Guardian Lion Jin

I've just done some referenc-y stuff and doodles lately, sorry. ;w;

ANYWAY! This is a new character of mine, called Jin. She's a shishi/foo-dog/komainu/chinese guardian lion/whatever you want to call them.
She was originally a foo-dog statue made from [or probably in reality coated with because expensive metals are... Expensive] gold and silver, and at first she was super happy about doing such an important job guarding a temple. But as decades went by she started to get bored when she realised guarding meant just sitting in one sport all the time. She wanted to go adventuring!
So she broke out of her statue shell and traded places with a passing qilin who was more than happy to guard a temple.
Now Jin is adventuring all over the place to her hearts content, but she has promised to return to the temple once she's satisfied with adventuring.

She's an energetic, happy, optimistic and rowdy kind of person. Created to be a guardian, she is very loyal to her friends and has a strong sense of justice, and if she sees someone who needs help, especially protection from someone evil/morally shady sort of person, she just can't turn her back on people who need help!