Updated look for Zach when he's on a heist/mission. I think I finally nailed down a look I can get behind with this, but I need to quit acting like his logo isn't a lawsuit waiting to happen; there's a difference between paying tribute to Sly Cooper (which is cute when you're just starting out as an amateur creator) and straight up biting from it (which is uncool if you're a professional creator)

So that Belt logo is gonna change.

I gave him his sword back because I came to the conclusion that, even though he's a non-lethal protagonist, he's still in a world filled with extremely dangerous werecreatures and is on super risky missions involving, but not limited to, hunters, monsters, and religious cults that specialize in the slaying of Feranthropes.

So the sword is less for piling up a slicy dicey body count, and more for emergency self-defense use.
Since Zach is plantigrade now (which will make combat sequencing so much easier), I figured it best to complete the SHIELD-esque look: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/18/59/7e18599271fc44f2c387fd7cb17087de.jpg
by giving him combat boots, torn at the front so he can still use his claws and paws for climbing and attacking.

I changed his forearm bands to wrist bands due to Goku: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/character-level/images/f/f1/Goku_universe_survival_by_koku78-dbg6nkx.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20190817185125
It's just much more Martial Arts oriented and allows me to keep the hand wraps without them looking like elbow high gloves.

I've been debating wether to use an eye patch, a wrap, a prostethetic eye of Zach in vol 2, but ultimately I ended on the wrap. The eyepatch made him look like a pirate- which I guess still fits the theif theme, but I wanted something similar to Buck from Ice Age: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/theiceage/images/8/83/300px-Buck1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20100313020727

As you can see, Zach's ears are pointed and to the side more and his hair is a bit longer- I like to show growth in character designs from project to project they're in to represent the character's development as well. Storywise there's a reason his appearance (outside his clothes) are changing, but I can't get into that right now ;)

Hope you all like ^^

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