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Day Two, now guaranteed to be no less than 2.3% educational by volume!
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She may not like it, but it seems Chloe has gone all in on the horse trivia since becoming half-horse herself.
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Chloe is a hardcore reader. We already saw back in chapter 1 that she’d checked out every book in the library with a centaur in it, and presumably she’s read all of them by now and more.
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Um...I thinking that wasn't what Lesboat had in mind by "Personal Needs."
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Sure it was! It's absolutely definitely a question about self-cleaning and could not possibly have ever had any other meaning of any kind >_>
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Well dammit, now I'm gonna have to look this up. Curse my insatiable curiosity...!
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"I dunno, I mean, I walk turtle-slow, but my tail can open the fridge from the couch!"
Of all the things I've heard ascribed to snakes, "turtle-slow" is not one of them.
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Don't forget the impact of the squared-cubed law.
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What- the bigger something is, the more resistance from outside factors it will get?
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The amount of energy required to move 200 kg is considerably more than the required energy to move 2 kg. Zia accelerates and decelerates slower than a half-meter garden snake simply because she's larger – in all three dimensions – and therefore has substantially more mass to accelerate. She's not wrong when she says she moves slowly, proportionally speaking, any more than an elephant would be wrong calling itself slow compared to a mouse, even though in absolute measurement of velocity the elephant is far faster. I'm sure Zia can keep up a reasonable walking pace, but an ordinary jogger could no doubt leave her in the dust.
The squared-cubed law is an inexorable rule of the universe, and it explains a whole host of natural phenomena, and it absolutely must be accounted for even when discussing weird fantasy monsters. You don't get to violate the laws of physics without good reason, even in fantasy storytelling: And so, to wit, Zia must move relatively slowly without any provided explanation to the contrary.
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Friction alone would create one hell of a rugburn on that much area too, not to mention the mechanism snakes use to move would be more and more difficult because of said friction at that scaleingshe's a lamia, P-I! C'mon-! 
Chloe won't be any different from your average horse; indeed she's a smaller version of a horse (more like a pony at this point?) so the way her new body responds to 'reality' won't be any different and that's just fine.
But this talk of "rule of the universe" you're trying to push with me in regards to Zia isn't gonna stick because you're writing a webcomic about monster musume. You had a walking, talking, intelligent tree a couple of episodes back.
Consistency within the world you've created is just fine (and is absolutely required in any fantasy realm), and I'm not expecting Zia to break any non-vehicle land-speed records, but Zia should at the very least be able to outru-- (erm, "run"? "slither"? I dunno) any non-modified homo sapiens including Usain Bolt and our own 350,000-year-old progenitors.
I think you're being a bit too restrictive with Zia, and it may come back to bite you later on to put down such a solid rule so early on.
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Don't you worry: Just because I set rules and then follow them doesn't mean the story won't work with them. Zia isn't fast. That's okay. She's smart and strong and flexible, and those can and will make up for her natural lack of speed.
As for Rachel, our friend who's presently a walking, talking Japanese maple tree, I may or may not explain more about her. She was added to the story primarily to show just how weird their world is: Otherwise, you all would've assumed it's all centaurs and mermaids and MonMusu out there, when there's actually all sorts of freaky, weird, inexplicable stuff going on.
I'm an experienced artist and writer, with a science degree in my back pocket. Please do trust that I know what I'm doing
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I actually did the calculations when I designed a flying human. To get her wing loading to something reasonable, I made her 4'8" tall, unnaturally light, diamond nanothread reinforced bones, high output muscles (handwaved,) and two pairs of dragonfly wings half again as long as her arms.
The square cube law definitely rears its head in nature.
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heh. You learn something new every day. I have never read about that particular bit of horse ummm... biology, but I did see it in action once on a trail ride.
You see, it starts with a prolapse of...
Never mind. Google it if you're interested. You can probably find photos and everything.
But I'm still dubious about that working with rubber tubing. Or, rather, I could see how to build such a thing, but I don't see any real point in it. Unless you're using it to decorate cakes and don't want the frosting to dry out between applications.
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Manufacturing industry, so they're probably dispensing stuff like concrete that's even more unpleasant to get rid of if allowed to settle.
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Concrete, glue, caulk, tar, chemical cleaners and sealants, and a whole host of other viscous fluids that do bad things the moment they're exposed to oxygen.
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Tagging Ray-D because notifications are finicky like that.
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I try to be flippant and get a serious answer. Not that phantom-inker doesn't have a good point.
But I couldn't resist the idea of a horse sphincter cake decorator.
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The self-cleaning part is, at the very least. Citation: I am a brony.
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...The fact you know that about horse sphincters because you're a brony is terrifying, I hope you realize. D:
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Some authors will actually bother to do research on the species they're writing about. That the people Hasbro hires aren't among them is beside the point.
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I like it. Let's not get too up our rears, shall we?
And don't take it like being shot through the heart. It sounds to me like it's mere principle almost liked getting you know what. That thing that happened to the gorgons I mentioned in several comments. That didn't happen to her, but she's taking it like that. Actually, did someone do that her prior to the beginning of this comic and she's trying to suppress the traumatic event? Or does she truly think the whole thing is intrinsically horrible as that even after seeing how much worse it could have been? Others have fared so much worse then these two, sentient blob and plant/dryad. It's not healthy to fret like this. I should know, as I have done it. It just makes you sick.
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Well, rules are rules. One point to you, Chloe, it's not often YOU manage to gross out Zia.
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I never thought I'd say this, but I'm siding with Zia! Chloe, gross!
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A bit gross, maybe, but the real-life science behind it is fascinating!
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You can study it at your leisure, I'm gonna study the subjects related to my English Major!
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It's just amazing to me how many breakthroughts in science have come from natural things, whether the study of organic processes such as decay or photosynthesis, or being inspired by the biomechanisms of living creatures.
For example, the springlike "runner legs" used by amputeee athletes are modeled after the hind legs of cheetahs!
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