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Boy has it been a while since I last posted a reference sheet!
Many of you have been asking for these, but I was always afraid of spamming people with unnecessary info.
Are you guys still interested in seeing reference sheets for the two comics? If you are, get ready, because there's a ton of them! First, I want to update them all though, since many of them are old and not up to par anymore.
Anyway, meet the latest-introduced characters in Africa, Faida the hyena and her trustful follower, Badru.
Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE hyenas? They're cute and terrifying at the same time! Incredibly powerful and cunning animals.
Also, baby hyenas are adorable and are practically mini Tricos. Seriously, look them up.
Random chit-chat aside, here's a few more facts about these two giant puppers!
- Faida and Badru are roughly the same age (12), but Badru's emaciated look makes him appear much older.
- Despite being the head male, Badru's rank is still lower than that of any female in the clan.
- Faida's name comes from Swahili, but it's also a word from my native language, Italian. Interestingly, both translations of the word work very well with her character!
- Also "Faida" sounds a lot like Fido, only as a girl. Now I can't unhear that.
- And last but not least, hyenas are not canines! Ugh!
Here you go! I hope you like these two!
Any questions? Feel free to ask them in the comments!
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This is an interesting concept. An alpha hyena who makes friends with everyone.
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I would love to see more references! Especially of the lion pride
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Ahh yes, the masculinity of a female hyena.
Very strange animals. They turn what we think we know about males and females upside-down.
Even more so than seahorses. (They just do a switcheroo)
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Another fun fact about yeens
Hyenas have cat-like tongues !
Little ridgies and everything <3
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I LOVE Badry’s design! It’s kind of not pretty, but in a very visually pleasing way? Very distinct!
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//slams hands on table// SHow us all the references so that fanarts can be made and also the characters are lovely and its never enough info
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Side note: I never realized how much Trico looked like a hyena until you mentioned that baby hyenas look like mini Tricos. Seriously, thanks for that X'D
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What are Tricos?
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From a game, The Last Guardian
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This stuff is really useful for a comic with some long update times, to keep you up to date and help you follow it better. I love it.
what are those codes for the colors?
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Oh yes, please show the Reference sheets! Your characters are so cool, after all, both in designs and characters <3
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I would **love**to see more references !
And these two are just adorable, I'm looking forward to see Badru appear in the comic...
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I somehow like hyenas. They are fascinating animals and it's sad that they still have such a bad reputation that they don't deserve.
And yes, please, I would really like to see more reference sheets like this!
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Wonderful ref page! ^^ thanks for showing us and letting us know more about Faida and Badru!
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wait; How do you pronounce Faida?
I thought like Fa-hi-da. H is silent.
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It’s awesome to see references 
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i love seeing references 
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Poor males, always so scruffy and chewed up looking. Also weird how they prefer waiting for whoever got there first to die rather than challenging for dominance.
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Thank you for these refs!!
I usually always get genders mixed up so this is extremely helpful!
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I would love to see more reference sheets :3 of both comics
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I love hyenas too! >///< They are cats that look and behave more like dogs, it's super weird!
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Hmmm... I don't recall any canids with a very strong matriarchal social structure.. to be honest, the social structure of lions is more reminiscent of dogs than the spotted hyena's.. and though it's true that hyenas are a little more closely related to cats than to dogs, the relation is still very distant... either way, they are rather unique and weird mammals.
I'm sorry. I'm just a fan of details, if you know what I mean.
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Well, from what I've read, hyenas are more closely related to cats than to dogs.
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Yea, I know. That is kind of common knowledge. xD But they look like dogs.
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That they do, especially the spotted hyenas. If you've ever seen a striped or brown hyena or an aardwolf, they look less like dogs and more like, well, like hyenas. LOL.
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Hyenas are adorable. 
Isn't it amazing how their natural hierarchy happened to have females as the most powerful? It must have a big evolutionary benefit! I feel bad for the male hyenas though...not sure if the way they are treated has any survival purpose. Might just be a side effect of females being powerful? Males really get beat up and are generally treated badly in hyena groups.
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Though hyenas are a little more closely related to felids than to canids, hyenas are still very distantly related to both. Hyenids are actually most-closely related to civets (if you don't know what those are, look them up) and mongooses like meercats.
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Wow. They're all the animals I love in one species of animal!
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Heh.. they are very unique..
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Actually, believe it or not, only the spotted hyena is a matriarchal society. The other three species don't even live in packs and the striped hyenas tend to mate for life. (I read that when I was researching them for a story I'm writing.)
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Ah, that's pretty neat. I didn't know. 
I did a project in junior high about lemurs and apparently they're matriarchal too. I thought it was cool then but I wondered why. I didn't research anything else beyond that project, but I should have. Never hurts to learn more, and animals are fascinating. I did another junior high project that was 30% or something of my final grade and it was on Africa and places, climates, cultures and animals. One animal I researched was the African wild dog. That's pretty much all I remember from that huge project, haha.
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Of course we're interested in seeing ref sheets! You may think the info is unneccessary, but we think it's really interesting %)
By the way, do they have any offspring?
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Well in real hyena clans the lowest ranking female is still ranked higher than the highest ranking male so I see where that's coming from.
Nevertheless, I love Faida. ^^
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I so love hyenas! They are my favourite animals of all time. And most people think they are dump cowards. But its the lions stealing from hyenas more often and they are so intelligent they think about if they help someone in their pack, would it benefit them.
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YES!! Please more reference sheets! I'm already liking these two characters lol Faida is cool
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Reeeeeeefs !! <3
Et la mystérieuse Faida fait son apparition enfin ! Elle va être amusante à regarder dans la BD j'en suis sûre ! En tout cas, chapeau pour avoir nailed l'anatomie ! Les hyènes sont très particulière pour ça !
Et pour les refs postées dans ta galerie, personnellement je n'y voit pas d'inconvénient...néanmoins gare au spam ! :'D
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"She strives to make the best of it by befriending other animals and helping those in need."
What's this?...
A DA comic that isn't TLK related that actually has a hyena character portrayed in a non-negative light???
FINALLY!
Alongside Africa and her cubs, Faida became an instant fave the second I saw her lovely, scarred face!
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Fun fact of the day;
The females can make themselves have 'penises' to avoid being taken advantage of by males. And while this does prevent forced mating it also makes it harder to mate in general. So even if you see a hyena that looks to have an 'erect' penis... Keep in mind that it could actually be a female. xD
Hyenas are weird, I'm just putting it out there.
At least now we know that Faida won't kill the cubs. That's... Actually a relief. >~>;;
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All female spotted hyenas have those pseudo-penises. It's their clitoris.
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