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[~Kaleidoscope~]

Why do I even bother anymore? -.-*

If you post about your form, we're gonna say our opinions. ;D

[Yamanaka Shin]

Why do I even bother anymore? -.-*

If you post about your form, we're gonna say our opinions. ;D

Too critical though, and I feel like I'm being shot at.

BEFORE Drama Llama attacks, I'll go chill out somewhere else.

[JadeiteWren]

I am rethinking the fact that I project him as a Manectric. It isn't just a comfort form. Seriously, it seems to actually fit as a personality form.



I can haz raep face.

I don't know, dude. I personally don't believe that fake cartoon characters can be viable forms. We don't know anything about manectrics because they aren't real. Like Aureus said... what does it eat? How social is it? Does it have packs?

I have to agree.

But I think having pokemon headmates/projecting your Daemon as a Manectric is fine as long as you don't think your Daemon is that pokemon. I have had sonic character headmates, pokemon headmates and more. Currently I'm trying to make a pokemon headmate.

I did manage to make a Chimpanzee headmate. He came up when I was thinking about "What if a wild animal evolved to a human like state and could talk..." so he came up. :3 He has a British accent and wears a suit. He has no name though. :<
He and Azella fight a lot though. XD

[Aureus]

Why do I even bother anymore? -.-*

If you post about your form, we're gonna say our opinions. ;D

Too critical though, and I feel like I'm being shot at.

BEFORE Drama Llama attacks, I'll go chill out somewhere else.

Uh, that ain't too critical babe. xP People could be much worse.

[Slinkypants]

Why do I even bother anymore? -.-*

If you post about your form, we're gonna say our opinions. ;D

Too critical though, and I feel like I'm being shot at.

BEFORE Drama Llama attacks, I'll go chill out somewhere else.

): We're just saying in daemonism there are no pokemon. So you are practicing pokemonism, not daemonism and if you want to do that, that's fine. xD There will be an actual animal out there waiting for you to discover if you ever want to do daemonism in the future, y'know, and we'll be around to help you with that. xD But pokemon don't belong in this personality typing system. It's not even a debate, it's just the way it is (the reasons for why were debated and decided literally years ago). You can't be a 10 on the Enneagram when there's only 9 types. /shrug

[Acro]

Mei, I know I see you drop a comment here and there about how Manectric fits, but can I ask just how in depth this form goes when it comes to describing you? When you look at daemon forms looking for one that could be your settled form, you constantly need to do research on said form and find as much information as possible, and then interpreting said information, see if it fits. There are certain fields that you cannot leave out of an analysis because it could be the make or break of it all. These things include how social it is, how it socializes, if at all, how it goes about getting food, how it would ward off predators/competitors, how it would go about finding a mate/raising offspring, how adaptable to change it is, whether or not it's terrestrial, fossorial, aquatic, arboreal, capable of flight, how it responds to / deals with threats, etc.

And let me just say, that even if you like a form and it fits, does not necessarily mean it's your absolute settled form. Many of us who have been looking for years have found forms in the past that we still like a great deal, and still fit us, but something came up that made us decide it probably wasn't our one-true-form. That 'something' tends to come in the form of posting an RA and having others take a look and suggest an animal you'd never looked at very seriously, or by chance coming across an animal that fits even better, even though we would have liked to think it wasn't possible that there was something out there that could fit us better than our current form at the time. I have several forms that I like a great deal and also fit me when you analyze their traits, but because of some very small details, I have decided that none of them are my settled form.

One of them, Chimaera monstrosa, I probably won't be able to even figure out if it could be my settled form, simply because of a lack of information out there about it. I can find probably two or three sentences worth of information, and most of the information on chimaera fish refers to the entire order and not individual species, and because there are so many that live in so many different aquatic environments, it's nearly impossible to tell if the general order information would even apply, as there always seems to be at least one exception in orders of animals as far as behavior and biology. I think that even if Manectric was a viable form, it would fall under this category of 'there is not enough information to tell this or that about it', and therefore it would be impossible to decide if it is or is not a viable settled form unless someone goes out and does a big study on it and then publishes their findings.

