two little critters

 ...identical ones, but nothing you ever make by hand is identical.

A while back I bought Libbydoodle's "Kobold" pattern from Etsy (available here). I had bought some basic cheap acrylic from Michael's in an incredibly electric green and a lava-like orange, with the idea of making a pair.

Originally they were going to be brother and sister, or perhaps boyfriend and girlfriend, but now I think they're both male, especially considering what I named them.

I had only known of kobolds vaguely, as some kind of dungeons-and-dragons thing, as like a littler version of a dragon, but apparently they were originally German, and not very dragonlike - maybe a bit more like the brownies or pixies that disapproved of poor housekeeping (and in the kobolds, that feels kind of.....stereotypically German). Here's a wikipedia link 

I guess in DnD they WERE more dragonlike 

These creatures are dragonlike, but they're intended, I guess, to be bipedal. Actually after I got the first one done

 I realized they looked a bit like a "Maxwell's Demon" in a chem book I had a long time ago (Maxwell's Demon is sort of a weird thermodynamics thing)

So I made the second, this one looked more to me like what I remembered the "demon" looked like (I remembered the depiction of it as being orange, though that could be misremembering

 So I decided to give them thematic names. The orange one is Maxwell (because, as I said, I remembered the one from that long ago book as being shown as orange) and then I looked up Maxwell's Demon there was a comment that "Being a deeply religious man, he never used the word "demon"" (though a demon or daemon in this context really isn't a demonic creature at all). But Lord Kelvin was the one who applied the name "demon," so I decided the green one has to be named Kelvin.

So: Kelvin and Maxwell

 You can see they're not very large. The pattern is fairly clever; the arms and legs are crocheted flat, based on rows of single crochet where you make bobble-like structures for the fingers and toes. The horns are just chains, and then there's a little tail that you do crochet in the round and stuff.

I think a lot of the effectiveness of the faces is in the little tiny white lower fangs there, so I was sure to include them.