Thing I made for my own reference to compare all my boys' color palettes. I also want to make some of these guys ~official~ references that are all shiny and pretty. But for now all I have is a bunch of critters (because I like drawing critters!). Some of the colors are still iffy (because I'm indecisive), not just the WIP ones. Those guys are more just, the entire design is still a WIP. I feel a ramble coming on, so I'm going to initiate a READ MORE- Oh, but real quick- the names are funny because I have nicknames for some of them instead of just saying "Kaleidoscope Nine," "Folklore Tails," ect. Okay, under the safety of the read more, I will blather. For reference, these are the aus everyone is from: Kaleidoscope: Mango, Tails, Nue Folklore: Cloudpuff, Nine, Silas, Manny Someplace: Jingle (<333) Second Chance: Sunny CaveTails: Scrungy "Garrison": Punk The Last Fox: Moon Nine's Shadow: Stales No Heroes Zone: Urchin RAMBLING ABOUT NAMES: I actually made alternate names for all the Boscage variants because I sort of can't stand most of them (except Thorn Rose; great name). I call Mangey Bramble because his fur is kind of spiky and he can match Thorn in being named after a prickly plant. I thought it was cute, especially in the context of their bond in my au. :3 But... Irl, I just. Am always referring to Mangey as "my sweet little mango," so that's the name that stuck for him. xD Nine even called him that once, I think (in Kaleidoscope). It's still very cute, so I ain't mad! Nue is pronounced like you're starting to say "nueve" (nine in Spanish). So it's like: noo-ay. Which is weird and I don't even know how you'd spell it to get the pronunciation across. Not that it matters because it's just my nickname for him, but. Tails is just Tails because he's the closest to canon variant and. Weirdly, the most boring of them all, imo. So he gets to be boring with the OG name. fsdjksd By favorite boy Someplace-Sails got the name Jingle while I was listening to the Django theme, which reminds me of him A Lot. I was like "What would be a good OC name for Sails... Django... Jingle? Omg, that's cute! Because he loves music! :3" Later I remembered the freaking chill af wanderer musician hamster from Hamtaro is named Jingle and I exploded with glee. It's perfect. And I can contain it no longer- one of sP-Kit's special interests is Hamtaro. Do you see? Do you seeeeee? 8D Folklore Tails is such a soft-hearted, sweet little guy- and he's literally just POOFY and ROUND. I call him all sorts of things- Softy, Softheart, Cloud, Puff, Poof, Fluffy, Scruffy. He's just my sweet little guy. <3 Sunny seems pretty dang self-explanatory, but I'm going to explain it anyway. 1) Look at him. 2) When I was designing him, I kept listening to Sunshine in the Rain over and over and over for some reason. (I call his version of Kit "Rain" because of his, jejejeje). 3) That's actually it, I just wanted to mention that song. 83 Scrungy is also self-explanatory: look at him. I literally just named Moon because he was sad looking and below Sunny. Stales was a mouth-typo (can't remember if I was trying to say Sails or Tails). So I made a zombie. He is expired. Urchin seemed cute, idk. Punk is a punk (alt name: MULLET). Silas, Manny, and Nine are just their names from the story they're in. Nine's alt name is Girl because that's my favorite video game personality for a character /stupid RAMBLING ABOUT COLORS/DESIGNS: I am so happy I made Folklore Tails dark brown because now I can finally stop fussing about whether or not I want Kal-Nine to be really dark or really pale. I love brown Tails and wanted to have at least one, so yeah (it suits my PUFFBALL so well, too <333). Anyway, I'm happy to make Nine pale because he's literally a basement dweller and that's funny as hell to me. As a lifelong basement dwelller myself, I love that for him. fdjkgldfg Although, I'm still fussing with him a BIT because... I mean, that is reaaaaally daggum pale. I might make him a tad more yellow like in this pic. I thought that color palette was pretty solid, too. I also have two other Nine variants to play around with now! I tried out the Tailszilla-inspired palette on Punk and I think he looks pretty cool? I dig the dark metal tails. I had different ideas for Sunny's colors, but I think I should just stop while I'm ahead. It's a cute palette and he looks cheery as hell. Also, he's the only yellow-yellow boy of the bunch, so. Gosh, I adore him. He's so ridiculous. He's like, as close as Tails can be to a himbo while still being Tails. Precious smart-dumb fox. <333 Moon looked just like an adult canon Tails, so I thought I might give him a more unique design. I've been getting more dramatic with my redesigns, so there's a lot of potential to have fun incorporating his story's themes of loneliness into it. Also, he's like, essentially Knuckles in his au, so the moon motif actually fits really well. Still a major WIP and I'm not really thinking about that au much at all, so it's way on the backburner. I'm STILL fussing with sp-Sails' colors ever so slightly. 8| Mostly because he's got sooo many browns (in his clothes, and now his ear, too!). My brain gets confused trying to make all these blocks of browns look pleasing next to each other. But that's more his clothing's fault. I circumvented this issue with Silas because he's more well off, so I got a bit more fancy with his threads. Eh, idk. Speaking of Silas, I started worrying about him and his siblings' fur colors being so freakishly different. I almost made Manny more brown, but then I was like... Heck with it. They're minor chars and it's just for fun. I at least made their ears somewhat match-y, so that's good enough for me. I'm also waffling on CaveTails' design. I thought I had the colors down, but now they kinda look ugly to me? Maybe because the "whites" are too pink? I dunnnoooo. @_@ I sorta don't like his eye color either, but everything I try looks unsuitable. I like his markings and body shape (when I manage to draw it correctly), at least. But he just looks super ugly in general in this drawing and idk what it is. Forehead too small? Just doesn't translate to chibi? Blaaahhhh!