Art related:

When was the moment you decided you wanted to start drawing? And when were you like "I can do the lewds with this"?

Ah yes, I distinctly remember both those moments. The moment I decided I wanted to be an artist for good was in December 2008. I was browsing the web on an otherwise uneventful evening and coming across some furry art that I was really impressed with. I remember asking myself how it was that they could do such amazing things and I couldn't, and pretty much immediately I answered that for myself. Because I never bothered to put in the effort to learn it. That's when I decided I would start putting in the effort and the practice and learn this skill for myself. Around the same time I also found out about the furry fandom and quickly put together that I probably was one too. A lot of things about myself just started clicking and making sense to me during those weeks.
The moment I decided I would be committing to doing lewds was a couple months before I opened this profile, so sometime mid 2015. I had just dropped out of Uni when I was still studying biology, and I found myself both with a bit of a crisis of purpose and also a lot of spare time on my hands. I had also known I wanted to do a webcomic at that point, and had gone through a couple of failed attempts already. So I kind of just decided if I was ever gonna do it, I wouldn't be getting another opportunity for a big passion project like that again in my life anytime soon, and that kind of gave me the willpower to push through and put my energy into doing it right this time. The result of that were Le and her misadventures as you see them here today.

Questions for Le:
1. Of all the situations you've found yourself in, what's been your favourite? (And to Ink, what was your favourite to draw?)
2. What is the best kind of yarn? This one is very important!

1. Oh huh... that's a very good question. There have been so many over the years, and I enjoy like 90% of them on some level, so it's hard to pick a single one. What I will say though is that I especially like the ones that I can share with my friends or the ones that lead to some groundbreaking scientific discovery.
As for Inks favorite to draw, that's another good question. If I had to choose, I'd say probably the first body control scene in Sand-Serpents Tomb, right when Le finds out the Statuette actually has inherent powers and it starts talking through her. But there are a lot of contenders that come really close too.

2. The christmassy kind with tinsel woven in. At least as far as the non-magic and non-hi-tech ones go.

Fair enough! Adventures and shenanigans are always better with friends. That's a real good scene too.

Thanks! I'll pick some up, I've been meaning to indulge in my feline desire to make an ungodly mess with the stuff!

Great idea! I'll come by and help you with the mess-making once I am off the clock too!

IC: Ayleena, I hear if you smell this rag, it will take you to a magical temple with all the greatest treasures. Snow is too stupid to take this opportunity. Interested?

OOC: How did you decide upon a danger prone snow leopard Indiana Jones-ish sona?

Ayleena: Yeah right, I give that a solid fuck-all percent chance to not be chloroform. I'll just go tail Snowflake again if I want to find more treasure. She is so easy to trail!

As for how I decided to make Le the protagonist, there's a couple of reasons. When I started the comics I had just dropped out of Uni after failing my biology studies. But I came out of that with a great love and appreciation for the natural sciences, and I wanted to put the knowledge I had taken away from it to some use. Making the protagonist of my new comic a regular researcher though would make it a little harder to get her into trouble constantly, so making her a scientific journalist seemed like a good compromise between talking about science and having an excuse to get her into trouble a lot. And well, once you throw ancient ruins and archeology into the mix as well, drawing parallels to Indiana Jones just kind of becomes inevitable.

IC: So basically, you're a little kid following after the big girl she idolizes, eh?

Oh, for real. XD That's definitely a guarantee to run into some tricky trap or sinister tribe! At least Le hasn't ended up in a big pot yet! ...has she?

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Ayleena: Idolizing? Naaah. Snow is just really easy prey. She never bothers to hide what she's doing, she's decent at finding treasure, and also she's super easy to outwit and overpower. It's just good business sense to follow her.

Oh it sure is! And believe me, ancient jungle tribes have been considered more than once for a comic. Just didn't manage to ever make the cut just yet. And while Le hasn't yet been inside a pot during any of her on-screen appearances yet, I am sure she has seen a couple of those during her untold off-screen escapades.

