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Aw yeah, here we go. I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and had already been using WIPs with artists for weeks. This is the culmination of just about everything I could ever want from a character, and I am beyond overjoyed that Amber Aria managed to bring this to life so perfectly and completely.
General:
* Being of mixed heritage, Balina Mahigan was one of the 10% that is born hybridized, rather than simply taking after one parent or another.
* Thick, shaggy fur.
* The paw of her left hand is a birth defect.
** Compensating for it, and subsequently overcompensating, is what led to her obsession with productivity, and eventually pursuing cybernetics.
Wardrobe:
* Her vests need to be custom-tailored for her extra attachments, and are easily the finest clothes she owns. Most are sleeveless, but she does have more traditional clothing for more formal occasions.
* The undershirts are bought in 3-packs and modified to fit her with a pair of scissors.
* Prefers khakis or jeans.
* Eschews shoes due to the unconventional shape of her hoof-paws.
* The bracelets on her 'real' arms are an old gift given to her at a young age, as a method to help her cope with effectively missing a hand.
** While she does own attachments to clamp onto the bracelets (mostly to help her pick things up with her paw-hand), she doesn't use them as much since getting the additional arms.
** The bracelets on the robo-arms are sewn in place, and lack the buckles. They are replicas she had made for sentimental reasons; they make the arms feel more like her own.
Chrome:
* While the arms shown here are her favorite sets, the sockets in her sides mean that Balina can easily swap in any limbs that comply with the ColdShoulder industry standard. She is known to swap out frequently whenever a new shipment comes in for the synthetics labs, and claims to have personally tested every arm on every single one of the robomoofs.
** For artists, this means there is no such thing as off-model arms. Just a different set.
* There are a pair of ports underneath the slits on her vest. They were originally going to be a pair of data jacks in an early attempt at directly connecting herself to her workstation, but the technology was not up to par for her needs. They are usually left empty, but can be fitted with tentacles with graspers, cameras, or other sensors.
Edit: 8/26/2015: Removed the scribbles covering up her head jack now that it's been observed in the wild.
Edit: 6/12/2016: Updated to account for her new, weird feet.
Moof-wrangler:
Amber Aria (original)
General:
* Being of mixed heritage, Balina Mahigan was one of the 10% that is born hybridized, rather than simply taking after one parent or another.
* Thick, shaggy fur.
* The paw of her left hand is a birth defect.
** Compensating for it, and subsequently overcompensating, is what led to her obsession with productivity, and eventually pursuing cybernetics.
Wardrobe:
* Her vests need to be custom-tailored for her extra attachments, and are easily the finest clothes she owns. Most are sleeveless, but she does have more traditional clothing for more formal occasions.
* The undershirts are bought in 3-packs and modified to fit her with a pair of scissors.
* Prefers khakis or jeans.
* Eschews shoes due to the unconventional shape of her hoof-paws.
* The bracelets on her 'real' arms are an old gift given to her at a young age, as a method to help her cope with effectively missing a hand.
** While she does own attachments to clamp onto the bracelets (mostly to help her pick things up with her paw-hand), she doesn't use them as much since getting the additional arms.
** The bracelets on the robo-arms are sewn in place, and lack the buckles. They are replicas she had made for sentimental reasons; they make the arms feel more like her own.
Chrome:
* While the arms shown here are her favorite sets, the sockets in her sides mean that Balina can easily swap in any limbs that comply with the ColdShoulder industry standard. She is known to swap out frequently whenever a new shipment comes in for the synthetics labs, and claims to have personally tested every arm on every single one of the robomoofs.
** For artists, this means there is no such thing as off-model arms. Just a different set.
* There are a pair of ports underneath the slits on her vest. They were originally going to be a pair of data jacks in an early attempt at directly connecting herself to her workstation, but the technology was not up to par for her needs. They are usually left empty, but can be fitted with tentacles with graspers, cameras, or other sensors.
Edit: 8/26/2015: Removed the scribbles covering up her head jack now that it's been observed in the wild.
Edit: 6/12/2016: Updated to account for her new, weird feet.
Moof-wrangler:
Amber Aria (original)
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Bovine (Other)
Size 1280 x 924px
File Size 556.1 kB
Listed in Folders
Well, judging by the apparent high grade of technology I can only imagine that the universe that she comes from is advanced in more than just the field of robotics, right? Is there the technology to "correct" her left hand, and/or does she have the desire to follow through with something like that?
The tech in her universe isn't too much better than our own, really. I mean, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q exists right now; the biggest advantage her world has is biology being a little more flexible and accommodating of change; sort of a given when working with anthros. The stuff to let them observe parallel universes is a lot more science-fictiony than the cybernetics she has.
That being said, the original intent with getting the extra set of arms instead of replacing her paw hand was that if they didn't work out, they could be removed and she wouldn't really be any worse for wear. If they chopped off her paw and it didn't work out, she'd be stuck with a stump. Obviously, it did work out, and she later went back to have the one set of arms replaced with two sockets, which is more or less what you see here. There are some other things that haven't come up yet that kind of go against that philosophy, but that's at least how she started.
These days, she keeps the paw mostly out of stubborn pride. She could certainly get it removed and replaced with a hand, but she doesn't really need it. It's what got her into this mess, and she feels it's an important part of who she is.
That being said, the original intent with getting the extra set of arms instead of replacing her paw hand was that if they didn't work out, they could be removed and she wouldn't really be any worse for wear. If they chopped off her paw and it didn't work out, she'd be stuck with a stump. Obviously, it did work out, and she later went back to have the one set of arms replaced with two sockets, which is more or less what you see here. There are some other things that haven't come up yet that kind of go against that philosophy, but that's at least how she started.
These days, she keeps the paw mostly out of stubborn pride. She could certainly get it removed and replaced with a hand, but she doesn't really need it. It's what got her into this mess, and she feels it's an important part of who she is.
I never noticed that about her left paw. I either see her with 2 hands or people forget/draw her without it often. I couldn't help but notice that she also gets into some "size changing" problems from time to time. Possibly because science and macros go together so well?
The paw thing is a detail I tend to have to remind artists about a lot; its portrayal varies from artist to artist, but I do try to make sure it's consistent, at least with moofs that have it. It does, however, end up getting hidden behind things with some pictures.
The head moof herself doesn't really get involved with macro, at least not directly. The one major counterexample is being left mostly unexplained, but I think she was just in a reality where everything else was way tiny. Her boobs, however, are fair game. :D
The head moof herself doesn't really get involved with macro, at least not directly. The one major counterexample is being left mostly unexplained, but I think she was just in a reality where everything else was way tiny. Her boobs, however, are fair game. :D
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