All that aside. The idea of settling as a cartoon creature someone made up does not sit well with me. That would be like me hearing about someone who claimed to be settled as one of my camerabirds or stiltlegs [the quadruped in that image, not the heron], which are only two of the many made-up species I've uploaded to my gallery and posted extremely limited information on regarding biology or behavior, if I bothered to delve into that at all at the time I posted them. They've got about as much information readily available on them as individual types of Pokemon, and are just as viable a form as one.

We did have someone on TDF who claimed to be a stable Pikachu for a good while, but eventually she saw through and came to the conclusion that it was just a fitting [as much as a Pokemon can be fitting] comfort form, and that she'd be much better off searching amongst real animals. And the best part, in my opinion? Even when she publicly announced she was a stable Pikachu, nobody gave her a hard time about it. Not once. She came to that decision on her own. She still took Pikachu as a common comfort form quite a bit, at least that was the case last I saw her around, but she continued to search for her settled form amongst the animals that actually had viable information out there on them.

[edit] And this is what I get for typing so slowly. Echoing others that say that if you post about your form you will be asked questions. But don't think of it as an interrogation, think of it as more of a [friendly] conversation with someone interested to hear what you have to say and let you know their own input. That is, if it's not too late and you haven't gone off elsewhere just yet. The whole running and hiding when questioned about your form and choosing to leave a comment saying 'I feel like I'm being attacked, I'm going to go somewhere else' doesn't help, regardless of whether or not your form is viable. It'll happen, whether the form you post about and say fits you is a thirteen-lined ground squirrel or a one-eyed one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater.

[Andrea Bo-Chelly]

I am rethinking the fact that I project him as a Manectric. It isn't just a comfort form. Seriously, it seems to actually fit as a personality form.

I can haz raep face.

But but but it is not a real animal. Putting mythics aside (they've got culture and different sources about 'em), you can settle as something you can't really analyse. What does it eat? How does it catch food? What is its social system like? It's not really a valid form to be seriously stable as.

What's it's lifespan? What sort of environment does it live in? How is the young raised? Do things eat it? How territorial are they, and how densely populated is each territory? Is it nocturnal/diurnal? Does it rely on sight or scent? How is the *snickers* electricity produced?

I think I read somewhere that pokemon are almost like little furry people. The majority understand human language and show anthropomorphic behavior. It's like....I can see why you would *giggles* connect with them, but they are too close to people to even be worthwhile. They, like people, have unique personalities. So there isn't much consistency. Not to mention FICTIONAL with little to no info other then little blurbs here and there. It's lazy to say you are "sparky" and think that means literally generating electricity. What is "sparky"? Pick up a thesaurus. Spunky, peppy, pizazz. There are so many things that could be described that way. Why not look at the things they are based on? I normally hate suggesting wild canines, since they are so easy to be noob abused, but it would be better then the alternative. Why not look into them?

You only give yourself a harder time when you don't even try to listen ;D. You all type so fast ;___;.

[Kheisa]

Lmao, I analyse Pokémon for the lulz, but only as ideas for characters. Because Pokémon aren't as multi-dimensional and multi-faceted as real animals, analyses of their behaviors are fine for fictional characters, because fictional characters aren't as multi-dimensional and multi-faceted as real people. That's why I don't think Manectric is a viable personality form.

Mei, you are so much more than a Manectric could ever be! You're so much more than "Reactive persona with a distinct taste for the dramatic (*note that I did analyse this from Manectric behavior, this is not an attack on you)." Because sure, that can be a part of who you are, but it can never be the whole of who you are.

EDIT:

:D *has cake*

[Yamanaka Shin]

I see myself as nothing. (not being dramatic, it's just the truth)

[Andrea Bo-Chelly]

*Eats cheese to go along with the whine*



More importantly~~~
What are some things about your form(s) that you dislike? Could be personality or perhaps about the animal itself.

Mine has this strange somewhat hairless underside. They look like a hairy man :C. Naked armpits and thighs are sort of gross. Now about the personality stuff, I wish I wasn't so unsocial but not unfriendly. It would make life easier if I was. I hate that people get tricked into thinking I'm an all weather friend. I'm not XD. It's hard.