#i thought elias fit the Scottish fold vibes because: Scottish folds are known for looking sort of like owls and having intense eyes

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#when i was first coloring him in he was gonna be golden chinchilla colored but then i was like ehhh jonah magnus should be red/orange but #elias should be gray ...so i just desaturated what i already did instead of recoloring lol but #he is now supposed to be shaded silver lol #but thats why his coat pattern is on the darker side compared to what it *should* be #og elias bouchard coming from an important/roch family and while whole thing with thinking he just *deserves* stuff bc of his upbringing. #etc. -> he is purebred and matches the breed standards etc for a scottish fold of his color #obviously the eye color doesn't matter because. ahaha #i thought elias fit the Scottish fold vibes because: Scottish folds are known for looking sort of like owls and having intense eyes #and the cat body/face type (also present in british shorthairs) to me gives off sort of... unnasumming vibes? #like ahaha yes i am a boring boss who loves paperwork look at how unnasumming i am season 1-2 elias y'know #trying to think of what cat breed jonah would be. and also jon gerry etc you know all the other characters i like #would it be boring to have multiple british shorthairs #i mean.. #Michael shelley/distortion is a laperm that's all I know #i didn't particularly care with the personality attributes associated with eliascat because it didn't need to fit his personality on account #of not being his original body. but i do try to keep in mind the best personality/look/etc. cat attributes as a whole for a character #also sometimes get obsessed with jt making historical and geographical sense but then it just limits me greatly to a point im not into it #so i don't care about specific breeds in that respect lol #tma #my art #elias bouchard #the magnus archives #some notes looking back(made it 2 hours ago but still looking back ok..) on it now are that i feel like elias would never choose this breed #for his next bodyhop because of the inherent health issues in scottish folds. I saw the breed was created in like the early 1960s and #assumed that maybe the health issues wouldn't have been common knowledge until later enough for jonah to be unaware of them but actually no #there's legislation about it like 6 years later LOL so jonah would..maybe not make this choice #i guess in the future when drawing i will just make him a British shorthair #my catTMA is simultaneously 'they are just regular cats or like all show cats or something' and 'exact tma plot but as intelligent cats' #LOL its just vague in my mind idk..also maybe jon can be an Abyssinian #ALSO WHAT WAS I THINKING 'jonah may not have been aware about x thing' like did i...did i forget. me 2 hours ago was dumb as rocks

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the ceaseless watcher’s special  👏 little  👏 boy  👏 !!!

(more anthro tma stuff under the cut!)

ok a lot of these are taken directly from my instagram story so the cropping is Bad. sorry

heres jon first ! i based him off of this specific image of an oriental longhair cat bc YEAH. this is exactly how i imagined him. i debating making jon some sort of corvid while martin would be a scottish fold cat but i decided on cat for jon and dog for martin.

martin next!!!!! i based him off of some cocker spaniel / golden retriever mixes i found on google. but hes mostly spaniel.

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ummmm ok elias next! his eyes are like that because [spoilers]. debated making him a vampire bat or assassin bug but they were hard to draw so hes a fox. i feel like a fox fits his aesthetic more anyhow.

the distortion is a cuttlefish not only for their ability to mimic other animals but simply because they are neat :) i thought their colour changing fits with the distortion well also

tim next.... just a magpie. debating making him a fox but decided against it.

sasha! lyrebird for their mimickry and cuckoos for a certain behaviour they exhibit regarding their young. foreshadowing? decided on a cuckoo because theyre easier to draw.

daisy and basira! basira is a german shepherd and daisy a grey wolf. when she gives into the hunt she just goes on all fours, full wolf mode

georgie and melanie! georgie a honey badger for their fearlessness and melanie a snow leopard because of their independence. plus snow leopards are cute and fun to look up reference photos for.

annabelle is a pink toed tarantula bc obvious, oliver is a hyena. i wanted to doa  scavenger for oliver bc end avatar but hyenas are cute so thats what he is.

jude is an echidna, gertrude is a blue jay (thought i should have made her a hare!!!!!! i might redo her design). echidnas do this funny thing during wildfires that made me think of jude and blue jays are sometimes known to imitate hawks...... i wanted a “looks innocent / cute but is ruthless” vibe for gertrude but WHY i didnt make her the obvious choice of a rabbit i have no idea.

yeah.

GERRY my beloved raccoon......... mary keay is a hairless dog and eric is an axolotl.

ALSO! [redacted] is a sheep / ram :)

here is the ref i used for jon!!!!! i should have made him more menacing but im bad at art so

#UGH the colours look so different on my laptop than they did on my tablet #jon sims #jonathan sims #tma #the magnus archives #elias bouchard #jude perry #annabelle cain #oliver banks #gertrude robinson #mary keay #eric delano #yeah im tagging everyone below the cut #jurgen leitner #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #is that her last name?? i dont remember sorry #michael distortion #michael shelley #the distortion #basira hussain #daisy tonner #georgie barker #melanie king #furry #jonah magnus #no i didnt forget jons scars plus you cant prove the behldong didnt heal them when he undied #cryptid art #gerry keay