Anthro Flox Options

[Poi]

I'm an anthro flox, so why can't I be an anthro flox? Simply make a nice flower to go on my back, like wings

Would make me ever so happy, I'm sure a few others!

[Xenon]

I'm an anthro flox, so why can't I be an anthro flox? Simply make a nice flower to go on my back, like wings

Would make me ever so happy, I'm sure a few others!

I bet a lot of people could appreciate a flower-on-back digos, especially people with anthro Ivysaurs. xD

Not a bad idea, but I don't know if it would have /enough/ supporters.

[Blizzard-Sama]

Interesting Idea. I have to agree with Xenon though.

[Runetta Reborn]

I support this! I've been wanting to make an anthro flox for RP purposes.

Did you know the flox's flower counts as wings? It's true! (: Put on your flox and walk across the clouds in the Vinca or soar down from the outlook point in The Wylde to the land below!

So why not just sell the flower as wings that can go on any spacies? (:

[Xenon]

I support this! I've been wanting to make an anthro flox for RP purposes.

Did you know the flox's flower counts as wings? It's true! (: Put on your flox and walk across the clouds in the Vinca or soar down from the outlook point in The Wylde to the land below!

So why not just sell the flower as wings that can go on any spacies? (:

They are making an update so that wings can be worn on ferians. So perhaps they will do vise versa with the Flox's flower, aside from placing them on Foxes of course.

[Seley]

Neat idea!

DEP's been talking for a while about being able to buy all kinds of add-ons for your avatar like wings you can swap out and hats and paw-held items. The flox's flower might be a neat idea.

[Ghost Tiger]

Ooh, can I be a fliger?

[Definated]

Ooh, can I be a fliger?

Only if you use your imagination.

[Talzhemir]

A giant exotic flower upon the back is a possibility for a Seasonal Digo "charm". However, weighed against its addition are the questions, "What kind of a world do we get if we add it?" and "How many Furcadia players would actually want this?"

Wings? Many. Flowers? Well... maybe not that many...?

Currently, the main character concept in pop culture that involves a creature with a flower on its back is Pokemon.

As much as I love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love lovelove love love love love love love love love lovelove love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love lovelove love love love love love love love love love and love Pokemon... I'm pretty sure I don't want Furcadia to turn into the Pokemon world.

That's not to say that the flower-back thing is "bad". If a Seasonal back-adorning flower is added, we might hint that it's connected to the Feyfurres, who can be nature-spirit type furries.

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Currently Existing Dragonlands Canon
Creatures With A Floral Connection

The Curcupine: a gentle and mute giant created by sorcery. It has spines like a cactus and it photosynthesizes. (It can learn to sign, too.)
http://www.thegenieslamp.com/Fur/bestiary/curcupine.htm

The Lichenthrope: a furre body reanimated by a scary fungus. The Furcadian equivalent of a zombie invasion! http://www.thegenieslamp.com/Fur/bestiary/lichenthrope.htm

The Faerie Furre: often a mix of different species, sometimes winged, and capable of taking on a tiny form.
http://www.thegenieslamp.com/Fur/bestiary/evilfaerie.htm

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Seasonal Digo avatars can be more free-wheeling and wacky, such as the flox and flying toaster. They exist deliberately with no clear explanation. It's left up to the player to explain why they're a talking toaster, for instance. We try to pick whimsical things, on purpose.

The rest, the non-seasonal ("canon") Digo avatars, are limited to ones that work well in a medieval fantasy setting with furries. If a lengthy explanation is required, it's avoided. Furcadia's medieval fantasy RP has one base-line fiction setting called the Dragonlands. That's where Kasuria, Drakoria, the Primes, the Feyfurres, the Vampfurres, and all the rest come in. The Dragonlands is engineered to be very understandable, to give the maximum roleplay interaction with the minimum of web-page reading. Therefore, in casual roleplaying, there will be a minimum of bickering over what can and can't exist.

For example, in the Dragonlands, the Ferians (a.k.a. Werefurres and Lycanthians) have a very short canon explanation: it's the result of some kind of curse. Mythicals also have a short canon explanation: they're the more magical races created by various Primes.

The division is important because the canon avatars are designed to lend themselves to reasonable adaptation to other genres in one blanket move. In science fiction, they can be "uplifts", for instance, natural creatures genetically altered to be sentient (such as Traveller's Vargr). They may be explained as "coincidentals" (like Niven's Kzinti). Coincidentals aren't related to the earthly species, they just happen to resemble them.

Although you *can* rationalize why there's a kiwi or a toaster with butterfly wings on a starship, its presence tends to require a lengthy explanation. Also, the presence of seasonal avatars strongly legitimizes less serious RP. ("Why can't my head turn into a basket of flowers? This is a world with flying toasters.")

