Inktober prompt 20 has finally arrived.
The prompt was Frost.
It was a broad term and I was thinking what I could use Frost naturally incorporates ice and snow. And lately I drew Rioichi Cooper facing a horrifying yokai known as the Jorogumo.
And years prior he other yokai like the Nekomata and the Gashadokuro.
He now encounters another yokai; the lady of frost that is Yuki Onna. In folklore they are usually malevolent but do a have a softer side
The previous yokai Rioichi faced were definite obstacles. But in terms of this frosty female; Rioichi intentionally meets her because he needs something from her.
She needs to borrow some of her powers to help defeat a near invincible opponent to obtain one of the four orbs hes hunting down. He hears that the kiss of this yokai the Yuki Onna can make Rioichi near invincible but it keeps with a huge risk.
Most people who meet her meet a frozen demise/death. But if she favors or likes who she meets she could show her generous side and give them what they seek.
The deal here is that the Yuki Onna will give Rioichi what he came for; but in return he will belong to her: Frozen but alive for her own fulfillment.
In the corner is a near frozen Rioichi already feeling the chilling effects of this yokai. I made her a rabbit because not only do I not have any rabbit characters and not only is this part of my year of the rabbit project....but in terms of the Sly Cooper series itself, there aren't really any major characters who are rabbits. Sure there's a few rabbit henchmen but otherwise no major rabbit characters.
It's somewhat surprising given how common rabbits are in anthropomorphic universes. Cartoons, video games and most media have them as one of the most used animal. Sly Cooper is surprisingly not one of them.
And believe me there was no shortage of rabbit characters to go off of for this project! So much so that I was bound to miss many of them and not draw all of them.
So consider this Yuki Onna (that is also her official name BTW) to be one of my rabbit characters I made and one of the only rabbit characters to come from Sly Cooper.
