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First I would like to say that if this was already talked about feel free to lock/delete. (It seems like such an interesting topic in my opinion.)
Ok. Has anyone noticed that most wolves/canines (not felines) are usually some hue of dark grey, black or white? I know there aren't many other plain colors but why these three? It doesn't bother me really but I never see anyone with brown or light grey colorations. It just always seemed strange to me. Here is a good example:
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Most of the wolves here (at the MC) are some shade of black, white, or dark grey. There is only one 'brownish' colored wolf here. I've also noticed most of the canines have the same markings also. The markings seem to follow:
Skeleton markings that are the same color as the pelt:
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Tiger markings same as the pelt:
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And a few others. I never see people using the same markings on felines really. I just find it strange that people seem to like black, grey, and white colored wolves better than brown, peach, and light grey.
Does anyone notice this? (And no, I have nothing against people using black, grey or white colored charries.)
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Hmm... This is a point I've never thought about.
Though, the main ones I see are pure black, pure black w/ white underbelly, and pure white.
Sometimes I see shades of gray.
I think brown and light gray are just those colors that take too long to make.
Pitch black? Slide everything to the left!
Pure white? The opposite!
Grays? Just plop the sliders next to each other somewhere on the scale.
But brown? Nah, just do black, it's faster.
Besides, black is just that color that means 'spooky' or 'mysterious' or 'evil', and is used a lot.
A lot of people think of black and blood red as 'evil', when really, it's WHITE and dark red.
So, therefor, evil characters must ALWAYS be black because they are.
Though people seem to forget people aren't just born evil, but what am I to say?
And as stated before, the colors are easier to make.
So...
Yea.
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Hmm... This is a point I've never thought about.
Though, the main ones I see are pure black, pure black w/ white underbelly, and pure white.
Sometimes I see shades of gray.
I think brown and light gray are just those colors that take too long to make.
Pitch black? Slide everything to the left!
Pure white? The opposite!
Grays? Just plop the sliders next to each other somewhere on the scale.
But brown? Nah, just do black, it's faster.
Besides, black is just that color that means 'spooky' or 'mysterious' or 'evil', and is used a lot.
A lot of people think of black and blood red as 'evil', when really, it's WHITE and dark red.
So, therefor, evil characters must ALWAYS be black because they are.
Though people seem to forget people aren't just born evil, but what am I to say?
And as stated before, the colors are easier to make.
So...
Yea.
People do usually use black charries to represent a demon or 'person with a horrific past'. They have bright red eyes that are usually the glowing slit or the 'fire' eye and are all black. Even their markings. It just gets kind of boring seeing the same colored charries all the time. I usually take my time when creating charries like my brown wolf OOC Sagitta and my blonde colored wolf Xylina. xD It doesn't take very long to slide the tabs all the way to the left.
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Yeah the typical FeralHeart wolf/canine is usually jet black, really dark grey or white, or a two of them at once. I'm not sure why this is. I think maybe people generally see black or white wolves as 'cool' and so they make characters like that. It seems to be a bit of a trend, since a lot of people make these charries and have perhaps caught on the this 'black wolf, white wolf' trend.
Particularly in Bonfire, I rarely see a canine that is any other neutral colour (about from the German shepherds), which I think is a real shame. I like brownish coloured wolves and it would be nice to see some people breaking the trend.
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Yeah the typical FeralHeart wolf/canine is usually jet black, really dark grey or white, or a two of them at once. I'm not sure why this is. I think maybe people generally see black or white wolves as 'cool' and so they make characters like that. It seems to be a bit of a trend, since a lot of people make these charries and have perhaps caught on the this 'black wolf, white wolf' trend.
Particularly in Bonfire, I rarely see a canine that is any other neutral colour (about from the German shepherds), which I think is a real shame. I like brownish coloured wolves and it would be nice to see some people breaking the trend.
I know exactly what you mean. It's a shame people don't make brown, light grey, or blonde charries. Whenever I do see them it's very nice but almost strange because they're so uncommon. When I first started playing Feral Heart I noticed this but I never really questioned it. I just went along and made dark colored carries, but I never made 0,0,0 because it just seemed to unnatural and to unrealistic for my liking.
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I've got a brown wolf character named Tavarnis and a brownish half-demon wolf named Hunson Abadeer. I just don't use them very often :(
Anyway, I pretty much agree with y'all. Everywhere I go, I see these jet black and pure white wolves. Last time I checked, wolves could be black, white, reddish, russet, gray and maybe even tan. (pardon my lack of knowledge about wolf coloration.)
As to why these monochromatic characters are so abundant, it's probably a mixture of being easy to make and the cliche of "white=good, black=evil". Either way, not too creative and definitely not unique.