Therefore, individual Dream owners can shut down Seasonals, if they wish, and, there's Dragonspeak to filter out "seasonals" if the Dream owner wishes.

Canon avatars are added at the time of an update. That means that patching them into something else can be done by the Dream Owner if they should so desire. Patching them into other races is a more manageable feat than patching EVERYTHING.

Any number of Seasonal critters can be added and, as the name implies, they can show up at any time, with no warning. The Dream owner who has Seasonals disabled in their Dream doesn't need to worry that dancing broomsticks will suddenly invade the Death Star. (If you are RPing Star Trek Next Generation, however, it is reasonable to assume this is Q's doing and Captain Picard will somehow have to get him to stop.)

Incidentally, the Kiwi counts as a Seasonal and not a Ferian, although Ferians technically can end up in bird form. Furres cursed to be kiwis are "aviani". The aviani form has two major disadvantages. 1) Unlike other Ferian forms, it's easy to kill. 2) It's not ever sentient, it's a "dumb" animal. That makes them at best, extremely difficult characters to roleplay, and at worst, lunch. It's lumped in with Seasonals rather than Ferians because it ups the "goofiness factor".
http://www.furcadia.com/roleplay/weres.html

[Shinichi Kudo]

Nobody likes Furlings, yet they exist o.o Well, sure, there are people who like them but I very rarely see Furlings. We already have a flox, thus a flower-back sounds nice in my opinion ... *votes for poinsettias*

[Justin StinCoy]

Quoth Talzhemir:
The Curcupine: a gentle and mute giant created by sorcery. It has spines like a cactus and it photosynthesizes. (It can learn to sign, too.)

Sounds a lot like the barometz or vegetable lamb of Tartary.

Seasonal Digo avatars can be more free-wheeling and wacky, such as the flox and flying toaster. They exist deliberately with no clear explanation. It's left up to the player to explain why they're a talking toaster, for instance. We try to pick whimsical things, on purpose.

I always assumed the Toasterwings were just Chim having a lark. Either that or Fey Furres have been snacking on suspicious-looking mushrooms...

[Damadar]

We have several furlings that sit in our circle in Naia! Feel free to stop by sometime!

[Shinichi Kudo]

We have several furlings that sit in our circle in Naia! Feel free to stop by sometime! ;)

I know that, but I mean Furlings who don't hang out in Naia, The Haven and maybe Lost Lake. I rarely see Furlings outside those dreams. I have no statistics, but I believe that they're one of the least used (if not -the- least used) digos on Furcadia.

[Seley]

They're also one of the newest, haven't had time to accumulate users yet. :3

[Shinichi Kudo]

They're also one of the newest, haven't had time to accumulate users yet. :3

They were added at the same time as foxes, but I see many of them. P:

[Seley]

Doesn't mean nobody likes furlings, n' foxens are less expensive. :3

But this is neither here nor there. I think flowery "wings" for anthro avatars under the premise of fey influence would be neat.

[Damadar]

Did someone say "Trick"?
Like... An April Fools joke?


OH THOSE PRANKSTER FEYFURRES AND THEIR PRACTICAL APRIL FOOLS JOKES.

Insert crotchety old man blathering here for what seems to be an eternity but is in fact only a short period of your life in which you would have otherwise spent listlessly trawling the forums looking for otherwise interesting tidbits of information that you could then use to discuss the future of Furcadia, (or, if you're a pessimist,) the lack thereof. That was a really long sentence. Probably because it was meant to be seen as rambling because a good portion of the Furcadia population fails to understand a good bit of irony when it flies off the handle and bites them on the nose. Funnily enough, there is an idea upheld wondering if it might be possible for two or three different men to walk down a road at the same time. It has been proven true, of course, time and again while threads on the forums continue to grow like the beard I wish I had, would. You may not understand what is going on here, but I have to tell you that those feyfurres are trixy little kiddies who're older than you and me, and they never do enjoy being abused. If they attack us again this year, (as they have every year past) we can probably assume that we have (as we always do) done something stupid and uncarring to provoke them. They do so hate it when we forget to water the Floxes in the morning, afternoon, evening and night. That being said, I think the demands of irony have been sufficiently upheld, and I can now Finish this rambling post like any decent elderly gentleman should.

GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMNED CRAZY KIDS I WILL GET THE HOSE AND SPRAY YOU DOWN IF YOU SO MUCH AS TOUCH MY PETUNIAS AGAIN I AM NOT KIDDING YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS I WILL CALL YOUR MOTHER!

[Justin StinCoy]

Quoth Damadar:
If they attack us again this year, (as they have every year past) we can probably assume that we have (as we always do) done something stupid and uncarring to provoke them.

With the Fair Folk, boredom is enough provocation.