On the fence about a name rn but I'm thinking magic affects appearances including one's own existing pattern and the stranger the pattern/color, the more powerful you are.
In this case, this mage is particularly powerful but their magic is fueled by emotion
Being a cheetah, you can imagine this is a problem
They try very hard to be cool and calm, so people often find them confident and intimidating, but really they're trying their hardest to repress anxiety attacks every hour


also, the reason the outfit has a weird resolution was because I drew it too small bc it was supposed to be testing stuff out, but I didn't want to redraw it again, so I scaled it up and applied a smoothing filter oops