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Sable

Asaki

About Sable

Name
Sable
Name Meaning
An alternative name for Sable is Asaki (朝樹), meaning Morning Tree
Species
Anthropomorphic Japanese Sable
Pronouns
They/Them
Gender
Non-Binary
Gender Presentation
Androgynous, slightly feminine leaning.
Sexuality
Unknown
Personality
Gentle, Observant, Calm, Soft-spoken, Nature-loving, Quietly Playful.
Extra Info
  • Designed around the concept of a forest at dawn
  • Really likes hot springs
  • Collects little things from around the forest and keeps them in their bag
  • If they really like you, they will occasionally give you gifts from their collection
  • Basically a combination myself now, and my ideal self, with a fantasy element.

Visual Description of Sable

Overall
A lean and agile figure, built for forest life. Their aesthetic is a blend of traditional and modern, with elaborate almost ceremonial elements mixed with comfortwear and gift shop vibe. They're quite tall, but doesn't tower.
Head & Face
Their muzzle is shortish and pointed like a fox, with expressive eyes that are a deep amber color. Their ears are pointed but short and slightly rounded at the tips, and they have a small, delicate nose. Their face is mostly a golden cream colour, but has a strip of dark brown from their forehead down to their nose.
Hair
Their hair is a dark warn brown, slightly darker than their face fur. They have a wolf cut (As would be described in the real world), long and slightly tousled. Its soft and a bit messy, with golden brown bleached tips on both the front and up the back. The tips are brighter toward the ends of the hair, but there are some less bright tips partway down. Their hair sort of frames their face, and gives an androgynous appearance.
Body
Their body is lean and agile, built for both climbing and running through a forest. They arent particularly muscular but certainly can handle the demands of forest life. They stand tall at about 6'2, but doesn't appear particularly imposing. Their fur on their chest is a very light dawn gold, joining up to their neck and face, as well as their inner arms and inner thigh, down the front and inside of their legs. Their back is the same dark brown.
Tail
Long, bushy, and fluffy. It is a dark warm brown, with a light golden tip and a slightly darker gold underside and up onto the sides. When viewed from the top, it has a brown main section, light gold highlighted edges, and a ligter gold tip. ON the top is a fairly simple blossom branch pattern, not elaborate enough to look showy, but present and natural enough looking to where it feels like a part of the fur pattern itself. The tail length is about the distance from their hips to 5/6 of their leg. Their tail is never dead-straight, and always hangs to the side with a little flick back sort of like an S shape.
Fur & Colours
Their fur is primarily a dark warm brown, with lighter patches on their chest, neck, and face. To be more detailed, the lighter cream covers the fur on their face, the front of their neck, their chest, their inner and front of their thigh, and their inner arm, as well as their inner-ear. Smoothing out the transitions between the brown and cream is a dawn gold colour.
Palette
#4F7942 forest green, #F5AF35 amber gold, #F7C46C dawn gold, #FFF0C8 soft cream, #FFFBEC warm ivory
Haori
A soft, silky, modern haori in a deep forest green. Golden patterns cover its surface, with a handful of blossom branches running up the sleeves and stupping about 3/4 up. The main fabric of the haori has a design of cedar trees covering the sides around the bottom, then filling a curve up to the back where cedar trees frame a simplistic design of two caps of mountains.
Shirt
The shirt is a well-worn cream-coloured tee with a simple graphic of a forest infront of a mountain with a sun. Also has a couple of small blossom flowers worked into the top of the graphic. Below the graphic is the text 山を歩く meaning "walking in the mountains" to fit its nature reserve gift shop vibe. Its not the elaborate kind like the haori, but moreso a shirt youd find in a visitors centre at a national park.
Pants
The pants are a pair of comfortable, green wide-legged pants made from a soft brushed cotton. They use the same colour scheme of dark forest green and dawn yellow. They should look worn and thick. They have two thin golden stripes running down the outside of each leg, joining up to the pocket. On the pocket, just above the bottom of the opening, is an embroidered small three leafed plant design.
Bag
The bag is a slightly darker shade of cream, with a zipper on the front, positioned right up the top, about 4/5th from the bottom, the small zipper always closed and toward the front of the bag. It has no real designs on it. It is small but fairly sized, practical yet functional. It is about half of the forearm big top to bottom, and about 4/5 of a forearm wide. Its able to fit a fair heap of little items.
Alternate Outfit
Sable has an alternate femboy outfit not often worn, but it is a cute look that still matches their aesthetic. It consists of thigh highs with alternating stripes of forest green and a warm white, a pair of dolphin shorts in the same green with a trim typical of dolphin shorts in a similar warm white, and a cropped version of the haori in the same forest green with a small blossom branch pattern on the sleeves and a smaller version of the cedar and mountain design seen on the full haori.

Backstory

Sable's earliest memory is of venturing out past the forest edge and into the neighbouring mountains, one of which being eternally covered by a blizzard. Being very young and having no concept of danger, Sable of course wandered up this mountain, eventually getting lost in the thick, blinding snowstorm. Hiding under a fallen log, Sable spotted a macaque who looked oddly confident and comfortable in the harsh conditions. The macaque was navigating the blinding snowstorm with ease as though it knew the mountain like the back of its hand, so Sable raced to catch up. The macaque noticed Sable following and revealed that it had been watching them for a while, but didn't realise Sable was only young. The macaque led Sable up the mountain for what seemed like forever, but eventually the white trees just stopped and they reached a path that led down a slope into a hidden valley. The valley was filled with hot springs and blossoming cherry trees, and at the very centre was a small wooden cabin. The macaque took Sable to a hot spring near the cabin and explained that they, and the several other macaques who lived in the valley, were an isolated group of friends who had lived there for generations. They disliked how outsiders would modernise everything and wanted to live a simple life in harmony with nature, so they traveled from the neighbouring mountains up the shrouded mountain, that any lowland traveler would die on, to find the hidden valley where they made their home. Sable grows up in this valley, learning to live in harmony with nature and the other macaques. They are a quiet and gentle soul, but they have a playful side that only comes out around those they are close to. Sable loves the peacefulness of the valley and the beauty of the cherry blossoms, and they often go on walks to collect little trinkets from around the forest to keep in their bag. If Sable really likes you, they will occasionally give you gifts from their collection as a sign of affection.