100 days of Reader Questions! Wow! Thanks for being so patient while I get the next arc of Skin Deep ready! Let us celebrate the 100th Reader Question with uhhh…this weird thing. How does it move? Does it hop on its back legs or run on its front legs??
I am at MFF this weekend! I have 2024 RISOGRAPH CALENDARS along with prints and zines and Skin Deep books and enamel pins! Come say hello!
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I can imagine that it gallops somewhat, with leaping runs. The front legs can move independently of one another, the back legs can’t, so I guess it’s full on run would look like a chow-chow (they run with their back legs synced with each other. Either the chow or a different breed, it’s late and I’m tired).
*sproing!* *pad, pad* *sproing!* *pad, pad*
If this makes any sense at all.
Holy flummery! I never knew about Chow-Chow running! Googled it and it’s like you said, their back legs are synced, that looks so weird!
Looking at its mass distribution, it’d probably still be able to hop like a kangaroo, and it’d definitely be able walk like a kangaroo – when they’re not trying to go somewhere fast, they take a couple of steps forward with their front legs, and then hop their hind legs to catch up. The scary part though is that both of them can and will disembowel – and now that the emu half can be supported entirely by the roo half, it’s going to be better than ever at it (it might even be able to do the kangaroo thing of rearing up on its tail and kicking with its roo legs).
Yep, walk would be the same as any roo. It’s the faster gaits that would be interesting, but being able to bounce like a roo would make sense. In other words, this derpy thing would be fast and able to travel a marathon, bounding quite fast through any obstacle course too….
Hops on hind legs, lands on front legs, repeat, somewhat like a bunny?
A giant, extremely dangerous bunny.
are there finnish mythicals?
There should be lots. For a small sampling read “A Redtail’s Dream” (available online as a finished webcomic). I was just looking and found I read several webcomics by Finnish authors and many have some parts of Finnish mythology involved in the story.
I imagine it bounds forward with its back legs, but uses the front legs for balance and to “run” before the back legs hit the ground again. Walking may appear to be a more thought out and deliberate action for this gryphon.
Either way all four of the legs are danger limbs.
Do Marshall has to endure people asking him to say “Nevermore”?
It moves positions when you aren’t looking
What’s the last kind of harpy called? The monstery harpy that ruined the whole thing for all harpies. Why couldn’t the sphinxes make a anti-monster harpy medallion?
I am uncomfortable with how many options this creature has with which to disembowel me.
Something I’ve been curious about for a while: If pygmy gryphons can be any combination of bird and mammal, what about combinations with major size mismatches, like ostrich/shrew or hummingbird/elephant?
With the semi recent Mgs master collection release i just have to ask, ocelot totem doing a “revovler” ocelot cosplay? That would probably be peak humor for me. We also saw michelle do a riddler, are there other examples of mythics leaning into what they are famous for?
It looks like it could jump with all four legs. Sort of a Kangaroo^2. Leaps small buildings, or at least backyard sheds, in a single bound.
Hold the gryPhone! That is pretty good :p
Clearly it bounces its rear into the air, then runs for a while on its front limbs before the back comes down again.