Sorry, normally I wait a while before posting things, but I was too excited about this character, and just had to share.

I had a dream a few weeks ago that I was running away from this guy through these super busy streets, and I was terrified that he was going to catch me. But suddenly, this griffin swooped down and ate the guy. And then it swallowed me too, but I think it kept me in its crop because the guy was not there.

I guess it worked for this other guy that I had asked for help, except he wasn’t really planning to help me. I think I was like the only human in this city of magical creatures, and the guy I talked to probably wasn’t human, and was planning to sell me to someone, so he had sent the griffin to catch me first. Except the griffin wasn’t really sure if it was going to bring me to his boss or just eat me.

I woke up before I found how it ended.

But I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and now I’m probably going to write a story with this character because I freaking love him.

In the dream he was black and white, with the black markings around his eyes. When I woke up I was trying to figure out what sort of bird of prey to reference for the design and ended up going with osprey since it matched well. But he doesn’t have quite the same facial structure, because ospreys look a little silly, and this dream griffin looked more hawk or eagle like anyways.