On July 24th, 2025, I spent 6 hours creating a 60+ post thread about Hare & Feather on Bluesky. It was a lot of work but it was real fun to do. Admittedly, it is kind hard to read through long bsky posts, so this is a single-page compilation of that thread.
H&F is a slice-of-life/romance comic following Penumbra, a kind but somewhat prickly hare everyone seems to gather around.
Silly stuff happens, hearts get broken. Yeah.
Meet PENUMBRA!
She’s the youngest Lagopagos Ranger ever. Dethroning Crow as the previous youngest. She’s insanely capable, dependable, and kind. Her sense of justice and her competitiveness drive her to an almost obsessive level.
She has a quaint home away from the main city. Shes a bit of a loner
From a young age she’s always loved animals, and wanted to protect them from bad people. She had to become a Ranger. Which are basically superheroes that keep the peace between the citizens and the local creatures (gryphons, dragons, etc).
You can read random stuff about her in this “1 ð = 1 Fact” thread.
Meet CROW!
The previous youngest ever to join the Rangers. He’s also extremely good at what he does, but has become complacent lately. His passion for the job still exists and he does work hard, but due to various pressures, he’s contently staying put in life.
He also got a “1 ð = 1 Fact” thread.
The first comic!
It starts with Penumbra getting everything she’s ever worked towards. Her entire life led to this moment.
Crow is a bit wary, a little resentful. This new person is the talk of the academy, supposedly better than he ever was.
(this one got a redraw!)
Penny is super rigid, Crow is super relaxed. This is a wakeup call for him. He should have been ready, but the new girl handled it alone, under his watch.
Shame, guilt, embarrassment, âĶattraction.
Penny took care of the situation expertly. No one was hurt, and even chewed out the mama gryphon.
The whole display left Crow in awe, and changed his mind about her. The crush begins, and his feelings will only be more complicated from here.
A bit of time passes, Penny is doing paper work. She finally asks Crow about the locket around his neck.
He has a tendency to pick up shiny things and keep them with him. This was just one of those things.
However, this leads to a huge misunderstanding on Penny’s part. I don’t blame her, tho.
She has looked up to him for a while now, knowing who he was before joining.
She never really thought of romance before but this event squashed the possibility of it into the dirt.
He wont look inside the locket for quite some time. It doesn’t matter to him.
The very first comic I made with Penny! It was a one-off before H&F really existed.
It’s still accurate to her character.
Outside of work, Crow is pretty chill and doesn’t wear anything very show offy.
He’s very fit, but only really Penny knows this, and it isn’t a surprise given their work.
But to everyone else, its almost a secret. The beach episode will be fun.
This is very similar to one of my favorite jokes from 50 First Dates.
Just replace Shark with Dragon.
Crow took this opportunity to mess with her cuz she’s always right.
Meet CAMI!
she’s a chameleon, not a dragon.
Cami is depresso emo punk rock girl who likes to rebel, cause trouble, and also do nothing. The kicker? She’s got an amazing family and grew up rich.
She plays in a duo band with her lil bro Leo.
She is hopelessly lesbian, and is in love with Penny.
Cami has been friends with Penny since she was 17 (Penny was 15).
Penny unknowingly changed her life, and Cami has been smitten since. Unfortunately, Penny has never been concerned with love, and is also very hetero.
Cami deals with it by inserting herself into Penny’s life as much as she can.
Cami has been pushing her feelings down for a long time, in more ways than one. She’s got a complex facade that she painstakingly keeps up.
Penny is still oblivious of her friends walls.
Every so often things slip, but Penny doesn’t bother to put 2+2 together.
Crow has been stewing in his feelings about Penny for a while now. His crush has become stronger and is daydreaming about her.
He doesn’t know her all that well, but love is blind, right?
There’s true infatuation here but it’s mixed in with his own self image issues (she’s basically him but better)
It’s been a while. Penny has gotten comfortable at work and with Crow, allowing him to use “Penny” finally.
Crow is normally a well put together guy, who doesn’t get embarrassed by anything, isn’t afraid of judgement.
Penny throws a wrench into his entire existence.
shoutout to @spiderdraws.bsky.social for letting me borrow Cav for this one! ð·
after sending Crow home, she finishes her shift and stops at the pharmacy to get him some medication.
i hope this shows how out of the way she goes to do things for people. easy to crush on for, but to her its natural.
Penny isn’t just a fast runner, she’s got a LOT of endurance. She doesn’t own a car, so she runs everywhere. She runs from home to work! Which is quite a ways away, too.
It’s probably her best stat.
