🖉 About the Author 🖉

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Ari Noble (he/they) is Mothorial's head writer. Growing up in North Carolina, his creative career had its roots in choir perfomances throughout his childhood, along with his interest in poetry. As he moved into high school and (some) college, Ari developed as a singer/songwriter, creating an online brand under the moniker Metajoker and performing at fandom conventions across the United States.

As a writer, Ari spent a great deal of his childhood writing short stories and, like many young authors, the beginnings of fantasy "novels" that were basically rip-offs of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and never quite went anywhere. When he discovered his love for scriptwriting, Ari began taking his writing more seriously, and he and Izzy developed the early concepts for what would become Mothorial in 2017. Inspired by the fantasy of his youth, with a dash of Redwall and a hearty dose of Jeff Smith's Bone, Mothorial combines Ari's love for the emotional storytelling he already embraces in his songwriting with his fascination for complex characterization and worldbuilding.

As a nonbinary/asexual artist with generalized anxiety, Ari strives to be an advocate for both the LGBTQIA+ community and those suffering from anxiety disorders, both in and out of his work. He lives with his husband Andy and three cats, Charlie, Bambi, and Holly, in North Carolina. When he's not writing or songwriting, he spends his time reading (especially Stephen King), switching off between watching feel-good animated shows and dark dramas, and playing videogames.

⯎ About the Illustrator ⯎

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Isabel "Izzy" Pereira (she/her) is Mothorial's main artist and illustrator. She's from Portugal, currently studying in the United States. Izzy has been creating art and animation for a decade, getting her start as an online artist in the My Little Pony community and expanding towards a more broad range of cartoon and furry art as time went on.

Izzy has always been passionate about storytelling and diverse, dynamic and expressive character design, and Mothorial was a natural extension of that interest. From her initial design of Ava and Ackerley in late 2017, the project has only grown in scope. As an asexual-aromantic woman, she also hopes that her work can be a source of positive and meaningful LGBTQIA+ representation.

Her previous work includes animation volunteer work for multiple student projects, as well as a rough animator role for the webseries Far-Fetched (created by Ashley Nichols). Whatever the project, Izzy strives to bring compelling characters to life and develop further as an artist.

🎨 About the Flatter 🎨

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"Ariya Eretsee" (she/her) aids in the flatting/coloring stage of Mothorial. She hails from the Netherlands and has had a love of storytelling, character creation and world building for as long as she can remember.

She finds meaning in aiding others in their creative pursuits, be it in her volunteer work where she helps people suffering from Aphasia and/or ABI express themselves through art, or in her glutinous excitement to flat color the next page.

She's a bit of a hermit in lifestyle both off- and online, interested in almost all genres and forms of media, and a dork with all levels of chaos and innuendo underneath. She shares her living space with her lovable floofer of a dog Eevee, who's just as people-shy and unpredictable as her owner.

🎨 About the Background Artist 🎨

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Jericho "Rico" Tabanda (they/them) is from the Philippines, and is in charge of background design for Mothorial. Recently graduated with a BFA in Information Design, they've been creating art since early childhood. After getting their start posting on DeviantArt, Rico discovered that the world is much bigger, and that their art really can make someone's day.

Since then, it's been Rico's goal to do just that -- bring happiness to others through their art. They've always been interested in the artistic process and storytelling, so they decided to learn the ways of visual development and aspired to become a concept artist.

Aside from making background assets for Mothorial whenever necessary, Rico works as a background artist for the sci-fi furry visual novel Void Dreaming (currently in development), and occasionally freelance commissions.