What kind of trouble...?
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Species Hyena
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Without getting too icky, I'm having a difficult time trying to imagine how guyenas must feel about the unique equipment of sheyenas. I mean, guyenas, if they have any experience, know that 99% of the other mammals in the world have a slot where sheyenas have a tab. Do guyenas feel weird about making love to sheynas, like it's borderline homosexuality, or are they just happy to be bumping uglies with the right species, or what?
In my head, Crocutans have to be functionally bisexual, especially when you factor in the aversion sheyenas have to having sex, and so the guyenas get it when and where they can.
I wouldn't really concern myself with trying to imagine what "the first time" must be like for a guyena, if I didn't have to get inside Lt. Kruger's head for his Diary entries.
In my head, Crocutans have to be functionally bisexual, especially when you factor in the aversion sheyenas have to having sex, and so the guyenas get it when and where they can.
I wouldn't really concern myself with trying to imagine what "the first time" must be like for a guyena, if I didn't have to get inside Lt. Kruger's head for his Diary entries.
i imagine since they spend most time amongst their own species, that it's more likely that 'traditional' female equipment actually weirds them out. plus they're probably mentally wired to like the way their species does it. i do agree that most of them are probably at least bi since there's so little sexual dimorphism though. my own species is kinda like that. when it comes to the down and dirty, there really isn't much difference between getting with a male or a female, but those minor differences are still there... it's like, a male is genetically inclined to like females, but because they aren't very different from males, he wouldn't have a hard time getting with a male, either. but the preference could still be there. so he'd probably sleep with men, but might only want a REAL relationship with a woman.
In my universe, I ruled out hybrids early on, mainly to avoid bat-giraffes or dolphin-lions and weird chimerae like that. Couples can fall in love, but they can't produce offspring except with their own species.
Near-match species, like the cat and tiger I depicted, can apply to Science to help them out.
I do sort of wish I hadn't stipulated that Crocutans can't breed with stripeys or brownies, but spotted hyenas are really very different from striped and brown hyenas. I mean, REALLY morpholigically different, so much so that I don't understand why they're in the same family.
I guess a guy like Dr. Bowman could jigger up a baby with the DNA from a stripey and a spottie, but it would have to be carried by a stripey because no self-respecting spottie wold do such a heinous act, watering down their good, pure genetic stock with that gutter trash.
(sorry, that's meant to be "in-character." )
Near-match species, like the cat and tiger I depicted, can apply to Science to help them out.
I do sort of wish I hadn't stipulated that Crocutans can't breed with stripeys or brownies, but spotted hyenas are really very different from striped and brown hyenas. I mean, REALLY morpholigically different, so much so that I don't understand why they're in the same family.
I guess a guy like Dr. Bowman could jigger up a baby with the DNA from a stripey and a spottie, but it would have to be carried by a stripey because no self-respecting spottie wold do such a heinous act, watering down their good, pure genetic stock with that gutter trash.
(sorry, that's meant to be "in-character." )
(actually the artist didn't think it through...)
No, to be truthful, the poster is up there the way it is in order for it to be more visible to the readers. Putting it head-toward-the-wall would make the head and face too tiny to really see well.
And you don't know, maybe hyenas like 69...
No, to be truthful, the poster is up there the way it is in order for it to be more visible to the readers. Putting it head-toward-the-wall would make the head and face too tiny to really see well.
And you don't know, maybe hyenas like 69...
Drawing a character with a dark face can be a challenge, because if it's too dark, it loses some of the detail. I can work with highlights and shadows, but it's still not as easy as light-colored faces. And striped hyenas have a dark face and a black throat patch, too.
Early on, Kathy was going to have a dark muzzle, the way spotted hyenas usually do, but since I was working in black and white, the cross-hatches necessary to indicate a dark muzzle ruined the expressiveness of her mouth. So I dropped the idea of doing that, and she ended up with a white muzzle when I colored her. Even in grayscale, giving her a muzzle made her look like she had five o'clock shadow. It was okay for the male characters but looked bad for the females.
Once I started working with Photoshop, I realized I could have given her a darker muzzle, but by that time she'd already been established as having a white muzzle, and I really didn't feel like changing her look. So her sister and mother and grandmother all have light muzzles, too.
I notice that art featuring hyenas usually makes the striped hyenas look sexy, and the spotted hyenas look like they fell out of a Mad Max movie.
Early on, Kathy was going to have a dark muzzle, the way spotted hyenas usually do, but since I was working in black and white, the cross-hatches necessary to indicate a dark muzzle ruined the expressiveness of her mouth. So I dropped the idea of doing that, and she ended up with a white muzzle when I colored her. Even in grayscale, giving her a muzzle made her look like she had five o'clock shadow. It was okay for the male characters but looked bad for the females.
Once I started working with Photoshop, I realized I could have given her a darker muzzle, but by that time she'd already been established as having a white muzzle, and I really didn't feel like changing her look. So her sister and mother and grandmother all have light muzzles, too.
I notice that art featuring hyenas usually makes the striped hyenas look sexy, and the spotted hyenas look like they fell out of a Mad Max movie.
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