overthinking time.

So i was wondering if you can tag a multi-headed creature "solo".
does all the heads count as one individual, as long as they all share the same body?

And as a extension of this.
what if a multi-headed creature is having sex with somebody, does the extra heads count as participants, or is it just a body on another one?

That depends entirely on how that creature is intended: I've seen stories include both methods. I'd say most of it is untaggable due to requiring obscure outside information, so don't worry about it.

I'd consider it as multiple beings sharing a body. And since the nature of anthropomorphic creatures is that they're almost always sentient, the intention is clearly such.
A real-life example would be this pair of human females.

ArdesCadaver said:
I'd consider it as multiple beings sharing a body. And since the nature of anthropomorphic creatures is that they're almost always sentient, the intention is clearly such.
A real-life example would be this pair of human females.

is this a threesome then? post #212453

i don't know, this looks annoying as hell

definitely not better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL20cuMXseM

slyroon said:
So i was wondering if you can tag a multi-headed creature "solo".
does all the heads count as one individual, as long as they all share the same body?

I'd call it a gray area. The body is solo but there's more than one person using it. A few times, it could be argued as one person talking to themselves. I think it would be best to not tag such pictures solo and let multi-head do the work for searching.

what if a multi-headed creature is having sex with somebody, does the extra heads count as participants, or is it just a body on another one?

Perhaps both? In the majority of cases, the extra heads may not be the ones who instigated the sex, but they sure aren't stopping it. Still, the doduo example is too subjective on whether it's a threesome or not (more like a two-and-a-half-some?). Some would argue it's a threesome while others would argue it's a twosome. Using group might be best since that doesn't require a specific number of individuals.

Clawstripe said:
I'd call it a gray area. The body is solo but there's more than one person using it. A few times, it could be argued as one person talking to themselves. I think it would be best to not tag such pictures solo and let multi-head do the work for searching.

I agree with that. All the multi-head solo kind of bugged me, because i don't think they should count as solo.

Clawstripe said:
Perhaps both? In the majority of cases, the extra heads may not be the ones who instigated the sex, but they sure aren't stopping it. Still, the doduo example is too subjective on whether it's a threesome or not (more like a two-and-a-half-some?). Some would argue it's a threesome while others would argue it's a twosome. Using group might be best since that doesn't require a specific number of individuals.

Here is my dilemma, i think a multi-headed shouldn't count as solo, but as far as sex, they should count as one. which contradict my previous statement, since they can't be solo or more than one at the same time *headache*

slyroon said:
Here is my dilemma, i think a multi-headed shouldn't count as solo, but as far as sex, they should count as one. which contradict my previous statement, since they can't be solo or more than one at the same time *headache*

If they're just masturbating, then it falls under the "let multi-head do the work" part. If they're engaged in sex with another individual or individuals, then why not just use group? A group is essentially more than one person, whether any of them have more than one head or not.

Alternatively, when it comes to sex, perhaps we shouldn't be counting the number of heads any one body has, but the number of sets of genitals engaged in sex. If a critter has four heads, but only one set of male genitals diving into a three-headed critter's hindquarters, then one could argue it's a twosome because only two sets of genitals (or one set of genitals and one whatever they're being stuck into) are in play. The problem here is that those unfamiliar with the logic of "count the genitals, not the heads" will go ballistic in the apparent incorrectness of the tag.

Lastly, we could coin a middle of the road term for such scenes, the "more like a two-and-a-half-some?" I mentioned earlier. We could take the number of overall bodies involved (two in the above example) and add "-and-a-half", regardless of how many heads any of the multi-headed individuals have (do you really want to do the necessary math to be more accurate?). Thus, the above example could be described as a two-and-a-half-some. Granted, I find this possibility awkward and likely to cause more headaches in keeping it cleaned up than the other two.