Maybe the most requested chibi heart is Lei holding an egg in the trans pride colors.
I don't know if Lei himself helped crack any eggs, but I started writing this little opinicus hatchling who refuses to wear his sister's hand-me-downs in Eyrie the year after my spouse's egg cracked, which would've been the same year I came out as trans.
Gryphons should be longer, flappier, noodlier. We have the technology. We can make this happen.
(Chapter header by @Yotenotes ) #gryphon #GryphIns #seraphicopinicus
The Eyrie Hearts sticker pack on Telegram has been updated to include the Gryphmas Gingerbread Cookie version of the owl gryphon chapter header by Kittrel =]
Hmm, what's that over on Patreon? It's not a special cover variant of Eyrie as a Gryphmas gift to all patrons, even the free tier, is it?
I think it is!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/eyrie-fan-cover-144911470
(Featuring the fan cover everyone was gushing about last month by Sean C. Widjaja)
I've said this many times before, but it's always a delight working with Jeff Brown on a new cover.
On the left, he asked me what I was thinking for The Ruins of Crestfall. On the right, Jeff being brilliant.
While Kia has never had her own sticker pack, @Stupidshepherd would often draw fun group picks of the various characters they've done stickers for at the end of the year, and one year, Kia got a cameo in a Christmas scene =]
I love how Shep draws Kia so much<3
At the gym today thinking about the canonically trans characters in GryphIns (Whisper, Lei, Clamshell) versus the ones fans seem to have a consensus on being trans (Naya, Grax).
It'll probably get cut, but I did write a scene with Grax's PoV that makes her explicitly trans for fun. The Strix Pride denmothers trying to take care of two very bitey saber-owlets and glaring at Grax every time she walks by like this is her fault.
The fact that gryphons are so strongly associated with both vanity and pride when they're flappy cats is part of what I love about them as a species.
Plus, most epic fantasy protagonists don't cough up hairballs or randomly soak up puddles or bite each others' tails... to those story's detriment.
Hmmm, if I wrote a scary story set in GryphIns for Halloween next year, what would you want it to be about?
Mally the Nighthaunt?
Whisper and the infected starlings?
The things in the depths?
Serpentine whales?
Terror birds?
The Connixation or blood coast?
Woodpeckers?
Vale Nagle 🏳️⚧️