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Post by darkwingdork on Jan 8, 2009 11:59:22 GMT -5
It would certainly help create some humor and drama. Sure, something to take into consideration.
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Post by Kaotix on Mar 31, 2009 10:12:13 GMT -5
Do the enchanters have a prominent set of arms? I mean do which set would be the set they *always* use? Kinda like we are right-handed or left-handed. Are they upper-armed versus lower-armed? And do they prefer a hand over the other on each set?
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Post by darkwingdork on Mar 31, 2009 12:18:33 GMT -5
Hehe, that's actually an interesting question... I would guess that they might be upper arm dominant, since those of the hands they can see easier... but I would guess that they would have to be ambidextrous with both sets of arms.
Interesting idea though.
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Post by Kaotix on Apr 8, 2009 8:14:12 GMT -5
Patty cake would be a whole new level with them.
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Post by darkwingdork on Apr 8, 2009 23:02:44 GMT -5
And the ping-pong tournaments would be mindblowing... I see the upper arms being most used for manipulation of objects that an Enchanter wants to be able to observe while tinkering with it. The lower set would mainly be for additional gripping purposes.
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Post by darkwingdork on May 4, 2009 19:32:49 GMT -5
Discussion on FA has brought this back to my attention: would having extra limbs be more burdensome when it comes to household accidents? From everything as simple as smacking your hands into something and banging your elbows to dangers with knives, fire, chemicals, etc.
It might conceivably be a tad offsetting to have to worry about things coming into contact with two extra hands...
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Post by Kaotix on May 5, 2009 0:56:29 GMT -5
Well I guess if you are born with 2 extra arms like the gals are, you would be used to having and using them. If anything, they probably had to practice doing things with just two arms. Course we bang our hands or elbows all the time, so I guess they'd probably do the same by accident at times. They just have extra parts to bang against things.
Hm... Imagine them hitting two funny bones at the same time. :x
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Post by darkwingdork on Dec 4, 2009 19:13:06 GMT -5
I think a four-armed race might be more labor oriented, if for no reason other than being able to work on complex equipment might make them able to develop faster. Think about all the jobs it takes two people to do. Now think if one person could do the work of two? As a species, you would double productivity.
With more skilled workers spread out over more jobs, I could see progress in a society happening much quicker than in our own.
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Post by darkwingdork on Dec 8, 2009 11:08:56 GMT -5
Today's comic sort of reminded me just how buggy the girls look. I've gotten comments before that one of the reasons people don't like four-armed characters in general is that having six limbs gives them a sort of insect appearance, which naturally makes some people uncomfortable.
I never really saw it that way until one time I showed a four-armed character of mine to Uncle Kage, a well-known furry with a cockroach fursona, and he joked that he was worried that it was an illegitimate child of his.
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Post by Kaotix on Dec 8, 2009 11:45:56 GMT -5
Eh, I never saw them as insect looking. Now the way they were drawn last chapter hunched over walking on their legs and bottom arms... Now that was weird looking to me.
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Post by darkwingdork on Dec 8, 2009 11:48:36 GMT -5
They sort of became Neanderthal enchanters there.
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Post by darkwingdork on Dec 28, 2009 12:39:18 GMT -5
One thing I tried to avoid with my characters is to keep from being viewed as just four-armed beings.
In order to understand what I mean, you have to think about comic book characters like Barbarous and Forearm from the Marvel Comics universe. In both cases, their superpowers seem to be... having four arms. That's about it. Not much personality or character development is given for either. They show up, do attacks that are four-armed related and then get their butts handed to them by the heroes.
It's sort of like the "The Chick" trope in fiction (here I go, referencing TV Tropes again...). Lazy writers think that adding one female character to a group of male characters is innovative, and what's worse, being a woman is the character's sole defining characteristic. A good example is Kate from "The Drew Carey Show." She's practically a male character in most instances, her behavior hardly different from the men on the show. The only real attribute that seperates her from the guys on the show is her breasts.
The key here was I was trying to show that four-armed characters could be interest BEYOND just the initial shock reaction of seeing a multi-armed form. If simply being multiarmed was the only thing this story was concerned about, all the main characters would have the same personality.
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Post by Kaotix on Dec 30, 2009 12:07:01 GMT -5
I think you do well with that. Each one has a distinct personality, likes, dislikes, quirks, etc.
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