THE TAUR AU MEME

[luce_felice]

Welcome to the Taur AU Meme! Here, you can play your characters in an AU where they have been born and lived as taurs - half human top, half animal bottom beings! Whether you stick to traditional centaurs or mix it up with some unusual or exotic species is totally up to you - so long as it's a taur, anything goes! Feel free to play with the setting, too; if you want your tags in a desert location, a forest, a mountain, anywhere, go for it!

If you wish to play out NSFW material such as sex or intensely gory violence, kindly have it fade to black and take it to a locked post please. Otherwise, go nuts and have fun!

PROMPTS

1: Ah, the watering hole! The perfect place to congregate with fellow taurs of all species. Maybe you're just here for a drink, or to fetch water to bring home. Maybe you're here for gossip or to size up anybody new who's moved to the area, or you're new to the area and you're looking to size up your neighbors - or maybe you just want to be that obnoxious asshole and try bathing while everyone else is having a drink!

2: Uh-oh, a storm's blown in! Rain, snow, hail - whichever you choose, it's bad, and you're going to have to find some cover before the elements push you to the brink. But wherever you decide to shelter, it's likely you're not the only one who's picked that spot. Can you share the space, or will you fight to see who gets to stay and who has to leave?

3: There's a sense of something wrong in the air. It comes as a whiff of smoke, a tremor in the ground, but there's trouble coming either way, and you need to get out of dodge fast! Will you leave your fellow taurs behind, or warn them if you find them? Maybe they're caught up in the trouble and you're the only one around who can help! Or maybe you're the one in trouble...

4: MAN...they may resemble you from the waist up, but they don't see any sort of personhood in taurs. Perhaps you heard the far-off pop of a gunshot or the chop-chop-chop of an axe against a tree trunk - or you've tangled with some and managed to escape with your life. Either way, they won't hesitate to hang your pelt above their mantles, so either keep away from them or lay low as you lick your wounds. Just don't stay alone either way, there's strength in numbers.

5: WILDCARD! Feel free to come up with your own situations, silly or serious or simply fluffy.

Comments

Jane Crocker | Homestuck | Rabbit Taur

[cyan_maid]

1

[There's an etiquette to time at the watering hole, that Jane knows, and that she follows very closely. She's brought with her a bucket to scoop water out, and a bundle of freshly picked carrots to clean by the water's edge. Her front paws fold neatly over each other as she scrubs each carrot in the bucket, taking care to scrape off the dirt. Her long rabbit ears flick whenever someone passes close by, so you know she's alert to you and will probably talk if you address her - but she's also incredibly prone to being pestered and annoyed, if that's something you like to do.]

2

[Jane is far from home when the rain starts to pour down, and is soaked to the bone in what feels like an instant. Wide eyed and shivering, she bounds to the closest sheltered area she can see, and it's a cave. Not noticing if there's any sign of other taurs living inside, she hops in, shaking her body from ear tips to tail tip so the water comes off. Did she get you wet? It's possible, if you're close by...]

3

[It's been so hot and dry lately, Jane isn't surprised that a wildfire broke out in the forest. That doesn't make the rapidly growing area of flames any less frightening. A rabbit taur can't do much physically, but if she sees you loitering or struggling, you can bet she's going to stop to help.]

4

Shh - stay down! They're right over there!

[It sounds like that voice is coming from a nearby bush, but you can only barely see the reflection of eyes between the leaves. Beyond it, you can just make out a troupe of humans carefully picking their way between trees and outcroppings of rocks, long rifles in their hands - oh. Oh, that's not good. Maybe it's worth heeding that mysterious voice.]

5

[There's a lovely clearing filled with wildflowers and clovers not too far from Jane's den, and today she's there, carefully picking the flowers from the bases of their stems and twisting them into chains. She drapes them over her shoulders once she gets them to a certain length, but doesn't seem too terribly attached to them, almost as if she'd be happy to tie one into a crown for you if you'd like.

If you approach, her ears swivel in your direction and she does look up. Are you friend? Foe? Simply lost or passing through?]