meeks | story sketch: ayla's change [update: 05-19-2011]

In this scene from

aldersprig's series Addergoole Aelgifu (Ayla), a hitherto unusually named, but otherwise normal human, leans on her lover, Ioanna for support when she finds herself with rabbit ears, bunny feet, and goatlike horns after her Change.

Ayla has just gone through her Change, getting rabbit ears, bunny feet, and horns. She leans against Ioanna, her lover, for emotional and physical support, touching her ears and horns.

Ayla has just gone through her Change, getting rabbit ears, bunny feet, and horns. She leans against Ioanna, her lover, for emotional and physical support, touching her ears and horns.

cleaned up sketch:
Ayla has just gone through her Change, getting rabbit ears, bunny feet, and horns. She leans against Ioanna, her lover, for emotional and physical support, touching her ears and horns.

rough sketch:
Ayla has just gone through her Change, getting rabbit ears, bunny feet, and horns. She leans against Ioanna, her lover, for emotional and physical support, touching her ears and horns.

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From:

ysabetwordsmith

They are so cute! The expressions really make the picture.

Is Ayla supposed to be plantigrade or digitigrade with her bunny feet? These look plantigrade.

From:

clare_dragonfly

Huh, according to Wikipedia rabbits are digitigrade, but according to my observations of two pet rabbits their hind feet, at least, are plantigrade--that is, they bend a lot when moving, but so do human feet. Certainly their default not-moving state involves back feet flat on the ground (unlike cats and dogs... but rabbits only have a "moving" and "sitting," no "standing" like cats and dogs have).

From:

ysabetwordsmith

Hmm, now that you mention it, that makes sense. Rabbits do also have a "stand up" pose where they rest their back feet flat on the ground and stretch upwards -- it lets them see over grass.

From:

clare_dragonfly

I don't think of that as "standing up," at least not in the same way that cats and dogs stand up on all four paws--that's just on the back paws. But like you said, the back feet are flat on the ground. (Some of my cats do that too, but they look more like meerkats than rabbits.)

From:

aldersprig

Ayla is plantigrade. I blame her father.

From:

meeks

I guess that's our official answer ^_^

From:

aldersprig

*grins* whether or not rabbit girls would be plantigrade, I don't know, but she's officially a jackelope-girl anyway. ;-)

From:

clare_dragonfly

But jackalopes have branching antlers, not ~~Daeva~~ goatlike horns!

From:

aldersprig

right now, all she has is teeny tiny buds.

I think she's actually going to be an actual jackrabbit/antelope cross.

From:

clare_dragonfly

Haha, that's awesome.

From:

clare_dragonfly

Because he... walks... a lot?

From:

clare_dragonfly

No he doesn't, he rides a freaking motorcycle. I am trying to figure out what it is about Aelfgar that makes Ayla have plantigrade feet XD

From:

aldersprig

Weird genes?

I dunno, I decided she had flat feet and figured it had to be Aelfgar's fault.

From:

clare_dragonfly

Well, he's useful to blame things on. Heh. Who's her mom?

From:

aldersprig

Wiki says Marienne; according to the family tree, that's as far as I got with her (i.e., Marienne isn't related to anyone else).

Wiki link: http://twitpic.com/3oi4yo/full

Tree link: http://www.addergoole.com/wiki/index.php?title=Aelgifu

From:

clare_dragonfly

OMG. I did not expect that. AYLA IS A BUNNY GIRL YAAAAAAAAY

(This hasn't actually happened in the story yet... XD)

From:

aldersprig

*grins*

Also, Meeks, I love the way one of the ears is flopping down sadly. :-D

From:

clare_dragonfly

BUNNY GIRL

From:

aldersprig

Yes. *grins*

From:

eseme

Wow, I wonder when we are going to get to this in the story. I really want to see Alya's reaction - I wonder if this will allay her fears that the only reason people like her is because she's beautiful. Bunny-feet may take care of that...

From:

aldersprig

EEEEeeeee. :-)

Also, Wednesday, in terms of when.

I love it. You really got the feel right on both of them.

From:

meeks

Yay! I'm very glad you approve :)

Wednesday...I guess that means I have two days to finish catching up! *scampers off to read*

From:

aldersprig

O_O wow, really!? :-)

I warn you, it gets dark for a while there, but it gets better.

From: (Anonymous)

If Ioanna rubs Ayla's feet, will she then have good luck?

From:

ysabetwordsmith

I like the update. The darker bedspread enhances the contrast.

From:

eseme

This needs comments too!

Poor Alya, she looks so alarmed! Which is appropriate.

I'm not sure the walls are cinder-block, but I'm also not sure what textures you could put there instead.

From:

meeksp.livejournal.com

Yeah, the blocks are based on my old dorm room more than anything. I'm stlll a few chapters behind, so I don't know if Ioanna's room has been described yet. Maybe the actual scene will suggest something better for the walls.

From:

eseme

I get the impression of posh elegance in the halls, but I'm less sure about the students' rooms. Possibly poured concrete?

From:

aldersprig.livejournal.com

I'm so bad at description! The only time the rooms are ever described at all is "like a high-class hotel room" or something like that in one of Shahin's Book One chapters (the "what's wrong with this place" scene)

That being said, I picture them like RIT dorms - that helps you not at all, Meeks - in that it's poured concrete, painted calm neutral colors.

From:

rix_scaedu

Ioanna looks younger than I expected her to - of course that could just be because the pictures in my head are wrong. :)

From:

meeksp.livejournal.com

That's a comment I get fairly often on my depictions of older teens/young adults...I'm terrible at judging ages, at least in part because most people in my family look about half as old as they are :P

From:

aldersprig.livejournal.com

Bunny! :-D

Love it.

From:

eseme

Oh, I love the changes. The wall looks better, and the bed does too.

This is so neat!

From:

aldersprig

This is really coming along! :-D

her horn buds are sort of vanishing in the clean-up, though :-/

From:

aldersprig

Edit... no, I'm just blind, sorry.

I like the details on the clothes; they look really nice.

From:

aldersprig

http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/23040.html
http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/163685.html

Now posted on the landing page for that setting. :-)

From:

lilfluff

BUNNY!

That was a great scene and I love the illustration! Heh, and I'm thinking it's not so much one ear flopping down as one ear being held up while being given the, "Wait! What's this!?" feelup.

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