Ani

Ani are bipedal creatures with resemblance to rabbits/hares. Their primary colors consist of white, beige, yellow, and orange, with the main body being mostly white. They have a rabbit-like head and beige markings around their eyes, cheeks, and atop their nose. Ani's long, floppy beige ears end in tufts of fur and extend down to their heels. Atop their heads are tufts of white fur, and beige fur in front of the ear canal. Ani have a beige underbelly that fades to a lighter tone going down. Exposed on their chest is a sparkly orange glass orb with a smaller solid yellow orb in the center. Between their shoulder blades are 3 pairs of long, thin yellow and orange fin-like protrusions, with each pair decreasing in size going down. Both arms and legs end with beige colored paws, and each has four fingers, three toes, and sharp goldish claws. An orb protrudes from the palm of their hands, like the one on the chest. They also have a long tail with a furry tip and long fur at the base of the tail. Additionally, Ani have a floating orb enveloped in fiery particles that is usually seen on top of their heads.

**Males**: Males have no additional features.

Males have no additional features.

**Females**: Females have an extra pair of thin, fin-like protrusions, similar to the ones on their backs, extending from the top of their heads.

Females have an extra pair of thin, fin-like protrusions, similar to the ones on their backs, extending from the top of their heads.

• Ani's personality is very gentle and energetic, and they never have feelings of malice or hatred.
• They are incredibly altruistic and will give to others for no obvious benefit to themselves. However, they can feel skepticism and distrust, which improves their chances at survival and encourages them to prefer healing friendly creatures rather than anything potentially hostile.

• Ani had a pure origin that originally made them totally incapable of feeling skepticism nor distrust, and those were given in their transferal from Eyzira to Sonaria.
• Their visual appearance does not reflect their gentle nature; on the contrary, from appearance alone, they look almost tribal or even barbaric.
• Their six fin-like protrusions from their shoulder blades vibrate as a means of visual communication of emotion or danger.

• The Ani was created by Eti/Xan_TheDragon, with Sonaria's rendition being drawn by 0Neoki0 and modeled by JaxonBirb. Their appearance was lightly inspired by that of Spirits from the Ori game franchise, something retained over the 6 years of their existence in writing. Their design has undergone very little change since their initial creation for Lands of Eyzira. In the original concept, male Ani had distinctive glassy horns protruding from their head made of a raw, unknown type of energy almost resembling solid light. These horns pulsated calmly with a strange pattern etched into the surface. Males also had a gruffer facial structure that looked perpetually angry, even though they were just as friendly as females. They also had three discrete arrow-shaped markings under each eye. In contrast, female Ani had very streamlined bodies in their original concept, being roughly 90% of the weight of males on average. Their back fins tended to be very slightly smaller, and their tails less fin-like in favor of a more graceful, uniform shape. Females also have a thin, curled line marking under each eye rather than the three arrows. Eti created a specification document that loosely goes over making OCs in response to the number of requests for permission to do so. This document can be found on his website: Eti the Spirit :: Random Bits and Pieces ▶︎ The Ani The Ani has extensive backing lore because they were originally a core component of Eti's unreleased MMORPG Lands of Eyzira. In their original lore, the Ani were creatures designed to bridge the gap between the pure/perfect afterlife and the impure real world, being the only creatures capable of such a feat. They were present in an end-game area intended for maximum-rank players. The strange pillars seen in their home realm are compared to a material from the MMORPG WildStar known as Exanite. The texture on the pillar in Sonaria, as their teaser, uses a texture derived from that of Exanite. A unique quirk about them was that they could focus and redirect light, hence the volumetric glow above their tops. The now-removed pillar easter egg played sounds from Exanite crystals when players stood around it. The pillar can still be seen in this experience. Their name is both the singular and plural form ("Anis" is not correct). It is generally more correct to refer to them as The Ani rather than just by name, Ani.
• In Legacy, the male/female signifying features (flame/light streak) do not show in the customizer, nor do the orbs. This is intentional, as the orbs are not part of the creature itself and are instead an item given to them. The flame or light streak comes from the creature's internal energy, so its color is not able to be changed. This was also intentional from a mechanical perspective, namely, to discourage extremely odd color palettes due to them not matching the general aesthetic of the orbs and flame/streak. The orbs and Restoration Beam on Eti's personal Ani appear blue instead of gold, making it one-of-a-kind.
• Legacy Ani is the first species to have physics-based objects (the orbs) that are not part of the rig itself. However, in Recode its model no longer has the orbs or the Restoration Beam.
• Ani is also the first species to receive bright white-gold blood - the Aereis's shade is far more yellow. Due to this, when dying on Legacy, the Ani drops a white-gold carcass.
• Ani was the first species to have negative damage during Legacy, making it quite literally "un-hurt" their target with its melee attack (Lmb on PC or on Mobile). Additionally, in Legacy they were the first species rendered completely incapable of dealing direct damage in any way. Most notably, any items that modify the damage, ability, or breath of the Ani are overridden and instead have no effect. However, this has since been changed in Recode, as now all healers gained the ability to switch between healing mode and hurting mode.
• While normally unobtainable by ordinary players, players with god mode enabled in Legacy have their health bar shown as cyan with "UNLIMITED HEALTH" shown above the bar in place of the status effects. This can be seen on any creature with god mode enabled, but Eti's personal Ani was the first to be seen publicly. Additionally, a Unique Variant, Athulyth, owned by Eti, shows a golden bar with "THE GILDED ONE" above it as a reference to the character that created the Ani in their original lore headcanon.
• Ani lost its developer creature condition and became a Robux Shop creature on October 28th, 2022. Before that, the species was formerly available in the Tikit Shop.

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