IC: So.... you're not smart enough to find it on your own, but you consider her dumb? How does that work?

I do like how you mix the sort of slice of life stuff (helping friends move is still normal stuff, regardless of spooky interactions!!!) and the explorer/tomb raider side of her life.

Ayleena: Alright wise guy, you're really starting to walk on thin ice now. Do you want me to put you into a headlock and make you apologize!?

Aww, thank you so very much! It was actually one of my core design principles that Le was supposed to be a normal everyman (Well, apart from the constant abductions), so her adventures were something that could really happen to anybody if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time (and lacked any sense of awareness or self-preservation). So making the set up for her adventures something that's relatable to a lot of people helps with that.

IC: Heheheh, I can’t help but tease the sexiest of hyenas. You coulda just sniffed the cloth though!

Oh def. She doesn’t come off as like a superhero or a Chosen One. Anyone could stumble onto a psychotic puzzle demon or haunted mansion really (assuming you believe in the supernatural, which I do). Although she is a bit of an airhead but that just makes her a loveable yarn ball!! XD

Hmmmm...
What are your thoughts on being the eternal pet of a drolf wizard, that may or may not have any real effects to your person, but will often times become a bit of an annoyance due to various 'demands' that will be made of you, but you'll have the fun of doing it with a green pastel colored dragoness at your side?!? ovo

Oooh! That sounds like something I'd definitely enjoy for a month or two. Maybe three. However, I am gonna have to say no to the eternal part of the agreement. Me getting out of any sort of "trouble" is kind of an essential part of my character ;3
Do sign me up for the free 30 day trial though!

Sure! :3 that sounds totally fine with me! the free 30 day trial seems like a great way to get a feel for it. ignore the fact that there is no real way to unsubscribe before the trial finishes. Hope you have funnnnn ^^ slaps a collar around your neck that looks pretty much exactly like Em's, a few runes flashing upon it's application, before he goes running off, tugging the leash behind and dragging you with him.

Oh weeeee! :D I love collars! And I get to spend more time with Em! This is gonna be an absolute blast for 29 days until I'll be sitting at my PC frantically looking for the Unsubscribe button before my membership auto-renews :3

Yeah indeed! ^^ Will be a fantastic time for sure! Em will massively enjoy having your company for all the various things I'm going to put you both through :3c and yep! Will be a massive joy indeed! fphehehe.

Is this the real life?
or is this just fantasy?

Fantasy. Definitely Fantasy all the way through.

Unfortunately those two lines are about as much of the lyrics of that song as I know, so I can't even make a joke out of continuing it.

As much as I enjoy these, you'd think I'd be better at coming up with questions for other people!

Mice have been raiding kitchens at night for as long as there have been kitchens for them to raid. However, I imagine the furry world changes certain things somewhat. How would Le react to finding a cute mouse girl rummaging in her cupboard?

Oh huh... that's a really interesting question. I am assuming you are talking about an anthro mouse girl, right?
At first she'd probably be perplexed. You don't really find people inside your cupboard all that much unless you yourself put them there first after all. But you know, Le has always been one who was intrigued by strange and unusual situations, so she'd probably try to find out why this mouse was here and what she needed. I mean, she probably has some reason for breaking in and rummaging for food, maybe she's just poor or hungry or lustful. Le would be more than happy to help out with either of those emergencies.

I meant an anthro mouse girl, yes. They're the most fun, after all!

Le is such a sweetie, and it's nice to know she wouldn't just get mad, and would try to help the girl, even if she would like an explanation for her cheekiness, too! And any mouse girl would be very lucky to have Le's help with either of those problems, indeed!

Why thank you! That's very kind of you to say! And if you happen to know any cute mouse girls, do feel free to send them my way. I'll leave the pantry door open.

I'll certainly let them know!

Now where did I put that potion of murine transformation...?

For Le:

Are there any situations you regret having escaped from, or wish you could get back into?

