MDZS Characters: Cat Designs
Credit for one picrew goes to @felidform; credit for the other goes to @rustypaw. I did find the former one first, which is why most of the designs use that one; the latter one I sought out because Lan Qiren needed his beard, lol.
I had the time of my life making these, and then I realized I wanted to share them with the world. So here they are.
The designs are organized first by sect—Jiang, Jin, Nie, Lan, Wen—and then by generation—parents, Sunshot, juniors. IDs—which include notes about design choices!—are below each pic.
Jiang Fengmian: Gray shorthair with a wide dark gray stripe across his back. He has dark gray fur around his muzzle, with a short beard and light purple eyes. The scar on his chest equals his death blow. The background is a lake with dandelion seeds blowing on the wind.
Madam Yu: Light brown tabby with lightning stripes and a snaggletooth. She has dark brown fur over her purple eyes; cream fur on her nose and chest showcase her link to LanlingJin. She’s a shorthair with more severe cheeks than Jiang Fengmian, but she has longer fur in a mane around her neck. Her death blow matches her husband's. She stands on the same lakefront, but with rain and wind.
Jiang Cheng: Short-haired gray tabby with lightning stripes and severe cheeks. He has dark gray fur on his nose and jaw, frazzled whiskers, purple eyes, a snaggletooth, and a chest scar. His left paw, out of sight, is white to signify Zidian. His background matches his mother’s.
Jiang Yanli: Short-haired gray tabby, but her fur is longer than her brother’s—more like their dad than their mom—and her stripes are dappled. She has a darker chin like her brother and father, but the LanlingJin cream spot on her nose comes from her mother. She’s blushing, and stands in a field of flowers under a starry sky.
Wei Wuxian (original body): A long-haired black cat with gray eyes and curly whiskers, he sticks his tongue out. He stands in a shadowed forest, barely visible, with fireflies all around him. Out of sight, he has a bobtail, and not because of genetics; the loss of his tail and its fluffy white tip represents him losing his golden core.
Ouyang Zizhen: BalingOuyang is often seen as a subsidiary sect to YunmengJiang, so I placed him here. Like the Jiangs, Ouyang Zizhen is a gray tabby, but his stripes are the bold classic, instead of the Jiang mackerel / lightning, and brown instead of a darker gray. He has longer fur than they do, light indigo eyes, and stands among flowers on a lake.
Jin Guangshan: A medium-furred, yellow cat with red markings. He has rosettes on his body, a solid red underbelly that symbolizes him rolling over to Wen Ruohan, and red spots on his head for his vermilion mark. He has a scar on his lip (perhaps from Madam Jin clawing him after one too many remarks?) and is lazing about in an autumn forest with a piece of grass in his mouth. He has gold eyes and a half-oval shaped face.
Jin Zixuan: Shares many similarities with his dad, most notably his coloring, the rosettes (which, here, might look unmistakably like peacock feathers), and his body shape (again, the facial shape resembles a spread peacock tail here). Unlike his dad, his vermillion mark is in the form of a red stripe down his forehead—no spots—and he doesn’t have a red belly. His eyes are brown, not gold—but he does stand in the same autumn forest. He’s blushing, and carries leaves for Jiang Yanli.
Jin Guangyao: Resembles his brother and father in almost everything, from his coloring to the spots on his head. Instead of rosettes, though, he has spots on his body, too, and he has a neckerchief to represent his hat, with a scar peeking out. He stands in the same autumn forest and has a mouse (please pretend it’s dead and not a toy, lol).
Jin Ling: Has his father’s body shape, but his fur is light cream colored with gray rosettes. A red spot on his nose (the same location as his mother’s yellow spot) represents his vermilion mark. He has a snaggletooth and wears the same angry expression as Jiang Cheng. He stands under a starry sky like his mother, with his father’s autumn leaves in his fur.
Wei Wuxian (Mo Xuanyu): Has Wei Wuxian's black fur, with Jin Guangshan's red spots. He has Wei Wuxian's gray eyes, a blush on his cheeks, and his tongue sticking out. His nose is half pink, half gray, to symbolize Wei Wuxian living in Mo Xuanyu's body. The lightning shaped scar on his nose is from Jiang Cheng’s Zidian. He stands on a sunny open field, with dandelion seeds blowing on the wind and grass in his fur.
Nie Mingjue: BIG FURRY CAT. He has a huge, intimidating neck ruff. His fur is mostly dark gray, with tan and olive mixed in; he has a tan mustache, and both his canines poke out. There's a scar on his neck from being beheaded, and his eyes are both red and green, from being a fierce corpse. He stands on a snowy mountain top.
Nie Huaisang: Looks almost exactly like Nie Mingjue, except his fur is a little shorter / tidier. He has only a small tan spot below his nose, and both his eyes are green. A moth rests on his nose. He stands on a snowy mountain top.
Lan Qiren: A colorpoint cat, he's a long-haired white cat with gray on his face, ears, and a thin stripe along his spine. His dark blue eyes are heavy, his whiskers long, and the fur on his muzzle is turning white. He has a long gray beard and a blue bow around his neck. He stands in a mountain forest.
Lan Xichen: A short-haired colorpoint; he is mostly a light cream color, with blue fur on his face and ears. His eyes are wide and trusting, a blue scarf sits on his neck, and he stands in the Jin's autumn forest with fireflies.
Lan Wangji: Looks exactly like his brother, except he has white fur instead of light cream. His ears are back and he looks sullen, but there are hearts in his eyes and he stands in Wei Wuxian's shadowed forest. There's a scar on his back, a blue scarf on his neck, and dandelion seeds on the wind.
Lan Sizhui: A tri-colored cat; his base color is dark gray, his stomach is red, his chin is white, and his face is black. He has short-fur, but it's longer--almost spiky--on his cheeks. He wears a blue scarf on his neck, leaves in his fur, and stands on an open, sunny plain with fireflies.
Lan Jingyi: Has Lan Xichen's soft cream base fur, and a wide stripe of blue on his back. His face and ears are also blue; his fur is a little longer than the other Lans, and his whiskers wild. He's sticking his tongue out, wearing a blue scarf, has sparks in his teal eyes, and standing amongst grass on a wide open plain.
Wen Ruohan: A medium-furred, dark red cat with broad, black classic tabby stripes. There's a solid stripe of black down his nose, except for spots of red that look like a burning fire. Both his canines are showing, his eyes are red, and his fur sticks out along his muzzle. He stands in a shadowed, foggy forest, with leaves whisked away by the wind. A scar at the juncture of his neck and shoulder marks his death blow.
Wen Qing: In reverse of Wen Ruohan, Wen Qing and the DafanWens have a short, black fur base, with a red chest. Wen Qing also has a white belly, red on her chin and nose, and yellow eyes. She looks fierce, and mimicking her needles, both her canines are visible. She stands in a shadowed forest, but with light greenery around her.
Wen Ning: Mostly short gray fur, with a red chest. The back of his neck is black, and there are black stripes to signify his fierce corpse veins. He has white stripes like tears below his red eyes, and a death blow on his neck. He also stands in a shadowed forest with light greenery.
P.S. Cats don’t wear vermilion marks or forehead ribbons; I think I did ok with representing those, but please let me know if you’d rather I did something else.
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