This was near nothing for her.
New comic JUST for this thread! Feel special ðŦĩ
She’s making a callback joke he won’t understand but you the viewer can laugh!
But she /jk’s because she can’t stick to the joke. Coward.
This actually concludes my mental “Chapter 1” of the series. After this, its mostly sillies.
For the eagle eyed viewers that are familiar with my OCs, Nekomancer’s first appearance was a couple panels ago!
On Crows monitor you can see her. She’s his avatar in the MMO he plays. He pulled that boob slider all the way up when he made her. But he also made a bunch of lore for her.
Cami loves to play pranks. Most of them thinly veiled excuses to hang out with Penny.
(also, first appearance of Warren, a mischievous cartoon mascot similar to Hello Kitty in this world.)
Cami is very good at hiding her feelings. As a chameleon, her emotions are almost literally shown on her sleeve.
They change color based on feeling, but she grew up embarrassed by that and learned to keep her cool always.
Unless boobs are involved.
Penny was obviously upset about Cami’s “prank.” And spends the morning lecturing her.
this is a really old comic that eventually fit in. it also features a very busty Penny. I used to draw her with an impressive rack but I’ve been trying to dial it back cuz she’s supposed to be glutes and thighs.
The comic leading up to this hasn’t been made yet. Crow and Penny chill at work one day and discuss video games.
Penny hasn’t really tried any and isn’t too into the idea. But he suggests a fighting game, since she’s already a fighter.
He gifts her a game, not knowing about her obsessive nature.
I drew this to continue the above yap.
Penny’s competitiveness cant be overstated. She hates losing but doesn’t rage (much), instead using the emotion to fuel her drive to improve. She gets good at things quickly and knows how to learn.
Impressive but absolutely unhealthy sometimes.
Another OLD comic. I can’t take credit for the punchline. I saw it on the internet once and it has haunted me for sooo long. Couldn’t ever find the source, but if YOU do, lemme know.
Penny LOVES the Warren cartoon / mascot line. She wears the shirts, she has a sticker of him on her hammer, she keeps his plushies and other merch.
The problem is her plush is secretly alive, but only Cami ever sees it.
It’s not an important part of the comic but it makes me laugh.
Warren in the cartoon is a mischievous little punk who does crappy things for fun. It’s a strange thing for Penny to like, but she mostly focuses on the merchandise and the aesthetic, not the media content.
Here he is deciding which battery to purchase, so he can throw it into the ocean.
Meet ORCHID! (a.k.a. “Kitty, “Kiddo”, “Kid”). She’s the same age as Cami, but literally everyone thinks she’s way younger than she is.
Leon (Cami’s younger brother) has a crush on her. For a long time, the cast thinks her name is Kitty, and her real name isn’t revealed to the reader for a while.
Orchid was designed and is written for by Chel!
You may remember her as “Car Insurance Cat Girl.”
It’s a very descriptive and accurate name.
Orchid is a bit of a crybaby who looks up to Penny for her strength, and wants to be more like her.
Orchid is strong, tho. In the real way.
I haven’t drawn this scene yet, so enjoy the old ms paint doodle.
Crow crashes at Penny’s (despite her saying no).
Orchid shows up after and says she needs to crash there too. She allows this one (soft spot for Orchid).
In the morning, Penny sees that Orchid unknowingly fell asleep on Crow.
Above image was they met. Crow freaks out, not wanting Penny to get the wrong idea, and drops Orchid to the ground.
Much later, Orchid trips and he offers to carry her like the good boy he is.
But when he realizes Penny saw this, he drops her again.
art by Chel!
Meet ANAIS!
My unabashed favorite.
She’s the general manager at the insurance company where Orchid works. She’s the oldest cast member, at 30 years old. She’s got her life together and knows what she’s about.
She can be creatively insufferable but she’s happy.
Anais writes A LOT. She draws, composes, does crafts, sews, cosplays, etc.
All of her money goes into her hobbies. She has stacks and stacks of notebooks full of writings for her stories about her self-insert: Nyx Gunlance Roseblood.
Check out one story ripped from her notebooks!
This comic is weird. It’s a bit wrong in terms of continuity. So, Anais was planned to be against showing her chuuni side during work hours.
She gets over it after meeting the gang. But this is her first time meeting Penny and Crow..
It makes me laugh but I might have to retcon it.
One of my favorites. A group photo!
i really wanted to show their personalities in this. i think it speaks for itself.
Meet WINTER!
he’s the newest addition to the cast, both narratively and in concept.
