I know this might be a huge noob question, and I'm pretty sure I already know the answer but I gotta ask to be sure. The key point here are the lack of legs/ feral bottom half

Generally Lamia/Nagas as well as Merfolk and most other similar "half feral body"-type species are tagged based on their torso, so an lamia with an anthro cat torso would be tagged with anthro cat and lamia and a lamia with a human body would be tagged with Lamia and humaniod.

I think that taur are tagged differently, though.

darryus said:
Generally Lamia/Nagas as well as Merfolk and most other similar "half feral body"-type species are tagged based on their torso, so an lamia with an anthro cat torso would be tagged with anthro cat and lamia and a lamia with a human body would be tagged with Lamia and humaniod.

I think that taur are tagged differently, though.

thanks friendo

Similar to how Taurs don't get either tag, I think Lamia don't get either either. In some cases, Naga might work as an anthro (such as an anthro Snake that only has arms, not legs), but I don't believe Lamia counts as snake_humanoid.

Naga are currently mostly separate from the main form tags, but including them in anthro would make most sense: they're animal-like, and clearly anthropomorphic (snakes with arms).

Anthros are usually bipeds, so it's not a perfect fit. But it's a better fit than any other category.

Genjar said:
Naga are currently mostly separate from the main form tags, but including them in anthro would make most sense: they're animal-like, and clearly anthropomorphic (snakes with arms).

Anthros are usually bipeds, so it's not a perfect fit. But it's a better fit than any other category.

Okay, so we agree on the Naga bit, but what about Lamia? The way I see it is that it's the legless variant of Taur and shouldn't get either.

Lamia are split_form. The closest main category would be animal_humanoid (since mermaids and such were already deemed to be animal_humanoid), but simply tagging them as split_form is probably enough.

Related question that's been bothering me for awhile: how should inter-form relations (like anthro_on_feral, human_on_anthro, etc) between split_forms (which is a tag I didn't know existed since there aren't any wiki pages that link to it) and other forms be tagged? Previously I was tagging it based on their top half, since that seemed to be the standard but it didn't feel quite right. Should we start using X_on_split_form?

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Genjar said:
The closest main category would be animal_humanoid (since mermaids and such were already deemed to be animal_humanoid), but simply tagging them as split_form is probably enough.

is for characters that have human skin rather than fur/scales/etc covering their body, tho. What if the character is half snake half anthro fox? What if it's a feral pony?

Case-by-case. Most lamia have human torsos, so animal_humanoid fits.

But that pony for instance? If gryphons are feral, then so is that thing. Half-feral pony/half-feral snake is still feral, just a split_form feral.

darryus said:
What if it's a feral pony?

I wonder if that wouldn't count as a hippocampus, despite being a land-based tail instead of a water-based one.