Everyone's aunt, Saluki

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Cross is a major female favorite among Dog Weebs primarily because she's one of very few chicks in the franchise to actually, like, not suck. There's already an inherent sexism to her being the ONLY wamen allowed into Riki's army and her saving a child's life not because it's the right thing to do but because she's a guuuurl and feeeemales have to care for children, but to top it all off, she gets sidelined from the final battle and she only becomes more self loathing about her femininity as time goes by. She's a good character, though, and this all makes her wasted potential. Her relationship with Ben is cute, her moral code is reasonable, and she tempers her fierceness with empathy. Dare I say......... we stan.

First I wanna start this off by saying sorry her ass is too high. I always realize how fuckdt my proportions are immediately upon finishing something, I guess. Second, she's built to be more lithe and muscular in her limbs so as to retain that characteristic stick-thin figure of Salukis while not snapping like a twig anytime she gets dirty. She's got a touch more color variation then her stark white appearance in canon because that shit's boring. Part of me wishes she wasn't a Saluki given how many female dogs in media belong to the breed - probably because it's easy to make their ears into long, i.e. girly, hair - but I can't change Cross too much given she was one of the OGs.