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Teh Other Mutt, Nuno

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Nuno's ref sheet. o:
She's not replacing my more well-known OC, but she is likewise representative.  She has some developing backstory that I have yet to expand upon or hammer out details.
Nuno is a shisa that was previously a small, ceramic figurine as far she knows.  She sat in the window along with her brother (her open-mouthed counterpart figurine) of a tiny shop in Naha, Okinawa.  The shop was known for being a little... odd... or "spooky" as she heard passersby say on the street in front of her.
This shop was, in fact, a little bit magical.  Various creature-shaped items had a habit of coming to life at night when the shopkeeper was gone to roam and get into shenanigans.  She and her brother learned the ability from one the ringleaders, an old ceramic tanuki, and she was delighted at the simple thought of finally being mobile.  Everything was a new experience-- sights to see, sounds to hear, stuff to smell (and taste, much to the other creatures' annoyance).

Unlike the more experienced shop denizens who acted human, Nuno kind of bumbled around like a more feral creature as she slowly learned about the world.  Very doglike in behaviour like the shisas of mythology and folklore, she spent the magical nights getting into things, being nosy, and playing with her brother like a curious pup.  She is not unintelligent, but speech and complex logic are things that escape her.  She named herself, in fact, not being very adept at human language but understanding the concept.  "Nuno" simply means "cloth," referring to the karakusa drop cloth in her window that she thought of as her blanket.

Likely just bored after years of watching the more interesting world outside, she began attempting more advanced shapeshifting.  She eventually achieved her current life-sized form after some practice, but was clearly too large to move around the tiny shop.  Successfully escaping outside one night, this proved to be disastrous as a large, lion-like dogbeast was not a normal thing to see bouncing around Naha.  After this encounter she got the idea to try some sort of disguise to blend in and went back to rigorous practice for a more normal-looking shape.  Unlike tanukis and foxes that are naturally inclined to shapeshifting, tho... her various botched forms were either pretty weird or pretty hilarious.  She didn't quite understand that she couldn't pull off a passable human form like the lithe kitsune doll could.

Eventually she got creative and decided to imitate something she saw during a parade one day in her window.  So she learned to take the form of a shaggy white Dancing Lion and snuck into a nearby Eisa festival.  It was successful until the performers noticed an extra shisa and that... there didn't seem to be anyone in the costume. o_o;  But she had at least discovered a way to be outside when there was a crowd or festival the nearby park without raising too much suspicion.

Yep.  There's a lot more narrative tucked away somewhere that I'm not sure what to do with or what direction to go with it.  For instance, she and Specs eventually cross paths somehow and Nuno is hopelessly attached while Specs is just SUPER WEIRDED OUT for some reason. (Actually, there's a whole RL anecdote about that if you're curious. =P)

But yeah.  She's a work in progress narratively, but I doodle her a lot.

Big dumb dog.

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OH MY GOSH SHE IS ADORABLE
And I loved the story behind her/ your history too 8D
dndnvdn that face and big ol paws