Feral Heart

How could you forget banners, tassels and flags? They're all apparently synonymous with 'tail'. Apparently. There's also orbs, spheres and optics- which are frequently used to describe eyes.

Even so, the thread's a good giggle (+floof'd)! Wolfspeak's one of the few things I completely loathe in-game; I can understand it after a spot of scrutinizing, but I'd genuinely rather roleplay with a chat-speaker. It's just too much purple prose for my personal tastes. Good for you if that's your preferred method of roleplay, I'm just staying well away from you; the pretentious lanuage leaves me so confused and flustered. I've left so many groups because of it!

It reminds me of the roleplay I had the misfortune of reading a week or two ago in Ficho. Whilst I completely respect other's styles, this one person seemingly flung open a thesaurus, picked the longest word listed there and crushed it into their roleplay, irrespective of its meaning. It was genuinely several paragraphs of something along the lines of:


I believe I was blocked after politely attempting to correct them, initially pointing out that cinctures are these, not eyelids. I'd honestly rather see people go for the more simplistic terms! I've an extensive biological vocabulary from the four years of my degree, yet I'll still refer to pieces of anatomy as their common names; it allows a wider variety of roleplayers to interact with you, as opposed to a select few who can scarcely understand what you're babbling on about.

Edit: WAIT I ZOOMED INTO THAT PICTURE. I CAN'T-... DEAD. AFHG-. Also screenshotted the roleplay I was talking about!

I'm fine with whatever others make- providing it's not too sore on the eyes. Sometimes, that luminious green and pink monstrosity isn't such a great idea; they're occasionally physically painful to look at- which makes roleplaying with such characters a difficult feat (unless you're equipped with sunglasses...)!

In terms of character design, I tend to keep my own realistic- though I've two with unrealistic (though very muted) colouration. Even then, I've no preference as to whether the roleplay's an unrealistic fantasy or a realistic pack- I just prefer natural colours on my own characters.

Nearly all of my characters are realistic, or try to be as near to it as possible on FeralHeart. I've downloaded mods for realistic fur textures, mask, and even realistic roars and howls. XD Love me realism, I do.
It's mainly the serious RP characters that are really realistic; the ones that I just sometimes derp about on are more semi-realistic. I have to look up the species of my character on google or something when I'm in the process of making it, just so it looks as realistic as it can.
I can't think of a good reason why I don't like unrealistic characters...I just don't. I think it's may because it sends out the message (to me at least) that the person didn't really put much thought or effort into making their character and just threw some bright colours together. But I'm not totally sure; must just be one of those things that gets to me.

My unrealistic characters (one's in a serious, long-term roleplay!) often take longer to make than my realistic characters- mainly since I attempt to make them look like a plausible creature, as opposed to a spontaneously throwing together a mishmash of neon purples and blacks. Not all of them are lazy; even realistic characters can easily be made with a haphazard mixture of muted brows and greys with ease!

I do understand your point though; everyone has their own personal tastes! Just had to ramble a little, apologies!

I've been curious about this, too!

My profiles are generally a few paragraphs describing their appearance and mannerisms; I tend not to include histories after people began taking that OOC information into the realm of IC. Either that or a brief history, but I'd rather people found out that information through interaction as opposed to simply scrolling through a biography. I-... Just aim to describe anything that's not on the model presented to other players whilst giving them a brief glimpse into the character's personality.

The characters I'm not intending to roleplay seriously or long-term generally have short biographies, or none at all.

Upload it to an image hosting sight such as imageshack, photobucket or imgur (imgur's my personal favourite!), then yoink the "Direct Link" url and slap it between two img brackets!

Otherwise, amazing entry! I adore the colours you've used- and the designs of the characters. Good luck!

Ahfhsjfhst, thanks a million! I'm honoured!

And I tried (key word: tried!) to belay a different atmosphere in each image, though I think my woeful inexperience with acrylics does show. And it's a relief that it's not too late; had to rush a lot after oil-paint-disaster #4! Even so, the contest was a wonderful excuse to doodle some of my friend's characters! ;3;

But thank you, thank yooooouuuuuuu! Not worthyyyy! *flops*