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This part of Overthinking&Worldbuiling will be dedicated to the Centaur. I am not going to concetrate on any of the subspecies, but obviously, some general informations could be applied to all the subspecies.

Informations of the profile

Centaur are part human part horse state the profile, they have the human top half until the waist at the part were the neck of the horse should begin. And that's litteraly all the informations we have for their appearances, no body type, no color, nothing. In fact, the profile pic show some "fluff" in certain part of the body of the Centaur, on the human-horse junction and near her hoofs, hinting it's not exactly your regular horse, but I will go more in details on that part later.

Reading the profile, you will notice that the 2 first sentences contain "most of them", wich is a great example of how the profile don't cover every cases, it's just a vague generality.

A 'sublte' informations that you may have missed is that they have produce heroes and sages, so they aren't just warriors, they are also seemingly pretty wise. What other informations the profile give us? They normally are violent and lustful, but try to contain those urges and appear calm, they even have a strong sense of putity as prideful warrior. I believe this part can be applied to all Centaur. However, the profile go a bit further and point out how they are quite unstable, and can suddently become agressive, it mention extreme case that can go wild, hinting that their restrain and control greatly vary from an individual to an other. That's about it for the informations the profile give, if the quantity of informations seem unimpressive, what's really impressive is the quantity of information it don't give, or make it vague, so you have plenty of freedom.

Now let's mess around and see what we can do with this.


Appearance

As said previously, the only information we got about their appearances is the half human halg horse part. The questions now is how far can we mess with this design? First the human appearance : It's extremly obvious her human part can be anything possible for a human, color skin, body type, hair, anything wich go for a human can go for a centaur. Eventually keep in mind that if she is going to gallop around, she probably will tend to have attached or short hairs so it will now be a pain for her.


Now the horse part : It's actually more complicated than it look. Centaur are in the original myth a particular breed of horse, so they will all look more or less the same, and if you want my opinion, you can't just apply every breed of horses to Centaur, because they aren't horses. Centaur aren't horse that turn into sentient creatures, they are their own civilisation completly independant from horses that have evolved parallelly.

However, Centaur can evolve and change as well, and since they are part horse, there is a huge chance they will tend to evolve and vary in the same way. I know it seem like I am making a point then stating the opposite and that it dosen't matter, but this logic is very important. So the horse part can be of any color a normal horse would be, however when it come to "shape" it's a bit more complicated, as there is case whenre there is nor reason a Centaur would evolve in such a way, while some times you can justificate it.


Let's take an example, I am no expert in horse breeds, but the draft horse are a kind of horse that are clearly differents in shape than the regular horse. Could Centaur have the horse body of a draft horse? Well, I would say that they definetly could work in farms, and used to farm labor with times and generations eventually, they would evolved to have a larger build, just like horse did, it would make total sense. To be fair, horses (as far as I know) dosen't have a lot of differences from a breed to an other, so even if Centaur have differents shapes of horse bodies, you may be able to simply ditch it in the 'individual differences' category.


I previously mentioned it, but Centaur aren't horse, so they can also have attribute on their horse part that don't belong to normal horse, for example, the Nighmare have a fur color that is not natural at all for an actual horse, after all it's a fantasy setting, but Nightmare aren't your common horse neither... I would tend to say that Centaur can't have unatural color, and that Nighmare are an exception because of their nature. Still in the unatural aspect, the official art of the Centaur show some "fluff", while the one are the hoof are kind of natural, the one of her waist is not. It's actually something pretty common in KC drawing style,he tend to separate the human and animal part with big pile of fluff like that for beastmen and Harpy, so this is something that's probably common to all Centaur, and can be probably even more bigger and fluffier.



Now let's go for the clothing they would tend to wear. I am not going to comment much the officila artwork cloths, it seem KC chose to give her some kind of american idigenous style, but obviously it's completly arbitrary, since Centaur are quite generic, he just chose one he liked, it could have been anything else. Normally the "style" of clothing would vary with the social layer of the character, then the very piece of clothing with the personnal layer, but I know for a fact that a lot of people just give the whole specie the exact same piece of clothing.

So what a Centaur will need as clothing? Centaur aren't openly lustful mamono, so they will want clothing that actually cover a decent amount of skin, especially if they are easily going crazy when touched. The first difficult part, is covering her front crotch, and it seem a simple 'skirt' (like the Nightmare for example) is a way to hide it, however, an actual skirt that too much in front of their leg could actually be in their way to freely move their legs when they want to gallope around, so warriors and hunters would probably go with a simple piece of clothing in the middle of their pelvis like in the Centaur artwork, while the non warrior could have an actual skirt. The Bicorn art is pretty good at showing where the part to cover is, it's not exactly their crotch, it's way highter, so a lot different thing are possible.

What's about their rear? Would they cover it? Just like show the art, most would not, firstly it would be really hard for them to reach that place and dress it, there isn't much they can do about it, secondly, it would be simply considered rude from peoples to just move to their back and try to look at this part of them, it would be just like go down to the ground to look under the skirt of a girl.



