ambiguous_species

📅 Updated:2026-08-09

🕒 Created:2016-01-25

🆔 ID:9944

Description

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Used when a character's species is unidentifiable due to its ambiguity and lack of distinctive characteristics typical of certain species. This tag can still be combined with generic species tags like mammal, scalie, avian, and marine.

Reasons

[section,expanded]

Non-focal character

"disembodied_[body_part]":/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=1&search%5Bname_matches%5D=disembodied_%2A&search%5Border%5D=count
mostly_offscreen_character

Obstructions

clothing that obscures the body and/or head
- full-body costume
- fully armored
- mask, especially for headshot and bust portraits
- thick or baggy clothing
environmental conditions
- heavy rain
- pitch darkness
- thick fog or steam
partially obscured by other elements of the scene

Perspective

extreme close-up
- "[body_part]_shot":/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=1&search%5Bname_matches%5D=%2A_shot&search%5Border%5D=count
first person perspective from a character's face within the post
too far away from the viewer

Style

anon - a type of generic placeholder character
blurred or distorted body
silhouette - a simplified outline of a character with solid coloring and little if any inner details

Do no confuse with

offscreen_character - do not tag the species of characters outside the field of view at all
unknown_species - tag this instead if you do not recognize a character's species despite seeing their identifying features