The wait is over (panels 9-13)

The comic is here at my site, and here at deviantart: part 1, part 2

:)

The Wait panels 7 and 8

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Content warning for that much mentioned (better too much than too little when it comes to warnings, I think) blood and gore in this update, and animal death but we can't see much of the dead animal.

Raptors having a nice dinner, and some more feather development inspecting a few days later.

The Wait panels 5 and 6

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And two more panels of raptors being cute.

Skye is still a kid, but at the moment her pin feathers do look a bit like Indo's quills, so I guess she was somewhat right (also oh god she used to be tiny).

I hope I didn't make it look like Indo is resting his head on Skye here, it was kind of difficult to convey he's holding his head very close above her back but supporting its weight himself. For reasons including so that Blue can have a drink of rainwater by catching drops that land on his snout.

The next update will include the raptor dinner for which I included a content warning for blood and gore in the first update.

The Wait panel 4

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Wings! Which may actually be a bit more functional than I originally assumed, because I'd overlooked that the hand doesn't twist at the wrist but at the elbow, so the remiges (flight feathers) should mostly point in the same direction after all? They're still different from proper raptor wings, though.

The wait begins

I've started posting a new comic to my Jurassic World AU. It's a bit long, and I seem to have a lot to say about each panel (and I want to get to posting it already, though the last panels aren't quite finished yet), so I'm updating it a few panels at a time, rather than uploading it all at once. I'll post commentary on the updates here to avoid cluttering the comic's caption too much.

The comic is here at my site, and here at deviantart, and I'm also posting each update to my Patreon 3 days before making it public. Updates are every 3 days.

Update 1 is panels 1-3, and it's peeling pin feathers time! Someone's about to get her wings and tail fan unwrapped. And a few of the smaller contour feathers that have started appearing on her head and along her spine are ready and peeking out of their wax sheaths, too, since they don't take as long to grow as the big flight feathers do. Good to have someone to help preen open the ones she can't reach - and much safer than having her try to scratch at them herself, risking her accidentally hitting a pin feather that's still in development, as those are still connected to blood vessels and can bleed pretty badly if damaged.

Also, raptor ages. Blue is still quite young no matter how it seems to a yearling. There's not much canon on JP/W raptors' lifespan, but I guess there's also not much the humans know about that in-universe, with how the movies tend to kill off their raptors before they get anywhere near old age. They might be able to live pretty long, though it probably also varies depending on a bunch of things, including which version of JP/W raptor is in question. For what it's worth, there's flightless birds close to their size around today that can live to be as old as sixty (ostriches, that is, and that's in captivity, while in the wild their lifespan is closer to fourty years, but that's still four whole decades).

As for future updates, a content warning in advance: there will be one panel with some blood and gore in the context of carnivorous animals eating another animal they have hunted. Not excessively graphic, but still a bit gross, the kind I've already included elsewhere in my dino gallery. I'll mention it in the update note, and include a warning on the dinoart index page when the panel has been posted.