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ArgentFatalis — Betraying One's Humanity
Published: 2014-07-25 01:21:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 2084; Favourites: 47; Downloads: 39
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To betray one's own humanity is a crime unto itself, wherein one can only hope that the reward is greater than the cost. For some, there is no greater reward, and yet for others, there is no greater cost; no two minds are alike on this matter, and none likely ever will be...A natural weretiger having assumed his true form, fingers and jowls still bloodied from his shapeshifting, longs for a life without this suffering and this curse he bears. Though in control of the beast he's become physically, emotionally he is still quite scarred, as he's doomed to live a life as what humanity would perceive as monstrous. Sorrowful, he looks on, ashamed of himself.
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A variant of the Asher Tybalt character set in a modern time, this piece accomplishes a few set goals. First, there is not nearly enough weretiger artwork. Second, I wanted to see how one could represent sadness and deeper emotions with a character type and style a lot of people (myself included) know only for its destructiveness. Third, to work out the practicality of such a character in art.
The Tigress herself really is a great sketch artist - she truly conveyed a difficult emotion with this.
Artwork © TheTigress 2014
Character © Argent Fatalis 2014
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I can say that I enjoy all of my characters for various reasons - Asher because you can actually sympathize with him and his plight, as more or less he's still a person in the end.
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Humanity is nothing but a concept, humans are still nothing but animals, and the least civilised I might add.
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The zoanthropes I commission for art are all lacking tails to better differentiate themselves (and give a closer semblance of remaining humanity) and to remove an impracticality.
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Kinda defeats the Laws O' Biology, but oh well...
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I believe the act of an average man shapeshifting into a several hundred pound weretiger has already invalidated our understanding of science in this scenario.
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But with the Spinal Column having the most brands of fluid in it, and in this case, a very specific strand of spinal fluid that reaches across the Vertebrate...
...What would happen to the Coccyx?
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If you're wondering if he still has a tailbone, then yes is your answer; he is not an invertebrate either, for that matter. My point is that he is without a tail - like he is as a human - because it is a vestige (like other elements) of his humanity and that he as a biped has no explicit need for a tail, and that from a rendering point of view, including a tail on a biped causes issues with practicalities as such as clothing, sitting down, etc.
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But then, why doth his face be that of too much of an animal, when he could resemble his original Human counterpart? Kinda like when Animators of a cartoon movie draw your facial features onto that of the character you're portraying, in a sense. 
If you study physiology as I have, having a Tail on a biped would actually befit greater from a structoral sense, such as having better poster & less back issues. Same goes to the Hind Legs as well.
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The individual in question, because of his condition, explicitly minimized any identifying marks he could have acquired in life such as a tattoo, which in the fiction I am applying to him and others (such as Kate Cosner) would translate over into their hybrid forms through their markings. In their human selves the echoes of their true nature are equally down played; Asher's irises have a subtle gold hue nearest the pupil, he's unusually fit for a person who doesn't partake in much exercise, etc. It is a choice, and a better one in my opinion, to represent clues to their real forms or alternate ones with only minor respect to the other - thumbs with full opposition and apposition, lack of a tail, more human expressions, speech, and so on.
Zoanthropy (ailuranthropy if we desire to be specific) is not a real condition in the sense that individuals undergo an actual physical change of shape; at best it is a psychological disorder. It is inherently a thing of un-nature - the supernatural - it need not reason to exist, and is often portrayed as a curse with varied reasons for being bestowed, but most of all it need not have a given set of natural results to apply to. It is a futile effort to argue why a weretiger - a creature distinctly beyond the realm of current scientific understanding - should or should not have a tail. There is no explicit requirement or rendition that says "All weretigers have tails." or "All zoanthropes are forced to change under the light of the moon.", among many other things in their compiled lore. If one were so inclined, one could equally wonder why the original modern "wolfman", Lon Chaney, Jr. was used in place of an actual wolf or a stuffed prop - let alone made into just a hairy man with sharpened fangs and nails.
The decision was made for the previously stated reasons.
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Very informative explanation, I must say. Thorough, with proper grammar and thought provoking, too.
But it just still does not answer the question on what would REALLY happen to the Coccyx during the Transformation process, regardless of a just opinion in an Honest & valid equation. Although I deeply admire thou humble creativity, I just cannot fathom to myself on why people would trade in mere 'thoughts' in place for honesty when it comes to creating an imaginary character based on the fundamental values of Equilibrium in the Anatomy of both Bodies of different matter.
Still, I salute thee on this exquisite Battle of the Scientific Logic's, and bid thee adeu & humbly go my merry way & our separate ways, aye verily.
We shall meet again my friend, but only when the time is right...
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I can't imagine that would go over well.
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