Mini FAQ:
1) May I draw your fursona?
While I sincerely appreciate gift art, I’d ask that you please not draw him without my permission. Wei is my first and main fursona, and a very special character to me. I see him as a part of me, and would ask that you treat him with respect in the same manner as I’d ask you to treat me.
2) Is there anyone I should draw him with?
Wei is a rather solitary creature, but there are times where he interacts with others. Quon is probably the most common creature you’ll find Wei enjoying the company of, but he may find interest in sharing company with your character as well - you need only ask (before you draw) to find out~
3) Is Wei an OC, Adopted Adoptable, or a fan character?
Wei is an original character designed and brought to life by myself.
Art above is not by me; it is by SongDog.
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NAME AND MEANING/ORIGIN: εΎ® or in romanji, Wei, is Chinese for small because as huge as my tiger spirit is, I’m still deceivingly small X3
SPECIES: Siberian Tiger / Red Fox / Snow Leopard / (neon) Peacock / Youkai HYBRID
GENDER: Male
BIOLOGICAL SEX: Androgynous/realistically intersex
SEXUALITY: Asexual
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I like to think he’s the part of me that’s full of wonder and curiosity in a way that’s almost hypnotic. He is certainly mute - even the roar of his tongue is suppressed by his majesty and elegance. I like to think of him as peaceful and serine, just enjoying life for what it is. He may be mute, and he may be elegant, but he certainly isn’t dark or emotionless. He’s…he’s the definition of pure balance. Yeah.
He sorta has a guardian angel feel about him. He’s mysterious, but you just get this feeling that he’s there to do good.
When he isn’t enjoying his solitude, he has one rather good friend, Quon, of whom he spends good time with. Other than that, he likes to stay as far away from civilization as possible, immensely preferring the beauty of nature over the catastrophic mess humans typically attract like flies to dung.
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PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Wei mainly has the body of a Siberian Tiger, baring the fur pattern, primary diet, and solitary personality of one. However, he does have some minor edits to the tigers you’re probably imagining… first of all, Wei’s ears and tail are not of a tiger at all. His ears are shaped like those of a vulpine, and his tail is much more like that of a Snow Leopard.
His fur pattern is entirely tiger, only being striped and not having the characteristics of foxes or leopards in any way that isn’t purely coincidental. His stripes do not have any set-in-stone pattern currently, but all his references seem to follow each other one way or another, so if I’ve asked you to draw Wei, don’t worry about me yelling at you that you were a stripe or two off XD Please try to avoid straying entirely from the “set” pattern that he seems to have developed, however, as well. The only thing that I ask specifically is that the tip of his tail is completely black rather than his stripes just dropping off at the end of his tail.
Unlike regular tigers, however, the color of his coat shares the same colors a particularly bright peacock might have with a touch of black and white rather than purple. His base coat is black, but he has a white underbelly and extremely small white accents (such as eyebrows). His stripes start out a bright cyan in the center but fade into neon green tips at the ends, almost in a gradient.
This doesn’t even touch on his crown of triple horns, one coming out of his forehead and the other two from behind his ears. They’re not outrageously long, and curl inward slightly.
He doesn’t often open his mouth for anything save eating - he finds it a nuisance seeing as he’s mute. If he does, however, he has a forked, black tongue with neon green tips.
His paw pads are simply black and have no particular design to them that isn’t completely natural for a tiger.
He never takes off the peacock feather behind his ear; it might as well be a part of him.
He only has one form - a feral one.
REFERENCES:
Please read the descriptions included in the pictures, or at least skim them. Art that is not mine is always referenced there.
Oldest and very first picture of him: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7296587/
Wei Portrait 1: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8238355/
Wei Badge (lineart): http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8662226/
Wei Badge (full color): http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8683380/
Wei Portrait 2: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8787509/
He’s (obviously) on the left: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11176703/
Full body sketches (old): http://www.furaffinity.net/full/12841949/
He’s (again obviously) on the left: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13090279/
He’s (obviously) on the right: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13607821/
Chibi: (coming soon)
