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hello! im ray :)
im a 20-year-old hobbyist artist/animator with a penchant for overthinking worldbuilding.

i use it/its pronouns or any neos, but for more detailed preferences, heres my pronouns page!

im currently in community college, so my activity varies, but im more than happy to make friends whenever possible :3

i enjoy things such as:
- cats
- cringe
- good food
- video games (but im bad at them)
- roleplaying and writing
- rambling, ranting, and yapping

The Zuzhiverse!

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TLDR: The Zuzhiverse is a world for my OCs based on early 2010s furry animation memes and OCs that fully embraces everything considered "cringy".

The Zuzhiverse was an idea originally conceptualized from my YouTube channel.

The YouTube channel was created in January 2019. The first video was a MAP entry I first posted on my first (and at the time main) channel! Then, I had a brilliant idea... what if I made a whole channel? At the time, there was a trend of bringing back the 2009-ish era of furry animation memes and culture... I'm not sure it was a big trend, since from my memory, it started on Google+ shortly after the shutdown was announced. Either way, I believe I might be the only person who actually stuck with the characters made at that time for that trend. But if you know that I'm wrong, I would genuinely love nothing more than to see it!! :)

Originally, I didn't have a whole world in mind when I made Lufi for that MAP part! I only really started coming up with things when I made Iful. I believe I made Iful for an animation to iNSaNiTY by CircusP that was never finished and has unfortunately been lost to the void.

The Zuzhiverse is heavily inspired by early 2010s furry OCs and animation memes, though obviously not 100% accurate to actual design tropes from that time--mostly just the stereotypical things! I also purposefully put in a lot of "bad" design tropes (such as overly saturated colors, rainbows, etc.). One of the main gimmicks, however, is the adoption of the "evil side" trope into separate characters! Everybody in the Zuzhiverse has a counterpart that takes on an "edgier" (or less edgy, if they're the edgy one) recolor. I like to think I'm clever. :-)

Of course, there is much more to the world than just that, but I'm not going to write a whole essay in a Carrd. I plan to upload as much information as possible onto my CharacterHub, so if you're interested, please check that out!

Mangoes is yet another OC world I've created. This one is significantly newer, but has a lot going on, and the majority of my OCs lie within!

The main concept is a large modern fantasy universe where just about anything can be included! Originally, I wanted it to be a semi-open collaboration, so anybody could submit a species or character to be included in a "canon". I don't think I'm big enough of a creator for that to actually be a thing, but if, for one reason or another, you still want to create something for me to include in Mangoes, please let me know!

The name "Mangoes" comes from a silly doodle a buddy made for me of a cat absolutely chowing down on a mango. I made this image the server icon, eventually decided it would be a "placeholder" name, and then realized I couldn't actually think of a proper name since there is no central theme to the universe. With the help of a suggestion from one of my BFFs, it has since been decided that every planet, world, universe, etc. has at least one unique species of mango... and if at all possible, several species.

I have a LOT of worldbuilding in my mind for it that I am slowly but surely transferring into several places. The current main place is a Google Doc that I think I'll keep to my friends and me, BUT I am trying to make a website that has all of the same information... but prettier!!

... I just need to learn how to properly code... qwq

As of now, I prefer to do commissions through my VGen. Customer accounts are free to make, but if for some reason you cannot or will not use VGen for commissions, please contact me directly. Thank you!