for you:

• Fithian

For characters:

• Sariel
• Ismail
• Halliwell
• Muhiri

• norway lemming
• blackbuck

• colors based on a collared lizard
• shapeshifting reptiliomorph

• alpaca like creatures who wear masks and demonstrate a very high degree of intelligence & spirituality
• evolutionary line between alpacas and tapirs??

• nekomata who travels between spiritual and regular dimensions by virtue of having crossed over into a spirit rift and died
• lonely mermaid who lures people into staying with her forever by lovebombing them and manipulating them. she never gets outright scary but some of her behavior is threatening
• (fursona???) who speaks in beeps, clicks, and honks. train station wail

• flying witch above a smoggy city with a fullface gasmask
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