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Some backstory on one of the races in the Fox and Wolf universe: The Vulpines!
(I'll admit the art is kinda rough, but this is an older drawing. These are just two examples of what the Vulpines looked like, a male on the left, and female on the right.)
Vulpines are an ancient race of sapient fox people who lived on Earth before human civilization appeared. They were a religious people who worshipped something known only as the "Divine Council" which we currently know nothing about to this day.
The Vulpines shared the planet with the Canids, or Dog-Men. Historically, the two races evolved from two different common ancestors (Vulpines value normal foxes as treasured ancestors, while the Dogs saw wolves as that), and they did not get along well at all. A series of wars and instability between both groups led to the Vulpines going on a mass exodus to what would eventually be called Japan by humans in the distant future.
The Vulpines were masters of magic, especially illusory magic, and long after the Dog men mysteriously died out and were replaced by humans, they would use said magic to disguise themselves as other humans. It wasn't always perfect, so it's believed in rare occasions the Vulpines might've exposed their existence to a human. This possibly led to the legend of the kitsune, a wise old fox yokai who tricked humans with its supernatural powers.
The general scientific consensus in this universe is that the Vulpines died out with the Dog men, but some readily believe that they still exist to this day, hiding their presence from humanity. This is the belief of Akira Watanabe, who would do research into them, and ultimately found the relatively fresh bones of a female Vulpine that he took maternal DNA from and used it to create Rei Watanabe in his lab.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask! I'll add more on them and their relations with the Dog Men in the future!
Can't think of anything else to post, so I'll drop the concept art for a future character in the Fox and Wolf 'verse, The God.
I don't want to spoil too much, but this character originally belongs to a race of alien axolotl-like people that are considered to be the earliest race to evolve in the 5a universe.
The God rules over a place called Null Space, a zone where multiple universes converge on one another. It's home to a floating Backrooms-esque structure where The God operates on an unknown goal.
Stick around for more in the future as I flesh him out a bit.😛
Full body pic of Wolf AKA Roman.
Wolf was a member of a secret council of intellectuals who had no name--just call them The Council. They are a group of highly intelligent (think 180-300 IQ) individuals who hide their true intelligence from the world and release inventions under a front organization to avoid getting exploited by those in power. One major base is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here, the council offers massive funding so scientists can operate without being under the thumb of a government and do work at their own pace.
They have a very strict set of things that are banned to prevent the scientists in their order from abusing their unique skills, exposing the group, or introducing a dangerous creation to the world. One of the things they ban is genetic alteration, due to an...interesting incident in 1978 that caused the deaths of the offending scientist and several civilians.
When Roman discovered that he was possibly dying from a rare wasting disease, he opted to secretly insert wolf DNA into his cells. This went well until an assistant startled him when he was doing this, causing him to insert a high amount into his cells at once. He painfully transformed into the Wolf.
The Wolf and his assistant only managed to keep their secret for a week or two before the Council found out and summoned them to their court. Without even getting a say in edgewise, Roman was banned from the Council, his funding reduced to nothing, and was threatened to never operate in the field of genetics ever again.
Wolf refused to back down. After purchasing Council items off the black market, convincing a gang lord to loan him ne'erdowells as minions, hacking into banks around the world to get easy money, and building a laboratory in an abandoned nuke bunker underneath the Pennsylvanian town of Kindhaven, Wolf will continue practicing the scientific arts and contributing to humanity. Screw the council and their rules, this genetic alteration incident was the best thing that happened to him. But how is he going to patent his creations without attracting their attention?
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Picture quality is so ass, tbh I drew this in under 12 minutes, so it's not my best work. I'll try to work harder.
As for why he's barefoot when that's not good lab safety? Well...meh, I just wanted to show that he has animal paws lol, normally he's wearing boots in the lab.
I MADE A THING, A COMIC IF YOU WILL, UNDER THE READ MORE!?
also cw:food since apparently that's a thing?
There's gonna be a part 2 since there's a 10 pic limit dammit tumblr
(I know I goofed on one of the arms, I was too tired to fix it at that point)
(Part 2 link here)
I had to upload this to my Instagram story to get this lmao, I've been inactive for MONTHS. Followers are gonna be wondering wtf is this 😂
(Background is AI generated by me with Imagine AI)
This is still in reference to Roman's (the blue wolf) first ever transformation into his wolf form after the accident Anise caused in the lab. Instead of being horrified like one would expect...Roman likes the new body?!?
This doesn't stop the pair from brainstorming how to get him back to normal in the comic I posted not too long prior, because The Council isn't supposed to find out that they've been messing with genetics, which is highly against their rules. This is before Roman finds out that it takes 5 days to return back to human form, and vice versa.
But yeah, him liking it and being hesitant to change back into a human was perfect grounds for this meme in my head. Imagine accidentally turning your colleague into a wolf-man and being stuck in the lab all night trying to change him into a human again so you won't get damnatio memorae'd by your employers. I'd be crying about my paycheck too.ðŸ˜
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Weirdly enough, Ray has a human form as well!
Lore under the read more.
Ray was born as his fox form after being created from Dr. Akira Watanabe's DNA and the genes of a female Vulpine, an ancient race of fox people who existed before human civilization began.
This created a hybrid who had some human genes leftover that didn't really express themselves.
After Ray meets Roman and gets to know him and his skills better, Ray asks Roman to use his Genetifyer device to give him a human form, just like Roman.
Roman is reluctant at first, but he eventually caves and uses the Genetifyer to "exaggerate" the human genes in Ray so that he develops an alternate human form he can transform into. Calling himself Ray Jones and denoting himself as an Asian American, he now has a form to disguise himself. But for what purpose, you may be wondering?
To join The Council, in the hopes that he can get Roman's inventions patented without them knowing that it's from him.
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I'm tired of the lame gray coats. I'll probably switch to the white lab coats.
"I miss him..."
This'll make more sense if I can get to the comic I have for the scene between Ray and Roman. It's pretty sad though.