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Blah, I guess I'm one of those people. Just more of a blue-grey. ;o;
I didn't do it for evil/good thing though, I did it to resemble Anubis.
LET THE DOMINO ANIMALS RULE THE WORLD, FUFUFUFUFU.
On a side note, I'm sick of black and white creatures and the neon ones. Both are overly common and annoying. :I Well the black and white ones not as much as the neon ones. I hope you like eyesores :I!
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I know right! most characters are pure black!
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Funny thing is I saw the exact same type of wolf with black pelt, white underfur and black tiger markings :'D
I have to say, I do have a rather dark grey wolf myself, his eyes being green, and his name simply being Sparrow. His past isn't horrificly horrible with his parents dying from hunters and he having to live alone as in orphan begging to be adopted in bonfire island however. He's just a dark woof.
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Blah, I guess I'm one of those people. Just more of a blue-grey. ;o;
I didn't do it for evil/good thing though, I did it to resemble Anubis.
LET THE DOMINO ANIMALS RULE THE WORLD, FUFUFUFUFU.
On a side note, I'm sick of black and white creatures and the neon ones. Both are overly common and annoying. :I Well the black and white ones not as much as the neon ones. I hope you like eyesores :I!
XD Yours is purty cool. I think it's unique. I mean ALL black or ALL grey. Yours has some nice colors. c:
Funny thing is I saw the exact same type of wolf with black pelt, white underfur and black tiger markings :'D
I have to say, I do have a rather dark grey wolf myself, his eyes being green, and his name simply being Sparrow. His past isn't horrificly horrible with his parents dying from hunters and he having to live alone as in orphan begging to be adopted in bonfire island however. He's just a dark woof.
xD See what I mean?
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Its probably the children wanting to impress ladies, or ladies attracting men and have children and basiclly try to think that black and neon wolves or black and red, etc are realistic.
But yeah, its in Bonfire's Blood. Coloration Attraction in MC Grammar, PHD! >_>
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Those dark characters are often attention seekers wailing about their horrific past of tragidy, dying and whatnot. Seeing a nice toned dusky brown wolf in FH is rare now, as I mostly see completely black wolves with red scar markings running around. I have no grey/black/white characters in my charrie slots right now. I think it's kind of plain and un-original. Have fun with your colors! There are endless possibilities. c:
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Ahh, yes. My character is grayish and white. The reason why is because I don't like my characters began neon, blue, purple, or pink, etc. Though I have nothing against those colors,
except for pink. I hate pink. Probably, people making their characters gray/white/black is because they want to look realistic. Sure, I want to look realistic but I put dark bat wings on my charrie. x3
And what Tariri said before me - I agree with her. Sometimes, they just want to make their characters look dark and seem like they had a horrible past. So...yeah. I have nothing wrong with this, just pointing it out.
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Ah, yes, yes. I understand and agree. A lot of newbies will usually go for the darkest color possible, but you could be a super un-newbie and still use colors like that. I do see a lot of, well, females usually, being a plain white or pitch black. I, myself, use dark gray, light gray, black, etc. But I like it this way, and the others must enjoy it, too. Maybe otherwise they'd think their 'sparkle dogs'. I dunno, but whatever.
I just notice a lot of wolves are pitch black or white, nowadays. Sometimes gray, yes, like myself.
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I don't see why people make so many black wolves.... When grey wolves are the most common and well-known. It's gotten to the point for me where I refuse to make a black or white wolf, just to be 'That realistic floof in the corner.' If I do make a black character for whatever reason, I'll usually place the sliders light enough to at least see the fur texture. I mean come on, pitch black in my opinion equals no creativity in the character ::)
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For me alot of my characters [mostly wolf characters] are brown and to make them more realistic i use hellion marking for body, ear rims, etc and like have a light brown and make the markings a bit darker brown to simulate a wolf pelt. Other then that i really like grey, brown, light grey, light brown and sometimes a somewhat modest red color markings with grey pelt. For some reason I prefer bright non-neon colors like a pure white wolf with black tail tip and ear rims. or a light grey. I think the colors in mentioned in this forum are popular colors people like to use.
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Blah, I guess I'm one of those people. Just more of a blue-grey. ;o;
I didn't do it for evil/good thing though, I did it to resemble Anubis.
LET THE DOMINO ANIMALS RULE THE WORLD, FUFUFUFUFU.
On a side note, I'm sick of black and white creatures and the neon ones. Both are overly common and annoying. :I Well the black and white ones not as much as the neon ones. I hope you like eyesores :I!
