You can show a severed_head without showing or even implying the act of decapitation. Example: wall-mounted animal heads.

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Currently uses disembodied_head to get around the implication, but that doesn't really fit.

To use disembodied_head would be to use all three in a picture showing decapitation. Seems pointless so I agree with OP.

Damn.

I agree wih this unimplication, however it raises some issues.

Currently, the wiki for disembodied_penis states that the tag is used when penis is either partially visible, or floating. This means that the tag is used when the owner of the penis is not present on the image. In other words, if we want to be consistent, disembodied_(body_part) tags should be used when the body_part is present on the image, but its controller is not.

As such, disembodied_head should also be used only when the head of a character is present but the rest of the character is not.

This means, that current usage of disembodied_head is wrong. And all images containing a both a character and its detached head should be fixed.

Besides the original removal of implication, I propose the following:

• detachable_head be unaliased from detached_head
• severed_head be aliased to detached_head, because the word "severed" is too specific - it means the head was cut or sliced off, where in fact it could've been torn off, or removed with magic or whatever.
• We should use detached_(body_part) whenever both the body_part and its controller are present on the image
• I'm not sure what to do with headless tag. Perhaps we could use (bodypart)-less tags when a character is present, but is missing this body part. And then all of these tags could imply amputee? Or maybe replaced with amputated_(body_part)?

Object modelling: object -> character -> body_parts -> body_part -> head -> <detached>head -> <bleeding,detached>head.. so basically, the fact that a character's head is not directly attached to the rest of the character is a simply a special property of a body part.