It must be terrible to try to share a booth at a restaurant with a Lamia-type species.

I actively check the XCOM tag for content like this

That burger looks unhappy.

TangibleCraze said:
That burger looks unhappy.

Well it IS being eaten....

I beg to differ.. one could enjoy the closeness of sharing a booth with a lamia.

spider26 said:
I beg to differ.. one could enjoy the closeness of sharing a booth with a lamia.

The lack of leg space would quickly make it uncomfortable.

TangibleCraze said:
That burger looks unhappy.

Wait how unhappy it looks when it comes back out again x.x

Lamia become the booth.

I swear this is an old pic, has been here for ages... why is it uploaded again?
Also, mmmmm, ADVENT burgers!

spider26 said:
I beg to differ.. one could enjoy the closeness of sharing a booth with a lamia.

Dunno why people call Vipers nagas or lamias... in anime, maybe they look snake-like, but in D&D lamias are lion-taurs and nagas are just snakes with human-like heads. Call them Anthro Snakes, and then everyone will know what you are talking about.

Just one burger? I think she'd need the whole cow for a complete meal.

SwiftNimblefoot said:
Dunno why people call Vipers nagas or lamias... in anime, maybe they look snake-like, but in D&D lamias are lion-taurs and nagas are just snakes with human-like heads. Call them Anthro Snakes, and then everyone will know what you are talking about.

Terms vary, so I'm not too broken up about it. Naga and Lamia have become synonymous, and both refer to this roughly anthro-snake body type.

SwiftNimblefoot said:
Dunno why people call Vipers nagas or lamias... in anime, maybe they look snake-like, but in D&D lamias are lion-taurs and nagas are just snakes with human-like heads. Call them Anthro Snakes, and then everyone will know what you are talking about.

Baomosi said:
Terms vary, so I'm not too broken up about it. Naga and Lamia have become synonymous, and both refer to this roughly anthro-snake body type.

The terms "Naga" and "Lamia" have always been muddy in fantasy, but anthro-snake would imply legs, so the lamia and naga tags here both describe a creature with a snake lower body and a humanoid torso. The difference is that naga implies that the upper body is also snake-like, whereas a lamia can have a human or furry upper body.

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Fifteen said:
The terms "Naga" and "Lamia" have always been muddy in fantasy, but anthro-snake would imply legs, so the lamia and naga tags here both describe a creature with a snake lower body and a humanoid torso. The difference is that naga implies that the upper body is also snake-like, whereas a lamia can have a human or furry upper body.

My main problem with that is that while the mythical Lamia indeed had a snake lower body, Indian mythology has Nagas the same as D&D/Pathfinder - large snakes with human heads, no torsos.

SwiftNimblefoot said:
My main problem with that is that while the mythical Lamia indeed had a snake lower body, Indian mythology has Nagas the same as D&D/Pathfinder - large snakes with human heads, no torsos.

Except when you look it up, Lamia has been portrayed as many things besides a snake, as have the naga divinities. D&D went with a certain set of interpretations which codified how the words are used now, but a lot of people would still use the two interchangably when tagging, so instead of aliasing one to the other, it just got split that way.

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