(08-06-2014, 12:43 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(08-06-2014, 11:56 AM)Zhavi Wrote: Oh yeah, I def use it for emotions when she's strongly feeling something -- but more than that. You know, like using it to point, or tap someone, or using it like people use their hands when they're really engrossed in a topic of discussion. Using it to carry something light when the character's hands are full, that sort of thing. Typically for me, unless it's an emotional thing, it just hangs there dead, unmentioned, unless she's trying to hide the kink in it.
Huh, I never thought about using it that way.I guess it never occurred to me that the miqo'te tail might be prehensile and not just something that serves for social signaling and balance -- though I have had L'yhta poke people with it to get their attention or tap it on a chair or table to enumerate points.
I wonder if there's any other examples of miqo'te tail behavior in the game's storylines?
Not necessarily prehensile, but just under direct conscious control. As long as it can be curved upwards, it can carry something (as evidenced by the numerous times I used to hang light toys off my parents' dog's tail *coughcough* ) . If you can move it, you can use it to gesture, or point, or tap things; I don't personally think it would be prehensile, but as long as it's under conscious control why not utilize it?
