For Crux: it was originally his outfit because of lore complications I was having with him. I knew I wanted him to have a missing/destroyed eye, but I wasn’t sure how I wanted to go about the design, whether it was just covered by an eyepatch, if he would’ve had it visible, or eventually what I settled on for Crux’s early design, having goggles that have an eyepatch built into them. Now though, Crux usually just sticks with a normal eyepatch, I think it fits him a bit better and when he’s with Blaze, he knows he doesn’t need goggles for extra protection.

For Valerian: it was definitely his looks. Designing a fankid between an OC and a canon character was something I’d never done before, and I wasn’t really sure how to go about it! I ended up going with a bit of a lighter blue hair color, and one thing that I need to change but haven’t yet is his eyes! There are those cats that have heterochromia (I think that’s the word?) in their eyes, and I wanna give that to Val since those cats usually have one yellow eye and one blue eye, and Blaze’s eyes are blue while Crux’s eyes are orange/yellow