.:WIP:. Cassiopiea the Amazonian Leopard

[ Full View for the best view of those spots I spent hours on ]



<sub>EDIT: April 26, 2012
Yes! Finally, i've given her spots at last. It makes quite the difference, and it's a major improvement in design (at the loss of simplicity). I'm not sure about the ones on her forehead, but that's ok. This is only my first drawing of her after all.

EDIT: Jan 06, 2012
I've been putting off updating the scetch of this, because I wanted to keep it a surprise, but i've realized that this has taken (and will take) longer than I expected to finish, due to strenuous circumstances at home Sorry 'bout that..

'Hope you guys like color! (I'll update the text later, as SAI won't let me)</sub>

Notations:
- Cassioeia is unique in the sense that no other Sonic styled character I've ever seen looks even remotely like her, despite my style that I created for myself and used for was inspired by several Sonic artists at Archie Comics.
- She's the second of my semi-realistic characters, with whom I tried to make with a beautiful, but realistically proportioned body type. I've noticed that fictional women in art these days tend to be highly exaggerated, to the point of backbreaking or disgustingly ridiculous,
(as many artists don't care if they distort logic in that area...)
so I tried my best to keep her chest, a generous, yet relatively modest size.

And when she's finalized, Izo the Panther and Zip the Hyena to follow. Anyway, after cleaning up as much as could, here she is! The sneaky, sass-cat, Cassi the Leopard ;3

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Name: Cassiopeia Panthera

Nicknames: Cassi, Cass, Queen Cass, Jungle Girl

Race/Species: Spotted Leopard

Gender: Female (Quite obviously)

Age: Twenty-Three

Birthplace: Yurashia

Ability Type:

Height: 6' 6"

Weight: Secret, naturally.

Affiliations: Felidae Cat Tribe (formerly), The Prowler Gang (currently)

Family: Izo (cousin)

Personality: Cassi is a tall and mischievous, anti-authoritative, Naturist-type girl. Being so, Cassi doesn't like wearing much when it comes to clothing, due to her rebellious nature, which had started with high opposition to her adoptive culture (more about that is in her back-story below) .
Cassi loves to live wild, but usually resists the urge to express such behavior in public. She'll tell anyone who asks, that she likes the thought of staying single, because she doesn’t see much point in a relationship, but this partially feigned because of her particular interest to one of the Prowler Gang's members. Although she does tend to play with people's minds, it’s mostly just for the fun of it, but she seriously means no harm by it.
She despises anyone that harms the natural environment unnecessarily and is willing to do anything to put it to a stop. Especially the infamous, Robotnik.

To put it simply, I made Cassi to be the personification of a cultural rebel and free spirit.
In fact, she wants to be free in every way she can. Including her part-time employment as a saloon singer. She has scores of pride about her appearance, even to the point of being vain, and loves to show-off herself off ever now and again. She sees no shame in letting men admire her appearance, much to her cousin's absolute embarrassment. And yet ironically, Cassi wears a somewhat modest Southern Belle style dress for her job.


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Backstory:
Cassi was born in Soumerca (the Sonic Universe's South American), after he parents fled from Yurashia, when Robotnik's reach became too close. Her parents soon became ill when they arrived, for the rough and foul journey over a continent's worth of sea, leaving them stricken and unable to resist the unfamiliar diseases of their new home. Luckily, due to her mother doing whatever she could to ensure her child would be born healthy and alive, Cassiopeia was able to survive the gruesome trip in her mother's womb, and afterward, the land that was now her home.
Still able to walk, her parents knew they needed help, so they sought out for it and stumbled upon the Mysterious Cat County. Where healers of the Felidae Cat Tribe did their best to alleviate their sicknesses, but ultimately to no avail. Her parents were eased of most of their suffering, but still passed on when Cassiopeia was only four years of age. In that time, they had managed to tell Cassi of their former home, and of their family. Including her aunt and uncle that lived in the Dragon Kingdom, whom they exchanged letters with, and was told by them of Cassi's black panther cousin, Izo. After that, she was welcomed as a foster child of the Felidae. That is, until she fully developed her personality.
She left her Soumercian cat tribe willingly, at the age of eighteen, after being rejected by it, due to her increasingly flamboyant disregard of her foster culture which indoctrinates members to believe that garments ultimately represent status and occupation. In order to protest, she decided to purposefully swap her neighbor's wardrobes and eventually went "au naturel". Which, by virtue, was wearing nothing at all. The confusion and chaos she brought about only served to have her forced to leave.  Cassiopeia brought along a group of friends and other followers who shared her beliefs. Most notably, the viewpoint that using the garments one wore to determine occupation and status in a society was ridiculous. Taking her group of rebellious freedom-seekers, she found an oasis bordering the Great Desert, and there settled with her posse. Later she used her natural dexterity and other talents to become a highly successful pickpocket, but mostly just as a hobby.
While working at the Sidewinder (also known as the "Side-wander") Saloon to get extra cash as a popular Singing Belle to pay for supplies, she heard rumors of the distinctly respected mercenary gang, the Prowlers, by their underground fame. However, much more tell was conceived about their leader, the ruthless Wolf-like Echidnian, commonly known as "Malice" or "One-Punch". And by many, said to be currently undefeated in hand-to-hand combat. At least, those were the rumors. In addition to the gossip, she had seen him drop by the saloon on occasion. Highly interested, and curious of her black panther cousin's recent disappearing acts (which were linked by similar rumors), she trailed her cousin to The Prowler Gang's main outpost.
When she had nearly snuck up on the infamous "Dead-Eye Mace", she toyed with him for a while; stalking and picking a fight with him, to test him before offering her skills to him. Since Cassipeia had demonstrated her abilities in combat to him (before and after) his request for it, Mace grudgingly later accepted her offer. His begrudging demeanor towards her is likely because her unpredictable personality and her "devil-may-care"  attitude unnerves him... That and the way she so easily tracked him down. Even so, her skills would prove useful, considering she was the the first so far to have found them out and was nearly the only one to have beaten him. Trusting her was worth the risk, so long as she was kept on a need-to-know basis for a while. Due to the secrecy of his work, he had to assume she was untrustworthy.

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Cassiopiea the Leopard is Copyright of (First conceived by yours truly in 2008)