Card game need design for character/logo

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Character Design Brief
We are a new start up based in London, we design and create board games and custome card games. We've created a new card game called Allegiance, it explores trust in groups using the simulation that the players have been kidnapped by an evil mastermind. They must complete tasks in order to escape.
We need a design for the mastermind character (who will double as the logo for the game), which will be displayed on the back of all the playing cards. The background of the card will be black. The game was loosely inspired by Dangonropa trigger happy havoc's mascot "Mono Kuma". We'd also like for the mastermind character to not be human.
We'd like our logo/character to have a similar essence, of something that initially seems to be trust worthy but have an undercurrent of menace. Inital ideas around the table were a simplistic "chibi" style animal with a cheshire catish grin. We'd like the character to be of a simple design. The card faces will be of a minimal design comprising of text.
We don't require any text to be part of the logo.
Industry/Entity Type
Games
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