Fuck, I did something for my AU in color? Shit, figures it would be Zenyatta, he deserves it.
Just a little something I cooked up for my cryptid au: zenyatta as a kitsune/fox spirit. He’s kind of an amalgamation of both Chinese and Japanese fox myths, including the life orbs that kitsunes possess and the nine tails that chinese foxes tend to possess. In this he is not as old as you’d think; probably older than in the game (maybe 30ish? as opposed to in his 20s), but not the thousand year old exaggeration most fox spirits deal with in folklore. He also has many forms, including a human male, which I have drawings for but haven’t perfected yet, so it’s not appearing on this reference sheet. LMAO. Just know he has feminine features and tends to be just as skinny as Zen himself is. He can move through forms at will, and while he stands by ‘true self is without form’, his true form is that of the fox with nine physical tails. It’s just difficult to hide when youre a nine-tailed fox. Human is a lesser used but much stronger disguise, if needed.
In this AU, the Shimadas are actually bonded to dragon spirits that made a pact with the human family so that the line of eastern dragons wouldn’t go extinct. Genji’s dragon sacrifices his life force to save Genji when Hanzo tries to kill him, causing him to actually be half dragon (when he says the dragon becomes him, he literally means it in this au LMAO). Maybe one day when I’m not tied up with werewolf boy Jack, I’ll do a side story on them. I put a lot of thought into this design just because I love Zenyatta and I couldn’t NOT do anything with him. If I actually make a comic though, remains to be seen.
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