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Muarw — C: Merbeings 2
Published: 2007-09-26 05:29:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 208; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 3
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Conception sketch for 's Centriiost project.A collection of ideas.
At the top is bust of female and male seahorse merbeings. The female is slimmer with a gentle elongated head while the male is longer and has two small horns at the top. The male also has a carrying pouch on his torso to carry babies. Tail on the right can be of a spiky fish variety.
Octopus merbeing......consists of tendrils and suckers.
at the bottom are two hands, one has webbing and membrane down the arm, the second has soft gills around the wrist and arm.
two tails varieties, the one of the right is more willowy suited to fish species made of clear soft membranes that will waft in water.
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No. No species specifically in mind. But with a project this size and considering I am keen on variety...
Yes, amphibious species. Seals would be good, and otters and ? Not too terribly many NATURAL possibilities. But I think felines, canines and certain fowl will make good amphibious species. Perhaps "mutants". Tigers really like the water, at any rate. Or polar bears.
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seals and otters were drawn ip. was thinking of more frogs amphibious types.....
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Oh! Yes, of course. Sorry.
Umm. Yes indeed. I think some lizards and frogs make nice anthro characters, depending on their styling. STAR FOX has the frog character Slippy already. Poisonarrowdart frogs are so attractive, and the horny/spiked lizards and geckos and salamanders will do nicely, I should think. Yes. Definitely try some of those as two-legged characters, especially if you have a personal interest.
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Ummm. Okay. As "mer-beings". Small problem. I have in mind a few slippery amphibian characters for main parts, and I can hardle write them into much if they do not have legs and freedom of movement. And if you cast frogs and salamanders as mer-beings, then that kind of rules out having any legged specie of the same varities. Hmmm. Is there a mythical sort of amphibian which can be cast as a mer-being specie
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hmmmmmmm
maybe older species....like....ancestors.....of frogs?
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Is that a guess or a suggestion? Your is as good as mine. I'm thinking a sort of unicorn toad or somesuch. Or maybe a colorful frog with bejeweled skin?
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Well, there is something called the "African Horned Toad" I do believe. Besides, when I think "mythical", a unicorn comes first...
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Oh. Well, we are talking about mer-being concepts here, are we not? Definitely sentient mer-beings. So bejeweled femas with an opalescent horn. The males mght be a metallic gold color, with (a) tarnished copper horn(s). Just ideas. You are the SCA girl...
I prefer the more traditional sentient amphibious species/characters to be upright walkers so they may be used more extensively in real supporting roles. Those modeled after poisonarrowdart frogs, various toad species and newts/salamanders. Hmmm. Wait a minute! NEWTS are more/strictly aqautic for a greater part of their life cycle. So any upright newt character should either need a wet environment suit, or a gill breathing apparatus, or characters/an entire sentient specie based off of newts will have to be crafted as mer-beings. I prefer the latter, as I do not think newts will make a very attractive mer-being specie, but try them out either way as you wish.
Anything else you need to be clearer on?
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ah....do you want these to be sentient species or just random fauna?
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Dear Muarw;
The male seahorse having the pouch is how it is in reality, isn't it? I don't mind being unoriginal once in a while, but I like to avoid it whenever I consciously can. So to be different, either the female will have to have the pouch, of the young will simply have to kling to mom and dad on the outside. Or cuddle with mom beneath her breasts, which will work out fine if A; her breasts are large and set low over her ribs and her upper tummy has a bit of a hollow, and B; the specie rarely has more than one offspring at a time and the young tend to become very independant while still quite small, perhaps shortly after outgrowing their little "cuddly hole".
I don't like octopusses very much. Not on principle or anything, but I find them wholely unattractive. And they are not mammals. Keeping an open mnd and realizing that I am not going to have everything my way, I will probably put the concept of an octopus mer-being specie to the polls. How would you tack on the mer-being tail anyway?
Some creatures just do not make good anthro characters. Snakes, spiders, fish. Most mammals are more condusive to anthro translation. Excepting some toughies like dolphins(though I adore them) and killer whales, and other species without distinct legs(Sonic the Hedgehog has the walrus character, Rotor, though). Birds are a tough species to translate on the whole as well, though the Star Fox franchise has sort of set a pattern with their character, Falco.
Seahorses are a natural and the near-traditional head physiology you have presented bears such a likeness to mammal horses that I am in love. They are staying...
I like having options presented to me visually; two styles of arms, three of tails.
A particular style of hand/arm would have to be chosen for each species of mer-being on a "case by" basis. The same with the tails.
I am not keen on the idea of mer-beings of the "spikey fish" varieties. Fish mer-beings do not seem like a good idea to me. However, if you want to try to convince me, I will not object firmly. I think you can find better things for your skills, though. Hmm. How about tails and scales koi colored?
Amiably and with good humor,
~ Skyler
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the male seahorses having the pouch was one reason i like them being original apart from other female mammals carrying the young lol.
octopus was for fun, they would have the normal octopus tentacles instead of tails.
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So you prefer not to change that physiology aspect for the male seahorse mer-beings then?
Someone commenting on Jefita's ATC of Abri-Naque said the big cat anthros look really odd with breasts. I share that sentiment in connection with the octopuss fema you have concepted.
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well there's no point in originality when the end concept is sorta....same?
unless you have another species geared towards male child rearing?
hmmm i find the big cat anthro suit breasts...
but true the octopus may look weird.
do prefer the spiky fish but cant think of how the upper body looks like. also was thinking of amphibious species, which would have more webbed feet and hands instead of a mer tail. what do you think?
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Oh. I get it! You mean the seahorse mer-being is so close to the real thing that you aw no reason not to incorperate the pouch?
Uhmm. As stated obscurely below, I have no pouched males in mind for any particular specie. I rather fancy the idea more for non-sentient species.
The peculiar anthro aspect of big fema cats having breasts is mostly their physical prominence and their location, I imagine...
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i had another thought of how to draw up the male seahorse.....i'll hammer than out in abit and let you see.
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Please make your male seahorse revision a secondary priority...
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