After seeing some pictures of hyena's kept on huge chains and paraded around in Africa... I decided to make up a fake history for panic-room's character Joke for our trade.

So... as a young hyena, Joke was used as to scrounge money from tourists, being forced to do tricks and stand with idiots for pictures. Well needless to say... he attacked and killed his 'owner' and escaped back into the wild. Luckily his collar is thick rope and eventually it will rip and fall off, taking away the last visible trace of what he'd gone through.

Again, fake history, but it was fun anyway.

Joke © panic-room
image © kas 2009
cheap bg from google
see the non bg version here: http://maxkhaos.deviantart.com/art/.....joke-114467326