That title is way too damn serious for this goober of a picture, but it's what came to mind so here we are!

I made a gryphon... thing. There's a bit of a dumb story to it so let's all go on a journey of 'what the hell does my stupid brain want'. This is going to seem like it's going in a random direction but bear with me.

It all started out when I had a random thought... just the kind of random thought you have while half paying attention to whatever work you're doing. I was thinking getting some kind of pet would be cool, but how all the responsibility and reality of owning a pet kinda sucks. Like, dogs are awesome, but they also need taking care of and get sick and die and stuff and that's lame. What would be awesome would be if robot dogs were a thing! But like, good ones. All the real personality and intelligence of a dog but with a robot body so if something breaks you can just swap out the parts. That'd be neat.

And then I had the thought "Huh, that sounds like something Nidhala would make."

And then I had the thought "But if Nidhala makes it- oh. Oh dear."

And then I thought that might actually be cool to make. But I didn't want to make it an actual dog... the thought some kind of giant mechanical fuck-beast wouldn't escape my brain though so I mulled it over in my brain for a while until I realized there's really only one other kind of animal I'm comfortable doing adult feraly stuff with besides dragons, and that's gryphons, so a big mechanical gryphon would be kind of awesome. So I set out to build it! But I quickly ran into problems... I just couldn't get it to look a way that I liked. I think the -idea- is cool, and super sounds like something Nidhala would do and I liked having that tie-in to an existing character, but I'm just not super into the robotic aesthetic. Also, the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I didn't really need this creation that much... I've already got a big monstery beast in the dragon for when the occasional calls for such. Kinda felt like I was making something I already had covered. And that's when the intrusive thoughts started really creeping in.

What I don't have yet is a female feral critter. That actually fills a useful role. But a female-presenting bot feels... strange for some reason. And I just can't get it to look right either. What if I made it a semi-mechanical catbirb instead? I'd get all that fun fluff but the character could still have that fun Nidhala tie-in. But as I worked on that I found I still didn't like the mechanical aesthetic much. The thought kept creeping into my brain over and over- "You're gonna like this model way more if you just ditch the robot angle entirely. Just do it."

I was really reluctant to though, because that was the whole reason for wanting to create the damn thing in the first place. Without the mech angle I'm just making a gryphon for no reason. But it kept coming back over and over and so I eventually gave in and made it a normal catbirb.

So that's the story of how this came into existence. I made a lady feral gryphon for no reason other than because my brain seems to have demanded it.

This is a terrible picture to show her off because we don't get a great view of her from the front like this, but it's also what my brain wanted to make exist so there you go.

Introducing, random female catbirb thing. I hope you like I guess?

I still think the mechanical fuck-bot beast is a fun idea though, I might revisit it in the future if I can think of a design that I like.