Yes, families often stay together. But there is a difference in relationship when the child becomes an adult. "Under the care" means a character that is still being taught most of the time, is extensively looked out for, is still in elementary or high school, is not married, is holding down a serious adult job, has mature relationships, exhibits the experience of someone who has lived longer than a child.
In other words, if this character lives at home, but is still able to live an adult lifestyle, you know it's not a child.
Actually, one way of determining the age of a character is sexual maturity. Generally, if the character is old enough to be having sex on a regular basis in a context of normality, this tends to indicate a mature character. So the very thing that prompts the controversy can be used to dispel it.
If under aged Furry characters are having sex, there must be something in the story or the image to indicate a sense of naughtiness. You have to show some fear of getting caught doing something they’re not supposed to be doing.
This is especially true of characters in Chibi art. The characters may have child sized bodies and childlike cuteness, but their bodies are often fully developed, and you can tell from their social situations what stage of life they are in.
But there are more tricky and deceptive situations. I’m reminded of the Monchichi cartoons from the early 80’s. At full maturity, the characters looked totally childlike, and they were also childish of mind, because they weren’t supposed to be an extremely intelligent species. They also had the physical nature of animals (as my characters do) not showing any indication of sexual organs when naked. Theoretically, you’d have to show such a character in arousal or being pregnant for any naughty bits to show. The way they demonstrated the age of the main characters was to put a child character in the series for contrast so you could see, this is a child Monchichi, and these are adult Monchichis. There was also a wizard character to show this is a really old Monchichi, but he was still small and cute.
This is one of the things I like about writing Furry. There are sciences and methods to our madness that only Furry fans care enough about to get familiar with, which allow us to create total brain twisters for the uninitiated. But this becomes a detriment to us in a courtroom of shallow minded people whose brains totally shut down when presented with any kind of logic puzzle.
Yes, families often stay together. But there is a difference in relationship when the child becomes an adult. "Under the care" means a character that is still being taught most of the time, is extensively looked out for, is still in elementary or high school, is not married, is holding down a serious adult job, has mature relationships, exhibits the experience of someone who has lived longer than a child.
In other words, if this character lives at home, but is still able to live an adult lifestyle, you know it's not a child.
Actually, one way of determining the age of a character is sexual maturity. Generally, if the character is old enough to be having sex on a regular basis in a context of normality, this tends to indicate a mature character. So the very thing that prompts the controversy can be used to dispel it.
If under aged Furry characters are having sex, there must be something in the story or the image to indicate a sense of naughtiness. You have to show some fear of getting caught doing something they’re not supposed to be doing.
This is especially true of characters in Chibi art. The characters may have child sized bodies and childlike cuteness, but their bodies are often fully developed, and you can tell from their social situations what stage of life they are in.
But there are more tricky and deceptive situations. I’m reminded of the Monchichi cartoons from the early 80’s. At full maturity, the characters looked totally childlike, and they were also childish of mind, because they weren’t supposed to be an extremely intelligent species. They also had the physical nature of animals (as my characters do) not showing any indication of sexual organs when naked. Theoretically, you’d have to show such a character in arousal or being pregnant for any naughty bits to show. The way they demonstrated the age of the main characters was to put a child character in the series for contrast so you could see, this is a child Monchichi, and these are adult Monchichis. There was also a wizard character to show this is a really old Monchichi, but he was still small and cute.
This is one of the things I like about writing Furry. There are sciences and methods to our madness that only Furry fans care enough about to get familiar with, which allow us to create total brain twisters for the uninitiated. But this becomes a detriment to us in a courtroom of shallow minded people whose brains totally shut down when presented with any kind of logic puzzle.
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