DTAE - Soulguarde

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[DTA character won! :D] Press space or click! A quick little entry to a DTA that I was invited to! Meant to finish this sketch for awhile (love being sick, don't we chat), and couldn't sleep tonight, so stars decided to align ^^ Art guide: 1. Fullbody and posing! I've made her something of a strange insect-canine mixture, I suppose. Her wings are a bit too big to fit under their casing, so they always stick out. 2. Soulguarde's younger colors, before she faded quite so much. She's much darker now, as she's grown older and her light has faded to more tolerable amounts. 3. Original reference sheet (@FroggyDraggon8888) Details: Name: Soulguarde Pronouns/Gender: Female, She/Her Species: Benevolent deity Abilities/Supernatural Aspects: Soulguarde is immortal, and has lived for the equivalent of thousands of years in her world. As she grows older, her color darkens- she used to be quite a bit brighter, and her glowing aspects could blind unsuspecting creatures. Now, it's more of a gentle light. She can project her voice into a chorus, able to command weaker-minded beings to bend to her will. She's also quite strong, durable, and of course is capable of flight. Occupation: Soulguarde works constantly trying to keep the entity that will someday be the inevitable end of her world at bay. Sometimes that's thwarting its acolytes and disciples to slow progress of creating portals, sometimes it's leading other creatures away from paths that would lead them to become corrupted by said entity. She's quite well-respected and admired, seen as a protective goddess by the majority of her world. She struggles with feeling inadequate, however- she's never found away to truly rid her world of the threat, just ways to delay what's coming. It terrifies her- but of course, she can't let the countless lives that depend on her know that. Favorite food: She loves whipped cream. Cool whip works in a pinch, as does frozen yogurt, but she REALLY loves whipped cream. Random facts: - She keeps her chest fur cut rather short- when let grow out past a manageable length, it's incredibly curly and fluffy. - Her antennae glow more dimly than her wings and halo. - Soulguarde's mouth opens wider than most creatures' allow, and is filled with a surprising amount of teeth; it's quite unsettling, so she usually keeps her mouth closed and projects her voice rather than scaring unsuspecting people. -Soulguarde's eyes also glow quite brightly when open fully. This... this just makes it really, really hard to see with her eyes wide open in any sort of natural light, so she usually keeps them squinted. - Her paw pads are made of the same material as her wing covers; they're incredibly resistant to heat, but the pads can sometimes crack in extreme cold. - Soulguarde doesn't need to breathe, so she sometimes flies up to the upper layers of the atmosphere to try and find a bit of peace. She's been mistaken for a shooting star before; it's quite a popular belief now to think that any shooting star could be her in the stratosphere watching over her planet. - Soulguarde was placed in charge of her planet by a group of immortal beings all rallied against the world-destroying entity, all who have their own worlds to try to protect. She's reluctant to admit any sort of shortcoming to them, seeing herself as a junior member with more to prove... which means she won't ask them for help. - Soulguarde has been told before by several members of aforementioned immortal council that there is no real way to win, just delay the inevitable... but she refuses to believe that. There must be a way to save the world she's grown to love so much....