point out the orange blood for the last image, it's interesting.

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Just 10 days left to get yourself a 'Neen before she's gone FOREVER.

Can we get to the coveted 400+ sold mark???

Hail the Pirate Queen

Cipactli, literally translated as “alligator”, is a gigantic sea monster that appears in the Aztec creation myth. From her body the four Tezcatlipocas made the earth, the thirteen heavens, and the underworld. 

“Cipactli” is the first day symbol on the Aztec calendar. Here are a few illustrations of her in different codices. In Codex Magliabechiano there is a section of the calendar day signs in detail, where the Cipactli day sign looks very similar to Tyneen’s design (page 11)

The bright colors, the forked tongue, the parting of the teeth, the spikes on her head, even the goofy look of the eyes.

I'm sure this could be a subtle reference to Cipactli as well. In a version of this myth, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca are the ones who take care of the beast in order to create the world. Tezcatlipoca lured her out into the surface using his foot as bait. As a result, the reptile bit Tezcatlipoca’s foot off, and that’s why he’s usually seen with a mirror or a bone where his foot should be.

Tyneen didn't bite anyone's limb off (that we know of lol) but she did cut off her own hand to replace it with a more functional robot hand

Cipactli is also considered an insatiable beast. Everything the four brothers created, she would eat. It's possible that they wrote Tyneen's personality based on this. She's never satisfied, she always wants more. Like she wasn't satisfied with Kara's unfinished autograph for example

As an additional note, Cipactli lived in the primordial ocean, when there wasn't any land yet. Tyneen is a pirate, associated with the ocean.

There's another version of this myth where this earth monster is called Tlaltecuhtli, and he/she has a different iconography, and they made him a different character, Maybach. But it's gonna be a hot minute until we get to that