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Head with No Body or Body with No Head?
2 years ago
Which of the following modular head-off arrangements is your favorite?
1. Head Alone (Bodiless):
You find the head without the body to be the most appealing.
2. Headless:
You find the body without the head to be the most appealing.
3. Just Head Off:
You have no preference for the head without the body or the body without the head; you just like the head to be separate from the body, not leaning to one piece or the other.
For me, I'm a #1. I find the head without the body more appealing than the body without the head. Despite that, I love seeing the two together most: the lone head and the headless body. It's just that in such a modular artwork, my focus goes towards the head than the headless body.
It's because I love all the different shapes of cartoon animal heads, and I like how the head is the part that holds the character's personality. Also, I think it's adorable how the head is the control center of character's body. Whenever a character wants to hand their head off to me, I like to do lots of things to appreciate it, like holding it in my arms, petting it, and even playing with it, like tossing it up and catching it, and rolling it around. It's so adorable to see how the character's body reacts as I'm playing around with their head, and something I really love is when the character's headless body just lies down to make a cushion for you to rest on as you play with their head. It adds to the sweetness of the fact the character wants you to hold their head and play with it.
However, I still like modular art pieces where it's just a headless body. Since the head of an anthro animal is my favorite part, it gets me curious to imagine what the head looks like, where it is, and what it's doing. On top of that, when the head's missing, it does give me some appreciation to the other body parts that I don't normally pay attention to most. When the head can't be found in the piece, I tend to pay attention more to the hands and feet, which is really cool because of all the paws, claws, and hooves. I feel like those parts are a little more unappreciated, so I find mere headless pieces to be nice.
1. Head Alone (Bodiless):
You find the head without the body to be the most appealing.
2. Headless:
You find the body without the head to be the most appealing.
3. Just Head Off:
You have no preference for the head without the body or the body without the head; you just like the head to be separate from the body, not leaning to one piece or the other.
For me, I'm a #1. I find the head without the body more appealing than the body without the head. Despite that, I love seeing the two together most: the lone head and the headless body. It's just that in such a modular artwork, my focus goes towards the head than the headless body.
It's because I love all the different shapes of cartoon animal heads, and I like how the head is the part that holds the character's personality. Also, I think it's adorable how the head is the control center of character's body. Whenever a character wants to hand their head off to me, I like to do lots of things to appreciate it, like holding it in my arms, petting it, and even playing with it, like tossing it up and catching it, and rolling it around. It's so adorable to see how the character's body reacts as I'm playing around with their head, and something I really love is when the character's headless body just lies down to make a cushion for you to rest on as you play with their head. It adds to the sweetness of the fact the character wants you to hold their head and play with it.
However, I still like modular art pieces where it's just a headless body. Since the head of an anthro animal is my favorite part, it gets me curious to imagine what the head looks like, where it is, and what it's doing. On top of that, when the head's missing, it does give me some appreciation to the other body parts that I don't normally pay attention to most. When the head can't be found in the piece, I tend to pay attention more to the hands and feet, which is really cool because of all the paws, claws, and hooves. I feel like those parts are a little more unappreciated, so I find mere headless pieces to be nice.
Let me see if this changes your response; perhaps this makes the question I intended a little clearer:
Not considering the idea of characters "born without a head/body" or "permanently gave up their head/body," if there's a character with their head taken off voluntarily, both the head and body alive, and it's all reversible, nothing permanent, do you like to focus more on the head (#1), the headless body (#2), or do both equally draw your attention (#3)?
I'd probably say 1 then! It's just nice to hold someone like that.
The head alone is very cute ^^
Headless is good for the halloween times, Headless Horseless Horseman and whatnot ^^
And three pretty much the same as one. ^^
Aw, yeah, I agree. The head alone is cute.^^
Oh yeah, lol! That's a good point, Ghosty.
Oh okay, yeah, 3 and 1 are very nice. ^^ That's a good answer, as they can be a bit equivalent.
I really love them all. If I could actually try out #1, I'd hop on the chance to be held by a friend.
But your question's super contextual. For example, I've seen modular media in #2 where the body's deaf, dumb, blind, and unable to process the world around them. I've also seen modular media in #2 where the body's perfectly capable of understanding their surroundings somehow.
I've seen media in #1 where the head's dexterous enough to even hop on their neck stump. Others (like Head Lander) don't even let the head talk since there's no lungs connected. I'm not a fan of speechless heads, myself.
I also can't decide whether I prefer #3 with the person controlling both pieces, or letting them be separate entities. There are so many advantages and disadvantages to each.
I could talk about this more at length one-on-one, if you want.
Oh wow, I didn't even consider all those different contexts; this question goes deeper than I thought, lol. Indeed the answer could change, depending on the context.
When I think about it, that makes sense with #2, where the body's unaware of sensory input, because all the sensory parts are located in the head, maybe with the exception of touch. But, all the roads of the nervous system lead to the brain. And I like the idea of the body being perfect of responding to the world around them, which is cute, and creates a bit of a mystery.
Ah, right. I've never seen that before where the head doesn't talk because it's disconnected to the lungs. I guess it makes sense on a functional level, but yeah, I agree with you: I'm not a fan of that either. I like disconnected heads that can talk, so they can tell me all about the experience of me holding their head.
Sure, we could talk about that one-on-one, if you'd like. Both have intriguing ideas to them.
Interesting, in the end, there's no decision. Pretty cool. That's very well thought-out.