#xatt

Meet Nox and Mausoleum, my Xatts that I made for Petz4! Xatts are a species by @chocodile (you can find the species sheet here: [link]) There's some non-petz arts of them too:

There's more pics and stuff about them but this post is already kinda long so I'll put it under a read more, heh

An Art Fight attack for bakrery [https://artfight.net/~bakrery] of their character: Xatt, the Alien Cat!

Some xatt design sales for Halloween! Each of these comes with a simple little snippet of backstory. See the DA link in the comments for pricing and trait details.

#1 - Starlight Witch - This friendly little xatt does not at all seem to match the dangerous and mercurial reputation that many xatts have. It lives in a little cottage on the outskirts of town, coming outside every night to brew potions out of mushrooms and moondust and chipperly greeting any visitors who happen by. Is its friendly and helpful nature genuine, or is it hiding something...?

#2 - Bandaged - This xatt's hole-ridden, stark black bulbs give off an unearthy, flickering glow that make it feel "wrong" and unsettling even to other xatts. For much of its life, it lived as a pariah, but one day it disappeared. When it returned, a month later, strange bandages were wrapped around its leg. Every few weeks, it disappears again and comes back with more bandages. What is it doing, and what are those bandages covering up?

#3 - Swamp Thing - Legends tell of an unusual danger lurking in the southern swamplands. Born with the rare (and often fatal) "reverse" color morph, this xatt's coloration sabotaged its ability to hunt in the typical xatt manner. It has found better luck here in the swamp, hiding its tail beneath the water's surface and snapping at anyone foolish enough to approach. However, some say that this xatt has learned some very interesting stories in its lengthy travels... perhaps it could be convinced to barter them, given the right persuasion.

#4 - Haunted - An unfortunate xatt that is particularly in tune with the spirits of the dead. The bulbs on its head seem to pick up the voices of the dead like radar dishes, filling its head with the whispers of ghosts and spirits. Even shattering its bulbs failed to dampen its spirit-channeling abilities. Some have tried to capture it and use its power for their own gain...

#5 - Autumn Lord - A xatt that styles itself as royalty, with a regal cape of leaves and a crown of branches. Does it have any sort of power, or is it just an act? Either way, it demands reverence and regal treatment from its subjects--which mostly consist of the local bugs, worms, moths, and other nocturnal insects of the forest it lives in.

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A little Xatt i wanted to share with you.

Daday the Xatt

Found this semi-open species by @chocodile the other day and I just LOVE them! So cute and vicious!

More Xatts! The top one is Xavier, created by DarktheShinyUmbreon (on DA) and the bottom one is Lucky, created by @3ntom0!

Meanwhile sweet bun Xatt is stuck with this terrifying lanky maniac and is just shaped smaller squishy and ever so soft and fluffy with such delicate gentle paws and a light step. And Xep just wants to dress her up and admire her prize. But also probably has something a bit wrong with her as well. What exactly idk but probably don't get caught snooping somewhere you shouldn't by her. Cause I like the oh a cute lil lady <3 - oh there's something wrong with her actually. Maybe magic idk like I like the idea of powers especially darker magic making her perhaps just as deadly as the maniac hare.

Cause both being Xatts they're both dangerous just in slightly different ways bun is a cutesy lure with the unexpected jaw while Xep is cunning and moreso hunts and I think that'd translate over making them both deadly in different ways. They probably have some sort of work deal pact, not sure what or why I like them being in a fucked up partnership cause dynamic. Bound by blood. I'm just so brain rotted and so normal about this XD with so many mental images of art I'll never make but oof I wanna. I just thought you had a right to know your hayden world stuff urg it consumes me I love thinking about it its so fun.

Also I just like uncanny Valley hare lanky wrong and unnerving paired with a small fluffy and trustworthy bunny rabbit. Like the brain is vibrating at mental imagery of that the opposites the cute correct adored and the terrifying incorrect feared, always kind of bound to the other inseparable almost. Idk I can't fully explain it but thoughts go BRRR

In regards to the designs, any proportions you wanna draw them with are totally fine! You can draw 'em anthro with human proportions and clothing, you can draw them quad, you can draw 'em like Bugs Bunny and anything in between. Xatts can come in many shapes and sizes! A long gangly uncanny one sounds cool.

Also, having something "wrong" with 'em and a slightly ominous streak is very much in character for Xatts...they tend to be a little odd and feral at the best of times--it's mostly a matter of what their individual "bad" percentage is and how good they are at controlling it.

Also, your description of your two as a tag team sounds very endearing! I'll keep that in mind when I do your Xatt sketches… (still planning that, just catching up on stuff and in a bit of a digital art slump at the moment)

In regards to Hyden's reaction, I can certainly say he'd be rather creeped out by a Xatt. Once the surprise wore off, though, he'd be fascinated by this strange, new, potentially magical creature… careful, Xep, don't let him get you on the dissection table!

In the current version of the Amaranthine story, Xatts aren't canonically present--they're more of a free-floating monster idea that could be plugged into any setting--but they were originally part of Amaranthine back in 2009.

In the original 2009-era backstory for Xatts, they were born from the Shadow. Given that Hyden was the one who released the Shadow upon the world in the first place, that would have made him their accidental "father", in a way.