Adoptiees-CE

Well I was pretty sure this was going to kill me , but it was a great opportunity to try a couple newish poses I gathered during my trip.
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Originally I wanted to do all of them, then I almost did just one or two XD And I finally was able to come up with something I liked though. Plus it was fun to get the chance to introduce all of these pretty designs in my style in a fully shaded piece.

Of course, they're not all related x3

Willow, (The female with the white pectorals) Is a wild caught captive female. She's given birth to three calves and lives at Bayside Dolphinarium alongside her closest companion, Holo, with whom she's spent most of her captive life.

Gadzooks, (The male above Willow) is one of my more developed and popular characters. He's a Wild Southern Resident with a keen interest in humans. He loves to interact with them on every level he can.
The female he's pestering is Tamami, also a southern resident, she is distant and tends to travel alone or along side a humpback female named Gracie.

The young orca below Willow with the large eyepatch is Enzo . Enzo is a captive born male with a heart for adventure. He longs to one day see the open ocean.

The littler male between Enzo and Tamami is Demo. He's a bit of a slow, small captive born male. He was separated from his mother at a very young age and is very clingy to any older cow he interacts with on a normal basis.
At the top right is Shanty. My least developed of the group thus far. Shanty is a wild caught individual who suffers quite a bit of abuse before he's found by animal right's activists. There are plans to try and release the male, but it is unknown  if it'll happen.

The last two are Ohanzee and his little sister Ava. Ohanzee is a wild caught bull orca, caught at a bit of an older age while trying to protect his sister and currently resides at Denver Dolphinarium.
Ava has gone through so many changes she's a blob as of now. x3 She spends a short amount of time in captivity before being rehabbed and released. Of course, upon release, she finds herself alone and eventually falls into the company of Tamami and her humpback companion Gracie.

That's all of them x3

Enjoy