Personnality

The centaur are prideful and stay calm, but deep down they are actually lustful. They are all kind of unstable, but the profile actually hint that they are not all as much unstable as it state that some are "extreme case".

We could easily imagine that their resistance change based on their personnality (personal context) but probably even more from where they socialy live (social context). For example, an extreme case would be a Centaur that live in hermit, isolate from any man, she have a really hard time controlling herself when in a presence of one. On the other hand, a Centaur that live in the city would be relatively stable, as she is used to be in contact with human men, but she would have an actual harder time in the presence of a men she is fond of for example.

Except from that, anything really is possible when it comme to personnality, like for the majority of mamono.


Culture&Habit

A majority of Centaur are warrior, so just like Lizardman, they have warrior-like values, however they don't especially like strong man, so depending of their personnality, they may want to have a strong man as a partner like a Lizardman, see there husband as their master that they need to protect like an Ochimusha, or see him as a weaker being that need protection like a Hellhound would. However in any case, they wouldn't bully the weak like Ogre or Orc would.


As warrior, they can use a lot of differents weapons, their pelicular body allow them to take advantage from certains weapon. Ranged weapon like bow are ideal for them, since they can run and reposition themselves quickly, however, weapon for close combat like sword are way more problematic.

Not only Centaur have a big body, but it also lack agility. Side step, back step, and all those quick movement are more complicated with the lower body of a horse, so if a Centaur want to have a melee fighting style, she will need to improve her agility more than her pure speed. Complications for melee combat don't stop there, they also will have a harder time defending all of their body considering the size of it, so short sword and dagger are a big nope for them, they rather would use lance, longsword, halebarde and those kind of thing with extra range to defend themself. If it look like Centaur are at big disadvantage in melee combat, a good but risky strategy would to charge at full speed in the melee, swinging their weapon to everything that dare staying in their way. It's would be particulary efficient in battle field against large group of anemy in battlefield to create disorder in the enemies position and create an opportunity for the Centaur's allies, but it could let her vulnerable.


Like all monster, Centaur want to take care of their body and their appearance, however, comparing to most other monster, they have a big problem : There is place in their body they can't reach, like their rear for example, therefore they can't really brush their tail or clean their back hooves by themself wich is problematic. For married individual however, they can delegate thsi responsability on their husband. In that way they would probably enjoy being 'pampered' by their husband as he will have to meticulously brush their body tails, etc...

Talking about place they can't reach, while it's not mentionned in their profile, they can't actually masturbate with their horse vagina, so there is a huge chance that this one is extra sensitivee compared to the one at their front.


Related infrastructure

Due to their pelicular appearance, there is a lot of thing to imagine about how Centaur adapt, what did they put in place to live better. Their home would be more spacious than human one, larger corridor and place that allow them to easily navigate. Since they are taller, their furniture like tables or shelves would tend to be highter, but they want their home to be accomodate to their husband as well, so I think they will try to have furniture that are suited for human as well.

A big mystery is chairs, I could see them having some kind of long stool to lay there underneath on, but would it be even comfy on such a large plane surface? Wouldn't be better for them to just be directly on the ground, their lower part lying down like a horse would? Personnaly I think the second option is more likely.


[There is probably informations I didn't think of, I will edit if I feel it's needed]

Examples

Here is a bunch of examples of Centaur characters considering everything said previously :


  • 'The Dark Knight Centaur' : A Centaur part of the Demon Lord Army, she gallop into the battlefield with a complete set of dark armor that match her black fur. She charge the enemies with a claymore made out of Demonic Silver creating chaos and fear into their rank. Her complete set of armor include a helmet that completly hide her feature. Under her helmet, she have long white hair, pale skin and red eyes, like an albinos. She is actually pretty shy and silent and easily get embarrased, wich contradict a lot with the dreadfull appearance she display on the battlefield. When she get embarassed, she will hide under her helmet if it wasn't already on, but despite all, she is an extremly devoted and reliable solider.


  • 'The farmer Centaur' : A Centaur that grew into a farmland and like her mother, work as some kind of draft horse. Her horse body match the one of a draft horse with a beige fur, her human body is musculed as well and she look a bit bulky. (Like the Minotaur for example) She have blond mid-long wild hair. Used to do physical work for hours under the sun, her skin is slightly tanned, and she generally wear light outfit that sometime struggle to contain her sizeable breasts and reveal her sweating abs.

For her personnality, she is your typical countrygirl, cheerfull and sometime slightly rought.


  • 'The Librarian' : The Owner of a certain library containing dozen of thousand of books. This very calm and composed Centaur is endlessy looking for more knowledge and books to gather, and alway greet the other members of the city in her etablishemnt with kindness. She have mid-long red hair generally tied and white fur with brown spots. She generally wear a very simple and modest white robe.


I realise my examples are actually pretty lame without pictures...

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