RAU: Keziah

Scanner sort of ate the colours. Her fur is not supposed to be quite that orange, but otherwise I think I got the colours touched up mostly okay. I have also since changed the colours of the lights on her guns. They are now violet/blue/yellow instead of violet/green/orange.

Oh god she's totally in the boobs-and-butt pose, isn't she? Oh well, she's one third feline and one third snake; her spine is allowed to do crazy shit.

Name: Keziah "Sidewinder" (Sometimes I call her "facehuggerbutt". )

Species: Chimera

Height: 2m (6'6") tall; 1.6m (5'3") of tail; 50cm (1'7") horns

Appearance: Cinnamon-brown fur fading to paler brown on her belly. Black horns, claws, hooves and nose. Bronze eyes with horizontal goat-like pupil. Sandy scales with darker patches. Two small holes in her right ear (old bite wound). One long rounded-rectangular and four small circular neural interface uplink plates (more commonly referred to as simply "linkplates" for short) implanted in both forearms. Luminescent tattoos across back, shoulders, sides, chest, neck and upper arms (not pictured; I'm working on them).

Weapon of Choice: Dual arm-mounted energy beam guns. And anything else what goeth BOOM.

The guns are hardwired directly into her nervous system, making her quite literally one with her weapons. They connect via the linkplates embedded in her forearms, which let her fire them almost by thought alone, as well as allow the guns to be constantly recharging off of the kinetic generators implanted in some of her bones.

Profile: The fourth in a litter of six and growing up in one of the more run-down districts of her homeworld, Keziah's childhood was full of mischief and largely unsupervised. She got up to all kinds of shit, and the general lawlessness (in a purely legal sense -- mostly people looked out for their fellow residents even while they were busy drug-running or fencing stolen goods) definitely played a large part in shaping Keziah's views on life and what exactly qualifies as acceptable behaviour in society.

A neighbour with a fondness for guns and DIY weekend projects got her started on the road to gunsmithing. A drug lab blowing sky high a block from her home triggered a love of explosions that has only grown with time, and she added bomb-making to her resumé not long after. She became wanted for a pretty big bomb attack a few years later, went on the lam, got caught by a bounty hunter, then was finally arrested and spent some time in prison.

It was hardly doom-and-gloom though. She picked up both her "Sidewinder" nickname and future mate while incarcerated, then managed to game the system well enough that she was cleared to open a legal weapons shop after she'd served her time. The system thinks she has reformed.

Ha.



Theme Song: "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and "Like a Rose" by Meat Loaf, because it seems all my characters need a Meat Loaf song somewhere in their thematic music.

Did some postwork in GIMP to add the glowy bits on the guns and touch up her eyes a bit. Rest is all pencil and pencil crayon.

Used moonsongstock.deviantart.com/a… from MoonsongStock as a reference for the head.
Used grannysatticstock.deviantart.c… from GRANNYSATTICSTOCK as a reference for the horns.
Pose reference from posemaniacs.com

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See also: Crash's OC Meme - Keziah1. Name:
Keziah. Also called Sidewinder, a nickname/alias she picked up in prison.
2. Age:
Late thirties, early forties or thereabouts.
3. Gender:
Female
4. How tall is s/he?
Two metres when standing fully upright, plus another half-metre worth of horns on top.
5. Describe their eyes:
Bronze with a deep gold tint. Cunning. Mischievous. Sultry. Almost always moving and observing her surroundings. Horizontal pupil like in a goat's eye, and a clear third eyelid so she can stare at you forever.
6. Sexuality:
Up for debate. While she is wholly devoted to her mate/husband, Khufu, she'll openly flirt with pretty much anybody, regardless of gender or reproductive organ compatibility. Nothing ever gets taken beyond the flirting no matter how much interest the other party might show in her overtures, so it seems the only reason she does it is because she finds it entertaining to yank other people's chains.
7. Race/Species:
Chimera. My own t