so a daily doodle, with commissioned coloring by  dagero, depicting my OC, Sugar, in a sorta DnD/pathfinder esque setting, finding a magic cursed little cloak with cute little cat ears and tassels.

also this little epilogue pic includes another OC, Aoi, whomst I often draw being cute with Sugar as I am want to do.

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So some good new and bad news came from finally meeting the druid, Aoi.

on one paw, yeah sugar failed in his quest to deliver groceries to this druid like he planned too.

on the other paw though, that druid turned out to be a super kind and understanding guy who didn't mind that, and was willing to help!

but back on the bad paw, turns out there wasn't much he could do. The curse had completed changed Sugar's body and then dissipated by the time Sugar got to Aoi's place, leaving only a lingering magical aura that apparently had Aoi initially assume Sugar was some incarnated cat spirit or something rather than a human cursed.

on the plus paw, the note you had written and kept in your capsule collar proved really helpful in explaining a lot of the specifics of your problem to him. that and Aoi seems to have some druid magic ability to understand animals. so while you can't talk to each other exactly, he can understand your meows and what not a lot better than the people in the city could.

so, that was the awkward position, tired, wet sugar found himself in. Seeing how miserable he looked and felt, Aoi let him in, cleaned him up, and let him rest the night while he thought of what to do with all this new info.

The next Day sugar awoke, still groggy, and wandered over to Aoi sitting on the floor looking over some runes for potential fixes and kind of just inscticually hopped into his warm lap.

"Oh, morning Sugar, I didn't hear you come in," Aoi says, a slight smirk forming on his lips.

"meow" Sugar yawns, a basic morning greeting as he snuggles in the lap a bit before realizing what he is doing. "Nya?!"

"Hehehe, its okay," Aoi chuckles, petting his guest, to calm him down in his lap, "You know you make for a really cute cat all things considered"

"Purr" Sugar limply protested. he feels on an intellectual level he should be annoyed or embarrassed or whatever, but he is still so tired, and Aoi's soft fingers gently caressing his fur, he can't really muster the strength to protest...

"So hey, I think I might have found a potential solution to your... feline problem," Aoi says, still petting Sugar.

"Mew?" Sugar tilts his head, leaning into the petting,

"so the curse you had on you was wicked strong, and by the fact that it basically went away after doing its thing, even finding a good cleric or whoever to lift the curse won't do anything for a curse that ain't there anymore. So, I have been looking into other methods of fixing your dilemma,"

Sugar nods, following what the the druid is saying, and moving his head to be cusp in his hand when he moves it to try and point out something in the mass of runes.

"So you were right to seek me out, as shapeshifting is generally more in the druidic wheelhouse of magic than the clerical one. the best druids are entirely able to alter their forms and even the forms of others at will. unfortunately I, well..." Aoi hesitates, scratching his cheek which blush ever so slightly redder, "Its one of the areas I personally have had the least skill in mastering...."

"But!" Aoi exclaims, returning his hands to petting Sugar, who stretches in his lap in delight, "the most basic transformational spell a druid can learn, Wild shape, which lets us assume an animal form for a few hours at most, is actually surprisingly low level, assuming your not someone like me who has some uh... personal blocks, on learning it."

"so, my idea is we try to teach you wild shape, that was, for a limited amount of time at least, you can assume a human form, and from there, we try finding a more permenant solution to your condition. what do you think?"

"Meow!"

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