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"a random thought on character aesthetics"
 
   I was just thinking about details I really enjoy in character/costume designs, and I've realized that there's a general class of features that I really, really dig: holes in clothes to support non-standard anatomical features. Ear/horn holes in hats, backless tops for wings, tail holes in pants, that kinda thing. Especially hats. I love me a demon woman with a hat or hood that has holes for her horns.

How about the rest of the class? Are there design touches that are a nearly automatic win for you?

--G.
I also seem to have developed a thing for characters who appear to be blindfolded but don't act like they are, like 2B and Trigger
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Spectrum Oct-23-25 1
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics rwpikul Oct-23-25 2
     RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Gryphonadmin Oct-23-25 3
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Nova Floresca Oct-23-25 4
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics ImpulsiveAlexia Oct-24-25 5
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics StClair Oct-24-25 6
     RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Kendra Kirai Oct-24-25 7
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics TsukaiStarburst Oct-24-25 8
     RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Verbena Oct-24-25 9
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics ImpulsiveAlexia Oct-26-25 10
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Pasha Nov-25-25 11
  RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Gryphonadmin Feb-28-26 12
     RE: a random thought on character aesthetics Peter Eng Feb-28-26 13

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Spectrum
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Oct-23-25, 00:41 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   The philosophy of having to make tail holes in chairs actually really tickles me.


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2. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   This brings about the image of you having to explain that you're poking around FurAffinity and e621 for the clothing, really.

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3. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   >This brings about the image of you having to explain that you're
>poking around FurAffinity and e621 for the clothing, really.

My usual range stops at kemonomimi and doesn't extend to full furry, but there are exceptions. Some franchises have very advanced "I'm not a furry, BUT" characters. (Looking at you, Pulchra.) :)

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Nova Floresca
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4. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   My personal favorite are juxtapositions that look natural, like a girl riding her lion sword-valet to school. You could easily make such an idea be very over the top, but no, it just fits.

Sidenote, I'd watch a whole series about the girl and the lion sword-valet. Or just a lion at a school in general. Maybe as a member of the student council, seeing as lions are sticklers about the rules.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."


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ImpulsiveAlexia
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Oct-24-25, 04:24 AM (EST)
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5. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   Haibane Renmei has a touch of this, with the scene of her new clothes getting wing holes cut in it.

... Though I also remember being particularly charmed by how Misha's wings in Pita-Ten seemed to be selectively physical. (It being some time since I watched the anime, I can only assume there's some scene where someone or something touches them to make this stand out from the pack of "This just isn't explored or explained.")

Maybe I just like wings in general. >>

-IA.

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6. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   LAST EDITED ON Oct-24-25 AT 06:23 AM (EDT)
 
For a while, back in the late 80s, I was quite taken with a style of dress where the bodice is connected to the collar, and sleeves to the bodice, leaving the shoulders bare - e.g., Psylocke's original costume (see below), or Sylphie the shopkeeper from Capcom's Forgotten Worlds (1988).

https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Psylocke-Marvel-Comics-X-Men-1987-pink-costume-big.jpg?x

I haven't seen many examples since then, so I'm guessing it fell out of fashion just as quickly. The only ones I can recall offhand are worn by Padme in Attack of the Clones (2002) - the pale yellow "Lake Gown" and (in a rather infamous scene that practically defines "mixed signals") the black "Corset Gown".


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Kendra Kirai
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7. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   LAST EDITED ON Oct-24-25 AT 06:28 AM (EDT)
 
See also whatever Sylia's wearing here.


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TsukaiStarburst
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8. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   LAST EDITED ON Oct-24-25 AT 12:29 PM (EDT)
 
I think that a good hat can make a marvelous addition to one's image. On a roleplay place, I once played one of the megaman zero reploids (Burble Hekelot/Frog), whose only concession to the idea of NOT being a neon coloured panel line robot was that he really liked to wear a very eclectic assortment of hats. It eventually became his defining feature and what others recognized as his funny gimmick.

I've tested it out to varying degrees of success since then, putting hats on otherwise non-humanoid or non-anthropomorphic robots (WALL-E style stuff), and it really helps me spark off.

Of course, the same can also be said for non-robot and human characters- things that immediately come to mind are the fact that many of Sakura Kinomoto's unique costumes in Cardcaptor Sakura usually include a REALLY NICE hat.

And to say nothing of Girl Genius' jaegers, for whom the whole idea of a snappy hat is practically a fundamental part of their nature.


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9. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   "And any plan in which you lose your hat is...?"

"A bad plan!"

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ImpulsiveAlexia
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Oct-26-25, 02:38 PM (EST)
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10. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   > holes in clothes to support non-standard anatomical features.

Now that I think about it, I'm surprised there's not any reference to this in Interspecies Reviewers; it seems like the kind of detail that series lives for.

-IA.

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11. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   This will surprise precisely nobody who knows me, but: A long coat or cloak. Specifically one weighted such that the bottom parts of it bellow out a bit when walking or running.

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12. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   >I also seem to have developed a thing for characters
>who appear to be blindfolded but don't act like they are, like 2B and
>Trigger

I said this last October, and then a few months later, along comes the Endministrator--in a game full of characters who have nonstandard anatomy accommodated by their clothes, to boot.

How did they know?

--G.
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13. "RE: a random thought on character aesthetics"
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   Like calculus, some ideas just appear in two or more people's minds independently, and are released nearly simultaneously.

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