I’d like to introduce everybody to my secretary, Snuggles. He manages the kingdom whilst I’m out exploring and doing my usual bird stuff. He might not be able to speak your language like I can, but he’s great at listening to all your problems.

Right, I’m bored and there’s nothing to do right now so I’ll give some Dodo Lord Lore. I’ll also cover a couple abilities of his. So to start, Dodo Lord(who doesn’t have an actual name and is only known as Dodo by his comrades) was the young prince of a once prosperous kingdom of a species of birds reminiscent of the Dodo Birds found on earth. These birds were called Dodarians. Unlike their counterparts on earth who had no natural predators and had adapted to fit such a lifestyle, their home planet was far more dangerous, thus causing them to adapt to their environment in a far more successful way. They learned the arts of domesticating beasts, constructing grand monuments, channeling mystical powers through native gemstones, and more. After many years of living in paradise, dominating the food chain as its superior class and living without a worry in the world, Dodo was born. He had a short-lived happy life in his grandiose castle with his parents. Unfortunately, he never really got to know his parents, and only learned what his castle was like as it was crumbling into ash and rubble around him thanks to a massive earthquake that decimated the area and revealed a volcanic region beneath his homeland. Thanks to the help of a falsely accused prisoner that he stumbled across who knew the ins and outs of the castle, he was led to an escape tunnel that had been forgotten about by most common folk in the kingdom. The prisoner was sadly caught and killed by the collapse of the kingdom, but the young prince managed to just barely get out of range. He’d proceed to wander the lands for a while, searching for some other civilization he could live with, but he never found anyone. He sat alone, finally coming to terms with his likely fate he’d meet alone in the wilderness, when he noticed a particularly bright flower illuminated by the moonlight. While he was still quite young and hadn’t developed many interests, flowers were something he liked. He observed the patterns and the vibrant purple glow of the flower, and eventually realized that if he looked at it from an angle where it was pointed at the night sky, it flowed with an even brighter brilliance than before. He quickly realized after being mesmerized by the flower that it wasn’t the only glowing thing he could see, though. There seemed to be something in the stars, or rather, crashing to his planet’s surface, that also emitted a brilliant glow. It crashed not too far from him, and he timidly approached it to find that an odd crown had plummeted from the sky. He cautiously took it, and placed it upon his head. Fast forward roughly two hundred years, and we have the modern-day Dodo Lord. His crown has granted him some form of invulnerability to aging, as well as relatively quick regeneration from damage. He also seems to experience reduced effects from various chemicals, as well as having an increased interest in messing with them. He managed to find a few straggling survivors from the kingdom’s collapse, and even found a new species that had a more humanoid form to them that he also recruited to his ranks. Finally, he had the title he was destined for: Ruler of the Dodos.

His abilities as of now are as follows:

Royal Resonance: Him and his crown are linked by some mysterious force. He has the ability to call it back to its position atop his head from any distance.

Bird Whisperer: Any and all Avian-esc creatures seem to be at ease in his presence, and they can communicate effortlessly.

Telepathy: While Dodo Lord cannot speak anything other than Dodarian, his crown seems to grant him the ability to communicate telepathically.

Anyways, I know you aren’t gonna read this, but it was fun to type. In fact, I was sort of making it up as I went, just with very lose guidance from previous ideas, and I like where this ended up. Anyways, goodnight, stick fellows.

New ability: Dodo Lord is now capable of producing destructive pulses of energy from his crown, given that he is stressed enough to do so. He cannot seem to do this whenever he wants to, only under levels of extreme stress. Think of it like Psyduck, and how their owners must keep them calm to prevent them from killing everybody with a massive shockwave(though he doesn’t need to be kept calm as it’s only under extreme stress). We have provided a video below as a demonstration. We will continue to look into his abilities.

Here’s some posters I made for me and my friends

Here’s some pixel art I made

I’ve improved Dodo Lord a bit, the white background means it’s old and the blueish one is the new

So I want to improve my model a bit, I’m definitely gonna need to make the back leg darker and stuff, but I also want to make him a bit more expressive. Does anybody have any good tips for how to go about doing that, or just how to make him better in general?