“Hmm? Fatter? No, no - this is just my winter coat! Some extra weight is - urp - perfect for the cold!”

There was denial - and then there was whatever you called Jiskcar when his ermine coat came in. While most stoat’s simply turned a pleasant shade of off-white as the season’s changed, Jiskcar underwent a change in body type that he assures you is wholly unrelated to his enormous increase in pie, ham, and turkey consumption as winter comes out in force.

The ermine is already downright enormous, with a belly to make buddha blush and plenty of winter “fluff” on the rest of him, too… But with how he’s been eating, this size will seem downright skinny in comparison to his future weight…

/“Winter” Strikes/

“*Huff* - *Puff* - I did it… I beat hypothermia…”

Jiskcar didn’t just beat hypothermia - by some miracle of mass, he’s overheating in the middle of a snowdrift. His sprawling, swollen body blends in most well with said snowdrift, and, to the untrained eye, he may even look like nothing more than a snowcovered - albeit unusually talkative - hill, or pile of brush. Although his heft may resemble a hill, such landscapes are not prone to growing in diameter day after day…

Jiskcar ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and even as his chest ballooned into an immense shelf, and his rump became a rolling mass, and his stomach became a pile of pudgy pillows, he somehow insisted that it was all nothing more than winter fluff…

We’ll see how that theory holds up in Spring - I have a feeling those pounds aren’t simply going to melt away…

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Here’s another model sheet for Jiskcar , featuring a wonderfully wide winter variant of the fellow! Y’know, curing hypothermia is a humanitarian thing, if you look at it the right way…

If you’re interested in getting a traditionally colored piece like this yourself, I have them available here…

Prismacolor Model Sheet Commissions

…as an experimental commission type - there are limited slots, so if you’re interested, please feel free to let me know!

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Jiskcar - Eternally Engorged Ermine