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Synthetic Instinct: Terra Ref

Added 2023-10-12 15:00:05 +0000 UTC

I'm planning to make side stories of Synthetic Instinct, the first one would be about Terra and Junis.
Junis is already featured in the comic, he is one of the J-05 unit Machina you see at Paradigm.
I have a ref for him but he is a very generic looking J-05 unit (he's very standard) but I want to finish a clothing ref I'll upload here.

Terra is a bobcat/ocelot and house cat mix which would be common mixture of species/breeds within one genus, it's just not considered attractive by the general populous. Her parents are traditional or 'old fashion' ferum and have 12 kids with the expectation that their kids will have a lot of grandkids. Most of her siblings are melanistic so they look like mostly black bobcats or ocelots.

Terra is upbeat, friendly and genuine so she doesn't hide how she feels even if it doesn't help a situation (often makes it much worse). She's also a nervous talker, so she'll start talking endlessly but it's often not about what she wants to say and it's just masking her anxiety about silence. So many people make assumption she's air headed or stupid due to that.

Terra took the first chance to move away from home, though she is close with her mom it's also a bit of pity and accepting that her mom is from a different generation that had different values. So it's a lot of keeping her family at arms length despite she'd like to hold them closer.