Cycad

Today I joined a group on Telegram that my sister invited me to where we chat about dinosaurs. It inspired me to make a dinosaur inspired character, so I decided to make an ancestor of Scrabber, my feathersona.

This is Cycad, an archaeopteryx/anchiornis mix - some of us in the Telegram group were struggling to pick favourite dinosaurs for our characters so we decided to make hybrid characters- I did the same for Cycad (and yes, he's named after the 'living fossil' seed plant ) - so we mixed some. And since I have a thing for birds, making an avian dinosaur character made sense.

He experiments with various liquids and sludges to make face paints and ancient cosmetics, carrying a little stone cup around to mix them in, and he's conscious about keeping his feathers tidy, preening himself constantly when he's not hunting bugs or searching for berries or small animals to make his pastes and solutions.