Hmmm... Good question. I don't think so though. As enjoyable or interesting many of them are, I always enjoy going back to my normal life after a while, ready to experience something fresh and new. I guess I am just not the kind of person who really likes to be committed to just a single thing for too long.

I can certainly sympathize there.

What's the longest you've been kept indisposed by such a situation? And are there any that you didn't think you were ever going to get out of?

I think the three weeks that I spent as a statue in the Sand-Serpent's Tomb must've been one of the longest. Unless you count the sixty-odd years I was frozen in cryostasis before I returned with the time machine.
And no. Thus far, my escape rate is 100%, and I don't see why that would be changing anytime soon.

In that case, if I may ask one more question... do you feel like your track record of repeated escapes makes you any less cautious about getting into these situations in the first place?

Yes. Definitely yes :3

I got a question for Brunca:

Have there been any other "good volunteers" aside from Le? Or Snowflake, as you call her.

Brunca: Why definitely, I have! Every customer is a potential good volunteer at the Sugar Shack! All it takes is one misstep and you too can be in the spotlight! Snowflake is certainly one of my favorite volunteers though. She's marvelously adorable when she's grumpy.

Hey Le, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you like Scott?

Just a littlw more than 20*log10(3.162)

Ow, my brain.

so, Ayleena. What's the weirdest situation you found yourself in that didn't involve Leandre?

Ayleena: God damn, that cat is the biggest weirdness magnet I have ever seen! Every time something weird happens it's like she's there already! Sometimes it feels like exciting and out-of-the ordinary things only happen when she's around to witness them.

A question for the puzzle queen: what's with the hands? Were you born that way? An "adjustment" later in life? Or are you a construct of sorts?

Puzzle Queen: An interesting question, mortal. It would seem though like the author of this world was lazy and my past is lacking a few puzzle pieces. And be a few I mean about 95% of them. Such treatment of puzzles is unacceptable of course and he will be puzzleified later. So let's construct this part of my past as we go.

I tend to shift my appearance over time. As culture and the role of puzzles in it shifts, I too slowly change my appearance to match. I originally was a sphinx from a time when games and riddles first became a major cultural factor, but my garish colours were a change that came during the time when plastic and bold colours became a major part of board games all over the world. The hands themselves are a rather new change that happened to me, now that puzzles are also starting to move into electrical or even fully digital formats. I am certain it won't be the last change that will come over me.

Inkwolf:
Yeah, you caught me. I sort of have the bad habit of doing the visual design of a character first and then coming up with reasons for why they look the way they do later on. Or just never if I don't think that part of their backstories will be relevant for the stories I am telling. It's certainly not how you're supposed to create characters, but it's kind of how I often fall into doing it. Nevertheless, thanks a lot for the question. It's fun to explore your own characters some more like this.

The design-reason for the hands, by the way, is that I wanted a character with four arms, but since she was a taur already at that point, the design ended up looking too busy and confusing with all the joints all over the place. So the "Rayman-hands" were a way to still give her four "arms" without making the design too complex for a comic character.

Her being a sphinx completely fits her personality, I have to say.

It must be quite surprising to suddenly find oneself in a new form. Though I imagine the four hands would come in han... um... convenient. What of your origin, though? Was there simply no puzzle queen before sapient creatures started challenging their minds for sports? I've heard of gods springing into existence provided enough people actually believed in them.

OOC: don't worry about the method of designing her. She came out great and sometimes "reverse engineering" someone's story is a ton of fun as well :D

My question is to Le - What is your favorite predicament you've been a part of? Or at least the most interesting sequence of events that has taken place before.

Ah well, that's a very good question. Hard to answer considering I end up enjoying almost all of them at some level. I do enjoy those that give me a truly unique experience though, or lead to some really interesting new discovery. For example when Lady Mythra put me under hypnosis for a couple of days after our failed raid on her mansion. That was quite unique...

Hehehe, I can only imagine how fun and unique that must have been for you :3c