pretending i know what's going on 👍

first up: is Batkit!! at first i didn't really have many ideas but i knew he was gonna be a bit scruffy-looking, hopefully that came across!! i ended up not really using the bat reference photos, but included them anyway. they're fruit bats! (i also tried to make em all look a little bit like their mama, in Bat that came out as similar hairstyles!) He's the shortest of the five to me, he's just a little guy.

next up is Sapotekit!! i did have to look up what a sapote is, they look pretty cool! (and i ended up hardly including them in the design</3) she may look super short but i imagine she is actually the second tallest of her siblings! (after Fastkit, of course) The comment about her probably eating the small critters has stuck in my brain for some reason and i think she ended up being my favourite of the bunch. let my girl have her snack!!

and next we have Fastkit!! this guy i had absolutely NO ideas for at first. the personality + physical traits were just not letting me have an image in my brain. HOWEVER, i ended up making him have a very tall pointy neck fur, kind of modelled after the speedwell plant!! (yknow, cause speed and fast, and he has flowers as an accessory, yknow,) the morbid trait ended up leading into an expressionless resting face with no eyebrows - i feel like it'd give him somewhat of a disconcerting vibe no matter what he's talking about, idk i just felt like it fit him. I think he ended up looking the most different out of the siblings by far, both with colours and shapes, but i still actually really like how he turned out!!

neeeext up we've got Rowankit!! she was pretty fun to design, i don't have much to say about her though. i took picky as more of a very easily disgusted, she's got that RBF haha. the uneven cheek furs was mostly an accident when i did the first pass of the sketch, but i liked how it looked so i kept it in and made it more intentional!! in my mind she is the strongest by far of her siblings, though she wouldn't be the best at balance or fighting, she could easily beat anyone in an arm wrestling competition if they were humans. also her freckles/tick spots are generally bigger than Bat's are^^

aaand last but certainly not least: it's Horsekit!!!! I'm gonna be honest, I really was not too sure on where to start with her, but we started our lessons on horse handling and breeds right when the design contest was first posted so i kinda had to at least try my hand at her. she's got fluffy feet feathers like a Clydesdale, and emo bangs that were meant to resemble a forelock of a mane(plus a mullet to represent the actual mane too). i saw that "apologetic" trait and instantly beamed upon her the "anxiously apologising for every single thing" trait because of course. idk i like her a lot!!