Finally made a TADC sona~ :3

My bf suggested I make a wind-up mouse, and I loved the idea! But then I realized that the forms that humans in the circus take are linked to their insecurities/flaws in some way? So that got me thinking, and it worked out!

A few design notes:

• Mouse was chosen in part because of how big a part of my childhood my kinship with mice was, and also because mouse characters are often seen as being small and meek, and that's how I feel a lot of the time - I'm pretty shy and tend to not stir the pot if I can help it, and that includes failing to stand up for myself in situations where I really should...
• The wind-up aspect also ended up being important. I have ADHD and often struggle with internally motivating myself to do things that are outside of my baseline "normal routine". I'm someone who needs someone else to push me to do things/impose hard deadlines on me in order to get me to act - I need someone else to wind me up and motivate me if you will.
• Connected to the wind-up aspect, I struggle with anxiety and OCD as well, and the clock mechanisms inside of Tophi... I imagine them perpetually ticking and representing that internal anxiety I constantly feel :<
• I have issues with hypermobility too, especially notable in my elbows and knees, and my shoulders and hips, so... I added the little colored patches there to add some color and hey it works :'3
• The ribbon around her throat... swallowing is hard and it feels like there's always something there...
• Finally, her tail is "fake", it's pinned onto her back and isn't a true part of her physically... nods at my therian feelings~