He’s a sad boy with a terrible fuckin past. He had recently started pushing himself to get out and stop wasting away inside.
He doesn’t need money, but he works a couple jobs to fill his days.
Later in the story, while working his barista job, Winter joins the cast when overhearing Cami talk about needing a bassist for her upcoming show.
He tells himself to just say yes to anything he might want to do.
He makes it in and meets the cast. You WILL love him. ðŠ
Winter is easily the most based person in the comic. He really respects people being true to themselves, and he isn’t afraid of failure.
He asks out Penny immediately after meeting her cuz pretty. She says no. k np.
When he meets Anais, he loves her personality and asks her out. She says k!
His respect for being yourself also comes with a disdain for being fake. He quickly sniffs out Cami as a fraud and becomes one of the only people that can get under her skin.
Anyway, Anais and Winter are very adult and shameless about their relationship. Hard contrast to the Crow/Penny drama.
Anais has an OC boyfriend named Capt. Lonestarwolf Insano I.
After meeting Winter, she has to break up with Capt. LSW I.
So she uh, kills him off. It’s extremely heartbreaking for her.
Winter and Anais get along REALLY well. They aren’t afraid to talk to each other, they both enjoy each others sense of humor, and theyre both very understanding and patient.
This may seem rude but she definitely picked up on the joke and began to play along at some point.
This bonus panel was suggested by @tiredlulu (currently on hiatus on bsky) and it STILL kills me to re-read it. It’s just the perfect cherry on top (of the pup cup).
Going back in time a bit for context.
Cami and Anais meet. Anais thinks, “oh no, she looks really cool. i have to look cooler than her.”
Anais: “Behold, mortal. You stand before the Incomparable, the Sanguine Flame of Darkness: Nyx Gunl-“
Cam: “mommy”
Anais: “what”
Cam: “what”
Anais is true to herself but it doesn’t mean she’s always aware of herself.
Anais is closeted bi. She’s fantasized about dating women but is scared to actually try. She never even had a boyfriend.
She disliked Cami from the beginning but Cami thought she was hella fine.
Cami teases her a lot.
this was made as a joke but its in character. cami def has thought about it like “nice”
anais has thought about it, but more like “hmmm uh oh.”
She vents her feelings by drawing/writing.
she drew a picture of her and cami kissing but scratched it out, crumpled it up, and threw it away.
Cami often teases / messes with Penny.
Penny doesn’t always play back.
This one is out of character for both of them, but it made me laugh.
Crow isn’t showboaty or knowitall. He plays games in a chill way but has decent skill.
Orchid is insanely good but doesn’t think that hard about it. She wouldn’t ever think something like this.
but the dialogue is funny.
Penny yapping to Cami about some latest hyperfixation.
Winter and Anais are here, which cracks me up. Penny’s house is a hub for hanging out, even though Winter and Anais have their own places and they barely know Penny.
It just happens to her all the time. She’s used to it.
Bonus content!
Thanks for reading this far.
Here is Cami in a maid outfit for Halloween. Oh btw she secretly smokes. Penny met Cami in high school when Penny caught her smoking. She took it from her and told her to stop, and that she’d be checking on her.
That made her happy. But life happens and she picked it up again.
Bunny Day! Anais became my favorite so here’s her symbolically pushing the actual bunny out of the way and stealing the show.
Christmas! Penny is secretly very vain, and thinks very highly of her own beauty. She doesn’t show this side of her to anyone, and sates it by dressing up for herself and taking selfies. She never sends them to anyone.
Eventually, after a bunch of drama, Penny and Crow are set to go on a date. Here is an early concept of her date dress to impress Crow.
It’s not exactly how I envision her, so I’ll eventually revisit it. I imagine it more simple.
Complicated relationship chart! Good luck deciphering this. I’m so tired.
This is a silly thirst trap drawing of Penny, Anais, and Cami if I allowed my monkey brain to design them.
Absolutely not canon, but was fun to make.
One time, I genderbent them.
They all have little meeple forms. Little animal versions. But I can’t exactly figure out how to do the chameleon siblings oughh
Nyx Roseblood is the Castrellan expy of Anais. Not to be confused with Nyx Gunlance Roseblood. Easy mixup.
She’s full of angst, repressed memories, and self doubt. She’s also silly and a lot of fun, but I really like these shots I did of her. Not exactly H&F related but I wanted to share!
If you made it this far, thank you so much. This post took me 6 hours to make, and I had a lot of fun doing so. It’s crazy how much I COULDN’T include.
It’s made me more enthusiastic to put out more comics.
Again, thank you for reading!
