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Edit: added colors at top and inside mouth view as well as paw pad colors.

I thought it was about time that sea got some attention and some extra love so for the past few weeks this project has been my stress releif. I was inspired to make this new design after a few dreams I had including Sea. These include both dreams at night and daydreams. In my dreams she normally tends to take different shapes and the 'Shifted Form' is one of the most common other than the regular cat form. I feel that a slight redesign of her character was important to further her relevance as my emotion mascot ;3

INFO ON REF

This is Season. She is the anthropomorphic representation of my thoughts, feelings, and ideas. There is one important thing to know about Sea, and that is even though she shares my nickname she is not me ‘in cat form’, she is simply just my emotions. Season Has several Special ‘Powers of Imagination’. These include: 
-Shapeshifting 
-Fourthwall Awareness 
-Empathy

SHAPESHIFTING: Sea is able to change her appearance in almost anyway possible. This includes extra fur/fluff, proportions, Height, Weight, extra appendages or attributes such as tails, legs, ears, eyes, toes, horns, spikes etc. Her markings can change as well but will always stay reminiscent of her regular markings as seen at right. They may change slightly to fit the form she has taken. Sea is normally found in one of the three forms: 

1.) Shifted form: this is sea’s main shifted form. She’s much larger and fluffier and has an extra tail and horns. 

2.) Cat Form: This form is her normal regular form. She tends to take shape of a cat because the species is what I feel I can identify with most. 

3.) Kitten/Chibi Form: In this form she takes the appearance of a kitten. She has most of the attributes of a kitten such as sounds, fur texture and mentality.

FOURTHWALL AWARENESS: Sea is always aware of the Fourthwall which means she knows she is only a representation of her creator’s thoughts and is a drawing.

EMPATHY: She can feel and is effected by other’s emotions. She cannot effect or influence other’s emotions in any way.


CHARACTER HISTORY


 Her design has changed slightly over the years as well:

Seasonsong's Development by SeasonsongSeasonsong REF by SeasonsongSeasonsong Ref-Spring 2011 by SeasonsongSeason ref 2012 by SeasonfluffSeason Fursona Ref Fall 2012 (OLD) by Seasonfluff

Season's name was first adapted long long ago when my sister and I would come up with our own stories from the book Warriors by Erin Hunter. Around Middle school (8th grade) we would fill whole binders of different characters and designs. One of the characters was a Male cat named Seasonsong. He was ginger with lighter points. I ended up really liking the name and used it as my first self representing Warriors OC, Seasonsong/Star. 

Seasonstar was my OC that I spoke through while running a fansite and learning to code HTML. The character struck quite the cord with me and soon because apart of me. Seasonsong became my name and I identified with her character deeply.

Over time she dropped the 'song' part of her name in an attempt to remove her from the warriors fandom. To further remove her from this role she previously played as a fanOC, she became less an meaningless OC and more of a piece of my own mind and thoughts. 

Her design simplified and took on a grey-blue/orange color scheme. This was  to create a bit more of a color uniqueness in her design and mostly because I have a love for blue/orange design color schemes.

My attachment to the character grew enough to the point where she showed up all over everything. Sketchbooks, notebooks, homework, and random art projects. little cute doodles of her would show up. She was very good at expressing my emotions and helping me cope with them. This lead to my ideas to redesign her.


NOTES ON THE NEW DESIGN


Sea's new design expresses me as an artist and how i've started to break free with my imagination. My imagination and ideas can be limitless, so why can't she? Ever since I was very young i've been very obsessed with shapeshifting into animals and it was very fitting to give her those abilities.

I've also believed myself to be rather empathetic. I tend to be rather emotional, but I also am more likely to pick up on other's emotions.

I have always absolutely been fascinated with characters who break the forthwall, and Sea is knowledgeable about the fact of who she is and why and how she exists.

Her markings are based off some of my past Pets. My Dog Taz's dark saddle on his back, my Cat Tiger's Stripes, my Cat Lilly's White star/belly spots, My rabbit Dapple's spots, and my cat sadie's long fur. In her shifting form her second tail is to represent one of my first pets, a goldfish named Goldie who had a double tail. The horns are just there because they looked cool. ;3 Her bangs are sorta like mine ;u;

IMPORTANT NOTES:

-Sea can look how ever she wants to look. The three listed forms are just her most common.

-Sea's kitten form can have horns and dual tails as well. It can change how ever she wants it to change!

-If sea grows wings they will always form out of her dark grey 'wing' markings.

-Again...her Markings hardly change. They change slightly depending on what she's turning into, but they will always stay reminiscent of the forms shown above.


SEASON'S NAME


Sometimes I've thought about renaming Season to something that represented me more. But over the years the name has become apart of who I am. It's even become a real life nick name for me on a day to day basis. Season's name basically just stands for the changing of Seasons. One of the biggest things for me to remember is that even when things look bleak, or cold, or hopeless, the Seasons eventually change and cycle through and become new and beautiful once again. Life is never the same and is constantly becoming something new and exciting to look forward to. Each cycle of life has it's own wonders to look forward to. 


SEASON'S FAMILY

Sister: 
Aspen OC/Mascot Reference by Aspyluff


SEASON IS (c) Seasonfluff 
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M00NLIT3's avatar
Wow your character is really awesome c: The design, and the colors and everything asdfghjk it all comes together ahh >w<

God I have not been on deviantart in forever, but I come back and your art has improved a lot! I may do fan art one day when I get the chance ;w;