by Spotty » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:27 pm
Mello-chan, it's been a while since it was active, hasn't it?^^. I'll try to remember to get around to change your username.
I don'tt think I'm going to be offering something like that. There are pretty many cubs and it's some work to fill them into a grown up lineart. The old rule was that you had to get art elsewhere of your adult smili.
Tiikeria, okay, I like questions^^.
1. You can make up simple background characters in order to make the story come alive, but you can't keep using the characters outside your smilis background story, if that makes sence?
2. Oh yes, I can't see any reason why they couldn't have stillborn cubs?
3. As far as I know, many animals appears to mourn over their lost kin, so I see no reason whatsoever why smili wouldn't be able to feel sorrow over loss. About funerals, I leave that more open. I bet there are some smili who have some rituals attached to the death. Some might bury their dead, if they can find a way to do so. They should be able to dig a hole in soft ground, but it would be hard in some enviroments. Some might just leave their dead where they are, or drag them away where they won't be in the way or cause sickness. Other options are possible, like tipping them into a river. Eating them? I hope not. Cremating would be hard as most smili (in my mind all, but there is some or another subspecies that are exceptions) don't use fire for anything, have no way of rtarting or controling it and maybe even fears it.
I hope I got mostly all of your questions answered, but feel free to ask again if there's something I need to clarify.
Red October, you can draw your background smili, as long as it's pretty nondescriptive it's all fine. Silhouettes are perfectly alright.
