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This is a collaborative pic with who did the sketch and helped me with finding the right colors. I just did the lineart and added the colors Nanukk gave me.

Leaves in the bg from cgtextures.com/

Introducing Koyo, a character of mine I've had for a while but haven't had any pics of till now. She is a young coyote with colors like autumn leaves.

"Koyo" is a Japanese word we don't have in English that means the changing of the color of the leaves in autumn. (The closest translation would be "autumn foliage.") In the story, Koyo is a dynamic char, which means she changes during the story, like the leaves.

You see, everybody just thinks she's a loner who's emo all the time, at least since she has moved to Noble Woods, Oregon, only to find out she has secrets that nobody suspected. Can she overcome her past and present struggles that her friends don't even know about?

Koyo is mute but not deaf. Tobermorey, Lost, and Kidder meet her through Katie. Koyo became mute years earlier in an accident, which she still has scars on her neck from.

SPOILER WARNING

Okay, I have only told a few select artists who were in on the creation of the Lost char about what happens to him in the story, but for those who actually bother to read this far, we find out later in the story that Koyo has a crush on Toby, who is trying to go out with Katie. Of course, this unrequited affection causes Koyo much angst.

It is also revealed later in the story that her grandparents were spies for the CIA before retiring, and Koyo hearing their exciting stories of adventure and danger, she always wanted to follow after her grandparents and become an international agent. This caused a lot of contention with her parents, who never liked the idea and wanted her to grow up to be an accountant.

In preparing to become the best super spy, Koyo learned as many different languages as she could, as well as practiced different martial arts and getting her paws on any spy gadgets she could. When she lost her ability to speak, her world was shattered because who's ever heard of a mute spy? Now she couldn't speak all the languages she had heard or even speak at all. After a long period of depression, she came across the Deaf community and saw ASL as an opportunity to learn another language that she could still use even without a voice.

To that end, she has spent countless hours pouring over books, as well as hanging out with Deaf people, making friends so she could become as fluent as possible. After all this, however, in some ways sign language only serves to remind her what she has lost.

However, everything changes for Koyo when she is presented with the opportunity to get back what she's lost and maybe even win Toby's heart in the process. But, will she betray her friends to get what she wants? Will Koyo be able to make the most difficult decision of her life? Will anyone actually read a pic description this long??

Description
This is a collaborative pic with who did the sketch and helped me with finding the right colors. I just did the lineart and added the colors Nanukk gave me.

Leaves in the bg from cgtextures.com/

Introducing Koyo, a character of mine I've had for a while but haven't had any pics of till now. She is a young coyote with colors like autumn leaves.

"Koyo" is a Japanese word we don't have in English that means the changing of the color of the leaves in autumn. (The closest translation would be "autumn foliage.") In the story, Koyo is a dynamic char, which means she changes during the story, like the leaves.

You see, everybody just thinks she's a loner who's emo all the time, at least since she has moved to Noble Woods, Oregon, only to find out she has secrets that nobody suspected. Can she overcome her past and present struggles that her friends don't even know about?

Koyo is mute but not deaf. Tobermorey, Lost, and Kidder meet her through Katie. Koyo became mute years earlier in an accident, which she still has scars on her neck from.

SPOILER WARNING

Okay, I have only told a few select artists who were in on the creation of the Lost char about what happens to him in the story, but for those who actually bother to read this far, we find out later in the story that Koyo has a crush on Toby, who is trying to go out with Katie. Of course, this unrequited affection causes Koyo much angst.

It is also revealed later in the story that her grandparents were spies for the CIA before retiring, and Koyo hearing their exciting stories of adventure and danger, she always wanted to follow after her grandparents and become an international agent. This caused a lot of contention with her parents, who never liked the idea and wanted her to grow up to be an accountant.

In preparing to become the best super spy, Koyo learned as many different languages as she could, as well as practiced different martial arts and getting her paws on any spy gadgets she could. When she lost her ability to speak, her world was shattered because who's ever heard of a mute spy? Now she couldn't speak all the languages she had heard or even speak at all. After a long period of depression, she came across the Deaf community and saw ASL as an opportunity to learn another language that she could still use even without a voice.

To that end, she has spent countless hours pouring over books, as well as hanging out with Deaf people, making friends so she could become as fluent as possible. After all this, however, in some ways sign language only serves to remind her what she has lost.

However, everything changes for Koyo when she is presented with the opportunity to get back what she's lost and maybe even win Toby's heart in the process. But, will she betray her friends to get what she wants? Will Koyo be able to make the most difficult decision of her life? Will anyone actually read a pic description this long??