YES

Yeah, I think I definitely made the right choice getting PlanktonHeretic to draw her here.

s.... she is a s... sexy guard

She is, yes.

The original summoner might have been a bit into that sort of thing as well...

As a 2Paw, I find her mighty thighs entirely appealing. I also have a crush on her lovely melons! <3 I will not startle her unkindly, nu.

Also, 2Paw mentions that the link provided above in the description to the previous commission of this lovely young gentlemonstress is identical to the present work's page URL.

-2Paw.

Oops! Thanks for the heads-up. Was just missing a slash in the relative URL so the browser tried treating it as an anchor link instead, I think.

And yes, Ember was always supposed to be the 'looks imposing, but really wants a hug' sort.

Welcome, you! I thought it might've been an attempted anchor-to or reference link, as I saw a second FA-style number ID in the main page URL. I want to see Ember's earlier picture too, so I'm happy I chimed in. <3 O, I feel sure I'd get along well with Ember, with reasonable respect of space and person, of course. If you don't know me very well, I do look rather imposing even if I'm walking on all fours rather than my hindpaws; I am a werewolf after all, and a rather big one. Should Ember ever wish to share company, conversation or as big a hug as she'd enjoy sharing with me, I would be thoroughly chuffed to share any or all of them with her.

EDIT: O, I thought I was remembering the drawing you linked to above, and your giving her a very unexpected and loving kiss. I am very fond of that one of you both, and it's a pleasure to see Ember in full colour herein, too!

-2Paw.

Yes, I hadn't given her a name yet in that previous image, but I definitely had to by now. Now I've got names for almost all the characters in this little story setup. Still missing one, though. Need to think on that.

I've often developed a character in a story I've written or that I've drawn with pencil or computer stylus before giving them a name. They give themselves names, sometimes, like a young child that grows into their own nomen or title, rather than being assigned a name before their personality and behaviour defines it. Of course, it also comes to the nature vs. nurture question; if a youngster associates the name their parents have given them- or a nickname given less kindly by their so-called peers- with that unkindness or disrespect, it can be a name they resent, and retain out of spite or apathy, or proof towards future rebellion or correction.

And the selected name can grow up around the character, just as the character can grow up around and to meet their name. I believe I always went by Twopaw as the werewolf fursona I am, but perhaps an earlier generation of what he would become did not. It's like Old Mukaitch/Long-Tail Woman, my seven-hundred-year-old werecougaress amongst Jospeh Shepphard's extended family in Tagger, who accepts the name she has been given as a local legend rather than the name she was given at birth amongst her family, belonging to an ancestral tribal group of that world's modern lake-coastal Aboriginal Ojibwai. Even if she occasionally recalls her given name, she has since chosen the one she was given by dozens of generations of her one-body human neighbours and descendants instead.

-2Paw.

Oh, same here; I often have basic ideas and personality worked out before I settle on a name. Names can be hard, in part because they're often so arbitrary and can be just about anything.

That's part of why I keep a few bookmarked links to baby name websites, so I can look up ideas. Once I get a basic personality idea, I'll often look up something on a theme, and then just run through lists of names with that theme until I find something that feels right to me. Which sometimes means picking out the right language as well/ When you get right down to it, most names mean something, just generally not in the language spoken by the person giving the name.

For one of the classic examples, 'Michael' is actually a Hebrew name meaning 'who is like God?'. English has borrowed a lot of names from other languages as well as words. Granted, Michael in particular is one of those names that has variants in just about every European language.

In this case, anyway, 'Ember' just seemed like a good name for a Hellhound, especially for one who's been stuck living on Earth for a while now.

"A ember-flame quiet, but not yet undoused, which may be roused into flame and fiery reaction if the conditions are right."

I was almost named Benjamin, after a moderately-famous ancestor of mine- Benjamin Hubbs, Esq., who was a close friend of and fellow barrister at John A. Macdonald's law firm in Kingston, Ontario before and after his tenure as Canada's first Prime Minister- a name my father did not like at all, although many years later I found a use for the name I might have had in reading the Book of Genesis, and Jacob's titling of his son shortly before the patriarch's death. (I also note that Benjamin's tribe of his father Jacob was the last and twelfth tribe and son marked by his blessing, a number relevant to me as well.)

"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
in the morning he devours the prey,
in the evening he divides the plunder."

Benjamin would then become one of Jospeh Shepphard's names in Tagger, whether first, middle or last between his given and surname.

-2Paw.

# "Who is Garth, and why is he writing these terrible puns for us?"

Very nice! Very intimidating! I wouldn't want to get on her bad list. Thank you for sharing!

No, you probably don't want to be on her bad list. She was summoned to handle security, after all.

She is, much as she'd not want to admit it in public much. This is only the second picture of this particular OC; one of the things about being a writer and world-builder is that I tend to come up with a lot of them, even if I rarely seem to have the time to do many of them justice.

As for questions, I generally don't mind them.

Hmm.. rarely. I always like seeing how artists visualize my ideas, though there have been times when I feel it could have been better. Myself I don't have a particularly 'visual' way of thinking, I tend more towards the abstract and the audio. (I like to joke that while some people have photographic memories, I have a phonographic one. Even if fewer people get that joke these days.)

Well, again, I'm not an artist; only the stories in my gallery are mine, the art is all commissioned from others with one or two exceptions.

You didn't bother me. I just got confused by what you said, and wasn't sure if you thought this was my art after you started talking about your own art.

Ember is absolutely magnificent. Dominate-edged, so beautiful, and a body that is either perfect, or as close to perfect as someone will come across on their travels. Of course, that all becomes much less appealing if you manage to piss her off and bring on the wrath of what a hellhound guard-dog does best.

She does have a soft and loyal side as well, even if she doesn't get to show that off to outsiders all that often for obvious reasons. But yes, annoying her is generally a very bad idea.