Animals at Heart

***Animals at Heart*** is a personal project created by magic\_windsock when he was 10 years-old. Below is a brief summary of how it came to be.

## Origins

Back in around 2013, a group of 5th Graders thought it would be cool to create a bunch of animal characters who had powers, with features based on their *Animal Jam* avatars. One day, magic introduced a new idea where they role-played human characters with animal-like traits instead of them just being animals. Sightheart was a human with wolf ears and a tail, Nightflier had horns and wings, etc. The other kids misinterpreted this as the animals having the ability to turn into humans, which was not magic's intention. He went along with this anyway, which would unravel into this very Wiki almost a decade later.

These new characters were meant to be a collective of shapeshifters who could alternate between their human and animal forms at will. Every recess, the kids would break off into their own separate territories where they would improvise every part of the story, and the characters were extensions of themselves. No real lore existed; there was only contemporary plot-drama.

When the creator of Terra Nightflier moved away a year later, magic invented Deathwish, who was the evil counterpart to the timid and cautious Sightheart. Deathwish would act as the main antagonist, who was scripted to eventually kill Nightflier. This way, Nightflier’s death would be justified since his actor was no longer able to play the character. Of course, doing so was slightly frowned upon by the others for being too edgy. While yes, it was a little cliché, this gave Sightheart a questionable flaw in the form of emotional trauma and distrust.

Over the next few years, Kamots underwent three major redesigns in relation to his maturity. Autumn 2015 saw his first updated look to reduce some of the edge factors seen in the initial iteration. His hair was more tidy and he was given a scarf. In 2016, he was drawn with a new hoodie and a more mysterious demeanor. These two design changes were incorporated into the story where the Northern and Sacrifice arcs take place.

The final look came into existence in early 2018, featuring Kamots as a fully-grown adult with clothes and facial features that epitomized his scruffy and wild look. He now wears a gray shirt and red pajama pants, and the Amulet was now worn like a wristwatch. This version stuck for years, with minor adjustments being made in accordance to magic's changing art styles.

By the end of 2018, it seemed like most of the authors lost interest, except for magic. He continued to think of elaborate concepts that would make his character’s side of the story more powerful, while also taking into consideration how important the other characters would be. Almost every one of the things he’s thought of since the very first day have been incorporated into Kamots’s canon storyline in some way or another.

Kamots
Cypress
Phoenix
Terra
Blue
Rye
File:Flax portrait.pngFlax
Deathwish
File:Barley portrait.pngBarley
File:Maize portrait.pngMaize
File:Trixie portrait.pngTrixie
File:Junebug portrait.pngJunebug
File:Sanku portrait.pngSanku
File:Frost portrait.pngFrost
File:Nameless portrait.pngNameless
File:Shinki portrait.pngShinki