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Another drawing of my characters from my Nusu the Okapi series, this time of Nusu and Mpandaji the nubian ibex (her name is Swahili for climber), a character I drew a while ago and decided to implement into the story - - or Daji for short (Nusu thinks her name is too much of a mouthful so he gives her a nickname ) together.

In the story, Daji and her mother figure, Shamba the Scimitar Oryx (her name is Swahili for field), don't really get along very well due to Shamba preferring the ground and Daji preferring to climb tall hills and mountains. Shamba has a fear of rockslides due to losing many members of her herd to one and nearly dying herself (and I'm thinking she may have adopted Daji and tried to teach her how to safely live in the lower plains, but Daji, being curious, began to venture out on her own, and after an argument, she ran away from home thinking she could make it on her own.... which is where she bumps into Nusu, who ran away from home trying to find himself.

Daji is a rather confident and at times arrogant individual who is extremely confident in her own abilities (in comparison to Nusu who is more unsure about himself, shy and reserved ), but upon sympathising with Nusu wanting to find himself in the world, she nonetheless teaches Nusu how to climb hills, while Nusu teaches her how to kick and have intellectual observations of hazards in the distance (both things he learned from his two fathers ). In these drawings, we have Daji teaching Nusu who to climb (who is stumbling a bit), and Nusu teaching Daji how to kick (and it seems she's finding it harder than she thought. )

Later on in the story, Daji could have something happen when she runs too quickly up a hill and something like an avalanche or a predator puts her in danger, and Nusu could use something he learned from his dads to help them both out, but while Daji could thank Nusu for helping her, Nusu could reply that if it wasn't for her teaching him how to climb, he wouldn't have been able to help her, and they both acknowledge the skills each other has and respect each other's expertise. (I'm also picturing there could be a little bit of ship tease between the two of them - they're pretty much the same age and seem to be going through your teen rebellious phases, after all, so it seems they could relate to each other a fair bit. )

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Another drawing of my characters from my Nusu the Okapi series, this time of Nusu and Mpandaji the nubian ibex (her name is Swahili for climber), a character I drew a while ago and decided to implement into the story - - or Daji for short (Nusu thinks her name is too much of a mouthful so he gives her a nickname ) together.

In the story, Daji and her mother figure, Shamba the Scimitar Oryx (her name is Swahili for field), don't really get along very well due to Shamba preferring the ground and Daji preferring to climb tall hills and mountains. Shamba has a fear of rockslides due to losing many members of her herd to one and nearly dying herself (and I'm thinking she may have adopted Daji and tried to teach her how to safely live in the lower plains, but Daji, being curious, began to venture out on her own, and after an argument, she ran away from home thinking she could make it on her own.... which is where she bumps into Nusu, who ran away from home trying to find himself.

Daji is a rather confident and at times arrogant individual who is extremely confident in her own abilities (in comparison to Nusu who is more unsure about himself, shy and reserved ), but upon sympathising with Nusu wanting to find himself in the world, she nonetheless teaches Nusu how to climb hills, while Nusu teaches her how to kick and have intellectual observations of hazards in the distance (both things he learned from his two fathers ). In these drawings, we have Daji teaching Nusu who to climb (who is stumbling a bit), and Nusu teaching Daji how to kick (and it seems she's finding it harder than she thought. )

Later on in the story, Daji could have something happen when she runs too quickly up a hill and something like an avalanche or a predator puts her in danger, and Nusu could use something he learned from his dads to help them both out, but while Daji could thank Nusu for helping her, Nusu could reply that if it wasn't for her teaching him how to climb, he wouldn't have been able to help her, and they both acknowledge the skills each other has and respect each other's expertise. (I'm also picturing there could be a little bit of ship tease between the two of them - they're pretty much the same age and seem to be going through your teen rebellious phases, after all, so it seems they could relate to each other a fair bit. )