Ermahgurd Asmodeus Poisontooth! Redwall! -Huggles- Even if you don't know it, you are doing something for me right now xD
And I agree with the fact Flob hadYeah the typical FeralHeart wolf/canine is usually jet black, really dark grey or white, or a two of them at once. I'm not sure why this is. I think maybe people generally see black or white wolves as 'cool' and so they make characters like that. It seems to be a bit of a trend, since a lot of people make these charries and have perhaps caught on the this 'black wolf, white wolf' trend.
Particularly in Bonfire, I rarely see a canine that is any other neutral colour (about from the German shepherds), which I think is a real shame. I like brownish coloured wolves and it would be nice to see some people breaking the trend.
Because it is true, I love making mah charries a 'red' colour, also known as brown... but many people on here like jet black.
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I don't see why people make so many black wolves.... When grey wolves are the most common and well-known. It's gotten to the point for me where I refuse to make a black or white wolf, just to be 'That realistic floof in the corner.' If I do make a black character for whatever reason, I'll usually place the sliders light enough to at least see the fur texture. I mean come on, pitch black in my opinion equals no creativity in the character ::)
I agree one hundred percent. Pitch black is not very creative or realistic. I have a black wolf thats not pitch black, its light enough for one to see fur texture and once again hellion body marking and i make it light greyish/white tint (moderately so it doesn't look stupid) since i seen a wolf in real life like that.
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Well, I once had a Pitch-black character wich was kind of a shadowcreature. Genderless. And neutral. I think about re-creating her.. just for fun. 'She' did have a tragic past (I was a newbie back then, so I thought that was very original), but otherwise, she was fine. No red eyes or blood anywhere.
My point, if you don't have any reason to make a character pitchblack, don't make it pitchblack. Shadows for example can be 'pitchblack'. Wolves and Nightfuries however.. no.
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Well, I once had a Pitch-black character wich was kind of a shadowcreature. Genderless. And neutral. I think about re-creating her.. just for fun. 'She' did have a tragic past (I was a newbie back then, so I thought that was very original), but otherwise, she was fine. No red eyes or blood anywhere.
My point, if you don't have any reason to make a character pitchblack, don't make it pitchblack. Shadows for example can be 'pitchblack'. Wolves and Nightfuries however.. no.
Considering the fur texture I guess it would be reasonable for a Nightfury to be black.
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Well, I once had a Pitch-black character wich was kind of a shadowcreature. Genderless. And neutral. I think about re-creating her.. just for fun. 'She' did have a tragic past (I was a newbie back then, so I thought that was very original), but otherwise, she was fine. No red eyes or blood anywhere.
My point, if you don't have any reason to make a character pitchblack, don't make it pitchblack. Shadows for example can be 'pitchblack'. Wolves and Nightfuries however.. no.
Considering the fur texture I guess it would be reasonable for a Nightfury to be black.
I have seen some grey nightfuries before, but rarely. It's more creative when they aren't all black and have red eyes. It can get kind of boring. Especially if you are RPing with other nightfuries. It could get kind of weird RPing: *The black nightfury looked at the other black nightfury.* After all, if ya' have Ringo and Daily's item pack. the nightfury tail is somewhat of a greyish green. (If I'm correct.)
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Well, I once had a Pitch-black character wich was kind of a shadowcreature. Genderless. And neutral. I think about re-creating her.. just for fun. 'She' did have a tragic past (I was a newbie back then, so I thought that was very original), but otherwise, she was fine. No red eyes or blood anywhere.
My point, if you don't have any reason to make a character pitchblack, don't make it pitchblack. Shadows for example can be 'pitchblack'. Wolves and Nightfuries however.. no.
Considering the fur texture I guess it would be reasonable for a Nightfury to be black.
I have seen some grey nightfuries before, but rarely. It's more creative when they aren't all black and have red eyes. It can get kind of boring. Especially if you are RPing with other nightfuries. It could get kind of weird RPing: *The black nightfury looked at the other black nightfury.* After all, if ya' have Ringo and Daily's item pack. the nightfury tail is somewhat of a greyish green. (If I'm correct.)
Please don't stray off-topic.
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I have also realized this, I think it could be because black goes well with any color. Usually people have 'dark' characters, if you know what I mean, with mysterious personalities, and the look goes well. Down in Fluorite and the South Pole there are a huge variety of colors when there are many people. cx
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Well, for some younger players, it's harder to make pretty colors like brown, peach, etc. When I first joined I remembered having the worst trouble with it, so I made either really color-clashing browns, or black and white characters. (I'm loads better now, but I can sympathize.)
And heck, sometimes people just are not too good with 'art', or making good color combinations. I know several people who are quite good at writing and other things, but they... just aren't too good with colors/making their makings look original.
I'm sure it's simple for maybe you guys to make a character, but other people sometimes just can't.
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i have too many black wolves, and only two brown ones ;-;
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Try looking up color schemes, you might like some :>. I do that sometimes if I run out of ideas.