this was finished in like June but I didn’t bother to share it until now LOL anyway, meet Mercury! he’s just a feisty chocobo guy inspired by Prompto from Final Fantasy XV. he’s not a truesona unlike Vance and Haze, rather a combination of my traits as well as Prompto’s traits. if you draw him, I’d prefer he’d be drawn wearing one of Prompto’s outfits or a Kingsglaive uniform! I hope to eventually commission a fursuit of him from Freckled Cat Creations! he will likely only ever be a minipartial, with his wing sleeves being long enough to cover my shoulders to wear him with Prompto cosplays. . . . . . [FFXV SPOILERS + FAN CONTENT] . . . . . like his inspiration, he is also an escaped Magitek experiment, but instead of using clones of Verstael as fodder, he wanted to try to create mounts for his troops so he experimented on chocobos instead. this experiment never came to fruition however due to sabotage, which is why we never see corrupted birds being utilized. instructions for humans rather than the birds were given to the experiments, causing development to go awry, leaving them bipedal and with normal Magitek trooper serial numbers starting with N-iP instead of the designation they were meant to receive. Mercury was recovered by Lucian spies sent by Wiz who was worried about the unethical treatment of chocobos, forcefully shutting down the experiment. he eventually joined the Kingsglaive, becoming a valuable asset to their ranks as the nights grew darker in Noctis’s absence.
