to be more deerlike (giving him deer legs for example) but, idk i dont wanna change his face??? hmm, maybe i could make him a moose,,,,, cuz in idv he originally was meant to be a moose but that got retconned so he was a deer :thonk:
grrrr i dont know!!!! auuhghghgh

theres also the problem of his backstory,,,, theres a lot of veryyyy specific elements to his backstory that make him who he is, its hard to come up with something similar enough thats not just. A Ripoff. :skull:
ill figure it out eventually lmao

hmm...i think like the idea of him being more elklike, but i'd do in a more subtle and clever way. like for his legs, instead giving actually elk legs, he'd have military kinda boots with elk pelt attached and maybe leather armour protection, like a hunter. i guess that'd apply to his arms too.
for me, i wanna keep the whole "was once a man" thing, maybe he's subtle growing more features of an elk, not massive but still there. like, the elk head thing happened, magic brought him back to life and a side effect of that is he's becoming a lil more hairy and his antlers are actually growing (and fall out like actually elk), maybe a tail?? maybe.

also, i'd like to keep it an elk, bc mooses are massive!! like, bigger than cars n trucks. blacknose was basically an adult then, so he'd be massive and i think it'd be a lil silly for bane to have a really big head.

for the backstory, idrk either whoops.

these are just my thoughts, feel free to steal or not steal at all, idk