My status as a Trusted Artist is now in question, just as a heads up to remain completely and absolutely transparent.

So I'm just putting this out there, because someone took it upon themselves to make a strong effort to have me removed from Trusted-Artists because of my XIIIs, stating that they are just a recolour of Nanaki [more commonly referred to as Red XII from the Final Fantasy series]. Ok. Perhaps at first glance, if you don't pay attention to what the XIIIs are, it would appear that is the case. I've made no secret that my XIIIs were inspired by Red. So of course, they bear physical resemblance to him, in that they are feline, have markings, shackles and feathers. Again, I am not disputing that, denying it, nor have I ever. [I feel, in fact, that I have been quite vocal about drawing inspiration from him]

I must stress this: When I say that XIIIs are a closed species, I am in no way saying that you are not allowed to create your own Nanaki inspired character. Please, do! Have fun with it! Nanaki is an extremely inspiring character! He looks amazing! Please, knock yourself out! What I am saying, is that you cannot count them amongst my XIIIs. You cannot use their lore, you cannot add them to the breeding pool. Stuff like that. That's all. If your Nanaki-inspired OC gets it on with a XII of the opposite sex, don't expect them to have a bunch of cubs or whatever, because that would go against the lore.

Now, thing is, XIIIs aren't always going to be closed. I figured by 2018, there would be enough of the Freed males and females to open them up. The, uh, breeding program has been going rather smoothly, if I do say so, myself, and in complete honesty, much like the Rime Drake, my ultimate goal is to have them available and fleshed out and exposed enough to allow anyone to create them and build into their world.

So... yeah. That's... just a heads up, both on my current questionable Trusted Artist status, and the XIII species.

Now that that's taken up a ton of time [that I don't currently have], I'll take this opportunity to update! As I said in a previous post, I am hustling to catch up and am still slated to have everything complete this week! [So.. estimate by Sunday you should have your _____ delivered to you! Exceptions, of course, being the things sold for the puppy fund, those will be a bit longer!] Physically, well... I'm definitely pushing myself a bit too much, but I've also been going to bed just... stupid early, so... it kind of balances out. Sorta... I apologize I've been slow af on notes. I've been hyper focused on arting. I will try to catch up with them today when I get to another stopping point [which I could have been doing instead of writing this post!!! *sigh*]

I hope you're all having a wonderful day!!!