Not sure if its just me but what exactly is the difference between these 4 tags that all refer to characters with anatomy adapted for primarily moving around on a singular bodypart?

apode
Draconcopode
Legless
Uniped

Uniped does refer to a actual jointed leg in its wiki, but in practice it is largely tagged in the same exact manner as the other tags including snake "tail"ed(technically speaking slither on their elongated feral torso and not the actual tail) and mollusk "foot"ed characters..

At least 2 of these do seem unnecessarily redundant, at least 1 of these are also rather unintuitive in their naming for what they are intended to cover.

Uniped at least is fine, it just needs clean up. Maybe renaming it to "one-footed" would make it clearer.

Uniped for characters that have one leg, legless for 0, apode for 0 legs but still moves, and draconcopede for apode but specifically using a snake tail to move. Since draconcopede implies apode, and apode implies legless, most content in all three is just snake tails. Also, feral snakes qualify as apode, but not draconcopede.

scth said:
Uniped for characters that have one leg, legless for 0, apode for 0 legs but still moves, and draconcopede for apode but specifically using a snake tail to move. Since draconcopede implies apode, and apode implies legless, most content in all three is just snake tails. Also, feral snakes qualify as apode, but not draconcopede.

dont both apode and legless move??? nether defines stationary characters or the opposite of stationary.

Also while snake "tails" are most common among draconcopode, the tag's wiki does not actually require the lower body to be that of a snake.

ryu_deacon said:
dont both apode and legless move??? nether defines stationary characters or the opposite of stationary.

Also while snake "tails" are most common among draconcopode, the tag's wiki does not actually require the lower body to be that of a snake.

It does, or at least snake-like. Also apode specifically for land movement, though that would imply that most sea creatures would get legless which just wouldn't be useful to tag.

honestly, we could probably do with a few more, if anything. the categorization for each of these seems pretty overly broad, and could use a split that make the definitions more coherent. like, including gastropods as apode with snakes seems very odd to me when the two have significantly different methods of locomotion.

dba_afish said:
honestly, we could probably do with a few more, if anything. the categorization for each of these seems pretty overly broad, and could use a split that make the definitions more coherent. like, including gastropods as apode with snakes seems very odd to me when the two have significantly different methods of locomotion.

This is true, but do we a) trust that the average shmuck is aware of this and b) that this will be portrayed in a way that can be determined via twys.

regsmutt said:
This is true, but do we a) trust that the average shmuck is aware of this and b) that this will be portrayed in a way that can be determined via twys.

for feral characters the line would probably be pretty easy to draw, for taur/draconcopode characters the lines might get a bit fuzzy.

dba_afish said:
for feral characters the line would probably be pretty easy to draw, for taur/draconcopode characters the lines might get a bit fuzzy.

Even ferals can be kinda weird. Kids cartoons sometimes depict snakes inch-worming, and putting a slug's body into an 's' like it's slithering makes a more dynamic drawing. Then you have worms. And then whatever this is
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I think keeping things to the number of legs is enough.